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Mole

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  1. So here’s one bit out of many that I struggle with. Let’s say I think the Trump claim is true. It would be the most destructive scandal in American history. It would be destructive in a fundamentally different way. It would be terrible for everyone and hurt everyone. On the Texas Ags threads as well as the crazies in my own circle, they don’t just think it happened, they’re rooting for it to have happened. I don’t get rooting for such a terrible and destructive event, even if I believed it to be true. I’d rather to have simply just lost. The desire to be right is a terrible thing.
  2. This post was dated 10/21. Little did any of us know how far Rudy would come in just one month. What does the next month being?
  3. One of or a combination of two things: 1. The standard of reasonableness has shifted so that anything short of a raving lunatic seems reasonable these days. Call it the glass half-empty instead of bursting into flames scenario. 2. The raving lunatics can have a moderating effect on many normal people. Seeing your side become so openly destructive can be a call to self-reflection. This is the glass half-full scenario.
  4. Mole

    Confrontation

    The ‘Mats seem pro confrontation.
  5. Victory in Diseases is my favorite hymn.
  6. The system has been updated during COVID. Now you apply for a ballot by inputting name, date of birth, and DL number into their website. There’s no signature on the application for a mail-in ballot. You do sign the envelope which I assume is matched. I also assume that the ballots and envelope are separated.
  7. Man, she’s the worst. She and Perdue made me send Roethlisberger and thank you email for doing the job he was hired to do. Also, having only read an out of context quote of Warnock’s “anti-troops” sermon, the fact that preaching the Gospel is considered anti-American by the Christian Right is an indictment of everyone of their proclaimed values.
  8. I think the last four years serves as a pretty strong rebuttal to this assumption.
  9. Their dumb what?
  10. Honestly, we've all known how this will play out for weeks (aside from the completely wheels-off Rudy stuff), but it's still surprising to actually see happen.
  11. Not current and not political, but entirely relevant to everything political these days:
  12. This seems like a pretty good political philosophy.
  13. Depending on how your interpret it, “directly” might be too strong of a word, but his rallies were a clear source of death and suffering for communities — even for those who didn’t attend. They found a notable increase in cases in locations that held rallies vs similar locations that didn’t. Applying county specific death rates to the increase gives the ~700 number. It aligns with every other observation that large, unmasked gatherings lead to increased spread, so it seems reasonable to me, unlike your deadly fart scenario. Here’s the study: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3722299
  14. There was a study that directly linked just his super spreader rallies to 700 deaths. That’s a lot of lives directly sacrificed to honor an orange god.
  15. Pardon me...
  16. There’s having a philosophical framework that colors how you see the world: a libertarian seeing the national parks as governmental overreach. People see the world differently and will interpret events differently. There’s spin, which many cynical politicians do, but still is grounded in facts. Fox News lives here. Then there’s whatever it is that the Trump movement does, where we witness a conjured reality that has no basis in objective reality. This will be the truly destructive legacy of his movement.
  17. I’d say your parallel doesn’t go far enough. It’s more like the referee announcing who he thinks should win right before the coin toss. Of course, the last SOS in Georgia kept his position through his election for governor, so ethics and Georgia elections is a new concept.
  18. I voted for Brad in the 2018 primary and runoff since he was the least Trumpy R. His work updating the absentee ballot request system and in handling this garbage has been quite good. During the 2020 primaries, requesting an absentee ballot was a mild annoyance. You had to fill out some pdf form, sign it, and email it to your local person. Now you just click a few buttons and give them your driver’s license number and they send it out to you. It’s a really good and convenient system now.
  19. Look at John Titor here. Palm Beach Atlantic would check the evangelical box.
  20. I don’t expect them to start a bowling team or even convince each other to change policy positions, but they should share the same reality. We have a larger social problem with regards to truth and we keep making it worse. It largely stems from our politicians and the media (or maybe those two are reflections of us, or a little of both). It seems intuitive to me that if our politicians were better colleagues they’d be less likely to engage in the nonsense we’ve seen in recent years; nonsense that is breaking down our society. It’s not simply decorum or finding bipartisan solutions to problems; it’s being able to have a coherent discussion with disagreements. If it were simply limited to Washington, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but it’s spread everywhere in our culture and it’s damaging. The Q Caucus teaming up with the Anti-reptilian Caucus to Zoom bomb committee hearings would be pretty unhinged and destructive to a functioning society.
  21. 1. The House should absolutely expand substantially. 2. There is a possible downside. I’ve heard representatives state that one possible cause of our increased partisanship is that Congress no longer acts like a community or normal workplace. They don’t spend time with one another socially, particularly across party lines. Moving to a remote Congress would make this worse. So while a larger house would make things more representative, remote Congress would be less collegial. Add in the higher number of nutcases being elected and there could be some trade offs. I still think it’s worth it, but the giant Zoom house could be very messy. 3. As long as we’re fixing the House, districts should be drawn by algorithm.
  22. This a litmus test for obesity, not stupidity. A late night trip to Skyline is one of life’s great and simple pleasures. Also to the vaccine issue, what if stupidity is caused by a vaccine injury? Checkmate.
  23. While this footage starts in the middle of the incident and we are missing some context, it’s really weird how the footage that the outgoing president retweeted made the guy look like an innocent victim and this one made him look like an unhinged lunatic. Really weird.
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