The polls don’t consider irregular or new voters, generally speaking. Most “likely voter” polls tend to skew Republican for that reason. In a normal midterm they might be accurate on that, but this time around it’s an open question. So it’s worth remembering, if new voters or people who don’t regularly vote show up…

Imagine that, people giving charity to those they think are in need. Apparently a foreign concept to the far-right in the US. 

I mean, this George Soros stuff is just openly anti-Semitic. The entire root of the concept, shadowy Jewish financier stirs trouble/isn’t loyal to the country is a huge pretty fundamental anti-Semitic trope. Yet the mainstream GOP has completely adopted this. Even assuming most of them don’t notice it’s anti-Semitic…

They won’t get a way with a sham investigation without punishment. Someone is going to face consequences, including the 15 men on the assassination team, the head of the consulate, and most likely someone higher up and nearer to MbS.

If “harassing the referee” by yelling is a crime Golfcart Gail is gonna haveto call the cops on basically every soccer fan ever. If she’s not too terrified of the diverse crowd and scary strange foods to enter the stadium that is.

Civility is useless. Respect is earned and must be kept. Civility is the opposite of that, it’s unearned and smothering. It’s a polite fiction that allows bad things to happen and silences those they happen to.

That’s actually why I put it off. Well that and just forgetting. But mine is also the medical test and that’s probably worthwhile given I have chronic health issues. There’s some weird stuff that runs in the family random aunts and distant cousins keep warning me about. 

It’d be amusing if the whole group just imploded, but I suppose all the sweet racist old GOP money will keep them going no matter how awful and useless they are. 

A few suggestions from the bountiful curses of Old Irish literature.

To the general public? Yeah, that’s in serious doubt. I get asked this stuff a lot by curious people who know I have a degree in history and read too much.

Yeah, but correlation can be misleading. Ethnicity and genetics don’t always correlate. Take it this way, an Angl0-Saxon noble flees court politics to Ireland. His children are raised in Ireland, speaking Irish, taught in Irish monasteries, etc. Genetically, they are Anglo-Saxon. But ethnically? Well that’s a hard…

The FDA approved their medical genetic testing, nothing to do with the accuracy of their ancestry tests. My mother bought me one of those and I held off because of privacy concerns for awhile, and I was getting the medical and ancestry because I’ve got enough health issues to merit paying for it.

Okay, serious talk, DNA tests are NOT good science. They use proprietary data-sets and are basically about looking for similarities and trying to guess population movements and behavior from that. I had a good friend take one and get weird results and I went over it with her. Her family are Shluh Berbers on one side…

Honestly, DNA tests are pointless anyway. What does it matter if your ancestors came from Germany if you have literally no connection to German culture? It’s just a little bit of data. Especially for white people, who in America are generally allergic to anything too “ethnic” even including white ethnicities (though…

Oh boy, have we gone full circle and we’re ready for another decade of fear-mongering about “witches” and “heathens” and what not? Then again I can’t see pagans becoming a bogeyman when there’s so many well-funded anti-Muslim racists out there. 

That is an American tradition though. Most pre-Potato Famine Irish and many of the “Scots-Irish” were essentially kicked out to the frontier for being trouble. 

I get the point. She releases it, she mostly takes it off the table. Yes, the deranged fever-swamps of the right will continue their racist dishonest bullshit, but that’s not who she was aiming at. This was aimed at people who might plausibly vote for her, from liberals to independents, who may have heard the…

File the police report, even if they’ll just let the worthless asshole get away with it. No public figure should be allowed to grab a recording device from a member of the public to prevent them from asking/recording a question.

Fuck off Nazi filth. 

Look, another neo-Nazi. Banhammer needed.