And then after the election we need to “bring down the temperature.”

Either they’re an existential threat to democracy or they’re not. If they are Democrats should start acting like it.

I never saw any stars. I just saw the prices.

As a 90s kid I’m incredibly good at T9 text input, which is what I use the phone buttons in my car for

Their incompetence is the small shred of hope I’m clinging to

Chewbacca. Because I am also large, hairy, and communicate in a series of grunts and growls

The Larry Ellison Medical Foundation has invested heavily in life extension research

Most people are idiots most of the time.

Some people are idiots some of the time.

No one is never an idiot.

Weren’t the Democrats the ones calling this election “the only way to save democracy?” Wasn’t Donald Trump a fascist who was going to destroy the country and kill people? And now we need to “bring down the temperature?”

Either they were lying before, or they’re lying now.

What does that preparation look like? Ocasio-Cortez said she’s still taking a moment to process her plan. But she said she’ll personally be “doing a lot more direct communication” — i.e., methods other than social media, which can be overrun with unverified claims and outright propaganda.

“I think I’ll be planning on using my email list to give a lot more thorough and specific things about what’s on my mind and how to prepare for things,” she said. And she encouraged her followers to get out of their online bubbles:

I was going to point out that nobody reads those, but then I realized I’m a fucking weirdo who blocks all that shit with extreme prejudice. So maybe it’ll work because normal people apparently read every email they get in detail.

I wasn’t aware that chocolate was a traditional Greek flavoring

Except for when they eat it over spaghetti and cut it with a knife instead of twirling

My headcanon for the invention of Cincinnati chili is that some midwestern person read that chili is “heavily spiced” and used what they had available, including cinnamon and nutmeg.

I highly doubt the people protesting Trump voted for him.

Come on.

If that showed up on Netflix I’d watch it

I was working the booth at a conference and the sales guys closed some big deal there and took everybody at the conference out to a four star restaurant. Since it was in a legal state me and the woman from marketing got really baked before we went in and had $200 steaks with a $400 bottle of wine. There were like 10 people, too so the whole bill must have been at least $4,000.

She was high as hell the whole time and trying to hide it, which was hilarious for me to watch.

I’ve also had Iron Chef Morimoto make sushi for me but since I paid it didn’t feel above my station.

If half the population is actually susceptible to brainwashing over Facebook then democracy itself is unworkable.

It’s a bit like how the divine right of kings couldn’t survive the invention of the printing press

only care about being anti-establishment.

I bet they’d feel differently if the establishment had a meaningful impact on their lives.

It’s a book series and it’s not about the East India Company per se, though they make frequent appearances, but the Aubrey/Maturin books by Patrick O’Brien are incredibly good. The first one is called Master & Commander which inspired the Russell Crowe movie of the same name.

I don’t know if this kind of thing is captured very well but I wonder how many voted blue for other Federal offices but simply skipped President.

Trump won PA by 144,739 votes, but Casey is only trailing McKormick by around 40,000 votes, which may get narrower as all the ballots are counted. So I’d rate this plausible.

Edit: In the other statewide races the democrats lost by even more than Harris did, so I’m not rating this plausible.

I see zero ads beyond billboards and the occasional radio at if I happen to be at a store.

Other than one guy going around to make sure people had a plan for voting the only interaction I had with the Democratic campaign was them begging, PLEADING for money. A dozen texts a day. Two dozen emails. Three or four phone calls a day that never left a voicemail and have stopped since the election. (I didn’t answer them.)

If that’s what the rest of the Democratic base was subjected to it’s no wonder they had a bad taste in their mouth about the election. Even though Trump won a part of me is glad the harassment has stopped.