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Well, they ain't starting from scratch, cause they designed a bunch of nukes for the USSR.

They almost certainly have workable designs in a file drawer, and the old facilities are all in Ukraine too. It's a question of how much decommissioning those got in the nineties, and how long it takes to enrich the uranium.

The democratic election was just one step in a long multi step process. This was true for the Nazis, and it is true for Trump.

To actually do all the stuff he wants to do, Trump will require people to cooperate with him. Do not give any cooperation from your end.

If he does something that's illegal, litigate it in court. If he wants to pass an enabling act, filibuster that s***. If he wants to ban books, circumvent those book bans. Do not give up a single inch of ground willingly. For every person that is rounded up into a camp, some other fairly normal person had to choose to do that. Don't. Trump can't run these camps all by himself.

Here's what I want say about that.

We've got a defense system against fascism here in the US of A called checks and balances, and another one called minority rights. And I think reasonable people should lean on those as hard as we can for as long as they remain viable options.

Fascism is something that comes to pass because people allow it to happen. Even now it is not yet inevitable. For example, Proud Boys and the other paramilitaries are not unified and they don't control the streets. The best course of action is to resist at every opportunity.

I don't think you can get a pardon on a civil judgement. You probably can be pardoned for any criminal contempt cases that arise from disobeying a civil judgement.

That could at least keep you out of jail, but federal judges have a federal Marshal service they can order around to repo assets if need be.

I just think they're neat.

You can use records like that to get a passport if you don't have a birth certificate and "can't" get one. The process is a lot more involved.

You're correct that the states are more independent under the current interpretation of the law. GP is expecting the Supreme Court to overturn its own current interpretation to get that national abortion ban through.

What the heck do ya think you're gonna do with a flare gun?

They should take a page from Oklahoma...

Medical marijuana passes at around 55%... "Okay. The people have spoken. Guess we're doin' marijuana now."

I think it's important to note that this system is quite different from OP's country, Germany. And it's also important for Americans to understand these differences.

In the US, you vote for single candidates for Congress to represent your district. In the lower chamber ("House") the districts are pretty small, and cover about 700,000 people*. In the upper chamber ("Senate") there are two Senators that both cover an entire state. The single candidate with the most votes wins the seat.

In Germany, part of the parliament is elected in a similar way to the US, but the other part is very different. You vote for a party, and the seats in parliament are distributed proportionally to the percentage vote across the whole nation.

The German system has provisions to ensure that parliament is roughly proportional to the total popular vote for parties. The US has no such system, and without it, game theory demands that only two parties can be competitive.

The Nate Silver model (at least) puts in a bunch of "corrections" for poll quality and historical bias from individual pollsters.

So you're really playing a second or third level game of "Did Nate (or your other poll aggregator) correct for all the effects and biases, or did they miss something important?"

And we will never be able to validate if these odds are accurate or not, because this specific election will never be replayed again.

To plan the attack, authorities said he started in September with undercover employees of the FBI to an electric substation to do research. Authorities said Philippi purchased black powder for pipe bombs and C-4 explosive composition.

This whole paragraph reads like LLM speak... Sad.

I went there to try to find out the target, which was apparently an unspecified substation.