Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Seeing the democratic debate on Youtube, perhaps I should vote for Andrew Yang.

@Prince Areo
 
Is that going on now? I thought that was the weekend.

@Dustcan  
I thought of that too when I checked the Youtube video for today’s posting.

@Prince Areo  
Yang is tomorrow night. You sure you’re watching the right thing?

@Background Human  
i’m watching the wrong thing. Sorry.

Supposedly some guys got the permits to fly that Baby Trump balloon that the British has been following him with over here in the US during his July 4th parade.
 
Nice.

Oh hey. Alabama did exactly what we were afraid of  
Link is to AL

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@newsketches  
… you know, I remember reading some time ago that historic anti-abortion laws resulted in women who miscarried for whatever reasons to be routinely charged with murder or manslaughter – so you’d have women who just lost their pregnancies being forced to stay still in their beds without even a chance to wash off the blood until investigations were conducted, or women who suffered traumatic incidents being immediately treated as criminals, and so on. Nice to see history repeating itself so promptly.
 
And of course the woman’s black, and of course this entire mess is the result of somebody having too-ready access to deadly weapons. If there’s anything that encapsulates what a mess this country’s turned into…

What’s the consensus on the Democratic debate here? Not sure who I really want at this point.

@newsketches  
Blessed be the fruit.

@HeadlessHorselessHorseman  
Im waiting for night 2 to pick favorites

@HeadlessHorselessHorseman  

 
90% of them are predicting and orienting themselves to whoever they think will win because they want to have a job in the administration. Few of them are really gunning for the presidency, just a cabinet position.

@HeadlessHorselessHorseman  
From what I surmised from the news, Elizabeth Warren seems to have dominated this debate, while Julian Castro obliterated Beto O’Rourke. The other revelation of the night was Cory Booker, who took the most speaking time and made an efficient use of it. Aside from Bill de Blasio, the rest wasn’t even worth mentioning.

Instead of killing our enemies we should be liberating soldiers from conscript.

The gerrymandering decision will have horrid consequences for the future of our democracy regardless of who wins in 2020.
 
I hope all the “undecided” otherwise liberals that helped Trump win in 2016 are taking note. They have hamstrung democracy across states both liberal and conservative, and allowed for a terrible precedent to be set. I hold each of them responsible for this abridgement of our basic voting rights.
 
Our only hope now is a total Dem win in 2020, and a federal legislation, backed by an executive order, to end Gerrymandering once and for all.
 
I hope the framer that allowed states to set their own congressional districts is burning in hell right now, regardless of whom it was.

@Zincy  
Yes! Gerrymandering is pretty fucking retarded. I mean the congressional districts drawn by gerrymanderers make no fucking sense.

@Lord Goku  
They make perfect sense, just evil sense.

@Lord Goku
 
The conservatives have enshrined it in law.
 
It’s clear to me now that they have no interest in preserving democracy.
 
It could also blow up in their faces something awful.
 
If dems break any of their trifectas, or make any of their own in 2020, they can now do the exact same thing. Dems are expected to take control of VA this year, which will mean that in 2020 we can redraw our map to squeeze out conservatives if we so wish. Same thing in Pennsylvania.
 
Turnabout is fair play, after all.

@The Smiling Pony  
yep, because if they draw them in a more reasonable way it would mean running on something other than hating brown people and they just can’t do that because they have consistently shown they are monsters,

What’s gerrymandering? Also are Europeans being overrun from their countries? (Just things I see in the news, don’t actually follow politics, just asking.)

@Background Pony #5A83  
Gerrymandering is the drawing of districts into weird shapes on a map because reasons.

@Lord Goku  
The reasons are to make sure people that traditionally vote for a certain party are never a majority in a district. Both parties are guilty of this.

@Background Pony #5A83  

 
Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing electoral districts into weird and tortuous shapes in order to minimize the number of total districts that will vote for one party and maximize the number that will vote for the other – for instance, connecting two populous urban areas with a dumbbell shape instead of making them two distinct districts that’d also incorporate some nearby rural land, in order to turn two areas, and thus two votes, that’d vote for Party A into a single area, and thus one vote, that’ll do so. See also this schematic.
 
The name comes from the earliest publicized case of this, when the electoral districts in Massachusetts were redrawn into highly suspect shapes under Governor Elbridge Gerry. The resulting contortions and distortions reminded people of salamanders, hence Gerry’s salamander; this was shortened to Gerry-mander and became gerrymandering.
 

 
No, we’re not. That’s nothing more than the usual anti-immigrant fearmongering from European far-right parties – the same as anti-Mexican fearmongering here.

@Zincy  
Ya know what  
FUCK THE GOP!!!  
THEY ARE NOTHING BUT EVIL PIECES OF CRAP!!!