1.ran 3rd party to try to hurt Harris but hurt Trump more 2.Ate roadkill bear and got parasites that ate part of his brain 3.Is a believer in various conspiracies including vaccines causing autism, HIV and AIDS being unrelated, that antidepressants cause school shootings, and that fluoride in water makes children transgender.
RFK ran for president on a third party ticket before dropping out and endorsing Trump. He was running in the first place to attempt to syphon democratic votes because his father was a very popular democratic Senator and Attorney General who was assassinated and his uncle was John F Kennedy, a very popular democratic President who was assassinated. They thought democrats would vote for him on name recognition alone but the longer he campaigned the more extreme he revealed himself to be and it eventually became apparent that he was more likely to syphon Trump voters than Harris voters. He infamously became infected with brain parasites after eating a dead bear he found on the side of the road, he picked up another roadkill bear but got busy and was concerned it would start to smell so he dumped it in Central Park. He is anti vaccine saying that they cause more harm than the diseases that they prevent and believes that vaccines cause autism. He doesn’t believe that hiv causes aids. He believes that antidepressants cause school shootings and that chemicals in the water (mostly targeting fluoride) make children transgender. He believes that 5g networks are a secret mass surveillance program and that the CIA was responsible for his uncle’s assassination.
$100k is about the average household income in the US, the average single income is about $67k. So about a year and a half of the average wage. And median income is much lower (median household income is about $44k) indicating that high income households have a much larger effect on the average than low income households so the average middle class individual income should also be much lower than the average individual income.
William Clifford might call it a problem of credulity and he might even have an idea about one of it’s root causes.
The Satanic Temple supports it’s trans members using the same basis as it’s stance on abortion. There are 7 fundamental tenets of Satanism. The third states that “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.” and the fifth is “Beliefs should conform to one’s best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one’s beliefs.” Based on these tenets it is the religious stance of TST that trans individuals have a fundamental religious right to decide what happens to their body and a religious obligation to reject unscientific claims and “treatments” with regard to their gender identity.
The effort is underway. Samuel Alito’s Mom’s Satanic Abortion Clinic is a Satanic abortion clinic in New Mexico that offers teleheath consultations and medication abortion through the mail.
The A-10 is vulnerable to AA and to fighters, that’s why establishing F-16 patrols first is important. I’d also prefer that the A-10s either be escorted by or fly in mixed formations with Ukraine’s Soviet era fighters.
Once they use those F-16s to establish air dominance someone needs to give them a few A-10s to help them speed up retaking their territory.
If you’re interested in the worst of it you should look up firebombing and why it was so effective against Japan.
In American politics the “love it or leave it” trope you are using is undeniably right-wing rhetoric. It was first popularized in that form by McCarthy and Nixon as a response to civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests. It has since been used by Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump primary in response to either protests or immigrants that they believe have not sufficiently assimilated into American culture. It’s also probably the most unAmerican trope currently used in American political discourse. Protest and criticism of government is fundamental to America’s history and identity and is covered by 3 of the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.
Two women’s deaths have been publicly reported on and shown to be attributable to the abortion ban. The actual number of deaths attributable to the abortion ban is much higher.
That’s always going to be the case with a first past the post election system. There can only be 2 parties with a chance to win at any one time and both are forced to be big tents. Because they have no chance at winning third parties get more choice on the issues they focus on and more freedom in how they talk about those issues.
We need election reform. We need a voting system that gives more power to minority voices and we need an election system that makes Congress better reflect the actual vote. I like STAR voting and want to move the house to proportional representation. We would most likely still have 2 big tent more or less center parties that will trade the plurality but the big tents would have to work with the minority party representatives to get enough votes to pass legislation. It’s possible that more minority party visibility and them being taken more seriously would lead to a more ideologically diverse Senate and it would almost certainly boost minority party power in state and local elections.
It’s his own son. They monitor each other’s porn consumption.
I think it’s possible to serve in Congress and still be considered a political outsider. It’s not easy, the secret seems to be a strong commitment to principles outside of the mainstream but at least a couple of people have done it.
Bernie has been in the legislative branch since 91 and was in state government for a decade before that. Being a political outsider is still part of his appeal. On the other end of the spectrum Ron Paul was first elected to the House in 76 and retired from politics in 2013 without ever having become a political insider.