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GB_RN

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23. There's A Solution Working Its Way Around...

Sat Apr 18, 2026, 04:43 PM

19 hrs ago

And it won’t require a constitutional amendment: The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Virginia is or has just signed on, making a total of 222 EVs.

As long as the Repukes hold the NC legislature, I have no hope it will pass here, but maybe, just maybe…if we’re lucky, those assholes will be sent packing in November and we can get to work fixing all the shit they’ve broken.

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Poor "Shrub" Bush...it's slipping away... [View all] Pesky1 22 hrs ago OP

W. was a gentleman and a scholar compared to the evil monster dalton99a 22 hrs ago #1

Yeah.. and though I would not go so far as to say Cheney was not evil (or at least evil-adjacent) hlthe2b 22 hrs ago #3

And George loved his dogs and children PatSeg 22 hrs ago #5

Cheney autographed Sasha Baron Cohen's water board kit! Lucky Luciano 16 hrs ago #31

I hadn't seen that video PatSeg 3 hrs ago #45

Making fun of a woman on death row? vanlassie 12 hrs ago #36

I have no idea what you are talking about nor who (Cheney or Bush*) hlthe2b 7 hrs ago #37

I remember that PatSeg 3 hrs ago #46

Now I do remember, but that poster seemed to be attacking me as if I was supportive of Bush* hlthe2b 2 hrs ago #48

I respectfully disagree that DUers "better get used to" comparing anyone to Trump. It serves no useful purpose, and Martin68 2 hrs ago #54

Unless all they want to do is post memes and not engage in adult intellectual discussion they hlthe2b 2 hrs ago #55

It isn't always easy to know PatSeg 1 hr ago #56

Karla Faye Tucker I believe displacedvermoter 1 hr ago #57

W was never anything resembling a scholar or a gentleman in any circumstances. He was snide, cruel (are you aware of the Martin68 3 hrs ago #39

remember when W mocked Carla Fae Tucker, the woman on death row? Dyedinthewoolliberal 3 hrs ago #40

Yep....Since he cried at his dad's funeral people seem to forget the past Bengus81 3 hrs ago #47

To imply any DUer was supportive of Bush* because they point out personality differences hlthe2b 2 hrs ago #49

Yes, would anyone here turn down the chance to have W back if we could be rid of TRUMP? Callie1979 2 hrs ago #50

I would not trade Trump for Bush/Cheney. I would trade Trump for his father. Martin68 2 hrs ago #52

Certainly everyone has that right. I believe I have the right to suggest that George W. Bush cannot be characterized as Martin68 2 hrs ago #51

Absolute bullshit and implies DUers should engage in the most simplistic of comparisons and hlthe2b 2 hrs ago #53

Texas is shrinking before our eyes. Baitball Blogger 22 hrs ago #2

Texas grandpamike1 15 hrs ago #33

I remember, thinking back on it, believing that W was just impossibly awful at the time; I had no idea 0rganism 22 hrs ago #4

I thought Reagan was the worst we'd ever have to deal with DavidDvorkin 21 hrs ago #6

I feel the same. evolves 21 hrs ago #11

Worst President in the history of the US - gone Nasruddin 21 hrs ago #7

Poor guy. KnR. NNadir 21 hrs ago #8

Vietnam was our worst war. 58,000 Americans died. Martin Eden 21 hrs ago #9

For a long, long time Pesky1 21 hrs ago #10

The Electoral College put him in the first time. maddiemom 20 hrs ago #14

There's A Solution Working Its Way Around... GB_RN 19 hrs ago #23

Likeley unconstitutional under the Compact Clause, Article 1, Section 10 WarGamer 19 hrs ago #25

That's One Argument. GB_RN 17 hrs ago #30

Yes, none of the other wars dismantled the post-WW2 rules based order Martin Eden 20 hrs ago #16

It's going to take at least 50 years HighFired49 18 hrs ago #28

Bush was an absolutely horrible President edhopper 20 hrs ago #12

That fker and his handler, Cheney The Dick (R-Hell) should have been tried in The Hague for war crimes, OMGWTF 20 hrs ago #18

Don't disagree edhopper 20 hrs ago #21

He tanked the economy in 2008 too, and Chump is really REALLY trying to beat that FakeNoose 20 hrs ago #13

The Bush family were very gracious to Obama and especially their children. 33taw 20 hrs ago #15

GeeDumbya should send T💩p a fruit basket, but he would never touch it. OMGWTF 20 hrs ago #17

He paved the way for the orange menace and his p25 criminal cabal Clouds Passing 20 hrs ago #19

Remember he said DownriverDem 20 hrs ago #20

He was an incompetent buffoon that should never have been President JI7 20 hrs ago #22

I always got the impression he didn't really want the job. llmart 18 hrs ago #27

Don't whitewash Shrub WarGamer 19 hrs ago #24

Speaking of whitewash... dpibel 15 hrs ago #32

One of my favorites...from 10 years ago Roy Rolling 18 hrs ago #26

I was positive he'd be the worst in history. Sparkly 18 hrs ago #29

I got involved in paying attention to politics under Bush 2 kimbutgar 15 hrs ago #34

W was illegitimate too! czarjak 13 hrs ago #35

Been saying for a decade now Cosmocat 4 hrs ago #38

How can he sleep at night... bif 3 hrs ago #41

Not on point , but anyway! ransomeli 3 hrs ago #42

I think Shrub still holds a few of those Polybius 3 hrs ago #43

I've often noted that W and Trump... Orrex 3 hrs ago #44

The Cowpies winning isn't necessarily a good thing. cab67 34 min ago #58

Fear not, it will never slip all the way away. republianmushroom 12 min ago #59