Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

They need to just do away with the debt ceiling.
 
It’s a measure of past spending, not future spending, and it will always be raised anyway.

@tehwatever  
That’s one big walking “NOPE” right there. I swear Australia….

@Goku Black  
Have you even seen the hellspawn that inhabit Australia?

 
I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this but yes, if there was ever definitive proof the thing is legit…

@Kiryu-Chan  
If you think that’s bad, you should see some the extinct animals that lived back then. Especially the megafauna.
 
Examples:
 
Crocodiles built for running.
 
Wombats the size of rhinos.
 
Marsupial lions that could take down said wombats.
 
And the last one? Might be where the Drop Bear originated from.

@Dustcan  
He’s got a point.

So apparently a former Trump advisor thinks they’re putting COVID vaccines in salad dressing.
 
What the actual fuck. That’s not a logic leap, that’s a logic Saturn V rocket ride.

Mass droughts causing rivers to major dams to shrink by the year.
 
Lake Powell has a 3% chance of being unable to provide power to its dam, which provides power to over 5 million homes, by 2022. By 2023 that raises to 34%. Meanwhile Lake Mead is expected to shrink below capacity by 2025, causing the Hoover Dam to be unable to function.
 
The Hoover Dam provides power to 25 million across 5 states. One of America’s greatest feats of engineering and construction is at risk of becoming obsolete in a couple short years. And the suggested fix, according to one of the local leaders is…just hope it rains a lot.

I desire medical salad dressing.
 
 
If every medicine I ever have to take can be taken in the form of ranch dressing/dip on celery, then sign me right the fuck up.

@Kazapsky  
As if anti-vaxxers are going to be eating salad. They need to start putting that shit in the Big Macs and the McNuggets.

@Zincy
 
It’s actually a really good idea, if you can make it work. One time when I was little and really sick, my parents managed to mix my meds into a glass of grape soda. Much easier than getting a shot, especially for needle-phobes.
 
But the article indicates they’re still a long ways out from edible vaccines of any sort.

@Kazapsky
 
The closest I get to that now is a hot toddy during a cold.
 
 
Whiskey, lemon juice, honey, and a spritz of water. Loosens up the sinuses.
 
 
Maybe they should work on putting the vax in alcohol.

@Kazapsky  
This is the guy that Obama warned Trump not to hire, and then Trump made him national security adviser, and then he got fired in three weeks for lying about being an unregistered foreign agent.
 
And then he went full QAnon.
 
So, y’know, good guy.
 
@Zincy  
LEGALIZE MEDICINAL RANCH!
 
@Dustcan  
Well, we killed all the people who know how to rain dance, so…

Another day, another mass shooting. This time in Memphis, Tennessee. At a Kroger no less.
 
1 dead, 14 wounded, and a dead gunman.

MTG just posted cringe while on the floor of Congress
 
Here’s David Pakman’s take on it. Just look at the memes
 
https://youtu.be/Kp9hNeZYYh0

@neutralgrey  
Whenever they redo the house rules, they should take a hard line against memes. Because no.
 
“The gentlelady is reminded to leave that shit on Reddit.”

“Speaker of the House, I would simply like to announce that I have drawn the president as a soyjack. Thus I would like to move to conclude my position is correct: and the president is owned and cucked, sir.”

@neutralgrey  
God, what a stupid unhinged bitch.

MTG must be arrested and thrown in jail immediately for her role in January 6th!!!

@Dustcan  
Certainly the western desert states could be more judicious in their use of water. They could transport it in pipes instead of open canals across miles of desert where the water evaporates or drains through the concrete. They could ban green lawns, golf courses, swimming pools, fountains, and water intensive crops like cotton. They could collect rainwater better in cities and build desalination plants on the coast.
 
But all that only helps conserve the limited water they have. Without enough rain to replenish the water table, I could see a mass exodus from the west in the future.

@kleptomage  
If only the moisture vaporator wasn’t just sci-fi…

@Zincy  
I don’t even eat salad dressing, and I’d still give it a go rather than a jab.

@Goku Black
 
I mean, it’s not. And vapor farms are real.
 
But US infrastructure is so god awful. We don’t invest thing things like that and desalination plants, both of which would be useful to offset the coming water problems.

@Zincy  
Wait. It’s actually possible to pull moisture out of the air, even in a desert? I’m curious as to where this was actually attempted. (Desert planets in a galaxy far, far away don’t count.)

@Goku Black  
Northern Chile IIRC.