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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-statehood-bill-pases-house/ I give this a 0% chance of happening. There's no way a conservative SCOTUS would allow it to go through a simple majority vote of Congress. They are much, much better off with the compromise bill that gives most of DC back to Maryland...

Anybody defending Bryant is hurting the goal of police reform.

And do you have any policy ideas to incentivize changing that behavior? Or will you cry about how any kind of affirmative action is unfair/racist/etc when we try to give black people more opportunities? Do you think it's right that our schools are funded mostly via local property taxes? Which...

The video showed the guy basically punted her in the head. He should absolutely be charged with assault. There's no chance the cop will be charged, nor should he be. Would have a taser been better in this situation? I'm not sure, but lethal force is an option for the cop here to protect somebody...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/caitlyn-jenner-launches-bid-california-governor-n1265064 Even in CA, what are the chances that GOP primary voters embrace an openly trans candidate?

Are the people saying she waited too long to come out consistent on this when it comes to MeToo issues? Do the people who not mind that she waited consistent and take delayed MeToo issues seriously when they're accusations against people they support? I'm just asking for consistency, not...

The stock tax would be .5%, but derivatives would only be taxed at .0005%.

This is an idiotic bill that has zero chance of passing. It was clearly thought of by somebody who knows nothing about the markets. Suddenly you would see the options market explode in volume while the underlying security volume would dip tremendously if it were implemented.

There’s another thing I want to say about that drive by shooting. Notice how nobody is saying that there might have been carbon monoxide by the girl. Nobody is questioning if she accidentally ingested nearby drugs or coincidentally had a heart condition that went off right as she was getting...

Pretty much. We have by far the highest murder rate of any first world country. In my opinion, there's only one party that is negligent on this issue.

BLM is a decentralized movement focused on police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people. Whoever did this should go to prison for life. However, why is it BLM's job to speak on this?

That is actually probably the best response to the making Floyd a hero criticism I've seen. Gotta hand it to the man. Comedians are often the best philosophers in society, because they go beyond the political bullshit and make us think.

Damn, Chapelle looks really old/unhealthy and he's only 47. Smoking doesn't help. Looks high here too. However, he's still right. His skit about the 2 justice systems was one of the best short-skits ever. The best part is when he shows the jury, because it's so true:

36.5% for Biden/Harris is the easiest money you'll ever see. The Dem nominee is almost certainly going to be one of them and they will have the incumbency. Trump/DeSantis is a good bet as well. 14.7% it's one of them. Gotta take those odds. Who else would it be? Nikki Haley? Please. This GOP is...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/19/donald-trump-again-teases-another-presidential-run-2024/7295093002/ He told his buddy Hannity he can't really talk about it, because: "From a legal standpoint, I don't want to really talk about it yet, it's a little too soon." I wonder...

Correct. I did know that, just wrote the wrong time frame by mistake lol.

Won't it likely come down to jury questioning? They are going to want to know if the jury had any biases formed from the outside during the trial. I think it's unlikely it gets appealed, but I'm not ruling it out.

I know you're mostly trolling. I don't know which of the right-wingers believe the nonsense they spew on here and which of them are trolling as well. It's mind-boggling to me that anybody can believe Chauvin is innocent, then come on here and say the jury was emotional, not objective in their...

Yeah, I expect 15 years, not 12.5 with an emphasis on abuse of authority. We'll find out in 8 months, but the fact that a child was randomly there will carry less weight in my opinion. That one aggravating factor in particular would be more bad luck than something Chauvin had control of in the...

If I look at the aggravating factors one by one trying to be objective: 1. The presence of children (Chauvin arrived at the scene of the crime, the presence of children shouldn't have made him less likely to commit the crime, the children weren't in danger, and I just don't see how this is a big...