Yes pedants, the chances were higher than 1-in-40,000 because not every seat is in fair territory. On the other hand he doesn't hit a home run every game.
I remember when they struck down the VRA, and in effect the enforcement clause of the 15th Amendment, based on what they called “equal sovereignty doctrine.”
What about Reconstruction? Enforcement of the Reconstruction amendments in the territories formerly in rebellion (and frankly still in soft rebellion) was a righteous and legitimate cause, unlike terrifying random Chicagoans for no reason, but doesn’t it fit the definition.
this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen
It's frustrating to seemingly almost solvedthe technology problem of getting sufficient quantities of sufficiently-affordable electricity without further cooking the planet, just in time to ruin it by elect a senile dolt driven by a personal grudge against windmills near his golf course.
He said the same things in 2016/17 and then mostly didn’t dismantle the republic (until after the 2020 election at least). People expected a reply of Trump 1.0, shambolic and bad but not country ending.
Miller and Vance are fascists, as is Trump to the extent he is still sentient. They want to establish a fascist regime, but have not yet fully succeeded.
Didn’t see the game because I’m traveling, but it seems like @mgoblog.bsky.social’s prediction of ”stays close for a while but Michigan eventually sits in them” was spot on? Also what happened to ZVADA?