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@libsoftiktok @SecDuffy States right are really gone from the GOP aren’t they…

The town of Leesburg, Virginia just approved a permanent lgbtq pride crosswalk This is a direct violation of @SecDuffy’s order to keep distracting political messaging off the roads to ensure safe roads Strip them of all their funding immediately

@Pro__Trading Why did Missouri have two seats drawn by the VRA? Explain as I am confused

Missouri is the perfect example of how the Democrats have been cheating the system for political power. President Trump won the state of Missouri by 18 points in 2024. It doesn't get any redder than Missouri. Yet, the Democrats have been able to racially gerrymander two seats in Missouri. They should have zero seats in Missouri. The Democrats have more seats in Missouri than Republicans currently have in Virginia, which is almost a 50-50 state. Does that seem fair or right to anyone?

@adonispara Didn’t amnesty international send investigators and determine 1000 refugees were killed instead?

In 1976, 84 Rhodesian soldiers raided a camp of 5,000 in mozambique and came back without losing a single man. operation Eland. one of the most asymmetric raids of the 20th century and barely taught anywhere outside military circles.

@greendragonhq @KathyHochul It’s literally in the NY constitution…

This is not okay @KathyHochul . You have the trifecta and can amend these maps to give Democrats a fighting chance in the mid-terms. When are we going to stop Republicans from cheating and start punching back?

@yinzer_g @prinkasusa Should we have invaded Panama?

@prinkasusa Jimmy Carter also gave away the Panama Canal, destroyed public education, allowed US citizens to remain hostages of Iran for 444 days, created a national gas shortage and ushered in the worst economy since the depression.

Jimmy Carter was the 39th U.S. President - and never ordered a single aerial bombing campaign against a foreign country. Every modern president before and after him did. Carter chose diplomacy where others chose firepower. His defining moment came at Camp David in 1978 - locking Egyptian and Israeli leaders in 13 days of brutal negotiation, emerging with a peace agreement that ended 30 years of war. His presidency faced the Iran hostage crisis, oil shocks and economic turmoil - crises that would have given any leader justification for military escalation. He held the line anyway. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He died in 2024 at 100 years old. The man who never bombed anyone outlived almost every critic who called him weak.

@Hwy41 @EWErickson But the acquiring the means of production is communism not socialism… this is textbook socialism… now our government has several socialist polices and you can agree or disagree with them but please know which is which

I trust Trump sees this as a biz transaction that can accomplish two things - 1) Keep a really cheap airline alive until fuel reverts to normal pricing 2) get our $ back plus in a future transaction. I don't see this as a play to acquire the means of production. That said, if a Dem did this, I would be opposed because they are not trustworthy to not acquire the means of production (since that's what they want for everything else. Trump with have to conclude this transaction before leaving office.

This is the socialism you said you were voting against.

@ThomAquinas77 @itsjustamovie84 @TRHLofficial Did you not just have Charlie baker as your governor?

@itsjustamovie84 @TRHLofficial Same. I always vote a straight Republican ticket, but I haven't listened to local or state news for... ...wait for it... decades. There's no point. I was just wasting my time.

New England mastered the art of gerrymandering years ago The 6 states are 40% Red They have 33 seats between them So they have 13 Republicans, right? Wrong. They have 1. This is modern day taxation without representation coming full circle to the birthplace of the Revolution

@itsjustamovie84 @TRHLofficial You act like Mass did not have a Republican governor literally 3 years ago

@BananaRep405 Sorry which states had grandfather clauses and literacy tests until 1965 and a history of racial discrimination?

“These maps are fair because they’re proportional” Why do republicans have to draw proportional maps in our safe states while there are no republicans in New England? Have a consistent standard for what defines a fair map. If you pick and choose then you are a disingenuous hack.

@2aHistory @BobBeRight You have already admitted the U.S. is a democracy… just not a direct democracy… and yes that was a poor choice of food to use

@hunetyu @BobBeRight In what instance do you need to add qualifiers to "vegetable" in order to be correct about applying that term to a cucumber? Is there a "pure vegetable" which isn't a cucumber? What would that be? And interestingly enough - cucumbers are NOT vegetables. They are a fruit.

The USA is not a democracy, and was designed not to be a democracy. The country likely wouldn't have formed if the small states had been told they would be ruled by election results from larger states. Some people slept thru history classes.

@planefag Yeah it’s the first Tuesday in November because of when market days were 200 years ago…

The electoral college almost always favors the underdog and closes the gap between incumbent and challenger. Multiple other mechanisms in our governmental design accomplish this as well; for instance, voting day is always the first Tuesday in November, by law, rather than whenever the ruling party decides to call for an election within a year's time as in most parliamentary systems (which gives them immense advantage as they can move early or delay to exploit the news cycle, whereas in America the parties are always at the mercy of the last bad thing to happen.) You're just assmad that you can't automatically gain permanent power forever by packing the country to the gills with illegal immigrants.

@2aHistory @BobBeRight Sigh… the U.S. is a democracy. A representative democracy and a constitution republic… it’s like saying a cucumber is a vegetable. Vegetable is an umbrella term but cucumber is more right. Both are correct

@hunetyu @BobBeRight "It's an umbrella term" Meaning it's common, and all liberals believe it. Doesn't make it right.

@2aHistory @BobBeRight Yeah and a representative democracy is a type of democracy… Democracy is an umbrella term not a system of government. Direct democracy and representative democracy are both democracy. It is disingenuous to say the U.S. is not a democracy

@hunetyu @BobBeRight Because some people think that "democracy" is a synonym for "representative democracy". Hint: It's not. Lots of other gov't forms that allow some voting and portions of democracy.

@Grunt2A Uncap the house… go back to the 1787 ratio… sure smaller states will always have a slight advantage but a vote being worth double would’ve been unacceptable to the founders

@hunetyu That gets reset every 10 years after the census by reapportioning both house seats and electoral votes.

Alow me to simplify why a national popular vote for the President is a bad idea and why the Electoral College is a feature, not a bug. The Electoral College actively prevents us from being a true democracy because true democracies are really bad ideas and allow a low information electorate to simple take what it wants from anyone else. Property rights cease to exist in a true democracy. So do civil rights, minority rights, or any other rights that 50.1% of the people who show up to vote don't want you to have anymore. The country would be run by New York, LA, Chicago, and Dallas. No one's opinions outside of those cities would matter. By having the electoral system it forces Presidential candidates to cater to all 50 states, not just the most populated cities. This ensures that a farmer's rights in Bismark, North Dakota are as important as a homeless man's in New York City, thus making sure the entire nation is represented by the Executive Branch equally. Remember in The Hunger Games where the people of the outlying cities existed only to feed and entertain the residents of the central city under threat of death? That is what not having an electoral college would cause in the United States. Additionally, removing it would require a Constitutional Amendment. And because it would require a Constitutional Amendment anything that attempts to change the process without an Amendment is an end run around the Constitution and is invalid on its face per Marbury v Madison.

@JacobAShell Yeah expand the house then… a vote in ND should not be worth 2.3x a vote in NY. In 1787 a vote in RI equal to 1.4 votes in VA

Ive said this elsewhere, that if the EC and Senate system were scrapped, then rural states would need to be given something else to compensate them for the loss. Dems’ unwillingness to see this issue as a give-and-take, and insistence upon instead dressing up a potential power grab as a “fairness” issue, means the anti-EC push isnt going anywhere and status quo will prevail.

@JacobAShell @MakeUSAVAT The SC has been very clear that is not the case

@MakeUSAVAT Because the constitution is a contract which all parties signed with the understanding that these were the terms of becoming a union. Renegging on the contract means rural states no longer have any obligations towards the union

@TrynaBeLogical @xwanyex A vote in ND counts 2.3x a vote in NY… in 1787 a vote in RI counts 1.4x a vote in VA… expand the house

@xwanyex They always complain about the undue influence of Wyoming voters or its congressional representation, but never a peep about Rhode Island or Delaware or Connecticut.

1) Some American citizens should have more voting power than others 2) Geography is a strong basis for such an outcome

@2aHistory @BobBeRight A republican form of government is literally just a representative democracy…

@hunetyu @BobBeRight And it's not. If you throw on QUALIFIERS, then you'd be closer. It very specifically had anti-democratic devices added as part of the structure, and if it hadn't the Constitution would never have been ratified. "republican form of government" sound familar?

@upstatefederlst You also shouldn’t have a system where a vote in ND is worth 2.3x that as a vote in NY… in 1787 a vote in RI was 1.4x a vote in VA… go back to those numbers and expand the house

You cannot have a national popular vote when all 50 states have different rules for voter registration and balloting.