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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • This defeatist, placatory attitude will ensure that we never make any progress.

    No one has ever been VP for FOUR TERMS, but that’s the hypothetical bar you set for her, because you assume that’s what it would take? Leaving aside that it’s an impossible ask anyways, being VP for 4 terms isn’t going to satisfy the “old fat white guys” anyways.

    Are misogynists gonna demand more of her? Yeah, of course. But don’t go setting the bar higher on their behalf, before they even say anything!






  • That’s not how structured debates (Policy, Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, etc) work. Judges don’t tell a team their facts are wrong, the other team does. Judges decide which of the teams had better argumentation. If you spout lies and I don’t call you on it, as the opposing team, I will probably lose.

    But let’s say we accept that this is barely a structured debate, and the structure that was there sucked anyways, so hey- maybe it’s was really a speech event (like Big Question, Extemporaneous, Humorous Interpretation, etc). That makes it even clearer why people are reacting like this, because those are not about facts at all, they’re all about performance (as in ‘acting’).

    My own view is that presidential debates are more akin to throwing the candidates in a gladiatorial arena and seeing whoever comes out least bloody. And that was always going to be Trump. Biden and his team are to blame for this, because it never should have taken place.






  • Regulations are not laws. They are the specific implementation mechanisms of laws.

    For example, Congress passes a law like the Clean Water Act. But that law doesn’t (and cannot feasibily) lay out every single individual rule necessary to ensure the clean water that it seeks to protect and provide.

    For example, it contains a section that requires Water Quality Standards to be set by each state, for themselves. However, if a state does not create them, the act authorizes the EPA to create a standard for them.

    That’s not the EPA “creating laws”, it’s the EPA implementing the congressionally-passed CWA.