115th United States Congress

[Ragnus]

I'm looking at some ALEC mouthpieces on Twitter and it looks like we can expect repeal of the 17th Amendment to be the biggest agenda item if they flip any more state legislatures.

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What do they hope to gain from this repeal? Is it something in the vacancies clause?

[Fiye]

What do they hope to gain from this repeal? Is it something in the vacancies clause?

No your state legislature would.

aka welcome super majority republican senate.

[Rooney]

It provides for popular election of senators. With it gone the state legislature would do that. With control of as many as R's have, they could make a filibuster proof majority in the senate and ram through w/e they want.

[kuronosan]

And yet nobody seems to have a problem with this shit.

BIG GUBMENT! BUG GUBMENT! GO AWAY BIG GUBMENT!

Oh? Repeal the amendment that prevented state governments from picking our federal officials? I'm cool with giving power back to the states, lol

Fucking morons. Seriously. What a time to be alive with so many fucking stupid people populating this planet.

[Fiye]

Its not like there was a lot of political corruption back then. Right?

[Andalusian girls]

at the risk of going against Zealot's twitter sources that is never ever ever going to happen. can you even begin to imagine the public backlash that would accompany such a brazenly undemocratic regression that would strip away so much sovereignty from the people

[Zealot]

1) I didn't say it would happen, I said it is clearly the emerging talking point for the far-right mouthpieces like Huckabee and Palin. They have limited exposure currently in the mainstream but still enjoy regular attention from a niche audience that serves as a testing ground for ALEC. If they can get that demographic to respond positively, they start testing the idea on a larger scale.
2) I have seen little to no evidence that Americans would either a) not defend a point actively against their interest so long as some perceived "other side" didn't want it and b) be able to form a cogent argument against a despicable idea that wouldn't be ignored by one side and attacked for some reason by the other. Don't want appointment of Senators? Why? Because you don't want states with black legislators sending more people of color to Congress you racist?

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[Zealot]

Also hearkening back to the earlier WV conversation, a Justice Democrat named Paula Jean Swearengin is primarying Joe Manchin.

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[Zetanio]

Also hearkening back to the earlier WV conversation, a Justice Democrat named Paula Jean Swearengin is primarying Joe Manchin.

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I'd vote just based on name recognition. She's doing an AMA right now on Reddit.

[archibaldcrane]

The "last remaining" health care plan being kicked around, Cassidy-Graham, is monumentally stupid.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...amacare-repeal

It basically block-grants all current medicaid expansion/ACA subsidy money, but at a lower level than is currently spent, keeps the pre-existing condition ban but removes all mandates, really really dumb bad policy.

[EternityEnd]

So you're saying it has a chance.

[Mertron]

cory booker has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana nationally

it has 0 sponsors and is expected to go nowhere

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydai...icle-1.3374898

[EternityEnd]

Just a transparent 2020 prelude. Marijuana legalization would probably be a decent issue for a democratic nominee to take up -- Sessions' unpopular criminalization stance would be easy to hammer.

[Andalusian girls]

Also hearkening back to the earlier WV conversation, a Justice Democrat named Paula Jean Swearengin is primarying Joe Manchin.

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running an anti-coal environmentalist in West Virginia

[Andalusian girls]

all the cocksuckers in the world can't save her now

[tyven]

running an anti-coal environmentalist in West Virginia

psh wait until they get a load of her slogan "less pickaxe more python"

[Gredival]

at the risk of going against Zealot's twitter sources that is never ever ever going to happen. can you even begin to imagine the public backlash that would accompany such a brazenly undemocratic regression that would strip away so much sovereignty from the people

Just like the outcry when the GOP brazenly defied the established process for selection of SCOTUS Justices.

[Fiye]

I could ask my conservative idiot red shandy about the 17th amendment and he'd say we should repeal it.

I bet you repealing the 17th amendment is more popular with republicans than trump.

[Fiye]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/sta...79818364801025

The McConnel salt is gr8

"It's pretty obvious that our problem on health care was not the Democrats. We didn't have 50 Republicans."

[Andalusian girls]

Just like the outcry when the GOP brazenly defied the established process for selection of SCOTUS Justices.

uh did you just compare dispensing with the filibuster (which is a Senate procedural rule never provided for in the Constitution) for SCOTUS nominations (as the Democrats did for other federal appointments in 2013) to literally amending the Constitution so party elites can strip away the citizenry's right to vote for one of the branches of the federal government

look bud i know you took Hilldog's defeat hard and had to go away to that spa for a while but you can do better than this