Scott Johnston
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Scott Johnston
@Copybookfan
Objective realist. Strict originalist. Fan of Jefferson Kipling Henry and Paine. Realizes Orwell was more right than not.
North Carolina, USA Katılım Aralık 2014
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"hey yeah this just came down from engineering; they want the gears to fuck"
たいすーらせん@Yugemaku
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@davepl1968 Does porting and polishing a Ford 390 S-Code count? How about installing a Roots 6.71:1 blower on that same 390?
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Have you taken apart and recurved a dual advance distributor?
Have you looked inside a Quadrajet carburetor? One time, in the Old Testament, Moses rebuilds one, and even he has a few parts left over.
You'd be crying for your microcontroller in about 3 minutes.
messed up cars@messedupcars
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Your bill does nothing save to line the pockets of sellers of old machine guns. Better is a bill to repeal the Hughes Amendment. And include a reduction of the tax stamp to $0 from its current $200. Here Ill write it for you.
Section 922(o) referred to as the Hughes Amendment is nearby repealed.
The National Firearms Act including all definitions of firearms and any taxes applied thereto are hereby repealed and no tax shall ever be passed on any right enumerated in the constitution by any future congress.
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@RepMichaelCloud Oh an executive branch agency purchased access to an ad-tech program? Did Congress approve of that purchase? No. They did not. Add theft to the ATF'S List of crimes
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@yourboyphen I remember seeing a kid bounce off the Walmart doors cause he came in hot with his heelys and the doors didn’t open fast enough
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@libsoftiktok Its Aight what does Kommifornia know from 'Cue?
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@theMakarioz There is no situation you can be in that thugs with badges won't make worse.
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@RealJamesWoods Someone throw some bacon grease on that traitor
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Elections have consequences.
Unfortunately for the rest of us as well.
JOSH DUNLAP@JDunlap1974
New York City Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani today publicly called for America to align with Islam and "Prophet Muhammad" to support mass Muslim immigration, which is truly terrifying. He is also preparing to implement Sharia law in New York City!
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@Aliceshaw25 The ONLY proper way of dealing with this insanity is to insure you eat as much pork in front of these goatfuckers as possible
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@Ernest1588761 It was NOT a rhetorical question. It was a straight up rebuke. He called out to Adam as a rebuke to the choice Adam and Eve made not following His command.
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@grok @BenHart_Freedom So ideally if it were set up and passed. How much lead time would states need to create maps for districts this small?
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Yes, a "sunset protection" clause could help: repeal the 1929 Act, restore the constitutional ratio, and bar statutory amendments to the new apportionment formula until after the subsequent census and election cycle.
That gives the larger House one full term to operate, preventing an immediate flip-back before voters see the results. Congress could still try it, but it would force transparency and debate.
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🚨 HERE'S THE CONGRESSIONAL MAP GROK COMES UP WITH IF YOU PUT IN THE FOLLOWING PROMPTS:
** Apportion seats by population (761,000 People Per District).
** Draw compact contiguous districts.
** No odd shapes. Districts should be as regular shapes as possible.
** No partisan considerations.
** No racial considerations.
** Draw districts as closely as possible to what America's founders envisioned when they wrote and ratified the Constitution of the United States.
THE RESULT:
We get 280 Republican-held seats to 156 Democrat-held seats.
Important goals of America's founders included that:
1) Rural areas not be subsumed by urban interests.
2) Big states not overrun the interests of small states.
You can do this exercise with any AI program: Chat GPT, Google Gemini, Claude, or Grok.

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@grok @BenHart_Freedom @Grok So the amended legislation repealing the Permanent Reapportionment Act might need a clause that prevented its statutory modification until after the following census?
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Both parties could try amending the Constitution to reinstate a 435-seat cap (requiring 2/3 of each chamber + 3/4 of states), pour resources into hyper-local organizing/endorsements, or shift influence to the Senate/executive.
Those moves face massive hurdles: tiny districts make blanket funding inefficient, and national branding loses leverage fast. Adaptation to decentralized, issue-focused politics would be more realistic than clinging to old centralized power.
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@grok @BenHart_Freedom @Grok We theorize that neither dems nor republicans would sit on their hands. Is there anything realistically that they could try to hold on to power once that first election took place?
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The transition to ~11,600 hyper-local districts would erode national party control right away, as races become too small and numerous for centralized branding or funding to dominate.
Independents and issue-driven candidates would likely surge in the very first post-apportionment election (within 2 years). Meaningful two-party weakening could appear in 2–4 years, with broader fragmentation over 4–8 years as voters shift toward local accountability. Exact timing is speculative and depends on adaptation.
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@grok @BenHart_Freedom @Grok approximately how long after that first Apportionment would the current two party system collapse on itself?
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Following the Founders' intent—uncapped House growth at ~1 rep per 30,000 people—would mean ~11,600 reps with ~30k-person districts.
Citizens gain most: reps become far more local and accountable, diluting national party machines and urban concentration.
The two-party system would weaken; localized races favor independents and issue-based candidates over national branding.
Lobbying, Super PACs, and big external money become far less viable—too many small districts to blanket with influence, raising costs and reducing centralized control.
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@Copybookfan @OcrazioCornPop All of the areas you’re highlighting are already blue on the map, so maybe I’ve lost track of your point.
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🚨GROK's CONGRESSIONAL MAP: What would the MOST FAIR U.S. House map look like if we followed the Founding Fathers’ Principles?
- Apportion seats strictly by population (census)
- Draw compact, contiguous districts inside each state only
- No partisan data, no racial engineering, no weird shapes
- Prioritize whole counties & communities
RESULT: A clean map with 265-285 R to 150-170 D seats in a 50/50 nation.
Not gerrymandering - just geography.
This is what neutral, compact redistricting naturally produces.
The Founders wanted local geographic representation, not national proportional math.
No salamanders.
No tentacles.
Just logical districts.
True fairness under the Constitution isn’t forcing 50/50 seats.
It’s letting Americans vote where they actually live.
THIS MAP HONORS THE CONSTITUTION'S DESIGN.
What do you think?
MAP VIA: @JeremiahW2044

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@PBMaxTrojan @OcrazioCornPop Perhaps you have. Those blue AND Red areas on the map would cease to be blue or red. They would instead become a spectrum of colors from Traditional and Conservative to Innovative and Expressive
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@grok @BenHart_Freedom @Grok Would a constitutional Amendment be necessary to implement this type of plan?
If not what exactly would need to be done to implement this plan considering the event in Congress of June 19th 1929?
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@grok @BenHart_Freedom @Grok who would benefit most, if in the context of this conversation, the constitution were followed as the founders intended and why?
Would the current two party system survive?
Would Lobbying Super PACs and external influence on elections of representatives be viable?
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No, the Constitution's Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 does not mention 761,000. It states the number of Representatives "shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand" (a cap on House size, with at least one per state).
Founders used ~30,000 as the benchmark ratio.
Under the theory of applying that exact constitutional ratio (not the current 435-seat statutory cap) to a 349 million population, the House would have ~11,633 representatives (349,000,000 ÷ 30,000).
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@TrollingTheTro7 @Jeremia44029012 @Jaaavis Only the ignorant of history make that claim. Guess we know which camp you fall into dont we butch?
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@Jeremia44029012 @Jaaavis Man you ain’t gonna do shit but talk shit online. Stop the cap.
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Sounds like Democrats are considering throwing out the state government for two congressional seats nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/…
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