Every accusation in this administration is an admission.

This appears to be almost a quote from Clarence Darrow which has been misattributed to multiple other historical figures over the years.

He likely took a diagnostic test for cognitive decline that has 30 questions. But he somehow thinks it was an IQ test. He claims he got all 30 right, which they told him is a perfect score. He probably thinks he’s a genius with “a very high IQ.”

It’s the Dunning–Kruger effect in action.

You’re right. I just wish politicians would just let us have nice things.

That’s a fair criticism. We know how poll testing has historically been used to disenfranchise minority groups.

That’s why I suggested the citizenship exam, which is a well-established test with specific parameters and existing preparation programs.

I think that voter registration should work like driver licensing. And the test you have to pass should be the citizenship exam.

In this administration, every accusation is an admission.

Rigging elections is terrible.

But one party has quietly been working for decades to ensure that they can retain control of Congress with or without a majority of the votes in the country or even in a state.

And now it looks like that won’t be enough, so they’re actively trying to change election maps by any means possible before the midterms.

Democrats can’t sit on their hands and wait for this to happen. If they don’t fight back now, they might not get another opportunity.

Gerrymandering has been a problem for decades, and it’s only getting worse.

It’s possible that the only way to get fair election maps is to min/max the system to the extreme. And once everyone sees how horrible it is, maybe they’ll be willing to actually work together to fix the system.

If we wait for a perfect solution that causes no friction, we’ll be waiting forever. We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

As people age, they start to think about what comes next, and the idea of an afterlife is a lot more appealing than nothingness. I think a lot of non-religious older folks go all in on Pascal’s Wager when they are faced with their own mortality.

Yes, but the price of that temporary earthly magic is your immortal soul!

So, theoretically, it’s not worth it.

According to the story, if your character dies in-game, by that point you’re so addicted to the black magic that you ultimately can’t go on living without it.

Definitely still do.

I would like all future headlines referring to Trump to specify his age.

Oh, grandpa.

Don’t forget that “live in a place with an extremely low cost of living” is a part of this equation as well.

I don’t know if anyone in the US could actually live on that sort of Twitter income.

I would assume that the US understanding of corporate “speech” rights (per Citizens United) will at some point lead to a Supreme Court ruling that grants explicit personhood (including the right to political affiliation) to corporations and AI bots by extension.

It explains a lot about why right-wing politicians insist that the very existence of trans people in public is pornographic.

They’re outing their own kinks in broad daylight.

Those Republicans aren’t gone. They’re just Democrats now because the entire spectrum of political discourse in the US has shifted that far right.

Remember when the Cheneys found themselves on the outs with the Republicans? Their alliance with Dems would have been utterly unthinkable 25 years ago, but look at them now. As Republicans move further right and Democrats keep trying to court “centrist” voters, all they’re doing is moving their party to the right.

This is one of those weird right-wing talking points that can be easily disproved. I think this disingenuous discourse contributes to Fox News viewers’ perception that crime in the US is out of control when it’s actually at its lowest in decades in most cities.

The US does have capital punishment as a federal penalty, but it is not commonly used. There are particular “aggravating” factors to a federal murder charge that can make it eligible for the death penalty.

Capital sentences are far more likely punishments at the state level, and a little more than half of the states still use the death penalty.