Truly sorry to be that guy, but there's so much legitimate awfulness to call out about that guy, why promote the idea that shortness is something to be ashamed of?

The sun, having no alternative, shown down on the nothing new

- Samuel Beckett

By definition lobbying is nothing more or less than trying to convince a politician to do something. This guy was trying to use idiotic snark to lobby badly. If you've written a letter to a politician or called them then you too have lobbied.

I see. You actually are that stupid. Muting you now

Are you really that stupid? You think the statement was directed at you personally? He was calling for the cabinet to do it. Because, again, they're the only ones who can. You know what is in a senator's power? Using public statements to put political pressure on other government entities.

I'm just saying effective lobbying generally involves limiting your demands to things that are actually within the politician's power. When you demand a Senator invoke the 25th amendment, you immediately out yourself as an unserious child. I'm a little embarrassed I was following you.

Senators can't invoke the 25th amendment. Only the cabinet. Similarly, the House of Representatives is the only body that can impeach the president.

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I'm admittedly just a mathematician, but I don't understand what's wrong with that question. Are you trying to say philosophy is not one of the core fields of the humanities? Isn't the dean's question more analogous to asking a physicist about their approach to science?

This was such a central focus of my childhood media consumption that I can't believe it was cancelled the year before I was born.

This woman's courage and poise in the face of deadly danger leaves me in awe.

It's what makes this country great.