I’m impressed, thats a lot of concentrated fail in just one short gif 
Reminds me of one of the Terry Pratchett novels, set in the XXXX continent i think, where they imprison the mayor on being elected “to save time and hassle” 
(not the exact wording, but along those lines)
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I am burning with hate for gerrymandering.
I hope so…
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(Just wanted to share, but didn’t know how without going off on too much of a tangent)
More on gerrymandering. . .
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Good point. It’s also conceivable that with the margin of error, his real approval rating is actually 33%.
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Shit, I dropped my Nokia.
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Carter is what happens when a good man goes to washington. He gets eaten alive.
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(includes margin of error)
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That’s the flaw with gerrymandering, but I think the republicans did it differently. Gerrymandering so that you win when you only have 35% support probably leaves you open to complete collapse. Gerrymandering so you win when you have 47% support requires far less risk. Rather than winning their seats 55-45 while opponents win 65-35, it’s more like in some areas they are winning 80-20 while opponents are winning 95-5. That means the districts look like disconnected nonsense, but they weren’t too worried about being subtle.
Here’s some maps of just how shameless they were:
(Thanks buzzfeed listicle)
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I never figured that out, but I was 8 or 9 at the time. Presumably there was less gasoline, at least at the pumps – or was it that all of the sudden, more people needed more gas? I can remember “odd” and “even” days, when one could fill up (or not) based on one’s license plate numbers. I also remember the prices going up past a dollar a gallon or so, and that they fairly much stayed around there until the summer of 1986.
(EDIT: I know that there had been an oil embargo several years before Carter took office, which led to more efficient Japanese imports on the roads. But that was, what, '73-74?)
But I can’t remember why the lines – did people actually wait in their car, potentially for the entire day, until a tanker truck finally arrived at the station?
Also:
(from The Onion)
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The 73-74 OPEC embargo was actually the catalyst for the later 79 energy crisis. '73 was worse with actual imports decreasing from 1.2 million barrels a day to a measly 19,000 as OPEC retaliated against countries that supported Israel in the Yom Kippur war by cutting off exports. Oil prices spiked with prices of gasoline jumping more than 50% in a single month and this lead to the first instances of the lines forming at the pump.
the '79 crisis came about mostly because of the Iranian Revolution which cut off all supply from Iran and caused people to panic again even though there really wasn’t the same level of shortage as in '73-'74.
It really illustrates how dependent we were on the middle east as even minor disruptions in supply cause a major ripple in consumer confidence even though actual supply inventories were not really impacted. Another result was we started to build our own energy independence with domestic drilling in order to dampen the effects of foreign disruptions.
Edit: another thing I forgot to add was after 73-74 the US created the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by buying up oil and storing it in old salt domes along the Gulf coast.
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Trump is an example of what happens when a con man goes to Washington - he too will get eaten alive.
Basically, everyone who goes to Washington eventually gets ground up in the mill of bureaucracy and politics.
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I know what I will be making that day:
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Today’s Approval Rating Down to 35%
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As the public opinion of his competency continues to fall, I expect his approval to hit 100%, among those who will still admit to their Republicanism in polite company.
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26% of the population identifies as Republicans. Multiply 26% by 84% and get 22%, which is approximately Keyes’ Constant… and what you get when the independents flee from him like rats from a sinking ship.
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Moments to be cherished by anyone not on the receiving end.
Is that the line that intercepts the X-axis like a son of a bitch?
Yep, and if you look closely enough, you can see a smoke trail right before it intercepts the X-axis and the tiniest of explosions afterwards.
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Tiny… but significant, like Trump’s hands.
(Nothing about Trump is asymptotic; he’s either ‘there’ or not ‘there’ at all.)
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