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RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer
#167276: Jan 18th 2017 at 11:09:43 AM

And even more not-so-amazing things.

Continue writing our story of peace.
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#167277: Jan 18th 2017 at 11:11:26 AM

Or things that he claims are amazing but are actually awful

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
RAlexa21th Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I <3 love!
Zettai Ryouiki Enjoyer
#167278: Jan 18th 2017 at 11:17:35 AM

Amazing for him, awful for everyone else.

Continue writing our story of peace.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#167279: Jan 18th 2017 at 11:26:45 AM

Hey now! I'm sure it will be great if you donate millions to the RNC.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#167280: Jan 18th 2017 at 11:30:38 AM

Expected changes to the House in the 2020 census

And a map, assuming same states won as in 2016

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#167281: Jan 18th 2017 at 11:38:15 AM

Presidential funerals during Trump's tenure would be highly symbolic and and somewhat cruel. note 

Also, I nominate for New Era Title Sequence note :

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#167282: Jan 18th 2017 at 11:55:54 AM

The Russian Victory Day Parades had, like, actual Navy seals (note the lower cases).

The only way that could be topped is with, like, an inspection done by a penguin who is also a colonel.

Except Norway already did that.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#167283: Jan 18th 2017 at 12:16:48 PM

[up]x14 We have military parades in Gibraltar, and we aren't fascists. In fact, we voted almost 100% against Brexit. You also see platoons of soldiers with assault rifles occasionally running around the place, and the occasional colonel in the street. Then again, we are pretty much a military base turned into a country.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#167284: Jan 18th 2017 at 12:35:28 PM

Well yeah, France, Mexico, and India do yearly military parades as well, but Trump being Trump this is almost comical.

edited 18th Jan '17 12:36:24 PM by CaptainCapsase

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#167285: Jan 18th 2017 at 12:48:32 PM

So I just found out that the Hawaii State Senate has an all-Democratic delegation - all 25 seats are held by Democrats. No other legislature house in the US that I know is one party.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#167286: Jan 18th 2017 at 12:49:47 PM

No gerrymandering?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#167287: Jan 18th 2017 at 12:54:19 PM

Well, there is Tulsi Gabbard. Who is a whole different tier of shit.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#167288: Jan 18th 2017 at 12:55:02 PM

Personally, I don't see anything inherently wrong with military parades. Admittedly, Fascists use military parades by necessity, but Hitler Ate Sugar. Military parades predate fascism by quite a bit and there's no particular reason the good guys can't have them, too.

In any event, I think it's a good idea since there's a lot of overlap between military and parade. Soldiers spend a lot of time marching, and the military does have its own marching bands. Plus military uniforms (especially ceremonial ones), vehicles, and equipment look cool.

Leviticus 19:34
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#167289: Jan 18th 2017 at 12:57:18 PM

[up][up][up] District Drawing is (for most states) determined by the State's Legislatures and approved of by the Governor of the State every 10 years. So you guys better flip Arizona, North Carolina and Florida Blue or you can guarantee that those states will have a harder time going Blue from 2020-2030...

[down] Oh, that's good then. I always forget which states have that instead of the Legislature process.

edited 18th Jan '17 1:10:57 PM by DingoWalley1

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#167290: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:04:03 PM

Arizona has an independent committee for the congressional districts, actually. Not for their state legislature I think.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#167291: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:10:54 PM

District drawing doesn't (directly) have an impact on if a state goes a particular way at the presidential level. Still the shift from the Mid West to the South (Texas, Florida and NC) and the West (Colorado, Arizona, Oregon) does show a trend.

Man we need the Voting Rights Act back, the voter suppression in many of the gaining states is huge.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#167292: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:11:53 PM

Agreed - but with the Orange One about to get control of the stolen SCOTUS seat, I don't see how we can get it back.

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
Jetyl The Dev Cat from my apartment Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
The Dev Cat
#167293: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:11:59 PM

what got rid of the Voting Rights Act again? and why?

I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#167294: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:15:20 PM

Part of it, because it didn't treat all the states the same.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#167295: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:20:43 PM

@Protag: Yes, but military parades aren't really an American tradition at all. What kind of message do people take away when suddenly tanks are rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue?

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#167296: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:28:26 PM

According to this:

On June 25, 2013, the Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that Section 4(b) {IF Wanderer's explanation: a formula for determining which state and local governments require pre-clearance by federal government before doing changes to the voting laws} is unconstitutional because the coverage formula is based on data over 40 years old, making it no longer responsive to current needs and therefore an impermissible burden on the constitutional principles of federalism and equal sovereignty of the states.

So they "didn't" kill the VRA, they told congress to make a new formula, and since we all know the GOP has a divine right to rule the United States o' 'Murica, and a new formula would harm the GOP's ability to accumulate power, congress didn't make a new formula.

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#167297: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:31:21 PM

[up][up] That tanks are going to be rolling through their own neighborhoods during Trump's term?

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#167298: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:36:02 PM

[up]If they do that, they're gonna have a r— {Is shot (by a tank,) before he can finish his sentence.}

edited 18th Jan '17 1:36:21 PM by kkhohoho

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#167299: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:37:37 PM

Yeah the SC has no further input on the Voting Rights Act, all that's needed is the Dems to take Congress and draw up a new formula.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#167300: Jan 18th 2017 at 1:46:49 PM

[up][up] It sends that message to people abroad more than Americans.


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