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Early voting and mail in voting in effect allow for that.
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Stardew Valley

Bug Fables
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I'm down. Hector would rule.
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Veggeta_MAX posted...

I certainly hope so

Bzzt, wrong. They live (or willingly choose to occupy) a different reality, and there are outlets that get paid to keep them there.
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Who is this topic for?
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At leas they were there to boo and throw trash at the home team, tho!

https://twitter.com/angelmadison_/status/1293771002699276290
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I mean he wasn't exactly with us while alive.
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Me and my friends made a point of saying it out loud in high school, as a weird dweeby ironic thing.
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https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1293883405990596608
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https://twitter.com/THEHermanCain/status/1293642931610427392

Now hey wait a second...
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https://twitter.com/espn/status/1293710818505142279

Cool!
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The real world doesn't work this way
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/what-did-corporate-america-do-tax-break-buy-record-amounts-n886621
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

How did you jump from mispronouncing a name to full on white supremacy?

He knows who Tucker Carlson is.
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ThePrinceFish posted...

Meanwhile Biden mispronounced it the same way literally today. Disrespect? Racism? Old man poo brain?

A bit of 2 and 3
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The Democrats, baby!
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Bump
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Normal stuff

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1293703466582409219
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Why, pray tell, would he want to?
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Xcom (and 2)
Phantom Doctrine
Into the Breach (though it's more of a roguelike in structure)
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He's gonna fix our plumbing
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/trump-hair-rinsing-complaints-prompt-223556522.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/07/politics/trump-americans-flushing-toilets-intl/index.html
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https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1293682512288526341
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They are most years.
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Everything will be normal again if that happens
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https://twitter.com/jonlemire/status/1293672445162016769
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Cmon, man
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Her grandkids are not going to respond to her emails.
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Real chance that Trump is leading the vote count in key states on election night and claims victory at that point. How do you see him and his supporters reacting if and when the mail in votes start getting counted and Biden takes the lead?
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People should listen to Blowback or Google Iran-Contra before saying "2008."
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/politics/2020-election-popular-vote-electoral-college/index.html

If Joe Biden maintains his steady lead in national polls over President Donald Trump through Election Day, Democrats will win the popular vote for the seventh time in the past eight presidential elections -- something no party has achieved since the formation of the modern American political system in 1828.

And yet, if Trump can restore his competitiveness in a handful of closely contested swing states, that might still not be enough for Biden to win the White House.

The prospect that Trump could win the Electoral College and the presidency while losing the popular vote a second time -- something no president has done -- underscores the extent to which the 2020 election is emerging as a stress test for a core pillar of American democracy: the belief that majorities, in most instances, should rule.

In fact, over the past two decades, underlying features in the American electoral system that benefit small states, such as the Electoral College and the two-senator-per-state rule, have allowed Republicans to repeatedly win control of the federal government while a majority of voters preferred Democrats.

Though Republican nominees have won the popular vote only once in the five presidential elections since 2000, the GOP has controlled the White House for 12 of the 20 years since then. Similarly, Republicans have controlled the Senate more than half the time since 2000 even though GOP senators, when attributing half of each state's population to each senator, have never represented more people than their Democratic colleagues, according to calculations by Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the think tank New America.

The American political system has long contained features designed to constrain the ability of majorities to impose their will -- what John Adams, among other founders, called "the tyranny of the majority." But the current situation is unusual in that it has consistently empowered a minority to drive the nation's agenda, notes Paul Pierson, a political scientist at the University of California at Berkeley.

"What's distinctive now is not that majorities have a hard time getting their way; it's that minorities have [the ability] to get their way," says Pierson, co-author with Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker of the recent book "Let Them Eat Tweets."

The most immediate question these imbalances raise may be whether the wave that is building against Trump and his allies is big enough to overcome the structural barriers that have entrenched Republican control of Washington. Hardly any operative in either party believes Trump has a realistic chance of winning the popular vote; but that doesn't mean he can't squeeze out another Electoral College win, as he did in 2016.

The longer-term question is whether faith in the American electoral system can survive a widening separation between voting preferences and electoral outcomes. More Americans will inevitably question the political system's legitimacy if it permits sustained rule by an electoral minority -- particularly one centered in the parts of the country least touched by the convulsive demographic, cultural and economic changes that are remaking American life.

But if Democrats achieve unified control of the White House and Congress in November, then pursue electoral revisions such as a new Voting Rights Act that make it more likely popular majorities will win control of government, that would likely spark a fierce backlash from Republican constituencies who already fear that the nation's underlying demographic changes are marginalizing them.

More turbulence is looming, either way.

"The legitimacy of elections is under tremendous fire," says Drutman. "The amount of litigation, of challenges, the attempts to game electoral laws, is through the roof. At a certain point, if the greatest enemy is the other party and nothing is seen as legitimate unless your side wins, you don't have that shared sense of fairness that democracy depends on."

In their book, Hacker and Pierson describe the divergence between popular majorities and electoral outcomes as "counter-majoritarianism, or sustained minority rule." By several key measures that divergence has widened over the past several decades -- in the process consistently benefiting Republicans, whose strength among non-college, Christian and non-urban White voters has allowed them to dominate in smaller, interior, heavily rural states.
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Likewise, there's a tendency toward greater divergence -- and a Republican advantage -- in the most common metric used to assess imbalances in the Senate: counting the total population represented by each party by attributing half of each state's residents to each senator. From 1959 through 1980, Democrats held the Senate majority and also represented a majority of Americans in each Congress except the one that met from 1969 through 1970. Democrats continued to represent most Americans when they held the Senate majority from 1987 through 1994, during a brief period of control from mid-2001 through 2002 and again from 2007 through 2014, Drutman's calculations show.

But while the GOP has controlled the Senate for about 22 of the past 40 years, Republican senators have represented a majority of the nation's population for only a single session over that period: from 1997 to 1998.

Another measure underscores the imbalance. Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, has calculated that the 47 current Democratic senators (including the two independents who caucus with the party) won a total of 69 million votes in their elections. That's 14 million more than the 55 million won by the 53 Senate Republicans who hold the majority.
The House of Representatives, based in smaller geographic areas, has been less influenced by these imbalances, but not immune to them. Over the past several decades, the party that won the most popular votes has almost always controlled the House majority, according to figures compiled in Brookings' Vital Statistics on Congress. (One conspicuous exception came in 2012, when Democrats narrowly beat the GOP in the total House popular vote, but the aggressive gerrymanders passed in many Republican-controlled states allowed the party to maintain the House majority.)

Even so, in every election when Republicans held the House majority since 1996, the party won a substantially larger share of the seats than it did of the popular vote, both because of its success in gerrymandering and because the Democrats' dominance of large urban centers results in them accumulating large numbers of "wasted" votes in landslide districts. (By contrast, in 2018 Democrats won 53% of the popular vote and 54% of the House seats.)

Even the Supreme Court isn't immune to these tendencies. As Hacker and Pierson note, all of the GOP-appointed justices that compose the conservative Supreme Court majority were selected by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, except for Clarence Thomas, who was chosen by George H.W. Bush. In the cases of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, not only were they selected by a President who lost the popular vote, they also were confirmed by senators who represented only 45% or less of the American population, according to calculations at the time. Even Thomas, as Hacker and Pierson point out, was confirmed by senators representing less than half the population.

Hmm
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It didn't do it for me.
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It's pretty remarkable, given the show's reputation for foreshadowing and planning ahead, how much of it fell into place as a result of circumstance (slight spoilers through S2 ahead)
- the original plan was for Jesse or Hank to be killed off at the end of season 1, but the writers strike shortened the season and forced a reconsideration.
- Tuco was going to be a long-running villain, but his actor got a role on another show that conflicted with production resulting in him being killed off early in s2
- Mike's first appearance in the show was because Bob Odenkirk (Saul's actor) was busy when they were shooting the last episode of season 2.
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Biden, all day every day. I live in NY though, so I don't have to deal with this decision.
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iFuzedDaHostage posted...

explain the covid response then

not an excuse

Republican governance.
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s0nicfan posted...

IIRC Florida is one of a few states that requires by law that all arrests are public record. The reason why Florida man is such a meme is because it's very easy to just scroll through public records and find ridiculous stories to publish.

I have to imagine that a lot of states have the same nonsense going on, it's just a little bit harder to find.

When you're right, you're right.

Also, there are alligators there and the average day in August day is 90 degrees with 95 percent humidity.
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https://www.massbailfund.org/news/free-them-all
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Jagr_68 posted...

I must've been living under a rock or something, when the FUCK did Woody Johnson become ambassador to the UK???

When Donald Trump became president
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-s-ambassador-uk-made-inappropriate-comments-race-gender-government-n1236515?

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump's ambassador to Britain, Robert "Woody" Johnson, made inappropriate comments on race, religion or gender to embassy staff and the State Department should investigate whether he violated laws barring discrimination, acording to a government watchdog report released Wednesday.

Johnson, the 73-year-old billionaire owner of the New York Jets football team and a longtime Republican donor, had already come under scrutiny for suggesting to a British official that the annual British Open be played at the Turnberry golf course in Scotland owned by Trump. Johnson made the request against the advice of his deputy, NBC News has previously reported.

Johnson clashed with the deputy chief of mission during the first months of his tenure after taking over as ambassador to Britain in 2017, according to the report from the State Department's office of inspector general. Johnson, an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, had no diplomatic experience prior to taking the job.

The clash damaged morale at the embassy, and staff told the inspector general that "when the Ambassador was frustrated with what he interpreted to be excessive staff caution or resistance to suggestions about which he felt strongly, he sometimes questioned their intentions or implied that he might have them replaced," the report said. "This caused staff to grow wary of providing him with their best judgment."

The deputy chief of mission, a career diplomat, was later reassigned and replaced by an official chosen by Johnson, the report said. The ambassador's attitude to the embassy workforce improved after the new deputy took over, it said.

But embassy staff told the inspector general's office that Johnson "sometimes made inappropriate or insensitive comments on topics generally considered Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)-sensitive, such as religion, sex, or color," the report said, citing interviews with staff members.

The inspector general concluded that the State Department should carry out a thorough review as to whether Johnson had violated federal laws barring discrimination in the workplace and take action as needed, the report said.

The State Department, however, rejected the recommendation, saying a formal assessment was not required, according to the report. The department said the ambassador had watched a government video on workplace harassment and instructed senior officials to do the same, and also encouraged staff to take a training course on "mitigating unconscious bias."

The department also said that Johnson "is well aware of his responsibility to set the right tone for his mission and we believe his actions demonstrate that."

Sell the Jets, asshole
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GoodOlJr posted...

Thanks for half a tweet

I fixed it.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1293520377952567307
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ohiostate124 posted...

Isnt Kamala actually descended from slave owners?

So were lots of slaves!
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Given the nature of mail in ballots, it's entirely possible, even without post office shenanigans, that Trump leads in key states on election night, and that fact changes as more votes are counted over the next few days and weeks.
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Silver Bearings posted...

What is the correct pronunciation?

Emphasis on the first syllable, KA-muh-luh, as opposed to Kuh-MA-luh
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Silver Bearings posted...

Wait, I thought she was Jamaican? Is that black? I'm seriously asking, not being a jerk.

Her father is from Jamaica, her mother is from India. Black is a social construct under which Kamala Harris certainly falls. Ask yourself which drinking fountains she would have had to use.
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On this show, he added, nobody in power is immune from criticism.

Except Tucker.
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ohiostate124 posted...

These things are not mutually exclusive.
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Hope Chris James gets through
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It is. What are you going to do about it?
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