He could have just made incense too, of course. But He did this instead. Because He’s a dick

Just like buying real diamonds, the smell of burning flesh just isn’t the same without the knowledge that it’s the result of unimaginable suffering.

Okay, and what’s the other side doing about it?

*crickets*

IMO, a California politician would face an uphill battle in the general anyway.

Republicans have spent so long demonizing California as a place full of communists and corruption that any politician associated with California is going to be viewed with intense suspicion by the (unfortunately all-important) flyover states.

Now, to be clear, fuck those ignorant assholes. But we do kind of need their votes, regardless. And it would be a mistake to run a candidate in the general election who has this disadvantage in swaying them.

if most of a governments tax income came from a few hundred individuals they’d have enormous power

But, currently, those people already have enormous power … and we’re not even getting any money out of the deal.

• Gerrymandering

• Fake electors

• Being suspiciously cozy with the business owners of voting machine companies

• Voter intimidation by posting ICE/CBP at polls

• Voter intimidation by stochastic terrorism using their most rabid followers

• Closing polling places in liberal areas to cause longer lines at the few remaining locations

• New voter ID laws, including that one that could disenfranchise anyone who has ever changed their name (especially married women and trans people)

• Trying to make voting by mail illegal

• Trying to invalidate mail-in votes by any means possible

• Calling election officials and asking them to “”“find”“” just enough votes to change the outcome

• Trying to cancel the election entirely due to some “emergency” bullshit (despite the US never having canceled a single election in its entire history, including during the Civil War)

• Chanting to stop the count when they’re ahead, and chanting to keep counting when they’re behind

• Filing dozens of (failed) court cases in attempts to overturn election results

…to name a few.

Maybe I was being hyperbolic with “30”. Maybe. We’re at 14 now. I bet if you dig deep enough, you can find at least 30 ways the GOP is trying to rig elections.

Changing voting laws is absolutely how the GOP is trying to rig elections.

Changing laws is, like 1 of 30 different ways the GOP is trying to rig elections.

Yep. As soon as she conceded, it legally doesn’t matter if the Trump campaign cheated. When she conceded the election, that locked in the result, regardless of what might come to light later.

My pet theory is that Dems don’t want election rigging to come to light … because then people might start looking at the primaries as well.

Wasn’t that … always allowed?

would allow private citizens and organizations to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages without facing punishment.

What punishment did they face previously for not ‘recognizing’ a marriage?