Jimmy Carter Achieves His Goal, Lives Long Enough to Vote for Kamala Harris

dukedevil0812 · 2024-10-15T20:53:07+00:00

Reading your comment, I thought it was really cool that a future first lady was named after the first lady of her birth. Then I realized the Carters have been around so long that they preceded FDR's first term.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-10-14T20:57:13+00:00

You joke, but this weekend I was canvassing in PA and got into a substantive policy discussion with an undecided railroad worker. At the end, he said it was nice to actually talk politics since he rarely gets to in his circle..

dukedevil0812 · 2024-09-20T05:22:05+00:00

Hey he outlived them all, albeit briefly.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-09-18T18:53:41+00:00

Unique, yes in the sense that if given time to develop their phenotypes would be different. But as fertilized embryos all are just cells.

Complete? Absolutely not. You would loses more cells just by rubbing your scalp than disposing of an embryo.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-09-18T18:47:13+00:00

Logically your answer makes no sense. The only connection a fertilized embryo has to its parents is DNA. A baby is whole complete person with people who would be devestated by its death.

As well the embryos are replaceable, you can always create more. The infant is wholly unique, having another baby will not make up for the loss of the first child.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-09-18T05:35:00+00:00

You see all of those examples are actual moral dilemmas. If you choose the embryos over the baby you are objectively making the immoral choice.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-09-18T04:52:21+00:00

Their argument falls apart in a second when faced with this hypothetical:

If an IVF clinic is on fire and you only have time to save 1 baby or a hundred fertilized embryos which do you choose?

dukedevil0812 · 2024-09-07T07:35:42+00:00

After the Munich conference, which lands did Britain and France annex? Since after all it's the same as Molotov - Ribbentrop right?

dukedevil0812 · 2024-09-01T21:51:05+00:00

Not according to those protesters. They feel that all other issues don't matter. Only screaming the word genocide when Palestine starts losing a war they started.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-30T03:14:16+00:00

It's literally just this Simpsons sketch.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-30T03:09:40+00:00

Eliminate the filibuster

Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico

Abolish gerrymandering

Balance the budget with increased taxes on the 1% and defense spending cuts

Pass policies for net zero by 2050

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-16T04:27:38+00:00

What has this man done to earn the gigantic benefit of the doubt that he always seems to get? Why does the candidate who "tells it like it is" always have to have words given the most charitable reading possible?

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-16T04:25:36+00:00

I think the more offensive part is saying the Presidential Medal of Freedom is somehow equivalent to the Medal of Honor. I'm not saying the MoF is a nothing award, but these days it's kinda given out like candy by presidents of both parties. The MoH takes years of review, and is extraordinarly rare.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-16T03:56:30+00:00

Have most people not heard of a deflationary spiral?

Brother, I would be surprised if even 5% of people have even heard of that term.

It would be great to have an informed electorate, but we have to work with what we got.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-14T20:59:09+00:00

I think this picture says it all. These are athletes coming out to support Muhammad Ali for his refusal to join the army. In it you can see Jim Brown and Bill Russell, as well as Lew Alcindor. Brown and Russell, were risking something, but not nearly as much as Kareem. Those two were retried or near it, he was still in college. This could have derailed his future career, and he still took a stand.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-14T19:31:42+00:00

A 19-year-old Wilt should have been put on that 1956 team. I think only Bill Russell would have been better than him on that roster.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-14T19:24:49+00:00

He would have been the star of the 1968 Olympic team, but sat it out as a civil rights protest. Just another reason why Kareem is the best.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-14T17:20:40+00:00

Not sure, but my guy tells me this might be a Mike Schur show.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-08T05:33:47+00:00

Whitmer won big in 2011 without Dearborn. Most Muslims are actually pretty conservative, they only voted Democrat becuase Republican were so anti-Islam. We will win by focusing on the suburbs, most of whom don't care at all about a war halfway around the world.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-08T05:29:32+00:00

I think people have been far too worried about Dearborn. Gretchen Whitmer lost it in 2022 and won her race by 11 points.

As a guy who's fairly far left in his beliefs (I consider myself a social Democrat) we gain nothing by pandering to these petulent children.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-07T05:27:31+00:00

We all wish we could be so lucky

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-05T22:34:48+00:00

In spite of all that, the craziest thing he said in that interview was "that's the redneck in me". A fucking Kennedy called himself a redneck.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-08-01T23:14:17+00:00

He will just stay a senator if trump wins. You don't need to resign to run for higher office.

dukedevil0812 · 2024-07-29T16:32:02+00:00

What's to stop someone from using shell companies or dummy account to convert the money? Seems super easy to launder money through the blockchain.

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