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OK, I’ve got to admit, this is a funny choice of a photo to run with the headline.
As for the substance: Good riddance. We’re better off without him. Sadly, I know he’ll just be replaced by a yes-man, but one thing at a time, right?
source: https://www.latimes.com/
“Not loyal.” Two years in and he still doesn’t understand (or more likely, doesn’t care) that officials owe their loyalty *to the country*, not to him personally.
You get in the car to go buy groceries. Halfway down the driveway, your roommate pulls in and blocks you. They won’t let you out until you agree to help them slash someone’s tires.
Who’s to blame for holding up the grocery run?
“Sorry, I won’t allow a vote on this critically important bill even though it’ll probably pass, because the President will just veto it.”
Then let him veto it.
Make him *work* for it.
And let the blame fall squarely on *his* shoulders.
…and here we are, the day before the election, and we’ve been getting around 4 or 5 flyers daily for the past week and a half. (Yeah, just a few days after I remarked about the lack of cardboard campaign ads.)
Mostly for the one state office I mentioned, but now several of the ballot propositions and, interestingly enough, the state secretary of education.
Normally by this point in an election cycle we’re inundated with mailings for every major candidate, several recommended slates from various groups, and half the ballot propositions.
This time? A bunch of mailings from *one* state legislator.
And nothing else.
We’re both still registered, and we got the voter guide & both sample ballots.
Maybe they figure anyone voting in the midterm has already made up their minds? Or they’re focusing online or on TV?
darjeelingandcoke:
The massive downside to meaningful action on climate change is that if global warming is false were left with a clean environment and a sustainable economic model. What a bummer
