Well, you could subtract the 1.2 million who died of Covid. And also those whose voter registrations were peremptorily cancelled.

Soooo… With 2 already-wealthy men getting paid for doing the one job, outside of the official government, it’s actually the Department of Not-Really Government Redundancies and Grift, isn’t it?

And since the only good reason to make the error would be to invite another pedant into the conversation, I’m finding this whole little sidethread very satisfactory.

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AOC is real.

But DJT is the most fictional character who’s ever existed. Nothing he’s ever said, done, or been has been true.

Sadly, we’re stuck in the reality that allows his falsehoods to affect real humans.

Gonna need an attribution to go with that quotation, pedant.

Don’t be ridiculous, that’s a warm-blooded killer!

Is it an immature kestrel?

That definitely works too

It’s possible that 💯% of those who didn’t vote would have voted No

We’re working on it, for the Olympics. Putting capitalism to work for transport reform.

In some other states yes, but the abortion protection in Florida failed to pass, leaving their “6-week” (2 weeks from detectability) ban in place.

(Edit: on my phone, didn’t see you were replying such that your “they” refers to the 57% of those who voted, which was insufficient to pass the amendment.)

Good idea, but she’s immortal already

I see you don’t like “right wing” any more than I do, because I think they justify their actions by thinking “we must be right, we’re the right wing.” So I call them the Wrong Wing.

Or sometimes the Human-Rights-Destroying Wing.

;•3

A better-educated public is a net gain regardless who’s running the government.

Better educated women are less trapped in abusive relationships, although it still happens, because they have better job prospects and better chance to get law on their side.

Assuming reincarnation, who do you think he is?

Clearly a lot of men heard what he really meant by that and liked it.

College-educated white women backed Harris. All college-educated groups did. Maybe Democrats should work on making college more affordable, and accessible to women with small children. Frankly we should anyway. We should also start helping girls that get pregnant in high school finish with their diploma so college will be an option in their future. Especially since more of them are going to be forced to carry the pregnancy to term.

California’s “sweet time” includes allowing votes postmarked on Election Day to arrive and be counted. You might not be happy waiting but I’m glad to live in a state that values every vote and makes voting as accessible as possible. I won’t say “easy” because our ballot was 6 pages long, but it was easy to read and mark at home, and mail or put in a box or hand to a person.

This is true and good. But with the Supreme Court in Trump’s pocket the results may not be great.