The Biden era: The Establishment Strikes Back
The Biden era: The Establishment Strikes Back
Author |
Message |
zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 20711 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Flava'd vs The World wrote: Shack wrote: Regardless of what you feel about trying to make DC a state, it should be obvious there's only one reason the Democrats are interested in it, because it gives them 2 guaranteed senators. That's their psychological make-up these days. Everything is to gain power which is their crack, there's a reason they're talking about packing the court to give themselves complete power. The rest is excuses like painting everything with the race brush. Says the people who just tried to overthrow the government cause they lost an election. Also, the Pubs already stacked the court when they stole the Merrick Garland seat. If that didn’t happen there would be no talk about balancing the court since it is already balanced. Also it makes no sense that DC should have zero senators while Dakota gets four. The only reason to oppose it is a power grab. Wasn’t the whole point of DC that the Capitol not be in one of the states?
|
Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:48 pm |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
The Democrats strategy
Take something they want (no voter ID, end filibuster, pack Supreme Court, making Washington DC a state, etc.) -----> find any way to connect it to race ------> call anyone who opposes it a Jim Crow racist
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:07 pm |
|
|
Jack Sparrow
KJ's Leading Idiot
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:15 pm Posts: 36928
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Flava'd real name is Jim Crow?
|
Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:13 pm |
|
|
Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 24442 Location: Classified
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
The voter ID law is actually reasonable. You should be carrying one of those around at all times.
What’s the point of opposing the rest though? It may benefit the Dems now, but the lack of filibuster, DC/PR statehood and balanced court with eventually help the Pubs too.
Also, its not like these racism accusations are just coming out of nowhere. Ya’ll were the ones who were marching around with nazi flags chanting ‘the jews will not replace us’ just a few years ago. There was a reason the KKK threw a victory parade for Trump
_________________ Kamala 24-32
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:44 am |
|
|
Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 24442 Location: Classified
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
zwackerm wrote: Flava'd vs The World wrote: Shack wrote: Regardless of what you feel about trying to make DC a state, it should be obvious there's only one reason the Democrats are interested in it, because it gives them 2 guaranteed senators. That's their psychological make-up these days. Everything is to gain power which is their crack, there's a reason they're talking about packing the court to give themselves complete power. The rest is excuses like painting everything with the race brush. Says the people who just tried to overthrow the government cause they lost an election. Also, the Pubs already stacked the court when they stole the Merrick Garland seat. If that didn’t happen there would be no talk about balancing the court since it is already balanced. Also it makes no sense that DC should have zero senators while Dakota gets four. The only reason to oppose it is a power grab. Wasn’t the whole point of DC that the Capitol not be in one of the states? According to LMM, it was only put there so Thomas Jefferson would have a short commute to work.
_________________ Kamala 24-32
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:46 am |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Flava'd vs The World wrote: What’s the point of opposing the rest though? It may benefit the Dems now, but the lack of filibuster, DC/PR statehood and balanced court with eventually help the Pubs too.
Put it this way if a totalitarian party was in the Democrats position the two things they would want to do is end the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court which are the only two things limiting their power. Controlling the Supreme Court with their loyalists = It's over, they can do whatever they want. That was the tipping point in places like Venezuela I believe. They don't have to worry about the Republicans getting back in at that point, the goal would be to be in permanently whether ending elections or changing the rules so that it's impossible to lose. (ie getting rid of electoral college and adding tens of millions of amnestied illegal immigrant votes would get them pretty close to locking it up on its own) Add in taking away people's guns and using the shootings as an excuse to replace the city/state police with federal police and they could then crack down on any unrest over it. The left doesn't see this as a risk because they're convinced no way their guys are the bad guys. I think it's a good idea to not take that chance or let either party have total power.
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:59 am |
|
|
Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 24442 Location: Classified
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
But even with a 3 person expansion the supreme court would still be 6-6. Balanced. Not unethically stolen, like the current 6-3 set up is. The party in the white house usually does poorly in the midterms, so Pubs have a good chance of taking congress and then the lack of a filibuster will help them.
Meanwhile the Pubs think the main problem is that too many people are voting and are now trying to make it as difficult as possible. Someone can now get a year in prison for giving a bottle of water to someone standing in line to vote. That sounds a lot more totalatarian to me.
_________________ Kamala 24-32
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:14 pm |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
They're not looking for just a 3 person expansion
The food/water thing isn't as bad as it sounds. I don't think people should be able to go up to a line of voters and say everyone gets a slice of pizza if you vote for our party.
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:19 pm |
|
|
Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:45 pm Posts: 37152 Location: The Graveyard
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Neither party is out to make things balanced and fair. When the pendulum swings one way, the other party does what it can to swing it back in their favor and vice-versa. It's almost never balanced because it's all a power game, and we can just hope it's close.
Both are constantly doing things to favor themselves, so no one can say one party is less corrupt/power hungry than the other. The Reps don't have the House right now. So guess what? The 2020 Census gives them a good opportunity to take back the House in 2022 not by trying to appeal more to voters, but by playing the system from the mostly positive advantage they gained n the shift of seats gained/lost from the 2020 Census results. They're going to gerrymander the hell out of Texas, Florida, and North Carolina where they have full control to get those newly added 4 seats, and will almost certainly manage to cut a Dem seat in Ohio where they have the power of redistricting over as well.
Should one party control 43% (Reps) of the districts while another only controls 17% (Dems)? No. Should almost 2/3rds of all districts be controlled by one party or another? No. The simple solution here is to have an independent commission do it nationwide. And this pretty vast power advantage for the Reps means they're able to tip the scale of power that elects a President (the Electoral College) in their favor. But the biggest way to fix this very flawed system completely? Elect a leader by popular vote--the most basic process imaginable.
_________________Japan Box Office “Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.” “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.” "Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:43 pm |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
The Republicans are not above doing things for their own political benefit, but they were not as interested in ending the filibuster, packing the court or packing the Senate (which is what the DC/PR move effectively is) when they had numbers 2017-2018.
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 2:19 pm |
|
|
Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48667 Location: Arlington, VA
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Shack wrote: The Republicans are not above doing things for their own political benefit, but they were not as interested in ending the filibuster, packing the court or packing the Senate (which is what the DC/PR move effectively is) when they had numbers 2017-2018. They didn't need to pack the court when they had the numbers because they had already stolen a seat.
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 2:44 pm |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Libs wrote: Shack wrote: The Republicans are not above doing things for their own political benefit, but they were not as interested in ending the filibuster, packing the court or packing the Senate (which is what the DC/PR move effectively is) when they had numbers 2017-2018. They didn't need to pack the court when they had the numbers because they had already stolen a seat. They could have still gotten more stuff done if they had more seats especially with the way John Roberts is not really on their side anymore.
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:07 pm |
|
|
Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:45 pm Posts: 37152 Location: The Graveyard
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Free Pre-K (should have been a thing long ago) and 2 years of community college for all? Yes, please.
_________________Japan Box Office “Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.” “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.” "Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."
|
Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:04 pm |
|
|
Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 24442 Location: Classified
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
How about this for a supreme court balancing: instead of 3 more seats there will be only two. It’s better to have it as an odd number anyways, and conservatives will still have the majority like it should be (5-4 Cs if Garland is rightfully sworn in.) This can help Pubs make up for the travesty that was the Garland seat theft without losing anything. But it needs to be proposed by a conservative. We know that a logical proposal from a liberal will be rejected immediately just for the sake of obstruction.
_________________ Kamala 24-32
|
Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:00 pm |
|
|
Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 24442 Location: Classified
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Joe Rogan going full anti-vaxxer has me wondering: when will he run for president? He’s a rich former gameshow host that is involved in combat sports and likes to spread conspiracies. Checks all the boxes. Could end up being a problem for DTJ in the 2028 primary.
_________________ Kamala 24-32
|
Thu Apr 29, 2021 12:31 pm |
|
|
Alex Y.
Top Poster
Joined: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:47 pm Posts: 5764
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
|
Tue May 04, 2021 1:32 pm |
|
|
Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:45 pm Posts: 37152 Location: The Graveyard
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
What's the opinion here among the conservative posters regarding the GOP voting (off record, mind you, couldn't even muster the courage to do that...) to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position this morning?
Also, Cawthorn is proudly showing off his youngest member of Congress title today. Not usually a title one would want to flaunt like this, but here we are, I guess.
Also,
_________________Japan Box Office “Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.” “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.” "Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."
|
Wed May 12, 2021 12:46 pm |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Regardless of whether they ousted her cause of her views on the election or not, Liz Cheney is a globalist warhawk which is dead in Republican party
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Wed May 12, 2021 1:09 pm |
|
|
Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 24442 Location: Classified
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Lol warhawks are dead? That sounds alot like the "jobs not mobs" slogan they used for the election and then January 6th happened...
Also, Idaho just signed a bill allowing hunters to kill 90% of the wolves in the state. NINETY PERCENT. We should kill 90% of the humans instead #NukeIdaho. This is exactly why Republicans shouldn't be given power. All they offer is death and discrimination.
_________________ Kamala 24-32
|
Wed May 12, 2021 2:30 pm |
|
|
Mister Ecks
New Server, Same X
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:07 pm Posts: 28297 Location: ... siiiigh...
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Shack wrote: Regardless of whether they ousted her cause of her views on the election or not, Liz Cheney is a globalist warhawk which is dead in Republican party Shack's digestion and subsequent regurgitation of the far-right vernacular strikes again
_________________ Ecks Factor: Cancelled too soon
|
Wed May 12, 2021 2:40 pm |
|
|
zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 20711 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Not a fan of Cheney but I don’t think she was disastrous enough not to wait for a primary to oust her.
|
Wed May 12, 2021 3:08 pm |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
zwackerm wrote: Not a fan of Cheney but I don’t think she was disastrous enough not to wait for a primary to oust her. Isn't she just demoted from leadership position but still a member of congress?
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Wed May 12, 2021 3:18 pm |
|
|
zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 20711 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Shack wrote: zwackerm wrote: Not a fan of Cheney but I don’t think she was disastrous enough not to wait for a primary to oust her. Isn't she just demoted from leadership position but still a member of congress? I don’t know I didn’t read too deeply into it. I just saw she was removed from something.
|
Wed May 12, 2021 3:22 pm |
|
|
Corpse
Don't Dream It, Be It
Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:45 pm Posts: 37152 Location: The Graveyard
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
She was non-recorded voted out of her leadership position. Apparently, the shame and embarrassment was so high among the "yes" members that they didn't want their votes on record. Who knows how many actually voted for or against her losing her position.
I don't care for Cheney either, of course, but at least man up and do it professionally and respectfully if you're going to do it. But the House GOP is being overrun with frat boys like Gaetz and Jordan, and very child-like members like Cawthorn (given his youth, he should watch out for Gaetz AND Jordan), so all that's being thrown out the window with this "new" GOP (they should just rename themselves).
And I'm all for them using their time and resources to try and primary Cheney, and any of their other members not apart of their "this girl, errr, woman, I fucked was a 10!" fraternity, next year.
_________________Japan Box Office “Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.” “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” “You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.” "Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."
|
Wed May 12, 2021 3:57 pm |
|
|
Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 39098
|
Re: Democracy 2020 (President Biden, Vice Pres Harris)
Flava'd vs The World wrote: Lol warhawks are dead? That sounds alot like the "jobs not mobs" slogan they used for the election and then January 6th happened... . Maybe dying is a better word than dead. Liz's goal is to go back to the Bush, McCain, Cheney type of Republicans but that would be suicide. Pro big government (spending/surveillance) + bombing countries and outdated views on things like gay marriage? What's the point? It was never Trump that killed the young vote for Republicans, it was THEM and people who grew up in the Bush era, by 2016 the Republicans were dead to millennials already. If they went back to that they just become the network TV procedural in a Netflix era. Trumpism scares the Democrats and their media lapdogs more cause he's their best chance at a comeback for young people and minorities (yes minorities) because there are actually valid reasons to support the Republicans now beyond just socially conservative views that go back generations. They can now say they are pro freedom over lockdowns and censorship, pro nationalism and capitalism over socialism and globalism, pro populist working class over elites and corporate interests, pro peace deals over endless wars, pro police over rioters and criminals, pro colorblindness over anti-white racism and critical race theory, pro biological women's rights, etc.
_________________Shack’s top 50 tv shows - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90227
|
Wed May 12, 2021 5:11 pm |
|
|
Who is online |
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests |
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot post attachments in this forum
|
|