ChiGoose

The system continues to bend over backwards to avoid holding Trump accountable, affording him breaks that none of us could ever get. And yet, I am sure the MAGA crowd is still convinced it’s all rigged against him.

I hate Illinois Nazis

Not really. It just seems that way because most of his ideas suck.

Solid point. To be a Republican today is to disregard any policy position or independent thought in favor of having your tongue wrapped gently over Trump’s *****. Anyone who rejects that is, by definition, not a Republican anymore. It’s all about drinking the juche

Watch this, and when you do, just think that the absolute best that the GOP can offer this family is “thoughts and prayers” even though this sh!t doesn’t happen this frequently anywhere else.

Are you ok? Can any of your family help you?

Is there anyone out there who honestly believes this isn’t a scam at this point?

Within an hour of the Trump Campaign chairs emailing the campaign team not to leak things to the press, the email was leaked to the press. LOL

I’m also a big space exploration fan and I’m currently reading A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. It’s a very eye-opening about the realities of colonizing Mars and I’d recommend it to anyone interested in the topic.

If they didn’t just assume everything about everyone and actually listened to other people, they might actually realize that they’ve been parroting utter BS and nonsense. The resulting cognitive dissonance might actually kill them, so they just repeat the same bogus talking points.

Why is it that the GI Joe crew is constantly blaming Cobra for when bad things happen? When people tried to rob Fort Knox, they said it was Cobra When people tried to cut off the world's energy, they blamed Cobra When someone tried to destroy the Panama Canal, they blamed Cobra When people tried to destroy Tokyo with an earthquake bomb, they blamed Cobra When someone tricked the GI Joes to detonate a bomb underwater in a fault line, they blamed Cobra When someone hijacked a satellite and used it to melt the Golden Gate Bridge, they blamed Cobra It seems like GI Joe thinks that any time bad things happen, it MUST be Cobra. Cobra, Cobra, Cobra. They're obsessed with Cobra! These GI Joe idiots and their supporters keep falling for the Cobra HOAX!

Evergreen Onion article: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens "WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said New Mexico resident Edward Turner, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

Lots of projection and nonsense from someone who seems fundamentally incapable of reading comprehension. The EC was adopted largely in part because it was acceptable to slave states like Virginia. No country setting up a democracy today would choose the EC as the way to do it. It is an incredibly inefficient way to determine the will of the electorate. I don’t have a problem with losing. I’m a Bills fan. Losing has been a part of my DNA for decades. What I have a problem with is blind faith in an outdated institution that does not accomplish its supposed objective and a reluctance to dare to dream that we deserve better than a system handed down to us over 200 years ago by people who owned other people.

Man, you keep on with the projection, huh? Can’t stand that you were proven wrong so now you want to change the subject while pretending you know what I believe even though you seem fundamentally incapable of simply reading words without your prejudices changing the meaning? Is reading a problem for you?

It’s really hard to get so many things wrong in one sentence, but you’ve managed quite a bit here. For starters, Superdelegates can’t even vote on the first ballot in the Dem nomination process.

The fundamental problem you seem to be having is that you do not understand my argument. You assume that the words I type mean something other than what they plainly mean. You are bringing your biases in to the point that it's clouding what you're actually reading. My argument: The electoral college is a vestige of having to deal with slave states and it no longer serves the purpose it once did. There are better ways to elect a president. If you think my goal is for Dems to win every election, you do not know me. So do not pretend that you do. If I had may way, both the Democratic and Republican parties as we know them today would cease to exist. Also, if your best argument for the EC is "it did something good 150 years ago" then your argument is as outdated as the EC is.

Care to elaborate? Tremendous leaps of logic here. The EC no longer does what it was designed to do. It is outdated, obsolete, and no country designing an electoral system today would copy it. So maybe, just maybe, it's not the best way to elect a president.

Why? Seems completely unrelated to the topic of this thread.

If only there was some record of what the Founders thought about the Electoral College and slavery. Like, if James Madison, often called the Father of the Constitution had thoughts on it.. Oh wait. "There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections." (James Madison July 19, 1787) Wow. It's almost as if one of the major factors in designing the Electoral College was to appease the slaves states...

Yeah man, I cited a couple of sources but started with wiki because I wasn't super confident in your comprehension ability. In any case, the slave states rejected every proposal for selecting the president until they agreed on the EC because, in combination with the 3/5ths compromise, it gave them power disproportionate to their voting population. It's not exactly a secret. Do you ever wonder why education correlates with partisan leaning? And finally, if I was programmed growing up, they did a terrible job at it since most of my family voted for Trump...

I'm not sure on the timing, but that would make sense. Doesn't help him in the general to spend any time in NY because of the EC.

I'm honestly not sure that's true. The top 10 cities combined represent just 8% of the US population. The top 20 are only 10%. Even if you go to the top 50 cities, you're only at 15% (coincidentally, about how much of the US population lives in the current swing states). A city-focused campaign would ignore the vast majority of the country. Plus, urban media markets are incredibly expensive. Campaign ad dollars go a lot further in rural areas than they do in cities. I remember back in the 2016 election when Trump came to Rochester. It was a big deal because presidential candidates don't normally go there. In the end, it didn't do anything for him electorally since NY isn't a swing state. But under the popular vote, it would have been cheaper for him to target areas like Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse to pull in the surrounding rural voters than to spend money in Pittsburgh and Philly because he wouldn't be concerned about needing to win PA as a state, just run up the vote in rural areas and smaller cities.

I actually fully agree with you. The current swing states are just the current swing states. It's been different states in the past, and it'll be different states in the future. But what makes them important in the EC isn't that they are small, it's simply that they could go either way. You could argue that New York was a swing state for most of US history. I appreciate you consistently fulfilling your role here. You could probably save yourself a lot of time by just having a bot randomly post about "MSM", "Dems" and "statists". Wouldn't change much for the rest of us.