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John D.'s avatar

The problem with 25 percent of the electorate being MAGA is that national elections could still be captured by this group because of the Electoral College. You get enough of them voting in certain states and they can defeat a larger portion of the electorate. Tyranny of the minority thanks to a system created to accommodate slave states.

Mitch McConnell said he loved the Electoral College. We know why.

Husaria's avatar

The Electoral “ College “ makes the movie Animal House look like a strict parochial university.

The EC had its moment in the early republic. But, like an overstayed house guest, it’s time for it to go. Every western democracy uses a popular vote. And, their voting day is a National holiday. The reason we vote on Tuesdays is from that same time frame. In the early days of the republic only white land owners could vote. No one else was allowed. The polls in most cases were a day’s ( horse ) ride away. Sunday = church. Pack your horse. Monday ride to the polls. Tuesday vote and ride home.

John D.'s avatar

And we have had candidates who won the popular vote nationally but lost a national election. If that does not make us all look like jackasses, I don’t know what does.

John D.'s avatar

The damage done by MAGA to trust, integrity, honesty, and decency is irreversible. Coupled with a dumbed down population, and we’re ripe for the next authoritarian.

Philip Maxwell's avatar

If the founding fathers of the USA had simply adopted an improved version of the parliamentary system, Trump would be long gone from office and, perhaps, occupying the same prison cell formerly lived and died in by Trump best friend, Epstein. Just look at how many British Prime Ministers, all of them superior to the Donald, have been forced to resign by British parliamentarians over the past 10 years. How does it happen that a man deemed as demented by psychiatrists has his finger on the most powerful military in history including his ugly finger on the nuclear button? What made him attack Iran? He felt it in his bones, or in his bone spurs, that he was the Deity or something like that. He just knew that all he had to do was drop bombs on a girls' school, on the leader of another country, on all possible politicians of that land, and on a whole lot of everything else, and, presto, the Iranians would rebel against all those dead butchers. Was it all just a distraction from the Epstein scandal? Is Cuba next on the distraction list? Greenland? Denmark? Canada? Whatever! As long as Donnie can blame it all on someone else, maybe Netanyahoo, he is happy because he just didn't know about anything, so he says. Someone else will resign to take the blame. Or be charged with being a criminal. Imagine: Comey a criminal. Newson on the criminal waiting list. The USA needs a parliament, at least to replace the American institutions which Trump has destroyed, and a reformed high court to replace Donald's pet SCOTUS puppy.

Emma's avatar

Fully agree. A parliamentary system is far superior for multiple reasons.

FY de Chateaubriand's avatar

No. My guess would be 37 to 40 percent!

John D.'s avatar

I tend to agree with that. Steve said 25 percent. I think 35-40 percent is entirely possible.

Mark's avatar

One of things the founders got wrong.

Julia's avatar

Your scariest words yet, Steve. Dead spot on, unfortunately.

mary M keymer's avatar

Call me Mary Mitty Walter's wife. My fantasy is that we wiin the house and the senate . They promptly put Dumpty and the fake Catholic out of office . Hakeem becomes President and he picks someone we can trust for VP ..I might be wrong about the succession ,whatever. This is the only way I can get through the day today.. Mrs. Mitty

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Three Things That The American Electorate Needs To Do To Protect The Midterms

It’s increasingly obvious that the Nazi Republicans are hell bent on election subversion and interference in the upcoming 2026 midterms. Cheeto has never been more transparent about what his Nazi suppositories/syncophants are willing to do in order to get the election outcome that they want in order to stay in power.

Rachel Maddow interviewed Marc Elias who heads the independently run Democracy Docket which reports on election interference and after brainstorming with a task force of Democratic senators about what the Nazis may plan to do in November Elias came away with 3 important things that the electorate should be prepared to do.

1 Make a plan to vote. Vote early so that if your vote is challenged by Nazi Republican suppositories you can do the appropriate things to cure the reported issue that prevents your vote from being counted.

2 Information sharing and education about the threats is important for those voters who are not paying attention so that the electorate has understanding of what the Nazi suppositories are up to.

3 The public should be prepared to mobilize, organize and protest peacefully against Nazi suppositories interfering at drop boxes and polling locations.

The Nazi Republicans will do anything to retain power and WE the People need to show up and overwhelm the suppositories. Talk to friends, relatives, neighbors, family about the importance of the next two elections. Join an Indivisible chapter near you to be ready to peacefully protest and put down this federal insurrection.

beverleybender@gmail.com's avatar

If you want a definition of "white trash", it is the people who were at Trump's Birthday on Sunday night. The biggest crime is that the Americans paid for this obscenity. We need a landslide in November, because we cannot depend on the spineless coward Republicans and the 6 Supreme Court to do what is what for the country, impeach, convict and jail Trump and his whole cabinet.

RICHMOND DOCTOR's avatar

A PERSON WITH POWER VERSUS A POWER ADDICT

We live in a world where power addicts have taken over our lives. I call them people with an addiction because I cannot understand why a person who is eighty years old is still trying to increase their wealth. Why? They will die, and then what? I think this is a form of addiction that has nothing to do with reality. Why would someone with a few more years to live spend their days working to increase their wealth? The only reasonable explanation is that they have no control over their behavior; they are addicted. If I had unlimited funds, I would be living on lobsters and oysters, not stressing myself out about increasing my wealth. This is a serious addiction that controls their lives; maybe if they were thirty, I could see the reasonableness of this addiction. But most billionaires and the mega-rich are in their seventies. Where are they going?

We promote their addiction. We admire them and want to be in their group; we never realize that their lives are void of meaningful relationships that, to live with this addiction, they have had to disconnect from their internal sense of right and wrong that is necessary for having meaningful relationships, and so they live in a surface world. They must associate with others who have the same condition; they live in gated communities, and they are almost frightened by those who are not part of their group. You will see them as wanting to be admired and to have the same admiration as those who have power and are not addicted.

We must distinguish power addicts from those who hold power without becoming addicted to it. We view people with power differently from power addicts. Our history offers many examples of people in power who hold a special place in our lives, and we feel a deep connection to them, admiring them and looking to them as role models. There have been powerful people who were never affected by their power; they never lost their humanity. Many were religious leaders: Jesus, the Buddha, and Mahatma Gandhi. In our country, we have George Washington, who declined a second term as president, and Harry S. Truman, who also declined to run for a second term. In more recent times, we had Dwight D. Eisenhower, who held numerous positions of power without seeking benefit from them, and Warren Buffett, the billionaire, who still lives in the house he grew up in. (I saw him at a Terence Crawford boxing match, sitting in the people's seat, not the front seats reserved for celebrities.)

I have said before, and I say it again: billionaires have had to destroy their sense of right and wrong, and they must be frightened that the public would wake up and realize that their wealth belongs to them. Maybe the public will realize that they are only looking at shadows in the cave. Power addicts must, I say must, maintain the illusion that they deserve the profits they gain by not paying those who work for them; they are the corrupt elite who promote the idea that their society offers everyone the chance to become rich. Remember President Reagan, who promoted trickle-down economics, whereby benefiting the rich would benefit the common person; the rich's wealth would trickle down to the common people—pure nonsense.

Is there a message in the story of Cain and Abel, the first two sons of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis, where Cain murdered Abel? When God asked Cain where his brother was, Cain said the mantra of power addicts: “Am I my brother's keeper?” In every generation, in all countries, there have been voices proclaiming the opposite message, “care for others as you care for yourself.” There are examples of countries that have heard this message and tried to incorporate it into their governments by limiting the influence of the wealthy and caring for the common person; we are not one of them.

Roemer McPhee's avatar

A personality cult cares nothing about the quality of the personality.

Roemer McPhee's avatar

Grape-head Stevie Miller needs the orange criminal to operate. Orange criminal is there.

Can you imagine those two bums talking on the phone?

NAIUS NEXUS GRACE's avatar

FUN FACT CAUCASIANS

The United States government census bureau reported the Caucasian ethnicity is at a dangerously, impossibly low number in the United States. The report states Caucasians are 61.6% of the population. The population is split fairly evenly in half so 340,000,000 million people, half are women and half are men.

173,000,000 million women - -35,800,000 million girls

=138,000,000 to stand strong

#####%%%^%%%%%%%%

167,000,000 million men

-37,300,000 million are boys

2094,000,000 bazaar billion-(trump math)

205,000,000 million men and boys!

Wait, you are not seriously considering “how old?” Is 13-18 years old enough?

To consent to being used as a pawn in a war? But some are really strong. Look older than they are. They can even drive a car. What’s the big deal, Jonnie is dying to do anything to keep his white nationalist power!

That is Evil. You have no right to manipulate anyone into silence. Our children are human too. The science proves they have not had enough time to make a choice between life and death. The concept of life and death is not yet a reality.

It’s impossible for them to know until you experience death. Witness a death. Felt the death sorrowfully in their souls you could see it in their faces. Death of a loved one. Someone you love with all your heart.

The only other option is death”s door lead only to an acquaintance or a “friend”. Possibly a relative, but you don’t, didn’t really know them.

Whatever the reason, you are the adult who needs more time to think about someone is there own person who hasn’t had the benefit of living the same four decades and would risk your own children’s lives from ever being in a life where their very own body they were born into is being treated as a slab of strong stupid flesh and blood and bones.

Consent is our individual human right. You can choose to be and do whatever you want to as long as you don’t harm anyone else. It’s that simple.

Appearance is a personal choice. Your choice is to look away. Nobody is holding your eyes open for you by force.

To finish up - know for a fact, federal government documents all back in up. You think you can take out 138M women easy peasy? I hear some “HELL YESES”. Right? Right? Far Right off the map

You are the problem. Don’t you see if you don’t want a transgender woman, who used to have a dick, compete with in sports along side biological female bodies-ST

According to the US government statistics, White/Caucasian includes anyone with origins in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. So yes — Middle Eastern and North African ancestry is officially "White" on paper.

What's right: The Census Bureau's "White" category is broader than most people assume. It officially includes anyone with origins in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

- including Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

- The 2020 Census found that about 61.6% of Americans identified as White alone. Wow, 167,000,000 white men aren’t all WHITE. I would take a guess and say YOU JUST LOST HALF OF YOUR SUPPORT—-you are deporting 250,000,000 million leaving you pure bread breed to 85,000,000.

Don’t forget 43,000,000 will be biological females and what ever else you want them to be. Abortion. Her Body, Your Choice? EVIL!

Notice math dummies- you only have 43,000,000 Bros right now too. Do you think you can buy a pardon for your wife?Pardon’s are for DONALD J, TRUMP”s “FRIENDS”. Trump doesn’t want STUPID PEOPLE. He says he does because intelligent people would not believe his lies, unethical behavior, incompetence. Inhumane. Dumb dumb is just so entertaining. HE IS GOING.

The word "Caucasian" was coined by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the 1700s — based on ONE SKULL from the Caucasus Mountains between Russia and Georgia that he found aesthetically pleasing.

Every white American checking "Caucasian" on a form — Irish, Scottish, English, German, French, Italian — is technically claiming heritage from Russian and Georgian mountain people. Based on one skull that one man found pretty..

One skull built centuries of racial hierarchy, justified slavery, and directly influenced Nazi racial theory.

And we're still using the word today.

NAIUS NEXUS GRACE's avatar

FUN FACT CAUCASIANS-(I didn’t even know how to spell it-Google helped me)

The United States government census bureau reported the Caucasian ethnicity is at a dangerously, impossibly low number in the United States. The report states Caucasians are 61.6% of the population. The population is split fairly evenly in half so 340,000,000 million people, half are women and half are men.

173,000,000 million women - -35,800,000 million girls

=138,000,000 to stand strong

#####%%%^%%%%%%%%

167,000,000 million men

-37,300,000 million are boys

2094,000,000 bazaar billion-(trump math)

205,000,000 million men and boys!

Wait, you are not seriously considering “how old?” Is 13-18 years old enough?

To consent to being used as a pawn in a war? But some are really strong. Look older than they are. They can even drive a car. What’s the big deal, Jonnie is dying to do anything to keep his white nationalist power!

That is Evil. You have no right to manipulate anyone into silence. Our children are human too. The science proves they have not had enough time to make a choice between life and death. The concept of life and death is not yet a reality.

It’s impossible for them to know until you experience death. Witness a death. Felt the death sorrowfully in their souls you could see it in their faces. Death of a loved one. Someone you love with all your heart.

The only other option is death”s door lead only to an acquaintance or a “friend”. Possibly a relative, but you don’t, didn’t really know them.

Whatever the reason, you are the adult who needs more time to think about someone is there own person who hasn’t had the benefit of living the same four decades and would risk your own children’s lives from ever being in a life where their very own body they were born into is being treated as a slab of strong stupid flesh and blood and bones.

Consent is our individual human right. You can choose to be and do whatever you want to as long as you don’t harm anyone else. It’s that simple.

Appearance is a personal choice. Your choice is to look away. Nobody is holding your eyes open for you by force.

To finish up - know for a fact, federal government documents all back in up. You think you can take out 138M women easy peasy? I hear some “HELL YESES”. Right? Right? Far Right off the map

You are the problem. Don’t you see if you don’t want a transgender woman, who used to have a dick, compete with in sports along side biological female bodies-ST

According to the US government statistics, White/Caucasian includes anyone with origins in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. So yes — Middle Eastern and North African ancestry is officially "White" on paper.

What's right: The Census Bureau's "White" category is broader than most people assume. It officially includes anyone with origins in Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

- including Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

- The 2020 Census found that about 61.6% of Americans identified as White alone. Wow, 167,000,000 white men aren’t all WHITE. I would take a guess and say YOU JUST LOST HALF OF YOUR SUPPORT—-you are deporting 250,000,000 million leaving you pure bread breed to 85,000,000.

Don’t forget 43,000,000 will be biological females and what ever else you want them to be. Abortion. Her Body, Your Choice? EVIL!

Notice math dummies- you only have 43,000,000 Bros right now too. Do you think you can buy a pardon for your wife?Pardon’s are for DONALD J, TRUMP”s “FRIENDS”. Trump doesn’t want STUPID PEOPLE. He says he does because intelligent people would not believe his lies, unethical behavior, incompetence. Inhumane. Dumb dumb is just so entertaining. HE IS GOING.

The word "Caucasian" was coined by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the 1700s — based on ONE SKULL from the Caucasus Mountains between Russia and Georgia that he found aesthetically pleasing.

Every white American checking "Caucasian" on a form — Irish, Scottish, English, German, French, Italian — is technically claiming heritage from Russian and Georgian mountain people. Based on one skull that one man found pretty..

One skull built centuries of racial hierarchy, justified slavery, and directly influenced Nazi racial theory.

And we're still using the word today.

NAIUS NEXUS GRACE's avatar

The most logical conclusion to draw is that Trump knows he is guilty. Trump’s defenders know Trump is guilty. Trump’s lies are transparent. Trump’s supporters know their own lies are transparent.

Think of all the lies and liars connected together in the corruption and coverups involving the Epstein investigation files, mass deportation, cryptocurrency dealings, J6 pardons, supreme immunity, and alleged war crimes. Not to mention the bribery we have yet to uncover.

What do they all have in common as they are playing multiple parts in the same play? Mutual destruction connects them all. Immunity that doesn’t protect anyone from crimes committed prior to Trump’s presidency.

Think about our government with 3 equal branches. I guess the founders had no clue that two out three old white men would be liars. They failed to understand the concept of greed.

The people voted for a representative to represent them because it was too far to travel and drive a carriage to the Town Hall.

Lobbyists wait in the lobby before they see the deal man. The Lobbyists works for big corporations for more money they even “earned” in Congress.” They are passing deals to pass laws to benefit corporations, gas, oil, fertilizer, IT data centers… that wheeler dealers are dealing with their good ole friends from 2 years ago. They are both your representatives.

When did you talk to him, them?

Lyn M's avatar

This lawless administration will end soon as Americans make a decision on how they want their country to move forward.

There is an awakening!

Philip Maxwell's avatar

What a great birthday party Donald had in front of the White House, or what's left of it. It was so great that he slept through most of the art of the slaughter.

Sam Golden's avatar

Yep, FBI agents with any bit of morality should quit before carrying out these political investigations. Steve and all the other great, patriotic journalists fighting against the current tyranny deserve our unlimited support.

Roemer McPhee's avatar

Gavin Newsom will lawyer up and smash Trump into a damp spot on the floor.

Molly M 🇺🇸🐈‍⬛🇺🇦's avatar

Hey Steve - I recall a few months back you mentioned a project 2029. is that something you’re still thinking of working on?