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Sardines said:
When are they going to make a feature length movie about Teddy Roosevelt? And I mean a modern movie. I don't want to hear about whatever got released in 1909.
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OK, this is weird, maybe, but I can see Daniel Radcliff in the role, especially if they go with a young Teddy.
 
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The Thriller said:
LBJ was the last president who didn’t run for reelection when he could have. 1968 was a rough year. You’re at the middle of Vietnam (we had just suffered a major attack from the Viet Cong known as the Tet Offensive. Our embassy was hit, south Vietnamese police officers were caught on camera shooting viet Cong prisoners in the heads, and Walter Cronkite declared the war a failure), Civil Rights unrest, the Democratic Party was split in two as southern Democrats either went Republican or independent, and two major assassinations, Bobby Kennedy and MLK jr.

The others that come to mind either had unique circumstances (Truman had already served 7 years because he had served most of FDR’s final term and the Korean War was a stalemate and Roosevelt didn't think he should run again) and the others happened in the 19th century.

No one with Biden’s economic or legislative record would be seeking to “hang it up.” Yes, he’s old. Wish he were 30 years younger. Wish he was a better public speaker. But the result? He’s been wildly successful. Probably the most effective president since Reagan, LBJ, or Einsenhower.

The economy
Vaccine rollout (it’s a shame red America decided vaccines were for *******)
CHIPs act
Limiting drug prices
Infrastructure
Investment in green tech
Handling of Ukraine

All top notch.

Just Imagine Trump’s handling of Ukraine. Would zelensky even be alive right now?
All those projects republicans voted for but are taking pictures of now that they’re being built? That wouldn’t have happened under dump. How many times did we have “infrastructure week” and it ended up being him freaking out at pelosi or calling African counties *********?
Think dump would’ve limited the price of insulin or would he have given ceos who donated to his campaign tax breaks? We all know the answer to this.
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Biden’s CHIPs Act on the ground in Utah. 11 billion dollar investment in Utah’s future economy and the local GOP chuds lap it up.

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Just wait until that Infra money starts manifesting. We’re lucky dems got this stuff through before the GOP get their chance to **** it all up like they usually do.


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fishonjazz said:

Before the 1960s, it was really hard to get divorced in America.

Typically, the only way to do it was to convince a judge that your spouse had committed some form of wrongdoing, like adultery, abandonment, or “cruelty” (that is, abuse). This could be difficult: “Even if you could prove you had been hit, that didn’t necessarily mean it rose to the level of cruelty that justified a divorce,” said Marcia Zug, a family law professor at the University of South Carolina.

Then came a revolution: In 1969, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan of California (who was himself divorced) signed the nation’s first no-fault divorce law, allowing people to end their marriages without proving they’d been wronged. The move was a recognition that “people were going to get out of marriages,” Zug said, and gave them a way to do that without resorting to subterfuge. Similar laws soon swept the country, and rates of domestic violence and spousal murder began to drop as people — especially women — gained more freedom to leave dangerous situations.

Today, however, a counter-revolution is brewing: Conservative commentators and lawmakers are calling for an end to no-fault divorce, arguing that it has harmed men and even destroyed the fabric of society. Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, for example, introduced a bill in January to ban his state’s version of no-fault divorce. The Texas Republican Party added a call to end the practice to its 2022 platform (the plank is preserved in the 2024 version). Federal lawmakers like Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and House Speaker Mike Johnson, as well as former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, have spoken out in favor of tightening divorce laws.

If this sounds outlandish or like easily dismissed political posturing — surely Republicans don’t want to turn back the clock on marital law more than 50 years — it’s worth looking back at, say, how rhetorical attacks on abortion, birth control, and IVF have become reality.

And that will cause huge problems, especially for anyone experiencing abuse. “Any barrier to divorce is a really big challenge for survivors,” said Marium Durrani, vice president of policy at the National Domestic Violence Hotline. “What it really ends up doing is prolonging their forced entanglement with an abusive partner.”

In the wake of the Dobbs decision, divorce is just one of many areas of family law that conservative policymakers see an opportunity to rewrite. “We’ve now gotten to the point where things that weren’t on the table are on the table,” Zug said. “Fringe ideas are becoming much more mainstream.”

It’s worth noting that though the no-fault laws initially led to spikes in divorce, rates then began to drop, and reached a 50-year low in 2019.

No-fault divorce can be easier on children, who don’t have to experience their parents facing each other in a trial, experts say. Research suggests that allowing such divorces increased women’s power in marriages and even reduced women’s suicide rates. A return to the old ways would turn back the clock on this progress, scholars say.

“We know exactly what happens when people can’t get out of very unhappy marriages,” Zug said. “There’s much higher incidences of domestic abuse and spousal murder.”

Divorce is extremely common — more than 670,000 American couples split in 2022 alone. Any rollback to no-fault divorce would likely be politically unpopular, even in red states (some of which have higher divorce rates than the national average).

But perhaps emboldened by their victory in overturning Roe v. Wade, social conservatives have gone after other popular targets in recent months, from birth control to IVF. The drive to increase restrictions on divorce is part of the same movement, Zug said — an effort to re-entrench “conservative family values,” incentivize heterosexual marriage and childbearing, and disempower women. “They are all connected,” Zug said.
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But it's what Jesus wants. He wants men to have total control and women to be subject to whatever men feel they deserve. It is the Christian way. Just ask Donald "He's just like Jesus" Trump. All women want is to be grabbed by the ***** and, you know, whatever else men want to do to them.
 
The Thriller said:
Why do we act like Trump is some sort of juggernaut? He’s never won the popular vote. He never broke 50 percent on approval. What has he done to become more popular since his insurrection? Do we think he’s going to win more support with his nonsensical rants about sharks, batteries, and becoming a dictator?
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The problem is the pockets of the quiet majority that helped him get elected in the first place. We just don't know how swing voters will really vote and so he remains a chaotic threat to our entire way of life, unless you are a billionaire or a white christian, in which case he embodies the way of life you think you want.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The problem is the pockets of the quiet majority that helped him get elected in the first place. We just don't know how swing voters will really vote and so he remains a chaotic threat to our entire way of life, unless you are a billionaire or a white christian, in which case he embodies the way of life you think you want.
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True.

I guess we will soon see “who we are.”

Although, imagine how much different this race would be if we didn’t have the electoral college? Would the candidates even be the same?
 
Horrible news! We’re in a Great Depression! What a hellscape. Better vote fascism


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It’s interesting how no one in the media brings up how Trump’s rallies actually undermine his “America is on fire hellscape.” If we lived in a depression crime filled hell hole, no leader would be talking about sharks and batteries and no crowd would tolerate a leader ranting babble like that. Trump can be “Trump” and rant about weirdo stuff because America is so prosperous and life here is so unserious and boring.
 
fishonjazz said:
Sadly the fact that Trump is stupid won't actually matter to those CEO's
Only thing that matters to them is that trump will make them pay less taxes

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He’s a useful tool

What’s weird is that ceos are enjoying record profits right now. Cut taxes even further? Why? So we can have even more debt? At some point we do need to like actually pay for stuff, right? It’s kinda hard to make record profits if you aren’t paying to maintain roads, some form of a social safety net, and military for security, right?
 
The Thriller said:
Horrible news! We’re in a Great Depression! What a hellscape. Better vote fascism


View: https://x.com/farhip/status/1801678217029284179?s=46


It’s interesting how no one in the media brings up how Trump’s rallies actually undermine his “America is on fire hellscape.” If we lived in a depression crime filled hell hole, no leader would be talking about sharks and batteries and no crowd would tolerate a leader ranting babble like that. Trump can be “Trump” and rant about weirdo stuff because America is so prosperous and life here is so unserious and boring.
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Trump knows he can riff nonsense to his followers because they are all chumps in his mind. After all, they believed all his bs, how can he actually respect them? He has zero respect for his followers, and he shows it when he talks nonsense off the top to those followers.
 
Red said:
Trump knows he can riff nonsense to his followers because they are all chumps in his mind. After all, they believed all his bs, how can he actually respect them? He has zero respect for his followers, and he shows it when he talks nonsense off the top to those followers.
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Trump respects no one and expects ultimate and undying respect in return. Part of his megalomania.
 
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