Once again, Alexandra Petri has the best take.

He learned it from his BFF Putin

His differentiating value-added strategy is transformational change through appropriately transition-distributed scenarios…

There has never been a time like this in American History. Very exciting but also, very sad! Fake News is the absolute Enemy of the People and our Country itself!

“It’s like complaining that you got beaten in chess even though you have more pieces left; that’s not how the game freaking works.”

You don’t think a Trump-like candidate could find a way to get a 2-3 million out of states like California and 2-3 million out of states like New York, where Republicans don’t tend to even bother to vote?

1. There’s only been five times that the electoral result didn’t match the popular result.

Why would candidates campaign in states with low populations?

How do you square this idea with the realities of state-level elections? Candidates don’t only campaign in cities, they campaign throughout the state, rural and urban areas included. 

Of course I know what impetus means.

I mean, 1) five times out of 50-ish? elections is a 10% failure rate. Two of those times have been within the past 20 years and resulted in two of the worst presidents in American history.

“I don’t think it is less-weighted, though.”

What happens to states like Iowa and South Carolina that have allowed progressives to get a platform?

I am generally against abolishing the Electoral College, but I don’t know that I have strong arguments for that position. the best I could do would be to repost pieces from WaPo and others, which basically say:

I don’t know, being a blue voter in a red state made me feel pretty fucking disenfranchised. 

I think if we switched systems, we would find that the popular vote totally disenfranchises people not living on a coast.

“I literally do not understand this policy idea; it is so incredibly short sighted. Getting rid of the Electoral College is no guarantee of a liberal victory, and progressives need to understand that”

I have a naturally high pitched voice, and when I get myself worked up it gets higher and higher until I have to pause and reset because only dogs can hear it. Then I have my professional voice. It’s a little slower and slightly deeper than my natural voice, which is high southern valley girl. My daughter mocks me…

An octave is a pretty massive shift for the human voice. 

A couple of feminist friends took me to task for saying Holmes faked her voice. They said higher octaves don’t help women in the workplace, which I don’t argue with, and she only “lowered her voice an octave,” which in their minds wasn’t fake. I say she lowered it way TOO much, and that’s what makes it fake.