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Mulling it over, I do *not* think Trump will pardon any of the Capitol-invaders.

Impeachment can not only remove people from office, it can ban them from ever holding office again.

It is possible that former presidents could be impeached. It would take a supreme court case to know for certain. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/06/can-former-presidents-be-impeached/

Remember how big the stink was for Mark Rich?

Sony a6000. I am giddy.

At least the injuries were minimal, especially for being close to downtown, and I don't see any sign of it being politically motivated or terror related.

Did you feel that one, Hermit? Bomb exploded, rocked Nashville. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashville-explosion/index.html

I can see Ahsoka Tano's point. Grogu was super into the dark side there.

The virus has claimed the sci fi writer Ben Bova Ben Bova, science fiction writer, dies in Naples from COVID-19 (naplesnews.com)

The Jedi try their best to recruit babies who won't even remember their mommas. They specify attachments are the problem, not priorities

The Jedi prohibition on attachments is unpleasant. Any group that says you can't love your momma is trouble.

Ben Carson makes me see neurosurgeons in a whole new way.

Exactly. To them, the lack of evidence for fraud is only proof that fraud is too difficult to detect and we need to make voting more restrictive, with voter IDs and in-person voting with those dye marks they use in poor countries.

Okay, here are my quibbles. Fair, but I lurk on enough conservative forums that I can anticipate their response. One of their posters literally said, that before Trump we'd only had one lapse in the peaceful transfer of power: when Obama let the FBI investigate the Trump campaign. Thus, to a conservative, THAT was the coup, and THAT was mucking with a system balancing chaos, and THIS is the explosion from that muckery. Or, the real first coup was Al Gore dragging out the 2000 election with litigation and recounts. (an interference that the 9/11 commission pointed out as a contributing factor in that failure of intelligence.) Remember how that left Democrats howling that Bush was illegitimate? So then came the Obama presidency, and the Republicans did their own little coup, hounding him the whole eight years with baseless and racist accusations of having been born in Kenya and thus illegitimate. And then Trump won. We can see he was already plotting the seeds of a coup in the style of Al Gore; he was proclaiming the vote as compromised by rampant fraud before the vote even happened, preparing for litigation and howling about Clinton's illegitimacy. But he won, and the Democrats cried that it was illegitimate instead. They claimed foreign interference and begged electors to be faithless. And the Republican's saw this as a failure in the peaceful transition of power, because Obama allowed the investigation to continue. This isn't a novel coup, this is just the latest in a cycle of ever more extreme attacks on the peaceful transition of power. That article quoted "the second coming". Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The widening gyre. The gyre is a cycle. Widening means it grows ever more extreme and out of control. Well, here is your cycle. You can plead for most of the democratic acts that I pointed out. Al Gore's loss was a lot more narrow than Donald Trumps and thus its litigation was more reasonable. Obama was also reasonable with how he allowed the investigation continue. And yet, each time the Republicans saw it as an egregious slight, and answered in ever greater retaliation

Scotland raises its drawbridge, making It illegal to cross from rest of UK https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/19/uk-lockdown-travel-to-and-from-scotland-made-illegal-13625330/ So it raising the drawbridge a figure of speech? Or is there a literal drawbridge that they raise to signal that Scotland is closed?

I'm trying to play similarities/differences: In 2016 the Democrats hoped against hope that some of the Electors would be faithless, because those Electors would acknowledge the foreign interference, and that Trump was a bad person, and that the popular vote should mean something. In 2020 the Republicans hoped against hope that some of the State legislatures would declare the vote illegitimate and simply assign Republican Electors, because those legislatures would acknowledge that "everybody knows" how rampant electoral fraud is.

I normally don't care about my data getting shared. This, though, this seems suspicious. The US military buying location data from Muslim prayer and Quran app https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x

I'm really glad the militia-violence fears have not borne fruit, even with the stolen-election narrative.

In interesting article that explains how the mysterious 130000 Biden votes might not be all that fishy. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/4/21549710/biden-michigan-votes-trump-retweet-election-map

I often hear the argument that the electoral college ensures politicians care about small states. If that is its goal, I maintain it does not do it well. The implication is that if it were not for the electoral college, politicians would only care about New York and California. But, with the college, they care about Florida and Pennsylvania instead. This is not a great improvement. I live in Idaho. The only reason politicians can distinguish us from Iowa is because at least that state has an important primary.

Concur. He'll keep the Senate too.

Ewoks were supposed to be vietcong. For that to work, they should have shown way more Ewoks dying than troopers, winning only because there were a lot of them, and ewoks being supplied with Rebel hardware.

Curious, why do you prefer ranked to top-two IRV? EDIT: oops, I assumed you meant ranked as in range voting, not IRV, which is obvious, and now I feel silly.

Just grab nature by the puss caterpillar. When you're famous, it lets you do it.

Doesn't it sometimes allow awful little parties to become kingmakers? Essential tiebreakers, and they have to be given something awful to get that broken tie?