PaladinSolo

I get the feeling they're giving Trump all the rope he needs to hang himself.

My district starts its teachers at ~55k, which i think is about 5-6k more than most in the area, union, healthcare, pension all that jazz. My brother's wife was a teacher in SC somewhere around Rock Hill and was making somewhere around the mid 30s i believe, and that was with handful of years there, i couldn't believe that shit, doubt they had much in the way of benefits either, thats barely more than a HS graduate like myself makes before talking about my benefits.

Steve King is getting primaried, hopefully this guy isn't a giant piece of shit.

First special election of the year, Dems won it by a lot.

So just before Trump goes on national TV to turn public opinion on his side, another senate R says its time to re-open the government without the border wall funding in place. Dems in the senate also filibustered the Middle East bill with 4 defections, Sinema, Jones, Menendez, and Manchin.

Chuck and Nancy to give the dem response to trumps broadcast.

Over a million people had their voting rights restored in Florida today, could change the outcome of the next election, prolly why DeSantis is trying to argue the legislature has to act before their rights are restored.

lol, Manchin...

If this doesn't put gun owners under the guillotine its a hard no from me.

Its not a surprise that the GOP has shrank as moderates leave the party leaving it more ideologically pure, and those moderates had to go somewhere, if this poll were of just dems/Reps i'd care more, but it includes those independent leaners. Dems have a 11 point lead over the GOP nationally in states with party registration, and the GOP has almost been over taken by independents as the party shrinks. Its not as if they're all of a sudden going to return to vote GOP as they continue to push to the right which is why they left in the first place. Put another way, there are a lot more dems/Dem leaners, than GOP/GOP leaners.

If the end result is they pay more and have to jump through more hoops it really can't be bad. I mean i'm assuming they have to actually do something to earn deductions, which means they'll be contributing in other ways than dumping money into markets making themselves and their friends more money.

So we're basically back where we started of never leaving anytime soon, congrats all around.

Everything we do is dumb because it was devised by men born almost 300 years ago, in a territory a fraction of the countries current size and population.

At one point the article simply says rich people will commit tax evasion. Best part of it might be the second of 2 comments left on the article, calling it the ramblings of an unhinged incel, lol.

Senate dems plan to block every bill that doesn't re-open the government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-pledge-to-paralyze-senate-as-shutdown-negotiation-tactic/2019/01/07/ed5e355e-12aa-11e9-a896-f104373c7ffd_story.html?utm_term=.f848cd3baf23 A growing coalition of Senate Democrats — hailing primarily from states that have a large population of federal workers, as well as the contingent of senators eyeing presidential bids in 2020 — say the chamber should not vote on anything else until the shutdown ends. Those tactics were first proposed by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). “The Senate should vote on nothing else until we vote to reopen the government. Period,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) tweeted on Monday. “This shutdown is squeezing the finances of so many Americans, including thousands of federal workers who live in Virginia. As leaders, we can’t just whistle past the graveyard of this crisis.” Among the Democratic senators who have endorsed Van Hollen’s strategy include his fellow Maryland Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.). They are also supported by key liberal outside groups, including the Center for American Progress, Indivisible and the AFL-CIO, although this strategy hasn’t been backed caucus-wide. “I almost never use these types of procedures, but this is extraordinary to be meeting like this while a good part of the government is shut down,” Cardin said Monday in an interview.

The idea a company has to be forced to make a car should be proof enough the demand isn't there, otherwise they'd happily pump them out. Tesla/nissan have cornered a tiny subsection of car sales, GM makes millions of cars a year, and just axed a car cause its profits on sales were too low, and that number was over 120k cars sold, or half of the EV total market in the US.

If you want to ignore that the mileage issue isn't a massive hurdle for mass market appeal, sure. They aren't making them because the demand just isn't there.

EVs don't have mass market appeal outside of the high end is the problem, which is why the hybrid electrics are getting much more attention from the large automakers, because people get to drive to work and back and still go out of town.