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Hillary Clinton won the first debate and it wasn’t even close
That sound you hear is the entire Democratic Party exhaling. Hillary Clinton commanded the first debate by letting Trump shoot himself in the foot over and over again, keeping her cool as he repeatedly interrupted her and continued to lie about his past positions. A representative exchange came about midway through the debate, when Clinton turned to Trump’s history as a businessman.
this man is a professor at my college
goddammit mark
“Last Night’s Debate, or the Mansplaining Olympics,” Alexandra Petri
“Throwing away your vote on a message no one will hear, and which will change no outcome, is sometimes presented as ‘voting your conscience’, but that’s got it exactly backwards; your conscience is what keeps you from doing things that feel good to you but hurt other people. Citizens who vote for third-party candidates, write-in candidates, or nobody aren’t voting their conscience, they are voting their ego, unable to accept that a system they find personally disheartening actually applies to them.”
REMINDER TO ALL YOU YOUNG PEOPLE:
Do Not Take A Picture of Your Ballot
It is illegal. Your vote will be thrown out and not counted.
DO NOT post it on Facebook, or Twitter, or Snapchat or Instagram or Tumblr or ANYTHING. Don’t share it with your friends. The likes and notes are not worth it. Just keep your phones in your damn pockets the entire time you’re voting.Take a cute selfie with the “I Voted” sticker afterwards instead.
Please don’t let me read headlines going something like “Millennials fucked up the election by posting pictures of their ballots” because it will be fucking insufferable. And also Trump will probably win and we’ll all be fucked.
According to Snopes the relevant laws vary by state, so yeah, it’s best to be careful and not take pictures of your ballot.
Squirrel.
I found this copy of Thoreau’s Walden buried in the park. I opened it and saw these roots growing between the pages. I don’t know whether to frame it or put it back in the ground.