I always love that negotiations scene in Lincoln where Stephens is like "OK, you've made your point, we'll rejoin the Union to block the 13th Amendment then", Lincoln and Seward reply "Er, you're not going to be able to block it, it's going to be ratified", and Stephens is just speechless and blank.

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I remember a similar reaction from Erick²son when Dems started to noticeably shift towards pro-packing post-Dobbs. Sputtering with rage about how the Senate GOP had played a patient long game by the rules to take over SCOTUS, b/c he just couldn't grasp that to many Dems it wasn't a game.

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It's actually quite a nice demo of how R consultant/pundits types like McLaughlin got themselves into this situation. They've just told themselves that every R breaking of the modus vivendi was all just politics, all just part of the game. And they just don't know how to react on realising it's not.

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I FIGURED IT OUT. The NYT hates ranked choice voting because it got Mamdani elected mayor and they are building a case to destroy it in NYC using Alaska as a proxy

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And that text is not visible from space

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