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Hyrax Attack! posted:Haley as VP instead of Vance seems like she would have been a better choice, not as much of a weirdo & likely would have lessened his problems with women. Dunno if Vance brings in any voters who weren’t already supporting him. Yeah but Trump didn’t want another Mike Pence.
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Platystemon posted:Yeah but Trump didn’t want another Mike Pence. Makes sense. Guessing trump will never speak to Vance again post election. Not out of spite, just indifference.
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Anecdotally, I know someone who lives in the US Virgin Islands and she's told me that there's a fair bit of chatter down there about wanting to pursue statehood because some people there really want to have input on elections after this shitshow. She told me that among the people she knows, there's currently a sentiment of being afraid of living in terror of what the mainlanders might do in elections without any say by them, along with 'I'm sure the GOP would saw awful poo poo about us if they knew we existed.' I have no idea if the Virgin Islands, or any other non-Puerto Rico territory, could actually plausibly attain statehood, but it's an interesting thought I'd never considered before.
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if he loses will the gop stop paying all of his legal bills? hmmm
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Cugel the Clever posted:The folks behind Bluesky are pushing two main products: the social media app everyone who doesn't like the Nazi bird site knows and loves and the distributed, open-source protocol that only nerds are aware of or care about. Bluesky is just one access point to the protocol, such that the former's degradation or demise is theoretically meaningless as all the data can theoretically be hosted in a completely decentralized network that other apps can be created for. This sounds a lot like Mastodon. There's multiple examples where the platform and technology are less important than community and moderation for maintaining social media. Even Twitter is (mostly) functional after getting rid of 90% of the workforce, because most of the people they got rid of were the marketing people and moderators that actively drove company/celebrity engagement and created a palatable environment for them to attach their brand.
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Cythereal posted:Anecdotally, I know someone who lives in the US Virgin Islands and she's told me that there's a fair bit of chatter down there about wanting to pursue statehood because some people there really want to have input on elections after this shitshow. She told me that among the people she knows, there's currently a sentiment of being afraid of living in terror of what the mainlanders might do in elections without any say by them, along with 'I'm sure the GOP would saw awful poo poo about us if they knew we existed.' It's just an act of congress. Not more complicated then that.
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ded posted:if he loses will the gop stop paying all of his legal bills? hmmm Considering he installed his own family at the head of the party, I doubt it. The only way he gets tossed by the party is if those in the party finally start releasing all the damning evidence they have on him while simultaneously claiming he pulled the wool over everyone's eyes.
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Donnie's really sputtering at the end here and devolving into Spinal Tap. May not matter, but not ideal for him!quote:Trump, Sluggish and Aggrieved, Says He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ the White House https://x.com/LaleeIbssa/status/1853182504967995451 Donnie was 2 hours late, so people are leaving after like 5 minutes for some reason. Yeesh.
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facialimpediment posted:Donnie's really sputtering at the end here and devolving into Spinal Tap. May not matter, but not ideal for him! kamala saying this to taunt him and then it coming true is the sweetest little thing
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davecrazy posted:It's just an act of congress. Not more complicated then that. The complication is the Senate is institutionally biased towards smaller rural states, which have become overwhelmingly Republican over time. There's no real path to getting 60 votes to adding a reliably Democratic state, which would be any of the territories.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:This sounds a lot like Mastodon. There's multiple examples where the platform and technology are less important than community and moderation for maintaining social media. Even Twitter is (mostly) functional after getting rid of 90% of the workforce, because most of the people they got rid of were the marketing people and moderators that actively drove company/celebrity engagement and created a palatable environment for them to attach their brand.
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I hope all the potheads will remember this two days from now 
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:The complication is the Senate is institutionally biased towards smaller rural states, which have become overwhelmingly Republican over time. There's no real path to getting 60 votes to adding a reliably Democratic state, which would be any of the territories. Well there is, but it would require winning the Senate and Chuck Schumer to not be a coward.
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Grip it and rip it posted:Would they need 60 votes or just 50 + VP? If I'm not mistaken the filibuster rules apply to everything not classified as a budget law. Which means these days a senator just has to say they don't agree, they don't even need to have the commitment to pee their pants on c-span. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Nov 3, 2024 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If I'm not mistaken the filibuster rules apply to everything not classified as a budget law. The filibuster is not in the Constitution. It can be gotten rid of at a whim by the Majority Leader.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If I'm not mistaken the filibuster rules apply to everything not classified as a budget law. Also appointments
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ded posted:if he loses will the gop stop paying all of his legal bills? hmmm Remember when Florida GOP tried to have the state pay his legal bills, and DeSantis said no?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If I'm not mistaken the filibuster rules apply to everything not classified as a budget law. Which means these days a senator just has to say they don't agree, they don't even need to have the commitment to pee their pants on c-span. I'm guessing this is just an advancement of the Biden regulatory decriminalization effort . One thing to decriminalize, another to legalize, and she's likely advancing a "I will push for full legalization in Congress" argument. It's not really new, as she's said it before, like on All The Smoke. But a good reminder!
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davecrazy posted:The filibuster is not in the Constitution. It can be gotten rid of at a whim by the Majority Leader. Right, the idea that has been rejected by the Senate to date. While every legacy Democratic senator is being driven out in states that are 60%+ Republican so the option is more off the table over time. It's not legally impossible to admit Puerto Rico and the other territories into the union, it just doesn't have political backing to make it happen. facialimpediment posted:I'm guessing this is just an advancement of the Biden regulatory decriminalization effort . One thing to decriminalize, another to legalize, and she's likely advancing a "I will push for full legalization in Congress" argument. Marijuana legalization could be a regulatory thing once you get past federal law enforcement resistance. Adding new states can't avoid Congress. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Nov 3, 2024 |
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weed is one thing but this ad is better https://x.com/olivier_patti/status/1852728872296751246
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Right, the idea that has been rejected by the Senate to date. While every legacy Democratic senator is being driven out in states that are 60%+ Republican so the option is more off the table over time. It's not legally impossible to admit Puerto Rico and the other territories into the union, it just doesn't have political backing to make it happen. Will need to be done to codify Roe. And if the Democrats walk back THAT promise after winning a trifecta then gently caress 'em.
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Watching football with sound off, saw ad with 9/11, D-Day, & I think a school shooting? Because you see: Harris.
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pmchem posted:weed is one thing but this ad is better Owns.
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pmchem posted:weed is one thing but this ad is better Dude’s phone said 4:20 so this is really a covert weed ad anyway
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She's apparently had this as a policy point for a while? I see people discussing it from 19 days ago. This is the first I'm seeing anything about it, so good idea to bubble it back up.
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Wombot posted:She's apparently had this as a policy point for a while? I see people discussing it from 19 days ago. This is the first I'm seeing anything about it, so good idea to bubble it back up. It was buried five bullet points deep, below stuff like “#protect Black entrepreneur crypto profits”.
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Cythereal posted:Anecdotally, I know someone who lives in the US Virgin Islands and she's told me that there's a fair bit of chatter down there about wanting to pursue statehood because some people there really want to have input on elections after this shitshow. She told me that among the people she knows, there's currently a sentiment of being afraid of living in terror of what the mainlanders might do in elections without any say by them, along with 'I'm sure the GOP would saw awful poo poo about us if they knew we existed.' I feel like there have been votes several times in Puerto Rico regarding what the people think. We vacationed there when I was a kid and I remember the talk about it in the late 90s.
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davecrazy posted:It's just an act of congress. Not more complicated then that. It's complicated by them having about 6.6x less population than the smallest state.
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OddObserver posted:It's complicated by them having about 6.6x less population than the smallest state. Is this a joke or did you mean more?
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The population of Puerto Rico, as estimated in 2023, is 3.2 million. The state with the lowest population, Wyoming, has around 584,000. The physically smallest state, Rhode Island, has a population of 1.1 million.
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Quackles posted:The population of Puerto Rico, as estimated in 2023, is 3.2 million. There are smaller ones, but if Wyoming and California can be states at the same time there's no argument against the Marianas Islands. 
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And the context was me bringing up the US Virgin Islands, which have a population estimated at about 85,000.
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Elviscat posted:Is this a joke or did you mean more? The population of the US Virgin Islands is less than 90,000 people.
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The Virgin Islands need to jump in with some other Island group methinks.
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Easy peasy. Two states. One for the Caribbean and one for the pacific (other than Hawaii).
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