dcpDarkMatter

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

He looks like gout that got gout.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Not sure if you didn't get it, but that's a reference to an Arthur meme. altr

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Lichtman's still 10 for 11 (considering that Gore did win FL, only to have the SC overturn the results), so I think he'll still be around for a while.

Agreed on the media silos though - the right-wing media ecosystem is almost wholly disconnected from reality and any other viewpoints.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She's been the most accurate Iowa pollster for over two decades now. She doesn't venture out of Iowa. However, that allows her to laser focus in on the voters there.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the case for all American territories. A statehood referendum has been put up multiple times throughout the years and there's never been a really definitive result.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago (5 children)

"I like Ted Cruz more than the rest of my colleagues. And I hate Ted Cruz."

-- Al Franken

[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's only 3 federal judges in that district.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because the people making those rules don't want those people to vote. They figure, if it's that much of a hassle, they won't turn out. Meanwhile, in Republican-strong areas, they have multiple voting locations and very short lines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I moved to kbin.earth (which later migrated to mbin).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Right, if she didn't have the votes, she wouldn't bring it to the floor. Simple as that. She didn't not bring it up because she wasn't supportive of the LGBT+ community.

And bringing up DOMA, which was passed in 1996, at least get your facts straight. Republicans controlled the House when DOMA was passed. Pelosi was not the Democratic leader in the House then; that was Dick Gephart. Yes, Clinton signed it. However, there was much more public support for the bill then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No revisionist history. Pelosi refused to bring it to the floor because she didn't have the votes. There's lots of stuff to criticize her on, but whipping and vote counting aren't that.

Do you remember 2000 - 2006? We had the Republicans floating and pushing anti-marriage freedom constitutional amendments. They controlled the House, Senate, and White House. Republicans controlled the 107th, 108th, and 109th congresses. So while Pelosi could have proposed the Act, there's no guarantee Hastert (the Republican Speaker) would have even have allowed that on the floor.

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