Pete Buttigieg, quoted by Heather Cox Richardson in “Letters from an American”, on questions from his young children
He’s such a good speaker. It’s interesting that there is already a right wing narrative that he was a bad Secretary of Transportation, when most of the people who say that can’t name 3 secretaries of transportation nor what makes one good or bad.
Well, he did win the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses…
The right wing is big time afraid of him though. They know more about his 3 years as an evil McKinsey consultant (entry level at the time) than his time in Afghanistan.
obviously, good ones are hetero
Fox News is really struggling these days to find positive things to say about the Trumps.
The only measure of a good Secretary of Transportation is that they don’t get a CS thread “I don’t get why _____ is our transportation secretary.” So far the world has had 3 (unless I missed a thread) bad transportation secretaries and all the others have been ok
(/s)
The historic quote from the article “just because something is silly doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous” was most appropriate.
an amendment banning gerrymandering at all levels should be one of several amendments proposed at the Convention of States that we need to have
Gerrymandering is a bit like porn, hard to define with technical legal precision, but you know it when you see it.
Distracting would have to pass to a neutral third party, and there don’t seem to be any of those left in the US these days.
As much as I disapprove of a 10-1 Democratic congressional delegation in a state that has enough Republicans to have recently elected one as governor, I at least respect the notion that VA and CA had a referendum on whether or not to screw over the minority party instead of just instituting it by fiat.
Historically, Canadian electoral district redistribution has been done by independent entities. Sadly, the UCP (Republican-like party) in Alberta seems to be inspired by the partisan approach in the USA.
It doesn’t require an amendment. The House has twice in the last decade passed a bill that, among other things, would outlaw gerrymandering under their authority to regulate federal elections. It was filibustered by the Republicans in the Senate both times.
Is that a reference to this bill, which reads as basically the Democrat version of the Save America Act? (Looks like it would’ve done a bunch of other obvious non-starter things besides ban gerrymandering, so that screenshot is a little intellectually dishonest.)
Intellectual honesty on Twitter?
Which of the things in that bill are non-starters?
Lol. Trick question. Obviously all of them!
If the question was ‘which SHOULD be non-starters’, maybe the response would be different.