If they did, would any Trump supporters believe them?
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If thereâs one thing this election proved, itâs that actual facts are meaningless to bullies.
And that shouting total insanity loudly is more believable than stating facts calmly.
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It is faintly ridiculous, but scoff at it at your peril.
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I think âdisingenuousâ is the word youâre looking for
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I vaguely remember it. Thatâs why we celebrate Black Friday, right?
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Iâd just like to see a decent number of them go faithless in protest. Not holding out hope that theyâll be heroes.
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Iâll stick with ridiculous. There are plenty of true believers that are unaware of the absurdity of their political views. More than plenty.
Vestigial processes within the USG are interesting to me and I remain surprised that this one has stuck around as long as it hasâŚwell, not really, given that the electors are just another set of awardees in the political process to be herded and placed just so when needed. But still, a distinct remnant of the past.
A few years ago I caught a brief segment on CSPAN from about the USG and whether the size of the electoral pool was large enough to handle a nation of 320+ million people. 50 Jackasses and 435 Jackholes plus two or so other Fucknozzles seems a rather paltry infrastructure for handling the concerns and ideas of a rather large and [caring,creative,unruly,talkative,thoughtful,thoughtless] people.
My brain doesnât grok well enough at either micro or macro scale to understand how the US political system might or should change to encompass the ensuing population change as a starter, much less the implications of altering/updating the voting systemâbut clearly, shit is broke, shit needs fixing.
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Yeah, thereâs that, but I was thinking more that even the members of the electoral college who canât stomach voting for him wonât stay in a position to vote otherwise.
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Close. Thatâs the one where you eat turkeys rather than elect them. Cyber Monday is the one where you celebrate government by Twitter.
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Nicely subversive.
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I think Deanâs parable from Man of the People to Enemy of the People should tell us/you something. Namely, that the whole point of representative democracy is this backroom dealmaking and horse-trading. You/we elect people to horse-trade in our stead, they are supposed to be two-faced conniving sons of bitches. The real problem is that this sausage-making business is supposed to get us somewhere that is not here, and this is not happening: we keep spinning a hamster wheel of deregulated capitalism, with no grand plan or horizon in sight beyond âweâll just try to make you suffer a little bit lessâ. We need a plan that goes beyond selecting the right face for this or that job, something that people can agree with, and then we can unleash an army of bastards to get us there by hook or by crook. Candidate-first strategies must die.
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The plan would involve people realising that the upper classes choose the candidates to promote their interests, and the debate is between (say) the banks and the businessmen, or the globalists and the nationalists; and that people need to choose candidates to suit their interests, which would mean (a) getting informed, (b) getting involved and (c) getting organised.
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I love that the same actor â Rufus Sewell â who played Alexander Hamilton in that brilliant HBO series John Adams also plays Obergruppenfuhrer Smith in The Man in the High Castle.
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Except Interstate Compacts have to be approved by Congress and you arenât going to get that from the Senate as small states lose their relative advantage.
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Yep, that too. But in the short term we can also hope for the results to be overturned, or him to be impeached while the other stuff gets organized (and before he/they are able to put in place laws that disallow such organization).
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The only states even remotely likely to pass such a measure already trend blue. All the recent winners of the electoral vote who lost the popular vote are Republicans. Why would the Southern and sparsely-populated Plains and Western states give up their unfair advantage? Thatâd be like voluntarily eschewing the gerrymandering thatâs literally the only thing keeping them anywhere near controlling the House.
Shitposting trolls crowing about being in the majority are provably wrong. Not that thatâs going to stop them.
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Weâve already seen one member who said he could not, in conscience, vote for tRump resign his position instead.
This struck me as really sillyâŚthat guy literally divested himself of his duty as an elector. No one says he had to give his vote to Clinton. He could have abstained, made an actual statement about why he couldnât do it, or even voted for Tom Brady for all it matteredâŚjust not Trump.
âI canât in good conscience do something bad, so Iâll let someone else do itâŚproblem solved!â
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1.16.5 MYTH: THE NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE COMPACT REQUIRES CONGRESSIONAL CONSENT TO BECOME EFFECTIVE.
QUICK ANSWER:
- The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that congressional consent is only necessary for interstate compacts that âencroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States.â Because the choice of method of appointing presidential electors is an âexclusiveâ and âplenaryâ state power, there is no encroachment on federal authority.
- Thus, under established compact jurisprudence, congressional consent would not be necessary for the National Popular Vote compact to become effective.
- Nonetheless, National Popular Vote is working to obtain support for the compact in Congress.
[Source. Relevant case is Virginia v. Tennessee.]
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Wow. If even Schoolhouse Rock canât make a case for somethingâŚ
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