Maine and Nebraska choose electors by voting district, but it’s still a winner-take-all system within the district. So that’s a bit different. But I think that yeah, it’s a change that it would be a lot easier to convince people of, since it means that 1) everyone’s vote matters again and 2) doesn’t clearly favor…

Okay, there are lots of photos that come up if you Google image search for it. That doesn’t mean that it’s something most people are familiar with. There are many, many things you can search for that will give you lots of image results but that are niche areas of knowledge.

I remember those think pieces too, and they always frustrated me because, of course, there *were* plenty of people doing protest songs. It’s just that they don’t play that kind of music on top 40/adult contemporary stations.

This one is a civil trial (lawsuit), so pardoning is irrelevant. Losing the trial just means he has to pay a huge amount of restitution money to the people he scammed. Plus, it may expose some of his shady dealings and make him look bad generally.

Really really rich people use “concierge medicine” instead of dealing with that. These exclusive doctors will take only a small number of patients and charge them a yearly retainer in exchange for unlimited medical care.

They could also award electors by proportional representation (e.g. if Hillary got 40% of the vote in TX she’d get 40% of Texas’s electors), which keeps the power of the small states while getting rid of the problems of the winner takes all system.

Oh, *he’ll* settle, I think the real question is whether the people bringing the suit will.

Well, this case is. I read that the New York attorney general’s office, who’s also going after him on this, hasn’t ruled out the possibility of criminal charges. Though that may have changed.

Maybe. The New York State Attorney General’s office is pursuing a similar case, though, and I doubt they’ll quietly settle.

Yeah, it’s totally possible, likely even, that the FBI is investigating protesters and also some angry people wanted to break stuff.

I know a few people who are..... lets say the kind of people who found Bernie too conservative for their tastes. And I’ve seen them posting on Facebook since the election with warnings to fellow protesters that people they strongly suspect to be undercover cops/FBI have been trying to infiltrate leftist groups and…

I’ve never heard the black tape thing before in my life, and I know a number of police officers, firefighters and EMTs. Granted, we don’t talk much about their work and I don’t usually see them in uniform. But it’s not as common knowledge as you think.

Criticizing certain police departments when they cover up illegal activities by their employees or have unconstitutional policies is treating them like Nazis? Okay then.....

At least W could go to Camp David on a regular basis to do outdoorsy things and get away from everyone who hated him. I can’t imagine Trump enjoying that at all.

Man, Paul Ryan looks like he’s watching someone shoot his dog, and McConnell is really trying to paste a smile onto his little turtle face there.

Oh, another un-PC statement: those flag pins that every politician now feels obligated to wear on their suit are stupid. Can you imagine if anyone went on TV and said that? Fox News would turn them into a pariah!

I think there is a bit of disconnect at times over what racism means. A lot of people like to tell themselves that “racism” means hatred, means the KKK or Neo-Nazis - because that belief means they don’t have to take a critical look at themselves and their own attitudes and the the worldview and stereotypes that they…

I loved the first one as a kid, but always found it funny how the game had only the most superficial relationship with the actual movie.

Yeah, for sure. SNES games (at least the good ones, lol) have held up a lot better than the NES titles.

Yaaas. I still have my SNES packed away with a number of these games, but I would get this anyway. Also, how had I forgotten about Mario Paint??