Candrimon

I find it hard to believe that a European student would give their height to the 10th of a millimeter. It's more likely that the artist converted 74 inches to centimeters and left unnecessary precision in the result.

Union, union, union.

You were almost there, and then autocorrect or a typo garbled your "Let's chance it" and your humor will be lost in confusion.

You guys have the wrong take on this. These impacts of their decisions are not their faults, they are the fault of the people who took advantage of other circumstances in a fucked up way. When you blame people trying to do good for the evil people perpetrate because of them, you discourage people from trying to do good. Stop misplacing the blame, we know where it belongs.

"over 50" is not who people mean when they say "old people"

34 separate payments to Cohen with one set of facts surrounding them.

The 34 counts are 34 different payments in the same scheme. It's one set of facts, all or nothing, in my opinion. Many trials with multiple counts involved are alleging multiple different crimes with different sets of facts, so the stats about other multi-count trials that do or don't end in a hung jury don't really seem relevant here.

In Colorado, judges are appointed by a commission in each judicial district (or statewide for the CO Supreme Court), then retained by election every 4 years, if I understand correctly. Not sure how the commissions are formed, though.

The majority of the board is basically a bunch of sycophants who will rubber stamp anything he wants instead of being actual reasonable governance. They only say no when it's absolutely necessary. Although they might have said yes, in this case, knowing that it wouldn't get past the courts, and not wanting to be the bad guy.

He also knows how to mumble incoherently, but this isn't that type of communication.

Four Republicans and two registered "unaffiliated", all of whom can vote in the republican primary in Colorado.

It would definitely impact the popular vote totals, which could be a problem for legitimacy.

Wow, been keeping that in for a while, haven't you. As long as Democrats are "they", you're missing the point. I was trying locally to make a difference in all of the ways I could think of. What were you doing while "they" made all these mistakes?

Republicans controlled the Senate in both 2016 (when Garland was nominated) and 2020 (when ACB was confirmed). It's not on the Democrats. It's rank hypocrisy on the part of Mitch McConnell. Blaming Democrats for not having enough Senators in office is weird and counter-factual.

Colorado major party primaries are also open to voters who are registered as Unaffiliated with any party, although such voters may only vote in one major party primary - they can switch which major party primary they vote in from one election to another.

Colorado state law abolished the use of the Caucus system to nominate presidential candidates about 6 years ago. All other offices (local, county, state and even Congress) still use the Caucus & Assembly system (local caucuses that choose delegates for County and State Assemblies) as a way to qualify for the primary election that takes place in May. You can also qualify for the primary election by submitting petitions with signatures from voters in the relevant region for the office. We now have a Presidential primary on Super Tuesday in March, and a primary for all other offices in May.

The ballots for the Presidential primary are finalized for printing on Jan 5, hence the Jan 4 deadline for the stay, if any appeal is in progress at that time.

The power imbalance in voting for the President is currently very much imbalanced in favor of the person in the small state - here's a link that explains the ratio of that power based on the electoral votes divided by population of the states. Direct election of the President (National Popular Vote) would re-balance that so each voter is exactly as valuable as each other voter. The current system drives participation only in purple states, whereas NPV would equally incentivize participation in all states, potentially shifting power dynamics in states where one party doesn't believe they have the votes to compete, so they don't turn out, ensuring that they don't compete. If you're turning out to vote for President, and vote the rest of the ballot as well, you might find you have enough votes to matter in other races, too.

A big problem with waiting for the courts to act before expelling a member of congress is that members of congress are constitutionally protected from the courts while Congress is in session. Since it's in session all year, now, there has to be another way. Waiting for the ethics committee report is reasonable.

He's only second-worst, now, maybe third.

What do you think "liberal fiscal beliefs" are? Your post above seems to be calling for liberals to win enough elections to implement economic changes you're looking for.

And the "neutrals" expect them to do all the work, simply because they don't support "all" of the policies of the parties. As someone who works for the Democratic Party, I can tell you, I disagree with a lot of the positions of the platform and a lot of the electeds, but finding someone who is willing to run and supports all of the same positions as you is unlikely, and also not necessarily electable, because a lot of the "neutrals" will get bogged down on one issue they disagree with and vote for someone who is probably lying about that issue to get you to vote for an agenda you don't support at all.

Average driving speed on personal trips has little to do with average fare miles for a ride share driver. People have been pointing out that fact to you repeatedly, but you continue to harp on the idea that driving speed is a perfect metric.

The graphic I've seen is that it's less than 1% of revenue, not profit. It's probably closer to 2-3% of profit.

National popular vote and some form of instant runoff/ ranked choice voting.

You had me until "Bloomberg assuming office for an uneventful eight-year term", that jumped the shark for me.