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Face, meet leopard. Leopard, meet face.

a_unique_person said:
From what I can tell, the people Harris needed to connect with didn't think was talking to them. If she had more time maybe she could have fixed that.

Then there was the Biden problem. He wasn't actually able to sell anything. People weren't listening as a result. He shouldn't have run for a second term.
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Harris' big problem (and by extension the whole party's) is that she was chasing the illusory never-Trampy voter and ignored her own base and disillusioned voters that just switched off because neither party is willing to offer them anything. It's is never god idea to triangulate your strategy to chase after a more right wing party, it just hands the field to them.
 
I guess all soldiers in the US army that voted for Trump can be added to the list?
I'd be a tad upset that confidential orders that could get everyone killed are sent openly using a public app.
 
TellyKNeasuss said:
_____ is trying to get rid of the Dept. of Education. It turns out that in general red states are far more dependent on federal funding for their school districts than are blue states.
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One thing that I could possibly see happening...

The federal government cuts funding for the Department of Education. Instead it elects to just contribute money directly to the state government.

Blue states use the money as expected, to support schools.

Red states instead use the money to cut taxes.
 
TellyKNeasuss said:
_____ is trying to get rid of the Dept. of Education. It turns out that in general red states are far more dependent on federal funding for their school districts than are blue states.

www.yahoo.com

With the Dept. of Education on the chopping block, these are the states that rely most on federal school funding

The end of the agency doesn't necessarily mean that federal school funds will dry up, but some states would be hurt more than others if the department were eliminated.
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“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the leopard ended up inside”​

― John F. Kennedy (2025)
 
This thread always makes me think of The Python by Hilaire Belloc, which ends...

I had an aunt in Yuccatan
who bought a python from a man
and kept it for a pet.
She died because she never knew
these simple little rules and few,
The snake is living yet.

/derail
 
Norman Alexander said:
"Within the range"? There are tens of millions more people in the USA now than 1970. So when the vote count does not change much, that constitutes a net loss of votes, i.e. a reduced turnout. When small fractions of the vote count make a big difference, that matters.
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Voter turnout can be measured as the percent of registered voters who actually vote. That implicitly controls for the change in population.
Norman Alexander said:
If true, the message I read from that is they didn't want any more of Trump. So they would have just as likely voted for Harris or Obama or any other Dem if they had been the candidate then.
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Meh. My take on it is that the didn't want Trump... but they were disappointed enough with the Democratic party performance, as well as how Harris was handed to them without them being consulted or even considered, that the difference in suckitude is really no longer relevant. If the world's going to hell in a handbasket, does anyone really care what color the handbasket is?
 
Emily's Cat said:
Voter turnout can be measured as the percent of registered voters who actually vote. That implicitly controls for the change in population.

Meh. My take on it is that the didn't want Trump... but they were disappointed enough with the Democratic party performance, as well as how Harris was handed to them without them being consulted or even considered, that the difference in suckitude is really no longer relevant. If the world's going to hell in a handbasket, does anyone really care what color the handbasket is?
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One of the handbaskets wasn't headed for hell.
 
Segnosaur said:
One thing that I could possibly see happening...

The federal government cuts funding for the Department of Education. Instead it elects to just contribute money directly to the state government.

Blue states use the money as expected, to support schools.

Red states instead use the money to cut taxes.
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yeah your property taxes will go up. everyone will love that, going to be a big hit with the common folk
 
angrysoba said:
Ask not what meal you can get from the leopard but what meal your face can be for the leopard!

Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Ich bin ein Leopard


(Didn’t know the German word for leopard - turns out I’ve been using the German word all along - leopard.)
 
Emily's Cat said:
Meh. My take on it is that the didn't want Trump... but they were disappointed enough with the Democratic party performance, as well as how Harris was handed to them without them being consulted or even considered, that the difference in suckitude is really no longer relevant. If the world's going to hell in a handbasket, does anyone really care what color the handbasket is?
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Sounds like something a profoundly stupid sociopath would say.

But I’m glad we’ve already reached the part where Trump is so undeniably terribly that his apologists shrug their shoulders and tell us everything was already terrible so it doesn’t matter. Only took about two months this time.
 
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