Rivalarrival

This is First Past The Post in action. 2/3 of respondents selected someone other than her, yet she "wins" this poll.

Drop the bottom 1/3rd of the candidates, and revote. Repeat a couple times. This soon after the election, Harris's support is as high as it's going to get. Reduce the number of spoilers, and her numbers have nowhere to go but down.

Are you sure you're not Joe Biden?

https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/

Prior to the two AIs switching languages, this was two machines using "voice" to convey data.

Technically, they weren't using "Internet Protocol" over that voice link.

https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/

Technically, it's not internet protocol over voice, but the two AIs are initially using voice to convey (meta) data.

Your terms are acceptable.

The third party spoiler effect tends to hand elections to the worst option on the ballot. Rebuilding an extant party accomplishes the same intent.

This, exactly.

Boomers grew up with a 91% top-tier tax rate.

Nobody ever paid that rate; anyone who was close to that line found some tax deductible way of spending their excess. That "tax deductible way of spending" was, ultimately, someone else's paycheck.

Without that punitively-high top tier, there is no need for them to actually spend their excess income. They invest it, creating a debt owed back to them.

We tolerate this horseshit out of fear that "they'll go away, and take the jobs with them". Which won't happen: When we restore our 91% top-tier tax rate, the rest of the world will follow.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

They just aren't given enough to do what needs doing.

Guillotines are on back order, with earliest ship dates after December 4th.

They aren't a new party.

A distinction without a difference. Whether they are a new party, or a sect within the old GOP isn't particularly relevant. The relevant part is that the GOP adopted their positions and rhetoric.

I swallowed that fucker whole, but I'm about 92% sure that within 4 years, this headline will have become reality.

The potential is there, but I doubt it will come to that. The same potential was there for the Tea Party to spoil GOP races. Instead, the GOP became the Tea Party.

We need a Guillotine Party to drag the Democrats back to the people.