Austin is like a little slice of Vancouver. With BBQ. Same housing prices, though.
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Well that and the opposition to legalizing weed, and the opposition to banning the death penalty, and that time the supreme court ordered her to release nonviolent offenders because California was at double its maximum prison capacity and she refused to, and the fact that she refused to release the names of bad cops so that they could be used to overturn false convictions, and her expansion of truancy programs that put a lot of brown kids in jail, and her doing everything she could to block a trans prisoner’s ability to get GRS…and the fact just fundamentally that she’s a tough-on-crime DA in a year whose biggest political slogan is “defund the police.”
but, you know, aside from those things 
Republicans don’t give a damn about hypocrisy and there’s plenty of dirt on Harris without even having to bat an eye outside of her career. I’m fucking terrified that the dems might’ve thrown the election yet again.
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And without all the awesomeness of Vancouver’s Chinatown or Japantown. Love it here though, especially if I can help eventually turn the state blue. 
Hahahaha, no. I can get three houses in Austin for the cost of one in Vancouver or Toronto.
Toronto, for me, and Austin (well the US) is where work takes me.
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McConnell doesn’t have to be voted out of office to lose his leadership position in the Senate, so long as enough other Republicans are voted out.
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Bernie waiting to take over as president anytime, if necessary, Warren’s octogenarian understudy?
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When Harris began her career as a prosecutor, Warren was still a Reagan republican. Instead of dwelling on what people were in the past, it makes sense to pay attention to what they are now. Her voting record as Senator puts Harris pretty much on the left of the Senate Democrats.
During the primaries one of the loud GOP attacks against Harris was that once in office she would vindictively prosecute Trump and his henchmen. If she and Biden win, then they should take that as an electoral mandate.
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OK, maybe Surrey
But Toronto? Really? Ouch.
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I could have never dreamed Donald Trump would actually win the presidency. I had no idea how many deluded and horrible people actually lived in my country until it happened. I wrote in Bernie.
I don’t care that Biden is a mealy mouth candidate with not much spine but I’m not writing in Bernie this time.
I’m fucking voting Biden- and then I am going to press his face to the fire immediately to get him and the entire party behind Bernie and Warren.
Telling people who didn’t like Hillary Clinton 4 years ago that hated Trump just as much as they do now that he even had a chance of hell in winning, we wouldn’t have believed you. Honestly it still seems insane in hindsight but yet again Republicans graft the Electoral College.
I do not like voting for the lesser of two evils but at this point Biden isn’t even close to the actual evil sitting in the White House. It’s not even a choice if you’re sane.
Biden gets my vote. I’m sick of this shitshow and now that I know just how deluded and horrible so many of my fellow-citizens actually are I will never take presumed sanity for granted again
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Biden/Harris is not too bad as a ticket really
It doesn’t inspire the “Giant Meteor” response like Clinton/Kaine or Gore/Lieberman
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If giant meteor were running with mass extinction as running mate, I’d actually vote for them.
The human race most of us deserve to be wiped out. Myself included
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Giant Meteor lost the primary to Runaway Climate Change this year
MASS EXTINCTION 2020
BOIL THE OCEANS
but with Zoonotic Pandemic as the incumbent, voters might cast their ballots against disaster this time
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(Warning: Alexandra Petri)
With the deadline to select a vice president approaching, the members of Team Biden wish someone had told them before this all started that every high-profile woman they would consider for the vice presidency would turn out on further inspection to be just slightly wrong — too ambitious, or too self-effacing, or too prepared, or polarizing in some other, completely unexpected way. She might want to be president herself when this was over, which historically would be an anomaly for vice presidents, and probably ought to be disqualifying.
Where is the Richard Nixon this nation deserves, someone popular and easygoing with no political baggage or ambitions of her own?
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Wrong. This progressive will be voting Biden/Harris in the fall, even though I’m not all that enthusiastic about the ticket, because I’d vote for a greasy pork sandwich in a dirty ashtray to get trump out of office.
But no, I’m not satisfied with the choice given. I’m going to keep demanding more progressive policies and backing more progressive candidates, like my lovely Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. We may have to settle for good this time around, but not forever.
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I guess it comes down to whether or not we really believe in representive government. If we do, I am not sure we can also expect candidates that represent a small fraction of voters’ ideals.
I mean, sure, most politicians only represent the 1%, but sadly many/most Americans seem to believe that is in their interest, too.
You mean the candidate from Illinois, that then lived in Arkansas for 2 decades? Or her VP pick that was born in Minnesota and grew up in Kansas City? Those “Left Coast Elites”?
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At this point in time if someone’s going to vote for Trump they are a lost cause anyway. There’s no point trying to convince them not to vote for a misogynistic racist nihilist with no beliefs other than “might makes right” and “fuck you got mine”.
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Apparently the hot new thing in right-wing media is to point out that Kamala Harris isn’t really Black because one of her ancestors may have owned slaves in Jamaica and therefore it’s actually more racist to support her than to oppose her.
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So she’s a bad pick because she’s not a white man, and she’s a bad pick because she’s not Black enough? Got it.
Gotta love those quantum state goalposts.
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