Friday, January 25, 2019
Thursday, January 24, 2019
"Improper" drawing of congressional districts is not the problem, improper restriction of the number of districts is
Gerrymandering, the pervasive practice of drawing congressional districts for political purposes, owns a great deal of responsibility for the dysfunction of our government and the loss of trust among Americans in their government.
This story is a smokescreen obscuring the real problem, which is that Congress voted decades ago to stop the growth of representation. Gerrymandering is simply the problem you face after committing the offense of fixing the number of districts.
By 1930 the number of congressional districts had grown to 435, more or less naturally as required by the Constitution and the Census every ten years. The number would have kept growing, but the natural process was halted, by a bigoted, power hungry Congress.
The very people who are supposed to represent us stopped the growth of representation and fixed it at 435 in the 1920s, because they could.
The original First Amendment, never ratified with the rest of the Bill of Rights for want of but one vote, would have ensured the natural growth of representation with the natural growth of population in perpetuity by a formula. The argument was over the formula, so our forebears punted the problem, and the issue was never settled. Post-WWI, however, alarums began to sound over the expansion of the Congress to include lots of new representatives for America's burgeoning German-American population, so the Congress voted to fix representation at its then current level, 435, so they didn't have to sit next to the evil Hun in their own Capitol. (The Congress also effectively halted immigration, but that's another story).
So in 1930 one US representative held the power of the purse over 283,000 Americans, on average. Fast forward to today and a US representative can steal from 757,000 of us at a stroke, on average. How their power has grown, and how coveted the seats! Now you know why it takes $10 million to win one.
Just to get the ratio back down to 1930 levels, we'd have to have 1,163 congressional districts today instead of the 435 we do have.
Adding them would dramatically reduce the power the current 435 have over us, which is why it doesn't happen. Nancy Pelosi would have to herd 582 cats to get anything done instead of 238. And with 1,163 representatives, it's unlikely Nancy Pelosi would be the Speaker in the first place.
Redrawing the lines of this tyranny which they exercise over us isn't the solution. That's simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
The power hungry House is the biggest impediment to our democracy. Ironically, a bigger House is the answer, because it returns power to the people.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Beto Beto Beto, Foss was one thing, but a furry in The Sheeps? Really?
The Ramones would have beaten you with a baseball bat.
Here’s Video of Beto O’Rourke Singing “Blitzkrieg Bop” in a Sheep Mask and Onesie
You’re welcome, America.
Actually CNN allowed Nathan Phillips to claim he served in Vietnam without challenging him, which is why watching CNN is a complete waste of time; it's about advocacy, not news
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| "News erroneously reported that he was a Vietnam veteran" |
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| CNN lets Phillips twice claim to have served in Vietnam, unchallenged |
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
AOC wants to rape and pillage the bedrock of American (white) wealth: housing
Ocasio-Cortez Compares America’s Past To Nazi Germany, Says US Should Pay Reparations Like They Did:
People think reparations is reparations for slavery, but really, economically speaking, reparations are for the damage done by the New Deal and redlining because that is where we saw a compounding of the existing inequity from the legacy of slavery, where we drew red lines around black communities. We said white communities will get home loans and they will get access to the basic bedrock of wealth in America and this will be your heirloom and we gave white America the heirloom that appreciated overtime — that people still benefit from today and we did not give to African-American and Mexican communities, Puerto Rican communities.
Uh oh, looks like Covington wasn't just a Trump op, but Trump COLLUDING with the Russians
We need another special prosecutor, stat!
Co-producer of Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Jack Morrissey, wants to be the gruesome killer we only dreamt Saddam Hussein to be
Like WMD, Saddam's shredder was a myth.
Trump has been captured by the GOP immigration establishment, and boy are they happy about it
Republican support has shifted in his favor because Trump on Saturday changed not just his tone on immigration but the substance of his policies, GOP insiders say.
Even as Trump continues to alienate Speaker Nancy Pelosi with his taunts and slights, his latest proposal demonstrates a new willingness to give ground on major areas of immigration policy.
In three areas – the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Temporary Protected Status program, and asylum for children in Central America – Trump had previously reversed Obama programs. On Saturday, he tamped down his negative rhetoric on immigrants while offering to reprise those programs – at least temporarily—and sign them into law, something Obama tried and failed to get from Congress during his tenure. ...
For taking on serious political risk when past Congresses and presidents have taken a pass on immigration, the president has earned the respect of influential Republicans.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Michael Savage is comparing Trump today to MLK Jr
Imperfect but great leaders, he calls them.
I'll say. The one betrayed his nonviolent followers ("a riot is the language of the unheard"), the other his strong borders voters (DACA was an unacceptable amnesty in 2016 before it became a bargaining chip in 2019).
The Third Monday of January is the most depressing day of the year
What a cohencidence.
Martin Luther King Jr Day is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around King's birthday, January 15
That's robocall No. 2 today from Trump asking me for a $35 donation so he can send Nancy Pelosi a brick to show I'm serious about The Wall
Funny, I pressed "9" on this morning's call to be removed from the list.
Works as good as Trump's 2016 immigration promises.
What was Trump's 10-point immigration plan during the 2016 campaign?
What is Donald Trump’s 10-Point immigration plan?:
5. Cancel President Obama’s executive actions
The GOP nominee would end the Obama administration’s Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy, better known as DACA, under
which roughly half a million young people brought to the U.S. as
children have received temporary legal status. Trump would also cancel
President Obama’s DAPA program, or Deferred Action for Parents of
Americans, which would give similar status to undocumented parents of
American citizens. That program has been frozen as it faces court
challenges.
Rush Limbaugh from the opener: "They’re all snakes, and you can’t trust anything that they do"
Here.
You mean like this guy? You know, the guy who read a story about a snake at every campaign rally in 2016? Takes one to know one, right Rush?
Trump just robo-called me, asking for a donation, wants me to send a brick to Nancy Pelosi so she knows we are serious
Serious? Are you kidding? The politics of immigration ended when we elected you. You are the president, idiot. You already have the power. We already showed that we are serious. Put it up or shut it up, pal.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Now that Trump has foolishly telegraphed a future amnesty, expect new hordes at the borders and points of entry
And Homeland Security is shut down, not getting paid.
Way to go, Brownie.
Washington DC Injuns to Catholic kids: "White people go back to Europe, this is not your land"
Here.
Fellow tribalists Rashida Tlaib, Helen Thomas, Barack Obama, and friends: "Jews get the hell out of Palestine, go back to Poland, Germany and America."
Native American Nathan Phillips has a history of seeking out confrontation over race
He's been around a long time and has a Wikipedia page, which is up to date with the latest incident in Washington, DC where he gets in the face of some easy marks, a bunch of unsuspecting Catholic kids.
Just one previous example, at Eastern Michigan University in 2015 when he went looking for trouble:
Native American claims racial harassment by EMU students dressed as indians.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
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