US Elections (& Politics) :)

[bigredfish]

Not rumors, actual evidence....

 

[bigredfish]

Republicans lie because they know the 1) they can and 2) the Cult is by and large too fucking stupid to know and too lazy to look it up

 

[bigredfish]

 

[bigredfish]

There's at least one of these posts every single day.

It doesnt ,make Faux News...

American citizens. No violence or antagonism. Just "tough guy" poorly trained, low education ICE who do it for kicks because it makes them feel like CosPlay tough guys.

If you approve of this low life thug behavior from Federal LE, I don't want to know you or associate with you

 

[tigerwillow1]

I assume all you hard core straight Republican voters agree with this, I mean Republicans are the good guys right?

This post is exactly backwards gaslighting. The 17th amendment took the senators from actually representing their state, instead making nation-wide big money decide who gets elected. Since the small population states have the same number of senators as the big ones, they are easy targets for how big money corrupts the elections. All the out-of-staters have to do is outspend who they don't want, using TV ads and other election advertising, and the seat is purchased for them via all the dumb voters who believe the lying TV ads. When senators were appointed by the state legislators, they were at least representing the state legislators (who of course can also be corrupt), instead of the out-of-state money.

Here are examples of out-of-state money to buy senate seats. The median is that 2/3 of the campaign money comes from out of state. Look at the 3rd one listed, $29 million from out of state, with less than 10% of campaign contributions coming from those living in the state. Election stolen by the 17th amendment!

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/in-state-vs-out-of-state

 

[Oceanslider]

So we can finally put a face to the name Climate Change...

 

[bigredfish]

This post is exactly backwards gaslighting. The 17th amendment took the senators from actually representing their state, instead making nation-wide big money decide who gets elected. Since the small population states have the same number of senators as the big ones, they are easy targets for how big money corrupts the elections. All the out-of-staters have to do is outspend who they don't want, using TV ads and other election advertising, and the seat is purchased for them via all the dumb voters who believe the lying TV ads. When senators were appointed by the state legislators, they were at least representing the state legislators (who of course can also be corrupt), instead of the out-of-state money.

Here are examples of out-of-state money to buy senate seats. The median is that 2/3 of the campaign money comes from out of state. Look at the 3rd one listed, $29 million from out of state, with less than 10% of campaign contributions coming from those living in the state. Election stolen by the 17th amendment!

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https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/in-state-vs-out-of-state

Can't argue with that thinking. Except you're misdirecting the blame. I can't vote for a Senator in Idaho.

You meant Election stolen by John Roberts Chief Justice USSC

But.....Supreme Court Justice and Republican hero John Roberts was the deciding vote on Citizens United, the worst judicial fuck up, (or was it on purpose?) in the history of the Supreme Court.
This allowed dark money, super pacs and corporations to buy votes and candidates. It opened the floodgates of election corruption. And it very much works BOTH ways.

And BTW- They want you to stay mad about "election fraud" when in reality its minuscule, what they don't want you to dwell on is the money.