It’s 2020, and the Russian collusion has been proven wrong, and she is still saying “something” was fishy.
I pulled the Electoral College thing from this article. It didn’t mention prior attempts, so I wasn’t aware.
Our leader isn’t elected directly, it was designed at the get go to not be that way intentionally. It’s a representative republic, not a straight democracy. I know you know this, but I’m just putting it out there for the third parties reading who might not.
I had forgotten about that. So neither side is exactly innocent. I guess it comes down to how far you’re willing to take it.
Need a citation on this. It seems more like everyone decided it wasn’t productive to keep digging, but the investigators (Mueller and team) did find evidence of suspicious communications they feld suggest collaboration and might have illegal aspects.
The system was also intended to be fixed when broken. Removing the electoral college is one way since we live in a very different environment. We are seeing many issues with efforts to prevent citizens from voting by either direct or indirect methods as well as gerrymandering (which, yes, both parties do) which show that there is a desire to effectively disenfranchise large swaths of the country.
Wasn’t the electoral college put in place so that folks who live in Tweedledee, Nebraska have the same voting weight as someone in Metropolis, California despite their being fewer votes numerically?
That would be catastrophic in Britain, we’d get the LibDems elected and shortly after sink into the Atlantic out of shame…
No, the Electoral College was put into place so that those living in Tweedledee, Nebraska would have much more representation than someone living in Metropolis, California.
Same reason we have a Senate.
At the time, it was needed to get the country off the ground. I do not believe it serves any useful purpose now.
We are a union of separate states. 50 different experiments in governance. We need to repeal the 17th, not weaken Senators even more.
Rhode Island has the same voice as Texas because they are both states. Regardless of how many people live there the state gets two votes in the senate. Maybe the people worried about unbalanced representation shouldn’t have federalized so many issues. If you remove state representation then Small states, and medium ones are screwed. Texas, Florida, California, and New York will set the new laws.
Anyway, I think they should remove the cap on representatives and go to the original numbers, or somewhere between the current and original. I would love to see a House with 2k members representing groups of people they could actually know something a out.
Besides Gerrymandering, which both sides do, what else has been done to restrict voting? Lots of people say this but examples seem thin on the ground.
As for the Steele Dossier and Russia gate being garbage. There are literally dozens of articles about it. Just like the ones about Hunter’s laptop being legit and his gun issues don’t get traction, neither did these.
I would also like to see this.
The only reason the previous incumbent and cronies were not guilty of collusion in the leadup to the 2016 election is because it’s not actually a crime. And, arguably, they weren’t competent enough to collaborate with foreign powers who wanted to influence our elections.
That and it didn’t actually happen.
So, was it worth trashing confidence in the banking system in Canada to shut some truckers up? I am totally sure several of them kept crashing because of unrelated reasons…
As God is my witness, this turkey thinks his idea will fly.
Mike Lindell wants to show his support for the protesters that are using their trucks to block traffic in Canada. He decides the best way to do that is to send them pillows. He has a factory in Canada but it doesn’t have the capacity to make the number he wants to send (10,000 to 12,000), so they get made in the U.S.
His truck gets to the border and it’s turned back due to the very thing the protesters are objecting to: the driver isn’t vaccinated and doesn’t have a negative PCR coronavirus test.
Lindell’s new plan is to use a helicopter to fly into Canada and he will drop the pillows out the door so they can each the truckers. Each one will have a little parachute attached so it will be safe.
Philip Bump of The Washington Post first looked at whether the Canadian border patrol might object to trying to bypass customs by air, but then a colleague asked, “What, exactly, is the airspeed of an unladen MyPillow, plunging through the frosty Canadian air onto a trucker? And, secondarily, what would the effects on that trucker be?” You can find out the answer with and without a parachute in the article (via an MSN feed).
Lindell’s got a helicopter company on board, ready to make the flight. He’s keeping it a secret which one it is and where he’ll drop the pillows. It was supposed to happen at 11 a.m., maybe today? Can’t find anything about it if it did occur today. Maybe Friday.
Methinks Lindell forgot one teeny tiny little detail: helicopters don’t have a lot of interior cargo space. The largest production helicopter in the world is the Mil Mi-26 (a.k.a, the Halo). Its interior is 36 feet long, 10.5 feet wide and is 9.5 feet tall at its shortest point. That’s about 75% of the volume of a 48’ semi-trailer.
The helicopter company isn’t likely to have one of those. How many pillows will fit into what they do have? They can fit more if they compress and vacuum-pack them ahead of time, but it’s still going to be more than one flight. How many flights will it take to get all of the pillows to the truckers? Will the U.S. and Canadian border patrols allow that many flights back and forth?
And if he’s hired just one helicopter, how long will it take to drop a single payload? Being generous and assuming the helicopter can carry a thousand pillows at a time and he can toss them out the door at a rate of one every five seconds (which also assumes there’s at least one other person to hand them to him just as quickly), it will take 83 minutes to finish. Then he goes back for the next load and does this eleven times, for a total of 16.6 hours, not counting flight and refueling times.
You know, there’s another teeny tiny little detail Lindell hasn’t factored in: a pillow doesn’t have much weight (1.5 pounds) and it’s got a lot of surface area (26"x16"x4.1" uncompressed). The second he tosses it out the door, the downdraft from the helicopter rotors is going to push it straight down, maybe even ripping it out of his hands. According to the Rotor & Wing International website, for a small helicopter like a Hughes 500, the air moves downward at about 46 mph. Any pillows Mike Lindell tosses are going to have more in common with the WKRP First Annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Drop than serenely floating down to the waiting arms of a trucker in need of a good night’s sleep.
Crazy shit people say for publicity for $100 Alex…
Yeah, I had wondered about that, along with the legality of a U.S. helicopter entering Canadian airspace - presumably they’d have to file some sort of flight plan or something?
United Nations to Putin. Give peace a chance…
That’s the best the UN could do. And if we were going to do anything about it it is now pretty much too late. If only there was an alternative for Europe to be less dependent on Russian natural gas.
They gave up their nukes in return for US and NATO to defend them. Kind of hard to do that without troops on the ground, or aircraft in the air.
As well as shutting down their nuclear power stations, because “Green!”, leaving them reliant on Russian gas.
Blyat.
Anschluss v2 is in progress.
Regarding electricity - Germany is in a precarious position. Already it cannot afford the high electricity prices, and coupled with the Ukrainian invasion, will most probably send their economy into freefall mode.
Communists sure love to play the long game. ← This is what the West have forgotten.
Just the BS we and NATO pulled on this one. All saber rattling. Don’t do anything bad or we will sanction you. It’s like threatening to scold a toddler if they go to stab the dog in the foot. And then the kid grins at you and slits it throat… Now what?
Wonder how long it takes to fire up a nuke power plant?
Depends, government or private? Our Government has started building a new one, and three years in the site is now flat, but there’s no concrete 
There was zero chance the Soviet Union would join any League of Nations 2.0 that did not give them veto power on the security council. It is baked into the foundation of the UN, so the UN is uniquely helpless against this type of problem. Russia is currently the chair of the UNSC, so we are seeing exactly what we should expect.
Ukraine is not a NATO member nor even very far along the path to NATO membership. Arguably, the initial invasion in 2014 was largely to put pause to that process, since you can’t join if you’re currently involved in a conflict (as it would trigger mutual defense by Article 5).
Guarantee of territorial sovereignty in exchange for surrender of nukes (that they couldn’t use and didn’t want) was not provided by NATO, but by the US, Great Britain, and Russia.
This is not the UN’s fault. This is not NATO’s fault. This is not Biden’s fault. This is all on Putin and his enablers.
Depends on how it was mothballed, and whether everything is still intact.
They most probably will have to do a couple of inspections and tests to see that everything is still in good nick, and start things up slowly.