A VP debate I guess could be a game changer in this whacky year, but I'd guess more from Vance being a creep than anything in Walz's control.

I don't think Walz needs to deliver an epic beat down or anything because Harris already did that with Trump. Just Being Normal and maybe showing (as much as you can within the confines of the format) he's done his homework and can step up if needed should be enough.

Right, and Obama did lean a bit too much on Clinton hands like Larry fucking Summers in his first two years for my tastes, but he still has the rolodex to put together a good team. Vance has...Heritage and Peter Thiel and in so many ways shows he's a lightweight in a bubble.

"What are the basic duties of the job, and can this person fulfill them" is a woefully underrated question in electoral politics.

Think of the children? Think of the fucked up mentality it takes to impose that burden for the sake of a child that didn't ask to be born into a world *that does not want them* to a father that views them as collateral damage at best.

9 months of carrying the constant, health and occasionally life threatening reminder of one of the most profound violations you can experience is not an "inconvenience." Unless you're willing to fund a moonshot into artificial wombs and full state stewardship of offspring conceived in rape, stfu.

We've seen this movie before with an ineffectual Iranian attack, so the only real question is how Israel will respond.

I feel woefully under qualified to comment on the Middle East so I'm just going to check out of bullshitting about it. This whole situation sucks and our policy seems mired in an awful time warp, but perhaps the only choices are bad and worse.

Depends entirely on the job. PVC is easy. No way I'm going to try to solder copper or get the special tools to do pex fittings.

Getting accurate information just isn't that hard in this age if you do even a bit of digging. The problem is most people don't care and propagandists dominate a lot of the default channels (local news, top results on Google, social media grapevines)