A huge swath of Republican voters are not voting for Trump. They are voting against “Democrats”. Propaganda in the US has turned politics into a team sport, and you always root for your team, even if your team is having a rough season.

It’s cute how you think things will be alive.

I keep an eye on these types of treatments. Type 1 diabetes being autoimmune and all.

So far, I’m putting it in the bucket with all the other “cure is just 5 years away” things we hear about.

It’s promising, and neat it’s worked in these cases, but I remain skeptical. Twice over as it appears to be research from China, who doesn’t have the best track record for robust scientific integrity. We’ll see how repeatable this stuff is soon enough.

The tricky part about T1 is… We don’t know why the immune system is malfunctioning, only that it is. Without that vital piece of research, everything that presents as a cure is temporary at best.

Dr. Faustman out of Mass General has been conducting some trials into phase two or three using the BCG vaccine to treat / cure the immune response.

There’s a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of “The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don’t trust the government.”

If they put up a notice saying, “This domain was seized, here’s the real facts!” the target of the propaganda isn’t going to buy it for a hot minute.

If they put up replacement content that doesn’t mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, “Fake news!” at anything that disputes their existing worldview.

It’s best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.

A “Library of Congress” for published web content maybe. Some sort of standard that allows / requires websites that publish content on oublic-facing sites to also share a permanent copy with an archive, without having the archive have to scrape it.

Sort of like how book publishers send a copy to the LoC.

Technically,

The president and vice president are chosen by the electoral college in separate votes.

Though, for some time, it’s always been the winning candidate’s selected running mate… there is no requirement there. The electors could pick Mittens the back flipping poodle for VP if they wanted.

Usually people that are either lying about being Democrats, or people very much stuck on a single issue and have decided that “The establishment” is wrong (yet, still, identifying as a Democrat).

Remember too that the President doesn’t write the laws, and pretty much every solution for a single payer healthcare solution involves legislation.

Blaming or crediting a President for something that only Congress can do is a long American tradition, and an exceptionally stupid one we need to get over.

I find the AI summaries of reviews Amazon does on product pages to be fairly inoffensive and generally a decent use of AI.

But it’s also clearly marked as auto-generated.

“Tiajuana? No, that’s too easy. Ensenada!”

Thomas Jefferson never added airplane safety regulations to the Constitution ergo, it’s completely unregulated. Also, Justice Alito would like to cite a man with tapestries tied to his arms as he jumped off a cliff in the 9th century saying of course it’s safe.

They’ll still vote for him. The ® outweighs anything a Democrat could do.

He’s in the part of the plan where he delays.

Next up: legal challenges to Harris being on the ballot. However silly or spurious or quickly they’re tossed out, it’ll be the next excuse for not debating.

By then, well, it’s too close to the election, some early voting has started, and it wouldn’t be fair to debate now, see…

I’d like to know.

I want to go out on my own terms. If that means I don’t have to save so much for retirement… Great, I can go on expensive vacations now instead of later.

And then I can do what needs to be done without regrets.

It would be better if they got a terrible one. Like Keenan in a blonde wig.

You got it.

It’s a sweet deal for the servicers… the loans are basically zero risk and the servicer gets to keep a lion’s share of the interest while only paying for the costs associated with servicing (customer service, mailing statements, pausing repayment for various reasons, etc.)

That said, those loans shouldn’t be confused with private student loans, in which the government is. It involved (mostly).

Indeed. Everyone tries to blame Democrats for, when they have the slimmest of majorities, for not doing everything, when there are literally 49 Republican senators out there who are the ones who are truly blocking progress.

I know.

They have unrealistic expectations about how the world works and feel like anger, even if justified, should be enough.

The ACA, while not perfect, literally saved my life. It prohibits lifetime maximums and eliminated the idea of pre-existing conditions.

Without that, I’d be dead.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.