US Midterm Election 2018 Megathread- It's Kavanaugh

[Sovaal]

No. Democracy enables that.

So we should accept whatever democracy throws up? That's... one hell of a position.

So should we override democracy when we don’t like the results? That’s a road you have to evcareful going down.

[San Lumen]

Its not a winnable race but it is scary that a Nazi is the best they could come up with for this district

Well as you said the area is pretty blue. Extremists come from hard times and places (so to speak). As for him running, it’s democracy baby, would you rather he be open about his beliefs or not?

let him be open about his beliefs its freedom of speech. If there is a debate in that district after the Democratic primary it would be an interesting one for sure.

[Washington Resistance Army]

No. Democracy enables that.

So we should accept whatever democracy throws up? That's... one hell of a position.

I've been advocating the WRA single party state for a while now.

[Sovaal]

So we should accept whatever democracy throws up? That's... one hell of a position.

I've been advocating the WRA single party state for a while now.

Never! SDP (Sovaal Democratic Party) for life! Too the technicals!

[Shrillland]

Daily reminder that Chicago is nothing more than a third world country pretending to be part of the US.

I believe second world country is what you're trying to say, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Illinois would be second world.

No. Democracy enables that.

Well as a Jew I find it very scary that someone who denies a genocide that killed six million of my people is on the ballot. But given that he meets the requirements for the office and his petition signatures are valid there is no way to remove Mr. Jones from the ballot nor should there be.

It will be interesting to see what percentage of the vote he gets.

Honestly, I'd be surprised if he got more than 10,000 votes come November; the state party's doing all it can to discredit him.

And...

You just said you wanted her to win, then said, “It’s not like she’ll actually win.” As though that takes away from what you just said.

She wouldn't win a general election in Illinois running ads like that but could win a Republican primary. I would welcome the down ballot carnage like we saw in Virginia last year.

Depends who we choose on March 20. If it's Kennedy, there'd be no trouble crushing her, but Pritzker's suffering from the machine sickness and Biss(my personal choice) may be too far left for too many people.

[Claorica]

No. Democracy enables that.

So we should accept whatever democracy throws up? That's... one hell of a position.

If you believe in pure democracy like San Lumen, yep, you should.

[Salandriagado]

I don't condone her positions one bit. She wouldn't win the general and would hand the election to the Democrat.

> “I want her to win the nomination.”
> “B-But there’s no way she would do it.”

Obvious backpedaling is obvious.

You appear to be having difficultly distinguishing "nomination" from "election".

[Telconi]

> “I want her to win the nomination.”
> “B-But there’s no way she would do it.”

Obvious backpedaling is obvious.

You appear to be having difficultly distinguishing "nomination" from "election".

I think the operative critique was about San Lumen's advocacy of extremism.

[Hakons]

I'm not entirely sure what would happen if the Governor vetoed a proposed map. For one, if the map is compact (by following the new guidelines), Governor Wolf may face fallout for vetoing a good looking map (he's up for election in November). Next, what happens after a veto? The legislator complied with the court order and made a compact map. Would the default map be the old map?

No. It'd be a court-drawn map. If the Governor doesn't sign a new plan by 15 February, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will immediately start the process for drawing its own map. See the order.

Third, should the General Assembly not submit a congressional districting plan on or before February 9, 2018, or should the Governor not approve the General Assembly’s plan on or before February 15, 2018, this Court shall proceed expeditiously to adopt a plan based on the evidentiary record developed in the Commonwealth Court.

The governor can veto any map, then. This seems like an overstep of power by the court. Courts can declare maps invalid, but they can't draw their own.

[Telconi]

No. It'd be a court-drawn map. If the Governor doesn't sign a new plan by 15 February, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will immediately start the process for drawing its own map. See the order.

The governor can veto any map, then. This seems like an overstep of power by the court. Courts can declare maps invalid, but they can't draw their own.

Court throwing out map is nothing out of the ordinary. I would expect SCOTUS to get involved if the court tries to draw it's own map overriding the legislature.

[Salandriagado]

You appear to be having difficultly distinguishing "nomination" from "election".

I think the operative critique was about San Lumen's advocacy of extremism.

Then Lumi should say she means, rather than demonstrating that she clearly either didn't read or didn't understand the post.

[Valrifell]

Daily reminder that Chicago is nothing more than a third world country pretending to be part of the US.

I thought that was the entire state of Illinois, and large swathes of the Midwest and South?

[Major-Tom]

Daily reminder that Chicago is nothing more than a third world country pretending to be part of the US.

Daily reminder that Chicago > NYC > LA.

[Salandriagado]

Daily reminder that Chicago is nothing more than a third world country pretending to be part of the US.

Daily reminder that Chicago > NYC > LA.

Why are we trying to rank shitholes?

[Thermodolia]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

[San Lumen]

The governor can veto any map, then. This seems like an overstep of power by the court. Courts can declare maps invalid, but they can't draw their own.

Court throwing out map is nothing out of the ordinary. I would expect SCOTUS to get involved if the court tries to draw it's own map overriding the legislature.

The court can and would draw its own map if the governor and legislature cannot agree or the map the legislature draws does not meet the requirements set out by the court. It has happened before for example in my state for the last redistricting when the Assembly and the Senate could not agree on maps for congress.

[Hayo]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

There will be a narrative pushed that it's un-American and has no basis in any national traditions.

I guess the impact depends on what percentage of people are impressed by tanks, flags, and toy soldiers.

[Telconi]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

There will be a narrative pushed that it's un-American and has no basis in any national traditions.

I guess the impact depends on what percentage of people are impressed by tanks, flags, and toy soldiers.

Tanks flags and toy soldiers are quite impressive.

[Valrifell]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

I don't really think military parades have a place in the American political tradition, but it'll be super effective despite of my protests.

[Corrian]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

Kinda strange, but I doubt that will change peoples opinions or anything. Like my first thought of military parades is North Korea, but it is actually fairly common in various places. I'm more surprised we don't already have one actually.

[Claorica]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

Kinda strange, but I doubt that will change peoples opinions or anything. Like my first thought of military parades is North Korea, but it is actually fairly common in various places. I'm more surprised we don't already have one actually.

I mean, when you look at it, we have had them in the past, in the events of victory in major wars, like V-E Day.

[San Lumen]

Here's yet another crazy Republican primary for Governor,

Jan Morgan who is challenging Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson(R) in the primary is claiming that he has governed like a democrat and will prevent sharia law from coming to Arkansas.

https://talkbusiness.net/2018/02/morgan ... haria-law/

[Hakons]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

Kinda strange, but I doubt that will change peoples opinions or anything. Like my first thought of military parades is North Korea, but it is actually fairly common in various places. I'm more surprised we don't already have one actually.

We had parades for sending troops off to war and celebrating their return, but those mainly happened in the 19th and 20th century. There's nothing really wrong with them, just they've fallen out of favor in modern America.

[San Lumen]

Not sure if this belongs here or the state of the Democratic Party threads but there were four special elections in Missouri tonight for state House of Representatives. Republicans will likely win two of them but Democrats have gained one District 97 which includes part of St. Louis and Jefferson county. The fourth election is too close to call.

This is further evidence of Republicans tanking in suburban areas. Virginia showed this as did the special state senate election in Wisconsin last month.

Trump won this seat 61-33 according to Daily Kos.

[Washington Resistance Army]

I wonder how this is going to effect the elections

I entirely approve of this, we should make this a yearly thing.