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Trump is up but Biden gets the win? Dems going to try to steal this I think.
Nah, it's the same in Illinois. Trump has 83% of the votes thus far counted, but only the small counties with small populations have reported a count. Thus, it's safe to call IL for Biden, because, really, once Cook and DuPage County report it, that's how it's going to be.
So have we decided what our resist movement name will be if Biden wins?
I'd go with something dramatic, like "A paucity of badgers."
Also thinking about what the President's reaction will be if the final count were something like the count at present, with him taking a small majority of the popular vote, but losing the electoral vote by a substantial margin.
Didn't something very much like that happen four years ago?
Regardless of whatever else happens today, this is one outcome which I really was not expecting, and am quite happy about:
Like, I'd have bet on 10:1 odds that this ballot measure to amend the state constitution and hand the legislature unlimited power to adjust personal income taxes in a disproportionate way would have passed by a landslide. It's reassuring to see that sanity does apparently exist.
I can't get over how bizarre it is that Illinois, of all places, is producing such an anti "**** productive people and tax them to death" outcome. Kinda makes me like this place a little bit.
Also, I need to go to sleep. Left the TV station at about 3:10am, after we'd finally concluded the last live broadcast.
Fattys are what makes me dislike universal health care. Tobacco is taxed and regulated to the moon but 8yr Olds can by all the liquid diabetes they want.
My brother-in-law was convicted of income tax evasion (hint hint), and had also been arrested for drug smuggling (off by technicality). This is all in public record. He worked with DEA undercover as well before being arrested by the Secret Service. His take was that Federal drug enforcement was corrupt, a racket, and lived on perpetuating the trade. His take was that anti-drug laws should be repealed.
He viewed addiction as a weakness. Problem is: self control is now passé.
I think this will be an interesting experiment.
However, the fact that the distribution is still illegal will simply put the most entrepreneurial in prison, and will still not eliminate the organized criminal involvement.
My brother-in-law was convicted of income tax evasion (hint hint), and had also been arrested for drug smuggling (off by technicality). This is all in public record. He worked with DEA undercover as well before being arrested by the Secret Service. His take was that Federal drug enforcement was corrupt, a racket, and lived on perpetuating the trade. His take was that anti-drug laws should be repealed.
He viewed addiction as a weakness. Problem is: self control is now passé.
I think this will be an interesting experiment.
However, the fact that the distribution is still illegal will simply put the most entrepreneurial in prison, and will still not eliminate the organized criminal involvement.
Hasn't it always been? (example: all of human history.)
I suppose it has always been viewed as a virtue, which by definition, is not ubiquitous. However, it has been practiced by a larger percentage of the adult populace formerly than it is now.
Like, for instance: Looting that the drop of a hat seems a bit more common lately than in years past.
I suppose it has always been viewed as a virtue, which by definition, is not ubiquitous. However, it has been practiced by a larger percentage of the adult populace formerly than it is now.
I'm honestly not sure that I agree with the assessment that self-restraint was more commonly practiced by the average person in the past. This holds true regardless of whether you focus only on the early history of the US, or on western civilization as a whole.
Lions eating christians, the social decay leading to the decline of the Roman empire, the Crusades and Inquisitions, witch trials, McCarthyism... Human history contains numerous examples of people being violently uncivil.
On a more serious note, this is a map which shows what we really ought to be concerned with:
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