Donald Trump had a full-blown meltdown
How many more meltdowns before he becomes an angry puddle of orange faeces?
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Imagine the rioting from the GOP if Obama had worn a tan suit for that speech...
A new poll shows 56% of Floridians plan to vote for Amendment 4, but unless the measure to enshrine a right to abortion in the state Constitution wins 60% of the vote in November, the state will continue to live under a six-week ban.
It's kind of already happened. Three hundred and fifty-odd free evaluations!
I wish we had that level of care. /s
Diesel burns slowly, though petrol makes diesel easier to ignite.
We mix them 3:1 Diesel/Petrol (called 'driptorch' fuel, used in 'driptorches') to safely put fire to the ground when we need to.
Source: am firefighter.
Yes, but only for one term. He is eligible again after sitting out for one term, unless of course they manage to change their Constitution.
Or remaining seated whilst the judge leaves the court.
Problem lies in the 'first-past-the-post', aka 'winner-takes-all' system. There are others, like the electoral college, but I digress.
Third party candidates only ever bleed votes from another in FPTP. Assuming RFK is going after Democratic/'swing' voters he'll potentially end up costing the Democrats votes in key states which, at the margins we're currently seeing, would potentially allow Republicans to win, holding slightly more votes to be 'first-past-the-post' at the end of ballot counting even though a majority of people would've preferred a Democrat representative anyway.
Under the FPTP system, voting for RFK as a protest vote, at his 10% margin, becomes a wasted vote because of how FPTP works.
The only true way to fix this is 'single transferrable vote', or 'ranked choice' voting. Voters simply rank their preference from most desired (1) to least desired (n) on a single ballot.
If the first round of counting doesn't yield a winner (usually 50% of ballots + 1 ballot in a candidate's pile), the candidate with the least amount of ballots is eliminated. Ballots are then redistributed from the eliminated candidate, according to the voters next preference on their ballot, amongst those candidates who remain.
Process continues until a candidate has 50% of ballots + 1 ballot in their pile.
The best version of this is 'full' preferential voting (every candidate must be numbered), rather than 'optional' (number at least one candidate; better versions of this are 'number at least n candidates'). Optional preferential votes 'exhaust', potentially becoming wasted, if the voter didn't number all the boxes.
This will allow people to protest vote, without actually wasting their vote.
One better:
Donald J Trump's Orange County Jail.
I was horrified when I first heard about this, though it actually seems to be a good strategy, if risky and ballsy:
Prop up an opposing candidate in the primary, who you project (the risky part) will poll worse against you in the general election.
It seems to be working...
https://youtu.be/K-UG88yoF0M?si=waPJ6WO29tQo2uJb
Given that Democrats this time around are out-fundraising the Republicans, it could be a really smart strategy.
https://democrats.org/news/rnc-statement-on-the-rncs-desperate-financial-situation/
I was skeptical at first though let me tell you, Kagi is so much better. I get exact search terms, which is immensely useful as a programmer, rather than providing results for what Google thinks I want to search for. It's also really, really nice not seeing ads as search results anymore, ad blocker or no ad blocker.
Is it as comprehensive as Google search? It meets about 95-96% of my needs. I still use Google very infrequently for some really obscure domain specific searches if Kagi doesn't find anything useful, though that's getting rarer and rarer.
It's also easy to block AI generated sites that pop up providing just enough likeness, but really are regurgitated AI trash, or are 'Wikipedia clones'.
I have no financial interest in Kagi, other than paying to use it. It has certainly been worth it for me.
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The other important thing to consider: polls are a snapshot in time.
They are not a predictor. The only poll that matters is election day.