Shit Trump Says

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nycfan said:
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I love how Republicans have redefined the notion of landslide. In his Pulitzer-prize winning classic The Making of the President 1960 Theodore H. White defined a landslide in American politics as an election where a candidate wins 55% or better, or basically wins by double digits. While times change, the notion that winning the popular vote by less than 1.5% and winning a number of states by very small margins constitutes a landslide or massive public endorsement is laughable, imo. And Trumpers persist in pointing to election maps and statistics showing them winning the great majority of the nation's counties despite being told repeatedly that most of the nation's population lives in the fewer, geographically smaller, but far more densely-populated blue counties and districts, and not the mostly rural red Republican areas, many of which in the middle of the country are nearly empty. They clearly have a fixation with it, as if land equals people.
 
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He's always lived in his own little fantasy world, but he does seem to be more disconnected from reality than ever, which should be terrifying to people given how much power he has and the lack of pushback that's happened so far in his second term.
 
finesse said:
If corporations, why not land? I'm sure they'd go for allocating votes per square foot.
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Let's not quibble over land or population, let's adopt H. L. Hunt's proposal for "Graduated Sufferage." This was Hunt's plan to make how many votes a person could cast proportional to how much that person paid in income tax. Just think about all those biilionaires trying to figure out how they can legally pay just a little more income tax in exchange for a just few more votes. I'm sure the politicians these oligarchs install would all be master technocrats would work long hours to make the country better. And because they would only have one campaign donor, they wouldn't be constantly scrambling for campaign donations.
 
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