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sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 10:47 AM Dec 2018

When a president cheats to win, downballot races are helped too. Senate GOP majority is illegitimate

The top of the ticket helps downballot races.
So when the top of the ticket cheats, that also helps downballot races, like Senate races.


Many GOP senators won by a small amount in 2016:
Toomey (PA)
Blunt (MO)
Johnson(WI) (yes, Feingold should be in the Senate right now)


These Senators are illegitimate because the president cheated to win and got them elected too.

The GOP senate majority is illegitimate.

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When a president cheats to win, downballot races are helped too. Senate GOP majority is illegitimate (Original Post) sharedvalues Dec 2018 OP
The GOP senate majority is illegitimate. walkingman Dec 2018 #1
This . . . . Iliyah Dec 2018 #2
Yeah, pretty much the case Sherman A1 Dec 2018 #3
All republican power is illegitimate. D23MIURG23 Dec 2018 #4
Based on propaganda in all cases, but not all illegitimate sharedvalues Dec 2018 #5
Obtained by way of criminal conduct, so yes, illegitimate. D23MIURG23 Dec 2018 #6

walkingman

(7,667 posts)
1. The GOP senate majority is illegitimate.
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 11:00 AM
Dec 2018

California has almost 40 million people, while the 20 smallest states have a combined population totaling less than that. Yet because of an 18th-century political deal, those 20 states have 40 senators, while California has just two. These sparsely populated, usually conservative states can block legislation supported by a majority of the American people. That’s just plain crazy.

D23MIURG23

(2,850 posts)
4. All republican power is illegitimate.
Sun Dec 9, 2018, 02:15 PM
Dec 2018

I'm hoping they are hit with RICO charges as a result of one of the ongoing investigations. The republican party is obviously a criminal organization that coordinated the commission of many felonies in order to gain control of the US government, including treason. They need to be prosecuted out of existence. The leaders should be doing life sentences or be executed for treason.

The "conservatives" (scumbags) can form a new party, or join the libertarians. In the mean time Democrats should do their best to enact structural changes that will make sure they never have much power (i.e. abolish the electoral college and add DC and Puerto Rico as states). They should also remove dump's judges and justices on the grounds that he never had the authority to appoint any.

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