John Bingham

Holscher up by 1 Please let her defeat Masterson 🙏

One of the most deranged sections of internet discourse I occasionally run into are the people who have intense debate over whether men and women can be friends. Just be normal! Very easy to be friends if you follow that simple rule.

I continue thinking one version of the Bad Future (20 years or so from now) is Democratic lead states eventually endorsing a form of quasi-nullification to get around an aggressive, sectarian, far-right, and ineffecitve Federal government trying to force its will on them.

Eventually, I do think populated coastal regions are going to resent their tax dollars being sent to hinterlands which hold them back from more progressive policy efforts and world integration .

Bush '08 numbers speedrun Hope he gets down to 29% in November so we can see what the bottom falling out looks like

Lowkey if they face a total blowout (Dems gain 10+ in the Senate and 50+ in the House) then I could honestly see there being 10 R votes in the Senate for conviction if he’s impeached

I do find it funny whenever a tech oligarch is like "yeah we're just going to destroy the white collar middle class in this country" and doesn't stop for two seconds to think about The Implications of such a revolution

Bad for me as a graduate looking for a job, but at least November 3 will be cathartic as fuck Hope the GOP does not take office at the national level again until I’m in my 40s

Yeah this is why I think the risk of a cool zone moment post-election are increasingly. They’re in a deeply radicalized ideological bubble that does not believe legitimate liberals/leftists exist. Some of these guys seem eager for an American Tlatelolco to occur.

They increasingly see raw violence and force as the way out of this, but they are rapidly creating more and more stalwart opponents of their government through this.

I enjoy living in one of the only places in Kansas with large hills which makes driving in my sedan during snowy conditions very fun (lol lmao lol).

“Military conquest has been the Law of Nations since the dawn of time and how we should conduct ourselves. It ended so well after WWII.”

I do think one possible, but also very bad, outcome of this is a legitimate quasi-breakdown of the Union over the course of 25-50 years or so that sees state’s exert greater levels of authority as the Federal government becomes increasingly unstable

Trump has the unique ability to engineer incredible backlash by the sheer force of just asshole governance And this time around it’s 100% more intense, cruel, and unhinged

We’re like 2-4 bad decisions away from discovering if “Presidential Breakdown” in the US is possible and I’m not looking forward to that.

I beat this dead horse a lot, but I am quite worried about what public education is going to look like in Red States in 20 years plus the knock on effects of their systems decaying. Will there be quite meaningful quality of life differences between Blue and Red states in the coming decades?

Strong enough Dem majorities in Congress from 2029-2035 could help alleviate this problem. One outcome of the Trump years is perhaps a form of regional divergence in governance, social assistance, and civil rights as the Federal Government grows weaker

I do not think there is an Administration in modern history that misunderstood why they were elected or their own coalition more than this one. We're at Bush '07 numbers and the bottom hasn't even fallen out yet!