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That will be an unpleasant surprise for Elon Musk! 😉

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It looks like a clean sweep, the Presidency, the Senate and the House. With this huge advantage, Trump should have the power to reshape the US and the world. The real challenge will be Trump's own obsessions and erratic behavior. Does he have the self-discipline to govern effectively or will he throw away the electoral advantage that he has gained? There is an old curse that goes: "may you live in interesting times". I suspect that the next four years will be very interesting times.

I'll see your tiny spinning teapot and raise you a flying spaghetti monster!

So, what is the statute of limitations for this kind of crime? 6 years and 11 months?

Drowning is not as obvious as you would think, especially in a crowded pool. I have taught quite a few people to swim and have had to rescue a few who were in trouble. I only realized that they were in trouble because I knew that they were weak swimmers and was keeping an eye on them.

This will probably turn into another Rama II fiasco. They will milk the budget for years and never actually finish working. They are currently in the - planning/getting backhanders/acquiring the land before selling it back to the project at an inflated price - stage. This will be followed by the neverending construction phase.

I feel safer already... 😐

Bezos is far from liberal. He is the modern version of a 19th century robber baron! If he could call out the National Guard to put down labor organizers he would.

"Thailand to upgrade the railway system" - This should have been a headline in 1960! They are doing this decades too late.

Interesting that the article just mentions her Tweets. A quick Google showed that she was also being investigated for being in contact with an ISIS Jihadi woman! It's actually disturbing that she was even hired as a police officer.

I didn't read the first 15 pages of petty bickering in this thread, so here are my thoughts as to why 45 or 46% of the US population will vote for Trump. First let me show you a graph: The Gini coefficient shows the level of economic inequality in a society, it is closely related to the amount of poverty. During the 1930s (the great depression) the Gini coefficient was quite high. From 1945 to about 1980, the Gini coefficient was under .38. Since then it has been over 40 and is only rising. Many Trump voters are older and remember the good old days, which I would refer to as the "US Golden Age", from 1945 to about 1980 or even 1990, when life was much more affordable for almost everyone. Now the US has become a much more economically stratified society and the people who remember this "US Golden Age" are tempted to vote for Trump, falsely believing that he will return them to the idyllic age of the mid-twentieth century. The sad truth is that the US Golden Age didn't end because of dark-skinned immigrants, or woke LGTQ... people, or the end of predominant Christianity, it ended because the the unbridled greed of the top 1% and a complicit congress that aided them in the endless pursuit of wealth. Trump is one of the 1% and his tax breaks only made matters worse. He may win the culture wars, but his followers will end up betrayed and broke. To be honest, I don't think that Harris is much better, but after voting for Bernie a few times, I don't really see much hope for the future of the US regardless of who wins.

Trump's inauguration in January, 2017 was uneventful - aside from disputes about the crowd size. The antifa riots didn't begin until the "Unite the Right Rally" the following August. I suspect that the 2025 Inauguration will be met with fairly quiet dread and disbelief.

In 2016 Hillary won the popular vote by 48% to Trump's 46%. However, the US is not a democracy, so Trump won with 304 Electoral votes to Hillary's 234. I strongly suspect that the numbers will be similar this time, though the popular vote may be even more lopsided. A reform of the electoral system in the US is long overdue!

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The US and UK have been doing something like that for years. It never works out the way they think it will.

And he was like this for 3 or 4 days without anyone noticing! 🫢

I am going to repeat the prediction I made several months ago: Harris will win the popular vote but Trump will win the Electoral College vote. Actually I said Biden originally, but the same holds true for Harris. This is not that unlikely a prediction, the Republicans have only won the popular vote once (in 2004) since 1988. The Electoral College was created as a compromise between the earliest states, so that they could reach an agreement about slavery, among other issues. We have abolished slavery, perhaps it is time to abolish the Electoral College!

Do you recall Sister Erlinda?

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