Oh yes. Agreed 1000%. The whole process would have to begin by Puerto Ricans themselves voting for statehood. The US doesn’t get to decide for them.

Vman makes a really important point - a lot of commenters (and some of my Puerto Rican friends) seem convinced Puerto Rico wants to be a state … (DC actually does.) If we all study our history we shouldn’t be so sure. Some want independence, some want statehood, some want no change.

It’s a high risk move. Bonanza for Trump this year but …. if we regain our footing in “normal” politics (scary that that phrase must be preceded by “if,”) the Dems will, within 10 years, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, which will permanently change the nature of the Senate in the Dems’ favor.

Fun fact: “Hegseth” is an alias he adopted for his TV career. The name on his birth certificate is “Kegbreath.”

You’re absolutely right … but go the next step. America **is** tolerating this behavior, and many are enthusiastic about it. The end of the syllogism is (unfortunately) Many Americans are abhorrent for supporting this, and the rest of America is abhorrent for tolerating it.

California should withhold its tax dollars until the wildfire emergency financials are resolved.

Dolt-45. Schmuck à l’Orange.

Seems kinda dom, IMHO. :)

She played that visit poorly (although I still like her.) This impulse to avoid a photo op, though clearly not fully thought out, was a damn good one. Her lizard brain was trying to protect her.

When Adam Kinzinger and Nancy Pelosi agree you have fucked up, the issue is not an ideological one. It is a testicular one.

She’s lovely, and her name might be Petal.

Disbar Ed Martin.

But like seriously, what’s the appropriate price for a mentally limited, middle aged, drunk, adulterous TV personality? How much can he lift? Does he do windows?

PREACH

Important to ponder. But that’s going to overlap a bunch with “rural area.” To really understand this phenomenon, it’s important to tease those two variables apart. Do we have any data on how he did in rural areas *with* papers? Or isolated small cities without?

I prefer WFTYS….

I’m passionately pro-Muppet CC, but like …. Alastair Sim’s Scrooge is epically good. What a performance.

Rural take-out is way worse. It’s all logical if you look at the economics of restaurants, but it’s a bummer for most of the country.

Vivan Willcocks and Rutter!

All three are currently walking into a bar.