Dr. Strangelove

Right, at this point, who's on scholarship and reported as such to the NCAA really doesn't matter. Nebraska will report 85 scholarship players, but may have a roster of 150. Nobody knows for sure, but a good number of 'non-scholarship' players are essentially getting NIL payouts that make the distinction between who's on scholarship and who isn't pretty vague. A non scholarship player may have their tuition, housing, extra spending money paid for as part of their deal. It's a strategy that Rhule seems to believe in, and we'll see if using NIL resources to bring in a large quantity of players is the correct approach.

This just goes to show that the CHIPS Act was just a BIDEN sellout to FOREIGN Interests and he probably accepted a BRIBE because he HATES AMERICA! Donate to Trump's legal defense fund to pay a judgement against a woman he raped if you agree!

Absolutely. The good thing is that violent crime across the board has been on a downward trajectory since the 1970s. As we distance ourselves from COVID, violent crime seems to be resuming it'd downward trend. There are a lot of really dumb ideas to come out of the American left, and "defund the police" was one of the worst.

Absolutely bonkers considering the pro crime, anti-police, authority hating domestic policies of the Biden Administration.

Really amazing considering the job killing, worker hating, anti-growth economic policies of the Biden Administration. The American public, fortunately, is smart enough to realize that merely doubling the economic performance of peer nations represents an economic catastrophe.

Because they faced Obama who ran on a considerably less progressive policy goals.

I understand that being grifted into voting for Trump twice had caused you to undergo bizarre, reality altering views of the world in order to reconcile your support for embarrassing morons who hate America and also happen to be anti-democracy criminals. But my God, posting RFK Jr. videos after Trump is facing 14 criminal indictments for interfering in Georgia's election and in federal elections. The cases are ongoing... and guess who's fault it is? VOTERS LIKE YOU for supporting him. We need to collectively stop coddling these voters who live in rural states and collectively place proper blame that they've given rise to Trump. These people need to be regarded with mocking and derision.

This isn't really true. The problem with MAGA candidates without Trump is that the horde of morons refuse to trust any non-Trump candidate. MAGA is convinced Trump is their savior. Any non-Trump candidate is one Q-anon post away from being labeled a pedophile and a RINO. DeSantis entire candidacy revolved around the word "woke" and losing a PR battle with Disney, and this was a terrible candidate. If you wanted to dominate elections, my advice would be to first not vote for embarrassing candidates like Trump in 2016 and 2020. If you continue to participate in politics - which you have no business doing and should avoid at all costs - nominate normal candidates. If Republicans nominated Mitt Romney types for all their races, they would control the Presidency, House, and probably 57 Senate seats. Republicans play politics on easy mode but they punch themselves in the face repeatedly.

Yes, Republicans are excellent stewards of financial prudence and have very little responsibility for this. In all seriousness, it's impossible to fix. I'm genuinely in awe of this being a repeated worry on the Right when their "fix" is meaningless spending cuts and massive regressive tax policy.

At least of trends continue as they were from 2012->2016->2020. Political realignment on education has caused former swing states like Iowa, Ohio and Florida to no longer be competitive. It seems that, unless something drastic happens, other states like Wisconsin will soon be as competitive as Iowa. The question is when Wisconsin crossesover to "unwinnable". It may be there now, but certainly by 2028 is going to be a hard state for Democrats to win. I think it's a pretty well known phenomenon that Americans are moving to a small handful of cities, mostly in the south. Cities like Atlanta, Phoenix, and huge swaths of Texas are exploding. As a result, they are turning the partisan lean of those states Blue. The question is if the red tilt of the states in the upper Midwest is happening faster than the blue tilt in the south.

The problem is those swing states - Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada - are increasing their Republican tilt. They were more Republican in 2020 than they were in 2016, and they'll be even more Republican in 2024 than they were in 2020. Trump isn't going to win over many Biden voters, but he will handedly win low propensity disaffected voters. Combine that with an enthusiasm advantage - Biden has massive enthusiasm problems - and I see it being very difficult for him to win enough swing states to win an Electoral College victory.

This seems so extremely unlikely. I'm really trying to figure out how and why people think Joe Biden is going to win. It seems to me that there's a decent chance that the electoral college bias is so strongly against Democrats that it may not be possible for them to win. Joe Biden will probably need to win the national popular vote by nearly 5% to win the electoral college, which is a margin that may not be possible given how deeply polarized the electorate it and how impossible it is to sway political opinions. It seems likely that we're heading towards a 2016 environment where Biden wins the popular vote by ~2.5-3%, leading to a decisive electoral college loss. There's a reason Trump's electoral strategy isn't even trying to sway opinion - they don't need to. They need to drum up the base to turn out and cruise to victory because they have tremendous built in advantages.

It's a fair question, and @Moiraine gave a good answer. Identifying genocide in real time is difficult. But signs of actual genocide are: using state resources to systematically round up all members of a minority group, state resources to indiscriminately kill that minority group, and propaganda messaging that says the aforementioned minority group needs to be annihilated. Employing a poor military strategy that gets civilians killed is not the same thing.

If Trump wins, Democrats need to let this sort of policy through with no opposition. Democrats need to stop protecting Republican voters from their own catastrophic policy desires.

Literally that they think they'll win in November and they can secure larger Business Tax Breaks and that they don't want to hand Biden a "victory" before the election.

The thing that makes me angry about these morons throwing the word genocide around is that it deeply devalues history and the important lessons to be learned from actual genocide in the past. Genocide as a word losses it's meaning the more tik tok activist theater throws it around when civilians are killed in war.

Spending the 1990s sexually assaulting numerous women makes one have a pro-choice stance, who knew! If you think that the average Republican voter cares about America being a guardian of Democracy, I have penthouse in Pyongyang to sell you. These voters stupid behind saving and believe our Democracy is rigged. There is truly no hope for these people.

Why would Joe Biden do this.

If they have a referral bonus - a bigger stake in the commune or something - let me know.

I'm always tickled when ardent right wing supporters unknowingly embrace left wing ideas.

This is wild to have sustained unemployment rates sub 4% for the first time in 60 years considering the job killing, America hating, economic catastrophe inducing economic policies of the President.

I mean, firstly, I don't live in constant fear. I do think that people on the left - or young people having extreme fear over climate change - is a problem because the effect on people isn't going to lead to the extinction of humanity or anything like that. It's going to cause deaths, sure, but in the form of increased natural disasters which will predominately affect poor people in 3rd world countries who nobody cares about. Climate change is going to affect life in all kinds of ways - it already has. Increasing insurance rates - making states like Florida increasingly uninsurable - weather patterns changing causing agricultural economies to change, etc. All of these things cost money. The issue we're facing now is that these changes are happening MUCH faster than previously expected and are costing A LOT more money than previously thought. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how I view climate change - it's not the loss of life I worry about; I do not care about people that much. It's the political instability rapidly shifting economics are going to cause. If you think our politics are toxic now, wait until homeowners insurance premiums increase massively by the end of the decade. And that will be just the start.

Kind of insane if you consider the unfriendly business and tax increases (not to mention America hating) policies passed in the Inflation Reduction Act.

While I don't think anybody disagrees with this, I do think this is an extremely simple view. I'd be curious to see any studies that control for poverty levels, working hours of the mother figure, and what school districts these kids come from. Fortunately the rates of single parent households has fallen after peaking in 2005. Although I don't think it's because we've gotten better at helping these families, it's more in line with decreasing birthrates and decreasing marriage rates overall. I'm not sure what pro-family policies will actually work to address the above problems.

Nothing says Law and Order like being charged with 88 felonies and being found liable for sexual assault. This guy is going to win because his constituency are complete morons.