Safest to have her take Chuck’s Senate seat. But I am acting a bit selfish here: as a New York State resident, I don’t want to give her up yet.

Sure, but she appears to be an effective enough politician that making her VP is a bit of a waste. All the VP does is settle fights in the Senate and wait for the President to die.

And the president cannot pardon a state law crime

Amazingly, that point is now up for debate

Trump pardoned Peters in December, but his pardon power does not extend to state crimes. Peters’ lawyers have said Trump has the authority to pardon her, arguing that President George Washington issued pardons to people convicted of both state and federal crimes during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1795.

This is all performative. I think AOC has already been promised Chuck’s seat without a primary challenger in 2028, and she’s gonna take it.

She knows that if she ran for President in 2028, she would’t stand a chance, because she lacks a key thing that Gavin has – a penis. Look at the last few elections, and you will see that whenever the Democrats ran someone with that key asset for President, they won! The last penis-haver who lost was John Kerry, and he had his own issues.

No, all of America isn’t a misogynist hellhole. But there are enough people out there who will come up with any excuse to not vote for a woman to make a difference. (My favorite from the last election was the guy who didn’t vote for Harris because she reminded him too much of his ex-wife.)

AOC will run for Senate and win, and serve there for a term or three. Maybe by then, we’ll be ready for a female President.

As long as we are going that far, maybe we should stick to a system that if already in use

Some genres have more commonality than others. Blues songs often have a similar 12-bar structure, for instance. Not all Blues songs, of course, but there are some songs you can listen to and quickly identify it as Blues based on the structure. This structure exists to improvise on top of. Jazz has a lot of improvisation built into it too.

I also think genres in the past were based on which radio stations they were played on, back when radio was the main way to hear new music. “Pop” music simply meant “popular”, was meant to be more broadly acessible, and was played on Top 40 stations. Whatever counts as “pop” changes with the times. Now, while the distinctions still exist, I don’t think most young people get their music from the radio anymore, so the genres ar not to rigidly defined.

What I think it comes down to is that bands identify themselves based on whatever they listened to, and what influenced them. So the best way to know what genre a band plays is to ask them.

We can go further, you can rate them from 0x00 to 0x1F

It can be very useful to know how to count to 4 this way, especially as a signal to other drivers regarding your level of displeasure

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I hope the medical examiner has good security…

Oh, there’s going to be accountability all right, but for the wrong reasons. I predict that lawyer is getting his ass fired for telling the truth in Court and making the administration look bad. It may not happen right away, but it’s gonna happen.

I am a strong advocate that every state with a ICE invasion should dispatch their National Guard, 1:1 for each Federal agent in their state, with orders to simply observe and take body cam footage. Rent rooms in the hotel next door, track their cars with all their fancy surveillance equipment, track all the doors they knock down (and ask them for their warrants).

I think we will see a marked behavior shift in ICE if they realize that everything they do is being watched and recorded for posterity.

He needs to gather good evidence before getting indictments. See how some of the most egregious prosecutorial overreaches of the Trump administration have been sidelined by grand juries who don’t indict. That is one institution where the local processes haven’t been infected by Trumpism. Minnesota prosecutors need to play by the rules, because at least for the time being, the rules are on their side.

That looks overvalued by about $228.495

I mean, his ego did get extremely bruised…

Someone’s about to get fired…

… No, not the one who made the mistake in the first place. It’s the guy who is admitting fault and apologizing. We can’t have that in Trump’s America!

I’ll believe it when I see it. So far, Republicans’ vows to go against Trump seem to have the same sticking power as their vows to their ex-wives.

We’ve run over a thousand simulations

What does that even mean? How do you run simulations on something like that? It makes me think she just kept asking ChatGPT over and over …

It doesn’t surprise me, the Senate is filled with 100 people who think they are future Presidents

I don’t know whether to laugh at Jeff for thinking that kissing the ring would make him safe, or to think that maybe Jeff ratted out his own employee for brownie points with the Administration.