Random Political Thoughts

I have a feeling people are going to care about this mid-term

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The most important mid-term of our lives!

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Quoting this for posterity.

hold out til they unlock the 10x match

I mean, it’s a bit of a forgone conclusion that when one party wins the presidential election, the opposing party wins congress in the mid-terms.

Assuming there will be mid-term elections.

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It’s interesting that as MAGA as our small town is, somehow our mayor is a Democrat (who won re-election last year). I guess the distinction between R and D doesn’t mean as much at the ultra-local level.

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Maybe this should be Democrats do the darndest things. I hope a flat out nicotine ban would fail as prohibition never works but reasonable sin taxes seem effective in curbing use without generating a violent black market.

Generate business for the new pot industry by making the competition illegal for a while?

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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it, happy harvest day if you are in the US and think that Thanksgiving is a problematic celebration of colonialism, and happy day to quietly be thankful that your country is run by people under 60 for those elsewhere.

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This is just wrong on so many levels.

Payout was $13M but Massachusetts caps payouts to only $1M

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Only 15,000 people voted yesterday in Atlanta’s city council runoff. With 500,000+ registered voters, that’s pretty sad.

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Biased headline: “Actress Annette Bening Pushes Sex Changes for Minors Outside SCOTUS”

…so, she was actually performing them right there outside the SCOTUS building? :upside_down_face: That’s quite the protest!

We don’t have a thread for “Things the Government Does Right”, so I’ll put this here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/business/economy/fred-economic-data-fandom.html

FRED had 15 million visits last year.

You can buy FRED swag if you visit St. Louis. Apparently, “Keep it Real, unless it is Nominal” qualifies as humor to an economist.

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LOL, that’s pretty damn funny.

It took me a bit to realize that the two people on bottom are in an ad, and not in fact part of the Assad family. :upside_down_face:

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Summary

Per Jamie Dupree

Adam Schiff could get sworn in to the U.S. Senate three times in the next four weeks.

  1. Today, by Newsom appointment
  2. After Schiff’s special election victory is certified on Dec. 13 to fill the Dianne Feinstein term
  3. On Jan. 3, 2025 for a full 6-year term
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Dammit, Dan!!! You foreshadowed the future!!! :exploding_head: :exploding_head: :exploding_head:

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That was playing the long game.