It’s kings and such all over again, just by another name. They bought out the checks and balances of the founding fathers so a lot of that is illusion at this point.

If it wasn’t, as one example, things like Google and Microsoft would’ve been split like Bell telephone already. Look at Clarence Thomas, as another example. Look at the high money duopoly that is our election system.

We’re back to kings. I’m sure Madison and all the rest would be thrilled.

It’s kinda like this. Say you lead the most boring, law abiding, square life, top 20% of the bell curve in that zone.

Would you want strangers in your house, even if they couldn’t technically touch or take anything? Would you want them in your spouse’s closet? Your kid’s room? Looking in your fridge?

Creepy and “hell no”, right?

That’s what privacy is about. The right to lock your door against strangers snooping.

Same. The problem is all manor of oniony posts sound like a “normal” Trump Tuesday.

Source?

There’s a dive in over on r/Keep_Track that outlines Georgia. Wouldn’t count on a win there even if Kamala wins. They’re basically set up to not certify if Kamala wins. Some shenanigans in the SW as well.

Essentially, per Heather Cox Richardson, historian, if they fail to certify to the point of not reaching the magic 270, it can get kicked back to the states for a 1 vote per state via governors, which will swing Trump.

Don’t do the Roe thing. Don’t not believe because it’s unprecedented (it did happen once before in our history though) or simply because you don’t like the idea. I’m gonna pretend this isn’t happening even though it’s happening isn’t going to make things stop happening.

Mike Johnson led the surge to not certify back in 2020. He’s the speaker of the house now for a reason. The speaker is the lodestone on certification of the 2024 election, both new representatives and the president. He decides if they get certified or not.

Sure litigation can follow but in the meantime Trump is President. And then SCOTUS can seal the deal in their own corrupt way. Plus you know that guy is only leaving in a casket (of natural causes) if he ever gets in the White House again.

Feels paranoid just to type this but the news stories readily available out there do point to this.

Trump is damn quiet for Trump. Why? And why does the phrase “bloodless coup” keep coming up in far right circles?

And then a real strike happened and Biden shit all over it. See: train workers.

I don’t understand why he’s not in prison after being found guilty. What happened to sentencing?

She’s moderate. Always was. That will lose some people, but I still this will be a slam dunk for her.

Nope. They want us just alive enough to increase “the domestic supply of infants” to fully stock both their workforce and the military.

This is fair.

So it’s not just me. Good to know.

Fuck. Don’t give corporate America ideas. It’ll be the next shit spun through this travesty of a Supreme Court.

I purchased Going Postal in an airport. I ended up laughing out loud on a plane.

I’m guessing the nurse community probably has some outlandish stories to tell here.

The choices are ending what’s left of democracy and not. That’s it.

Also, high odds you’re voting for Kamala, not Joe.

Settlement management can get tedious and be a large time sink. Sim settlements 2 is actually not bad. You can off the most annoying ones on “mayors” to control. Show up later and add things if needed.

We’re a larger melting pot. In fact, that’s kind of our schtick. In spite of the racial shit, it swings entirely the other way as well. It’s a big country. England doesn’t cover a lot of surface area. 68million vs 341.5million.

Regionally there’s dialect nuance based on immigration. We’re a country of immigrants. If we’re discussing Poland then let’s talk Wisconsin. You can’t throw a stick in any direction without hitting a “ski” last name. People actually say shit like “borrow me your car Friday” or “borrow me a pencil”, instead of “lend”. My understanding is borrow and lend are the same word in Polish, context telling you what you need to know. All without identifying as Polish, just Midwest American, as far as I can tell. Even though we’re younger as a country, we’ve had time for that to happen.

Dammit, no. It needs to be a live squirrel not a knick knack.

I’m so disappointed.

And there’s no link to tap to figure out those logistics.

Ballot initiatives are Democracy. That’s about as good as it gets for us. It’s bullshit that they are not accessible in every state.

The lack thereof makes the state legislature into a variation of an autocrat.