But that would put them out of business!

I would hope

To be fair, Lego was apparently on the verge of going under until they did a bunch of brand tie-ins. So I totally understand its need for survival, but maybe they could change the proportions a little

Call me boring, but I want to see more classic Lego sets that are not affiliated with any existing bit of pop culture other than itself. Give us a cool car or city set like we played with as kids, or what we would inevitably make if given a giant bin of bricks!

Read the room, my dude

Well so far no other country of any majority race has tried to join only to be denied soooo…

It was a load-bearing ribbon

I think the running joke is that it would be a unanimous 99-0 vote so they can finally get rid of him

I am all Trevor

On this blessed day

our current situation…

In 09

Ok. Between 2009 and now he had 2 terms of his own ahead, a candidate Trump emerging, a candidate Trump winning in an upset, a pandemic, a few years of his VP giving a few years of relative respite, and now Trump Season 2 with a whole new set of awful people in the cabinet. It’s been 17 years since then. Sure, that could have changed course but can you really see exactly what’s going to happen between now and 2043?

Or, if you really want to play the unintended consequences game, how about this? Bill Clinton handles the Elian González situation differently, Gore wins Florida and with that the 2000 election, and George W Bush isn’t in office on 9/11 (if it even happens, considering POTUS was warned that Al Qaeda was planning on using highjacked planes as missiles). Can you even imagine what the world would have been like if Elian’s mother made it on that boat?

I’m not really as liberal as most Lemmings (by no means conservative though) so take this as you will.

I was a cub scout. Was mostly indifferent to it but when my best friend at the time and cousin left, I didn’t see much reason to stay.

I think your reasons for support are valid. Some people had bad experiences. That’s unfortunate, but I’m not sure it should mean the whole organization needs to collapse. The Catholic Church (I’m a recovering Catholic, by the way 🙂) is a little different in that its hierarchy can send career staff to other locations to sweep things under the rug, whereas scouts tend to interact with other parent volunteers who are only there as long as their kids are.

Also, how many people really cared about women’s sports in this country before this became an issue?

Things we can eat, or more road salt?

To shreds, you say…

I’ve been using Pollsmax. It’s pretty good. Of course after every election I am reminded that there will always be surprises and I need to stop treating these sites as if they were a crystal ball

In theory, a cabinet-level department can be removed with a bill that says “this entity is no longer a thing”. But capitalism isn’t an entity… You can’t really remove it so much as you set up entirely new policies that would replace it. And that is a much different ball of wax to figure out

Well step 1 would be to be informed as to the problem - both what and where. I hated the water in the hotel I stayed in in Denver. Then I moved here, and it was actually really good. Best I can guess is the hotel plumbing was to blame. If I fought back against the city I probably would’ve felt pretty silly, don’t you think?

I mean, if we knew he was doing it, it wouldn’t be so quiet. Too much of his cabinet (which would need to vote for it) are unwavering Trump sycophants, but maybe there are enough not-Pete-Hegseths that he could pull it off.

But for Vance’s own sake, he may be best off waiting until after midterms/inauguration in case he needs to cut any deals with the next Congress.

…no? He said “stick of butter, bag of peanuts. Butter is about a buck” and then Laura said something

Just before he said “stick of butter”