State law. Rrump can’t pardon it away.

Tim Walz came out swinging, and they instantly sidelined him.

That alone was enough to say that the campaign was fucked.

Small cuts can be sealed with medical grade super glue. Also, the thought is that Trump was hit by glass or other debris. Not the bullet itself.

Very little in life is staged. I’ve worked in a theatre, with professional actors, and it still takes weeks of work to pull off a play.

This also includes some improv work.

So the very first thing you have to acknowledge is that Trump would never do the work needed to pull off anything staged. He can read (sort of) a speech written by someone else, but the smarmy bastard cannot act to save his life.

The next thing here, Crooks was using live rounds. And killed a guy behind Trump. Trump would never allow his own life to be put at risk.

And third, Crooks was a notoriously bad shot. He was kicked out of his highschool gun club over it and some safety violations.

The kid was a mass shooter in waiting who just so happened to come across an opportunity to shoot a former president. And he blew it, just one more failure to add to the pile that was his life.

The entire family has bad taste in names, Errol Musk… Also a jackass, but less of a large scale grifter.

I was going to type up a bunch here, but instead I’ll share some links.

First is this section of this wiki.

2009 Burlington Mayoral Race. The wrong guy won.

The Monotonicity issue is unique to Ranked Choice, and is pretty fucking bad.

These people have a good breakdown as well.

Then there was the fun incident in Alameda County.

Finally, the guy who invented the system threw it out as deeply flawed. Mostly because it doesn’t find the Pairwise winner, i.e. the candidate who can win in a one on one election vs every other candidate. Also called the Condorcet winner.

As a side note, Nicolas de Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet, was fucking based.

The problem is, primaries are really good at selecting the worst candidate.

See, the problem comes from something called candidate cloning.

See, you might get more than 50% of the population supporting Tim Walz, or AOC.

But when you force the people to choose between the two, well, now you have less than 50%.

Add in a few more candidates with reasonable platforms and you can get the average support down to less than 10%.

Then all you have to do is add in a candidate with a markedly different platform and 15% support can make them the winner of the primary.

Ranked Choice cannot fix this problem, regardless of the claims made by proponents.

The voting system that can fix things is Approval.

Under Approval, you can vote for A, B, and C. The winner is the person with the highest overall approval.

Ranked Choice is a deeply flawed system.

Approval is far better, or if you like to be granular in your voting STAR.

Doug was that sort of background racist that most MAGA are, but refuse to admit.

He flinched when a black man walked toward him, and then said he’d create “white jeopardy”, not realizing that it was already a thing.

Tom Hanks pulled it off perfectly.

Creed gets the hate for being an overtly Christian band.

Some of their songs are alright, but the 100% Jesus 100% of the time is fucking exhausting.

Nickelback gets the hate because they constantly recycled songs. The same background music to different lyrics. All so that they could get more radio play or some shit.

Which is what really drove the hate. These bands got a disproportionate amount of radio play.

Gaddafi was a fucking monster. No one misses him or his corpse freezer. So when the people started rising up, the UN said, sure, we can help out a bit. And so flew a handful of missiles. And zero troops.

No, the problem is that after giving minimal help to oust Gaddafi, no one stepped in to restore order. So the civil war continued.

As a note, the Arab Spring is part of why the Saudis helped Leon buy Twitter. To make sure it couldn’t be used for that sort of uprising again.

Mercury. Make it drink a pound of mercury. Right on top of the hard drive.

Most of the missteps were pandering to the right. The brilliant idea was to try to siphon away right wing voters from Trump, which was fucking stupid because she abandoned the Dem base to do so.

An appearance on Rogan would have done nothing to help her win, because most lefties stopped listening to Rogan years ago.

And the right is never going to abandon Trump. He lets them say and do the horrible shit that they would otherwise be ejected from society for.

Fun fact, Palestinians on the ground preferred Biden/Harris to Trump.

I need to find the survey again, but yeah, at least in the West Bank, they know that Trump will be an active and willing partner in the genocide.

You sweet summer child. I envy your optimism.

The main part of the tax is that rich assholes would not longer be able to use those unrealized gains as collateral for loans. Because as soon as those gains are realized, they’re taxed.

This alone would massively limit the power of rich assholes.

I’d almost believe that Hillary ordered her people to sabotage the campaign if it wasn’t the exact same “centrist” message the establishment Dems have been pushing since Carter.

It mattered in several states. Missouri added a right to abortion to the state constitution. Even as the people voted for the assholes behind the ban in the first place.

Are those houses then listed as corporate rentals? Because that’s super common.