It could, but in practice never is; it’s always things like “we want you to put street numbers on your drivers license, but the reservations don’t have street numbers” or “We’ll accept concealed carry permits, but not student IDs” or “gee, urban residents are less likely to have a driver’s license, let’s mandate that”
Most of them have a national ID that everybody gets, not the complex mix of IDs that the US has.
If we had that, and everybody had a national ID as a matter of routine, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But we don’t, because issuing one would be the mark of the beast or something.
Right. There’s impeachment, but actually using it to remove people from power requires a supermajority, which makes it substantially ineffective against a criminal political party
They actually built a database of willing sycophants as part of it.
In general, preventing abuse via static rules is really difficult. People who want to abuse the system are innovative. Most systems really depend on having people who respond to the abuse by stopping it more than having specific written rules to block the kinds of abuse that have happened in the past.
Political change tends to be like that — nothing at all for a long period when you don’t have the power to act, and sudden rapid change when you do.
Mostly because the progressives didn’t control them in the early 1900s, so they don’t have legislature-bypassing initiatives, and even in states where you do have that, it’s expensive to get one through.
While I’ve known that for a while, a lot of the press was in utter denial months after he gave this money, as with this NYT article dated December 10, 2022
Four states don’t use first-past-the-post for legislative elections. In particular:
If a third party wanted to succeed, they would put significant resources into winning legislative and congressional seats in those places. I don’t see any of them actually doing that though.
They wanted to redact witness names before releasing it.
J.D. Vance Freaks Out Over the Slightest Pushback in V.P. Debate
Because the old folks who own stuff grew up during a period of ever-rising crime rates as cases of mild lead poisoning from gasoline caused a huge increase in violent crime. They don’t get that it’s somewhere around as safe as it was during the 1950s.
Pretty much.
Doesn’t help that the Internet Archive is hosted in a cool-looking building in San Francisco
And that means Liberal, no matter how neutral they might be.
He was
director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office
For context, US emissions are about 6 billion tons per year. There are real reasons to disagree with Gaza policy, but the greenhouse gas emissions you’re talking are quite tiny by comparison
No matter how many men you put in front of standing desks, or how fancy an AI you give them, they can’t make an egg. Clearly should be many millions per egg.
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A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking about the kind of money his backers hope to loot
They’re not explicit, but when you see for example, Rick Jeffares having run for office and never managed to get a single dark-skinned person standing with him, it’s blindingly obvious what’s going on.
They’ve had the opportunity to use the 25th before and not done so