Plenty of women are born infertile with no potential to create offspring in the future. Are they still women? And what about the additional hundreds of thousands of babies who are born each year in the US with extra sex chromosomes? There ya go. Not that hard. They’re women if they identify that way.

Why would you or anyone care how someone identifies? To quote George Thurgood (yep, I’m old), “It don’t confron’ me (long as I get my money next Friday).”

Is a middle aged or elderly mother who has a hysterectomy (about 35-40% have them unfortunately) a woman? Does a woman have to have ovaries and a uterus? What do you consider women who have hysterectomies?

I live in Bucks. How the hell did RINO-ish GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick win handily in both 2020 and 2022, while Trump and Trumpists lost bigly on the very same ballots to Dems? Could it be that a solid majority of Bucks voters are fucking done with the sick cult of MAGA and their election-denying bullshit?

Knock off the juvenile, assclown election-related Trumpist bullshit. I’ve been voting in PA for many years. PA has some issues, but voters do usually get rid of ridiculous assholes of whatever party. There are examples. And anyway, wanna win an election? Get more voters to vote for you (r sorry ass). Stop pissing all over the integrity and fairness of PA’s democratic institutions. What Trumpists have been doing is disgusting and traitorous in my view. I hope they knock it off.

The one Dem who abstained will vote to certify tomorrow. What idiocy. The fact is, a clear, substantial majority of Pennsylvanians are done—done!—with Trumpist “stolen election” bullshit. Want to win an election? Get voters on board. Convince them to support your party. Now, I doubt that a majority will ever support assclown “strongman” type candidates like, say, Floriduh, but I guess it could happen. This isn’t mostly about policy, by the way. It cuts much, much deeper. It’s about having a frickin democracy. Policies can be changed. Democracies aren’t easily rebuilt. Fuck Trumpists.

They probably would have stolen the laptop without her verbal urging, so the argument would be that it wasn’t material. In any event, the jury probably figured that she was in enough shit. She’s facing very unpleasant consequences.

Well, I haven’t read any of the potentially responsive comments, but it’s true! The Anglophone world tends to stick together! And, as a result, there’s a floor—a backstop working perpendicularly (:) English has that word)—to any single member’s economy if things get really bad.

It’s true. Meaning, I’m certain that’s an accurate assessment of the state of the world of humans.

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The Anglophone world tends to stick together.

The UK will muddle through and be just fine in the end, I expect. Plenty of the world’s best and brightest still want to move there, and the UK has a substantial base of support. But I do think the combined effects of multiple, successive shocks, Covid and Brexit, will take a few years to work through. One of them seems like an own-goal, but what do I know.

Not OP, but yep. Pine View Dairy.

True. But it takes much longer to count the mail-ins.

Plenty of anti-MAGA authoritarians are religious. Josh Shapiro is religious. Biden is religious, as is Obama. (Trump? Lol.) It’s entirely a matter of personal choice and conscience. It’s only a problem when someone tries to impose their religion on others.

The process of examining exterior envelopes for signatures, dates, postmarks and received stamps, followed by the opening of the exterior envelopes to determine whether the ballot is “naked” (without an interior envelope; if so, it’s not counted), and then the process of counting the mailed ballots, began at 7:00 am. And the counting won’t be completed today almost definitely.

Shapiro has already been called as the winner, nonetheless, because his lead was massive. Fetterman v Oz will take longer because it’s closer.

As some Jewish people I know put it, he’s a shanda to his people.

eta: I tell them they don’t have to claim him! Claim … Josh Shapiro instead, for example:)

Unfortunately, that’s not the same as “vote counted” … it just means “ballot received.” I’d call just in case.

Huh. My record just says “Mail-In” under Ballot Type. Then again, I applied for the ballot via hard copy in-person (I did the “in-person mail-in” ballot thing at the courthouse and delivered the ballot in-person). As u/Pf18929 says, “Vote Recorded” doesn’t mean “counted.” It just means received.

Call to be on the safe side. Centre County won’t be too busy I think.

MAGA flags and other gear are Made in China, lol. Chinese manufacturers must find all of this amusing. And profitable!

Steven Miller’s great-grandparents fled Belarus in 1903 to escape the brutal 1903-06 anti-Jewish pogroms. They would be so proud of their great-grandson … /s

He’s a religious Jew. He’s entitled to practice his faith and believe in God. I have zero concern that he’ll try to impose his faith on anyone else, though. None. That’s entirely unlike the two-bit authoritarian Colonel Klink “My Underwear is Too Tight!” Mastriano.

Dems for Shapiro + Republicans for Shapiro (the campaign is big here in SEPA) + Independents for Shapiro!

I saved it, but I’ll be sure to attribute it to u/jkf123321. Beautiful.

Well, I’m a middle aged, I guess upper-ish middle class lawyer formerly registered Republican, and I just voted for Fetterman. Believe it. Whether I agree with Dems on policy is irrelevant. Only one “side” is seeking to abandon democracy—today’s GOP. If they stop, I may vote for them.

edit: Fetterman’s cognitive processing is fine. He has temporary auditory and speech processing issues as a result of his stroke. I saw him in person recently.

I hope you’re never called to serve on a jury, because you’re incapable of wrapping your head around facts. Fine, working class citizens don’t trust the Dems sometimes. Trump won. That still has no bearing on the fact only one side claims (Trump has been doing this since 2012, actually) that non-existent people cast votes. My guess is you “believe” that too, and all the rest of your deflection is a smokescreen.

That changes absolutely nothing about what I said and the facts. Whether Trump was or is in bed with the Russians (he probably was and is), Hillary never claimed that the actual votes or tallies for Trump were fraudulent. And she conceded the next morning. So … gotcha? You still don’t understand the massive difference???

He could try. Bye bye Commonwealth.