Universities and businesses closed. Millions in the street…The protests in France and Israel remind me of the all out (all in?) protests that would have followed Pence caving to Trump and preventing the EC vote count.
If mere “minority rule” turns into something even worse, I suppose we’ll still get our chance.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest after Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defence minister over his opposition to a planned judicial overhaul.
Yoav Gallant had called on the prime minister to scrap the proposals which have divided the country, led to mass protests and sparked growing discontent within the military.
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Has anyone checked to see if the 14th amendment’s “equal protection” clause can be used to tear down the Electoral College and/or US Senate? That would be sweet.
The state-by-state aspect of the current system starts by dividing the nation’s more than 158,000,000 voters into 51 separate state-level silos. The current state-by-state winner-take-all system regularly enables a few thousand votes in a small number of states to decide the presidency — thereby fueling post-election controversies. The fact that a few thousand votes in a handful of closely divided states regularly decide the presidency is a recurring feature of the current system.
The presidency has been decided by an average of a mere 287,969 popular votes spread over an average of three states in the six presidential elections between 2000 and 2020. Inevitably, some of these battleground states end up being extremely close on Election Day. These close results, in turn, generate post-election doubt, controversy, litigation, and unrest over real or imagined irregularities.
In contrast, the winner’s average margin of victory in the national popular vote in these six elections was 4,668,496 — more than 16 times larger than 287,969. The danger posed by these post-election controversies in extremely close states is heightened because the country is currently in an era of consecutive non-landslide presidential elections.
Weak ass Dems will be weak ass Dems.
Biden’s FAA nominee bows out, after senators waver
…just days after the Senate Commerce Committee, which is vetting his nomination, postponed a vote to advance Washington to the Senate floor. Two senators who caucus with Democrats on the panel, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) have been undecided on his nomination — and the committee only has a one-vote majority.
I do like how the writer mentioned that Jon Tester caucus’ with Democrats. Let’s be honest, shall we?
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them