Politics And Current Events

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

How many know that, constitutionally, the Presidential candidate and the Vice Presidential candidate cannot be from the same state?

How stupid is that? Just another reason to scrap this bloody US Constitution and make a new one.

I’m sure Shyster will pretend there’s a good reason for it other than admitting that it’s an antiquated restriction that should be amended


edit: ok after a quick google, it seems like the restriction is that if the Pres and VP are from the same state, they can’t receive electorate votes from that state. So it’s not as restrictive as I first thought

but also apparently Cheney changed his “home state” so that he and Bush could receive electorate votes from Texas

[NAN]

How many know that, constitutionally, the Presidential candidate and the Vice Presidential candidate cannot be from the same state?

How stupid is that? Just another reason to scrap this bloody US Constitution and make a new one.

Can they be clones from the same manufacturer?

[tifosi77]

I thought it was a function of an elector's home state? The POTUS and VPOTUS can be from the same state, it's just if they are the electors from that state can't vote for both of them. (Or maybe I'm misunderstanding)

(Didn't see prior post)

[tifosi77]

...

[redwill]

Ahhh.. TIL.

[count2infinity]

Kamala is the most attractive VP thus far in our history as a nation.... although, I wouldn't be shocked to hear people argue it was actually Schuyler Colfax who was the most attractive.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

hahahahaha I was reading Teddy Roosevelt's wiki about his VP time and I enjoyed this editorialization

In November 1899, Vice President Garret Hobart died of heart failure, leaving an open spot on the 1900 Republican national ticket. Though Henry Cabot Lodge and others urged him to run for vice president in 1900, Roosevelt was reluctant to take the powerless position and issued a public statement saying that he would not accept the nomination.

[Pavel Bure]

Speaking of an argument from the other side on why we should support Ukraine. (Hopefully this works)

[Morkle]

Not that I disagree, but why would Russia relay on NK for missile tech? That makes no sense and seems ridiculously backwards.

[Kaiser]

Not that I disagree, but why would Russia relay on NK for missile tech? That makes no sense and seems ridiculously backwards.

Because NK has been making progress on ICBMs for decades, while russia's research has been stagnant. This war has revealed them and their equipment to be either total garbage, or at best very inferior to their claims. It's not that much of a stretch that NK actually has better technology in some areas, which is what happens when you make grandiose claims to scare the world while your defense money is being robbed by oligarchs. There have been laughable discoveries over the last 2 years, such as russian tanks with reactive armor filled with cardboard, MiGs with no GPS system, personal body armor from airsoft suppliers, the list goes on.

[Gaucho]

cardboard as in ... cardboard ...?

[Kaiser]

cardboard as in ... cardboard ...?

Sometimes cardboard, sometimes rubber. If it's your job to supply the army with ERA, you can make quite a bit of money by just filling them with trash and pocketing the rest of the budget.

[tifosi77]

Re Teddy Roosevelt

It's not really an editorialization to say the vice-presidency is powerless, certainly not in 1900. And the backfiring of the plan to neuter TR's Progressive agenda by saddling him as VP is one of the great 'ha ha' moments in American politics.

[Pavel Bure]

Not that I disagree, but why would Russia relay on NK for missile tech? That makes no sense and seems ridiculously backwards.

It was more showing there is an argument from the conservative side to continue helping.

[mikey]

Yeah, that's certainly not a minority opinion. Last I had seen, half or a small majority supported it...it's a war after all, they own tons of defense stocks...I think it's fading a bit now, as folks get ready to jump to the next thing and need to posture "correctly"...

[count2infinity]

re: weed

Colorado did it in 2012. Just over a decade later, we're at 24 states and counting.

Time to make it federally legal and just be done with it.

[Morkle]

https://www.change4norwin.com/

YIKES embarrassing fanfic

[faftorial]

https://www.change4norwin.com/

YIKES embarrassing fanfic

What a loser.

[Nuge]

Re: Vice Presidents
The job today is a to help get the president elected, whether that is demographic or geographic.
Harris actually has probably fulfilled the (only) official job duty more than most by presiding over the senate (when she held the tiebreaker vote).

“the vice presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.” - John Nance Garner

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

Right Wing School Board Members In Pennsylvania Lose Critical Districts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreen ... a793671cc7

[King Colby]

https://www.change4norwin.com/

YIKES embarrassing fanfic

You might say they took the 'R' out of 'NORWIN'

[King Colby]

Right Wing School Board Members In Pennsylvania Lose Critical Districts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreen ... a793671cc7

I'll never understand the relevance of political affiliation relative to school board positions

[faftorial]

Right Wing School Board Members In Pennsylvania Lose Critical Districts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreen ... a793671cc7

I'll never understand the relevance of political affiliation relative to school board positions

He rails on pro choice republican women with young kids who moved in from Allegheny county and their limp wristed husbands they brought to vote.

[Shyster]

I’m sure Shyster will pretend there’s a good reason for it other than admitting that it’s an antiquated restriction that should be amended

It’s an antiquated restriction that should be amended, if anyone wants to bother. It's easy to change addresses these days, so I'm not sure it would even be worth it to actually spend the time and energy to do an amendment.

I believe the original concern was twofold: (1) electors would be homers and only vote for people from their own states; and (2) a concern that a state could become very populous and therefore dominate the presidency and vice-presidency by constantly voting only for its own candidates. The rise of political parties and their nominated slates of candidates mooted the first concern, and while some states certainly have more people than others, no state has enough electoral votes to control the election, so the second concern is moot.

[King Colby]

Right Wing School Board Members In Pennsylvania Lose Critical Districts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreen ... a793671cc7

I'll never understand the relevance of political affiliation relative to school board positions

He rails on pro choice republican women with young kids who moved in from Allegheny county and their limp wristed husbands they brought to vote.

Yeah I think you misunderstood. Why the **** are there school board members pushing a right wing agenda? Why are political affiliations listed next to school board candidate names on ballots?