Oso planning to go pro
That’s my guy
I was just teasing Hards because he once told me to cut the Irish pride which I took to mean cut out my second citizenship. As opposed to your average 6th gen John [insert Irish surname] from any south side neighborhood around the country. I don't honestly care anymore but it was too good an opportunity to pass up. Again wasn't trying to hijack thread only trying to tease when it was available. So anyways. Any concern about the military ballots in Georgia breaking so hard for Trump they'd swing the state back to Red?
12 percent of Bernie primary voters voted for Trump in 2016 to “prove a point” and “start a revolution” too. That was the difference in WI, MI, and PA.None of those have been as successful as abortion though. It’s been huge in keeping Catholics with the GOP as well.
Hillary ran a poor campaign and she is primarily to blame for her own loss. However, if you don't think progressives contributed quite a bit to the loss -- and probably would have been able to help her cross the finish line despite herself if they were motivated to keep a cancer like Trump out of the WH -- I don't know what to say.Thousands upon thousands of progressives either stayed home or voted for Jill Effen Stein. They can congratulate themselves for their role on those 3 new SCOTUS justices.
I saw a short story that Democrats can somewhat thank the vile disgusting coal slurper, Don Blankenship, for Georgia. He ran on the Constitution Party ticket for president and received like 2,800 votes in Georgia.
Yep. Three states that were decided by a razor's edge needed every vote. Unless Dems are able to pack the court at some time in the future, the cost of progressives making their point is a SCOTUS that will give progressives zero victories for next generation or two.
"Bernie bros" saw a few things they liked that Donald Trump offered that were better than what Hilary had, and so they broke for him. I don't blame them. Democrats assume they have votes, and don't work for them. Again, message.
Jeopardizing democracy to own the not-lib-enoughs.How'd that turn out for the Bernie Bros? Their candidate did substantially worse in 2020 and the country is a mess. They sure taught the Democratic Party, alright.
Would court packing be received well by the public? I can't imagine it would be and might set us up for failure later on.
Military ballots are usually more blue than red. I don't know if that hold true for Georgia though.
Who cares? I assure you, that if the roles were reversed, Republicans would be packing that court. The high road seems to just lead the Dems off a higher cliff.
Court REFORM. Words matter. And if you add justices, but do so in a way that insures future justices are to be picked to avoid partisan hacks, you can bring the public in.For instance, expand the court to 12 first to balance it on partisan lines, then expand to 15 and say that going forward, all appointees passing the Senate must be universally agreed on by sitting SCOTUS members. That way presidents of both parties would have to make SCOTUS appointments that actually looked at fair decisions rather than partisan lines in their thought process.
Requiring the consent of all justices would require a Constitutional amendment. And I'm not sure it's a good idea anyway.
Set term limits and/or a mandatory retirement age.
Three Oh Six.
Military Times' poll was 41% to 37% pro-Biden among active-duty troops. Trumps disrespect of the military didn't really fly with them. Veterans, on the other hand, were pro-Trump as an aggregate. The older ones, 55+ years old, polled for trump ~60/40. Young ones were pro biden at 50/40. Lots more older vets, though. Female/Male confidence was telling. 60% of female vets had No Confidence in Trump as Commander in Chief. Misogyny really hurt the guy. Thankfully he probably doesn't know what that means so my comment won't hurt him any further.https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/10/26/poll-trump-backed-by-majority-of-veterans-but-not-younger-ones/
Progressives cost Dems 2016? We're going to do this again?If a party/candidate wants someone's vote, they need to do something to make that individual want to vote for them. Carrot, not stick.