Hardkill

Yet many women these days want to be "strong and independent women who don't need no man." They like bossing men around, wanting to have successful careers, start/own a business, and rise to leadership positions in all other kinds of fields of work. They certainly don't want men controlling them anymore. How do you deal with those kinds of women?

Vivek Ramaswamy or Mike Pence. lol How about Chris Christie? I actually respect him for totally calling out Trump hard.

You still think he's just moderately conservative?

If Trump gets convicted before the 2024 election then would the RNC or the Republican establishment decide to bar him from being the Republican nominee for president? Or will the majority Republican primary voters finally come to the conclusion that they have to move on from Trump to DeSantis?

But they did do the right thing before by denying to hear Trump's election challenging cases. They also struck down the 3rd and last challenge to Obamacare in 2021 by a 7 to 2 ruling, even when the court had 6 conservatives and 3 liberals on the court. They further struck down 1 or 2 months ago, the frightening Moore vs. Harper case, which argued that state legislatures have unlimited power in determining any kind of elections. Maybe Chief Justice Roberts, who is the most moderate and reasonable of the conservative justices on the court could try to convince 1 or 2 conservatives on the court to rule in favor of disbarring Trump according to the constitution. Perhaps this is still just wishful thinking.

Oh yeah, that is all true. However, I think he's still hurting his state's economy significantly with his far-right immigration policies and conflict with Disney.

and you don't believe that even some of the conservatives on the Supreme Court including Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch wouldn't agree with the argument that Trump should be barred from office as he did "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against" the United States, or had "given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof"? If that won't work then why have even two of the legal experts from the far-right Federalist Society been the ones who came up with this idea? Why do they say that even according to a conservative and originalist interpretation of that part of the constitution that Trump has undoubtedly disqualified himself from being able to run again?

Is that because the conservative federal courts, including SCOTUS, will probably not rule in favor of it even if Trump got convicted?

There have actually been a few top legal experts who have been saying that according to the 14 amendment, section 3 Trump should already be constitutionally be barred from running for office again:

That along with his nonsensical fight with Disney has been undermining the economy of his state. So much for Republicans being perceived as being better than Democrats at handling the economy, even though it's actually the opposite that has been true.

Ha! I thought so! Btw, have you seen or heard about what's been going on his state with the latin immigrants protesting in his state over his extreme immigration policies?

So, would you say that even Ron DeSantis is now taking it too far with his whole "Florida is where woke goes to die"?

The Republican Party has become more unpopular than the Democratic party on the national level. Regarding presidential elections, they've only won the popular vote once since 1988 and actually haven't ever won a majority of moderate voters since 1984. The GOP senators have overrepresented their constituents way too much. The Democratic senators represent about 40-something million more people than Republican senators do even when the US Senate has a 50-50 split. Republicans have also gotten away with having a 20-something seat advantage for US House elections, and state legislative elections due to the gerrymandering since 2010. Conservative judges on the federal level have also become really unpopular amongst the general population. Trump and the MAGA Republicans have been costing Republicans an extraordinary number of elections at both the national and state level with their right-wing extremism. Yet, Republicans actually won the popular vote for both the US Senate and US House elections in the 2022 midterms. They also won the popular vote in both the US Senate and US House elections in the 2016 general election. Why is that?

That still doesn't make sense. So, the Republican politicians, right-wing interest groups and donors, conservative activists, CPAC, and the right-wing media personalities would actually rather die with their base so to speak than actually be more pragmatic by not diversifying their coalition and trying to seek much greater bipartisanship with the Democrats?

But aren't the GOP elites more worried about losing their political power?

I actually just realized that one other big reason as to why Republicans sometimes still win the popular vote in house elections even though they can't win the popular vote at the presidential level. It's because the total voter turnout for all US House elections combined in any general election season has always been significantly lower than the voter turnout for any presidential election. It's probably because not as many voters in America don't care as much or don't understand enough of the effect those elections as much as they do about presidential elections. Total US Senate elections voter turnout of course are never nearly as high as the total US House elections because only a third of the US Senate seats throughout the whole country are up for election during each presidential and midterm election year. Plus, senate elections are still not as well-known or as popular as the presidential elections are. The total voter turnout for all congressional elections in midterm elections is also much less than it is during general election seasons.

Poor bird. Whoever killed him is a really cruel person.

Legalizing prostitution everywhere would make sex work a lot safer for every woman who does it. So, would that significant reduce the negative psychological impact they have from being a prostitute?

That's a good question. Well, I'd still think that a lot of prostitutes would still rather do their job as a sex worker at a legitimate organization or company, like in the red light district in Amsterdam, that would probably be much safer for them. I would think that women usually don't feel safe just having sex with a man, who is a complete stranger, in some creepy motel or dark alley, even if they got paid for it. That's good that you haven't ever gotten an STD ever in your life as a sex worker, but what if you weren't so lucky? I thought hookers actually got STDs more than the average person. Do most prostitutes off the street get tested regularly? https://prevention.ucsf.edu/research-project/sex-workers However, the the workplace policy in legal brothels, on the other hand, like the one in Amsterdam, are that women behind the windows are tested for STDs regularly as part of their contract with the brothel. Same with porn.

the government doesn't make much of a profit like private businesses do. Regulation would protect prostitutes from dangerous criminals and would probably make sex work more safe from STDs.

Yeah, he takes himself way too seriously and as an actor he has become a one trick pony. He lacks versatility. Not a true method actor like Daniel Day Lewis. How is saying that all psychiatric medications are bad a very intelligent thing to say when he has absolutely no expertise on that matter and is totally wrong about that? How is him being a true believer in Scientology, which is one of the most fraudulent and dangerous cults in the world, make him brilliant?

Yeah, the damn right wing media ecosystem. Though considering when you put together the majority of moderate voters and almost all liberal voters in the country haven't the majority of Americans truly in favor of the Democratic party for a very long time? Why has the GOP become a minoritarian party that can't even seem to win even a majority of voters who identify as moderate? I hope liberals/progressives one day succeed with building a left-wing media ecosystem that will be able to drown out the toxic conservative media. Isn't that what about channels like Pod Save America are all about?

Well, then I wonder if it has to do with the fact that usually not enough young voters (who obviously lean liberal/progressive) show up during the off year elections. They said that actually they were more registered Republican voters who voted than registered Democrat did for the 2022 midterms. Yet, there have always been more eligible voters who are Democrats than Republicans in the entire USA. It's sad that a lot of times the Democratic party can't energize the base as much as the Republican Party can. Could it be that even though the majority of Americans are on the side of Democrats, the Democratic party just can't message as well as the Republican party can.

Really? It shows here in wikipedia what the Dems and Repubs got for the total popular vote in the 2022 House elections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections Am I missing something?

Wait but it says that in the 2022 midterms, the Republican house candidates got 54,506,136 votes while the Democratic House candidates got 51,477,313 votes in total for all candidates throughout the entire country. That means that the Republicans won the total popular vote nationwide for 2022 US House elections by more than 3 million votes. Are you saying that gerrymandering has also rigged the popular vote in heavy favor of the GOP in House elections?