If you are wondering who exactly is Hasan Piker and why the Republicans are giddy that Abdul El-Sayed won the U.S. Senate Dem. Primary in Michigan...

@beckyromero
Is exactly what I meant though being impossible to change.

I don't like it, yet I do agree that increasing number of justices is the only way around the problem currently.

It still SHOULD be handled constitutionally.
Yeah I know it's impossible though.

@DeWayfarer
Why? Congress and the President have the power to do it.

If it needs to be done, it should be done. Not to attempt to do it thru a Constitutional Amendment process that would see that attempt almost certainly go down in defeat.

The Cubs walked it off yesterday, 3-2. They didn't tell the umps they needed the game to continue until they scored a couple more runs. 😉

@beckyromero because it's an endless cycle. It doesn't curb the supreme Court either.

@Bumbles
Exactly!

@beckyromero Unlike the co-chair of the DSA who was rather frank about her positions, Mamdani and El-Sayed deflect, and turn every difficult question into a pat answer about “working people.”

Obamacare has been gutted, but “Medicare for all” is going to be passed? Give me a break…

@beckyromero Oh there's a whole lot more said than that and you know it.

I don't like the way he presented and over dramatized. Yet slavery did exist, the native Americans were slaughtered, education was only for the wealthy, among many other things he pointed out.

That is the facts that I was talking about anyway.

@DeWayfarer
He also mentioned Grenada, Panama and Sudan.

And left out the fact that we saved the world (along with the help of our Allies) from German imperialism in World War I, the Axis in World War II, South Korea, and Eastern Europe from Soviet totalitarianism during the Cold War.

As I've said before, the United States is not without our faults over the centuries. But we've help free more oppressed people from tyranny than any other nation in the history of this world.

@beckyromero And he has a point about the number of conflicts that the USA has been in. He didn't even list them all.

But many isn't good enough for all the many deaths and failures.

It's not acceptable to be at the top of the garbage pile, when the top of the container is millions of times higher. And the stench of the garbage underneath can still make anyone nauseous.

@beckyromero I recall Obama had a very smart delegate strategy. But alas, he was a Democrat and a centrist.

@Bumbles

I'll give you an example.

Hillary won the 2008 California presidential primary, 51.47% to 43.16%.

She won the popular vote, 2,608,184 to 2,186,662

And won more delegates: 204 to 166.

Of these delegates, 241 were awarded at the congressional district level, and the remaining 129 were allocated to candidates based on the primary vote statewide

Hillary won the delegates awarded at the district level, 134-107.

But New York Times exit polls clearly showed Hillary was the preferred candidates among DEMOCRATS, 55-41.

Here are the delegate allocations:

https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/CA-D.phtml

As you can see there are many delegates that were awarded at the district level that Obama won as a result of winning the popular vote in a given Congressional district. But without the support of independents (who supported him, 61-31), many 3-2 Obama CDs become 3-2 Clinton CDs. Some districts that were 3-3 become 4-2 Clinton, etc.

Thus, the delegates awarded at the district level shifts even more in Hillary's favor, perhaps as much as a 34 delegate shift.

And that 34 delegate shift is just California! A number of other states had open primaries, including Texas.

Going into the convention, Obama lead in pledged delegates 1,766.5 to 1,639.5.

In the end:
______________Popular Vote________Delegate Vote
Clinton, Hillary 1,462,734 50.88% 94.0 41.41%
Obama, Barack 1,362,476 47.39% 99.0 43.61%

@beckyromero Thanks for taking the time to explain. I’m glad it turned out that way.