And again: you all can influence it. Start screaming about it at your newly elected reps. And frankly: it's in their own best interest. Getting rid of the electoral college would be the simplest, fastest way to help prevent another trump.
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If I understand correctly, the justification for not saying he can't run was to explicitly reject this premise; it was basically "parties can decide who they run without considering eligibility requirements".
It's not a forgone conclusion that he will actually be officially declared ineligible, but being allowed to run didn't prove his eligibility.
Hold on a second guys. I'm getting some conflicting reports that yes....JD Vance does have a spine!
And he used it to stab Trump square in the back.
Ironbite-WHO'D A THUNK IT!
And he used it to stab Trump square in the back.
Ironbite-WHO'D A THUNK IT!
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It's not a coincidence that a majority are among the poorest and least educated states in the nation. I've said before, they're downright INDOCTRINATED here in Oklahoma, with a LOT of the older folks voting straight red regardless of...anything
It's like Michael Shannon once said:
"No offense to the seniors out there. My mom's a senior citizen. But if you're voting for Trump, it's time for the urn,"
"No offense to the seniors out there. My mom's a senior citizen. But if you're voting for Trump, it's time for the urn,"
I wouldn't rethink it. I'm tired of some hayseed in Wyoming having nearly 4x the voting power that I do in presidential elections.
Yeah, if you think anybody's actually going to be held accountable, Hakeem's got news for you and it ain't good.
He's such an empty hugging suit.
No. No republican has won the popular vote in decades. The electoral college keeps republicans in positions of power when they don't deserve it and haven't earned it.
And it's not just the Electoral College. The House is supposed to represent people according to population, but Congress has kept it capped at 435 seats since 1929. Montana currently has the smallest average congressional district population in the country, with about 542,000 people per representative, compared to California's 760,000.
If we used Montana's district size as the baseline for representation, California would have roughly 73 representatives instead of 52. That's 21 additional seats. The Senate already gives every state equal representation regardless of population. Why are we shortchanging people in the one chamber that's specifically supposed to represent us proportionally?
Christ... this absolute chucklehead. I hope these kinds of statements cost him the speaker position. I've had enough of him and his fellow SurrenderDems.
Absolutely wonderful.
Do we dare dream that big?
Like the spine he had when he first said he would never vote for Trump and then became his VP? No, he really doesn’t. He is just as much of a feckless, say anything to win, unlikable douche he’s always been.Hold on a second guys. I'm getting some conflicting reports that yes....JD Vance does have a spine!
And he used it to stab Trump square in the back.
Ironbite-WHO'D A THUNK IT!
What a goddamned fool. You can't address ANY affordability issue when you have demented grandpa and weekend warrior wannabe screwing around in the middle east. That's BEFORE you start addressing all the domestic policies that have gone into effect impacting costs.
It's not about "getting even", it's about removing the impediments to addressing that issue. It's like fighting a house fire while you have an open gas main pumping fuel into the inferno.
It's the same milquetoast horseshit that we dealt with when Merrick Garland was AG. Jeffries and Schumer both need to be replaced.
Trump won the popular vote in 2024, though admittedly it was the first time since 2004 that a Republican won it.
That's what I told my mother when she remarked about Republicans "standing up" to Trump.
They aren't really "growing a spine" or anything. They're still political opportunists, and they're basically "jumping ship" now that Trump's political and social influence has, seemingly, started to fade.
Yeah hard agreement on that. And one of the newer Senators has something to say about that as well.
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The day after winning election, Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced as the Democrats’ leader in the U.S. Senate.
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Ironbite-now can AOC also say something about Jefferies so we can start calling for his head that'd be nice.