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No. In a perfect world everyone would learn in good public school but if society fails to provide a good quality education for free I don't blame parents wanting their own children to get a good education.

1. Kentucky
2. West Virginia

I’ve only been following elections since 2016, when I was 11 but I like to think I have a fairly decent prediction record. I knew 2016 would be close, predicted a 53-47 senate/dems gaining about 40 in the house in 2018, never bought that 2020 would be a landslide and even here in Canada had Trudeau winning a second term when he was down in most polls. I also always knew this race would be a Biden/Trump rematch.

As of now I’d say Biden pulls this off narrowly but it’s far from a done deal, and as georgiamoderate said a lot can change. We want the answer to this election but simply won’t get it for quite a while. As Adam Carlson (great election analyst, suggest you give him a follow) says, “embrace patience and uncertainty”

Do they.... drag white students away from the publics ?

I have a hard time imagining a single SCOTUS justice would call this deal Constitutional. The Court's been pretty consistent that the terms for holding federal office are listed in the Constitution and can't be added to without a Constitutional amendment. If Trump is over 35, a natural born citizen who has resided in the US for more than 14 years, not disqualified under the 14th Amendment by Congress, and hasn't already been elected to two terms, he's eligible to be president. No government officials can take that away. Plus, in Brady v US, SCOTUS listed a reliance on "promises that are, by their nature, improper as having no proper relationship to the prosecutor's business" as a reason to invalidate a plea deal. Seems pretty open and shut to me that a political promise falls into category

I guess there's a non frivolous argument that a criminal defendant has near infinite latitude in waiving their rights. But expanding that principle so radically as to allowing this situation would be extremely contrary to both liberal jurisprudence and right-wing hackery* that I don't think Alito, Sotomayor, or anyone in between would find it persuasive. This would probably be an easy 9-0 reversal

*This is not to say that I think the right wing justices would be motivated, in whole or even in part, on hackery here. You'd probably get the same outcome if the roles were reversed and it was a Democrat who received this sort of deal. The Court isn't that right wing. The point is that the majority would reach the same outcome if it acted in good faith or if it picked a conclusion and worked backwards - ie this would be an easy case.

Weak argument not rooted in reality. The average person isn’t going to hear it and be convinced. There’s a lot to criticize MAGA over, but racism isn’t a right-wing ideology.

How is racism not right-wing?

The Right, as well as the Left can encompass many ideologies and forms and race could play a role in some ideologies. Once again not all.


For example in the 19th century Europe, Nationalism and Racism were inherently tied together. But was it " right wing "  ?  In today's world yes, but back then, the people opposing nationalism was extremeley conservative monarchists and the Catholic Church.



Would you call Christian Democracy a racist ideology ? Or the Liberal Conservative Strand that dnominates Europe ?

I've been following US elections for over 50 years and have missed two: 2000, when I predicted the reverse of what happened (Gore winning the EC while losing the PV), and 2016, which a lot of people missed.

At this point I simply don't know who's going to win this year, although I like to think it's a highly informed "don't know" rather than a copout. The race is too close and there's too much time left to predict it objectively with any degree of confidence.  As I've said before, if the election was held today I'd rate Trump as a slight favorite, although far from a certainty; it's certainly within the margin of error.  But there is plenty of time and opportunity for Biden to retake the lead. 

To use a football analogy I've used before, Biden is down a touchdown in the second quarter.  There's plenty of time and the opportunity is certainly there, but he can't just stand pat; he has to actually do the work needed to make up the deficit.

Israel needs to immediately make clear that any country attempting to carry out these illegal warrants will be treated as if they attempted a kidnapping and hostage-taking of an Israeli official. And start sending Netanyahu around the world with a security force that can repel such an attempt.

Any country who is a signatory to the Rome Statute would be obliged to arrest him.

Perhaps, but he is not obligated to acquiesce to their attempt.

Bibi fanboys will be working overtime in this thread.

The US is factually not in a recession. Pointing this out is not being elitist nor is it "not listening to Americans". There's clearly a huge misunderstanding of what the word recession means coupled with a serious disinfo problem.

The thing is all of this doesn't really matter.

Because what matters is purchasing power and if people feel life goods are becoming more expensive and if the party in power ignores purchasing power of people (which also drives economy) than people will start to believe there is a recession, because well for them it is.

It also seems to differ from state to state whether there is a recession or not. Someone pointed out than the Sun Belt states are in a recession while the Midwestern states are less so.

Eventually some people will vote with their wallet and compare 2016-2020 to 2020-2024 and they'll eventually go with Trump because of that.

Good lord, the U.S. is not in a recession. We’re in a period of very strong economic growth. Moreover, wages have risen faster than inflation for a year and real wages are even higher than Trump’s term. 2020-2021 briefly inflated household budgets due to Covid stimulus payments but I doubt anybody wants to go back to that time.

What’s happening right now is that half the country is still whining about the economy to score political points and the media is running with it. I hope the Biden campaign absolutely floods the airwaves and social media with the truth, because right now we are witnessing a massive disinformation campaign in action.

Say what your thinking but the american people don't feel like the economy doing good and if it not than it not and the biden campaign have been saying over and over again that the economy doing totally good but it not helping it not it just hurting themselves.