Stephen Kirkpatrick

Very occasional blogger, liberal, Lutheran, Washingtonian, pretend Bostonian, etc. etc.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

When Democrats tried in 2020 to get Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin to count early votes early—like Florida—Republicans killed the bills so Trump could win day-of-voting tallies and try to throw out mail in ballots. It’s a scam for people Trump thinks are stupid.

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

@ferald_gord Still counting trad/mainline denominations as Christian is more than I expect from Hegseth’s Pentagon tbh

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

The second Trump administration is consistently doing its best to make the case that the presidential system is a failed experiment that should be abolished

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

@ImNotOwned Notably in Arizona (where mail-in voting was more of a Republican thing for a long time), the exact opposite mirage happened and we spent the whole week of the 2020 election waiting to see if Trump would catch back up to Biden

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

@xenocryptsite Perhaps smartphones are more societally important to a unique degree, but it also seems to me that literature and film omit any number of common everyday things because they’re hard to make interesting

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

Defenders of the top-2 primary insist that it’s all about giving voters “choices” and then when parties get locked out it’s their own fault for having too many choices

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

Striking how both here and in CA-40 people are insisting this is the fault of the bumbly ol’ Democrats and not the completely asinine electoral system

[Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini]

We have a situation in CA-06, a district we rate Likely D. Democrats are currently locked out of the top two, which would hand the blue seat to Republicans.

The remaining trail is heavily Democratic, so Pan should still reclaim second. But too close for comfort for Dems.

[Ryan Brune @BruneElections]

There's no reason why California can't at the very least count as fast as Washington state. (~95% counted by Friday after the election.)

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

@agraybee On multiple occasions incl. in the original film the dysfunctional and impotent galactic legislature is also described as a "bureaucracy" for some reason

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

Spirit going out of business wasn't enough, time to kill JetBlue and Alaska too!

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Trump’s DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin just announced that they are “drawing up plans” to block all international flights into blue cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

[theo luminati 👁️‍🗨️▲ @theoluminati]

says a lot about the state of things that Talarico’s scandals are saying like ‘um God is hecking nonbinary kids!’ 6 years ago while Paxton’s scandals are 20 years of bribery, fraud, corruption, & multiple felonies, & there’s an implied consensus that Talarico’s are worse

[miranda @mirandareinert]

like drip coffee and espresso drinks before it, cheap beer vs craft beer is a false dichotomy

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

@LemieuxLGM Certainly no such examples involving a failure to understand relationship boundaries

[Aki🏳️‍⚧️ @aki_st4rz3]

has a show ever not fumbled its finale?

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

Polis should be impeached.

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

"in our Republic, the ballot-box is the single priceless jewel of that sovereignty which we respect, and the electoral franchise, out of which are born the rulers of a free people, is the Queen whom we are to guard against pollution." —Charles Sumner

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) is commuting the sentence of Tina Peters, making her parole eligible next month.

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

Top-2 primaries were sold as a way for the voters being able to choose without the meddling party bosses but they really do just incentivize even more meddling to make sure there aren’t too many candidates from one party running

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Dems managed not to lock themselves out of any 2018 races, but it took a DCCC intervention, which I haven’t seen here

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

I love that time of year when the king’s speech happens and 3/4 of the internet doesn’t understand (or pretends not to) that its contents are just the policies of the elected government that he’s reading off a page

[Pop Tingz @PopTingz]

King Charles III has announced a ban on LGBTQIA+ conversion therapy and classified the practice as abusive.

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

Kind of wondering but also don’t want to imagine what Republicans would have to do for Adam McKay to admit they’re worse than white liberals

[Variety @Variety]

Adam McKay says "no group is worse" for America and its politics than "white liberals":

“We are being hit with the high-grade marketing and no group is worse than white liberals. I mean, they are the worst. I’ve tried to talk to them about climate, they are so smug and captured. And it boils down to privilege. I mean, when you talk to white moneyed liberals, they’re getting a lot from this broken system.”
https://t.co/8nYGUkVsRV

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

And it’s striking to me how much neutral commentary tries to whistle past this fairly plain fact

[Stephen Kirkpatrick @sj_kirkpatrick]

The overarching story of the last 10 years is that we’ve twice elected a president who just doesn’t believe in democracy in the basic, literal sense of “people should get to choose their leaders and be allowed to dislike them”