Generally if it is made in Britain, it is highly unlikely to be tasty food
Number of Michelin star restaurants
United Kingdom 168, Greece 4.
https://nerdyfoodies.com/countries-with-the-most-michelin-stars-412.html
I'm not prepared to respect your opinion on shepherd's pie, especially as the latter so strongly conflicts with my own perspective on it.
Some of the modern takes on shepherds pie are pretty good, spicing it up a little. Of course in America they often make it with beef not lamb, which makes it cottage pie, not shepherds pie!
Why? You know full well that voting for the Libertarians is a waste of a vote.
Why? It isn't like the US Greens are particularly good progressive champions. They are full of idiots, anti-vaxxers, and people who openly welcome Republican support to get on the ballot and act as splinters.
Look at the Green party program on gp.org. It is a good program. Any progressively minded person would take it over the Dems alternative program any day. Especially knowing how well Dems follow up on their progressive issues.
I think there is value voting for third parties. If either of the major parties find they are losing too many voters to a particular 3rd party, it might make them change their policies to more appeal to those voters. Of course you need to pick and choose your battles carefully. I have voted for the Greens in the past. However when you have a Climate change denying, anti-environmentalist, who has pushed through nearly a 100 anti environmental policies in office, this is probably not the time to vote 3rd party (there are also many other good reasons for wanting to get rid of Trump).
As for the GOP supporting the Greens, this falls into the same category as the Democrats blocking the Greens running in Pennsylvania & Wisconsin, it just makes sense as people who vote Green are likely to be on the leftwing! However as shown in Rhode Island where their Green Party blocked Howie Hawkins from running citing the danger of a Trump re-election, Green voters are aware of the danger of splitting the vote. I suspect thanks to Trump the Greens wont do very well this presidential campaign.
Biden and Democrats seem to be doing very well in the interior West, like races in the single digits in Kansas and Montana. As well as big swings in Iowa, going from nearly +10 Trump to +3 Biden.
Agreed, Trump is struggling in states that should be a lock from him based on 2016 voting. The following states he has single digit lead or no lead in despite winning by around 10 to 25 in 2016.
According to fivethirtyeight:
Iowa = Biden up by 1.2
Kansas = Trump up by 9
Missouri = Trump up by 6.5
Montana = Trump up by 7.1
Nebraska = Trump up by 7.1
Other states where he has a single digit lead despite winning big there in 2016:
Alaska = Trump up by 5.8
South Carolina = Trump up by 7.2