Long quoted post, i hadn't considered this.
5 newly democratic controlled states joininh the NPVIC will change presidential elections basing elections on popular vote rather than outdated electoral college allocations.
BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe” state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
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This is political malpractice. My party's midterm closing arguments are:
-It's ok to buy oil from a thug dictator in Russia so he can kill more Ukrainians.
-It's ok to livestream the execution of a murderer.
-The economy is doing great and Americans just don’t get it.
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“United States” is spelled incorrectly on the White House’s agreement with AI executives:
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DHS Secretary Mullin claimed his department found 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada's voter rolls.
Pressed for proof, DHS reduced the claim & handed the state a list of 185 people it swore were confirmed noncitizens registered to vote.
Nevada's election officials checked every name ⬇️
Tell someone you want a divorce generally gets you one.
There is no misconception on this.
I WANT TO GET THIS OF MY CHEST‼️
Apparently the October 19 referendum needs a little more explanation. There has been a lot misconceptions of lies and misinformation from the Mainstream Media and Pro-Canada groups about the wording of Question 10.
So, I WANT to make this painfully simple:
October 19 is NOT a vote for Alberta to separate from Canada. It is not a binding referendum!!!
It is a vote on whether the Alberta government should begin the legal and constitutional process required to hold a future binding referendum on whether Alberta should separate from Canada.
Those are two VERY different things.
Supporting the process does not automatically mean you want Alberta to leave Canada.
You choose one of two options:
OPTION 1:
Alberta should remain a province of Canada.
OR
OPTION 2:
The Government of Alberta should commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada.
A VOTE for Option 1 is a vote for the Status Quo.
A VOTE for Option 2 simply means:
“I’m not satisfied with the status quo. I want Alberta to have more leverage with Ottawa, I want our concerns taken seriously, and I think Albertans should have the right to decide whether this question eventually goes to a binding vote.”
"Voting Option 2 Gives Alberta leverage and forces Ottawa and other Provinces to the table to discuss Western Alienation and over 121 years of Grievances that Alberta has with Ottawa
A Vote for Option 2 forces Ottawa to acknowledge that we to end the equalization program, an end to the most undemocratic First Past The Post system to elected our MP's, An equal and elected senate and more Provincial decision making instead of Ottawa knows best for all of us!
Let me remind the people in the back:
QUESTION 10 IS NOT A VOTE ON SEPARATION.
It means you believe Albertans should get to have the actual vote.
So before calling everyone who supports #Option2 a “separatist,” "seppie" , "traitor" or "A treasonous bastard", perhaps take five minutes to read the ACTUAL question.
You don’t have to agree with any of 9 Constitutional questions
You don’t have to necessarily support Independence.
You don’t even have to support Question 10.
But for the love of God People! At least understand what you’re arguing about before you start screaming at everyone who disagrees with you.
Read it. Ponder it. Then make your own damn decision.
ON OCTOBER 19TH, I CHOOSE ALBERTA! I WILL BE VOTING #OPTION2.
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Let me tell you about how seriously we take vaccine safety in the world. The whole of public health is COMMITTED to delivering vaccines safely.
Examples:
1) "please sit here for 15 minutes" after the vaccine
(30 minutes if you have a history of allergies). The chance of vaccine anaphylaxis is about 3 per million doses. The chance of a FATAL anaphylactic reaction is about 2% of those. So we have you sit there, epipen nearby, for a 1 in ~30 million chance. There is no verified anaphylactic death to a COVID vaccine in the US or Canada's ENTIRE HISTORY (hundreds of millions of doses given).
2) COVID surveillance systems discovered the J&J clot issue. Six reported cases in 6.8 million doses caused the initial pause (1 per million) by April 13, 6 weeks after it was launched. At that frequency, there was NO WAY to detect it with a clinical trial. By the time the investigation stopped. By March 2022, there were 60 confirmed cases with 9 deaths. (In fact, the RATE of J&J TTS doesn't exceed baseline rates of TTS, it was the incredible epidemiologists recognizing the cluster of central venous sinus thrombosis, positive anti-pf4 without heparin exposure, and mostly women 30-40s). We now believe it was about 3.55 cases per million doses. And now you can't get J&J anymore, because the SURVEILLANCE WORKED and it was determined to be too unsafe for public use. Withdrawn at the company's request. In total: ~60 serious events (2 per million doses) lead to its withdrawal. (for mRNA vaccines, TTS is felt to be 0.0057 per million doses, or one in 175 million doses given.
3) AstraZeneca/Vaxzevria (same mechanism) UK moved to 30+ in April 2021, then 40+ in May, on roughly 1 in 100,000 in young adults; several countries dropped it entirely.
4) RSV vaccines and Guillain-Barre Syndrome - probably the best example. Early VAERS showed ~4.4/~1.8 (2 different vaccines) per million doses. Studies showed 9-22 excess cases per million doses, ACIP narrowed the recommendation from 60+ to 75+, and the FDA requires a GBS warning (even though the at the time the best study showed that the difference may not be statistically significant, and we now know there was a statistical signficance).
6) mRNA vaccines and myocarditis - Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway suspended it <30y and FDA extended dose intervals. Determined the age gradient it affected almost immediately, and modified practice because of it. It is now felt to be a real signal, concentrated in young males after dose 2 during the primary series, and now (most recent analysis) 1/37,000 in 12-24 and still a very reassuring prognosis when it occurs (according to one Norwegian nationwide follow-up study)
So hey, when we say vaccines are "Safe" what we mean is:
1) OUR CURRENT BEST EVIDENCE IS THAT THEY ARE SAFER THAN ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU DO
2) We are watching VERY VERY VERY closely and we will YOINK TF OUT OF ANY VACCINE if we are concerned of even a MINIMAL CONCERN
The public should be very reassured that these systems are in place all over the world (virtually every modern country), they are being very carefully monitored and they've all generally agreed on the same result (though sometimes approach it differently).
Iceland is part of the single market and its citizens have the right to live and work in the EU. But not being members, they don't have a say as how EU regulations affect them.
However, not being EU members means they don't have to share fishing rights more than 🇨🇦 does.
The reason there is no deal is because 🇺🇸 insisted that it had the right to reimpose or impose worse tariffs at will notwithstanding the "agreement". As reported in the nyTimes.
He got a deal by giving away the farm! Our situation today can be directly traced to that giveaway.
Despite warnings, Mulroney created today's problems which were forseeable in 1988. 🇨🇦's integration with the 🇺🇸 economy is what made today's shakedown probable.
Back when Mulroney entered free trade negotiations with Reagan, it wasn’t smooth sailing. Canada walked away from the negotiating table back then too.
The difference is, Mulroney didn’t stir up anti American sentiment like Carney is doing.
Also Mulroney had direct access to Reagan and the two met several times to try and iron out contentious issues when negotiations turned sour.
Carney and Trump are both simply trying to out tariff the other rather than sit down face to face like Mulroney and Reagan.
Back in 1987, Mulroney didn’t get a deal by telling Canadians the U.S. was being unreasonable, Mulroney negotiated hard and used a relationship with Reagan to his benefit.
Dan you and I know that he isn't allowed to release the notes drafts transcripts without approval of the Americans, which is not forthcoming.
Becoming a grifting fraudster is unbecoming a former non-conservative MP.
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This attitude, together with the declining attachment to Canada amongst Gen Z, is partly the result of shredding Canadian history and civics in our school curricula.
How many of these young people who prefer a strong-man republic could write a paragraph accurately describing our constitutional monarchy rooted in the Westminster Parliamentary tradition?
How many of them have been taught the fascinating story of the organic development of Parliamentary government over eight centuries?
How many of them have been taught to be proud of having inherited one of the most stable, democratic systems of government in the world?
A system that created the concept of the rule of law through the Magna Carta, the Common Law, habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious liberty, the abolition of slavery, etc..
How many of them have been taught anything memorable about the fight for responsible government in Canada, and how it is embodied in our Parliamentary institutions? Or the division of powers in our federal system?
How many of them know that Canada is the fourth oldest continuous democratic state on Earth?
Not only have they been denied this basic civic literacy that is a requisite for responsible citizenship, but they have been denied access to the poetry of patriotism: the old stories and heroes (including ordinary heroes like the voyageurs and pioneers,) that formed and transmitted pride in Canada for generations.
Instead they are more likely to have been taught that Canada is a genocidal white settler society built on stolen land; that our British and French roots and institutions are the regrettable vestiges of Eurocentric colonialism; that our founders were nasty racists; and that we continue to be characterized by systemic racism.
So is it any wonder that rather than embracing the customs and institutions that made Canada one of the most successful nations on Earth, the emerging generation prefers a strongman?
This is the rotten fruit of the Canadian educational establishment having been dominated by Gramscians pumped out by OISE and adjacent institutions for decades.
NEW POLL: One in three Canadians says a strong leader who does not have to bother with Parliament and elections could be a good way to govern.
Among Canadians under 30, that rises to 47%.
The divide over democracy is increasingly generational.
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Conservatives 🔵: you guys aren’t doing anything!
Liberals 🔴: here’s the twenty new trade and security deals we’ve signed.
🔵: just paper, where are the results?
🔴: the share of exports heading to non-U.S. markets has increased by about 40%.
🔵: means nothing if it doesn’t help people.
🔴: agree, and in the past year wages have grown faster than inflation every month.
🔵: not everyone is seeing that wage growth.
🔴: it's true - which is why we’ve introduced targeted support such as the groceries and essentials benefit while the growth spreads more broadly.
🔵: we can’t afford those programs.
🔴: they’re temporary, and the IMF just said Canada has the best fiscal position in the G7.
🔴: there's lots more work to do, no-one is spiking the ball, and not everything is going or will go perfectly - but we're going to keep building a strong Canada for all.
🔵: [slinks off to cherry-pick data and complain about the last PM]
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🇨🇦 Someone needs to write the field guide to Canadian Conservative disinformation.
Not a rant. A documented playbook.
Chapter 1: The Think Tank Pipeline. How Fraser Institute and MLI produce "research" that becomes Poilievre talking points within 48 hours, without a single journalist tracing the line.
Chapter 2: The Expert Laundering Machine. How a Loblaws-funded professor becomes the go-to "food inflation expert" on your feed, with no disclosure and no pushback.
Chapter 3: The Influencer Layer. Mario Zelaya. CarneyWatch.ca. Sites that look like accountability journalism and function as opposition research ops.
Chapter 4: The Recycled Lie. The same claim, debunked, buried, resurrected, cycling through the ecosystem until it becomes "what everyone knows."
Chapter 5: The Disinformation Courtroom. Small claims filings. RCMP allegations. Allegations PM Carney is planning to resurrect the Emergencies Act.
Legal-sounding documents designed not to win cases but to generate headlines.
This isn't chaos. It's infrastructure.
Built piece by piece. Funded deliberately. Optimized over years.
Canada thinks it's immune. That's exactly what makes it work.
#cdnpoli #Poilievre #ConservativeDisinformation #CdnMedia #CanadianPolitics
One of the few times my Conservative MP, Michelle Rempel agreed with my thoughts was when she spoke against this idea.
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I expect she will continue to hold to her long established principles.
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I am disappointed with the decision by the Israeli police to prevent the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and the Christian Communities of the Holy Land from marking Palm Sunday at the Holy Sepulchre.
These actions further violate the longstanding status quo of Jerusalem’s Holy Sites.
People of every faith in Jerusalem should be able to worship freely, fully, and without fear. I am pleased that President Herzog has contacted the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, to reaffirm this.
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Today, the federal New Democratic Party selected its new leader.
It is clear that the direction of the federal party under this new leader, someone who openly cheered for the defeat of the Alberta NDP government, is not in the interests of Alberta.
Last year, Alberta’s New Democrats voted overwhelmingly to make membership in the federal party optional. Many thousands of our provincial members, including myself, are not members of the federal party. We are a big tent and welcome the support of people who vote for every federal party.
We believe in Alberta and we believe in Canadian energy and the good jobs it creates. We believe in more pipelines and in reducing emissions. We believe in strong public services and a strong jobs-driven economy to help pay for them. This is what we are fighting for every day.
Albertans deserve federal leaders who understand the importance of Alberta and our essential role in the federation.
Our focus is not on what the federal NDP says or does. Our fight is with Danielle Smith and the separatist UCP. Albertans deserve a better government, and we are here to be that better government.