Donald is about to go through some things...

[Sardines]

I didn't say you were an idiot, only that you had a less than good grasp on the language and now I'm thinking you have a poor understanding our government, which is not a democracy. For the past 250 years or so, we have been a Republic. We can have 99% popular support for a law and still have that law struck down as unconstitutional. The Demos do not have the Kratos. The US Constitution supersedes the will of the US people, and I like it that way. I'll take the Bill of Rights over MTG and Ilhan Omar any day.

The U.S. Constitution has no power on its own. It takes the will of people to enforce it. It can, by it's own rules, be modified by the will of the people. It takes a lot more than a single, simple 50.1% vote to change it, but it can be changed by the will of the people. It can also be ignored and discarded if there is no one willing and determined to protect it as the ruling document of our nation.

I know some people think the U.S. Constitution is divinely inspired, but it takes people willing to abide by it for it to have any power at all.

 

[BabyPeterzz]

I'm not reading the **** from the trolls, so I'm not sure where all this is coming from, but with it we need to ****ing kill gerrymandering. Kill it ****ing dead. Set up a full unconnected and unbiased outside panel to redistrict across the country to make the vote actually fair down to the local level. **** all these games these assholes play. It's gotta stop.

Oh dude, the Supreme Court is all over it. But it's called "Racial Gerrymandering" that's bad and they're eliminating that because it's like....political. If POC think the GOP is a better bet than the democrats, I would look at what they've done to your communities representation and vote. They're coming to silence you.

Court rules for South Carolina Republicans in dispute over congressional map

The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a ruling by a federal district court holding that a congressional district on the South Carolina coast was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander – […]

www.scotusblog.com

https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/arkansas-news/us-supreme-court-sends-arkansas-racial-gerrymandering-case-back-down-to-lower-court/

 

[Al-O-Meter]

It can, by it's own rules, be modified by the will of the people. It takes a lot more than a single, simple 50.1% vote to change it, but it can be changed by the will of the people.

50.1% is the will of the people and that does not change the US Constitution. The Constitution can be changed but the changes themselves are guided by the Constitution which is why a 50.1% will of the people can't do it.

The U.S. Constitution has no power on its own. It takes the will of people to enforce it. ... it takes people willing to abide by it for it to have any power at all.

Ding! Ding! Ding! What you are describing is 'social contract theory'. So long as people believe there is a chance the system could go in their direction someday, maybe not this election, maybe not the next, but someday, they'll keep the system in place. If they think the game is now rigged and there is no hope, no chance things will go their way then they are going to want something else to take its place. More than once you've said that you don't care if half the country believes the social contract is broken so long as it is the half you don't like. Be careful what you wish for.

 

[Sardines]

50.1% is the will of the people and that does not change the US Constitution. The Constitution can be changed but the changes themselves are guided by the Constitution which is why a 50.1% will of the people can't do it.

Ding! Ding! Ding! What you are describing is 'social contract theory'. So long as people believe there is a chance the system could go in their direction someday, maybe not this election, maybe not the next, but someday, they'll keep the system in place. If they think the game is now rigged and there is no hope, no chance things will go their way then they are going to want something else to take its place. More than once you've said that you don't care if half the country believes the social contract is broken so long as it is the half you don't like. Be careful what you wish for.

If they are so ****ing stupid as to think that's the case I guess idiots will be idiots.

Living in the U.S. is a pretty sweet deal.

 

[str8line]

The reason AI-O-Meter thinks this horrible change will result in no Republican get elected is because it means more people will have their vote counted.

What I would say is that political parties need to meet the voters where they are if they want to be relevant. For instance, the Guns and Dope party probably appeals strongly to some voters, but they will never win a national election (aka the Presidential election). Is that unfair? No! They don't have a broad enough appeal to be relevant. The system shouldn't be arranged to provide equal results to every party, it should be arranged so that the maximum amount of voters is represented in the results.

The Republican party has sought over and over again in recent years to rule, not to represent. Abortion rights is a prime example. Even within their own party total bans or almost total bans on abortion is not the favored position of the majority of their voters, yet, they have tried hard to get the most aggressive bans possible despite the will of the people. This has included trying to pass laws to remove the potential for the people in their state to change the state constitution in order to protect abortion access. They wanted the voters to vote to lose their power over their own government. The Republicans sought to rule the people in total disregard for what those people wanted.

Both major parties have evolved over time. So much so that things that were the defining characteristics of each party 100 years ago are now the defining characteristics of the other party. So it is possible that in 25 years the Democratic party will be most popular amongst rural voters and the Republican party will be most popular in urban areas and amongst multi-ethnic people. None of the current base of a party is set in stone. So these rules that AI-O-Meter thinks solidifies the Democratic party forever only holds true if the Republican party never makes any attempt to appeal to a wider segment of the U.S. population. That's on the Republican party.

TL ; DR
If national politics was an online game the chat would tell the Republican party

"git gud"

Good post.

Republicans hate freedom. They are haters. Kind of like the guys who try to keep e-bikers off mountain bike trails. They want to control others to inflate their misguided ego.

 

[str8line]

Look forward to reading the discussion from today when I have time, as much as it will pain me. I enjoy these insights from you guys.

 

[Deleted member 365]

If they are so ****ing stupid as to think that's the case I guess idiots will be idiots.

Living in the U.S. is a pretty sweet deal.

It’s all about feelings.

They feel that the 2020 election was stolen
They feel that vaccines don’t work
They feel that crime is up, the economy is bad, and that immigrants are taking their jobs
Now they feel like they can’t win elections anymore.

Feel feel feel.

Never mind the ACTUAL oppression that women, LGBTs, and you know, African Americans experience. It’s crazy how some of the descendants of the architects of Jim Crow now feel oppressed.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4703521-nc-republican-dan-bishop-donald-trump/mlite/

North Carolina Rep. Dan Bishop (R) compared former President Trump’s current legal situation to that of a Black person in the segregated South.

“It’s as bad as it was in Alabama in 1950 … if a person happened to be Black, in order to get justice,” Bishop said Monday on “The Pete Kaliner Show” on Charlotte radio station WBT. “And that’s what they did in New York. So it was fundamentally rigged, and the people who attacked me for saying so can attack all they want.”

In the end, MAGA is merely a white grievance cult. They want to feel like martyrs and they want to lash out at others. They are just ****** people, people like @Al-O-Meter are just low info ****** people.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Just a reminder, Trump didn’t want to visit veteran cemeteries because he thinks they’re losers.


View: https://x.com/schotthappens/status/1798576174265946425?s=46

 

[LogGrad98]

Good post.

Republicans hate freedom. They are haters. Kind of like the guys who try to keep e-bikers off mountain bike trails. They want to control others to inflate their misguided ego.

Oh no, they love their freedom. You know, their freedom from the Mexicans and from the blacks and from the gays. They believe everyone is equal, but they are just more equal than others because they have, uh, flags and ****. But they are coming to take away their freedoms. Those people are moving into their neighborhoods and wrecking up the place. The Republicans are the party of the Karen's.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Just a reminder, Trump didn’t want to visit veteran cemeteries because he thinks they’re losers.

That never happened, but you know was did happen? Biden pooped himself at the D-Day ceremony and had to be led away by Jill Biden. This article is kind when they said Biden tried to sit on invisible chair but even the link url for the story ends in 'normandy-poop-pants'.

Joe Biden tries to sit on 'invisible chair' during D-Day memorial event

President Joe Biden participated in the the 80th anniversary of US-led allied forces' D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France in Normandy.

www.express.co.uk

 

[Deleted member 365]

That never happened, but you know was did happen? Biden pooped himself at the D-Day ceremony and had to be led away by Jill Biden. This article is kind when they said Biden tried to sit on invisible chair but even the link url for the story ends in 'normandy-poop-pants'.

Joe Biden tries to sit on 'invisible chair' during D-Day memorial event

President Joe Biden participated in the the 80th anniversary of US-led allied forces' D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France in Normandy.

www.express.co.uk

Yes it did. What incentive would former CoS John Kelly have to lie about this?

John Kelly confirms Trump privately disparaged U.S. service members and veterans

Trump called fallen soldiers "suckers” and "losers" during his presidency, according to a 2020 report in The Atlantic.

www.nbcnews.com

And it’s not like this comes as a surprise. Trump has said similar things before about veterans in public. Here he literally calls one a “loser.”

Fact check: Donald Trump did call John McCain a loser

President Donald Trump called John McCain a loser at a televised event in 2015 and then, later that day, tweeted out a web post recapping the event.

www.freep.com

This is following the exact same argument you cultists are taking with the conviction. You act all surprised when you boy acts the way… well the way we’ve all come to expect. He is a classless convict. Your defending him just goes to show how classless you are. I certainly have nothing to fear if charter school advocates are as dumb as you are. You are a ****** person.

 

[Red]

Yes it did. What incentive would former CoS John Kelly have to lie about this?

John Kelly confirms Trump privately disparaged U.S. service members and veterans

Trump called fallen soldiers "suckers” and "losers" during his presidency, according to a 2020 report in The Atlantic.

www.nbcnews.com

And it’s not like this comes as a surprise. Trump has said similar things before about veterans in public. Here he literally calls one a “loser.”

Fact check: Donald Trump did call John McCain a loser

President Donald Trump called John McCain a loser at a televised event in 2015 and then, later that day, tweeted out a web post recapping the event.

www.freep.com

This is following the exact same argument you cultists are taking with the conviction. You act all surprised when you boy acts the way… well the way we’ve all come to expect. He is a classless convict. Your defending him just goes to show how classless you are. I certainly have nothing to fear if charter school advocates are as dumb as you are. You are a ****** person.

A portion of Biden’s speech today:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BAoMdOFRBg


We know Trump’s speech would have been far shorter:

“Why are we honoring all these losers today?”


View: https://x.com/greattask/status/1798705432179220672