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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 7h

Trump didn’t need to rig the election.

For decades Dem voters have bought Republican propaganda hook line & sinker.

Key takeaways of said propaganda:
‘Vote doesn’t count anyway,’
‘Everything is conspiracy,’
‘If Dem isn’t perfect protest vote 3rdP or don’t vote,’
‘Even Rep policies are Dems fault.’

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats could nominate Jesus, Mohamed, Mother Theresa, Ghandi, name anyone generally accepted as a decent human being, & they would lose general election because anyone who didn’t vote for them in primaries will stay at home & sulk.

That’s what a big tent is.

Getting those assholes to the polls.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

The bit tent concept is one I have agreed with for years as initial strategy to push back the worst of the worst that are Republican candidates…

But it’s not about including more candidates.

It works for them because no matter who wins the primary they all vote in the damn general.

We don’t.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

All these ‘trad-wives,’ out there thumping their bibles for Donald Trump… they aren’t illiterate…

They’re in a cult.

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

That certainly doesn’t help, but it’s a more fundamental problem than that.

Whatever else you think of Karl Marx, he hit one nail squarely on the head.

Same portion of the brain that votes against self interest literate or not also governs religious belief.

One & the same issue.

#commonsense

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

If they all sink perhaps we will stop sticking our nose in all over the world…

… except no, that’s the only thing MAGA doesn’t view as ‘government waste.’

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

They’ll just blame it on Liberals interfering with his amazing plan for a monarchical government that would “fix,” everything.

Many liberals will likewise blame those of us who supported Kamala for not choosing a more radically liberal candidate for the general election.

#can’tfixstupid

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint.

A similar movie with distance runner who realizes the danger and books it, but when they get to “safety,” and pass out from exhaustion they realize they’re in the Nightmare on Elm Street universe.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention that Israeli’s elect their own fucking leaders… As did Gazans if we want to be real damn 💯 about it.

Bottom line Trump was and is the greater threat to OUR nation and people who chose not to vote are as responsible for what he’s doing if not more so than actual MAGA voters.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks who have gotten really nasty with me on here… Like X / MAGA level nasty… claim that they feel she didn’t take strong enough stance against what’s happening in Gaza.

I think it’s BS argument since Trump moving the embassy to Jerusalem had more to do with it than anything…

#can’tfixstupid

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not exactly what I was saying, quite the opposite in fact.

Humans all suck, therefore any decision between two is by definition a choice between two evils.

You can still do homework & realize that no matter how much a Democrat might stink they aren’t going to undermine the Constitution.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not even about MAGA crowd.

It’s about people who looked at Kamala, found things they didn’t like about her, possibly even legit, then said to themselves… “having Trump get back in office is a risk I’m willing to take to stand on principle against her.”

Those people need the lesson in reason.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 1d

Begs the question…

Who is really responsible for this chaos?

Answer: people refusing to vote.

Don’t want to vote for a Dem because you don’t like something they did or you believe they stand for…

… it’s a right, but people who exercise it can’t pretend not to share responsibility for end result.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

Cronyism is the nature of the beast in human interaction. It’s not going anywhere until you can’t consider us human anymore.

I just feel that political cronyism is far less rank of oligarchy than industrial cronyism.

At least politicians appointing committees have to pretend they answer to us.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

I understand the point you are making, but perhaps I can clarify by saying it is precisely the “independent,” nature “based on industry experience and expertise,” that I question.

Police commissions are similarly appointed, and look at how wonderfully equitable our police departments are…

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps not massive, but the discrepancy in ratio of representation to population certainly does skew the margin of error for what the entire population truly wants towards rural populations in less populous states who have… let’s say… problematic views.

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

But even there you said it yourself.

Over representation is the core problem, not the numbers.

You could triple, quadruple, quintuple the size of the House and still have the same underlying problem.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed.

Representation “proportional,” to entire state population, even when lived up to in actual numbers does not necessarily equate to lived up to in spirit.

Too many contract lawyers in office, we need an ironclad unbreakable contract for fair equitable representation.

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

It was put in place because if each state took the full 1/30,000 then few states would have fewer than 1000 representatives.

Try getting 50,000 representatives to agree on anything lol.

The 1929 law is not doing us any favors, but no, we need a much more elegant solution.

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

Also there is a federal law freezing the size of the House, so we would have to change that first, and that law is perfectly legal due to the problematic language I pointed out.

We can’t rely on the intent behind 250 year old English to save us anymore.

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

Which many state laws do.

Apportionment language is also very vague in my view.

Appoint reps proportional to two groups

90,000 and 95,000

1/30,000 and 1/40,000

Gives 3 and 2 respectively.

Still “proportional,” but robs 15,000 people of representation in the 95,000.

Has to be no wiggle room.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

That’s not exactly what it says…

“The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative;”

Technically 1033 representatives for Texas and 1 for California still satisfies the exact wording of this clause.

Not ideal.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

I think the House of Lords concept gets a little tricky.

Fundamentally its purpose in England is to maintain just a soupçon of Oligarchy in their governance. Wealthy rich landlords of monarchy didn’t want to give up all power.

Essentially their version of the Electoral College.

Direct is best.

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gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

When Dem president adheres to rule of law & accepts veto proof legislation from Rep Congress, he’s the bad guy.

When Rep Congress colludes w Rep president to hold the American people hostage to achieve despicable goals, Dems standing up to them are bad guys.

Someone explain it to me?

#CommonSense

gizmocats.bsky.social @gizmocats.bsky.social · 2d

He doesn’t care about Ukraine because his nose is up Putin’s butt, & moving US embassy to Jerusalem during first term was telegraph to Israeli leadership he views Palestinian control of East Jerusalem as non starter.

Gaza is his fault, no matter how bad standing US arms sales made it during Biden.

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