politics

I'm an American living in the Netherlands. The Dutch just elected a "conservative" goon named Geert Wilders several months ago. His rhetoric has been eerily similar to what's coming out of the UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia. Hell, Meloni in Italy has roots in the OG fascist party. They're getting too comfortable.

From what I can discern through my news apps (Associated Press and Reuters, these days), Palmer and Dutton are quite a vintage of proper cunts, but I argue the entire anglophone world is inundated with these authoritarian cocksuckers.

With sincerity, I hope that in your next election they're shoved into the trash compactor of history along with all the other bitch-made invertebrate right-wing lunatics that are pissing in everyone's coffee across the globe, just as we (hopefully) will do so with the Orange fucker today.

I feel like there was a missed opportunity to invoke the immortal diss "shit-cunts".

Technically it's the other way around. The size of the electoral college is determined by the size of the House plus the Senate.

Now, the House was meant to increase in size as the population increased.

Now, since the mechanism for that increase wasn't spelled out in the constitution, there were heated arguments every 10 years over the new maps, but it came to a head in 1921.

Long story short, the permanent apportionment act of 1929 set the size of the House at 435 members. We've added two states since then, and the US population has tripped. But still it's 435.

Repealing that one law would fix several problems.

This is more about me and my skewed perspective than it is about Americans... but it's easy to get the impression that amongst every group of 10 seppos there are 5 hipsters and 5 MAGA-cap-wearing idiots. Logically I know that this is false but it's hard to supplant this image.

A while back I started watching a youtube channel about 4wd recovery or something in texas. They just seem like cool normal people, I'd be stoked to meet them while "wheeling" or what have you. The thing is, I'm pretty sure they would be Trump voters just because of where they are.

Would it be more accurate to suppose that maybe 2 thirds of people every where are just kind of normal people who aren't as obsessed with politics as I am, but they do tend to line up behind whatever party their friends, family, and forebears have?

I've yet to get a clear answer on how they correct for the fact that no one answers the phone or wastes time talking to pollsters for free. I keep reading that " they take it into account" but not the methods used.

Yeah, that's what they said.

Living in a red state this is how I thought of it, even if my vote is wasted at least maybe the world can see a majority (even if it's slight) of Americans voted against trump numerically even if he wins.

According to conservative relatives there was no coup, only bad players.

I’m so sick of living in a malignant narcissist’s alternative reality. Can we go back to a time where half of us don’t play along with and encourage the delusions of mental illness? Pretty please?

Looks like the Iowa poll, as in of Harris had a real lead on Iowa of all places, there's no chance for him in swing states.

However there's just no way, in anyone's fever dream, that Iowa would go for Harris, so we have to assume there's some freak anomaly rather than anytime to count on or predict how things are going.

That was just bizzare.

Can you think of the leader of any other country where that would slide? I mean, not even Boris would have been that crass. Even keeping it within the States, is there a past president who would have?

It really made me think of elderly flashers, who act that way because they have degenerative neurological disorders associated with age.