Trump's Post Election Fallout: Legal & Obstruction actions

[knapplc]

1 minute ago, Redux said:

 

You can say it over and over and over, that doesn't make it right.

 

1 person DOES equal 1 vote currently.  And once those 1 votes are tallied, they decide each state.  It is basic math!

 

If one person equaled one vote today's procedure wouldn't be happening. 

 

This is all a ploy by republicans and rural folks to disproportionally hold power over the majority of Americans. It is anti-democratic. 

 

[Redux]

2 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

If one person equaled one vote today's procedure wouldn't be happening. 

 

This is all a ploy by republicans and rural folks to disproportionally hold power over the majority of Americans. It is anti-democratic. 

 

No it's not, and that reasoning is a ploy to manipulate people into thinking all votes are the same.  They are not.  State lines exist and we shouldn't pretend that they don't.

[knapplc]

1 minute ago, Redux said:

 

No it's not, and that reasoning is a ploy to manipulate people into thinking all votes are the same.  They are not.  State lines exist and we shouldn't pretend that they don't.

 

Who cares if "state lines exist?" States are arbitrary lumps of land. States don't vote.

 

People vote. 

[RedDenver]

Even McConnell isn't going along with the crazy pants Repubs

 

[Redux]

If we use basic math and ignore Nebraska and Maine's individual districts (which would actually be better for every state to adopt) the math checks out like this:

 

California had 17.8 million people vote, 70.8% of registered 

 

Nebraska had 950k people vote, 74% of registered 

 

Therefore each Nebraska's whopping 5 votes equals out to 1 EC vote per 190,000 votes.  California on the other hand has 55 votes meaning 323,636 votes per 1 EC vote.

 

So in that regard yes, Nebraska does in fact have more weight in terms of how many votes are behind each EC vote.  THAT should be adjusted.  Again, district voting makes more sense to me.

[Redux]

11 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

Even McConnell isn't going along with the crazy pants Repubs

 

 

Of course he's not, he got backed into a corner and now he will eat his own if it means his own survival

[Ulty]

49 minutes ago, Redux said:

 

See previous response, because it's the President of the United States.  States govern individually.  Those "imaginary" lines exist to protect individual state laws etc.  Why ignore that there are 50 individual states when it comes to electing who presides over them all?  They are all different, why pretend that's not true?  I would like a candidate earn my states vote instead of only focusing on like 3 or 4 cities total.

This is totally illogical and ignorant of basic civics. The president is not the leader of 50 individual states. That's what governors are for. The president is the head of the executive branch of the federal government, which is distinctly different (and supercedes) the individual state governments. 

[Redux]

2 minutes ago, Ulty said:

This is totally illogical and ignorant of basic civics. The president is not the leader of 50 individual states. That's what governors are for. The president is the head of the executive branch of the federal government, which is distinctly different (and supercedes) the individual state governments. 

 

Cool, cool

[knapplc]

8 minutes ago, Ulty said:

This is totally illogical and ignorant of basic civics. The president is not the leader of 50 individual states. That's what governors are for. The president is the head of the executive branch of the federal government, which is distinctly different (and supercedes) the individual state governments. 

 

I typed up nearly this exact response before deleting it because I realized I was talking to a guy who created a sock account to troll P&R. 

[Enhance]

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

What about the rest of the point.  If we would drastically change the way we do Presidential elections, why not make the other changes too in order to make a more representative government?   Why have a filibuster if we want majority rule?  Is there really a need for a Senate and a house or could we just have one big legislative body for majority rule that represents the will of the people?  

Because the rest of your post was an obvious attempt to create a fog over something you're uncomfortable acknowledging. Instead of arguing the merits and facts of what was said, you tried to dismiss it with the wave of a hand and then interject unrelated issues.

 

It'd be like me saying "I think green could be a better color than yellow," and then you saying, "well, green existing is a poor reason to want it, but also then why don't we just make pesto the only condiment instead of mustard."

[Archy1221]

36 minutes ago, Enhance said:

Because the rest of your post was an obvious attempt to create a fog over something you're uncomfortable acknowledging. Instead of arguing the merits and facts of what was said, you tried to dismiss it with the wave of a hand and then interject unrelated issues.

 

It'd be like me saying "I think green could be a better color than yellow," and then you saying, "well, green existing is a poor reason to want it, but also then why don't we just make pesto the only condiment instead of mustard."

What exactly am I uncomfortable acknowledging?   I don’t believe the EC is a bad system.  You do.  Fine.  But just saying other countries do it another way so we should too, doesn’t present a compelling argument to me.  
 

should we restructure our legislative body and judicial bodies to mimic what ‘other countries’ do?  
 

We have three equal branches of Government and each is put into place in a different way.  I’m fine with that because it’s another check on the system of government.  
 

 

[knapplc]

Pardon my French, but triple f#&% this guy.

 

 

[Nebfanatic]

1 hour ago, Redux said:

 

Cool, cool

This is your go to. How bout an actual response. People aren't picking on you, maybe you're just wrong on this one. 

[Redux]

1 hour ago, Nebfanatic said:

This is your go to. How bout an actual response. People aren't picking on you, maybe you're just wrong on this one. 

 

Cool

[Notre Dame Joe]

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

Pardon my French, but triple f#&% this guy.

 

 

"This tweet can't be replied to . . . "

 

My God are the Silicon Valley Stalinists really this dense?  People are rioting over a perceived threat to democratic and the Left is acting to squelch their speech. 

 

In Brian Kelly's 2010 words "Get used to it"