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Senatorial Collaborators Whose Term of Service Expires in 2027

Added on by C. Maoxian.

All of these Senators have aided the enemy (Caligula?) in the destruction of our Republic; it is imperative that they are voted out of office in the midterm elections:

  1. Capito, Shelley Moore (WV)

  2. Cassidy, Bill (LA)

  3. Collins, Susan M. (ME) — Janet Mills alternative

  4. Cornyn, John (TX)

  5. Cotton, Tom (AR)

  6. Daines, Steve (MT)

  7. Ernst, Joni (IA) — retiring, seat open

  8. Graham, Lindsey (SC)

  9. Hagerty, Bill (TN)

  10. Hyde-Smith, Cindy (MS)

  11. Lummis, Cynthia M. (WY) — retiring, seat open

  12. Marshall, Roger (KS)

  13. McConnell, Mitch (KY) — retiring, seat open

  14. Mullin, Markwayne (OK)

  15. Ricketts, Pete (NE)

  16. Risch, James E. (ID)

  17. Rounds, Mike (SD)

  18. Sullivan, Dan (AK) — Mary Peltola alternative

  19. Tillis, Thom (NC) — retiring, seat open

  20. Tuberville, Tommy (AL) — retiring, seat open

The Rise of Fascism in America, Part I

Added on by C. Maoxian.

The system of checks and balances among the branches of the US government has recently broken down. First we’ll look at how the Supreme Court has been imbalanced over time:

  1. Associate Justice, Clarence Thomas, born 1948, Catholic, George H.W. Bush nominated, seated 1991

  2. Chief Justice, John G. Roberts, Jr., born 1955, Catholic, George W. Bush nominated, seated 2005

  3. Associate Justice, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., born 1950, Catholic, George W. Bush nominated, seated 2006

  4. Associate Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, born 1954, Catholic, Barack Obama nominated, seated 2009

  5. Associate Justice, Elena Kagan, born 1960, Jewish, Barack Obama nominated, seated 2010

  6. Associate Justice, Neil M. Gorsuch, born 1967, Catholic, Donald Trump nominated, seated 2017

  7. Associate Justice, Brett M. Kavanaugh, born 1965, Catholic, Donald Trump nominated, seated 2018

  8. Associate Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, born 1972, Catholic, Donald Trump nominated, seated 2020

  9. Associate Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, born 1970, Protestant, Joseph Biden nominated, seated 2022

Which Party Will Win the Electoral College in 2020?

Added on by C. Maoxian.

I took a look at PredictIt’s Electoral College map (below) and put the numbers into a spreadsheet.

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The election will be decided by a handful of swing states. Assuming the incumbent wins all the swing states which are tilting his way (Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, etc.), he only needs to win Pennsylvania and some combination of either Arizona or Michigan or Wisconsin to be re-elected, which seems to be a pretty low bar. Of course in 2016 he won all four of those states, which was no surprise to me. This election is a harder call than the last one, but I think the incumbent has a very good chance to win.

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A Collection of I Told Ya So's

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510 Ways To Win

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This tweet amused me:

People (and by people, I mean the coastal elites) are fooling themselves into thinking that The Donald will not win key swing states like Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Not only will he win all three of them, he'll do so decisively. Use this handy-dandy tool to see how easily he'll win the general election in November. 

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