Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Here's why.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/o...democrats.html

"The politics of selective fidelity to traditional norms. Liberals fear, with reason, the threat Trump poses to the institutional architecture of American government. Yet many of the same Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court, eliminate the Senate filibuster, get rid of the Electoral College, give federal agencies the right to impose eviction moratoriums and forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt without the consent of Congress. They decry Trump’s assaults on the news media while cheering the Biden administration’s attempt to strong-arm media companies into censoring opinions it disliked. And they warn of Trump’s efforts to criminalize his political opponents, even as they celebrate criminalizing him. Hypocrisy of this sort doesn’t go unnoticed by people not fully in the tank for Harris.

It remains perfectly possible that Harris will win the election, in which case we will hear a great deal about the brightness of her appeal and the brilliance of her campaign. Wiser liberals might want to press two questions: How did Trump still get so very, very close? And how can we fashion a liberalism that doesn’t turn so many ordinary people off?"

Simple. Remember what it is to be a Liberal and kick the Progressives out of the tent.

The size of the Court has been static for a long time, whether to pass legislation to update it is never an unreasonable question, made more pressing by McConnel's behavior. No one is suggesting it be done despite not having the votes.

The filibuster is a historical, anitdemicratic anomaly. It was historical tolerable as long as racism was bipartisan, but that is no longer the case.

Getting rid of the electoral college would require an amendment. Surely Bret doesn't think amendments are too easy to do?

Debt forgiveness is tied directly the statutory language that Congress passed.

Like, different things are different, actually.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

The size of the Court has been static for a long time, whether to pass legislation to update it is never an unreasonable question, made more pressing by McConnel's behavior. No one is suggesting it be done despite not having the votes.

The filibuster is a historical, anitdemicratic anomaly. It was historical tolerable as long as racism was bipartisan, but that is no longer the case.

Getting rid of the electoral college would require an amendment. Surely Bret doesn't think amendments are too easy to do?

Debt forgiveness is tied directly the statutory language that Congress passed.

Like, different things are different, actually.

1. Expending the Court simply because the majority does not behave to one side's liking is extreme. Codify Roe into law instead.

2. I can see both sides of this.

3. Getting rid of the Electoral College would create a tyranny of dense population pockets over the rest of the country. Unwise.

4. What statutory language? The only language I know that allows that is the bankruptcy code. We can and should make student loan debt dischargeable, and allow for clawbacks from universities that confer degrees to people they know or should know will effectively force those people into bankruptcy.

[Icky Thump]

I just got a message from a family member asking me to vote for Jill Stein. I responded “I’m writing in PNut.”