US Gen. Election Thread V: The Hunt for Red October Surprise

[Genivaria]

*bangs head repeatedly*

We recommend against hitting your head repeatedly as it can cause brain damage(then again being on NS can have the same effect). At NSG Ambulance we understand this election season has been very frustrating and leading many people to start the process of going crazy, but always remember there is a light at the end of this long dark tunnel.

Is the long dark tunnel Obama? Because if so it could be a bit longer.
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[The Emerald Dawn]

Don't get me wrong - I totally get why term limits exist. New blood, avoiding entrenchment of bad ideas, etc.

But my corollary is: New blood isn't necessarily better blood.

I think that if we're going to have turn limits then it should apply to Congress as well.
Otherwise it's just a trick to focus power into the Gerrymandered Oligarchical Prats.

The Senate already lacks term limits.

[Genivaria]

I think that if we're going to have turn limits then it should apply to Congress as well.
Otherwise it's just a trick to focus power into the Gerrymandered Oligarchical Prats.

The Senate already lacks term limits.

That's what I was saying, they NEED term limits because otherwise we have people completely out of touch with society shaping our laws.

[The Emerald Dawn]

The Senate already lacks term limits.

That's what I was saying, they NEED term limits because otherwise we have people completely out of touch with society shaping our laws.

Disregard that I suck cock.

[Genivaria]

That's what I was saying, they NEED term limits because otherwise we have people completely out of touch with society shaping our laws.

Disregard that I suck cock.

wat

[Thermodolia]

Three hours later and I got to vote

Who'd you vote for?

Vote blue all the way through!!

[Galloism]

Don't get me wrong - I totally get why term limits exist. New blood, avoiding entrenchment of bad ideas, etc.

But my corollary is: New blood isn't necessarily better blood.

I think that if we're going to have turn limits then it should apply to Congress as well.
Otherwise it's just a trick to focus power into the Gerrymandered Oligarchical Prats.

There's an argument for that, actually.

See, think of it like a corporation. Corporations promote people who do well to higher positions, but there are fewer and fewer higher positions. If those higher positions are occupied by young entrenched people who don't go anywhere, then the people below can never move up either until death or retirement claims them.

If you limited the senate to say... 3 terms or 4 terms (that would be 18 or 24 years, respectively, in the senate), then you would have room for advancement for the good representatives to move into the senate.

[Thermodolia]

Anyone else just not gonna risk jury duty to vote?

Depends on what state you live in. In my state registering to vote doesn't make you eligible for jury duty, getting a drivers license does that.

[The Emerald Dawn]

Disregard that I suck cock.

wat

I thought the House was term limited for some idiotic reason. I'm doing a bit of offline research to figure out how the hell I got to that misunderstanding, if even for just a few minutes.

[Thermodolia]

Watching Pence outside the firebombed GOP office, he so far has said, "It's political terrorism, which the media wont cover, and there is widespread voter fraud." At one point it seemed he tried saying the Democrats and Hillary was behind the firebombing.

Maybe someone should bring up the allegations that there where completed absentee ballot's in that office.

[Cannot think of a name]

wat

I thought the House was term limited for some idiotic reason. I'm doing a bit of offline research to figure out how the hell I got to that misunderstanding, if even for just a few minutes.

Your state house as term limits, maybe?

[Thermodolia]

It would be, if FDR hadn't run up the scoreboard.

Did he? Or did the other team have to change the rules because they got tired of losing?

Truman got it passed. And he was a democrat.

[Eol Sha]

Did he? Or did the other team have to change the rules because they got tired of losing?

Truman got it passed. And he was a democrat.

The President doesn't have a role in ratifying amendments.

[Genivaria]

I think that if we're going to have turn limits then it should apply to Congress as well.
Otherwise it's just a trick to focus power into the Gerrymandered Oligarchical Prats.

There's an argument for that, actually.

See, think of it like a corporation. Corporations promote people who do well to higher positions, but there are fewer and fewer higher positions. If those higher positions are occupied by young entrenched people who don't go anywhere, then the people below can never move up either until death or retirement claims them.

If you limited the senate to say... 3 terms or 4 terms (that would be 18 or 24 years, respectively, in the senate), then you would have room for advancement for the good representatives to move into the senate.

I'd be okay with their term limits being LONGER than the president's simply because an individual Senator has far less power than the President does.

[The Emerald Dawn]

I thought the House was term limited for some idiotic reason. I'm doing a bit of offline research to figure out how the hell I got to that misunderstanding, if even for just a few minutes.

Your state house as term limits, maybe?

That's it.

There used to be limits to politicians in the House and Senate here, then in '95 they tossed those after USTL v Thornton.

I'm not crazy, I'm not.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

There's an argument for that, actually.

See, think of it like a corporation. Corporations promote people who do well to higher positions, but there are fewer and fewer higher positions. If those higher positions are occupied by young entrenched people who don't go anywhere, then the people below can never move up either until death or retirement claims them.

If you limited the senate to say... 3 terms or 4 terms (that would be 18 or 24 years, respectively, in the senate), then you would have room for advancement for the good representatives to move into the senate.

I'd be okay with their term limits being LONGER than the president's simply because an individual Senator has far less power than the President does.

Two terms put most senators on 12 years in office, which I think is a good way to end your senatorial career: by watching the next president come into office and try to work with them.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Your state house as term limits, maybe?

That's it.

There used to be limits to politicians in the House and Senate here, then in '95 they tossed those after USTL v Thornton.

I'm not crazy, I'm not.

That's what a crazy person would say.

[Thermodolia]

Truman got it passed. And he was a democrat.

The President doesn't have a role in ratifying amendments.

He can egg congress on though.

[Eol Sha]

The President doesn't have a role in ratifying amendments.

He can egg congress on though.

Did Truman do that, though?

[Genivaria]

So the other day Trump was ahead in Texas by only 4 points.
Now it's 3 points.
http://m.chron.com/news/politics/texas/ ... er-desktop

[New West Guiana]

Pretty sobering video from the Guardian

[Lancaster of Wessex]

So the other day Trump was ahead in Texas by only 4 points.
Now it's 3 points.
http://m.chron.com/news/politics/texas/ ... er-desktop

Within the margin of error?

Regardless that's striking.

[Corrian]

Pretty sobering video from the Guardian

That video was pretty powerful to be honest. It gives a good perspective there.

[The Greater German Federal Republic]

Apparently, the Democrats have been comitting voter fraud....

[Khadgar]

Apparently, the Democrats have been comitting voter fraud....

Oh goody, another unsourced video by a guy famed for lying in his unsourced videos? Well I believe that, down with Hillary!