And Cheney had the decency to follow established protocols and precedents.

As well a simple affirmation, “I am here”.

Maybe the ones that thought of that and could did, leaving the rest behind...

Contempt, to be enforced by the Executive branch, which no longer recognizes the Judicial branch?

Destruction of public education is an existential level threat to the nation and its principles. At least nearly everything else can be repaired in a generation.   Damage from this one factor would take several.

Maybe little change for now... give it a decade or so after public education is gutted, when those lovelies hit the workforce.

200 people, so ... 0.5%?

... okay with being associated with...

For a subset of potential definitions of death, anyway. I’m unaware of whether or not the fuzzy category of brain-dead always counts for mystic energies.

So long as they aren’t also installed as a suppository...

What’s the timeframe for those to start showing up? Will there be someone else to blame around then for the problem?

Their military strength supposedly can’t be projected as well as ours... except our air strength isn’t quite up to date anymore (see F-35 article on Gizmodo - current air strength is waning in its relative superiority). I mean, it’s not like its as bad as trying to start a land war in Asia, but it’s not quite the…

Following W’s plan - give everyone a flat tax refund in time for the mid-term elections to help out your “team”, and then try to time the economic bust for just after leaving office, so that voters remember the next guy as being responsible for the problem in time for voting the next round in.

Clarifying - anti-choicers. Pro-lifers are a larger group that include those against the death penalty, and may have an actual struggle with cases where the gestation endangers the mother, as opposed to strictly denying that those cases exist.

Hey, if Indiana could only narrowly avoid making a mathematical untruth law, fifteen years after fairly emphatic proof, something that depends on basic moral truths instead of basic arithmetic to prove would take significantly more effort to debunk. Which is a sad.

It can be both - the people are both the strength and weakness of democracy and republics.

Maybe some of them would like a viable alternative, but aren’t able to come up with one... and it’s hard.

Don’t forget church. Nothing like millenia of “just do what we tell you, and you’ll have a wonderful (after)life.” Luckily, we won’t have much difference going forward, if the new SecEd has her way.

A by-hand recount may, but several officials are opting not to do so. Given that it would have taken hundreds of instances of direct physical access to very distributed tabulating machines, direct hacking seems implausible. Possible, but implausible. If fewer machines were involved, the variation in percentages…