So having electors not carry out the will of their state constituents is a good thing and makes votes count more. Those are some impressive mental gymnastics there, 9.0 from the Russian judge.
If you want a constitutional amendment then go get one. Make Republicans explain why the EC is relevant today… don’t take a sub optimal EC and make it worse.
You know, I think you might be hitting on a very key point here. Maybe this is the thought I was desperately searching for the other day…
Without question, just without question.
Tim Scott getting snubbed, Justice Thomas constantly gets called a **** and Uncle Tom…
You have to be a fund raiser first and foremost. From the very first time you run for anything under the Party label, whether it be school council or Mayor, the first assessment is “how much $ can you raise”.
I got shit for making a “the experiment is over” thread awhile ago, lol.
Welcome to club.
One other point about this:
Who the hell really wants their life to go under the media microscope and subject themselves to the insane spin from “the other party’s” press lapdogs?
I’m kinda a huge dork, never even been arrested, cuffed or had more than a couple speeding tickets. Never cheated on a single woman or any of that.
But I’m quite far enough from perfect that I would never consider putting myself in that spot light. Shit I wouldn’t even write a letter to a POTUS offering a suggestion for fear they’d take it up, and I’d have 400 “journalists” at my door in 4 hours.
This event in KC the mayor attended it. They brought in data scientists to predict Crime in certain areas. It was crazy the stuff worked by increasing patrols in certain neighborhoods at predicted times of year and day it cut violent crime the following year. The water company also hired them to predict water line busts and they fix them ahead of time. This whole data science thing is crazy. I dont understand shit of it other then it works and you can make a shit ton. Information = $$$
I don’t agree. I think you’re just looking in the wrong places. Look up the stuff Mike Rowe is doing for example. Dude graduated from the same college I went to with a degree in like marketing or something and he’s doing incredible things.
I saw the other day the Texans rookie qb (Watson I think his name is) just gave away his game check to their cafeteria workers to help them recover from the Hurricane.
*I do think the negative is broadcast more now and that creates this doom and gloom perception.
I loosely follow Mr Rowe. You’re correct, he’s a good dude, very level headed and truly understands the people and jobs that make the foundation of any civilized society.
JJ Watt did some stuff too. That entire team just seems to radiate “good people” from what I’ve seen. (Watch, someone will post an article where one of their players beat his wife or something lol…) As long as they lose to the Pats it’s even better.
Well, I certainly don’t think it’s coming form politics or entertainment these days… (Which your two examples could very well be entertainment, but that’s not what I mean lol.)
Do you agree our culture has a fair amount of “rotten” in it these days or no?
Thre are even examples in the dumpster fire that is Hollywood.
Like Gary Sinise:
I think there is a fair amount, yes, but I’m not convinced it’s more than in previous generations. I think it’s broadcast more.
I wrote on here a while back (don’t remember the thread and I stole this from someone else anyway), watch what people do when a crisis strikes. That’s how you know the people, generally, are still good.
There are thousands of examples. They’re just not sexy enough for the news at 6.
I agree. Plus negative stuff sticks with you more. Heard on the news yesterday that an Ohio man was spotted north of Pittsburgh, wanted for the rape and murder of a 13 month old girl. I can’t remember anything else from the radio broadcast. I hope when they find him he never makes it to the station.
One more time.
If a state were to participate in the Compact, it would be because its citizens elected to do so. Thus, the electors would in fact be explicitly carrying out the will of their constituents by casting electoral votes for the winner of the popular vote.
Electoral college, popular vote, whatever you want to do it doesn’t matter.
The two main choices this year were Hilary Clinton and Donald
A lifelong politician who had tons of scandals and was entrenched in the murk of DC vs a billionaire reality tv star with Tourette’s who somehow convinced average joes he was just like them and would be their voice.
I want whatever system keeps this from happening and I don’t give a shit about whether I can vote or not. Take away my vote and give everyone else Some better options or something. Pick 2 random people out of a phone book from a region and I would have taken the odds of them being better choices than those two.
I want to get behind anything that makes it impossible for the choice of our highest leadership position not come down to Hilary or Trump.
Thats very well said but… Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public… That was the turds we as a country picked…and the smelliest turd won. Only way this wont happen is if Americans start reading…and stuff
If this is something you genuinely want, and are not just spouting steam, you should probably consider moving to a country where leaders aren’t elected.
No one I know of thinks he’s just like them.
Thats just a line pushed by a few media outlets to make people that read their crap think that trump voters were even dumber than their readers already thought.
You are one of them.
It was a joke/blow off steam.
Quickly typed. Would you be less butthurt if I had typed billionaire who convinced average joes he understood their plight and would be their voice knowing just what they needed? Insert that then.
Less than not at all?
I’m perfectly happy to sit back for the next couple of years and watch every fruit loop special interest group, leftist, and holier than thou lib go apeshit to the point of being willing to forfeit their right to vote- Like you just expressed- Over the guy I voted for.
Its fucking hilarious.
To figure out a system to not be stuck with Hilary Clinton and Trump I’d forfeit a lot of things was the point. I think it’s the worst two we have ever ran. You seem to disagree which is fine.
I find it funny how many actual conservatives were puked disgusted by him before and during his time. People with actual values who know a charlatan when they see one.
But yeah libs and all that. I know that’s what a lot of Americans think when the President tweets about Celebrity Apprentice and Morning Joe. “Oh boy the special interest groups and libs are really butthurt now. So glad we got him in there!”
You don’t have to be a lib to not like Trump. A ton of people in your party don’t.
The funny thing is, those libs and special interests groups are still around and they are winning. There’s a reason why Sanders was popular with younger voters. The cultural Marxists are getting stronger but it’s easier to tweet about football players taking a knee and say MAGA!
You have no idea how much fun is had then. Every time he tweets, speaks, or squeaks out a stinker libs do backflips and have heart attacks.
What is really funny though is seeing “smart” people that buy 100% consumer grade horse shit like you have spouted.
“I’ll show you! I’ll forfeit my right to vote!” Hahaha…
Good. Thats brilliant. Just like lefties that are willing to forfeit their right to free speech just so that someone else can’t say what they don’t want to hear. Or their right to free assembly (unionized labor) so that the NRA doesn’t have as much political influence.
A bunch of real rocket surgeons.