All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

Interestingly enough, the slaveholders of Washington DC were actually compensated for that in 1862.

There were payments for lost property of southern unionists for years after the war, but I don't know if that included slaves or not, since they aren't mentioned one way or the other.

Outside of the US, the British Empire paid out to slaveholders when emancipation became law, and Post-revolutionary France levied fines against Haiti for the slaves freeing themselves.

That, as interesting as it is, kind of isn't the point.

[CSTowle]

The point is if he wanted to ingratiate himself to white nationalists he made the perfect argument to allow them to say he's "one of the good ones" and "knows his place". He either believes that garbage, or (more likely one of these or a combination of the two) he's trolling reparations advocates or he knows who to pander to.

As to the DC white nationalist would-be terrorist (I'd imagine was trying to get his courage up sitting in his truck), as the right-wing often argue when it comes to let's say "darker" suspects if you're displaying suspicious behavior or there's a reason to check on you given context they're likely going to do so. When you respond with nonsense, wear your racism on your sleeve/bumper, and park outside of a clear potential target for someone with your beliefs you're going to get extra attention.

On Facebook and censorship, I don't think they want to censor anything and I'm in the old-school liberal camp that says censorship tends to be more harmful than helpful and will absolutely be weaponized against you at some point so enjoy having the upper hand at the moment. It's like killing the filibuster or packing the Supreme Court, great emotional argument to get people to virtually high-five you but not a great idea in reality and absolutely will bite you in the ass later if it ever comes to pass. Might be what pushes us further into the divide that's growing continuously.

That said, they're a private company and don't want boycotts/people leaving so it makes sense for them now to censor what their customer base wants them to for their bottom line.

[ed2962]

I suspect Elder DOES know better, but he chooses to associate with such scumbags. Perhaps it’s self loathing for Elder when it comes to his race, you tell me.

He definitely knows better. While I'm sure he believes a lot of the conservative values he preaches, there's more than a little theatre and grift connected to much of what he does.

[Gray Lensman]

That, as interesting as it is, kind of isn't the point.

Point taken, although it should be noted that the Confederates got nothing, as they deserved (maybe more than they deserved, but that's probably a separate debate).

[ed2962]

The point is if he wanted to ingratiate himself to white nationalists he made the perfect argument to allow them to say he's "one of the good ones" and "knows his place". He either believes that garbage, or (more likely one of these or a combination of the two) he's trolling reparations advocates or he knows who to pander to.

As to the DC white nationalist would-be terrorist (I'd imagine was trying to get his courage up sitting in his truck), as the right-wing often argue when it comes to let's say "darker" suspects if you're displaying suspicious behavior or there's a reason to check on you given context they're likely going to do so. When you respond with nonsense, wear your racism on your sleeve/bumper, and park outside of a clear potential target for someone with your beliefs you're going to get extra attention.

On Facebook and censorship, I don't think they want to censor anything and I'm in the old-school liberal camp that says censorship tends to be more harmful than helpful and will absolutely be weaponized against you at some point so enjoy having the upper hand at the moment. It's like killing the filibuster or packing the Supreme Court, great emotional argument to get people to virtually high-five you but not a great idea in reality and absolutely will bite you in the ass later if it ever comes to pass. Might be what pushes us further into the divide that's growing continuously.

That said, they're a private company and don't want boycotts/people leaving so it makes sense for them now to censor what their customer base wants them to for their bottom line.

It's the bolded. He said it on the Candace Owens Show. This is the woman who habitually says that racism doesn't exist...until a white person says or does something against her.

[Mister Mets]

Barrett concerned about public perception of Supreme Court

Uh huh.....




Hey baby, you want the public to see you as Non-Partisan? Then stop acting Partisan!!!! Either that or we should treat the SCOTUS as Partisan and start electing them into office like we do every other politician. Not that I really want to do this, but, how do we take the Political out of the Supreme Court?

It's a good question about how to take politics out of the court.

An important thing would be for justices to explain what their rationale is for voting in a particular way, which they generally go. And they can also show a willingness to vote against their preferred policies, to demonstrate that whatever principles they follow are not pretext, so that they're willing to show that the law isn't always what they would want it to be.

Exactly! Anyone who drops slurs or advocates violence then claims "Oh I Didnt know what I said, I didnt know it was so hurtful.: Bullshit. The N word has been used as a hate slur in forever, calling a gay man a F** yea they know that they are being hateful.

Like here in Cincy when Thom B got caught on a hot mike calling Kanas City the F** Capital of the USA. "Oh I didnt know that was a word that was filled with hate and used to demean people." Save you ****. You are a liar.

Anyone who asks what is hate speech is either a 5 year old not exposed to the world, an idiot, or some one who knows they are using hate speech and trying to excuse the fact they are a racist/sexist/homophobe/transphob/etc...

Most people here will agree that slurs and threats of violence are beyond the pale, unwelcome in any social network.

This can work as a limiting principle. The controversy is when it goes beyond that.

There is also the question of selective enforcement.

[GindyPosts]

I assume the Porter County GOP's entry into the annual Popcorn Fest parade in Valparaiso is making the rounds for obvious reasons.

Please don't be surprised.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from North Dakota’s At-Large District, Kevin Cramer, currently in his third term in office. Among Rep. Cramer’s finer quotes are insisting climate change is trending in the opposite direction and that CO2 emissions have nothing to do with any warming phenomenon (he was the adviser of the Trump campaign’s energy policies, go figure), as well as the time he talked about how Native American tribal elders and said he’d like to “wring the necks and slam their heads against the wall” for being upset about his vote against the version of the Violence Against Women Act that would have provided protections to Native American women. Rounding out this classy individual’s resume, he denies LGBT discrimination in the workplace even EXISTS, and insisted he was keeping his paycheck during the 2013 Government Shutdown because “he earned it” while also trying to throw people off of food stamps based on quotes he read of Christian scripture on the floor of the House (because Jesus was TOTALLY against feeding the poor.) Our last update also indicated that Cramer had been widely criticized during his first run for office for filming campaign advertisements in a veterans’ cemetery as well as the North Dakota Patriot Guard in one of their motorcycle rallies, and had jeopardized the funding for both, by making them involved in a political campaign without their permission. Cramer did not apologize to either group, justified it by saying “there was nothing illegal about it” and in interviews, refused to even say if he would continue to film ads in veterans’ cemeteries without permission.

Now, in 2016, Cramer won re-election by a large margin, earning 69% of the vote, but that was against Chase Iron Eyes, who had events from his past like nude photos of himself and a report that over a decade prior, he stole a car (his explanation for the latter was that he was “blankout drunk”). So… yeah, a candidate to get passionate about, but he came with a couple flaws, to say the least.

After Rep. Cramer’s re-election, he remains a thorough ***hole. In March of 2017, after several Democratic Congresswomen dressed for an address by Donald Trump to Congress by wearing white pantsuits, which was a nod to the Suffragette movement that got women the right to vote about a century ago. But that nuance is missed by Kevin Cramer, who responded to it by saying that these women had a “disease”, insulting how they looked, and were obsessed with Hillary Clinton’s election loss:

“But by the way, did you notice how poorly several of them were dressed as well?” he asked. “It is a syndrome. There is no question, there is a disease associated with the notion that a bunch of women would wear bad-looking white pantsuits in solidarity with Hillary Clinton to celebrate her loss. You cannot get that weird.”

(As if Republicans haven't been draping themselves in the word "TRUMP" for the past six years.)

Now, things can get even more embarrassing than that. In April of 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave a bizarre statement at the podium, where he tried comparing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to Adolf Hitler by assessing “even Hitler never gassed his own people”. (News flash: He totally ordered that done in concentration camps.) Now, nobody in their right mind would, or could defend those remarks. But Kevin Cramer, you see, it not in his right mind, as he exhibited in an interview with a North Dakota conservative talk radio host, saying that Spicer’s Holocaust denial “had some validity”.

"The media is so gullible, they fall for these things because they think it's really hot stuff and the public just can't wait to stick it to Sean Spicer -- who 99% of the people wouldn't have the foggiest idea who he is and it distracts them from other things. I can't even believe that anybody in the media, much less all of the major networks, led with this story. A spokesperson, who by the way made a poor illustration, but it's not completely, it's not without some validity."

A few weeks later in May of 2017, House Republicans were floating the AHCA as a method of repealing the Affordable Care Act, that would throw 24 million people off their health insurance, cause tens of thousands of more deaths a year, and all for the “benefit” of getting the richest Americans tax breaks. And Kevin Cramer faced down a hostile town hall as this vote approached and was directly asked about that tax break for the wealthy, and lied in the faces of the people he represents, denying that it existed. The man asking Rep. Cramer the question responded by angrily stuffing a handful of money down his collar, a direct way of accusing that Cramer can be bought so easily.

Kevin Cramer wasn’t content to remain in the House to represent North Dakota, where in 2012, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp pulled what was considered a big upset.
Kramer funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars back towards himself in the 2018 defense of Heitkamp’s seat, leaving him under investigation by the FEC. and managed to unseat her with 55% of the vote.

He has immediately taken to voting for every judicial nominee and Trump administration nominee for every post, no matter how unqualified they might be. Cramer also furthered our belief that he’s a piece of garbage when he responded to Donald Trump’s racist attacks upon Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore by claiming that it wasn’t that bad because sometimes he gets “snide” comments because he’s from North Dakota, therefore he believed “he could be a victim of racism”.

While we would just have to update that in the past year, Sen. Cramer was a son of a b**** again because he voted against witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, effectively making it a “trial” and voting against convicting Trump in spite of all the evidence he tried soliciting foreign aid from Ukraine in the 2020 election by withholding aid to him… but somehow that wasn’t his s***iest moment of the year. Hands down, it would have to be when on March 24th, 2020, when he responded to a video interview of Nancy Pelosi calling for an economic stimulus package to be created due to Covid-19 and he responded with the deep counter-opinion of “She’s retarded”. He of course, refused to apologize, saying that he meant to type “she’s ridiculous” and what went out was a typo that he blamed on “fat fingers”.

Perhaps when Kevin Cramer is up for re-election in 2024, it would be good to remind voters that by far, the top campaign contributor funneling money towards his political exploits was Tommy Fisher, who tried to use his pal in the Senate to make the case why he should be the one to take big government contracts for Donald Trump’s ego-stroke project, the WALL on the U.S./Mexico Border (while Cramer did take the money, he could not deliver on getting a deal done for him, because Fisher’s architectural ideas were garbage, and the Army Corps of Engineers knew it and kept shutting the door on him). Yes, Cramer supported the endeavors of a man who had no idea of what he was doing, and most of what he built already started falling over, just because he filled his campaign coffers, and that is a shocking level of corruption (on behalf of someone clearly incompetent).

Even as recently as a month ago, Cramer was teaming up with Ted Cruz to sponsor legislation to try to make mask mandates or vaccine mandates illegal. Because his priorities are to make that decision for businesses and state governments, even when it would clearly save lives.

We can’t reiterate enough, Kevin Cramer is an unflinching ***hole. It’s just that simple.
 

[worstblogever]

In 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of David Vitter, the former U.S. Senator from Louisiana, a man implicated in the D.C. Madam Scandal several years back who according to some of the prostitutes he frequented, enjoys being diapered like a baby. Now, as if that weren’t enough to open and close his profile, you have to also consider he’s enough of a partisan hack to have been only one of two senators who voted against Hillary Clinton to become Secretary of State in 2009 (the other was Jim DeMint), he opposed the Franken Amendment (which was written to punish military contractors who try to cover up sexual assaults overseas to Americans), and has been trying to destroy Planned Parenthood long before the manufactured “scandal” over doctored videos that we saw here in 2015. In spite of his main “job creating” in Washington having been to find a niche for certain sex workers, Sen. Vitter won re-election in 2010 during the Tea Party Wave by running some of the most jaw-dropping racist anti-immigrant ads of that campaign in a very crowded field. Somehow, don’t ask us how, he survived a prostitution scandal for almost eight years, and actually had the gall to hope everyone just forgot about it and ran for Governor of Louisiana in 2015, attempting to replace Bobby Jindal in that role. He lost that election narrowly to John Bel Edwards, and after completely exhausting his campaign war chest in the quixotic effort, he opted to finally retire to go home and presumably wear adult-size pampers around the house.


On this date in 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled, the U.S. House Representative from Georgia's 6th Congressional District, Karen Handel, who narrowly won the special election for her seat over John Ossoff in 2017. She had previously finished third in the GOP Primary in the 2014 elections behind David Perdue while trying to win office to the U.S. Senate from there, in 2010, lost a squeaker against Nathan Deal to be elected Governor of Georgia. In the 2017 special election race to replace former Congressman Tom Price, now the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Handel identified supporting anti-abortion efforts, repealing the Affordable Care Act, constructing Donald Trump's border wall, simplifying the tax code, and increasing national defense spending as policy priorities if she would reach office. Handel's most recent work prior to politics included taking an executive job at the Susan B. Komen Foundation (the charity that gets less than stellar ratings for actually putting its incoming money towards efforts to cure breast cancer) where she deliberately tried to cut donations being made to Planned Parenthood's breast cancer screenings by the organization, because she drinks the GOP Kool-Aid and doesn't like that a minute portion of their budget goes towards paying for abortions. She actually resigned after Susan G. Komen reversed her decision, but admits what she did in a book she wrote, "Planned Bullyhood", where she paints herself as quite the martyr in the story. Handel's name also came up a lot at the Justice Department's Voting Rights division from 2007 to 2010 while she served as Georgia's Secretary of State, because of her efforts to purge voter rolls repeatedly to try and insure that Democrats couldn't flip Georgia blue in any presidential election. In lower level races, Handel worked to literally block Democratic candidates from getting their names on the ballot. Hell, at one point in the build-up to her race against John Ossoff, she responded to the news that a judge would allow 8,000 voters who registered late to vote in the election by criticizing him and sending out a fundraising e-mail about how unfair all those actions promoting participation in our democracy were. And Karen Handel is hardly sympathetic on LGBTQ issues, as evidenced in 2010 when she openly discussed banning gay adoption because she felt not only would two gay parents be not a good situation, but even "a situation where the parents are not married, as in one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child." She wouldn't even support straight parents with a kid out of wedlock. But did she evolve on the issue by 2017? HELL NAW as can be seen in this video where a constituent who admits to being conservative herself talks about how she has a gay daughter who might want to adopt one day, and asks if Handel supports the concept of someone being able to adopt a child regardless of their sexual orientation. Handel tells her with a smile and shrug, “my faith calls me to a different place on that issue,” because her faith apparently teachers her the virtues of bigotry and ignorance. Handel then scurries away like there might be some gay she could catch off this woman via her daughter. Both of these incidents enraged Georgia's Log Cabin Republicans, who supposedly had Karen Handel as a member of their group in 2002, and have only watched her consistently argue against them having, y'know, rights. In the final debate between Democratic candidate John Ossoff, Karen Handel shocked everyone present during what should have been a softball question on the minimum wage, when she not only opposed an increase to it, but phrased her argument as being that she "did not support a livable wage". Karen Handel, ladies and gents... she doesn't even care whether a working family can survive or not, the hand of the free market should get to decide that. Hell, even 55% of REPUBLICANS support raising the minimum wage to $10.10 at the time of her remarks. After finishing second in the initial election against John Ossoff, with all of the other Republicans out of the way, Handel won with 51% of the vote on election day, in the most expensive House race in American history, where the national GOP spent millions to keep her afloat against all the individual donations Ossoff received. This was with the help of last minute ads that bizarrely tried tying John Ossoff to the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise. Her performance, while a win... was not a good bellweather for Republicans, who yes, held a seat, but a seat that has averaged twenty point wins for Republicans since the 1970s, and has a +8 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index. And all the money Republicans spent to hold onto this seat proved to be only a temporary patch, as in the 2018 elections, Democrat Lucy McBath upset Karen Handel, and flipped Georgia’s 6th blue, with Handel only getting 49% of the vote. Handel vowed to avenge that lost, and advanced out of the GOP Primary… what could stop Karen Handel? She remains a callous twit without a shred of empathy for other human beings, is what’s stopping her. Right around the time the Black Lives Matter movement was making headlines throughout 2020 after the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Aubry, Karen Handel had a constituent tell her how she was tired of Lucy McBath talking about her son, who had been murdered by a man who supposed felt “threatened” because he was playing music too loud in the same parking lot, and the constituent said “she needs to get off of it”. Handel vehemently agreed, saying, “You have to think outside of your own person.” Which…. That’s exactly the point. Lucy McBath wasn’t murdered. Her son was. And she’s thinking about all the other people who are killed with gun violence every year needlessly. Just… Between telling a mother with a dead son she needs to “get over it” and not believing in a livable wage, Lucy McBath defeated Handel a second time, and kept her out of office. We do not know if we have heard the last of her, but we will set aside her profile at this time, however, to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1023-50, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Alison Hayden

Welcome to what is the 1023rd original profile here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Alison Hayden, a trial lawyer and 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 15th Congressional District, who was looking to stage an upset of Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell. Hayden is also the latest in our far-too-long line of Republican candidates for office who were promoting the Qanon conspiracy theory, as she kept using Qanon hashtags in posts on Twitter, as well as posting about “The Great Awakening”, where Donald Trump would lead Democrats who would be exposed for having dungeons where they harvested fear hormones from tortured children off to military tribunals to be executed. Y’know, just boilerplate policy stuff.

While supporting that absolutely bonkers conspiracy theory is enough to warrant us writing up a CSGOPOTD profile of someone, we’ve noticed that Alison Hayden’s nuttery is not limited to just Qanon. Take this Twitter post where she tries to claim there’s a double standard about Black Lives Matter murals being painted on the streets in Washington, D.C. (publicly funded and approved by the mayor) and yet when anti-choice activists start spray-painting “Black Pre-Lives Matter”, they get arrested for graffiti.

”Surreal in #America! They can paint “Black Lives Matter” on a public street but not write in chalk on a sidewalk “Black Pre-Life Matters?” Have #WeThePeople gone mad?”

So… that’s a racist battle to pick, right there. She’s also a fan of transphobic policy, as well as spreading Covid-19 misinformation, not just about vaccines, but also anti-mask lunacy. And, to round it out, she has begun re-writing history that played out in front of the world’s eyes on January 6th, claiming that “patriots” who were Trump supporters were actually “pulling Antifa rioters away from the windows” that day.

If Alison Hayden isn’t knowingly a hateful liar, we hope that she gets the psychiatric counseling she clearly needs if she believes all the s*** she puts on social media. Feel free to report her account until Twitter shuts her down, because that would be to her own benefit, and everyone else’s.

[GindyPosts]

I am aware of the Joe Manchin defense that you have to keep him for a majority but... Why can't Democrats just fight harder to get people elected in other seats so we don't rely on DINOs?

[Mister Mets]

Buzzfeed has a piece about staff complaints in the office of Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml...mpression=true

Despite the fact that Jayapal is one of the highest-profile progressives in DC and the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, 14 former staffers from throughout her nearly five years in Congress describe a dysfunctional and volatile workplace. There is, they said, a serious disconnect between how she talks about workers’ rights and how she treats her own staff. The conversations with former staff members, all granted anonymity to speak candidly due to the insular nature of Capitol Hill and fears of retaliation, reveal an especially harsh office with a boss whose treatment of workers runs contrary to the public expectations she has set for others.

In interviews with BuzzFeed News, they described Jayapal as a boss who berated staff in front of others, demanded grueling hours, and maintained an office culture marked by constantly changing expectations and little tolerance for error, to the extent that some staffers sought therapy and questioned their careers in public service. Since taking office, Jayapal has had one of the highest staff turnover rates in the House, due in large part, former employees said, to the unrealistic standards she sets. “It's not sustainable to be able to stay for too long,” one said.

The staffers’ stories are also reflective of major cultural shifts and a broader recognition of inequities happening in both DC and across the country. It is undeniable that women in politics, especially women of color, are held to a different standard than white men, and Jayapal is no exception. But as someone who rose to national prominence with an agenda centered on the dignity of working people, she now faces a changing workforce herself. On Capitol Hill, where elected officials have wide sway over how they operate their offices, generations have been subjected to a range of behaviors, from unquestionably positive to abusive. Many members of Washington’s professional class feel that the tough conditions and low pay are a rite of passage, the tradeoff being that they get to work in one of the most powerful institutions in the world. But the workforce now is less willing to accept undignified working conditions as a necessary evil on the path to fulfilling ever-higher career ambitions.

In response to requests for comment for this story, Jayapal’s chief of staff, Lilah Pomerance, said in a statement, “Women of color are often unjustly targeted, regularly held to higher standards than their male colleagues, and always put under a sexist microscope.”

Pomerance claimed that the anecdotes were “cherry picked,” contained “ugly stereotypes,” and lacked context. BuzzFeed News spent more than three months reporting, confirmed accounts with multiple sources, reviewed documents and text messages, and reached out to staffers from throughout Jayapal’s tenure.

“I’ve worked in bad environments before, and I have worked in some awful environments before for some awful people. I’ve been colleagues with some awful people,” one former Jayapal staffer said. “I have never worked in a place that has made me so miserable and so not excited for public service as Pramila Jayapal’s office.”

Many felt obligated to speak out despite worrying that a critical story about Jayapal would reflect poorly on the progressive movement they believe in. “It’s almost like Stockholm syndrome,” one former staffer said. Ultimately, most decided to share their accounts because they felt it was vital to spotlight how the progressive leader treats her staff and the Capitol Hill culture that enables that behavior.

“Pramila has the absurd task of tackling some of the country’s most urgent problems with the limited resources our system provides. Like all members of Congress, she must decide how much of that burden to place on her staff, and like all members of Congress, she doesn’t always get it right,” said another former staffer, who noted that, while they were treated respectfully while they worked in her office, they couldn’t speak for others. “I believe she is doing the best she can, and hope that any talk around working conditions can help inspire progressive members (and their senior staff) to raise the standard above the status quo.”

She does have a high turnover rate.

Since her election to the House, Jayapal has repeatedly had one of the highest staff turnover rates in Congress, ranking 33rd out of 539 members from 2017 to 2020 — in the 94th percentile — according to the congressional tracking service LegiStorm, a reliable congressional data tracker. So far in 2021, that number has risen slightly: Jayapal is now in the 96th percentile for turnover, according to the LegiStorm analysis.

In practice, according to LegiStorm data, the turnover is so high that a significant number of former staffers throughout her congressional tenure — not including fellows, interns, or professional caucus staff — left after less than a year in the office. A review of LegiStorm data by BuzzFeed News found that this was true of 15 out of 40 former staffers; Jayapal’s office said it was true of 12 of 48 former staffers — Jayapal’s office could not explain the discrepancy.

According to her office’s numbers, of the 16 current full-time members in her personal staff, which does not include caucus staffers who also fall under her supervision, nine started less than one year ago and five have been in the office for more than two years. “If you’re working for the champion of workers, you would think and hope that’s not the case,” a former staffer said of the turnover.

It raises some interesting questions. Are young progressives straight out of college unprepared for the work that comes with a prestigious position? Is a prominent Democrat failing to practice what she preaches when it comes to people who work for her?

I am aware of the Joe Manchin defense that you have to keep him for a majority but... Why can't Democrats just fight harder to get people elected in other seats so we don't rely on DINOs?

That's a fair point that more Democrats in office mean that Joe Manchin won't be a swing vote. But how should they have fought harder?

[Panfoot]

I am aware of the Joe Manchin defense that you have to keep him for a majority but... Why can't Democrats just fight harder to get people elected in other seats so we don't rely on DINOs?

It is important to remember that the Republicans kind of have a home field advantage in the senate, land is more important than the actual people living on it with the whole 2 senators per every state setup and that hurts when a lot of Dems tend to be concentrated in states like New York or California.

[Tami]

It is important to remember that the Republicans kind of have a home field advantage in the senate, land is more important than the actual people living on it with the whole 2 senators per every state setup and that hurts when a lot of Dems tend to be concentrated in states like New York or California.

True. Wyoming is a good example. It is a very Republican State, it has Two Senators but only one Representative. It's total population is about 576,851. By comparison, the population of NYC is about 8,804,190.

A state with a population smaller than some cities can elect the same number of Senators as the State where that larger city belongs to.

[Xheight]

True. Wyoming is a good example. It is a very Republican State, it has Two Senators but only one Representative. It's total population is about 576,851. By comparison, the population of NYC is about 8,804,190.

A state with a population smaller than some cities can elect the same number of Senators as the State where that larger city belongs to.

Sounds about right in protecting the interests of that state and its people from Gross democracy; what was intentionally blunted in establishing a republic and protecting minority rights.