"I'm hoping Ossoff wins the nomination"

I'm hoping for the sloppiest sounding ticket in history:

Ossoff-Slotkin

Ideally, they'll have to hand out napkins with the flyers.

"9.1%"

And what would it have been if Biden's stimulus was 42% higher?

Because Trump was campaigning on a (more inflationary) 42% higher stimulus.

In many districts across the country, schools are funded via property taxes. And not state-pooled, state-distributed funds, but rather district funds kept and spent. Richer districts have better schools ... go figure.

This leads to higher tax rates on lower cost homes in poorer neighborhoods. And the poorest districts STILL need "more" money ... go figure.

My guess is increased costs due lower revenue, more languages in poorer neighborhoods, higher crime and insurance rates, and generally reduced early childhood development, among other factors.

" Public education IS the problem here. And the most impoverished districts receive the most funding."

Oh, you're on the right track ... now go a few steps further: WHY do impoverished districts receive more funding? What's the root problem???

"Democrats almost exclusively run public education."

Admit you have no clue without using those specific words. School Boards run public education.

Teachers, meanwhile, are attacked on all sides: students, parents, administration, and school boards.

Frankly, I've never seen a group more in need of Unionization.

Let's not forget: both Tallarico and Hinojosa won by over a million votes.

And both would've still won if all their Election Day voters had stayed home.

"Fairly obvious this wasn't a fair election"

Then explain it to us. While you're at it, explain why, if illegals voting is so rampant, the state of Texas has only 27 convictions in 40 years.

"20m extra voters? Lulz"

Yep. Folks treated it like a general, instead of a mid-term. For some reason(s), they were motivated.

At one point during the war, my father had liberty in Paris, and decided to go to the Louvre. He saw someone who looked familiar, but couldn't place the guy. It kept nagging him, so he decided to find the guy again, and figure out where they knew each other from.

Turned out it was his youngest brother, now 18, who dad hadn't seen in three years.

It was worth a mention in Stars and Stripes..

My two great aunts were hoofers on the Orpheum Circuit in Vaudeville, and both WACs.

My Uncle served in Patton's Army, in the group who ran out of fuel in the movie. He survived by playing dead.

My dad was the head of a ground crew for bombers in Italy. The ordinance was delivered in large wooden crates, so he kept his crew busy building. First, Officer's Quarters (of course), then quarters, then a rec area, furniture, a darkroom (he said one of their hobbies was photography), and famously, a hot outdoor shower.

He had the crew raise an unusable fuselage tank, then drilled a hole and ran a tube through a gasoline-drip fire* to keep it warm. The joke was, every time a muckety-muck visited, he'd already heard about the shower...and just had to check it out.

Thanks to all who served.

*The year before he passed, my older brother and I found dad's original design, replete with the fire. I remember my brother and I giving each other that TF? look when dad explained it.

"She was incapacitated."

Mitch McConnell on line #1.

Or, he would be, if he was capable of making a phone call.

Stupid on its face.

" And how will persecuting Hegseth release the Epstein files"

Blanch might see the writing on the wall and release the Trump-Epstein Files.

FFS, that was a looooong 15 minutes.

" early voting dumps'"

IOW, reporting the numerical results of early voting is suspect.

But ONLY in places Trump lost, of course.

" The physical numbers in Congress may be "five or six" and they are "relegated to that group in the corner over there," but their progressive ideas swept the US on Tuesday"

That's got to be the dumbest analysis I've ever read. Swept???

So ... 5-6 will hold sway in a 60-seat majority?!? Do you know ANYTHING about Congressional politics and how Washington works???

Their power will be shown by the worthless committees they'll populate.

" How do smaller states have more power Proportionally they get less ec votes"

California residents get one Senator per 20 million residents. Wyoming residents get one Senator per 300 thousand residents.

Also, in a close election, a state like Nebraska might sway the outcome due to the EC. But with a National Majority, there are Counties that would be more valuable to the candidate than Nebraska. And if the result was actually close ... God help us, there'd be a lawsuit in every voting precinct in America.

So a half dozen posts, and you still can't answer the two most basic questions.

You're a poseur. Enjoy Plonksville, WOB.

"How's a voter in Delaware or Wyoming gonna get alienated when the popular vote wins the White House?"

Candidates can harvest more voters elsewhere. It's easier to increase turnout in CA than claim a larger percentage of DE or WY. In that case, why would candidates cater to any of the least populous states?

In fact, it'll become more lucrative to LOSE in CA than WIN in WY and DE.

Swing states will cease being swing states. And, as I referenced, a close election could trigger lawsuits in any-and-every precinct in America.

"If the Chargers win, I hope they know how to act about."

They'll flood the field, and tear down the goalposts!

"a state when it ruled against marriage equality."

The fact you keep calling it equality proves you don't understand the issues involved. The second, third and fourth wives get NONE of the rights and protections; not from the federal government, and not from the state. They CAN be forced to testify against their "husband". They don't have unlimited gifting rights. They don't have first refusal of an industrial pension. Etc, etc, etc.

Utah couldn't rule on "marriage equality" because no law has been passed creating polygamy. All the case did was uphold the fact the law only recognizes the first wife.

And pointed out the others can co-habitate as they choose.

"You do raise legitimate questions about how plural marriage would affect survivor benefits and competing spousal claims. That is something that would need to be worked out"

14,000 advantages would have to be worked out. And the multiples of permutations and possibilities. Get on it...if you're really serious. You realize, I hope, you have to have the laws IN PLACE by the time it's made legal.

And I'll support any good, fair plan you've got.

"quoting an ultra-conservative state when it ruled against marriage equality"

There was no equality to be found.

Law recognizes the first wife as legitimate, everywhere. No state recognizes multiple marriage. Utah merely found no grounds to forbid cohabitation.

Let me boil this down: There is no way to grant superseding rights to multiple people, BY DEFINITION.

"you've demonstrated you're not arguing in good faith"

I asked two direct questions, which go directly to the heart of the matter. Easy questions, despite the fact we still have 13,998 more to go.

Again, I'm not against polygamy. I'm against idiots who pretend they're for it without addressing the needed tenets.

We're going to continue to commit voter fraud until you ADMIT voter fraud exists.
~Today's MAGA

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This might be a good time to remind folks: according to the Heritage Foundation's Election Fraud website, the most common reason given for voter fraud, when one is given, is I was convinced the other side was doing it.

IOW, the folks who lie about ballot efficacy deserve a lion's share of the blame.

"So, when is shrimptacodan gonna come along and explain all of this happening in his beloved BLUE Texas"

Right after he apologizes for lying about Tallarico going to a mental health center.

I have my calendar marked for the 12th...of Never.

" Trump doesn't need a monument. He barely needs a tombstone."

Then how would we piss on his grave?