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116th Congress - Episode 3: Impeach the Motherf**er

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psych said:
I agree. Barring a disaster, like Biden dressing up in blackface for the first debate, he’s on pace to win by 5-7 points, and bring the Senate with him.
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Parise willing, he and RBG will stay healthy until Nov. 3 (him) and Jan 20 (her).
 
I'm not feeling attacked; I'm feeling misunderstood.

My point in constructing a catastrophic scenario is not to assess probability. It's to learn the lesson of the Titanic: dismissing the worst case as impossible has an enormous cost for what would have been pennies on the dollar in prophylaxis.

The takeaway is not the click-bait titillating paranoid fantasy. If you want, ignore all that. It's the insurance coda: what extremely cheap things can we do today to prevent any chance of an apocalyptic cost tomorrow?
 
jericho said:
If she wanted to troll Trump she’d die on Jan 20th at 11:50 AM, after a Biden win

(I’m not wishing death on anyone)
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Nah, that'll be the Deep State trolling Dump by murdering RBG when they take her off the life support she's been on for years. You gotta get your MAGAt conspiracies straight. ;-)
 
jericho said:
If she wanted to troll Trump she’d die on Jan 20th at 11:50 AM, after a Biden win

(I’m not wishing death on anyone)
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If you're really trolling and the Dems have taken the Senate with 52 or so, the spot opens up January 4th, where Trump can see the open seat for 16 days against a Democratic Senate.
 
Jeff Sessions getting crushed last night by an ex football coach who hasn't lived or voted in Alabama in like a decade is pretty funny. However I have to wonder how many people are going to go all in on the Chump only to get thrown under the bus before they realize they're all disposable on a moment's notice. Sessions could have held that seat right up until he got sent to hell. Now he's a laughingstock who'd better hope Trump loses if he wants to work as a lobbyist anytime soon. Wonder if it was all worth it.
 
According to DKE, a new Democratic-funded Super PAC has put down $850k to help Kobach win the GOP nomination in August. A GOP-backed Super PAC with close ties to McConnell is spending $3 million to stop Kobach.
Also, Steve Watkins, GOP Rep. in KS-2, has been charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor for listing a UPS store as his voting address last year. He faces a credible intra-party challenger, and KS-2 is a competitive seat. Another pickup opportunity for Democrats, and they apparently have a credible challenger.
 
So I was just thinking, since the only way we will ever admit PR as a state is if we have a Dem supermajority, what is the most states we could admit it as? It would appear that the minimum population for admission is still, after 230+ years, 60k. PR has 3 million people.

So let's admit is as 50 states!
 
Kepler said:
So I was just thinking, since the only way we will ever admit PR as a state is if we have a Dem supermajority, what is the most states we could admit it as? It would appear that the minimum population for admission is still, after 230+ years, 60k. PR has 3 million people.

So let's admit is as 50 states!
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DC will become a state before PR, and even that's not very likely. Compromise might be to admit DC and either legally split CA into two states (never gonna happen), or create a 12th Federal Circuit and carve it out of the current 9th Circuit (more likely to happen and should probably happen anyway regardless).
 
Kepler said:
So I was just thinking, since the only way we will ever admit PR as a state is if we have a Dem supermajority, what is the most states we could admit it as? It would appear that the minimum population for admission is still, after 230+ years, 60k. PR has 3 million people.

So let's admit is as 50 states!
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Since 2/3 of the population is in San Juan, 34 or 35 of those states will be within those city limits, which is roughly 48 square miles total? A bunch of one and half square mile states. That would be kind of amusing, actually.
 
SJHovey said:
Since 2/3 of the population is in San Juan, 34 or 35 of those states will be within those city limits, which is roughly 48 square miles total? A bunch of one and half square mile states. That would be kind of amusing, actually.
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I like the idea of school district boundary disputes being granted cert by SCOTUS because they are interstate.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
DC will become a state before PR, and even that's not very likely. Compromise might be to admit DC and either legally split CA into two states (never gonna happen), or create a 12th Federal Circuit and carve it out of the current 9th Circuit (more likely to happen and should probably happen anyway regardless).
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I would like to see a cap on state EV after which the state must be divided by an independent commission. CA should be 4 states, TX 3, FL and NY 2.

Note this would not necessarily benefit the Dems. CA would probably break 3 D, 1 R which benefits D. FL and NY would probably split 1/1 which is a wash. TX would go 2R / 1D which is a push. Soi it's a tiny benefit to the Ds up front, but R avoids the magnitude of TX switching columns which is coming.

That's much easier than what we should really do which is combine states. Or just get rid of the Senate.
 
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Kepler said:
I would like to see a cap on state population after which the state must be divided by and independent commission. CA should be 4 states, TX 3, FL and NY 2.

That's much easier than what we should really do which is combine states. Or just get rid of the Senate.
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Interestingly, in US Soccer five states are divided in two. California, Texas and New York are the obvious ones but the other two are Pennsylvania and Ohio. (DC is joined with Virginia).

I could see a split of California, New York, and maybe even Texas into two states each.

Something I’d rather have is smaller states having a split representation between its urban and rural areas. Increasingly, places like Anchorage have disparate views from their elected officials.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Interestingly, in US Soccer five states are divided in two. California, Texas and New York are the obvious ones but the other two are Pennsylvania and Ohio. (DC is joined with Virginia).

I could see a split of California, New York, and maybe even Texas into two states each.

Something I’d rather have is smaller states having a split representation between its urban and rural areas. Increasingly, places like Anchorage have disparate views from their elected officials.
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Districts are supposed to do that, but winner take all EV means the rural rubes will always drown out the sissified "urbanites." (cough, blacks).
 
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Kepler said:
Districts are supposed to do that, but winner take all EV means the rural rubes will always drown out the sissified "urbanites." (cough, blacks).
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Even our representation in Congress is like that, and that’s what I was referring to.

For the record, this isn’t a “states like Alaska should have more seats at the expense of other states” complaint. It’s a “it’s ridiculous that the House only has 435 seats for a population of 300 million and that affects places you might not think of” complaint.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Even our representation in Congress is like that, and that’s what I was referring to.

For the record, this isn’t a “states like Alaska should have more seats at the expense of other states” complaint. It’s a “it’s ridiculous that the House only has 435 seats for a population of 300 million and that affects places you might not think of” complaint.
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Oh I get it and agree.

I am all for a Con amendment where states have 1 Senator for every house member. :-)
 
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