A popular vote is something people who do understand the Constitution or the power of the states.

I can’t parse that sentence.

Being president isn’t about being popular. It is about the states picking the person to represent them.
We are a representative government. We are not a boy band where popularity matters.

What? Within each state it’s a popularity contest.

So you’re saying popular vote or ‘boy band popularity contest’ is fine within each state, but not for the whole nation at once? What’s the difference other than that the electoral college is imprecise? We have to disproportionately select electors where people in North Dakota count 3x as much as people in Texas or California? Why’s that? The Senate is already bad enough where 30 million people in Texas get the same weight as 4 million people in Oregon or 700,000 in North Dakota. I don’t see why selecting electors by popular vote and then having them vote makes any difference other than as a charade to pretend states are independent.

The idea that the US is a coalition of independent states made sense over 150 years ago or 250 years ago, but not so much now. As much as say, some idiots in Texas fantasize about it, states are not free to leave the US and it’s no different than any country made up of provinces.

I would be more fine with the electoral college if the number of electors was updated to match growing populations. The system also is super lame in how it makes the entire election come down to tens of thousands of votes in ‘swing states’.

My Australian friend thought I was a complete barbarian for heating water for tea on the stove in a pot

I like how you act like you really believe these things and that they make sense.

that’s true, there was that, but then on 4chan it became “pepe says kek on doubles” and then “meme things into existence” and then it got all twisted with meming trump into the presidency by saying kek a lot or something, and that sort of ruined it

it was related to trump bullshit involving Pepe being racist around 2015-16

wow, that’s something I was happy to not have heard in a while

The corrupt liberal propaganda machine in Tishomingo covered it up 😤

It sure is awful that we’re at a point where people like Musk and Theil are working with a demented rapist conman to put someone like this 3 hamberders from the presidency.

The eyeshadow is not really a problem, I guess, except in the context of his other views. If he just was like “yeah I grew up with emo” or “I like the cure” or even “I think it makes me look cool”, that would be one thing, but instead we’re just supposed to overlook it like some people accept that his running mate is a pasty pink person with pig eyes who paints most of his face orange.

So you think the Oklahoma town canceled their football for… ?

prob just secondhand meth smoke given the demographic

It does seem pretty wild how widely it’s prescribed given anecdotes like that. I also a knew a guy who had been taking it for over 10 years and clearly was wildly addicted.

This is another headline phrased as if the program is exclusively for undocumented immigrants, while it’s actually for anyone and the issue is whether to require a SSN to apply. Last time, it was about housing assistance and Fox did the same thing. However, Newsom ended up vetoing that anyway (as mentioned in this article).

I had a friend whose mom was prescribed Ambien. I think it was the first time I’d ever heard of it. She said she kept having experiences like waking up in bed with empty bags of flour and jars of mayonnaise, so she stopped taking it.

My guess is Iranian Republicans thought of this scheme. I mean, Iranians have a lot better things to think about right now.

In the past, definitely. I’m not sure what the current system is.

Realistically, might as well read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager as it knows a lot more than I do. I had a pager for several years and have done network programming, that’s about it… i have an insulin pump that people often mistake for a pager though, ha. It makes me look pretty cool.

They’re sent like a phone call. Afaik there is no confirmation on the network whether the device received the message.

I can read the entire article. You mean you don’t use NoScript etc?

There’s no “paranoia” about Theil. He’s shown himself to be an incredibly horrible person and to do bizarre things like have special assistants for donating blood he is injected with. Imagine how much ‘conservatives’ would freak out if Obama or someone similar did that, but he’s your boy, keep him.

Okay, keep on selling medical devices because you were too incompetent at being a doctor.

Only if you actually understand the studies, analyses, caveats, potential biases, and possible reasons for the results, which you don’t seem to have taken into account. Assuming you’re actually citing reliable research, which is unlikely, based on my experiences here. Again, it seems likely that conservatives lead in undiagnosed mental illnesses, which makes sense given the poor access to health care in many conservative majority states, and lower willingness to have their mental health evaluated.

Yeah bro, TDS, the left!

We were comparing their debate performances as far as I can read it, so pretty sure that’s not “TDS” (which is an absurd term, and fuck Charles Krauthammer for introducing that to the lexicon - about Bush, of course). It’s worth noting that you made those claims about Harris’ performance while either accepting Trump’s or just overlooking his frankly insane behavior.

I don’t really trust anyone once Theil is involved. Maybe that’s just my Theil Derangement Syndrome, since of course criticizing conservatives always means mental illness.

There are other experts who have analyses too, of course. You might check out this one:
https://fortune.com/2024/09/18/trump-vs-harris-election-odds-who-will-win/