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For the record, we absolutely should abolish the filibuster and the electoral college, and you can check with me on that opinion if the GOP takes back the senate in 2024- it won't change.

Abolishing the filibuster would allow the Senate to actually get some things done rather than allowing the minority to prevent any progress whatsoever. Abolishing the EC allows all Americans to have their vote matter and stops giving outsized power to a handful of states (both red and blue). Both of those two things are good regardless of who is in power.
 
For the record, we absolutely should abolish the filibuster and the electoral college, and you can check with me on that opinion if the GOP takes back the senate in 2024- it won't change.

Abolishing the filibuster would allow the Senate to actually get some things done rather than allowing the minority to prevent any progress whatsoever. Abolishing the EC allows all Americans to have their vote matter and stops giving outsized power to a handful of states (both red and blue). Both of those two things are good regardless of who is in power.

You should go to a different country then. Founders never wanted the federal government to be this powerful.
 
For the record, we absolutely should abolish the filibuster and the electoral college, and you can check with me on that opinion if the GOP takes back the senate in 2024- it won't change.

Abolishing the filibuster would allow the Senate to actually get some things done rather than allowing the minority to prevent any progress whatsoever. Abolishing the EC allows all Americans to have their vote matter and stops giving outsized power to a handful of states (both red and blue). Both of those two things are good regardless of who is in power.

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You should go to a different country then. Founders never wanted the federal government to be this powerful.

I'm not sure what this has to do with the Founders or my status as an American. The filibuster for minority blockage was never part of their vision and actually something they were against. The EC also looks starkly different today than it did at our founding. To quote the Donald himself in 2012 "The Electoral College is a disaster for Democracy."

Why the desperation to cling to a vision from Founders who existed in a world without planes, cars, internet, weapons, population, etc. that we have today? Can you imagine a business that decides to never change because of the initial vision their CEO laid out? Or a sports team that decides to never adapt because the original team played a certain way? They would be roundly (and rightfully so) criticized before eventually failing. An initial plan is really important, but adaptation is a must.

Let me know which of the following statements you disagree with because to me they seem like something everyone would want:
1) American government would be more effective if the party in control of the Senate were able to pass legislation in the normal course of order, not solely through reconciliation.
2) Senate majorities on both sides have seen productivity dwindle over the past fifteen years as cloture motions have more than doubled.
3) The 6,000,000 Trump voters in California should have their vote count just as much as the 193,000 Trump voters in Wyoming.
4) The 5,200,000 Biden voters in Texas should have their vote count just as much as the 242,000 Biden voters in Vermont.
5) Presidential candidates from both parties should campaign in places like Birmingham, Chicago, DC, and Charleston, WV because every voter matters- not just in places like Raleigh, Orlando, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh because those are the only states contested.
 
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'We turned so far right we went crazy:' How Fox News was radicalized by its own viewers

This article is adapted from the new edition of "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth," which was published in paperback on Tuesday.

When Donald Trump lost the presidency last November, Fox News lost too. But unlike Trump, Fox was never in denial about its loss. The network's executives and multi-million-dollar stars stared the ratings in the face every day and saw that their pro-Trump audience was reacting to the prospect of President Biden by switching channels or turning off the TV.
 
I know some of you will want to give a shoutout to this finalist in the investigative reporting category.

Finalists

Dake Kang and the staff of The Associated Press for an investigation of China’s state secrecy and fatal consequences in the country’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and human rights abuses against Uyghurs
 
One of the winners for explanatory reporting, on a topic I know is near and dear to some of your hearts.

Awarded to Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Andrea Januta, Jaimi Dowdell and Jackie Botts of Reuters for an exhaustive examination, powered by data analysis of U.S. federal court cases, of the legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” and how it shields police who use excessive force from prosecution
 
International Reporting

Awarded to Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek of BuzzFeed News for a series of stories that used satellite imagery, architectural expertise and interviews with two dozen former prisoners to identify a vast new infrastructure built by the Chinese government for the mass detention of Muslims
 
I'm so glad that China's treatment of the Uighurs has become such a big story in the past two years. It has been going on for a long time but was not much reported. Of course, it is not an easy story to cover.

I remember one time thethe saying China was justified because ya know Uighurs are Muslins. But I'm happy to welcome any and all latecomers to the Uighur human rights bandwagon.

Sadly, some of you refuse to believe what John Bolton has written about what very poorly chosen one said to Xi about the Uighurs and Hong Kong. Instead, you've engaged in all sorts of ad hominem against Bolton just to avoid facing an unpleasant truth about your boy.
 
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