Clearly you mean escalate.

You don’t have to be a citizen to get a license in a lot of places. I actually don’t know of any that do but clearly I’m not fully informed.

In which case she obviously didn’t do enough to reach out to conservatives, because every single swing state went red.

I’ll be watching how this bold strategy plays out in Gaza.

Oh, this is a shocking turn of events.

To clarify, this is not a new quote. However, this is the new Ambassador to Israel, I’m given to understand.

Yeah, I’m starting to think there was never an opportunity to win. I’m thinking it came down to punishing the administration for the economy and none of the other arguments mattered at all.

Good news is, at least they’re safe from abortion. They have to wait until after they are born to punish them for existing.

If I had a real answer to that, I’d be a lot less confused by the election. I mean it most likely comes down to, as it always has, “it’s the economy, stupid.”

If I had to take a guess, all of these massive disagreements online about Gaza and immigration and regulation, to say nothing of Trumps general… terribleness all around… even abortion—it seems to me that all of these issues amount to a few 1/10ths of a percent.

I guess if the economy is good, we keep the administration. If it’s bad, we toss it. And that seems, from my perspective, to be the only thing that matters at all to the electorate. It seems crazy to me that no one is looking into the future to see what is coming.

Anyone who truly cared about the future economy would run screaming from tariffs, so I guess it’s just really about punishing a bad economy, no matter what.

I wish there was another explanation that presented itself. Something to help me understand that didn’t mean the country is a bunch of idiots. But I’ve got nothing.

So there is a colloquial definition of fruit/veg and a scientific definition. You have a point here, but have there been any court cases that hinged on these laws? And did they hinge in a way that the scientific definition was paramount?

So many people wanting to argue that Republicans don’t care about science, but I don’t disagree with that. I know they don’t. But eventually there are going to be court cases that adjudicate whether a person is legally a man or a woman, and I’m just really curious what the outcome of those cases will be when the law flies in the face of fact.

Did you ever read about the time someone tried to legislate that the value of pi is 3.2? It was saved by the Indiana Senate not falling for that bullshit. Unfortunately, there will be no last-minute rescue in this case. I know it’s going to be a clusterfuck. But I also wonder how judges are going to react to people who legitimately do not match the definition of male or female.

This attempt to discriminate against trans-folk will inevitably bump up against ambiguity which a simple binary construct cannot address.

I did. I understand that there is intellectual criticism of neo-liberalism. I don’t even necessarily disagree with that criticism. I just don’t see any evidence that the vast majority of people actually care.

I just don’t think that’s why. That said, I’ll acknowledge that maybe you’re right and I’m wrong.

Eight years ago I bought all this bullshit. “Maybe it was all just election bullshit and he’s going to turn out to be Presidential.”

No. He’s going to grift and he is going to suck the knobs of dictators while giving exactly zero shits about any agenda, other than to promote the agendas of people who fellatiate him.

It’s a lovely little town. You’d never know driving through. I even used to work there briefly, never saw a single hint of racism. They have a pretty good Thai restaurant.

Of course, I also never saw a single black person there. I briefly contemplated moving there and then just quietly voting against all their bullshit, but I don’t really want to be that close to folks like that. Certainly don’t want my kids around it.

It looks like much of the Western Hemisphere has jus soli. A quick search says:

• Colombia
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Ecuador
• Paraguay
• Canada
• Mexico
• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Uruguay

What I can’t say is whether, with the exception of Canada and the U.S., that has any impact on the immigration of those countries. I will cop to ignorance, but many of those countries don’t seem like they would be a big step up in the world for most people.

I have a friend from Brazil. I don’t think he’d recommend being from Brazil. He moved to Portugal.

I know basically nothing about any of those countries other than having vacationed in Mexico twice. I haven’t seen anyone say they are fed up with the U.S. and moving to Paraguay.

I don’t, but when you get to a courtroom, where there are standards of evidence, a judge is going to have to make interpretations that don’t match up with the law.

Hell what happens when there is a typo on a birth certificate? If I’m assigned female at birth and am not genetically nor biologically female, what then? I just have to wait five times as long in bathroom lines? Does the government get to track my menstruation?

All of Trumpists’ dreams of simplicity are defeated by asking just the most obvious questions. Imagine if I were smart enough to ask good questions.

Trump was almost certainly never going to prison. Now it is completely certain.

If a cop rolled up on you, could you prove right then and there you are a citizen? Unless you habitually carry your passport or birth certificate or immigration papers, almost certainly not.

Are you going to have any way to prove it while you are in a holding facility with no access to a lawyer or at best a public defender who has heard the same story 80 times today?

This certainly wouldn’t be the first time an American Citizen got deported.

Pedro Guzman

Mark Daniel Lyttle

Trump’s policy agenda includes a Congressional bill to define government-recognized genders strictly as male and female, as assigned at birth.

I have to wonder what is going to happen when the law runs headlong into science here. Because sure, this might primarily affect trans-folk, but they aren’t the only ones who defy strict binary gender.

I do appreciate the effort to source your argument. That is an opinion piece by someone who already had a strong opinion about US Israeli policy. I get people cared. I certainly get that Arabs cared. But it’s going to take some time, if we ever know, why things turned out this way.

One thing seems certain even in that article: unless there is a hotbed of Gaza sympathy in rural Pennsylvania, Gaza didn’t swing the election.

There is an issue in that Democrats don’t want to undermine faith in the government. That is the Republican position and to say the government is corrupt to the point of non functioning is to play into right wing talking points.

So it’s a very fine line to reform it without making people lose faith.

I can’t find sentiment analysis to say how important Gaza was to voters in the election, but I strongly believe of the things that people cared about, Gaza was only significant for Arab Americans.

Plus a convention to pick a candidate would’ve only divided everyone just before the election. No better-loved candidate was going to come out of that. Only compromise that left everyone unhappy. Or most likely still Harris but with less enthusiastic support.

It’s all well and good to say people are unhappy about injustice, we are. But is anyone going to vote change their vote any the economy or domestic policy over it? Fleetingly few.

I did find an article of someone looking forward to saying told you so if Trump wins. Well, good job. They can say told you so. I’ll keep their smugness in mind when Netanyahu escalates. I’ll remind myself, this is what Arab voters wanted above all else.

Neoliberalism is often associated with a set of economic liberalization policies, including privatization, deregulation, consumer choice, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending. These policies are designed to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society.

These things? Your position is the American people rejected her over these things? In favor of Trump?

Look, I don’t know what happened this election, but I don’t see anything here I think the American people would object to. Maybe globalization.