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dhork

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  • That clause did have some genuine problems. There was no objective metric.

    Do you remember when Abbott started calling the situation at the border an "invasion" of "military-age" brown men? Texas was getting ready to toss Biden off the ballot for "aiding an invasion" if Trump was forced off the ballot for insurrection.

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  • Of course, that's why it's Donnie's picture up there, and not Eric's. They will try to convince all of his fans that a vote for Eric is really a stealth vote for his dad. And Eric will lean into it, because he has never done anything in his life that didn't rely on his family connections.

    (I keep going back to Eric because I think it's clear that he's the dumb one, and Junior is smart enough to know he would rather be VP and get to hang out with Senators doing nothing)

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    Trump’s Mysterious Bulge Sparks Wild Speculation

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  • I admit, I was not expecting that headline tonight. The picture puts it all into proper context, though

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  • "Not legal" does not always mean criminal.

    He is constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term. He can post all the slop he wants, it doesn't change that fact.

    Should he actually file to run again, the States (who actually run the elections) are within their rights to deny the application. Should some states let him run anyway, that will be challenged by voters (and perhaps by candidates). His campaign would fight those denials, and courts should just dismiss the candidacy out of hand, but some courts have made batshit crazy rulings before.

    Even if all the courts rule against him, though, I am not aware of any statute that says it's illegal to say you will run in an election you might be Ineligible for. If anything, courts will uphold that as free speech.

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  • You all are missing the most obvious flex: one of his sons is going to run, on the sole platform of "My dad will really be running things, I won't even make him move out". Maybe both sons run, on a Trump/Trump ticket, only all the signs say "Trump/Trump/Trump".

    Donald Trump will have his dream job: all of the power and influence (and money!) Of the Presidency, none of the actual responsibility. Why be President when you can own the Presidency?

    Didn't Putin do something similar? He was term limited out of the Presidency, but got his buddy elected President, and then he got himself elected to their Parliament and became Prime Minister. He then got himself re-elected as President, then got some Constitutional things passed to ensure that he never has to give it up again.

    But Donald Trump doesn't care about actually governing, so he doesn't need to run for Congress. All he has to do is install someone as the next President who is loyal to him, and him alone. What better candidate than Eric, whose only success in life is having the right parents?

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    'We went inside and had sex.' US Senator Kyrsten Sinema details affair with bodyguard

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  • In fairness, this is part of a lawsuit against her. I doubt she wanted to talk about all this stuff.

  • BBC seeks to subpoena Trump children and son-in-law over defamation lawsuit

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  • The BBC should just declare Mar-a-Lago its own territory

  • Trump asks Supreme Court to let him build ballroom, citing national security needs and architectural values

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  • No, it's US voters that put the big asshole in the building (again!).

    He's just doing what he does best - wrecking shit.

  • Ted Cruz condemned for pushing debunked Covid vaccine and miscarriages claim

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  • Ted Cruz is nothing but bunk

  • Prosecutors indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” in one of the largest-ever crypto fraud cases. The evidence was rock solid. Then Donald Trump won a second term.

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  • Tell that to my BCH that I held onto after the fork

  • Prosecutors indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” in one of the largest-ever crypto fraud cases. The evidence was rock solid. Then Donald Trump won a second term.

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  • If Roger is so successful now how come BCH is still a big fat loser?

  • A.O.C. Said ‘Woke 1.0 Was Crazy.’ But What Is It?

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  • We should ask Al Franken what "Woke 1.0" was, I will bet he has an opinion on it

  • Trump’s Air Force One deception faces scrutiny over ‘decoy’ passengers

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  • "Impeachable" is totally up to Congress, the Constitution says "high crimes and misdemeanors" qualify, but there is no formal definition for that. Republicans could have impeached Obama for the Dijon mustard if they had enough Democratic votes in the Senate who thought it was an egregious enough offense.

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    Ohio Senator says Ohio congressman abused his daughter and granddaughter

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  • So, he's qualified for Trump's Cabinet

  • “Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they’re open to big changes”

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  • Enlighten me, please, then. I'd love to find a way for it to work here.

  • “Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they’re open to big changes”

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  • I have read up on it, and people who advocate for it take as a given that it would make things better, but I just dont see it. I go by three axioms:

    • as long as drawing districts is a political process, districts will be drawn to the partisan advantage of the major party in charge
    • Once you have multi-member districts, major parties will run a candidate for as many slots as they are allowed to. And party-line voters will expect to have a way to express a party-line preference. I expect that any system which does not allow a party to run a candidate for every slot will be challenged.
    • Once you disassociate votes with individual candidates, major party bosses can dole out "safe" seats as patronage. But if you don't disassociate votes with individual candidates, a party can still sweep a multi-member district with 50.1% percent of the vote for each spot

    The only case where proportional voting helps is where the multi-member district becomes so large that it is the only district, and now it can't be gerrymandered at all. But you still have other problems then.

    I would sooner keep districts the way they are, but make many more of them, and introduce either RCV or a true runoff when no candidate gets 50%.

  • “Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they’re open to big changes”

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  • But that is functionally identical to what we have now: in a district with 5 slots, D's run 5 candidates, R's run 5 candidates, most people pick D or R down the line. A district can still be drawn to favor one over the other, except instead of 1 safe seat, you have 5 safe seats.

    The only change would be that an impactful third party can only change one of those five safe seats. By moving to this sort of proportional representation, you actually dilute third parties' power further.

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  • I'm not a big fan of proportional representation, because it can be gamed just like the current system, but in proportional representation you don't actually cast a ballot for a person. While a third party candidate might sneak in there with some proportion of the vote, for the most part it will still be D's and R's with most of the vote, so whoever is the first D or R on the list will basically have the job for life, with no practical way to challenge them at all.

    I do like ranked choice voting, in conjunction with a massive increase in the size of Congress. 435 is way too small. 1435 might be the right number, if my math is right that could be about 250k people per Rep. Let's see people try to gerrymander 175 Congressional Districts in California....

  • Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him

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  • Sure, whatever. The man has spent his entire life avoiding the consequences of his actions. Why would this be any different?

    I wish them all the best of luck, but I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for this to be any different.