for MAGAts, there is but one reliable cure for those conditions
Outlawing gerrymandering nationwide would ultimately made changes in our daily lives that can best be described as “revolutionary.” And in a good way.
(Recall that when Obama left office, this was the cause he immediately embraced as the best use of his time—and he’s no dummy.)
It might almost be worth trying the Amendment process, even though that would be fraught with danger, given that right-wing social-issues activists are poised to take advantage of any Constitutional conventions in order to roll back SCOTUS decisions on gay marriage, civil rights, etc.
But even so.
Voting rights (and I include stopping gerrymandering as a part of voting right) needs to be the number issue that Democrats push in 2021.
drawing up voting districts should be in the hands of a non partisan agency - how is that so hard?
It’s not hard at all. But some political parties in a position of power don’t want it. So it doesn’t get done.
Donald Trump Concession Speeches
It’s not hard if you build it into your system of governance.
It’s hard if your system is screwed up from the get-go.
In Canada: Electoral districts are created and altered by Elections Canada:
Elections Canada is the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums.
The Constitution of Canada requires that federal electoral districts be reviewed after each decennial (10-year) census to reflect changes and movements in Canada’s population. The (last) federal redistribution process began in February 2012. The process was led by independent commissions working separately in each province to establish electoral boundaries.
How many scaramuccis did he last?
Eleven.
TLTE: The article says:
Atlas was hired as a “special government employee,” which limited his service to government to 130 days in a calendar year — a deadline he reached this week.
By my calculation (08/10/2020 to 11/30/2020), he lasted 11 scaramuccis. If the article is correct, then he lasted 13 scaramuccis.
Soon, very soon, it’ll make all the paint peel off your wall.
It’ll make your keyboard all sticky/Give your poodle a hickey/and invest your cash in stocks in EuroDisney…
Vaccine Virus Alert Yankovic (attrib.)
Awww… this is bee-YOU-tee-full! Finally an honest self-assessment from The Donald. This is the film he should be propped up in front of with toothpicks holding his eyes open and made to watch many hundreds of times.
It’s telling that the only way to make truth come out of his lyin’ mouth is to create a sound-bite crazy quilt.
Happy birthday, @CalMeacham! 
Thanks
The White House began the annual holiday party season on Monday afternoon, officials said, kicking off a spate of indoor holiday parties that commemorate various religious traditions over the season.
While many public health professionals have asked Americans not to congregate in large group settings and avoid travel over the holidays because of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 266,000 Americans and infected 13 million more, the White House is expected to throw more than a dozen indoor parties, including a large congressional ball on Dec. 10, officials say.
The parties will be paid for by the Republican Party, a person with knowledge of the planning said, and will cost millions of dollars.
The president and the first lady are determined to have a final holiday season in the White House, officials said, and concerns about spiking cases and deaths across the country have not stopped the events. Many of the administration’s supporters have taken a skeptical view of the restrictions over the virus and are choosing to attend, officials said.
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The beverage of choice will be Kool-Aid. 
In other news, Melania’s WH Christmas decorations are surprisingly normal-looking. They’re actually quite beautiful. Makes me think she had nothing to do with them.
Either that, or knowing that they’ll be out of the White House and she won’t have to be FLotUS anymore put her in such a good mood she actually felt like doing something pretty rather than passive-aggressive.
Has anyone checked what decorations Michelle Obama used? They might be the same…
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That’s great but it would have been nice if he added, “Even if I had the power to do so, I would not override him. There is simply no basis for the claim of fraud.”. Too much to ask, I guess.
I cannot allow this insult to continue!
The drink of choice at the Jonestown Massacre was NOT Kool-Aid-it was grape Flavor Aid.
This article describes her video tour of the decorations as “a one minute trailer for a movie about a woman who wakes up in a castle one holiday season and goes searching for the person who spiked her eggnog with mushrooms”.