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i am over here

It makes sense in the absolute abstract, the semi-sovereign states were electing their union's president. But post-Civil War, it's not really the same fundamental relationship anymore, and that's why it's so back-asswards.

Time to reiterate that Trump only lost the 2020 election by like 45,000 votes spread across three states.

It ended in less than a 51-49 split, so I wouldn't describe it as a total failure. Has he alleged fraud or anything yet? Edit: actually according to the NYT, it was the "narrowest presidential election in the 34 years of Brazil’s modern democracy. Mr. da Silva won by 2.1 million votes, or 1.8 percentage points, in an election where more than 118 million Brazilians voted."

happy ahlloween

I was told that RSV is a thing that's going around, hitting all the babies and toddlers who've spent their entire lives in varying degrees of isolation/quarantine. But all I know is this is stupid and I'm not down to clown.

She picked something else up about a week ago, maybe from my mom's idk because she doesn't go to any formal childcare or babysitting. Snotty, congested mess with a reduced appetite. Could be a cold, maybe RSV idk, but she's past the worst of it. But she passed it to me, I started feeling the post nasal drip/congestion/sinus congealing Thursday night and it repurposed my post-covid cough so it's basically round two at this point. Less fatigue/achy, more just gross.

stilgar is everyone's arch enema

I'm talking like Wasserman analyzing polls, not early voting.

I've seen a fair bit of analysis that Dems are overperforming in red state districts (where abortion rights are at risk on the state level) and underperforming in blue state districts (where abortion rights are not at risk on the state level). So like Sharice Davids is overperforming in Kansas, but SPM in NY is underperforming.

remember that time we tried to trial run embedding ads here? yeah, let's never talk about that ever again

happy irthday @DBZ4ever!

Like their whole thing is "the whole international order is bullshit" and they're pretty flippant about disregarding international laws and norms, so combine that with extending the reach of their longstanding disregard for ethnic minorities within their own borders and then "it's just a little genocide to repopulate our far east"

I just think they aren't bothering to hide it.

Basically you have to take them out (and clean your teeth before putting them back on) for any food or drink that isn't plain water. You'd think I'd have lost weight in the past few months, but I think I've picked up a couple pounds.

I have an orthodontic retainer in right now, taking them out for cough drops is too much of a pain in the ass

You can't unwind longstanding SCOTUS precedent that taxpayers don't have standing to sue the government by virtue of being taxpayers, otherwise 200 million people would suddenly empowered to use federal courts to individually sue the government because they don't like what it's doing with their tax dollars - the remedy for that is supposed to be elections. The program was specifically crafted in such a conservative manner (taking a year and a half to internally debate the legality of it, cutting out private loans at the last minute, etc.) because they wanted to ensure there was no one with standing to sue.

I've still got a bit of a persistent cough, been a couple days since I tested myself. But more importantly, toddler quarantine ends after tomorrow and I am excited.