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Looks like they figured something out, so good, but good lord a lot of the reactions in this thread were basically "let's make people's lives worse so we can feel good about ourselves"

Uber and Lyft workers: we don't want this, we're fine with choosing our own hours.
Restaurant workers: we don't support this, we're losing a ton of money with this in place.
Night goers: we don't want this, it helps a lot to be able to easily get home after drinking.
Atlas: they're doing for the working class, now be quiet, workers and regular people!

Has this leak enhanced or impeded a criminal investigation?

It's important to note that McBride's motives for leaking the information, as conceded by his own lawyers in court,  was not to 'expose the crimes,' but because he believed the soldiers had done nothing wrong and were being unfairly investigated. This is the slant he went to the ABC with, who upon receiving the material realized that no, actually the soldiers had committed serious war crimes. I'm not entirely comfortable with his prison sentence, but honesty is important. He wasn't trying to bring the truth to light but rather derail active investigations

And yet still revealed valuable information.

Yes, which is why I said I'm uncomfortable with this prison sentence. His actions ended up being good, but his motives weren't. He's a whistleblower by accident but still probably deserves protections

Providing jobs and supporting regional economies being, of course, entirely socially useless things.

At this point in the electoral cycle polling of the entirety of NI (and especially first preference support) is less useful, because those aren't going to be the dynamics of the general election. It's a question of how hostile the voters moving to the TUV from the DUP are; how willing nationalist/neither/moderate unionist voters are to vote tactically to remove opponents; and to what extent that varies from one constituency to another.

LOL

https://twitter.com/CharlesMichel/status/1792438047058890987

The New York Post reports that señor Call is a chief engineer at Raytheon's surveillance division. They also seem to think that his job has something to do with the company's export of the Iron Dome system to Israel, which appears unlikely. Still, this is probably not the indictment that the Post thinks it is.

Well this is the most expected leading i seen, I predict that by the time November arrive Florida is going to be in the double digits for Trump.

You cannot start this thread without mentioning upfront the oldest and most discussed Classic Moment of the show, the Joe Wilkinson potato throw:

seems about right. In the end it could be Trump 54% Biden 40% Others 6%.

among all Battlegrounds and ex Battleground states, Florida one of the states I’m quite sure Trump would win in double digits. Even though somehow Trump support would collapse considerably between now and election day, he would still win Florida comfortably. Biden and the Democratic brand is just to unpopular here.

Palm Beach might only be a 1-4% Biden win this time around. Jews and non-Mexican Hispanics are groups he is losing ground with and plenty located here.

I wonder if Trump will win Dade County 55-42 or something like that.

seems about right, but probably high single digits like 9%. The way I see it now, Biden could only win Alachua, Gadsden, Leon, Osceola, Orange, Broward and Palm Beach counties at this point.

I live in Palm Beach county, while I don’t see Trump winning this county yet, I’m quite sure there would be a considerable shift to the GOP. The county commission just flipped to 4R3D last 2022 elections, before that it was 6D1R!

Even Jared Moskowitz lost the Palm Beach county portion of Florida 23rd last elections.

How do most people you know plan to vote?

I don’t usually ask people for their political preferences, I find that coming in too strong and meddlesome. But in general, on my observation, they absolutely hate both candidates and they would’ve preferred somebody else winning in their respective primaries. The hispanics I know though in my area doesn’t like Biden.

It's hard to find ppl who unironically like Biden.

Except for on this forum.

Lol the people that votes R are rich not poor people c'mon

Did you ever politically/ mentally mature past the year 2006?