Maybe you could limit each justice to one "veto". Veto being defined for this purpose as an instance where only one justice disagrees. They could still vote no on a given justice after that, but only if at least one other justice agrees with them. I think I give the court more credit than most for policing themselves. So some form of this idea makes sense and should be discussed.

Abolish the supreme court, install AOC as queen

It'll be:

- Seven languages??? This is not a man who loves America! This is a globalist!

- He even speaks Arabic... This is a radical gay Islamist who wants to impose his religion and sexually deviant values on America.

- If he wins, pretty soon all of the streets signs in America will be in Arabic too! We'll have Sharia law within four years.

- If we let this (insert anti-gay slur here) win, it'll be like the Obama apology tour all over again, but this time he'll be such a cuck he'll apologize in their languages instead of English. We can't have this!!! America First!

lolbeto

President being able to nominate 10 judges seems like it gives the executive branch too much power. They basically control 2/3 minimum of the judicial branch at that point. Or even the full judicial branch at that point. Like Trump could hand pick whatever 10 people he wanted and then they would pick the 5 people he told them to pick.

I like the idea of 9 justices serving 18-year terms, staggered every 2 years, so that there is a new seat up for reelection every 2 years. Serving for life is silly.

The president wouldn't start with a clean state and pick 10 judges. There are nine now, so say Pete wins, he picks one additional and then the other 5 are chosen by the current justices.

I thought capitalism mainly meant the ability of non working investors to get a big piece of a company's profit by providing money rather than labor

Ive never even taken a business or econ class so you would know best. But wouldn't that leave all small business without investors outside of capitalism? And wouldn't it mean when we as a society invest our tax dollars into the postal services we and it would be part of the capitalist system?

I guess the seconded one is pushing it because we are not getting profit...social security might work if you paid less then you get.

beto haters are SICK rn

Oh ****

I'm in denial mode now hoping the average donation was something like $200

Isn’t his wife a billionaire? That helps

haha if it's bernie vs beto it really will just be a 2016 rerun. Ultimately the fight for the soul of the democratic party has to take place eventually so why not now. If bernie can't beat tribute act obama just 4 years after a sizeable rejection of centrism then the left isn't powerful to govern yet.

I’m not following closely but why hasn’t Bernie released tax returns? Just ****ing release them dude.

Because he hasn’t won the nomination?

He's likely not going to be on the ballot in Washington for the primary if he doesn't so he better do it

Beto isn’t even looking at Bernie. He’s worried about Biden, who will almost certainly crush 6 million on the first day and probably race to 50 in 2 or 3 months.

If he can’t get close to that, he’s dead in the water and he’s going to be running for VP.

Biden = jeb!

All the money in the world can't help him.

the stuff about him being super creepy/handsy with children who are always uncomfortable AF around him is def going to quell any momentum that he gets off some initial fundraising numbers

his revisionist history about integration and school bussing will be a problem, as will be his assertion that trump voters aren't racists. guaranteed he wont walk that one back and he'll hem and haw to appeal to the approximately 0 moderate republicans who plan on voting for him. i dont see how he wins the nom.

Meh, I think Biden is substantially more popular than Jeb!. Just tried to listen to an Axe files interview with Jeb! yesterday - the dude is as bland as oatmeal and seemingly moronic. I have no idea how he got as much support in 2016 as he did.

Also had my first exposure to Inslee on the Ezra Klein podcast. Seems good.

Well it does, I think, because fame is more powerful than anything when running for office. You think Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Sonny Bono, Jesse Ventura, or even Ronald Reagan were more qualified than the people they ran against? Puh-leeze.

That said the system is clearly ****ed, but my point would just be not that much more than any other system.

In this we're in total agreement. I really think that if Trump wanted to go a step further and create an actual cult he could do it without any question. But I really have no idea what the people all see in the man -- I think he's tacky and transparent as hell. But then I never knew what people saw in Jim Jones or David Koresh or L. Ron Hubbard either. It's mystifying.

Well I don't know what to tell you except we were all here when all of this took place and that's what happened. Maybe the blue dogs were DINO's or closet racists or whatever, or maybe they were just afraid to lose their jobs in conservative districts to Republicans -- which to make it worse is what ultimately happened anyways -- but whatever the reasoning that's what happened.

Of course, at the end of the day passing Obamacare was politically one of the more brilliant things the Obama admin ever did, even if it wasn't intentional. By co-opting a Republican plan they basically stole the right wing's counter to full single payer health care and left them with nowhere to land in the health care debate. And we saw this play out last year with the shambles they were in trying to repeal the ACA when it became obvious to everyone that the GOP had nothing to offer on health care at all.


Again agreed, but it isn't always the issue of what they say so much as how it will resonate. I guess we'll have to wait and see on that one. So far it seems like the RWSM is having trouble finding something on Beto that will stick, except for for some reason calling him by his actual names, and the best they could do this past weekend was a Twitter post that managed to piss off a bunch of Irish Catholics. And I know that hardly makes him bulletproof but it was kind of funny to watch.

Maybe the best solution for the SCOTUS is that every case is heard by a different randomly selected panel, even of only three or five judges.

Lol I like this guy a lot. Be interesting to see if he gains some traction.

Not sure what exactly is wrong with a politician campaigning where the people actually live though.

yes to all of this. Plus Biden ran twice I think and never even came close.

Hot damn,

remember a decade ago when people were talking about how prediction markets will literally allow us to know the future? When does that start?

We live in a world where a bitcoin is worth $4k so we're not getting there any time soon.