As for politics, today is election day in the U.S., I did not expect the report that Adam Gorightly won. Adam says, "No time for celebrating right now. I need to get busy punishing my enemies!" Adam hasn't invited me yet to join his cabinet, but there's still time.
My own views are closest to Michael Huemer's and to Scott Sumner's. They are libertarians; if you are interested, you can read a left point of view from Freddie DeBoer, who says the U.S. is "a country with two right-wing parties." I assume that everyone else in the Solar System has heard from Harris or Trump fans by now. If anyone is curious, I voted for Harris while holding my nose and gave money to Chase Oliver, the Libertarian. My reasoning was pretty close to Huemer's and Sumner's.
I put together a list on X.com to help me follow what's going on tonight during the election; it's an ideologically diverse group of accounts mainly meant to give me an idea how things are going. While I put it together for myself, it's public so everyone else can access it if they find it useful.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that marijuana legalization is on the ballot in three states; Jacob Sullum has the details at Reason. Note that Florida requires a 60 percent majority to amend its constitution, so weed legalization could well get a majority of "Yes" votes and still fail.
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I look forward to Kamala Harris's victory.
Any one of us could count all the ways this democracy in the US has fallen short compared to what we think it "ought" to be, given our values.
That said, I've gotten a very strong feeling that precious few of our fellow citizens have an articulate-able sense of how damned difficult it was to maintain this, quite flawed but better-than-its-alternatives system. Can it be made better? I think: YES.
Will it be?...(crickets...a tumbleweed rolls down Main Street)...yes? Maybe? Gawd and Goddess I hope so.
For these reasons, I voted for Harris and hope she wins. Because the Other choice has always seemed unfathomable to me. I know who TFG is. (F does not stand for "Former" here.)
There is no governor anywhere.
Now, that being said...remember that bit about RAW & friends flushing the toilets collectively during a Nixon TV speech?
Back to the bathroom, y'all!
I've determined that RAW and most of his followers was/are just liberals in "social libertarian" clothing. Bob's gone, but his liberal followers (aside from the bat shit crazy far right conspirologists) seem to suffer from severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I find the whole situation utterly hilarious. Unplug from the news, no matter the source. Touch grass. It's just politics... which in the long game... is completely irrelevant.
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