>elections produce unworkably divided legislature
>ppl think you're a loser
>fascists win meaningless EU election
>ppl freak out
>call new elections
>fascists do worse than expected
>new legislature just as unworkable but ppl are happy that fascists lost
behold the power of the jupiterian mind
The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition.
This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc.
If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.
in the don henley song "a month of sundays," he sings "went into town on the fourth of july/ watched them parade past the union jack". this implies that the song's narrative takes place in an alternate history where the american revolution failed
please watch this week's Um, Actually! the good people at Dropout TV took a beautiful dream I had for a minigame and brought it to life with this incredible poster
as a politics knower I think the democrats should simply do the thing that makes it easiest to win, but also aligns with both all my prior posts and all my most panicked recent posts. this is very simple and obvious.
The Pluggerbeast's Thyrox is blue because he is a dog and that's what Chewy dot com sent him. It's ten Pluggerbucks cheaper than from his vet and probably legitimately sourced.
the UK is about the same size and has 650 MPs! i think the US house should be bigger but i also think a lot of the madness of UK politics comes from the fact that a UK MP represents a smaller electorate than a member of the city council of tucson arizona
very funny that France has 577 reps while the USA, at about 5x the population, has 435. because any house reps more wouldn't fit in the building. no you can't make the building bigger and no you can't just meet in a bigger building.
wish american politics were less bleak right now so we could have more fun talking about how the french legislature has one of the most insane election processes every devised
Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces
putting the "yea" lever under a box propped up by a stick, with a sign that says "coal subsidies." in this scenario you have to imagine the Senate votes by pulling levers
I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
Hi & Lois having another strip about golf: Stop this, no one but cartoonist care about golf!
Hi & Lois having a strip where they are having a mental breakdown and need to be hold: Stop this, I don’t want this to be relatable!
