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The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated
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You need a constitutional change, voted by 3/4 of the states. It is not that the Democrats don't want to change the electoral system, but that they cannot change it without winning 38 states.
Giving statehood to DC and Puerto Rico could be easier and can be done by an act of congress (instead of countries voting about it), but that likely won't pass in the supreme court.
So no, I do not expect much to change.
What does granting statehood have to do with the supreme court?
This is a fair point, but I don't think the founders really expected DC to become a 1 million people city. It is already bigger than a couple of federal states.
The solution you are proposing is okay IMO, as is giving statehood to it, but keeping the center (White House, congress) under federal level. More concerning is the situation on Puerto Rico though, it should definitely get statehood. The others, too small for that.
GOP will claim it to be unconstitutional, and say that it can be done only if the states agree. GOP judges will agree with that.
Totally agree with the first part, except that I dont think turning DC into essentially a city-state is the solution.There is precedent for folding DC back into Maryland. DC was originally formed by land donations from Maryland (what is now DC) and Virginia (what is now the DC suburb of Alexandria). Some time in the 1800s the Virginia land was ceded back to Virginia. No reason that could not be done with DC and, like @Carolina Red suggested, the federal buildings become a strip of federal land.
I agree with PR becoming a state. It’s size and proximity make it a no brained (unless you are a republican). The others are tough as they have the same status I think as PR, so to make PR a state would set a precedent.
Even if Dem wins majority there's nothing groundbreaking they can do, if there is the Reps would have done it or would just redo it the next time they win the election (which they again somehow will in the future)
But that does not matter. The precedent for admission of new states is pretty well established. If congress agrees to admission and the president signs off it happens. States only have a say if the new stars is being formed from existing states.
As a side note. I heard a podcast on the unique situation of Texas. Apparently part of their agreement to join the union gave Texas the power to break itself up into as many states as they wanted.
NY state will go after him in a heartbeat once he is out of office. Far too much there, there.
He deserved to wear the Q pin for this batshit crazy interview.
Imagine the unbridled glee this idiot possessed when this clothing abortion’s delivery landed at his doorstep.Move over Full Kit Wanker, there's a new sheriff in town.
Womp, womp.
They have a Written Admission of Guilt from Flynn, yet they simply let him go, snap... just like that.
Plus I don't think Americans are crazy enough to jail their ex-president, it'll simply never happened. He'll be brushed behind the carpet, probably given "mental drugs" to keep him sedated.
We’ve never been here before, though. There needs to be consequences & NY state will go forward with indictments, even if it is just for political reasons NY is firmly blue & could do this without political fallout.
Flynn‘s case is one of a corrupt DOJ & how the courts are being ruined by Trump appointees.
Amazing how much this grifter has turned on a political dime from her early days.
Unfortunately Trump Jr is so odious that the virus is worried he will infect it.
Btw, happy 4th July muthafecka!
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Wow! Just watch the entire threads videos. Trump is so deflated compared to his usual bombastic self. He seems tired, deflated, unenthusiastic and at times off his face. He slurs his way through and mispronounces words way more than usual.
The kicker is the crowd seems to be extremely subdued compared to normal. They are definitely picking up the vibe from their cult leader. Or have they just learned he has no message? Nothing really to say, just that he says what he thinks they want to hear?
He's definitely down, but is he out yet?
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As long as they don't build and pay for a wall this is great.. On the other hand, maybe the Mexican president also promised a bordeer wall and said America will pay for it. MMGA
There's already been an attempt to rehabilitate Bush. How much longer till Cheney gets the "well he wasn't as bad as trump" treatment from hysterical democrats that now seem to think the best way to fight trump is not on policy, but to re-imagine history into a new narrative so Trump looks like an abboration and not just a continuation of conservative ideology?
Wonder what his walk into the WH from Marine One looked like tonight.
Thanks for the insights, really interesting. Kind of sad that the system seems to be there to stay for at least a long while. Would've thought that the systemic flaws that ultimately led to Trump would get a higher priority since it's in the democrats best interest to prevent something like the last four years from happening again but I understand that it seems rather unlikely that they a) get all the necessary majorities and b) prioritize it over seemingly more urgent short term topics.
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Abit of a old one from Vic but funny nonetheless.
That is the office x1000000 mixed with Curb and a big extra dollop of cringe goodness
By that I'm assuming he means schools teach more than "murica was created by jebus for white straight conservative men"?
Decades of pledges of allegiance, and star-spangled majorettes marching at the drop of a hat, and all the while those kids were being taught to hate the USA. Incredible subterfuge.
There are honestly parts of our history we should hate. Like slavery, internment camps, systemic racism, jim crow, disco, trail of tears, etc.
I remember last summer at a wedding we were shooting the breeze and the subject of American history was brought up. Of course we were all in agreement when these points were discussed but one of the guys wives came over and when she realized what we were talking about she covered her ears and stamped her feet like a child. She didn't want to hear any of it and thought we should only regale each other about the good things. I found out later that she was a retired teacher.
Checks memories of AP US History....... yep, this tracks.
The amount of bad shit from America's past I have learned in my old age from reading and podcasts (The Dollup in paricular. Amazing history podcast by two commedians. They do mostly American history but also European/Australian when they do live shows abroad) constantly blows my mind. Almost none of it was covered in HS or college.
I will fight you.
Tesco, 5 pm.
I'll chalk your rage up to a Saturday night fever.
To be fair, disco did give us this:
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