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I've decided I want a thread for all the dumbass stupid poo poo Our Dear Leaders get up to apart from the presidential nomination process https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/687706292094242816 it was spurred by this rear end in a top hat's poor sense of fashion. just look at that. shameful. like he stopped by Target on his way to the loving post office. not that Mr. Blue Argyle Sweatervest is puttin' on the Ritz but at least he looks like he might be more important than a temp intern at an ad agency. post pics and stories about your favorite local congressman or senator or whoever
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ted cruz is my senator  also this rear end in a top hat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt05KC3Add8
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^^^ remember when Cornyn was the arch-conservative rear end in a top hat when he took over for Phil Gramm? lol imo in the event of a Trump nomination there will be a lot of voters who vote for him but not downticket R's. The House is up for grabs.
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theyre all a pack of crooks except my guy, op
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:ted cruz is my senator lol that commercial and the one dan patrick used were golden
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:ted cruz is my senator Same. The only good thing about the Trum/Cruz rise is at least John's flavor of uberconservative shitpile is being forced out. You can easily point to why Cruz is a terrible person but there's this weird 'well ok yea so Cornyn hates the gays and the blacks and the womens too but he does it in a much calmer voice than Ted does, so really he's reasonable' thing that still happens for some reason.
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Aliquid posted:imo in the event of a Trump nomination there will be a lot of voters who vote for him but not downticket R's. The House is up for grabs. I think the dems would need both that and a substantial drop in turnout from moderate Republicans to get the double digit % lead in the national house vote they'd need to get the majority. The median house district voted for Romney and the last dem house majority i think needed both a double digit lead nationally and a number of southern democrats holding red rural seats getting split ticket votes through incumbency and that just doesn't happen any more polls indicate a fairly large minority of Republicans aren't willing to vote for trump, if that number doesn't get whittled down too much as a trump national campaign progresses then there might be a chance at a two year democrat rental. If they could use that to ram through statehood for PR and DC then they might lower the bar in the house and make things easier for themselves in the Senate but we're deep in nested hypotheticals now
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IMHO those clowns in congress are a bunch of clowns
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This is what the USPol thread in D&D is for. I don't see why we need this thread unless its because we want to be able to more freely shitpost
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blue squares posted:This is what the USPol thread in D&D is for. I don't see why we need this thread unless its because we want to be able to more freely shitpost this could be a "congressional elections 2016" thread, basically my hometown congressman, noted garbage person darrell issa, is set for another landslide victory against nameless milquetoast democratic candidate #251 however, the country I live in, Taiwan, is set to elect a pretty cool lady for president in mere hours!!!
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:ted cruz is my senator My two senators are Pat Leahy and Bernie. Gotta say, pretty happy about that.  ...Congressman Peter Welch I can kinda take or leave tbh.
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quadrophrenic posted:my hometown congressman, noted garbage person darrell issa, is set for another landslide victory against nameless milquetoast democratic candidate #251 oh that motherfucker. I grew up in neighboring Dana Rohrbacher's district and two are some real pieces of poo poo. Rohrbacher is so loving loony that he opposes putting fluoride in water.
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blue squares posted:This is what the USPol thread in D&D is for. I don't see why we need this thread unless its because we want to be able to more freely shitpost This is an election issue. It has a home in the election loving forum Let's all have a 2 minute hate about North Carolina's 2012 house election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_North_Carolina,_2012 Good job, everyone.
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blue squares posted:we want to be able to more freely shitpost Problems?
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Wulfolme posted:This is an election issue. It has a home in the election loving forum what a cool democracy we have 
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quadrophrenic posted:this could be a "congressional elections 2016" thread, basically I wanted to run against him, but couldn't stand living in his district any more. Also he's the richest person in congress, and the people from his district are bugfuck idiots. LA is pretty liberal, but moving South until you get to SD proper, it's a racist wasteland. Like "I lived in the South but we treated blacks better than this" racist.
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Xenophon posted:what a cool democracy we have It is cool + good, actually!
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Thump! posted:IMHO those clowns in congress are a bunch of clowns Somebody should tell the circus!!!!
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Xenophon posted:what a cool democracy we have lmao
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this is all making me favor sortition but on a distribution of the political compass (an online quiz with 25 questions!) populated by the opinions of citizen respondents libertarians and communards deserve at least one or two senators each~ i mean, if a public official can represent political interests -- which we could test and ensure without conventional voting -- then the only reason to hold elections is to recall them for faults of character. And if public servants like librarians can be trained and trusted to not voice any political opinions at work ever, then at least for the purposes of the character I desire in public officials it should be possible and satisfactory to stop senators throwing racial/othering/homophobic epithets around etc stephenfry has issued a correction as of 22:48 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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specific patches of geography still probably need some mechanism of democratic representation though multi-member districts are used in a lot of countries to kind of split the difference
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Xenophon posted:what a cool democracy we have I wonder how that happened 
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This is coming from a state legislature, not Congress, but too good not to sharequote:Republican lawmaker says journalists should face a registry to work in South Carolina
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Xenophon posted:I've decided I want a thread for all the dumbass stupid poo poo Our Dear Leaders get up to apart from the presidential nomination process GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
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I used to have this guy as my congressman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Frelinghuysen and now I have this dude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Lance. I vote for the green party candidate everytime though. 
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Xenophon posted:This is coming from a state legislature, not Congress, but too good not to share Lol you replace journalist with gun owner and so called liberals would be all over it.
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Powercrazy posted:Lol you replace journalist with gun owner and so called liberals would be all over it. Dozens massacred by journalist: when will our politicians do something?
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Well you know how a pen is mightier than a sword right? Think about how many more words you can write with a computer! It's like a machine gun really if you think about it
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We must regulate these assault blogging tools.
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Powercrazy posted:We must regulate these assault blogging tools. I almost scathingly posted about one way your comparison breaks down but then I realized my fellow citizens probably do view ownership of lethal weapons by untrained amateurs as a public service more legitimate and important than a free press
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So are we gonna see any Trump-style candidates for Congress this year, or does that not come until later?
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i personally can't goddamn wait to see which exciting choices between the republican and the libertarian (because the democratic party probably won't even run a candidate again, like in 2012 and 2014 lmao) i'll have to pretend to make before deciding which dota hero i want to loving write into the ballot again
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More local legislature news here, this time out of Kanas' senateKansas City Star posted:TOPEKA – A dress code imposed by a Kansas Senate committee chairman that prohibits women testifying on bills from wearing low-cut necklines and miniskirts is drawing bipartisan ridicule from female legislators. 
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Xenophon posted:More local legislature news here, this time out of Kanas' senate Should have added a paper bag over the head to the male guidelines
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that guy probably thinks he's an opponent of sharia law
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This sounds like a job for my collection of Spongebob ties and life's purpose of serving as a warning to others.
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what contrived situation can i use to be in a kansas senate bill hearing wearing a miniskirt it can't be exempted by use v mention, that's too easy, so no miniskirt industry jobs bill
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if that guy was a muslim i bet he'd grow a lovely patchy beard and they'd all mock him with some islamic version of 'cuck' (i hope radical islamic terrorists use some form of the modern american right's expanded definition of cuckoldry as an insult, it wouldn't be out of character*) and his glasses would fog up and he'd pretend he wasn't crying *HORSESHOE THEORY
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Xenophon posted:More local legislature news here, this time out of Kanas' senate Beady little wandering eyes
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Abner Cadaver II posted:I wonder how that happened Prior to that map it was actually a Democratic gerrymander, how do you think they kept a majority even in 2010?
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