The 100mm number was basically made up by someone on here. But it was still very funny.

TV really warps our brains. I feel like the average person would guess several orders of magnitude too high for this number--I would have guessed hundreds of times, at least.

It's not just Obama--Bernie tried too with Our Revolution and it didn't really work. Building an organization around a campaign is just inherently easier.

I mean this post is dumb but he's not talking about states? The "red areas" he's talking about are counties including the main ag ones in CA.

“Most voters don’t pay attention to politics like I do. They can probably only name four of the eight democratic senators who voted for the deal.”

“And Schumer of course.”

“Of course.”

Exactly lol. Not an original coinage to me (though personally I prefer feldspar-posting to quartz-posting bc I think it makes the reference clear): bsky.app/profile/nick...

I don't support the deal, but the idea that regular people have that level of knowledge of what is going on and will retain that knowledge a year from now is extremely misguided.

This is also feldspar-posting (as in that xkcd)--most voters have no idea what was going on with the shutdown or understand the details of the deal.

They are very close friends.

This poster writing about Battlefield Earth: "Figures that the a writer for a the New YorKKK Times would pan a movie about the importance of centering indigenous knowledge and mock a religious minority."

Gets better lolol:
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This is a full merits decision also, not shadow docket.

Yes. The precedential value of paradoxical decisions like that is sometimes hard to assess. But it would at least stand for the prop that the IEEPA tariffs already imposed are unlawful. (Also very implausible to me that Gorsuch would reach this result but that's a different objection).

He thought if Gorsuch said the statute allowed them but it violated nondelegation and the libs+roberts said the statute didn't then Trump would win. Which is not how it works!

Josh Blackman did a post on the tariffs the other day that showed he doesn't even understand how vote counting works when different justices disagree on the rationale for a results.

I disagree because the level the general public operates at is that bad things happened while a Republican is in the White House. Most people here are quartz-posting.

Oh yeah, just about EVERYTHING on this site is quartz-posting and always has been! I knew the cartoon of course and that this idea was essential to understanding Us, but I've never seen it distilled to that one specific term and I think that's excellent.

Ezra was one of the people arguing hardest for a shutdown beforehand so this isn't actually surprising.

Politico piece says only until Jan 30.