The other thing I'll point out about the sneaky primary ballot questions... Independent turnout during primaries is very low, and most independents I've talked to about ballot questions have no fucking clue they can even vote for anything during a primary.

Yeah true. That's what I meant - sorry, long day yesterday

They went all-in on the Big Lie and it blew up in their face. We all heard the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, but apparently not all of us listened

Fetterman feels pretty close to “average Joe”

I know his parents were middle class and helped support him, but he is definitely not an elite and relates to normal peoples issues way more than most politicians. I wish to see more politicians like him run for office

That's why I'm always impressed with folks who admit they were in a cult. It's easier to just pretend it didn't happen and that you weren't conned into giving your time and identity to another person. But those who admit at least have a chance to grow and not repeat the same mistakes. Not so sure about those who try to forget.

Yep. I didn't know we had anything called Lykens Valley Sasquatch Hunters. This is such a beautiful area, as pretty as any part of our singularly beautiful state, you know? Love to be in the news for say " Strip mining scars now healed and reclaimed by forest " ( it has, makes me pull the car over and absolutely savor the sight ) and " Underground Railroad House saved from demolition " ( unfortunately not true, one not far from here now features a now defunct Arby's, but there are more needing attention ).

SO many features making Lykens and surrounding areas SO notable. We make it for Bigfoot throwing rocks.

I study history, economics, geography, geopolitics a dn so on as a hobby. For decades.

They did start these movements, yes. I said as much when I said they voted for civil rights and freedoms for young people. WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG PEOPLE.

They voted for whatever suited their demographic the best. Most generations do that, but because they are a huge portion of the electorate, they always go their way.

They are the same people who run universities like businesses, charge too much for shit education, and then vote against student loan forgiveness.

They own the universities now, that's why. They don't care about young people now, they only cared about young people when they were young.

I had my college tuition paid for by rich boomers. But I still empathize with students today, because they get such a shit deal. I was fortunate, but the boomers don't see things that way. They feel they earned everything they stole through hard work and determination. But they are totally blind to the fact that they've been rigging the system in their favor for decades, and that they happen to come of age during one of the most productive and prosperous times in American history. Sure they contributed to that, but college was cheap, houses were cheap, jobs were plentiful, they paid well, people had job security and pensions and unions.

Then they voted to TAKE ALL OF THAT AWAY from everyone else the second they sat in the manager's chair. Pensions have been looted, college is a scam, houses are criminally overpriced, wages haven't changed in 30 years. How old were boomers 30 years ago? They were 40 years old. They froze wages and gave themselves raises and lower taxes the second they didn't need them for themselves anymore.

Boomers own 65% of the square footage of this country's housing. Millennials own 4%.

The only saving grace is that housing prices will crash when no one can afford to buy all these boomer mansions. But it will destroy the entire world economy. The boomers won't care, because they will be dead. The rest of us have to clean up the mess they made.

Yup my in laws are independents and have to stay home on primary day (unless there is a special vote like a referendum, but there wasn't one last year so expect to not be able to vote some primaries).

Careful bud. If you actually live in PA we are a closed primary state (something I disagree with heavily) and as such once you register as independent you are cutting yourself entirely out of the primary process in this state. My in laws are independents and nothing gets my father in law more annoyed than the reminder he can't vote on primary day unless there's a referendum. I worked the primaries last year and had to refuse over a dozen independents from voting because there was nothing for them to vote for.

Not saying you shouldn't change registration, do you. Just be aware that it's more than a self identity thing here, it comes with consequences.

Fun fact about teslas it's whole operating system was based off a Linux ubuntu distribution. Not to mention the batteries easily explode. The whole car is half assed. These also need to be illegal.

How can you trust a computer made by a man that has no idea how the machine works with your life? It's flabbergasting

That may not be true because it's always been the case in the past that generations have gotten more conservative with age while younger generations were more progressive. That's the biggest reason older people are hated. It's the backwards, conservative "F you, I got mine" politics.

But studies show that millenials are just becoming more progressive with age. If the trend continues, millenials may not be hated for their politics the way that the current older generations are.

That's a great argument. How could I have been so blind.

So is cocaine and marijuana. What's your point here

People forget, or never knew, that the Boomers were considered (and considered themselves) a highly progressive generation. They were the generation that basically started the broad acceptance of the civil rights movement, sexual liberation, women's lib, the anti-war movement, anti-capitalism in the West, and the first to really broadly support environmentalism.

They couldn't wait until the older generation that started two world wars, committed genocides, and dropped nuclear bombs on civilian cities died off.

The famous saying, "Don't trust anyone over 30." was a Boomer invention.

Does any of this sound familiar?The lack of knowledge of social history of just the preceding generation, not to mention past centuries, is either down to a failure of schools or supreme narcissism.

Conservatives never miss an opportunity to remove all doubt they are disgusting trash that needs taken out.

How's that any different from people that smoke. Something that doesn't hurt anybody. Yet people are always thrown in jail or being fined hundred for it. We're already throwing people in jail for stupid reasons. What's one more

Nothing is changing, yet. This ruling just puts the state assembly on notice that they need to fix it. It also, maybe, opens the state up to liability for continuing to fail to provide for this constitutional guarantee. Unfortunately the judiciary doesn't have a lever it can pull to force the legislature to actually do it's fucking job and in the end it will be up to the voters to decide to hold the assembly accountable or not. In other words: don't hold your breath.

I went through all those campaigns and still picked up vaping. As did 99 percent of everyone I know. They really don't do shit besides annoy the kid and plant a seed about the topic in there head. I only speak from experience

Alcohol is as old as civilization bruh.

I can want two things at once.

One of the things we are pushing for the new house to pass is a people initiated ballot amendments bill.

https://ballotpedia.org/States_with_initiative_or_referendum

We are hoping to pass, convince the senate to pass and thus allow citizens to collect the signatures and put Constitutional Amendments, Veto Referendum and State Statues onto ballots as questions.

There is very little reason to not give this power to the people of PA.

According to this article, it was in the York Dispatch: https://www.businessinsider.com/family-found-dead-suicide-pact-were-hell-bent-trump-winning-2023-2

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Yes but the GOP has claimed that a marginal tax rate violates the PA constitution 🙄

IMO the estate tax should be changed to factor in the amount or the tax bracket of the recipient but yes, it does change based on your relationship.

The total for 2022 was around 267k, or 5,135 a week. So worse than the number I gave.
 
https://imgur.com/Mq3xfwH

 
States are not reporting consistently and dumping totals every few weeks. Daily averages over short periods of time aren't reliable.

 
Covid-19 is the leading cause of death in America that is not heart disease or cancer, is going to remain so for the foreseeable future, and forcing people back into high-transmission environments while it's still killing massive amounts of people is cruel and unnecessary.