I’m not a big fan of proportional representation, because it can be gamed just like the current system, but in proportional representation you don’t actually cast a ballot for a person. While a third party candidate might sneak in there with some proportion of the vote, for the most part it will still be D’s and R’s with most of the vote, so whoever is the first D or R on the list will basically have the job for life, with no practical way to challenge them at all.

I do like ranked choice voting, in conjunction with a massive increase in the size of Congress. 435 is way too small. 1435 might be the right number, if my math is right that could be about 250k people per Rep. Let’s see people try to gerrymander 175 Congressional Districts in California…

Sure, whatever. The man has spent his entire life avoiding the consequences of his actions. Why would this be any different?

I wish them all the best of luck, but I’m not gonna hold my breath waiting for this to be any different.

No no no, it’s not an admission of weakness at all. He is incapable of that. It is two contradictory things, at the same time:

• if Democrats win, it’s because they cheat! Expect a lot of whining after the midterms, which will seem pointless but manifest itself as a series of Jan 6’s in scattered statehouses where the stochastic “freedom fighters” try to fix it themselves.

• Then, when that fails, he will blame Republicans for not backing him enough, and announce his plans to form a new party. He seems to have (finally!) accepted that he can’t run again, but Donald Trump Jr. will run instead, on an explicit platform of “My Dad’s still in charge”. They won’t even need to change the hats.

Dr. John Paul Garrison, a licensed forensic and clinical psychologist, certainly cares. This gets his name into the news…

Not even the first time it has happened in the US, Indiana tried to redefine pi in 1897

Except the last guy who hasnt decided yet was one of the GOPers who lost his primary. He might be feeling spicy and decide to vote against it.

You’re right that nornally, these sorts of announcements are “hall passes” where the party gives certain members permission to appear moderate in order to win elections, while still getting their agenda passes. This feels different, somehow, engineered so that Cassidy takes the brunt of GOP rage over it, since he’s not on the ballot anymore.

Edit: even though this aged like milk, I said what I said…

“In addition, when government data are not reliable, it can hinder the public’s trust in government,” the report stated.

Theat was the whole point, though. If enough voters don’t trust government, they will give Republicans permission to shrink it so small they can drown it in the bathtub.

Instead of being a death notice it’s a pre-death notice, if you will.

I prefer to say that he is fillibustering his own obituary…

Someone’s getting fired over this.

Not for the “mistake”, but for actually admitting it…

The Baileys must have told him they like El-Sayed…

There’s still a .su domain?

But more recently, the term has been used by conservative groups and cryptocurrency firms that claim they are victims. Trump signed an executive order a year ago designed to punish banks for restricting services to customers based on their political or religious beliefs.

I’m surprised no crypto has claimed to be a religion yet.

Republicans run for office on a platform that government is corrupt and inept, then they win elections and prove it’s true.

Bullshit story

I knew that just from the nypost url

It’s all party politics, and favors going back and forth. Right now, for better or worse, there is no bigger symbol of the Democratic Establishment than Chuck Schumer. He may owe enough favors to other Establishment people that he has to back the Next One Up.

Schumer himself hasn’t said whether he will run for re-election in 2028, so the deal might be to get Chuck to finally retire already and then AOC can be the only candidate…

And, AOC wouldnt run for President and Senate at the same time. I think NY allows that, but most candidates who try and pull that off are incumbent Senators or Congresspeople who are running for the same job while also running for President. It would be very unusual to run for a Senate job for the first time that you might have to give up 20 days into your term.

I still think there’s already been a deal made to clear the field for AOC to take over Chuck’s seat in exchange for her to help clear the field for Gavin (because he is the Next One Up…).

They just all have to pretend that the deal isnt a thing, because no deal is official until it happens, and everyone wants to keep their options open in case it falls apart.

The normal split in the Senate is 53R / 47D. With Mitch out of order, it’s down to 52/47. So three R’s voting the for it would have been enough to make the measure pass, if all D’s voted as well. But the vote got Fettermaned, and failed 49-50.

The President is only accountable to half the US House and 1/3 of US Senators. As long as 218 House members back him, he won’t get impeached. And even failing that, as long as 34 Senators back him, he won’t get punished.

It turns out he has enough support within Congress to keep grifting. Is he giving them a cut?

I am reminded of the situation around Dianne Feinstein in 2023, who held on to her seat until her death, even though rumors were swirling that she had dementia that was only getting worse. She actually gave power of attorney over her personal affairs to her daughter a few months before her death, while still serving as Senator.

(But, even through all that she still had lucid moments, and actually voted to prevent a government shutdown just before she died, which is more than Mitch has done recently.)

We really need some way to get these people to step aside when the time comes.