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Mole

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  1. I had Obama in 08, but I was voting in Texas. This time I was Biden in GA, so my vote counted pretty hard.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Can we move the Carter Page/FISA/whatever talk to the Eyes thread?
  5. Fake news. Trump told us that the Georgia SOS is a Democrat.
  6. Well below average president vs. historically terrible and destructive president. Also, a very good man vs. a historically terrible child.
  7. 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?
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. In a sane world I’d be considered conservative since I believe in an objective reality and morality — I’ll have none of that moral relativism that I heard so much about years ago. Interpretations may vary, but right is right, wrong is wrong, and truth is truth. This statement can’t be squared with the current Trump movement. To embrace this movement is to reject the very foundations any functioning society. Policy isn’t even a relevant discussion since we’ve gone full Pontius Pilate “what is truth?”
  15. He was probably thinking about Pergolesi. Pinochet was the famous dictator and Pergolesi wrote La Serva Padrona. Uberto can be viewed as a right wing archetype.
  16. Let’s be honest here, you were off the Trump train the moment he started ranting about saying, “Merry Christmas” again.
  17. Really? Were you expecting OSU to win it there instead?
  18. The pro-life president.
  19. Wait, you and some other people here actually believe that there was ever a World Trade Center? Sheep. DO SOMETHING!!
  20. Counting on it... A little bit doomy... This is the content that we're counting on to start our impending doom weekend.
  21. The worst movie in the Babylon series. It really peaked at Babylon 3.
  22. Ah, the sweet optimism of morning. Twelve hours from now, this thread will be filled with hellish visions of Trump placing mind control agents in Elsinore beer and activating it with the Star Spangled Banner.
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