US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

If you've been paying attention, then Dark Money may inform you of some details you did not know, but the take-home message will be all-too-depressingly familiar.

jesus is going to come back soon and punish the wicked? that's what gets me through the night. come on jesus, dip your sword of vengeful return in the flames of righteousness and reign torment upon us all

That will be his intention until someone offers him a sweet position in a thinktank and he starts pulling down seven figs with bennies.

(It's all over once you hear him start to unnecessarily abbreviate words, bruh.)

karl malone: statehouse numbers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1ydQBJrlnIYqrBiS4M3GQWy_gPeLAPS6Ffd32wmrSQ/edit#gid=1265475948

you can't make seven figs with bennies unless you make a priority of breving words. it's a self-selecting pool. using fewer sybs makes space for more sybs, and you can take that straight to your bottom line

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xp thanks caek! @Taniel is on fire imo

wrapping up in CA, here's how much the vote shifted (7m vote on election, 5m vote before)

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-late-vote-shift/

takeways:

- every single congressional race moved towards the democrat with early voting added
- the average move was 2.6%.
- nunes is a legit target in 2020 (won 53/47, can't imagine he's going to cover himself in glory over the next couple of years on intelligence)

is anyone legit surprised by the massive increase in voting by mail, when it is *so much fucking easier* than locating your poll, going there before or after work, standing in line for god knows how long, and figuring out your vote in a tiny booth? like duh. make voting easier and more people will do it.

word. this is why making election day a holiday would be a time-consuming distraction. i'm sure it would help a bit, but it would be politically difficult (federal legislation). meanwhile: postal voting is right there as an option.

also this is very otm

the media share responsibility for adjusting to an era when election night no longer offers a climactic conclusion for close contests.

media likes to report on elections like a sporting event with a buzzer clock and a final score, but it's way harder to gin up excitement about something that takes 60 days

I think even the GOP will increasingly support voting by mail as they refine their techniques for absconding with the ballots.

xp that's a good point caek, thanks.

(re: holiday, I am 100% in favor of vote-by-mail everywhere immediately)

I don't trust voting by mail. I want to watch my vote go through the polling machine.

My jurisdiction lets you watch webcams of poll workers tabulating mailed in ballots, and a ballot tracker online tells you when your vote as been received and will be counted.

send mail voters an e-receipt?
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Sleeve and other people who get to vote by mail -- can you check online to see if your vote has been received, and confirm who you voted for?

they only counted one of my votes, so obviously something's wrong with the system. texting Soros and the other Elders of Zion right now fyi

Voting by mail ensures a paper trail. Voting by machine does not always provide that.

My mail-in ballot is not traceable to me once it is separated from its return envelope, which afaik happens as soon as my signature is checked—it then becomes just another anonymous ballot in the pile.

I was able to confirm the receipt and acceptance of my mail-in ballot online.

True, I can't true they didn't change my vote to Baloo the Bear, but I can't tell that in person either.

maybe jar jar shouldn't have sold the observer to joseph meyer after all :(

https://observer.com/2018/12/president-trump-really-may-go-to-jail-for-the-rest-of-his-life/

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i have an idea

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

could that theoretically be used to beat Devin Nunes to death

first Jar Jar, now Mace. the evidence that we are living in the last, crumbling days of the old republic is mounting.

so this is how liberty dies - with devin nunes being savagely beaten with a mace on the floor of the house of representatives

I’m okay with it tbh

WmC - yes, in Oregon you can check to make sure your ballot was received

Just captured this C-SPAN screenshot:
https://thesouloftheplot.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/imfinshedwithwords_therewillbeblood.jpg

à propos of nothing, it seems like the least nationally divisive way to deal with Trump will be to allow him to persist long enough for electoral defeat, and then move ahead with prosecution. Otherwise, fuel for the leftist conspiracy to undermine the electoral choice of the people, etc.

allow him to persist long enough for electoral defeat, and then move ahead with prosecution, and then restore eisenhower's top bracket income tax rate, and then institute medicare for all

xpost who gives a shit about fuel for these idiots, or for that matter "least nationally divisive way"

It seems like the thing that would most keep my dad's coworkers happy, and my mom and our neighborhood friends is if I just let him beat me for another couple years until I'm old enough to move out

What makes anyone think that impeachment would result in anything other than repeated Senate "not guilty" verdicts that make the House look like a powerless tantrum throwing toddler?

it doesn't matter. it's the right thing to do.

he's committed impeachable offenses. the democrats should make the case so it's part of the historical record.

It also gets all these GOP assholes on the record dismissing his felonies as nbd.

political punditry has infested all our brains huh

would just like to point out that Mueller hasn't even released his report yet. there's almost undoubtedly more bad news coming for Donnie.

were the Sunday comments of Jerrold Nadler (incoming Judiciary chair) observed?

is he the one who basically said yeah, sooner or later it's pretty inevitable he's being indicted?

Step 1: Citing the extreme seriousness of some or other problem it has noticed, Congress passes legislation making certain actions into federal felonies carrying long prison terms and congratulates itself on its judicious solution to a grave problem.
Step 2: A careful investigation establishes that the president committed those felonies.
Step 3: Congress checks to see which party the president belongs to, so it can decide how it must respond.
Step 4: Every member of Congress cites their grave constitutional duty before casting their vote according to their own party's best interests and congratulates themselves on their judicious solution to a serious situation.
Step 5: Regardless of the outcome, the president is somewhat inconvenienced.

go fuck yourself, Captain Obvious

i would be v happy if donnie jr, jared, and ivanka all ended up in separate prisons and dad trump watches his whole fam implode while he makes the case for his own innocence as he loses badly in 2020, a boy can dream

Yeah, I'd be happy with his story ending the same way The Shield ended.

Only if Trump is Shane. “Family meeting!”

My new favorite quote about this administration:

"“Why would anybody want to be Donald Trump’s chief of staff unless you want to steal the office supplies before they shut the place down?” said Chris Whipple, who wrote a book on White House chiefs of staff called “The Gatekeepers,” expressing the views of many outside the White House about Mr. Kelly’s job."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/us/politics/white-house-hiring-trump.html

why doesn't he just name jared? bringing peace to the middle east can't take up that much of his time