“It’s just a couple of bad apples!”

“And that’s enough to spoil the bunch.”

I wouldn’t be so sure. DC yes absolutely I frankly don’t understand how the folks in that city haven’t mutinied yet with how viciously they hate the Republicans. Puerto Rico on the other hand does not have a clean Dem/Rep split, and it’d take a while for Puerto Rico’s local political parties to meld with the current system, and they could opportunistically choose to align with the Republicans if they thought they could get something out of it.

This is actually the big wrench in just making them all states, some of the locals think the representation is worth missing out on to continue not needing to pay federal taxes.

In puerto rico this is especially pronounced since that’s the territory most likely to achieve statehood in the near future considering how small the populations of all the other ones are. Even doing something extraordinary like giving out a representative for every 50k people would leave some of these places with only one rep in Congress while states like NY and California are fielding delegations of hundreds each.

I would think that the likely future of these territories are as Freely Associated States, basically independent defacto but with special benefits in exchange for staying under US military protection.

He should specifically do everything they ruled he can’t do but open every order with, “As an official act…” just to rub their idiocy in their faces.

I’m decently confident that if we don’t see it with Biden we’ll see it with the candidates who come for 28. I’m crossing my fingers for Whitmer right now, plenty of progressive bonafides, runs a solidly blue government in a swing state quite well, and the Redcaps literally plotted to kidnap her and do a lot of other nasty shit I won’t write out to her so we’re hardly gonna have to worry about her not taking the threat seriously.

I love this kvetch that basically amounts to "it’s unfair that the centrists realized they had a combined majority and then acted like it!"

Your key accusation is an admission that the man was not even a winner among the party he was running in and that the only reason he was doing so well was because of the spoiler effect.

1912 must look like the most legit election in American history to you! 40% of the popular vote is plenty of a mandate for ol’ Wilson!

Had Bernie had the same turnout in a system that isn’t ass backwards like FPTP he would never have been able to escape second place in any of the primaries.

Yeah but the polls didn’t significantly falter, they’re still statistically tied with only a margin of error shift since the debate.

This isn’t an organic moment of partisan reconsideration. It’s being pushed by the same folks who were already loudly and obnoxiously telling us about how they don’t like Joe and threatening to vote protest or skip voting because, shock of shocks, nobody primaried the sitting president and risk sowing division right before an election where the other candidate is Hitler’s inbred pet mango.

Horse Race reporting, it’s literally all the mainstream has to say people are concerned about because his performance actually holds up when you check the stats.

But if you dare say that people are literally being manipulated into thinking he’s worse than he is you’re “not understanding the median voter’s struggles”

We need to force the sale of news corporations to the journalists so this profit maxxing bothsidesifying shit can go the way of the dodo.

Imagine cross posting the guy who’s a known Kremlin stooge, even if it’s only because they’d kill him if he wasn’t.

Yeah they should have checked likeability, maybe by holding a vote on it that everyone who wanted a say would participate in and say who they liked the most!

Surely that nasty wasty clinton wouldn’t have won in a vote head to head with the living saint Bernie!

They finally admit Clinton blew Sanders out of the water in the popular vote but only when they think it gives them an excuse to talk down at the stupid proles who didn’t know what was good for them.

You’re basically complaining that Trump got a bullshit EC win but Sanders didn’t.

First the fix is in because there weren’t primaries and now it’s in because the DNC listened to it too much.

Anything to worship at the altar of St. Bernard, who told you shitbags to support the winner both times.

It’s messianic thinking for people who think they’re smarter than most Christians.

Nah, he lost because the people that are still posting this shit didn’t spend half the energy turning put to vote in the primaries that they do complaining about everyone who did.

Anyone else remember how “low information voters” kept coming up whenever the significantly black state primaries swung for Clinton or Biden?

My sickness is finally clearing up after weeks!

You say that as if it’s not exactly what’s kept happening. None of what’s happening is new, just how often it keeps happening because Republicans have been taken over by the obstruction caucus completely.

Why are you so insistent on blaming the democrats for what the Republicans (and leftover Liebercrats) are doing to stop them from achieving anything?

Do you actually know for a fact that that’s enough manpower to work on multiple major pieces of legislation at the same time, or do you just want to say that because you wamt be amgy?

So Steve Banon but obsessed with his dog, got it

Is that supposed to be steve banon in the bottom right?

Also, cringe for using the quadrants, their actual usefulness as a political descriptor has been long discredited.

Nah, Jefferson was the one who was looking west super hungrylike.

He just said a lot of pretty words about presidential light touch because it would make it less likely a president would interfere with him being a slave oligarch on top of being an imperialist.

Parrots Russian troll narrative

Gets called Russian troll

Shocked Pikachu face