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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Maybe for Senate at least. The House has a larger number of representatives per state, so if you wanna get your start in politics anywhere above local/governor level, that would be a better place to do so, rather than the Senate, where having a two-per-state limit means there's more responsibilities inherent in the position.
@Ambar I know all that already.
Well that's not good. It means young Republicans are really into tribalism.
Isn't he a self-admitted cokehead and recreational prescription drug abuser? Frankly it would explain some things about his positions.
You know all that already, yet still said the following:
If what you said above is true, then you were unaware that that the colloquialism comes from the faction in question, which is what I informed you of in my response to you. Which would mean you did not, in fact, "know all that already". Conversely, if you did know that already, then why did you say the thing I quoted above, knowing it to be false? Is there just a typo somewhere in your statement?
edited 9th May '17 10:56:48 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar
A few hours later, Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa) showed up at his town hall meeting where most of the prescreened audience screamed at him.
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I read that, actually. He didn't walk out because he didn't want out-of-town people coming to his Town Hall, he walked out because the News Reporter pointed out how he would take money from Out-of-Town people.
And since Money is Free Speech (according to Citizens United), that just makes him a Hypocrite.
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I liked the part where he was getting chewed out by the prescreened audience
From today's WTF Happened Today
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5910da0ee4b0e7021e9a5cda
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions at a White House discussion on March 29. Sessions’ Justice Department has cited a ruling in a swimming pool closure case in its defense of the travel ban.
WASHINGTON ― In a brief defending its ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department approvingly cited a segregation-era Supreme Court decision that allowed Jackson, Mississippi, to close public pools rather than integrate them.
In the early 1960s, courts ordered Jackson to desegregate its public parks, which included five swimming pools. Instead, the city decided to close the pools. Black residents of Jackson sued. But in 1971, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, decided that closing the pools rather than integrating them was just fine.
The dissents, even at the time, were furious. “May a State in order to avoid integration of the races abolish all of its public schools?” Justice William O. Douglas asked in his dissent.
edited 9th May '17 11:08:23 AM by sgamer82
An emergency has reportedly been declared at the Hanford Site following the collapse of a tunnel
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Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)
Jon Oliver on Jared and Ivanka
. Nothing we didn't already know, but nice to have all the worrying info in one place.
The White House sends weapons to Syrian rebels: https://twitter.com/AndrewBeatty/status/861996441845346304
Trump team plan on releasing Clinton's concession to Trump Six Months ago, to the public
What the actual fuck?
WHY?!
New Survey coming this weekend!@ Travel ban segregation citing: The argument they're trying to use is pretty bad. As in, a bad argument. The city of Jackson closed pools to avoid having to desegregate. Okay. I can kind of get that, because pools aren't really an essential service and the city technically has the right to close any pools they run at any time for any reason. It was still a really petty move, but it does kind of make sense that they were allowed to do that.
However, the logic doesn't hold up here. The original case was "can we close this down completely instead of opening it up to everyone?" This case is "can we arbitrarily pick countries, based on the dominant religion, and shut down all travel to and from them?" That doesn't work. Maybe if Trump was trying to shut down all travel everywhere no matter what it might be applicable, but as it stands, the precedent they're trying to cite is completely irrelevant.
edited 9th May '17 11:33:01 AM by Zendervai
