Wow TIL costs are not considered card effects . <| sep |> if the stonetear thing has any truth . Then literally yes . <| sep |> At this point , the best solution for how brazenly radical the Republican Party has become is to let that dog catch the car . Alas , that happened back in 2000 . Republicans basically got full control of the government . They caught the car . It didn ' t go well . o u r l o n g n a t i o n alnightmareofpeaceandpros 464 But , possibly even more distressingly voters seem to have forgotten already , just 8 short years later . And here we are again . Each time it gets a bit worse . Because it ' s a lot easier to wreck the government than it is to fix it . And wrecking it is basically the GOP ' s stated goal . Grover NorquistI don ' t want to abolish government . I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub . So yeah . Here we are again . We ' re going to have another big setback , and honestly , I don ' t know what we can do about it . Desperately hoping for some 11 th hour save by the electoral college , but I don ' t know if I actually believe it ' s possible . Kind of afraid we ' ll just lose , well . the majority of the social , economic , and environmental progress that has been made during my lifetime , really . Because apparently that ' s what people decided to vote for this year .