Haven't we heard this before?

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

The Senate, yes. The EC, not so much. Distrust of the rabble's choices.

Your rabble elects the Senate.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by nailer

Your rabble elects the Senate.

The rabble elects directly everyone but EC selections and appointments, afaik.
Where does the EC come from?

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

The rabble elects directly everyone but EC selections and appointments, afaik.
Where does the EC come from?

Yet another relic from the founders, helping the small States. At that time the Slave States be it at the time. Still a smaller lesser members of the whole collective. Thus giving a equal vote in the decisions for the whole.


Barney

[CarlV]

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton recorded a video used by the Russian gun rights group The Right to Bear Arms in 2013 to encourage the Russian government to loosen gun laws.

The episode, which has not been previously reported, illustrates the common cause that Russian and American gun rights groups were forming in the years leading up to the 2016 election through former National Rifle Association president David Keene. Keene appointed Bolton to the NRA's international affairs subcommittee in 2011.

Russian politician Alexander Torshin helped establish The Right to Bear Arms and cultivate ties with American gun rights groups including the NRA. As a Putin ally, Torshin served as the deputy speaker of Russia's parliament for more than a decade, and also spent time on Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee, a state body that includes the director of Russia's internal security service.

The Bolton video appears to be another plank in a bridge built by Russia to conservative political organizations inside the United States. It's unclear why Russian leaders wanted to curry favor with the NRA, but Torshin and Keene appeared to have developed close ties over in the years prior to the 2016 election.

It's a relationship that has outsized importance now that the FBI is reportedly investigating whether Torshin illegally funneled money to the NRA to assist the Trump campaign in 2016, as McClatchy reported in January. The NRA has declined wrongdoing.
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster Is Expected To Leave Trump Administration
The Two-Way
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster Is Expected To Leave Trump Administration

Bolton, who visited President Donald Trump in the Oval Office earlier this month and has reportedly been considered as a replacement for national security adviser H.R. McMaster, is a curious pick for The Right to Bear Arms in its video effort to influence the Russian legislature.

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/59589...ntent=20180322

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Oerets

Yet another relic from the founders, helping the small States. At that time the Slave States be it at the time. Still a smaller lesser members of the whole collective. Thus giving a equal vote in the decisions for the whole.


Barney

And do you believe helping smaller states is a relic?

[Oerets]

Senate is a State wide election, equal to in all fifty! There by when it is a majority in that forum it be one.


Barney

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by JJIII

A call for a Second Amendment solution.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/19/congre...pposing-trump/

It's from the other side though. Do you think there will be a huge outcry?

Kinda sucks when people you thought were family and friends come along and rub your nose in it like a pup who can't seem to learn, don't it?
I suggest you all get used to it John, cause these new kids don't seem to be inclined to giving a shit or minding their 'P's n 'Q's like before. They're going to be all up in the NRA's grill this weekend. Good for them, I think I'll give the kids fiddy bucks or so to get 'em going.

My knees already gave their all back in the early '70's when another crook was in the White House.

[BlueStreak]

Yeah, sometimes I wonder when Republicans will realize that they're a part of the so-called "tyrannical government". It would be a hoot to watch them come under attack by the very monster they created. Just desserts.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Yeah, sometimes I wonder when Republicans will realize that they're a part of the so-called "tyrannical government". It would be a hoot to watch them come under attack by the very monster they created. Just desserts.

It seems we might be headed that way.

[CarlV]

In 1776 much of the USA wasn't. Automatic arms were not even thought of yet. Slavery was legal. And so on and so on. Stuff changes,nothing that lives stays the same. USA map at the time of the Declaration Of Independance (in red):
https://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/6200/6206/6206.htm