This would all be great, and if they can get it done in the first year the better. Second year they can start with scaling back the powers of the presidency(which I doubt will happen) to limit a potential of another Trump. And they imo only have 2 years to get all this done, because in 2022, the senate is back in play and it could go back towards the republicans since way more dem's will be up for re-election, than this go around. And statistically it never optimistic outlook when one party holds both sides of congress and president to retain that majority.
If the best happens and Biden wins and the Dems take the Senate there are three things they need to do ASAP when Biden takes over in January:
1) Expand the SCOTUS. They're going to need a more favorable SCOTUS for the next two parts to deal with the inevitable challenges, which means putting a couple Justices in who actually aren't beholden to the GOP.
2) Eliminate gerrymandering. This will also mean redrawing some ridiculous Democrat districts but by FAR the worst of the gerrymandering was done by the GOP to keep them in power.
3) Either eliminate the EC entirely (my choice, it is outdated and as is evidenced by the 2016 it no longer protects the US from electing an absolute tool) or if that's out of reach, reevaluate how many Representatives (and therefore how many EC votes since it's based on Representatives) each state gets and update them to more properly reflect the population. This SHOULD be updated by the 2020 Census in any case, but the Trump admin has fucked the Census so it's going to be up to the Dems to do it for them.
With those three things done the chance that the GOP get back into total control will be diminished and then maybe more important things like healthcare, the environment, income inequality and such can be tackled without the fear it'll just all be IMMEDIATELY rolled back by the next shit-for-brains GOP administration.
they deserved it, they were an angry mob threatening the lives of those in the car, they broke the cars rear window in when they were beating on it. This is no different from when BLM illegally detains and intimidates drivers. If you want to protest in the streat fine, but if you get run over for your actions then that's on you. we have historical evidence of what happens when mobs pull folks from vehicles and it ain't pretty. Doesnt matte rif you are a trump supporter or Antifa or BLM. Mob justice is not to be trusted.
"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
Guess when he got removed as campaign manager, he had a lot of debts he couldn't pay off, even with the millions he took from the campaign coffers.
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Jesus christ, what is wrong with you? NO ONE should be thinking like this. Including a Trump supporter running over counter protesters like the terrorist James Fields, or this dumbass that did it.
Code:Federal income taxes paid in 2017 (jointly with spouse): Joe Biden - $3,742,974 Kamala Harris - $516,469 Bernie Sanders - $343,882 Elizabeth Warren - $268,484 Donald Trump - $750
This should be printed on boards near highways.
Stormy Daniels got more money than the government from Trump in the last 15? or so years.
have you seen what happened to folks in the LA riots? wtf is wrong with you. I apsolute support any driver running through mobs beating on their vehicle, it only ends in one way for those with in if they kowtow to the justice these mobs give.
James field was not fleeing an aggressive mob, he choose to run into protestors before the mob formed. Very different.
"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
This Twitter thread from an ex-Trump supporter is a pretty good read--I encourage any current literate Trump supporters to give it some attention.
https://twitter.com/davidmweissman/s...078980610?s=20
r.i.p. alleria. 1997-2017. blizzard ruined alleria forever. blizz assassinated alleria's character and appearance.
i will never forgive you for this blizzard.
Republican states, especially ones with a large faction of extremist christian elements, are also the worst ones to live in by nearly every metric available. Really this is just the southeast. Some of the worst for poverty, health, education, etc... just about everything.
If it's one thing that all of these state "laboratories" have proven it's that right wing politics mixed with supply side Jesus is a great way to make people's lives shittier.
And yet they keep voting republican. I can only imagine it's because they are already conditioned by their brand of religion to blindly follow and not ask tough questions. Having grown up around them, this makes the most sense. It kind of explains why someone like McConnell can keep office.
I mentioned this previously but, America really is just mostly people who've never left their home state insisting that they live in the greatest country on Earth - many of these people spend their entire lives within driving distance of where they were born and may never interact with minorities in a meaningful fashion.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
The way McConnell runs the Senate, I wouldn't be surprised if he just cheats his way to victory each time. I've seen some of the reports on him being entirely unpopular in Kentucky yet still eeks out wins. I'm not sure gerrymandering would affect a state-wide election, but I'm not sure how Kentucky runs their state elections.
Tribalism is probably the reason he continues to win - especially the past two elections (and now apparently this one).