Well no, you miss my point. You need to look at the election just like any other State election. Harris won the election to be President in California, for instance, and Trump won the election to be President in Wyoming, by the normal rules every other election uses.

Its in the combination where people get shafted. Californians cast more than 15 million votes to determine 54 EC votes, or something like 278k votes per EC vote. But Wyoming only cast 262k votes total. Divided by their 3 EC votes it only took 88k votes to “count” for one EC vote.

So the votes count equally in each state, but when they are combined in the EC a Wyoming vote has over 3x more “power” than a California vote.

House Seats are reallocated based on population after each census. There’s even an algorithm for it.

The real problem is that the size of the House has been fixed. It didn’t use to be this way. They used to add seats after each census, but about 100 years ago they couldn’t agree on how to add them, so they stopped, and the size of the House has been fixed since then.

So while the average district size is now around 750k, the smallest districts are in states like Rhode Island, where the population is in the 500k range, and they still get one House member. (But not all small states benefit: the largest district is Delaware’s lone district, which has over 900k people in it but is not large enough to split in two yet.)

I bet if they had kept adding, there might be 575 or so members , with an average district size below 600k.

Think of the Electoral College as simply a weighted sum of each state’s Presidential Election. All the votes count the same, but only at the State level. Once a state goes for one candidate or the other, the popular vote is “converted” into EC votes.

The EC weighting is based on the state’s total representation in Congress, and while the House is allocated (roughly) by population, each State gets two Senators. So, even the smallest states are guaranteed 3 EC votes.

Yet, that guy you are replying to is not wrong

Congressman

Has

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Penis,

Rages;

Others

Yawn

When his bottle is empty, I bet he pleads for more

He will ask to “plead the fifth” then take out a bottle of vodka

I didn’t quite remember this character (even after all the times my kids watched this show), so I looked him up, and it turns out the voice actor is one of the creator’s kids. So, he sounded like a “real boy” because he was.

The character’s entire purpose for existing was to provide some royalty checks to the kid.

It’s not a gift, gifts would be unethical! It’s a gratuity. See the difference?

All you can do is go slower, and hope the traffic around you realizes what you are doing. Try to slow down when approaching the intersection earlier so it’s not all so sudden.

There is a left turn lane near where I live where U-turns are explicitly allowed, on a divided road, at a light with a dedicated left turn/u-turn lane and turn arrow. It’s not the cars you behind you you have to worry about, though. It’s the oncoming traffic that would turn right, that has a red light when you are making your U-turn, but they assume you are turning left and can make their right on red (perhaps without stopping like they should).

You win the Internet

Well, yeah, it is a lifetime appointment. It, quite literally, takes an Act of Congress to be fired from it. So they can hold to the job as long as they want.

The best I can tell, Iran aims to block the whole strait, while letting their own traffic through. And the US just wants to blockade Iranian ports, and let the rest of the traffic through.

No, my point is that not all Conservative judges are the same. And, if you take the Constitution seriously, the President has a right to pick someone, and the Senate has a right to advise him on who they find acceptable, and their consent is a requirement. So this the way it was supposed to have worked all along.

Remember that Anthony Kennedy is a conservative, and he was nominated to the Court by Reagan. Yet, once the Court started to lurch to the Right he ended up being the swing vote. Regardless, though, he retired while Republicans could fully control his replacement.

You could argue Kennedy was a compromise choice, because the Senate was in control of Democrats at the time, and they had already rejected Robert Bork for the job. If Chuck could force a similar outcome, wouldn’t that be a good thing?

I get it, but I think this time even Chuck will be on board. He can even call it the “McConnell Rule” if he wants. Politicians always love blaming the other side.

The only way a Democratic Senate would approve a new Trump justice would be if Democrats went to him and said “I know you won’t nominate a Liberal, here is a list of Conservatives we would back” and Trump picked one of them. Yes, even Fetterman would support that.

And before you start hating on Chuck over supporting any Conservative judge, remember that there are a pile of Conservative judges who are pissed off over this Administration also. Forcing Trump to appoint a centrist may make the difference between Trump being able to successfully ratfuck the next Presidential election, or not.

I’m looking forward to the Atlantic proving, in a court of law, that Kash Patel is a drunken fraud.

No, it’s not really that obvious, at least for Alito. The article doesn’t mention the fact that he has a book coming out soon, and I read in a different article that his scheduled book tour conflicts with the next Court term.

Plus, there is a small chance that Democrats win back the Senate, and if that happens before the next SCOTUS opening then there is zero chance Democrats act on it, after what happened with Garland’s nomination to replace Scalia. So, if either justice was thinking of retiring, they would prefer to do it while Republicans still held the Senate.

I doubt Thomas ever leaves before his health forces to, though. He makes too much in bribes gratuities to make any other gig attractive.

while accusing Donald Trump of making seven false claims in a single hour.

What a blatantly false accusation! He can make seven false claims in a single tweet.

Did they record the wrestling match? That would be fun to watch.

I was about to complain yet again “that’s not how it works”, but then I looked up the text again and this is explicitly allowed. Congress can set up a commission that basically takes the place of the Cabinet for 25th Amendment purposes. So now all this talk of the 25th amendment makes a bit more sense to me.

They still need a 2/3 margin in both houses even after the commission makes their determination, because the idiot is guaranteed to contest it. But maybe there is some truth to the idea that Republicans won’t vote to impeach but would vote to declare him incompetent, based on his dumb tweets