US Midterm Elections Megathread III: Hitting The Wall

[San Lumen]

Honestly, I think things would go a lot better for everyone if there was a bipartisan group drawing up districts, election day became a holiday, and we had automatic voter registration. I don't see why that isn't a bipartisan issue.

Things would be better if we didn’t have Districts in the first place

No they wouldn't. At large districts would violate the Voting Rights Act.

[San Lumen]

They must really want to kill the progressive wing of the party when they've chosen progressives like Katherine Clark of Massachusetts or Hakeem Jeffries of New York to serve in leadership. Hakeems Jeffries will be the chair of the Democratic caucus come January.

Because a corporate lawyer is sooo progressive. Give me a damn break

corporate lawyer?

[Thermodolia]

First off you do know that extradition doesn’t mean that you need to recognize the alleged crime.

Second state police are a thing


Technically no weed laws can be enforced because federal trumps state laws.

In Georgia the counties and large cities have home rule. Which means that they can pass laws that contrindicate state law to an extent. Such as marijuana enforcement.

In Atlanta the APD will not arrest you for possession however the state police theoretically could. I say theoretically because the state police aren’t involved in actual enforcement and are just highway patrol.


It’s exactly the same. The city of Atlanta has different drug laws than the county of Gwinnett. That’s different sets of laws.

Another example is the sales taxes. Which can differ from county to county based on SPLOST taxes or MARTA taxes. Or how about this, only five metro Atlanta counties can join MARTA. The rest of the counties in Georgia can’t.


That’s not possible in the first place though.

The last point could be if you if had this insane idea some are proposing of separate governments for urban and rural or having things like marriage be up to the county.

The easiest thing to solve the urban/rural split is to allow home rule in the counties. Instead of lording over them. Not certain things wouldn’t be allowed to be decided by home rule like constitutional rights

[Thermodolia]

Because a corporate lawyer is sooo progressive. Give me a damn break

corporate lawyer?

Hakeems Jeffries was a corporate lawyer for Viacom and CBS before running for office.

The guy is the very definition of establishment.

[Thermodolia]

Things would be better if we didn’t have Districts in the first place

No they wouldn't. At large districts would violate the Voting Rights Act.

I said no Districts not at large. And the VRA can be changed just like any other law

[San Lumen]

corporate lawyer?

Hakeems Jeffries was a corporate lawyer for Viacom and CBS before running for office.

The guy is the very definition of establishment.

I am so tired of this word establishment. Its like it applies to anyone currently in office. Please define who is not.

[Tarsonis]

Cause we're assholes.

Admitting your problem is the first step to recovery. :^]

True. Maybe if we clean up our act, we'll be allowed to absentee vote again.

[Tarsonis]

YUP, get them minorities out of there too. Can't have them messing up the election.

Why are you being racist now too?

Sigh......somebody slap Poe

[San Lumen]

No they wouldn't. At large districts would violate the Voting Rights Act.

I said no Districts not at large. And the VRA can be changed just like any other law

and then some of the wonderful people elected to Congress this year like Sharice Davids of Kansas, IIhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez would have probably never been elected

[Thermodolia]

Hakeems Jeffries was a corporate lawyer for Viacom and CBS before running for office.

The guy is the very definition of establishment.

I am so tired of this word establishment. Its like it applies to anyone currently in office. Please define who is not.

I don’t define it as someone who is or has been in office but someone who is entrenched in the major corporations, government, or any other thing which leads someone to be in the top 5% of the nation.

The guy is a corporate suit.

[Mystic Warriors]

Here's a good way to curb absentee ballot voter fraud: No absentee voting, and make election day a federal holiday.

What fraud? There has never been a study done that proves that happens on a significant scale. That is just something Republicans scream when they lose.

[San Lumen]

I am so tired of this word establishment. Its like it applies to anyone currently in office. Please define who is not.

I don’t define it as someone who is or has been in office but someone who is entrenched in the major corporations, government, or any other thing which leads someone to be in the top 5% of the nation.

The guy is a corporate suit.

Yeah how dare someone serve multiple terms and develop seniority and experience and eventually get a committee chair. If you dont like whose in office vote them out. Obviously the people of Jeffries district like him enough to have reelected him to other term.

[Thermodolia]

I said no Districts not at large. And the VRA can be changed just like any other law

and then some of the wonderful people elected to Congress this year like Sharice Davids of Kansas, IIhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez would have probably never been elected

You have a strange definition of wonderful.

Also by using Proportional representation the parties would choose who the representatives are. The people vote for the parties and the representatives represent that party

[San Lumen]

and then some of the wonderful people elected to Congress this year like Sharice Davids of Kansas, IIhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez would have probably never been elected

You have a strange definition of wonderful.

Also by using Proportional representation the parties would choose who the representatives are. The people vote for the parties and the representatives represent that party

Whats wrong with any of those people?

Republicans would never agree to that because it would mean they would never get the majority in many states or in Congress very often.

[Mardla]

Guys, just make it Federal law that you need a SSN to register to vote (if you leave your SSN blank in Cali, they give you a voted ID #, which should be banned), and replace signatures with finger prints you provide when you register.

[Washington Resistance Army]

You have a strange definition of wonderful.

Also by using Proportional representation the parties would choose who the representatives are. The people vote for the parties and the representatives represent that party

Whats wrong with any of those people?

Republicans would never agree to that because it would mean they would never get the majority in many states or in Congress very often.

Idk the first two but there's a ton wrong with Ocasio-Cortez, and it's not even her policy positions. She just represents an increasing dumbing down of our society and politics and that's worrisome.

[Thermodolia]

I don’t define it as someone who is or has been in office but someone who is entrenched in the major corporations, government, or any other thing which leads someone to be in the top 5% of the nation.

The guy is a corporate suit.

Yeah how dare someone serve multiple terms and develop seniority and experience and eventually get a committee chair. If you dont like whose in office vote them out. Obviously the people of Jeffries district like him enough to have reelected him to other term.

He’s not progressive though. You said that he is and used him as an example of the DNC not hating progressives

[San Lumen]

Guys, just make it Federal law that you need a SSN to register to vote (if you leave your SSN blank in Cali, they give you a voted ID #, which should be banned), and replace signatures with finger prints you provide when you register.

I am fairly certain you need to give your SSN when you register to vote at least in New York you do.

[Kaggeceria]

You have a strange definition of wonderful.

Also by using Proportional representation the parties would choose who the representatives are. The people vote for the parties and the representatives represent that party

Whats wrong with any of those people?

Republicans would never agree to that because it would mean they would never get the majority in many states or in Congress very often.

Ocasio-Cortez is literally a moron.

Like, I'm not even trying to insult her. She just genuinely seems like a very, very stupid person.

[San Lumen]

Whats wrong with any of those people?

Republicans would never agree to that because it would mean they would never get the majority in many states or in Congress very often.

Idk the first two but there's a ton wrong with Ocasio-Cortez, and it's not even her policy positions. She just represents an increasing dumbing down of our society and politics and that's worrisome.

I dont see how. She was duly elected in a free and fair election. I think its great that she says things the average person feels such as calling out the obscene rents in major cities like Washington DC.

[Valrifell]

Whats wrong with any of those people?

Republicans would never agree to that because it would mean they would never get the majority in many states or in Congress very often.

Occasio-Cortez is literally a moron.

Like, I'm not even trying to insult her. She just genuinely seems like a very, very stupid person.

Right-wingers find left-wingers stupid, in other news time progresses linearly.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Idk the first two but there's a ton wrong with Ocasio-Cortez, and it's not even her policy positions. She just represents an increasing dumbing down of our society and politics and that's worrisome.

I dont see how. She was duly elected in a free and fair election. I think its great that she says things the average person feels such as calling out the obscene rents in major cities like Washington DC.

She's shockingly uneducated and has no place in Congress. Sure you can hold it up as a cool thing that someone like that can win it doesn't mean it's a good thing she actually did.

[Thermodolia]

You have a strange definition of wonderful.

Also by using Proportional representation the parties would choose who the representatives are. The people vote for the parties and the representatives represent that party

Whats wrong with any of those people?

Republicans would never agree to that because it would mean they would never get the majority in many states or in Congress very often.

The democrats wouldn’t be for it either. Because they would lose power as well.

For example if you had 45 Democrats, 44 Republicans, 7 Libertarians, 3 Greens, and 1 Constitution in Congress then the Republicans-Libertarians-Constitution Coalition would have 54 and the majority.

[Mardla]

Idk the first two but there's a ton wrong with Ocasio-Cortez, and it's not even her policy positions. She just represents an increasing dumbing down of our society and politics and that's worrisome.

I dont see how. She was duly elected in a free and fair election. I think its great that she says things the average person feels such as calling out the obscene rents in major cities like Washington DC.

It isn't her politics, it's her IQ.

[Kaggeceria]

Occasio-Cortez is literally a moron.

Like, I'm not even trying to insult her. She just genuinely seems like a very, very stupid person.

Right-wingers find left-wingers stupid, in other news time progresses linearly.

"Unemployment is low because people have two jobs."

"We're going to take back the three branches of government. The Presidency, the House, and the Senate."

There should honestly just be a bipartisan agreement that this woman is an idiot.