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support for term limits is a pretty easy way to determine if someone actually understands politics or not.
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We have a mechanism by which to limit the terms of politicians: elections. https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1314558279260008448 Hmmm well maybe you shouldn't have lashed yourself to his mast like Odysseus you freakin moron zoux fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Oct 9, 2020 |
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Oct 9, 2020 14:13
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Term limits arent cool, yo! Vote!
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1314558279260008448 huh? our moderate senator? maybe you haven't seen his ads, he's clearly not a fan of the president. in fact based on the last two weeks I'll confidently say he never has been
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Oct 9, 2020 15:07
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They're gonna upset the big boy and he's gonna sic his nutjobs on them. You hate to see it.
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Oct 9, 2020 15:10
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Based on his ads, I have correctly deduced that Cornyn is basically Beto amd you should vote for him against the Republican in the race, Hegar.
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Dameius posted:Based on his ads, I have correctly deduced that Cornyn is basically Beto amd you should vote for him against the Republican in the race, Hegar. tbf this isnt far from the truth
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Oct 9, 2020 15:17
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john cornyn is punk rock
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https://twitter.com/gusbova/status/1314568523960799235 Nevetheless, this paper can only stan
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Oct 9, 2020 15:20
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/gusbova/status/1314568523960799235 If you look at their endorsements this cycle, they clearly show their biased. Literally from the second line of her endorsement: "she also possesses the attack instincts to worsen Washington’s toxic political landscape."
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Oct 9, 2020 15:59
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Are the endorsements always this terrible? Houston Chronicle and DMN are both making some lovely choices this year.
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Yep, these are conservative editorial boards
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dalstrs posted:If you look at their endorsements this cycle, they clearly show their biased. Literally from the second line of her endorsement: "she also possesses the attack instincts to worsen Washington’s toxic political landscape." to be fair the whole point of an editorial board is to have a bias they should just get rid of them
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https://twitter.com/gusbova/status/1314595826971353088 https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1314576403447320579 Wow now Cornyn is coming at her from the left zoux fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Oct 9, 2020 |
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Oct 9, 2020 17:12
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Badger of Basra posted:to be fair the whole point of an editorial board is to have a bias I know who I'm voting for in the main elections, but gently caress me if I know enough about some random justice of the peace to know who's the better candidate. Why does the ballot always have to be so drat long?
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Oct 9, 2020 17:41
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lmfaoooo tell me when y'all see the best part of the ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkIUC2EgoU
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Oct 9, 2020 17:50
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My god can you imagine if Medicare was government controlled https://twitter.com/DMNGregRiddle/status/1314604560598675461 Huh, just everyone didn't feel like it I guess.
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Oct 9, 2020 17:51
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zoux posted:My god can you imagine if Medicare was government controlled Deer hunting with a bow started, I'm guessing he wanted to get to his lease already.
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Oct 9, 2020 18:01
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It seems to be like we'd be better off lengthening individual house terms instead of term limiting them. In addition to four years being not enough time to NOT be leashed to lobbyists and officials, those motherfuckers are literally always in re-election mode.
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Oct 9, 2020 18:26
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terms should only be as long as the government can command a majority in parliament and/or a maximum of five years  VVV mallard fillmore but he's screaming "multi-member districts"
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Here's my easy 3 step solution to fixing the Congress: 1. Abolish the Senate 2. Bring back earmarks 3. Public financing of elections so reps don't spend 50%+ of their time fundraising Part of the reason AOC is so effective is because she's so flush with cash that she doesn't have to spend time licking boots for campaign dough.
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Oct 9, 2020 18:30
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abolish the Senate demolish the Captiol build a 7500 member ultra-House
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Oct 9, 2020 18:38
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Gotta be careful with a huge representative body, don't wanna end up like the NH House
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I want term limits on the head executive because I can only handle so much and term limits on the supreme court so that judges won't have to cleverly time their deaths.i say swears online posted:lmfaoooo Goddamn, I have my druthers about Hegar, but Republican attack ads really make their targets sound better than they are.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I want term limits on the head executive because I can only handle so much and term limits on the supreme court so that judges won't have to cleverly time their deaths. Term limits for the whole federal judiciary, not just SCOTUS. The same problem exists in the lower courts too. https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1314621283213160450 Mr. Paxton, please stop trying to discuss your crimes with us
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Oct 9, 2020 19:33
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Can we abolish the state legislative senates too? They're the worst.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:Can we abolish the state legislative senates too? They're the worst. I don't get the point of them. The framers had to create the Senate (as a compromise to the Slave states natch) and they specifically created it as a non representative body. It's like all the states just copied the feds for the sake of it, except they just made two proportional houses, one with bigger districts. Except Nebraska, who eliminated their Senate as a cost saving measure in WWII and never brought it back.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Mr. Paxton, please stop trying to discuss your crimes with us tbf, this is also moore's stance on literally every other issue until garza is sworn in
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Nah, the original justification for having the senate be less proportional was because otherwise Virginia and the slave states would have a lot more power, especially if you counted the slaves as people being represented despite having no say in anything. And then later they had to make an equal amount of states north of the mason dixon to keep the balance with the new slave states, and most of the new northern filler states are comparatively empty now, but I'm not sure if they were more or less populous than the new southern states at the time. And so now it's much more difficult for white supremacists to suppress the people they don't want to vote, the only way they can maintain their power on the federal level is with the rural states where population growth lagged way behind in tandem with the autocratic states that will bend the knee to the national party for the sake of maintaining power, and it's a whole mess to try and fix.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Nah, the original justification for having the senate be less proportional was because otherwise Virginia and the slave states would have a lot more power, especially if you counted the slaves as people being represented despite having no say in anything. You are correct, I thought the 3/5ths compromise came before the CT compromise, but it's the other way around
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It's dumb but the way the 3/5 compromise is discussed nowadays annoys me a bit. It's framed as "slave states didn't think black people counted as full humans" (which, yeah, true) but at the time counting a slave as a full person actually gives vastly more power to the slavers. Counting a slave as 0 persons was the anti-slavery position. The pop culture version of it doesn't really get across how monstrously hosed up the situation was.
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https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1314649417824169984?s=20 this makes more sense
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's dumb but the way the 3/5 compromise is discussed nowadays annoys me a bit. It's framed as "slave states didn't think black people counted as full humans" (which, yeah, true) but at the time counting a slave as a full person actually gives vastly more power to the slavers. Counting a slave as 0 persons was the anti-slavery position. The pop culture version of it doesn't really get across how monstrously hosed up the situation was. no no the new praegeru discourse is that the evil northern libs didn't want black people to count as humans and forced the poor southerners to have reduced populations in congressional tallies
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Oct 9, 2020 21:43
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zoux posted:My god can you imagine if Medicare was government controlled Lol, isn't Cedar Hill one of the few teams that can actually compete with Allen.
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those are both giant schools emblematic of big money in high school football. cancelling a game is the worst thing to happen in dallas since 1963
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https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1314677973593862144?s=20 yeah sure thing ken
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Oct 9, 2020 23:14
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https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1314582026335461376 It is we who failed Ken
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1314582026335461376 lol Christ
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1314695925701521412 SAEN really repping their community 
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1314695925701521412 I like how they're doing endorsements like it's still 1974 or something
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