Yes I’m aware it’s not an a with decoration jfc. I’m saying for computer entries that garble things, I wouldn’t care about matching it up so perfectly (with dropped whatever those things are called) as to not allow someone to board a plane.

That one I can actually see, having an extra letter that doesn’t match. Dropped punctuation or symbols (whatever the flair is called) though personally I wouldn’t care.

you will not be able to board if your ID doesn’t exactly reflect your details"

Do they care about an apostrophe though? I can see any punctuation being a problem for systems.

First bromance Elon Musk.

I don’t know how anyone could be impressed by that interview. It was 3 hours of a narcissist saying how great he is.

You mean Trump didn’t learn his lesson?!?

Gaetz has a better shot at having dinner with Queen Elizabeth II than being confirmed by the senate,"

Dem senators should help confirm him to help Trump show the nation he wants to burn everything down.

Khan is a first name?

Paul Ryan. But yeah probably not as known.

Any ____son is a last name. FYI the etymology is son of Jack, son of ____.

Oh he’ll take advice that he likes.

This sounds like an advisory council.

Trump was a celebrity with name recognition. I think there’s more to it than unconventional.

The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership.

There’s going to be an abundance of popcorn when other countries retaliate with their own tariffs.

I don’t think sanctions will prevent literally everything from getting to Russia, but it will make it much slower and reduce the quantity substantially.

You withhold it?

Probably a whole lot more than that. This is just the start.

You’re shifting gears again. But we can address that too. I see this enough to have it saved:

Ok let’s go through this chronologically.

Bill Clinton: After successive Dem losses Bill figured out “it’s the economy stupid”, aka center policy, not leftist policy. Plus when you run against an incumbent (Bush senior) you generally run from the center. So that’s what he did. And he won.

Gore: After the population hopefully warmed up with Bill Clinton, he stuck his head out left with climate change. And bam he lost the election. Thanks 3rd party protest voters! Aka: The left never shows up.

Obama: So guess what Obama learned? Don’t stick your head out. He ran on broad “hope” and “yes we can” and having energy, hoping the ambiguity would be enough considering Bush’s disastrous wars. And he won.

More on Obama: So he enacted the ACA. That’s great, right? The thanks Obama got for that was to lose the House of Representatives for year 3 and 4. And lose the House of reps again for years 5 and 6. And then lose both the House of reps and the Senate for years 7 and 8. He enacted left policy and: The left never shows up.

Hillary Clinton: So what did Hillary learn from the last 6 years of Obama? She learned that the left never shows up. So she only stuck her head out with a big position to left on the map room to climate change. She basically declared war on climate change. You know that big existential issue that all the leftists care about, right? The big important issue that the left says they want so badly, right? And guess what happened? Bam she lost. Thanks protest non-voters! Aka: The left never shows up.

Biden: Just like Obama learned from Gore, Biden learned from Hillary that you don’t stick your head out left on anything. Not one thing. And he was running against an incumbent, so once again when you do that you run center. And he won.

More on Biden: But he did left things anyway. He did green energy, EVs, drug price control, PACT act, chips act, etc. And what were the results? Lost the House of Representatives for years 3 and 4. Polls showed him losing the election to Trump. He enacted left policy and: The left didn’t show up for midterms, and was not going to show up for the next election.

Harris: So guess what Harris did? She tried Obama’s strategy of “get ahead” and energy. And abortion rights and democracy. She relied on the left to show up for their human fucking rights and friggin democracy. They couldn’t even do that. Aka the left never shows up.

And people are amazed that they don’t run a big left platform? Every time they rely on the left they lose. Every Single Time. And the next guy learns to go to the center to win. Because the center voters actually show up.

With this history, you’d be an absolute fool to cater to and rely on the left. Because. They. Never. Show. Up.

So how do you get them to move left? By giving them victories first. Consistent and overwhelming victories. Show them it’s safe to take policy chances. Because when they lose, like they’ve lost for 38 of the last 44 years, they go to the center to find voters.

Republicans even have one branch of congress they bring the whole government to a stand still until they get concessions.

Republicans can do that because they don’t care if the government shuts down. Imo their entire goal is to burn everything down, they’re happy to do it.

But the Democrats do care. They don’t want to shut down the government.

If democrats were as ravenous about left policies as the Republicans or nation would be a better place.

The difference is in what each party wants to do.

The GOP wants to stop progress. That’s all they want to do, stop progress. By and large they are not trying to create and write and pass new complex legislation. They want to hit the big giant pause button on society. And they can do that with any one of the 3 houses. They can literally accomplish pretty much all their aims with 1 house, whereas the Dems need all 3 to do anything.

Or they want to simply repeal old legislation. They’re not replacing it with newly created and labored over legislation, they’re just straight out going to repeal all the legislation.

The Democrats want to pass things. When they get power they have to write that new, complex, excruciating detailed legislation. That’s after they go out every single congressman to figure out how far they can go on bills. That’s why the ACA was watered down, they needed Lieberman. And of course, all 3 houses to pass it.

In short: Progress and creation take real time, effort, hard work, and all three houses to pass it. Stagnation or regression requires fuck all.

Want progress? Then you need to give Dems consistent and overwhelming victories. Not 6 years every 44 years.

Now you’re shifting gears, which we can address. Ok the Dems need all 3 of presidency, house of reps, and senate to pass pretty much anything. That’s how it works. And they’ve had all 3 for, drumroll please, 4 of the last 24 years. Or 6 of the last 32 years. Or 6 of the last 44 fucking years. And you wonder why progress is slow? It’s because Dems basically never have power. If they don’t have all 3 they are forced to reach across the aisle. If you want things to progress you need to give them overwhelming and consistent victories.