His elected position is not a possession. Taking it away is not punishment.

Being removed from office is not “punishment.”

Sure enough! Thanks, that was fun to watch again.

Isn’t that step two?

I feel like step one was “get a box,” but I could be misremembering.

Filtering spam is a long solved problem and completely trivial. I receive no spam on my self hosted email, and I spend no time at all working on that.

My old unused gmail account however… I recently logged in after more than a year. The spam folder had about 40 emails in it, and the inbox had more than 8000, all of which were spam. Google over self hosting is not a solution to spam.

There are good people in your life. Share good things with them and try to be as good to them as you can. Social media only amplifies the negative. Things are bad right now, but not all bad. Don’t despair.

I know it’s cheesy, but I really believe it: love is the answer.

If the peole believe he has an overwhelming mandate, they will be a lot slower to kick him in the teeth. It will soon be too late.

Those non-voters matter a lot because Trump is acting like he has some kind of enormous overwhelming mandate, and there is no evidence to back that up.

That 49.8% is misleading - it implies that 49.8% of the country support him, but it counts only the votes that were actually cast. He only got votes from about 30% of eligible voters.

Of course we can’t know who all those non-voters wanted to win, but I’d rather not imply that nearly half of all americans voted for him.

It is most certainly not sovereign US territority. We began leasing it from Cuba in 1903.

ETA: If it were US, the prisoners there would have rights. That’s the whole point of putting a prison there.

There are soo many things that dogs would find very confusing, if they had the capacity to analyze that way. What if they knew that all of our interpersonal interactions were governed mostly by ego, shame, and pride?

The shareholders will be helpless and their shares will be worthless, when no one is willing to be CEO anymore.

Dates written in a numbers only format are not about matching the spoken language. You also would not say, “let’s meet on twelve eleven twenty twentyfour.”

And now he’s in charge of directing government funds to his companies (for “efficiency”).

Swamp drained!!

I miss the “showerthoughts” of old.

You may have had this thought in the shower, but I don’t think that’s what this community is actually about.

Well, you are what you eat, and so is your poo.

Kinda makes “bye bye” seem a little weird, eh?

The saying is really about asking god to remove obstacles from your path and facilitate faster travel. A little like “goodbye” is a very shortened “may god be with you.”

Others have explained that it depends on when, but I want to add this: when a VP becomes pres. through succession, the speaker does not become VP automatically. The new pres. picks whoever they want. Ford chose the governor of NY, for example.