Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Clinton Pulls Ahead of Trump as Campaign Winds Down" video.
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Timothy,
Half right. but the source of the rot is the Statehouses -- which are responsible for the gerrymandering. right now Democrats in the House represent over four million more votes than the Republicans do, but the GOP have the majority of the seats. Why? Fix at the State level.
There have to be redistrictings every ten years on the basis of each new census, which means the lines will be redrawn in 2021. Whoever wins the 2020 State elections gets to draw the lines until 2030.
It gets worse. ALEC, a right-wing policy shop has hugely disproportionate influence in the States because it puts out legislative templates which lazy legislators just love. a lot of this stuff is just boilerplate. Here's how you finance highways, here's what you do about school superintendents' pensions, and so on and so forth.
If it's highways, Joe State committee Chairman just has to cut and paste in the names of his biggest contributors wherever he feels like it, and deliver it to the floor. work saved, and everybody's happy.
The problem is that ALEC is also screwing the unions, overtaxing the poor and undertaxing the rich, and doing all the usual cheapo disgusting stuff.
If the Greens and the Socialists would pay a little bit of attention where they live, down there in the State elections, they could probably get a few people elected. Instead, they waste a lot of time, money, and votes on primping on TV in the Federal elections. Occasionally they do real harm, as in 2,000.
Long story short: all politics is local.
Good luck and best wishes,
-dlj.
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+Race Card'Over'Played
You lose. Your own article proves you wrong.
If you want to prove a point with a Fact Checker quote, maybe you should read it first. The article you send me above proves conclusively that your point is false, and that Trey Gowdy and his committee are wandering around in a fog of misinformation, if we look at things charitably.
The money paragraph is the second one:
"As usual, Trump wildly exaggerated the figure. A key point that Republicans on the committee have tried to make was that Ambassador Chris Stevens — who perished in the 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities that left three others dead — did not directly communicate with Clinton on her private email system. (Generally, ambassadors would send messages through the chain of command.) So none of these came directly from Stevens to Clinton, “asking for help,” as Trump put it."
The rest of the Fact Checker's report then goes into how badly the press also reported things, how deluded Gowdy is, and so on.
You simply have no excuse for deluding yourself, and trying to put one over on me and anybody else who might be reading here.
-dlj.
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Race Card'Over'Played
I assume the word you're looking for is "bitch" or perhaps "Bitch." Very fashionable among 4-chan half-wits, I gather. While you're figuring out how to correct your spelling, you ought to work on controlling your caps-lock key as well.
Don't worry. You'll be able to use a computer in a couple of years if you pay attention.
The 550, or 600, or whatever number Trey Gowdy's meth-head staff have pulled out of their asses this week, is the total number of e-mails about all maintenance -- new light-bulbs, tires for the sub-consulates' cars, home-leave for translators, and so on, over the previous six or eight months. You would have known this if you had read your own story.
The idea that there were hundreds of e-mails about the terrorists' attack is simply a stupid invention of rightwing propagandists and random assholes like yourself.
Now, go back to thinking about how your keyboard and your fingers might work together.
Cheers,
-dlj.
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