Cool. Thanks for the intel.

Anybody know if this has anything to do with Biden’s Chips and Sciences program?

Yeah, that sounds great. /s

Well yeah, there are only so many votes to go around. Unless you can suddenly get a bunch of non-voters to form a new party they have to come from one of the two. That’s kind of the idea, less influence for these two trash can fires of a party, more for something better. Everyone is just so afraid more will come from one party than the other and we’ll be stuck with one dominating, so it never happens. It’s quite the rock and a hard place.

Thanks for the effort. It was very informative.

Ah, that explains her sudden interest, however fleeting, in sanity.

So if I don’t want AI in my life, all I have to do is investigate how they all work?

GOP 0? Trump barely lost the last election and the Republicans still control one house of Congress.

I say…“And?”

Like anything will come of it.

Hmmm , why might that be? Could it be that she’s likable?

Don’t mind at all. Thank you for correcting me.

This might work, but in our current situation I don’t see the outcome as much different than what I’d expect now. MAGA would give Trump the highest score. Dems would give Harris the highest score and the rest would split.

I also don’t agree with the part of the premise that says our system is prone to fraud. Because each district does things differently, it makes it hard to hack. In Miami for instance they had hanging chad, because they used a punch system. Where I live, we fill in a bubble and in some states only mail in ballots are used. The real hacking takes place before the vote, in social media.

He can write executive orders all day long but unless he’s repealing a previous order, it requires Congress to fund them.

And you might think he’ll just blunder along like last time, and I’d like to point out he did a lot of damage last time, but I believe he is FULLY aware of Project 2025 and I think he would try his best to enact much of it because it involves loyalty to him and enriching him. Either way, I’m not interested in finding out.

Ummm there definitely is evidence against you. First in our current system the president needs Congress to get things done, but we’ve seen the plans for Project 2025 to get around a lot of this.

Second, we’ve seen with the freedom caucus that a small group of congressmen can wield a lot of power.

Third, I think we definitely can expect a very different Trump in a second term versus his first term and he definitely HAS expressed an interest in this with all of his dictation envy too become Fuhrer and worse there is a large portion of the population that is content to be rolled under a Trump dictatorship.

If any of this is true, it should lead to less power for congressmen.

Or will they? You see, this is what I don’t understand about MAGA congressmen. If they make Donald Trump their dictator, they are abdicating their own power and giving it to him. How is this in their best interests?

I agree with this assessment for the most part, but it does seem like the best method for introducing a third party, which the US desperately needs. Do you have a better EV?

We could avoid this with ranked choice voting.

I wish Florida would just break off and sink into the ocean. And I live here.

Thanks. And I was having such a great week.

Yup, this just sounds impossible without just banning the printers. Guns don’t have to conform to typical gun shapes. You could just print anything that can function as a barrel and some of the other pieces and then just go in the garage and whittle a handle from a piece of wood or something. Make a part that is much larger and then just cut off the piece you want. I mean there are so many ways around this it’s not even funny.