It’s always had a “libertarian” streak when it comes to business deregulation, but otherwise yeah pretty blue.

Sometimes asking them to explain the joke will be enough to get them feeling embarrassed. If there’s multiple guys throwing this shit around that tactic could easily backfire, though.

Article about hat pins being used as weapons.

I think the federal government should play a really big role in preserving rights and freedoms. Preventing individual states from becoming little tyrannies is important! The feds are also useful for big interstate projects - public health, highways, climate protection. It helps prevent states from fucking each other over.

The issues that are truly local in scale do exist, but the world is shrinking. Is law enforcement local? Mostly. Economics? Kinda. It’s easy to see how our interconnectedness is leading to bigger federal scope.

There’s only a few things I can confidently say aren’t at all in the federal government’s wheelhouse. They shouldn’t be restricting our individual rights, overriding state level protections. Dictating what is a valid marriage, restricting speech, outlawing abortion or gender transition, etc. They could PROTECT those rights, but taking them away should be a state-by-state decision.

Just my opinion if we want a federation of states that preserves freedoms instead of a cluster of warring fiefdoms.

I can see how that would be oddly comforting. Shitty criminals failing spectacularly to get away with it.

Hat pins about to come back into fashion.

Making people doubt the election’s integrity and fear potential violence for voting is probably the goal.

Tacky

Splitters!

I got it, even if nobody else did.

Is chronic wasting disease communicable between species? I thought prions were species-specific.

Edit: I was curious and looked it up. It’s not currently communicable to humans but that could change as the prion evolves. Avoid eating infected meat, though it probably won’t affect you, being patient zero would suck.

Theses is the plural of thesis. Kinda looks stupid out of context but there you go.