So why would any politician care about north dakota?  They could just pander to 4 or 5 major cities and walk the election in a landslide?  Why would the flyover states bother paying taxes, sending food and listening to the federal government if they knew they had no representation in it?

and manage to flip the Senate, they go full scorched earth with court packing, DC and PR statehood, eliminating the filibuster, and, fuck it—eliminating the electoral college too.

So the checklist to be a good republican, for those keeping score:

1) Have no political power and hold no political office

2) Support democrats

Diamond joe is likely to get 3 noms even if he only serves one term. Dont panic.

The schemes to court pack and add states are bad-bad-bad-bad-bad, as what stops the republicans if they get back in power to just upping the court to 30 justices and split texas into 15 states?

I would want the Democrats to slam through a new justice if we were in their shoes. I’d freak out if the Democrats passed on the opportunity.

Its unlikely roe will ever be overturned (its well rooted in precident which all conservative justices are outspoken about respecting), and even if it did it would just kick back abortion to the state level, so your state could still allow for it.

Federalism is a thing, y’all.  All is not lost.

Its a bad look when you need to cut me off because otherwise i look too good ;)  

You’re an idiot if you think this would only be enforced vs. people standing in the streets. Note that nowhere does it define “a violent or disorderly assembly”.

The GOP have absolutely no fucks to give and have done everything except come out and say “over 200K people died on our watch...AND?”

All you had to do was make the american left the party of labor rights and progressive taxation, but nooooo, you had to go full “White privilege, Decolonization”.

All you had to do was make the american left the party of labor rights and progressive taxation, but nooooo, you had to go full “White privilege, Decolonization”.

Your actions on this site, are the only.thing I can judge you from, and based on your actions (posts and words, but more importantly, ideas, that you share) you are racist.

Shit, I didn’t realize protesting the fact that people are being straight up murdered by police

How do I know? Facebook is the fucking devil, but it also lets you know what your conservative Christian friends from high school and college are thinking. And it’s this. This is what they’re thinking.

Seems like this should work both ways. Find a bunch of Nazis assembling, run them over and drive away with no penalty!

The thing is these people arent “Finding” BLM protestors, the protestors are coming to them. “Finding” nazis would mean premeditation on your part, and so murder in the first degree.

The “Life expectancy in the 1700s” thing really is kind of skewed tho. If you made it past 12 and there werent any wars going on, you stood a decent chance of hitting 70 or even 80. Child mortality and wars kind of bring the average number down in a way thats not representative of the political class. Ben franklin was…

Court packing is a bad idea. It just becomes an unaccountable second legislature with factions and scheming. Poland had to cut its supreme court when the numbers swelled to over 100 justices for this reason. (Now they only have a more manageable 40-something)

If the dems increase the court to 13, why shouldnt the…

She spoke out against court packing, basically.

The problem with this is the size of it swells to insane levels every time power changes hands, and the court just becomes a secondary, unaccountable to voters second-legislature.   Poland recently had to cut its supreme court, previously normal sized from over 100 justices to a mere 45 or so for this reason.   Not…