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UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President

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I don't even want the Nobel Prize anymore. I have the FIFA Peace Prize, which frankly, is a LOT more valuable. Everyone likes soccer, which should be called football in America. Iran is destroyed again. All their nuclear is destroyed again. All their missiles are destroyed again. Hormuz is open again. Meanwhile NATO and EU have yet to THANK ME ONCE.

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The real question is: Will Fox News and other right-wing media actually cover Todd Blanche's confirmation hearings tomorrow, or will they do what they did with Pam Bondi's hearings and keep their viewers from seeing them?

You can bet Democrats will ask some tough, uncomfortable questions. If Blanche struggles to answer them, those clips will be replayed over and over during the midterm elections. The question is whether Fox viewers will ever see them the first time.


 
Piff Henderson said:
Democrats should have a rebuttal prepared to go right after his sloppy ass gives that bullshit speech. Furthermore, all the media who carries Trump's speech should also carry the rebuttal.
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Talk about the economy. Tell the American people the truth about the economy. If Americans are tired of living like that… Tru the election is in November Lyfe
 
darth frosty said:
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is it possible to have a legit 3rd party choice in US politics that can have its own impact vs the big problem is how do you get a legit 3rd party isn't just used a spoiler for the other two? Theres only 2 sides to the political spectrum. Right and left. Any 3rd party is going to fall somewhere on one side or the other and that party will just draw votes from the main 1. We already have several political parties on ballots now but their largely symbolic and/or fringe and any votes for them tend to draw votes away from either dems or reps without making any impact for themselves. What would it take to get a legit separate 3rd party choice on it own right?



Under the current rules of American politics, the "spoiler effect" is not just a frustrating trend—it is a mathematical certainty.

Political scientists explain this using a principle called Duverger’s Law. It states that any democracy using single-member districts and "First-Past-the-Post" (winner-take-all) voting will naturally and inevitably collapse into a two-party system.

Under winner-take-all rules, if 100,000 left-leaning voters are split between a Democrat (60,000 votes) and a Green Party candidate (40,000 votes), a Republican with 80,000 votes wins the seat. Knowing this, voters engage in "strategic voting"—voting against the candidate they fear most rather than for the candidate they actually like.

To get a legitimate, competitive third party that doesn’t just act as a spoiler, we would have to fundamentally rewrite the rules of how we vote. Here is what it would actually take to change the system.

1. Implement Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV)​

Ranked-Choice Voting (already used in states like Maine and Alaska) is the most immediate way to kill the spoiler effect.

Instead of picking just one candidate, you rank them in order of preference (1st, 2nd, 3rd).

  • How it helps third parties: You can safely vote for a third-party candidate as your #1 choice. If they come in last and are eliminated, your vote isn't wasted; it automatically transfers to your #2 choice (e.g., the Democrat or Republican).
  • The Result: Third parties can measure their actual support without being accused of "ruining" the election for the major party closest to them.

2. Shift to Proportional Representation & Multi-Member Districts​

In the US, we use "single-member districts," meaning only one person wins per district. If a third party gets 15% of the vote nationwide, they win 0% of the seats in Congress because they didn't get a plurality in any single district.

Many European democracies use Proportional Representation (PR).

  • How it works: Instead of electing one person per district, districts are larger and elect multiple representatives. If a party wins 15% of the vote, they get roughly 15% of the seats in the legislature.
  • The Result: This completely removes the winner-take-all barrier. A third party can realistically enter Congress and force the major parties to build coalitions to govern.

3. Bring Back "Fusion Voting"​

Electoral fusion is a system where minor parties can co-nominate or endorse a major-party candidate. It was common in the 19th century and is still legal in New York and Connecticut.

  • How it works: Imagine a moderate "Working Families Party" and the Democratic Party both listing the same candidate on the ballot under their respective party lines.
  • The Result: Voters can support the third party without throwing away their vote on a candidate who can’t win. It forces major-party candidates to actively court third parties to secure their ballot line, giving the third party genuine leverage over policy.

4. Lower the Barriers to Entry (Ballot Access & Debates)​

The two major parties have spent decades writing state laws that make it incredibly difficult for third parties to participate.

  • Ballot Access: In many states, third-party candidates must gather tens of thousands of physical signatures just to get their names on the ballot—rules that Democrats and Republicans are exempt from.
  • The Debates: The Commission on Presidential Debates (run by members of the two major parties) requires a candidate to poll at 15% in five national polls to stand on the debate stage. But without being on the ballot or getting media coverage, polling at 15% is virtually impossible.

The Hidden Truth: We actually have a multi-party system​

Because the barriers to starting a third party are so high, ideological factions in America don't start new parties—they stage "hostile takeovers" of the existing ones. The Tea Party and the progressive "Squad" didn't form third parties; they ran in Republican and Democratic primaries to change the parties from within.

Ultimately, unless we change the structural plumbing of our elections—moving away from winner-take-all, single-member districts—any new third party is mathematically doomed to be a spoiler.
 

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President Trump said Tuesday he changed his mind on charging 20% Strait of Hormuz cargo fees after many countries called him.
"I was called by different people, different countries, kings and emirs,” Trump said shortly after announcing the fee reversal. “And they’ve said, 'We'd love to do it a different way. We'd love to invest in the United States with billions and billions of dollars.'"
Trump continued, ”I like that actually because I don't think anybody should be able to charge a fee for the strait or for any other strait.”
 
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