We’ll probably never have legitimate elections again in this country.
They at least want the idea that we can’t trust the results, no matter what they are, as a standard. After watching videos from DEFCON, I definitely don’t trust the last election results.
Yep.
They won’t, but they should.
Chances Republicans lose the Senate -near 0. For Congress to pass anything it would have to go through both houses, so even if they somehow flipped the house (which may be unlikely with all the gerrymandering happening) it wouldn’t be possible.
I think they will lose both the Senate and the House because of import tarriffs, farms going out of business, and cutting medicare and snap. Small and medium size businesses that are heavily dependant on imports will be strained under these tariffs.
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming.
We need 5 of those to flop to Democrat, without a single Democrat seat flopping.
Seats I think they maybe could able to win: Maine, North Carolina.
That would put Republicans at 51 seats + the VP That’s assuming the Dems fill all the empty slots as well and keep the independents agreeing with them.
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Yes. I’d go a step further and give native Americans representation similar to statehood too.
The U.S. government recognizes 574 American Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities. Give each of them two senators, one representative, and three electoral votes, and suddenly the white man’s government becomes a minority adjunct to the new native government. I’d say let’s give it a try and see how it goes!
If the Democrats win nothing will change.
They will continue to push the overton window, as they keep the seat warm for the next right wing fascist.
This is what Democrats have done with power over the last 50 years.
We either get ranked choice voting going, or elect a 3rd party, otherwise we stay on the same path the Duopoly was designed to keep us trapped on.
How do you have ranked choice for a two party system?
Ranked choice eliminates the two party hold, genius.
It’s not just the House, the Senate and the President also need to be on board. The House passing a resolution would at least illustrate who’s holding things up, though.
The Senate needs to be board, but not the president. The president doesn’t have veto power as it is not a bill. Ratification of a state is just Congress. (And there is no way the Republicans will lose both sides of Congress)
Doesn’t Puerto Rico not want statehood?
Unfortunately, they made that known by boycotting the 2020 vote for statehood. The vote makes it look like they want to be a state and that might be all that congress bothers to look at.
Democrats are praising ICE and defending genocide. What in the world makes you think they’d do anything progressive, if they won a majority?
Yes but they won’t do it.
Statehood or independence for Puerto Rico and while we’re at it the Pacific islands and any other colonial possessions.
DC can be rolled into Virginia just fine as the compromise.
So Hawaii gets to represent itself? Or not since it’s a state.
Does DC want to be or even have a reason to be its own state? I thought it specifically wasn’t a state to be “fair” somehow.
Peurto Rico, OTOH, certainly wants to (or wanted to previously; IDK how they feel currently). Also Guam and the US Virgin Islands.
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I mean I imagine all the people living there would like a say in federal politics.
It’ll mess up the flag (51 or 52 stars don’t go into a regular grid), so they’ll need a one-in-one-out policy. A start could be merging the Dakotas and Carolinas.
I suggest we kick out Florida or Texas. Or both.
Having 2 festering heeps of authoritarianism next to your country is less than ideal. A strong handed attempt to reform them would be better, like an external board to determine their districts (though it’d require an amendment to the constitution)
Disagree entirely. Reform is less possible than eviction. If the federal government said “we will allow it” then Florida and Texas would overwhelmingly vote to Amerexit.
And shit, let’s just let the south have all of it back. Let them reform themselves. Slavery? Not my problem.
That’s a lack of empathy that I cannot agree with.
Straight white middle class male?
So for not wanting people to be literally enslaved you are profiling me as a straight white middle class male. Wow.
No, for not wanting those nut jobs to split off and do their own thing, leaving the rest of us to enjoy life… that is why. Am I wrong?
“Empathy” hah.
I think that a 51 star flag could look pretty cool.
hmm, I think they all look like ass
At the very very least they should at least have a single voting representative for fucks sake.
gop would never agree to it in the senate. Also old guard DNC doesnt seem keen on giving statehood as would the gop, it will just include too many problems for them
They should offer it and both DC and PR should get to vote on the issue.
I’m pretty sure PR has already voted on the issue more than once.
True but I feel like if it’s offered to DC it should also be offered again to PR to be fair and in case sentiment has shifted.
I am going to pick a bone about Puerto Rico. Why do some Americans would like to try to give statehood to Puerto Rico? Literally half of Puerto Ricans can’t decide on whether they want to be fully independent, or completely integrate with the US! Let the Puerto Ricans decisively settle it themselves, before mainland Americans debate whether they should grant the island statehood.
