Is it? Because the Bush administration lost 22 million of them and I didn’t see any Trump supporters calling for heads to roll over that recently.

I think it’s fair to say that it likely was.

I’m pretty comfortable guessing

True, and that would solve the problem of conscientious objectors - they would have to just show up and spoil the ballot. But it doesn’t solve the issue of people who can’t, for whatever reason, show up. For reasons as mundane as “my car broke down” to “I couldn’t get out of work” to “I couldn’t get a babysitter”.…

I disagree. Mandatory means penalties for non-participation, and that hurts people that can’t participate, don’t feel that they can because they don’t know enough about the candidates, or who want to be conscientious objectors. It would disproportionately affect low-income and low-education citizens.

50% didn’t see a need to show up at all, which is frightening.

My sister-in-law, whom I adore, won’t be coming for Christmas this year. She won’t be able to be around her husband’s, my wife’s, parents. And I don’t blame her.

What I’m seeing here is that we liberals need to move inland. Start affecting those central red states a bit. It’s fantastic that we basically own California, Oregon and Washington, but that’s not helpful if the entire middle of the U.S. is so homogenized that it basically becomes White Guy Central.

My in-laws voted Trump. My wife and I voted Clinton, so we at least had a canceling effect here in Texas. I won’t talk to them about it because I can’t stand them, but she had lunch with them yesterday and managed to get them to explain themselves.

You know what, Ashley? Fuck you. Just fuck you.

ProTip: get some rubber gloves on (trust me) and pull it out. It’s disgusting - especially if you’ve never cleaned it before. Do that right before you run the dishwasher and just throw it in with the dishes. No muss, no fuss.

They don’t have to be. You guys are really downplaying how easily this can all go away.

The Tea Partiers in Congress do. And as soon as Trump wants something this is leverage they have on him. “You want that project funded? Fine, authorize the DEA to crack down on the dispensaries.”

And he’s working with a re-elected Tea Party extremist Congress. But sure, if you want to go with the argument that Trump will be a dictator and having those extremists in Congress won’t matter, we can roll with that, too.

What’s adorable is that you think he won’t cave on that the second the Tea Party-controlled Congress uses it as leverage.

Peter Thiel who clerked for a single year out of law school and never practiced after that? You think he’s a viable candidate for the Court?

but does a DEA agents sworn oath carry more than a state or local officer’s?

1.) I’m a liberal Democrat. It’s not me vs. you or them or whatever. I’m just stating facts.

Is it better to give a little bit to several organizations, or a larger amount to one organization? Is one way more effective than another?

Goddamn right.