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« on: January 28, 2021, 04:54:06 PM »

What a legacy Donald Trump has! He has given a voice to all the poor downtrodden conspiracy theorists who will believe almost anything they read on the internet.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2021, 01:19:20 PM »

Has she ever come across a conspiracy theory she didn't believe?
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2021, 10:07:22 PM »

Strip her of all her major committee assignments, cosigning her to sitting on more irrelevant committees. If she repeats remarks such as calling for Pelosi's execution or other crazy things she has said over the years, move to expel.

The GOP could expel her from the Caucus.  She could respond by collecting a paycheck for doing nothing for 2 years, but that might be a good thing.

For those of you that view MTG as an aberration, remember that her election is very much in the spirit of democracy.  There is a reason the Founders limited popular election of Federal officials solely to the House of Representatives; they believed that "the people" would elect all sorts of MTGs.  It's one of a number of reasons of why the Founders opted for a bi-cameral legislature.

It's also a reason why we are not a "democracy", but a REPUBLIC.  Our Republic has, to be sure, democratic features, but we are not a "democracy".  The "Guaranty Clause" guarantees that each state will have a "republican form of government", and not a "democratic form of government".  The older I get the more appreciative of this principle I become.
The words democracy and republic are not mutually exclusive. America was founded and remains a democratic republic

I've really come to hate the statement "we're a republic, not a democracy." This country functions as a republic and representative democracy, and direct Congressional elections are constitutionally enshrined as such. So what exactly is the point of that statement? To illustrate that having people vote on every single government action is bad? Yeah, I think it would be bad, but we don't do it anyway, so whatever. We the people sure do elect representatives to make and execute the law, though.

It seems like 90% of the time I see that statement on the internet, it's just some conservative trying to explain why their attempts to try and rig an election in their favor (or steal it after the fact) is somehow justifiable, because something something republic.
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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2021, 10:37:47 PM »

..How is it even possible that after all this time you think those 4 cities had anything to do with those states flipping? Biden didn't do any better in those places than Hillary did. He flipped those states because successful, educated suburbanites who've voted Republican in the past just couldn't stomach Trump anymore, so much that they couldn't even vote 3rd party. ...

While I agree with what you're saying, you know better than anyone that Fuzzy has his own opinions very obviously driven by conservative media, and literally nothing is going to change them. Not from anyone else but the people who drive most of his opinions, anyway. No amount of data or appeals to logic will ever make a difference.
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