Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Brian Tyler Cohen" channel.

  1. Why do we still have geographically-determined voting districts? Why not just let every voter choose which district to belong to when he registers to vote, just as we let you decide which party to register in (if any)? It seems arbitrary ans silly, in the age of the internet and social media, to require me to be in the same district as my neighbor who just happens to live in a nearby building.
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  2. Praeliora T: so are you saying the armed forces will mutiny over this question? And if they do, will it be mutiny on the bounty?
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  3. The system was never designed for political parties as they are now, where all the state governments and all candidates belong to one party or the other and work in coordination with one party or the other. If the Founders had anticipated this, they would not have put the decisions how to count elections into the hands of the state governments. They would have foreseen: the current system we have, where a state government can, without restrictions, ultimately degenerate into a situation where each state government simply passes law saying "our state goes to our party [Republican or Democratic], no matter how anyone here votes". Then the party which happens to have more than half of the state governments will have a majority in every Senate election and most presidential elections. The House majority will depend on which party has the state governments in the states with more districts. But there will be no change except when the state governments change, so the whole idea of having elections - a way for the people to get rid of the sitting administration without violence - will fail.
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  4. The time belongs to the senators. It’s not good but it’s the law. If Dr Fauci wants to talk without being interrupted, he has to give a press conference.
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  5. Yes, it’s aggravating.
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  6. Wenn Tugend und Gerechtigkeit den Großen Pfad mit Ruhm bestreu’n, dann ist die Erd’ ein Himmelreich, und Sterbliche den Göttern gleich! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqz5DUThNV8
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  7. Paris v. Pittsburgh What a joke. Pittsburgh stopped being a working-class factory town back in the 1980s and 90s. Now it's biotech and geriatric medicine.
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  8. I never figured out why Trump shouted about “Kung flu” but not “Flu Manchu”.
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  9. I think the question is not whether being indicted will lower Trump standing in the public eye directly. The question is whether being indicted will provoke Trump into saying, or doing, things which will lower his standing in the public eye. Biden is planning (I think) to do to the Republicans, the same thing that President Richard Nixon did to the Democrats in 1972: provoke their most extreme members to really repulsive, disturbing demonstration’s like January 6 only perhaps worse, and then run as the protector of sensible moderate normal Americans. Joe Biden knows exactly how this works because he was already in government in 1972.
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  10. If Dems decide to increase the size of the Court, my advice is THINK BIG. Add twenty new seats, and fill them with progressive activist justices.
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  11. Rand Paul, ophthalmologist, understands statistics, but pretends he doesn’t.
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  12. Well, if God hadn’t meant us to eat pussy, why would He have made it look so much like a taco?
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  13. No one is ignoring natural immunity.
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  14. Dr Fauci’s most important specialty is not viruses, and not immunology, although he’s great at both. His most important expertise is in how to deal with the most terrifying, most deadly of all pathogenic microbes; the dreaded PESTIS WEDONTREALLYKNOWYETWHATTHEHELLITISORWHATITSGONNADONEXT. Very very few medical scientists know how to take on that pathogen.
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  15. Introducing: the new and improved nothingburger! Fortified with EXTRA nothing!!!
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  16. I thought that the Georgia legislature empowered the governor to summarily shut down any state prosecutor. What gives?
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  17. "Petri dish" is not the right metaphor. It's a large-scale culture-vessel.
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  18. Defecation of character
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  19.  @daviebananas1735  Everyone says that, but it wouldn't work - one side or the other would immediately start figuring out a way to appoint partisans on their side to the "federal group". You are putting your faith in an "objective" arbiter, but there aren't any reliably objective arbiters. And you didn't say what the problem would be with allowing everyone to choose their own districts. "It seems too arbitrary" is not a substantive objection.
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  20.  @daviebananas1735  Not these days, when the computers can find every little vulnerability and the politicians are eager to exploit every vulnerability. Letting the voters choose their districts would radically eliminate the whole gerrymandering problem, present and future. Getting ones followers to choose their districts strategically would become part of the political process, as good as any geography-based system at resolving political conflict without bloodshed, which is, after all, the main benefit of democracy.
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  21.  @Cog_Nomen  Is anything really "unique to an area" these days?
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  22.  @Cog_Nomen  OK, but people who don't live near that particular mountainside might care about it too! If I live on one side of the state, I still might be concerned about what the state government does on another side of the state. Especially if environmental issues and pollution are involved.
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  23. Ronald Reagan proved that cognitive decline is not a significant impairment for a president.
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