President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

[tapintoamerica]

NYC Mayoral primary using ranked choice voting. I'm still trying to figure out how the last place finisher's second-place votes are re-allocated.

 

[DanOregon]

It's almost as if maybe SCOTUS shouldn't have gutted the Voting Rights Act in the first place.... you know, that part where states with a history of voter suppression had to get pre-clearance before changing voting laws. John Roberts said nobody does that nowadays, nobody.

But it really made no sense that only states with a "history" of it weren't allowed to gut protections without judicial oversight. And this court wasn't going to expand it to a 50-state threshold. That is what is needed and what is being sought. The VRA was reauthorized repeatedly over the last 40 years with bi-partisan support - why the pre-clearance wasn't expanded when there was still "bipartisanship" is beyond me.

 

[Driftwood]

The Russian bots are in full swing today because of voting rights. I purposely avoid anything political like the plague on Instagram. I don't follow, like, click on, etc. All of a sudden today in the search suggestions I'm getting all manner of GQP talking point memes.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I have managed not to allow myself to be afflicted with Instagram. That I still have FB is bad enough.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Vote is 50-50
Debate closed

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Vote is 50-50
Debate closed

So it was such a bad bill that even just talking about it would have given it more credibility than it was worth?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

So it was such a bad bill that even just talking about it would have given it more credibility than it was worth?

Nothing ever dies in Congress until they all go home.

 

[Octave]

NC-

My feedback from others was Instagram is Facebook without the bullshirt, and an acceptable fallout shelter from Facebook bullshirt.
I couldn't imagine that being the case, and checked it out for a week and it felt skeevier than Facebook.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Instagram is too much of a time suck, what with IG Stories, Reels, and gods know what all else. And it's Facebook so it's still sketchy.

 

[Songbird]

Yoga is the big thing on IG these days. Women are proud of their peaches. Most of the photos I've seen are really good. But yeah, the peaches.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Nothing ever dies in Congress until they all go home.

They're elected to vote and debate. They should have to debate every single bill and vote on every single bill.

Don't tell me they don't have time. They have all the time in the world.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

The whole point of the filibuster is, "we don't have to vote. We don't have to actually enact the bullshirt we told you we'd do to get elected." The tell was back in 2017 when the Republicans had the trifecta and well before Trump was even sworn in, like 7-8 GOP Senators signed a letter saying they'd never get rid of the filibuster. Until they did for Supreme Court justices, a vote they WANTED to take.