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Look, the Founders were brilliant enough to provide a solution to this. If you don’t like it propose a Constitutional Amendment what will require a majority of the less populated states to vote to give up their own outsized power oh wait I see shit.
It is fascinating to see how people felt very free to aggressively fuck around with the fundamentals of the US government for the first 120 years or so, but after WW II we’ve been in this frozen “It’s perfect! We got it right! Adjust the margins and no more!”
The characterization of America as the surprising underdog quarterback who improbably to the team to State (won WW II), and has been getting fatter, slower, more nostalgic and less tolerant of change ever since only gets stronger every year.
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WRITER: Create original idea, find financial backers who see its marketplace potential, prototype for $5-10 million, focus test, if it proceeds it becomes a $4-10 million dollar/week business, and if it fails to be a hit in nine weeks its dead forever.

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Working backwards through the news gives you this odd sense of "well there couldn't be MORE today" but what the FUCK Georgia and Ohio?

Well, so much for working in those two Gileads.
Also, there are parts in both these laws which indicate a complete ignorance of how ladyparts work.

Or is that baked in the cake: a deep ignorance of female biology is what's required to justify/write these laws?
There are parts of this country gone completely mad, and I don't know how we come back from it. But this is certainly as shit straining my humanist sense of religious tolerance.
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This is the most Jean Chretien thing is ever.
Except for the time he strangled a dude.
Or he and his wife fended off an intruder in the PM residence with aboriginal art.

Damn, JC was a trip, in retrospect.
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