Notices by SoGeneris for Harris/Walz (sogeneris@mastodon.social)

Vote like it’s going to come down to one jury-rigged electoral vote in Nebraska.

These bozos will latch on to anything, so desperate are they to be something.

"They identify with 16th-century French theologian John Calvin, who spawned a rigid and deterministic form of Protestantism."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/theobros-jd-vance-christian-nationalism/

@br00t4c but it’s the immigrants who are the drain on the public coffers. /s

They should send Vance the bill.

I lived without the internet for a good part of my life. I can live without it again if I need to.

#AI

@br00t4c Awfully coincidental it’s Springfield, I guess.

@br00t4c I’m not religious, but I hope there’s a hell for the people doing this stuff.

Peter Thiel and Elon Musk should have to appear at a town hall in Springfield to explain why they’re funding this terrorism against America.

The GOP is literally traumatizing us. By permitting school shootings to continue and by attacking the children of immigrants and by demonizing LGBTQ+ youth and by killing the environment, they’re sacrificing the future of every young person in the United States for votes today. Imagine the suffering and the cost.

Trumpism is mass torture.

It’ll be interesting to learn how this actually makes complete sense.

People who claim Trump’s speech on Jan. 6 actually urged the crowd to be peaceful … you cannot be stupid enough to think I’m stupid enough to believe that.

@br00t4c She’ll be RFK Jr.’s undersecretary of HHS.

@br00t4c this is deeply horrifying. And I fail to see how Texas could charge someone who was not breaking the law in another state. Is this the law that allows someone in Texas to report someone else? How can a state stipulate that you can’t leave that state for any reason you want?

_You_ pay for tariffs. Or you pay for the domestically produced thing (a lot more than the imported thing). It’s not magic. It’s a sales tax.

When Trump talks about a “wealth fund,” he’s talking about YOU funding HIS wealth.

But if you support Trump, maybe you’re not surprised to learn this is how it works in Russia. They don’t care if the money is technically theirs — so long as they control it.

@msbellows What is the process by which a state’s delegation would determine what one vote it would cast? I presume that isn’t spelled out by the constitution. Is there any law that determines it?

@msbellows Every rock you pick up has some new weirdness under it.

“All of California's members vote on how California's one vote will be cast. All of Texas’ members vote on how Texas’ one vote will be cast. Any state with an even number of members, if they are tied, that state's vote doesn't get cast. Delaware's one representative casts Delaware's vote. Wyoming's one member casts Wyoming's vote.”

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-tie-in-the-Electoral-College-be-resolved-by-Congress-What-happens-if-Congress-is-unable-to-break-the-tie

@msbellows I see reference to “en bloc” voting, but I can’t find anything that says how a delegation would reach a conclusion if it were, say, split down the middle. Unanimity? Simple majority? Whatever everyone agrees to in the moment? And do state laws address this as they do in many places for faithless voters?

The potential for chaos is so huge. So many attack vectors, as they say.

@msbellows Elie Mystal talks about the inequity of the Senate structure in favoring sparsely populated states … but imagine one representative from Wyoming being equal in the choice to the entire state of California with what, 100+ times the population? That is breathtakingly horrible.

EDIT: @kingkaufman points out my rough math is off, and California has only 67 times the population of Wyoming. Which, still.

If we’re learning anything this year, it’s that the courts are never going to help in time to matter.

SCOTUS of course will act quickly to make things worse.