President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Why was the house able to do this? Because the majority of people voted for Democrats

Why didn’t the senate stop them? Because the majority of people voted for Democrats

why didn’t the president stop it? Because the majority of people voted for the Democrat

Wow. Sounds like they’re going to try to kill our democratic republic with this one

 

House was capped, arbitrarily at 435 member in 1913 when there were only 48 states and the population was 95 million.
When the country was founded the average congressional district was 34,000 people. Today it’s over 700,000 with a population of 329,000,000

At the original ratio, there would be 9676 members of Congress today. That is representative government.
If districts were 100,000 people per rep there would be 3290 congresspersons.

that’s restoring the country.

 

Ironically, what is actually being demanded here is political welfare. Conservatives can’t earn enough votes on their own, so we have to give them the power that belongs to other people to make things fair.

Or rather, we can’t fix the broken legacy system because they’ve gotten used to having that power and don’t want to lose it

 

Merrick. Fucking. Garland.

 

Six out of every 10 Georgia residents lives within 35 miles (or roughly four hours in rush hour traffic) of the state capitol. Clinton won eight of the 10 largest counties in the state in 2016, including flipping former GOP strongholds Gwinnett and Cobb. However, the turnout in suburban Atlanta as a percentage of the eligible voters was much lower than in the rest of the state. She basically got beat by 150 paper cuts.

Trump will still pull large "percentage" numbers in the tiny mountain and western counties (although my vote will cancel out the guy with the 32 Trump signs down the street), but Atlanta and Savannah have only gotten more blue in the past four years. The volume of mail I'm getting attacking Ossoff (and the latest poll putting Loffler a distant third in a field of 21) tells me the Republicans lack confidence in Trump's ability to pull the downballot and keep from having possibly TWO runoffs in January. I think a Biden win in Georgia would be an upset but it's definitely gone from "no way" to "every vote will count this time."

 

And don’t forget, Garland was just the culmination of a prolonged norm-trashing attempt to take over the entire federal judiciary. It wasn’t an isolated incident.

 

Heck, Karl Rove and other Bushies were talking about the GOP having a permanent majority around 2003-04.

 

Why are you so defiantly screaming about Dems potentially violating norms when Trump and his cult have been either violating and/or destroying norms since - to use your term - Day One?

And - unlike the propaganda and outright bullsh_t Trump has been feeding his cult - it's not smart. It's cruel, stupid and dangerous. Trump has been obsessed with destroying everything Obama tried to accomplish. And the Right cheered and made a point to rub it in the faces of those who didn't like it.

Now the Dems are talking about making changes, and you don't like it. Too freakin' bad.

Can't have it both ways. Someday, the Republicans who don't understand this fact of life might start to. And the idea of Biden winning, the Dems taking over the Senate and watching Moscow Mitch eat sh_t by the metric ton is invigorating. For all the talk about Trump, McConnell is vile and loathsome in his own right. For all the packing of other courts Moscow Mitch has done, the Right desperately needs to STFU about the Left's attempts to counter. Or next time ... have enough sense not to throw stones from their glass house.

 

I posted this on Facebook
Since then I’ve seen banana Republicans and Y’All Quida

 

Ever consider that it might be a combination of saber rattling and a shot across the bow, warning the R's that if they cram through their priorities via undemocratic means that two can play that game?

 

Kelly Loeffler cannot lose by a large enough margin. Insider trading, grifting and pumping Trump's tires are NOT endearing qualities.

 

Republicans flat-out said in 2016 that they were fine with 8 justices for a long time and that they weren’t going to give Hillary any justices if she was elected.

If Hillary was president, we’d have 6 justices right now if the GOP stuck to what they were saying in 2016

So don’t blame Dems for not being willing to stick to norms when the GOP set the precedent themselves.

As for adding states, if the GOP doesn’t like it, maybe they should come up with policies that would appeal to the citizens of the new states and earn their votes instead of whining about how unfair it is when those same citizens are not treated as equally as other citizens.