Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.

So, are you one of them Trans gingers or what?

Like that?

Hmm, ok

What are you trying to say? I’m not sure how average ages are supposed to factor into a discussion about pedophiles.

I don’t think a 20 year old dating a 17 year old falls into that category but it would fall under the legal definition you’re referring to in many states. That’s the problem with drawing arbitrary lines, you usually end up labeling some things incorrectly. That doesn’t mean you get rid of the line but understanding the context is still important.

That being said, there is no amount of context that will lessen the creepiness of a 50+ year old man serially preying upon 15 year old girls. That’s disgusting and I find Megyn Kelly’s invocation of this defense to be indefensible. She should be ashamed of herself if she were capable of feeling shame.

Is she wrong about that last part? Clearly she’s deflecting and full of shit in general but Biden did have 4 years to do something about this. Why didn’t he?

That sort of teaching is incredibly common whether you think it should be or not. If you have kids I’m sure you’ve done it yourself many times. “You ate Timmy’s candy so now you have to give your candy to Timmy” is not fundamentally different from what I said above.

I don’t think I would phrase it that way but if you make a career out of knowingly getting murderers off the hook then yeah, you deserve bad things. There’s lots of people who deserve things, both good and bad, that never get those things. Being deserving of something is not a guarantee that you will get it.

I don’t know, it seems pretty fair to me to say that if you prevent justice from being done for an act committed against someone else then you deserve to have that act directed at you, at least in general terms. That sort of consequential thinking is one of the first things we teach our kids. Why should the answer change just because the subject matter does? It seems pretty reasonable to assume that this lawyer did not genuinely believe Cuomo was innocent. Perhaps “deserve” isn’t quite the right word but I think “fuck around and find out” certainly applies, and when you summarize that phrase it expresses pretty much the same sentiment as the word deserving.

This is all well known dating back to at least 2016 when they fucked Sanders over. Those two things are directly related.

I think there’s a significant difference between someone who caught a case for having an ounce on them and a guy busted with enough weed to fill a swimming pool, regardless of my personal feelings about marijuana. Framing it the way you are makes it sound like he’s the former and that doesn’t capture the scope of what he was up to.

Either way this guy is clearly a shit head. If you want to make the argument that all marijuana charges should be pardoned and expunged then I suggest you find a different poster boy for the campaign because this guy is not helping your case.

Weed is definitely comparatively tame to hard drugs but 220,000 lbs of anything is insane. That’s not just some dude trying to make a living.

Besides Trump is the last person in the world that needs less scrutiny on the people he pardons. Just today the news broke that he pardoned Giuliani and others who tried to help him steal an election. The dude is literally pardoning people who commit crimes on his behalf. If you find yourself saying something that could reasonably be interpreted as defending his use of pardons then there’s a good chance you’re on the wrong side of the issue.

That’s true, but it’s also intensely pessimistic. Take the opportunity to celebrate the rare wins that come along.

I wish I knew anyone who gave me as much benefit of the doubt as you give Democrats. I don’t get why it’s apparently so difficult for you to imagine that they don’t have your best interests in mind.

Set a reminder to read this comment again in two months and see if that’s how this plays out. I’m not sure how many times Democrats need to help Republicans fuck you over before you understand that neither party’s leadership has any intention of doing something else.

I guess it’s good that people paying double for shitty healthcare causes “frustration” but I would hope for a bit stronger reaction than that.

If anyone, politician or private citizen, hasn’t figured out that Republicans lie by now then that person is too stupid to function without a caretaker

They’re not making these arguments in good faith so there’s no point in treating them as such. If tomorrows problem requires taking the opposite position from today then they will do so without hesitation. Recognize these as the self-serving, useful in this particular moment, lies that they are and move on.

So your argument is that Donald Trump is not an adjudicated rapist?

It’s not a lie at all but OK

We already know Trump is a rapist who likes underage girls. That has been proven without a doubt on multiple occasions. What does hanging out with another guy who does so change, especially since that’s another thing we’ve already known for years?