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Mole

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  1. Good call. I had altered the memory. Also, the GA SOS is the best republican in the state and the only one I’d ever consider voting for. He was the least Trumpy of the candidates in 2018 and has done a lot of good for elections. The absentee system is very easy and secure. His process has been open and his people seem competent. But like I said, least Trumpy. I’m not sure what he’s done about the Brian Kemp voter disenfranchisement program, but I think Kemp would have scrubbed the list enough to deliver GA for Trump.
  2. He was probably called president elect for about 30 minutes between the first call for Florida and retraction.
  3. Facebook is the worst. Parler sounds even worse. We need massive public education about what social media actually is as well as how cable news isn’t actually news.
  4. The cake is mostly baked as far as the American carnage of COVID goes. You can’t undo the politicizing of basic mitigation measures. Biden will likely be sworn in during another peak of mass death and suffering. Maybe real leadership will make a dent in that, but I think that issue is largely poisoned. If another crisis hits though, I’m confident that we won’t maximize the death and suffering as a political strategy. I think we’ll slowly drift away from the constant division in everything to a more normal level of division. A deadly and destructive alternative reality will no longer have the largest platform in the world. There’s interpretations of facts and then there is the conjuring of alternative facts that we are currently casting off. We’ll eventually move back towards having a functioning society. I think once the normalcy of objective reality and decency returns, most will feel the difference. It’ll take a lot of work from those who have felt the brunt of the pain from the past 4 years to make this happen. It’s unfortunate that this is the case, but I don’t see another way. Criminals should pay, but the rank and file MAGA will need some measure of grace. It’ll be hard to do, since they gleefully supported such depravity, but there’s no other way for a functioning society. My hope is that the evangelical church will eventually repent. It’s a long shot, but they’ve killed the church’s witness in America. They’re rightly seen as cruel, selfish, and degenerate. Maybe seeing a decent man quoting scripture and talking about healing and reconciliation will remind them of what the gospel is. Or maybe they’ve grown too accustomed to the ticking of their ears with hatred and greed. Time will tell.
  5. Bin Laden “only” killed about 3000 Americans. Trump’s super spreader rallies killed about a quarter of that alone. His anti-leadership on COVID has killed many 10s of thousands. It’s a testament to the goodness of our forgiving country that Trump’s punishment will likely be simple irrelevance and shame.
  6. I’m no law dog, but my reading of the law doesn’t have any minimum time in the state, although you have to move with the intention of staying. There’s also something about moral turpitude, which could be a sticking point.
  7. According to the SOS calendar, the registration deadline is 12/7, so American hero Stacy Abrams needs to get to work.
  8. I just applied for my absentee ballot. So will Obama just rent an apartment in ATL for the next two months?
  9. I had Obama in 08, but I was voting in Texas. This time I was Biden in GA, so my vote counted pretty hard.
  10. That’s the standard line among conservatives. It’s just optics: Trump says bad things but his policies are good. The opposition to him is about feelings rather than facts. Of course, even if his policies were all good, what he says isn’t merely bad, his alternate reality undermines the foundation of a functioning society.
  11. They always take a long time. Other states are still counting too. Other states just aren’t that close and the split of mail/in-person is so heavily weighted by partisan affiliation.
  12. Well below average president vs. historically terrible and destructive president. Also, a very good man vs. a historically terrible child.
  13. Thinking it might be historically important, I watched the press conference, breaking my vow to never hear him speak again. Tremendous mistake. He’s really the worst. When did the Georgia SOS switch parties?
  14. I teach college. I’ve spent time this fall with basic civics lessons (voter registration, census, absentee, early voting, etc.). A week before the election, one of my students asked me about trying to get an absentee ballot. School is about 4 hours from home, so in-person voting would have been tough by then. I encouraged him to try to get home on the Friday before the election to early vote, but barring that, take his chances with an absentee ballot. A 20% chance of getting your vote counted is better than zero.
  15. Look, mister, there's... two kinds of dumb, uh... guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and, uh, guy who does the same thing in my living room. First one don't matter, the second one you're kinda forced to deal with. I don’t care if he tweets stormfront posts 40 hours a day once he leaves. It’s different when it’s an official statement of the president of the United States. He needs to just go away.
  16. There’s a perception, and it has some merit, that the left is antagonistic towards faith issues. I think that’s part of how you have the disconnect of the degenerate Trump seen as the pro-religion president and the man of faith Biden seen as part an anti-faith socialist plot. It’s nuts how it plays out, but there’s a considerable portion of the left that seems pretty antagonistic towards faith, even if it seems like too much of that faith is one that seeks to oppress. Maybe, but lots of healthcare issues could be reprioritized as pro-life measures. Unfortunately, I think there’s an element of the pro-choice movement that sees anything anti-abortion as some forced birth Trojan horse (they might be right). If the Ds pushed healthcare and the economic safety net as a route to deal with the social ills that lead to abortion, maybe you could break up this block. They currently try make the case, but it’s a bit of an afterthought. I think there might be ways to build legislation that’s more focused on dealing with minimizing and humanely dealing with crisis pregnancies. There’s a pro-life way that doesn’t really touch abortion, but it doesn’t really exist in American politics right now. It isn’t simply a marketing/branding issue, but one of priorities and focus. My wife and I both voted straight ticket D, but the abortion issue definitely causes some mental tension. Most evangelical endorsements of Trump were, “he’s the terrible — the worst really — but abortion (and socialism).” There’s a way to take the wind out of those sails and actually do some good. There used to be pro-life Democrats.
  17. Not that anything matters anymore, but in the real world the Trump meltdown is nailing shut any legitimacy to the moral or intellectual underpinnings of conservatism. Forevermore, I will translate the phrase, “as a conservative,” to, “I hereby claim.” Can some coder whip up a little Chrome extension to do this?
  18. Very few presidents really have materially affected my life, but this one has. Had Trump done nothing but not politicize reality, mask-wearing, and large events, many thousands would still be alive today (with many more deaths coming; you can't put the BBs back in the box with regards to doing COVID well). Remember, his own super spreader rallies killed at least 700. In addition to a number of people on the edges of my social circle, someone personally and professionally very important to me died a few months ago from it; I'd guess that his likelihood of dying would have been way lower. That ignores having to function in a country where everything -- really, everything -- is partisan and divisive, which directly points back to the current president. So yeah, materially affected.
  19. Every few months, I write my reps — sending them unhinged screeds might be a better word, but I’m tempered by a desire to stay off of FBI lists. My reps are super Trumpy, and I always remind them that Trump is the greatest thing for the progressive movement (minus all the death and suffering) in generations. The fallout from the Trump movement, if we survive, will be a country far to the left of where we now are. Baseball is America’s past time. I want my Supreme Court to be able to field a team and I don’t want any of them relegated to the bench.
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