anyway I don’t think the story of the 2016 election is that America wanted Trump.
I think the story of the US election is that a supreme court decision allowed states with a history of totalitarianism to arbitrarily change voting law in ways that made it disproportionately difficult for people likely to vote Democrat to vote while a foreign country was running an intelligence campaign to discourage voting on the left and, real time, prod right wing voters in important districts to vote during the election in a race with massive question marks about the security of voting infrastructure, with a widely unpopular Democratic presidential candidate–
And Trump still lost. By roughly three million votes.
That’s six times the loss George W Bush had when he won the electoral college without winning the popular vote in 2000.
Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by a larger margin than Jimmy Carter or Richard Nixon or John Kennedy; she just won it in the wrong places.
Trump is now president because the electoral college assigns more weight to rural states, which are also states with more discriminatory voter laws and more disenfranchisement and therefore states in which it is harder to vote for people likely to vote Democrat.
And all of that is what I mean when I say the biggest problem with the American system is gerrymandering.
We haven’t had a real autumn in like three years now. It’s been 80-90 F through October ….. I’m worried this will be it from now on . It hurts me in a deeply genuine way
The last three years I’ve though “oh it’s just a hot fall, next year will be the autumn i had growing up” but in my classes and job, looking at the predicted temperatures….it seems like no the fall we grew up with where I am may be gone for my lifetime and it hollows me out somehow to consider that
If this is the case I wonder how long we’ll hold on to our idea of autumn as it was. Will we keep making sweater weather October moodboards even when October’s been summer heat for ten years? Or will the idea of autumn just change? Aghck it makes me ache.
…You speak as though I don’t already do that, Tollers.
For that matter, they already do that:
But they should be animated like those extremely easily riled Wizarding portraits
I guess that’s how we know Holbein was a muggle. Or at least that More and Cromwell were. Can you paint wizarding portraits of non-wizards?
(also, how cool would a wizard version of The Ambassadors be?)
They hung the Millais portraits of Disraeli and Gladstone, who were also not fans of each other, the same way at the National Portrait Gallery. I’ve always thought that was wonderful and would have annoyed them both no end (though Millais would probably have thought it a great joke!)
They also have Nell Gwynne and Louise de Kéroualle on the same wall, in case you need to know how to distinguish the self-proclaimed “Protestant whore” from her Catholic counterpart. After all, it was a legitimate issue!
On a friendlier note I also like their arrangement of James I and his wife and self-proclaimed other wife:*
*James and Buckingham addressed each other in letters as “dear dad and husband/sweet child and wife” respectively. And no, legit historians don’t attempt to straightwash that.
Mooncustafer 