@PpollingNumbers
The electoral college is an archaic artifact from our country‘s founding, where there was a distrust of putting the election in the hands of the people. Because of the ways the states eventually decided to bind the electors, it has resulted in a presidential election system that
@Veteran_Nation
@PpollingNumbers
I should add that the electoral college provision in the constitution is archaic because it originally reflected the belief that the general public was not competent to select the president and that too much democracy was dangerous.
Over time, the constitution was dramatically
@StefanMolyneux
5/ "[M]uch of the causal pathway between IQ and schooling points in the direction of the importance of the quantity of schooling one attains.. Schooling fosters the development of cognitive processes that underpin performance on most IQ tests."
@AllanLichtman
@AllanLichtman
's keys are absolutely fascinating. They arguably render all the campaigning (and polling) as useless as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Maybe the better analogy is an earthquake. If the people running around on the surface of the earth thinking they
@PpollingNumbers
This helps shed light on whether the right wing is supporting the electoral college on a principled basis. When Trump was concerned in 2012 that Romney could win the popular vote but lose the electoral college, he called the electoral college a "disaster". Later, when he lost
This is shocking. His advertisers should immediately cut him off. Fox News Host, Donald Trump Ally Sean Hannity Tells Potential Witnesses Not to Talk to the FBI Amid Mueller Probe - Newsweek
#TrumpRussiaCollusion
@Mark_R_Mitchell
Did you mean to say that Nate Silver jerked his model toward the current polling data, which is strongly trending in favor of Harris? That trend is amply demonstrated by several polls.
This is absolutely fascinating: Timeline: Roger Stone and His Interactions with Wikileaks, Russia, and More | Just Security
#DonaldTrump
#TrumpRussiaCollusion
@JoJoFromJerz
And remember that Trump announced his candidacy extremely early so he could falsely claim that these investigations and prosecutions were the result of that announcement.
@AlanDersh
You could make the same comparison with Alex Jones, but your observation is not very helpful. The issue is whether the media entity is criminally culpable for violation of law. If yes, the media entity can be prosecuted consistent with the first amendment.
The electoral college is an archaic artifact from our country‘s founding, where there was a distrust of putting the election in the hands of the people. Because of the ways the states eventually decided to bind the electors, it has resulted in a presidential election system that
Fascinating compilation of the admitted and probable perjurious statements by the Trump people: Perjury Chart: Trump Associates’ Lies, False, or Misleading Statements on Russia to Federal Authorities | Just Security
#TrumpRussiaCollusion
@PpollingNumbers
Here is a video that explains the electoral college, it explains how it results in votes from thinly populated states having a significantly greater weight in electing the president. It also explains how race plays an extremely important role in the history of the electoral
I swear to God I'm not making this up. Here are the parties in the lawsuit filed by Clown
@DevinNunes
. He is suing the Twitter satire accounts "Devin Nunes' Cow" (
@NunesCow
) & "Devin Nunes' Mom" (
@DevinNunesMom
). He also sued a Republican strategist. The comedy Gods are dancing!
@AlanDersh
There is a difference if WikiLeaks is criminally culpable in violating the law. As a matter of constitutional law, the press must obey the law and can be prosecuted for breaking the law.
This sign is the funniest thing I've seen lately. Clown
@DevinNunes
has sued Twitter and satire accounts like
@DevinCow
for making fun of Nunes. As God as my witness, Nunes' lawsuit will go down in comedy history.
BRILLIANT!
If you have not read Eric Swalwell's questions to Hunter Biden during his hearing, you have to.
SWALWELL: Any time your father was in government, prior to the Presidency or before, did he ever operate a hotel?
BIDEN: No, he has never operated a hotel.
SWALWELL:
So the porn star admitted the affair with Trump before she denied it.
@realDonaldTrump
is vulnerable to blackmail. This makes the Steele dossier all the more important.
#DonaldTrump
Judges have the power to entertain a motion for sanctions even after a voluntary dismissal. Will that happen here?
Trump drops lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James - BBC News
This article is devastatingly effective in contradicting Trump's utterly false statements about the whistleblower complaint: Overwhelming Confirmation of Whistleblower Complaint: An Annotation
#DonaldTrump
#TrumpRussia
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@UmbrellaSecSvcs
@PpollingNumbers
Yes, I have read it (both the Federalist Papers in general and specifically 68). Here is a link to 68, so feel free to show me precisely where it contradicts anything I wrote.
@john_gibbs48
It is probably not technically obstruction of Justice. I suspect the comment would have to be aimed at a specific investigation. I doubt it would technically be treason. But I understand your sentiment. His statement is dangerously offensive.
ChatGPT: “The downside of handing so many tasks to machines is obvious: people end up out of a job.”
#employmentlaw
Opinion | We asked ChatGPT hundreds of questions. Here's what we learned.
Answer: Probably yes, assuming he is not incarcerated. In Florida, NY law controls because it is where the conviction took place.
Can Trump still vote after being convicted? - CBS News
@StefanMolyneux
1/ "Staying in school also affects IQ. On page 615 of The Bell Curve by Herrnstein and Murray, they find that even after controlling for earlier IQ, each year of education independently adds 1.65 IQ points to later IQ. "
There's a lot of misunderstanding of the Supreme Court's ruling in the presidential immunity
#January6th
case.
We created this infographic
@just_security
to explain:
- the pathways open to Jack Smith
- the scope of immunity from prosecution for all future presidents
There are few things more heart-warming than watching a bunch of science geeks celebrating their historically grand achievement. Hail to the scientists! NASA Lands InSight on Mars via
@YouTube
@StefanMolyneux
@dpakman
Under
@StefanMolyneux
's inferior logic, Dylan Roof was not a white supremacist because, despite expressing overtly white supremacist views and murdering 9 black people because they were black, he did not express racial hostility toward Asians. That is laughably poor logic.