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socal2 says

Without the electoral college, Presidents would only have to campaign in California, New York and maybe Illinois and ignore the rest of the country.

marcus says

How do you figure ? IF It was simply the popular vote, the sum of NY City, Los Angeles and Chicago's population is something like 15 million out of 320 million of the US. THat's not even one twentieth ?

You ignored that socal was talking about the states those cities reside in. I don't claim to know the others well, but know Chicago very well. The collar counties around Cook county almost are alway blue, so you can't just talk about the city itself.

I'm guessing this is likely true for other cities. The entire county is likely blue and the surrounding counties. LA County 10.16M. Since there are multiple counties, I looked up the NYC metropolitan area, almost certainly blue. 23.7M. Chicago metropolitan area has 9.5M. That's about 43M people and we haven't even touched SF and SD in CA. 4.7M for SF area and 3.3M for those two. So 51M people. And there's still millions of others in these 3 states.

No, you won't win the popular vote in a high turn out year, but constantly campaigning in those areas and pandering to their issues will likely get you 75% of the registered voters. Throw in 90% of college towns/cities across the country that have professors campaigning for you and there's probably another 20M people easy and you don't have to do anything.

Our country cannot be run based on a few poorly run cities is the point. Hence the electoral college. I know you know this, but it just didn't work out in 2016 and now it's become a problem. It will work out for the left at some point in the future and the right will go through the same pouting. It's honestly a brilliant system and should not change just because people can't be adults about their guy/gal/tranny losing.

marcus says

I'm renaming this thread "Pathetic TDS Examples"

marcus says

I find this rather suspicious in that the handwriting and spacing and font and such all looks almost exactly the same. Even shit done by the same person, decades apart is going to look more different than those two posters.

That and she has aged poorly.

marcus says

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

Can we stop pretending government actually gives a damned?

marcus says

How about the time you were one of the very few people who was allowed to view the Zapruder film and lied on national television about what you saw?

www.youtube.com/embed/kiSoxFHyjGY

Seriously, folks, this was the beginning of Dan Rather's career as a "news" man on the national stage.

People are loathe to understand just how corrupt the establishment is to the point that it's amusing to me. I thought society would always be in denial 5 years ago, but I don't think that anymore.

No Kavanaugh! MEN need to stop ABUSING their employees!

Hill is also accused of having a separate affair with her campaign finance director, Graham Kelly. According to text messages seen by DailyMail.com, Hill's relationship with Kelly was the final straw for Heslep, as he said he could accept his wife having a relationship with a woman, but not with another man. Pictured: Hill with Desjardins and Kelly in June of 2018
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7609835/Katie-Hill-seen-showing-Nazi-era-tattoo-smoking-BONG-NAKED.html




House Armed Service Committee
Subcommittee on Tactical Air & Land Forces
Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces

No risk of Blackmail there!

marcus says

Didn't the House already reject an impeachment vote a few months ago?

What House vote empowered this venue-shopping committee to meet in secret?

What specific law prohibits Congressmen from entering a session?

When you enter a room, and everybody scatters for the door, what was likely happening in there? Good things or bad things?

marcus says

It's not access. It's to be able to have the impeachment hearing public, have it regularized with a vote from Congress, have it under the control of the Judiciary Committee where it belongs based on long precedent, and make sure the exculpatory evidence is heard, not just strategic selective leaks to place the President in the worst light.

Tenpoundbass says

Eric Ciaramella was retained at the National Security Council in the Trump Admin,
and even promoted as
'Acting Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs'

under the suggestion (insistence?) of General McMaster,
Trump National Security Adviser

https://twitter.com/GregRubini

Tenpoundbass says

Eric Ciaramella was retained at the National Security Council in the Trump Admin,
and even promoted as
'Acting Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs'

under the suggestion (insistence?) of General McMaster,
Trump National Security Adviser

https://twitter.com/GregRubini

Tenpoundbass says

Orange Man Baaad!

marcus says

First, isn't it amazing the Senate is approving all these Judges? Thanks to the Democrats changing the rules when they held it?

There's one committee that should be involved in an ANY impeachment hearing - the JUDICIARY Committee. That is noted by pointed absense.

Hey Marcus, what vote set up Schiff's Committee?

Oh, they didn't want to put some of the purple state Dems on the record with voting impeachment, since Trump is over 65% with non-college males, amirite? Not good for Western PA or Maine.

https://todosconbiden.com/

WaltertheoFlanders says

To fucking bad, please stop whining.

Who is this "fucking bad" you are addressing?

marcus says

OK I'll play.

If Trump is in trouble for asking for help in stopping corruption then why isn't Biden in trouble for being corrupt? Could it be that Hillary killed Gaddafi?

marcus says

Too bad the libtards don't know it.

Promise me Walter and Marcus you'll do all of your crying at Patnet, and not at Rachell Maddow;s company blog, when shit gets real in the next throuple of weeks.