US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[JustSomeDong]

Well. This definitely happened:

1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's referring to the nutters that think a nuke was used in the OKC bombing.

 

[pwnest injun]

It's weird that the default assumption is that nuclear weapons would be used first against civilian targets rather than military ones.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

The funniest part is I wake up, I have 13 messages, so much seething about me, spreading of rumors, and I'm still laughing. I went on a Service Mission I didn't have a choice in? So? It doesn't change that the estrogen levels are above 1000% in here! Based on the amount of cope, seethe, and malding, I have proved my point. The felting has been successful.

*Insert Michael Jordan stop it get some help gif*

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS 2:
ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!

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I want this just for the hilarity.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I want this just for the hilarity.

the Chaos option

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Some nutters also insist that 9/11 had micro-nukes used to bring down the towers.

Of course, those who say so are all useful idiots. Distracting from the actual much more valid and pressing issues of "why did the USA refuse to hold Saudi Arabia accountable" and "how come WTC7 came down without any planes",

 

[Feline Supremacist]

He's referring to the nutters that think a nuke was used in the OKC bombing.

Yeah, I know. If it went "boom" its must be a nuke omg

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

my dad's been mild dem basically all his life, a year or so back he was "they're both crazy"
he recently wrote a letter to the editor of the local "extremely liberal" paper as he put it, because he didn't like their double-standard of sticking up for Kamala's f-bomb while bitching about Trump cursing
the published his letter but rewrote parts so it wasn't as much about the paper's double-standard

I don't know if he's on the Trump Train but he def sounds like he's never voting dem again until he's dead.
he's been largely politically uniformed, not like, he's dumb, just, he's had a job and stuff
now he's aware of Biden alienating whoever country with his batshit "uncle eaten by cannibals" claim

 

[Scale Smerch]

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS 2:
ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!

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I want this just for the hilarity.

The real hilarity is this is entirely possible. The absolute best part though? The election then gets thrown to the House and the Senate picks the VP - and given the House probably is reverting back to Dem control while the Senate flips to the Republicans that more than likely means a Biden-Trump administration.

It's the stuff meme dreams are made of.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

The real hilarity is this is entirely possible. The absolute best part though? The election then gets thrown to the House and the Senate picks the VP - and given the House probably is reverting back to Dem control while the Senate flips to the Republicans that more than likely means a Biden-Trump administration.

It's the stuff meme dreams are made of.

it doesn't go by congressmen it goes by state. the GOP controls 25 states right now. Trump-Harris would be the likely result, but a tie is such a low possibility i wouldn't bother wasting time on it.

 

[Michael Wade]

You forgot about the DU stockpile for the Challengers Russia blew up in the Ukraine. Any talk of radiation was quickly quashed and memoryholed.

Yeah if a tree falls in a forest of glowies and Russians it might as well not have fallen at all.

 

[FieldPiece]

Even if a nuke hit LA and only LA and the fallout was only contained to LA., electronics, cars and car part prices would skyrocket in addition to all the other shit that flows through America's Port. it would be an economic shitstorm reverberating throughout the country.

Just saw off California and make Arizona bay. Make California a sunken reef.

I hate California like you wouldn't believe. Literally the most retarded state in existence, which is a steep competition given fake states like Delaware exist. Fucking faggots steal water from neighboring states so they can grow the two most water hungry crops in existence, avocados and almonds in a fucking DESERT. They don't even waste water growing something tasty, they grow avocados, a flavorless green mush only enjoyed by literal retards . If you like avocados I legitimately hope you get raped to death by a pack of niggers. Tasteless playdough.

Of course this heckin green and eco conscious state full of hippies might be like other desert states such as Arizona or Nevada and have gravel yards with cacti. Nope! Fuckin lawns in the desert because every Californian is a hypocrite fuck scumbag deserving of death camps.

 

[Wimbydong]

The election then gets thrown to the House

Small caveat there - the presidency is decided by the House, but each state delegation gets one vote out of the total fifty. This means that South Dakota's one elected rep would get the same power as California's 53 reps in this case.
Republicans are expected to control the majority of state delegations (I think it's somewhere around 30-20), which would mean Trump wins if there wasn't tremendous pressure for House GOP members to buckle and vote for Biden (and you know some of them would).
As I'm typing this out I want a House of Reps election to occur because the new electoral game would be hilarious to watch unfold.

 

[pwnest injun]

Small caveat there - the presidency is decided by the House, but each state delegation gets one vote out of the total fifty. This means that South Dakota's one elected rep would get the same power as California's 53 reps in this case.
Republicans are expected to control the majority of state delegations (I think it's somewhere around 30-20), which would mean Trump wins if there wasn't tremendous pressure for House GOP members to buckle and vote for Biden (and you know some of them would).
As I'm typing this out I want a House of Reps election to occur because the new electoral game would be hilarious to watch unfold.

So Nicki Haley as president with Nicki Haley as VP...


In an unrelated thought, I've been sort of thinking about the original structure of government, as the framers wrote it up. The biggest change beside the complete subversion of the 10th amendment in order to create the welfare state is the switch to direct election for the Senate. The original role of the Senate was to be the representation of the elite interests in society. It was the choice of the Best Man, by the Best Men. I don't understand why it was changed and I haven't really looked at it, historically, but the effects are apparent. Now, those same elite interests are still in control of the Senate, but by being forced to rely on electoral politics in order to see after their interests, they've also taken over the House. I wonder if it's even possible to get everyone back into playing their position..

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

imagine if Trump ends up shaping the court for a century. going into 2016 we knew he was going to place one judge on the court but he has cosmic luck and placed three, along with thousands of lower judges.

This would be where the real violence comes from. Republican'ts aren't going to do a thing even if their country completely dies in front of them, but Dems will burn everything down without hesitation if they think MAGA will become the ruling power.

 

[Ghost of Biden]

Some nutters also insist that 9/11 had micro-nukes used to bring down the towers.

Of course, those who say so are all useful idiots. Distracting from the actual much more valid and pressing issues of "why did the USA refuse to hold Saudi Arabia accountable" and "how come WTC7 came down without any planes",

What a dummy. Everyone knows it as a below ground demolition with thermite to weaken structural integrity above 30 stories. They don’t want you to look into Minoru Yamasaki. The same lead architect with connections to the Bin Laden family and CIA, the same architect who built radioactive apartment projects in the Pruitt-Igoe experiments, which coincidentally happened to also collapse from an underground demolition much similar to the Twin Towers.

 

[Breadbassket]

In an unrelated thought, I've been sort of thinking about the original structure of government, as the framers wrote it up. The biggest change beside the complete subversion of the 10th amendment in order to create the welfare state is the switch to direct election for the Senate. The original role of the Senate was to be the representation of the elite interests in society. It was the choice of the Best Man, by the Best Men. I don't understand why it was changed and I haven't really looked at it, historically, but the effects are apparent. Now, those same elite interests are still in control of the Senate, but by being forced to rely on electoral politics in order to see after their interests, they've also taken over the House. I wonder if it's even possible to get everyone back into playing their position..

Senators originally used to be chosen by state legislature to serve for 6 years. The 17th Amendment in the early 1900s changed this so they'd have to be elected directly by the public. The Senate was originally designed to be the American equivalent of the House of Lords. This system faced accusations of special interests holding too much influence in the process and state races being made secondary to Senate races where politicians would campaign to be a Senator but technically not be on any ballots.

The need for the change is debatable, but in effect it kind of traded one form of corruption for another:

The Seventeenth Amendment was seen as part of a broader effort to make an end-run around the control that parties, machines, and special interests had over state legislatures. (Ironically, however, big city party machines supported the Seventeenth Amendment, largely because state legislative apportionment gave greater representation to rural areas due to districting decisions in the absence of “one person, one vote” and because machine-controlled cities could more easily mobilize voters. Many big special interests supported it as well.) William Randolph Hearst famously hired muckraking journalist David Graham Phillips to write an expose, “The Treason of the Senate,” which played a major role in debates around the Seventeenth Amendment. The popular perception that Senate seats could be bought in backrooms of state legislatures fueled support for direct elections. Further, several Senate seats remained open for years when state legislatures couldn’t agree on a choice, although the importance of this is somewhat questionable and was attributable to a federal statute that required that Senators be elected by a majority of state legislators, not a plurality, in state legislatures, a requirement that notably was not included for popular elections in the Seventeenth Amendment.

Further, supporters of the Amendment argued that races for Senate swamped interest in state issues in state legislative races, reducing the accountability of state legislatures on any issue other than the identity of Senators. (See David Schleicher’s individual explainer on the Seventeenth Amendment.)

By the time the Seventeenth Amendment finally passed, it was wildly popular. In recent years, however, the Seventeenth Amendment has come under some criticism from conservatives like Justice Antonin Scalia, columnist George Will, and a host of Republicans in Congress for removing an important power from state legislatures. Further, the implications of the Amendment—particularly its effect on appointments following vacancies—have become the subject of some dispute.

 

[mlanguishi]

I hope someone does nuke those two cities. I was just pointing out California has more than the Port of LA but because its run by retarded and greedy pols that's the only one they route commercial shipping through.

Right. I want those cities fucked too, but it would be better with earthquakes all up and down the west coast. The Chinese can hit all the continental US and Hawaii and Alaska though, so I highly doubt they'd limit it to just the west coast.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I'm kinda shocked that Trump hasn't picked a VP yet.

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

I'm kinda shocked that Trump hasn't picked a VP yet.

Picking a VP through a raflle would be better than picking a R
or a golden Trump ticket in one of the 6,000,000 Trump chocolate bars across the nation