Then let the solution be Calexit.
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And keep their VHS tape machines in top working order. Can’t you just smell those shiny shiny heads?
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I hope there is a solid incontrovertible paper trail that backs up whatever he offered in his plea deal.
Plea deals suck. Without solid evidence Flynn is no different than any of the other thousands (Millions? I honestly have no idea), who have said whatever they need to to reduce their troubles with the law.
This throws mud in many directions. It’s being reported that Kushner had instructed Flynn to ask Russia to delay the UN vote to condemn Israeli settlements, an attempt to sabotage the foreign policy of the existing administration. So Trump team colluded with Israel, actively worked to sabotage official US foreign policy, and then lied about it. Hat trick!
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The trends indicate that in 20 or 30 years, 70% of the population will live in 15 states, with 30 senators. The remaining 30% of the population will have 70 senators, which will be the rural, uneducated voters who disproportionately went for Trump. The House won’t be much better - given the limits on representatives, the ratio of population to representative will become worse and worse over time, with depopulated states getting better or staying the same. We already have 51% of the population (i.e. the ten most populous states) only having 44% of the electoral votes, so that’ll get much worse as well. We’ll see more and more presidential elections like the last one - where the loser gets a bigger and bigger percentage of the popular vote.
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Source: probably Seth Abramson.
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Looks more like a giant, well deserved shit sandwich.
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Yeah, demographic change is definitely not in favor of Turmp / Republican voters (the difference is overstated).
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Historically, age has made people into Republicans, but currently, not nearly so fast as it makes Republicans into corpses
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For that matter, life-expectancy-reducing “diseases of despair” are predominantly diseases of Turmp voters (not that this is something to be happy about)
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The percentage of the population with college degrees is still increasing (and will for decades, even if the proportion of 25-year-olds with degrees plateaus). Higher education confers a lifelong reduced risk of Republicanism.
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The concentration of wealth increases the power (and campaign contributions) of individual selfish fucks, but it necessarily reduces the number of selfish fucks actually casting votes.
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The US population is getting steadily less white, even as Republicans double down on telling non-white people to go fuck themselves.
Those all spell big trouble for the GOP in the long term, especially the last, because they are rapidly passing the point of no return on race. Right now, it might feel like what Turmp stands for is on the rise, but partly what you’re seeing is a spike in turnout from this demographic precisely because it feels its privileged position collapsing.
It’s true that rural overrepresentation may get worse, but even rural states aren’t completely white or uneducated or Republican. Anyway, I don’t see that America can end up being ruled via a handful of Deliverance hillbillies with zero economic or cultural importance, especially if the GOP has to keep them in a state of perpetual desperation to achieve it.
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Historically the Republican party was way different 70 years ago. They were okay with taxing the highest brackets at 70% of their income, were actually for universal health care.
Eisenhower would be considered a raging commie by the standards of the current party.
Everyone I know has been getting more and more socialist as they get older and see how awful the current system is.
The old adage of you get conservative as you get older is based on an older definition of conservative… Change isn’t bad but maybe we don’t test the depth of the pool by jumping in head first.
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Sorry to get your hopes up, Dems, but even the Washington Post ADMITS
The investigations and “collusion” outrage are running out of steam, well short of reaching the president’s doorstep.
Teddy Roosevelt (other than his war boner) would be considered a bleeding heart liberal socialist by today’s standards.
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Re: “even the Washington Post ADMITS”: This is the opinion page, and the opinion is coming from this guy: "Ed Rogers is a contributor to the PostPartisan blog, a political consultant and a veteran of the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush White Houses and several national campaigns. He is the chairman of the lobbying and communications firm BGR Group, which he founded with former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour in 1991. "
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I’m just imitating a tactic I’ve seen far too many times on twitter. 
