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Too Typical

The dopes who had to cast the Purity Protest Votes didn't help, but as usual, the main problem is the fact that so many of us can't bring ourselves to vote at all.

America - land of the free and the home of the sit on your ass while everybody else does the work.

Back To The Roots

WaPo

A million more votes for Democrats.  Thirty-three more seats for Repubs. That's not democracy.

As If It Matters Now

CNN:

Last year was officially the Earth's warmest since record-keeping began in the 1880s, the World Meteorological Organization announced Wednesday morning.

That means 2016 set a global heat record for the third year in a row according to NOAA and NASA, who held a joint press conference on Wednesday to discuss the record.

 

In Putin's Image

From Bloomberg:

Donald Trump is building a cabinet in his own image. The first billionaire U.S. president has appointed two billionaires and at least nine millionaires, with a combined net worth of about $5.6 billion, to run government departments. Two appointees to cabinet or cabinet-level positions are former generals. And fewer than half have any prior government experience. Many of Trump's nominees have close ties to Wall Street and corporate America. Altogether, his cabinet is shaping up to look a lot different from his predecessors.

The expansive corporate connections, collective wealth and varied policy goals of Trump's cabinet-level picks say a lot about the priorities set to shape his administration. Here are Trump's cabinet nominees so far, in order of their succession to the presidency.

It's interesting - Trump's picks for the various Business Units of the Federal Government are all high-roller CEO types, and his picks for Law Enforcement and National Security are all hardass authoritarian enforcer types. 

So I guess we're seeing the implementation of what the Leftie Loonies have been saying all along - The US is a Private Enterprise Operation with a Militarized Police Force and Nuclear Weapons.

USAmerica Incorporated.

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Again:

The presence of confirming evidence

and

the absence of conflicting evidence

yields a higher probability for truth

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The absence of confirming evidence 

or

the presence of conflicting evidence requires continued skepticism and further review

Breaking News

Yeah - that can't be good.:

From 538 Today

Same as always - Don't get happy. Get back to work.

Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball has it about the same, although they haven't shown the same movement in Iowa and Ohio.

And don't forget to follow the money:

Trump campaign is canceling hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising in Fla, NC, OH, possibly other states, per two buying sources.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 7, 2016

But Don't Get Happy

We have Clinton's lead up to 5 points now. https://t.co/WLXtJodIzD pic.twitter.com/rcbE00H4iY

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 6, 2016

...Get to work. 
Make the calls. 
Hand out the fliers. 
Put up the yard signs.
Elect the people who'll keep the pressure on. 

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With today's polls 538's Now-Cast gives Hillary a WHOPPING 78% chance of winning. Last week Trump was at 57%. pic.twitter.com/QjyxBYbiLV

— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) August 1, 2016

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Which is actually another tweet, but anyway - be reassured, but don't be happy and don't get cocky.  GOTV and put as many Blues in office as possible.

CLINTON still leads in our polls-plus model, which adjusts for Trump's convention bounce. https://t.co/zo8rbYw56E pic.twitter.com/J0G2D5PHxK

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 25, 2016

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And like Bob & Chez say, "Don't get happy, Liberals".  We get complacent, and Trump could win this thing.  Don't ever forget that the Press Poodles have a job to do that only includes "finding and reporting the truth" as an item on the list that comes well after "boost audience numbers" and "enhance revenue".   

False Equivalence + False Dichotomy = Both Sides = Dramatic Tension = Horse Race = Stay tuned, folks - you don't wanna miss a single exciting episode.

Never forget that very smart people spend billions of dollars every year on advertising because propaganda works.

Without substantial support from Capitol Hill, Hillary gets stonewalled just like Obama. So I'm gonna put away my misgivings and my suspicions for just long enough to vote for every fucking Democrat I can find.  

The point of the GOP strategy is to lock us into a Stockholm Syndrome kinda thing where we'll do whatever they want us to do if they'll just stop fucking it all up.

Get your asses out there and make it work.

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I think it's worth noting that there's a fairly obvious connection here: a rapist being able to deny his victim's right to abort "his" "child", and then to sue for his "right" to be involved in that kid's life is coming almost straight outa the really shitty parts of The Bible that have god telling certain Israelites that it's OK to kidnap and rape women as a means of obtaining a family.

That's pretty fucked up right there, buy hey - it's what the TheoCons do.

Allow me to reiterate Mike's Manifesto on this particular subject:

Abortion is very serious, and so it MUST be closely restricted -

...to women

    ...who are pregnant

        ...and decide not to be pregnant

No exceptions

If you're not the one who's pregnant

(and especially if you were born with that Y chromosome)

then your opinion is duly noted

and you can shut the fuck up now