Off-Topic Tuesday!

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like. Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.

I'm not going to mention politics specifically, but I will share a new word I learned this week;

Kakistocracy - Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens

I can't imagine why that seemed relevant....

I hope everyone survived Black Friday intact, or took part in the far less stressful sounding "Buy Nothing Friday".

After about 18GB of downloads, patches and copious swearing in my most Scottish accent, I've managed to get my Year 2 characters and levels of LEGO Dimensions updated and working!

My thanks for previous podcast recommendations, I'm particularly enjoying The Bright Sessions, a series about a therapist and her "Atypical" patients (eg superpowered) that manages to be fascinating in a very "original New Mutants" sort of a way as we see how their abilities have impacted their day to day lives (The progression of the young empath trying to sort out his emotional life is adorable)... There are a few interesting subplots too.

I looked long and hard for whimiscally distracting news stories, but they seem in short supply, so if anyone has any local news of that sort they'd care to share, that would be awesome.

Comments

[dr_archeville]

My state's gubernatorial race may finally be settled today, three weeks after Election Day!

(I'm in NC, home of Pat McCrory and the abominable HB 2 "bathroom bill." His opponent, Roy Cooper, was ahead by several thousand votes, but McCrory refused to concede, and kept stalling -- accusations of voter fraud, calls fro recounts, etc.)

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Given the POTUS-elect's most recent twitter meltdowns,.. "I won the Electoral College vote, but also the popular vote if you count all the voter fraud I'm claiming exists without a shred of evidence"... Which seems to be the winner asking for a recount because they didn't win by as much as the thinks they should have done, which could have some... interesting repercussions.

[bradygirl_12]

Should be very interesting, considering that he's got the emotional control of a two-year-old. Throwing tantrums and blurting out whatever comes into one's head isn't the behavior of an adult. I think half the country has taken the obsession with youth a little too far! *sighs*

[alicemacher]

I'd like to think Trump's tantrums about the recount are rooted in his fear he may not become president after all, but the consensus so far, in the analysis I've seen, is that the process won't yield enough votes for Clinton to hand the electoral college victory to her.

That said, I do think the recount will have been worth it because it sends the president-elect and his team, as well as the incoming GOP Congressional majority, the message that Democrats and other opponents of Trump aren't going to shut up and let him have his way with the country. Rather, they'll be keeping a close eye on him and will push back and challenge him every step of the way. That won't in itself stop him--not until the 2018 midterms, anyway--but it may well mean the Trump administration won't be able to screw America up quite as much as is feared.

[bradygirl_12]

You could be right, though I wish I had more confidence that the Dems won't screw things up. Still, I'd love for Trump and his minions to become pariahs of sorts via prominent people declining White House invitations and such. You're in power, but like New York's Four Hundred, you won't be allowed into our social circle. Too nouveau riche. In Washington, the social is the poltical. :)