My understanding is that he isn't running for office yet. He's running for a party's nomination for president.
If he wins that, then he's running for president and states will have to decide whether he can be on the ballot.
I know it's a fine distinction, but if they ruled otherwise, it would get overturned.
It's usually bags of money and pallets of equipment that go "missing" and find a new home with a warlord.
Sorry, but can you prove you've continuously occupied this body for the last 20 years?
Oh good point. Thanks.
There's room for being understanding - but these bad faith actors use our willingness to give the benefit of the doubt so that they can build plausible deniability for themselves, while never intending to operate in good faith.
Imo, three strikes and you're a shill.
I don't think you can expect rational discourse from a collective concern.
Some people will agree with you. Some people will disagree, because at the end of the day, if you're willing to vote for someone even when they don't do what you like, then they have no incentive to consider anything you like.
Neither position is wrong.
Our system, which sets up two bad options, is what's wrong.
This is ultimately a false dichotomy. We operate as if there are only two options, because no one person has the power to fix this, but instead of recognizing that the system is broken, we blame each other for not going all in on what we all admit is problematic.
Hell, even a regular moped...I had a gas powered genuine buddy 50 in college. That thing had a ~1.5 gallon tank, which I only had to fill up once a week. I got 80-100 mpg depending on how much I had to do. It was insane.
Bad behavior goes back forever, but many cultures dealt with it as a community. A person acting out was seen as a symptom of a group problem.
Now, with everything hyper individualized, and with capitalism in its metastatic era, it's nearly impossible to hold anyone accountable when they can just flip around and say, "I wanted the money," and a solid 20% of the population will attack anyone who says that shouldn't be the primary driver of our society.
He's deliberately provoking so he can claim Persecution Points. It's the biggest PP he's got.
I've noticed that a lot of these people will lean left for a minute, because they hope that it will get them a get out of jail free card for being problematic in specific ways.
They find out quickly that the left doesn't do that. I can support your stance on XYZ while still disliking you and not wanting to do business with you because of ABC.
So then they switch to regressive stances, because those people will cheer you on for being awful.
Same thing happened to Reagan. He created the EPA as an executive agency to avoid Congress creating and empowering an independent entity that the executive wouldn't be able to control. He thought it would get him votes from the left. It did not, and he pretty much immediately stated that he regretted it because lefties didn't buy his bs.
They know. That's why they hate theatre.
We have backlogged projects, let alone maintenance on existing infrastructure, not even getting to the costs of upgrading ancient infrastructure - a lot of municipalities still use clay pipes.
Right now deferred maintenance is roughly a trillion dollars.