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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1h
VA + PA + WI + MI + NV or AZ is one path. Trifectas in all those states are possible.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1h
Insofar as he cannot run for President again, it is irrelevant. (But still not immutable in this time frame. A fairly likely outcome in 2026 state elections, plus what’s about to happen in Virginia makes the activation of the NPVIC a distinct possibility.)
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1h
I don’t think anyone in this chain said that’s a strategy. There’s nothing wrong in recognizing that it is fundamentally anti democratic, corrosive to society and also not immutable.
radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2h
Win the game as it is structured, because that's your only option. "I wish the Electoral College didn't exist" isn't a strategy.
jaaaaaaake.bsky.social Jake 🏳️‍🌈 @jaaaaaaake.bsky.social · 2h
The fact it doesn’t matter is the problem thank you for coming to my ted talk etc etc 🫡
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1h
I don’t think anyone in this chain said that’s a strategy. There’s nothing wrong in recognizing that it is fundamentally anti democratic, corrosive to society and also not immutable.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 2h
Also not a lot of Republicans that can either. It’s really not much of a factor in winning elections anymore.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3h
It’s not even all that tacky. It’s just rather dull, generically posh like a cookie-cutter 5* hotel in a secondary city and is architecturally insensitive.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3h
Trump’s “target audience” is not a monolith, but presuming he is referring to Appalachianesque rednecks, the have never seen statuary marble in their life, they don’t think any government building should be grand or nice, and what they imagine an expensive bathroom to be is WAY tackier.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3h
It’s both a bad take and also relies on the tiresome Western European trope that the U.S., having severed its ties to the Mother Continent, is forever doomed to be a child-nation whose culture shall always be quaintly primitive.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 18h
All they had to do was copy the older sign…
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 21h
Perhaps they’re just avoiding HIM?
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1d
To be paid in Trump Coin, perhaps?
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1d
The U.S. has an executive veto and a bicameral legislature. Every two years the electorate has the opportunity to deprive one party of the power to legislate unilaterally. On the rare occasions they give one party all the power, they deserve to experience the fruits thereof.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1d
Whereas as I think mechanisms that protect the majority from their worst instincts and insulate them from the attendant electoral effects are bad.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1d
Whoever wrote this is too dumb to realize that the filibuster, by protecting Republicans from actually passing their most damaging policies, is the only reason they’ve been able to win elections at all for the past 20 years.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1d
Wait, you actually think the filibuster is a good thing?
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 1d
Funny, I always saw the Dunedain’s sin as pride.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 2d
Do you ever add authentic rust to the paint scheme?
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 2d
What makes you think they won’t simply ignore it?
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 2d
Open air testing in a swing state. This is a brilliant plan they should totally do this.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3d
Right, but in the U.S., employers are required to withhold taxes and remit them to the IRS. There’s no way to know the total you owe until the tax year is over.

30% of the U.S. population is not required to file a tax return, because their income is below the threshold.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3d
Are there developed countries without progressive taxation, credits, deductions, etc and your income tax is purely a percentage of your actual paycheck?
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3d
How is this different?
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3d
The entire notion of elected law enforcement officials is…disturbing.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3d
Because it’s the “American” family with the meth Iab and pit bulls.
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Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social · 3d
He also should never have a position of power over subordinates again.
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