Lots of politicians are cowards. A few candidates confronted Biden and were completely destroyed in the primary.

It’s incredibly selfish to hurt the overall party goals (climate change, healthcare, increasing taxes on the wealthy) just to help your personal career.

How were they planning to get to Canada from Sri Lanka in a fishing boat?

Compare this to the only current alternative. Do people think that trump is ever subject to unapproved questions? Fox and others only throw softballs. He didn’t even answer the questions in the debate. Biden did and I learned more about his policies.

Current news media acts like it values facts and reasoned discourse, but it really likes ratings and advertising. I don’t care what the “editorial staff” has to say anymore. They’re not fair-minded independent journalists; they’re literally paid by advertisers. They might as well put product logos all over the WSJ and the NY Times.

Use this tax calculator; it includes FICA, state taxes, and local taxes:

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes

No one is paying 40% total tax rate unless they are single, make $350,000+, and live in a high tax area (NYC, San Francisco). If you are married, you have to make at least $800,000 to pay 40% overall.

How are they taking out education loans in someone else’s name? Sounds like fraud.

They’re not that different. Democrats and Republicans are just coalitions that are already formed. The actual party organizations in different states are run very differently, with different priorities. The Democratic Party in MA is not the same as the Democratic Party in Texas.

we’ve never had two more unpopular candidates running against each other

Have you ever heard Al Gore speak? It’s like listening to paint dry. He was the original boring Hillary before she was even a Senator. George W was widely considered an idiot, but that was partly an act.

John Kerry in 2004 was similarly boring. I had forgotten who ran in that election until I looked it up. Obama was an outlier in being “exciting”. Trump’s insanity is not the norm for a presidential candidate. It’s usually idiocy from the Republicans and boredom from the Democrats.

Being drafted onto LeBron James’s team without being that good is a great deal. He has a congenital heart defect and 10 teams wanted him to work out for them. Do the math.

Nuh uh

But that’s just a guess. It’s not necessarily true. You’re just saying “simulations might be possible, therefore they are definitely possible, therefore we are likely in a simulation”.

That’s not logically sound. You can replace “simulation” with “God” and prove the existence of God similarly. It’s just a guess.