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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The most recent bill re-designated the Mayor as the Governor and the City Council as the General Assembly. The state government would be unicameral and they would not incorporate any additional towns or cities in the state. The new General Assembly would have 13 people, same as the current City Council. For reference Wyoming has a 60-member HoR and a 30-member Senate. Adding seats would probably make the transition to statehood take longer though.
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zoux posted:86 percent of DC residents voted in favor of it in a 2016 ballot measure. Even the Republican Party of DC, such as it exists, is for statehood. Support for statehood is practically a prerequisite for getting elected in DC, which is a notable contrast to Puerto Rico where statehood is the main issue dividing the parties.
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Grouchio posted:Oh for fucks sake One of his opponents for city council claimed that voters would be confused and vote for Michael D when meaning to vote for Michael A, so he literally sent out flyers with photos of both Michael Browns. DC also has a shadow representative by the way, which is a volunteer position that was authorized by DC voters 40 years ago but of course has never been approved by Congress so probably won't actually mean anything even when DC gets statehood. Oye Owolewa was recently elected to the position and he seems like a pretty rad dude with a pretty bad websitehttps://www.oye4dc.com/.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:She said if they come back with a not guilty verdict, that people need to get confrontational and stay out in the streets. If they can't say anything than nobody can because the jury isn't supposed to be watching the news at all.
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Kalit posted:Did I miss something about Biden? He made some comment after the jury was already sequestered (which was timed for that on purpose), but I didn't hear anything about comments before that? Nope, those are the comments. Maxine made her comments while the jury was sequestered and told not to watch/listen to/read the news. This is all hand-wringing from chuds.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1384887094259032064 Is it really teeing off if he keeps swinging and missing
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Raenir Salazar posted:Why wouldn't it if 10 Republicans agree to vote for it? That is not going to happen so it isn't even worth asking.
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Apr 22, 2021 16:58
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/ESCochrane/status/1385260526943547393 tag yourself I'm the $13b spent on safety Joe Manchin is probably super pissed since he can't use this for any sort of negotiation tactic.. Like if they gave $1 trillion to ~traditional infrastructure~ or whatever he might try bluffing but this is pathetic. Either McConnell has no intention of trying to peel off the conservadems or he is just throwing a random number out into the ether (it's that one).
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Apr 22, 2021 17:07
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zoux posted:Also let's hear it for broadband being considered infrastructure again! Manchin and a couple of the less criminally insane Republicans (particularly his fellow WV Senator Capito, who is the main person behind this tiny package) have co-sponsored rural broadband bills. Manchin actually makes it a huge part of his website and has a form where West Virginians can send in their internet speed + what provider they are using. Still, if they were directing this at Manchin in particular they'd raise that port/inland waterways number because West Virginia has a lot of those and the infrastructure is crap. Most of the towns in the state are lined up on the narrow slivers of flat land right next to the rivers/creeks so they are super vulnerable to flooding.
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zoux posted:The conflation of personal and sovereign wealth is central to conservative austerity politics. Surprised at how unified the House dems are here, would've thought at least one random blue dog would oppose.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:they have to pretend to care about the deficit now that a democrat is president They don't have to do anything to get Republican voters apart from being suitably racist and kissing the feet of Trump.
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Blorange posted:I think there's wiggle room because seating DC's senators wouldn't happen right away, would it even be possible before the 2022 election? They're the deciding vote now but if dems lose a hypothetical seat they'd still be the tiebreakers. DC has shadow senators for expressly this purpose, they are elected like senators and can fill the seats immediately. There's also an unofficial (not sanctioned by Congress) shadow rep though I think the official plan is for Delegate Norton to become Representative Norton.
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Abner Assington posted:MTG saw the bill was 14 pages and was deeply disappointed when it wasn't one word per page. I appreciate this joke. I'd rather AOC not do the debate, if there is one (there won't be). It's obvious MTG is going to gish gallop all over her and she isn't going to be convincing any chuds watching.
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fart simpson posted:well, this is depressing Why? What past President was doing better things for college-aged voters? Remember the voting age was only lowered to 21 in 1971, and since then the best ones would be...maybe Clinton and Obama had the charisma but were big on their austerity bullshit. I know Carter was probably the least war-criminal-y (although still pretty war criminal-y) but he presided over a massive recession and gas crisis. And none of them actually presented a stimulus package anywhere close to the ARP. e: didn't see that this poll only covered 21 years, point still stands. Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Apr 23, 2021 |
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fart simpson posted:because any hope of fixing things electorally kinda depends on leftward movement, not college students shifting more towards the democrats There was no polling option for Hypothetical Socialist President.
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Xand_Man posted:Was SNL part of painting Bannon as Trump's puppetmaster? Nah they just made Bannon a guy in a Grim Reaper costume, I don't think they painted Trump as the dumb puppet. At least not the way they did with Bush and Cheney. The thing about the SNL Trump stuff is that they quickly realized that [i]Trump himself was watching[i] and tweeting angrily about it the next day so they just went full into making GBS threads on him regardless of how actually funny it was. Alec Baldwin did a terrible impression but he got Trump extra mad so he stayed. Honestly if I had a direct audience with Trump I'd do the same thing.
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Grouchio posted:Please please make an AMA thread we have so many questions oh my god *Ask/Tell thread, this ain't reddit  e: in games or A/T
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Grouchio posted:Thank gently caress this recognition put an end to such a cringy show USnews: Kim there's people that are dying
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Grouchio posted:Please send those north to Canada they need them badly. India is kinda the #1 priority right now, it's straight-up apocalyptic over there. Modi is going full Trump so the individual Indian states are scrambling on their own to get vaccines.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:How is this even possible? You can't ferment a chicken. It is still going to have to have some kind of yeast or fruit as a base. You can ferment any kind of meat - that's what a sausage is. https://www.meatsandsausages.com/sausage-recipes/fermented/american/chicken No way you can somehow turn that into a beer though, unless you add the meat to the grain-based beer.
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Raenir Salazar posted:Maybe this is what finally gets him off the air. Maybe this is what gets Glenn Greenwald to quit going on his show.
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zoux posted:Jim Justice is the richest man in WV and I guess he just doesn't give a gently caress because compared to the other super red states, West Virginia had far and away the best COVID response. He was more like Hogan running MD than the other Trump hugging governors like Noem, DeSantis, and Abbott who made it into a political issue. I'm not super familiar with WV politics, I just recall being often surprised at the reasonableness of that state's response when compared what one would expect out of West Virginia. BUT this also means BIG JIM wants to give his constituents stuff and money, because everyone wants that as long as he avoids the word "welfare" or mentions any Democrat by name. So rather than adhering to the party dogma of not doing anything at all, he has been supportive of government spending And since so many in the state are high risk with COVID there is more pressure on him to actually have a decent pandemic response. He has been on the OPEN ER UP train because, again, that's what his constituents want, but he's got an actual mask mandate that he says he won't remove until they're at 70% vaccinated. There are/will be vaccine clinics at post offices, schools, county fairs, workplaces, etc so that people can get them without driving two hours to the nearest actual town. He's doing a good job in this particular area because he wants that Senate seat and being the hero who saved his state from the pandemic is a good way to get it.
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Thom12255 posted:https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1387451638919663617 R-Money using a metaphor he can't relate to
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KitConstantine posted:Sooooo is this gonna be more or less hilariously bad than the Gaetz appearance? Because while I don't think Rudy's gonna try and make Tucker appear complicit in his crimes it would be extremely funny if he did I was going to ask how his lawyer is allowing him to do this but then I remembered that he is his lawyer.
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In a 6-3 decision...wait what? https://twitter.com/devindwyer/status/1387839239451299843 still not apologizing to ACB but good for her, Gorsuch and...Clarence Thomas... for being slightly less evil than Alito, Kavanaugh, and I guess John Roberts what is going on here also I cannot stomach watching another innocent black guy get gunned down in the street but if it's as bad as y'all say (and I have no doubt it is) Garland might need to intervene to get justice done asap.
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BigglesSWE posted:Republicans will want to impeach him now, since he dissed the concept touted by God-Emperor Reagan. They need to accept anarchobidenism into their hearts
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Biden spoke at the 50th anniversary of Amtrak today, dude was in his element https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZI1cWJl44c First time I've heard him talk about the AJP funding the building of high speed rail (he specifically mentioned Charlotte to Atlanta) in addition to just expanding the lines
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Angry_Ed posted:Oh the even more impossible thing. loving hell. Since when did we need an amendment to create a new state? (Never?) It's a DC thing. The 23rd amendment grants the District of Columbia (defined as being a district and not a state) 3 electoral votes. Even if you shrink this federal district to just the federal buildings (which is what's in the bill) you'll still have to deal with its electoral votes except it'll have zero people voting in it. The solution to this would be to just have the 3 electoral votes from that ghost district go to the popular vote winner (or the winner of the state of DC's vote) but that opens a can of worms and there is the question of whether that itself would be constitutional.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:https://twitter.com/RylandKY/status/1388181953959108610?s=19 Yikes. The track workers union comprises the valets, outriders (the people who lead the horses to the starting gate), maintenance workers, concessions workers, basically everyone who makes the show go on. Grooms are non-union and often employed by the trainers instead of the track but they would not scab for the valets - they would just feed, water, clean stalls and leave. Jockeys have their own (quite strong) union and they would be in solidarity with the track workers so if the strike goes there is no way the racing goes on. edit: for what it's worth I have heard nothing about this from racing news outlets and they typically report every grievance that horsemen have (there is no love lost between track owners and everyone else involved in racing including the reporters) so I guess nobody is taking them that seriously...yet. Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 05:21 on May 1, 2021 |
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friendbot2000 posted:Amanda Chase is going to win the Primary and lose by 30 points to T-Mac lolololol also on the subject of our favorite local lunatic https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/amanda-chase-gun-road-rage/2021/04/30/4560389e-a942-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html quote:RICHMOND — An aide traveling with Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Amanda F. Chase brandished an AR-15 pistol this week at a man who Chase said threatened them during a "road rage" incident. Either it was staged and Chase is a damned liar or she - excuse me, "her aide" almost shot an unarmed motorist (it was definitely staged).
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cgeq posted:Congrats! Amanda describes herself as "Trump in heels" and if anyone else gets more votes than her the election is clearly RIGGED. By "verifying the integrity" she means ensuring that she wins, and if it takes her own armed supporters to get that then that's what she'll do. Amanda would be utterly terrifying if she was running in a deep red state. Virginia as a whole is blue enough to keep her out of a national office and as long as the Dems have the trifecta she can't do much harm in the state legislature. If this was Alabama or something she'd be en route to becoming one of the "rising stars" of the Trump wing of the party (which is to say, the entire party).
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friendbot2000 posted:She wont carry Northern Virginia in the general therefore she will not win. Northern VA will not turn out for someone who was present at Jan 6th and thus, we hold the suburbs. The convention was orginally designed to keep her out, but it has been bungled to the point where I am pretty sure she is a lock now for the GOP's choice. They also refused to allow a religious exemption for conservative Jews because the convention is on the Sabbath so uh....what does that tell you? Right, that's what I meant by "Virginia as a whole is blue enough". She gets votes in her little (R) district but NoVa, Hampton Roads, RVA proper etc hate her. But if she was in a redder state she might have a chance of becoming a governor and thus reaching the national spotlight. We're lucky that she resides in a state that has enough sane parts to outweigh the chud parts.
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zoux posted:Well one problem is that the "border crisis" is largely fixed. https://twitter.com/SamBraslow/status/1389358836864090112 This kid rules
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Handsome Ralph posted:So is there any serious/establishment GOP candidate running or is it all clown car candidates like this guy and Jenner? The GOP is all clown car now. Cox and Jenner are the "serious" candidates.
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James Garfield posted:Also his blog has a column from this year titled "Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die" Ah so he's another Glenn Greenwald type
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Kalit posted:Apparently Trump was trying to get back on twitter again to publish the memos from his blog. Oh wait, sorry, his "new social media platform" That's what, 5 or 6 reregs now? He had a few right after the permaban too. I would think that the more he tries this the less likely twitter is to reinstate him.
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