u/ThatMassholeInBawstn

Everyone is taking about the Presidential nominee in 2028, but we forget about the Vice President.

Would you want someone with a similar ideology as the Presidential nominee or balance out the ticket? Would you like them to be from different geographical areas? Would you care if they represent a purple/red state or not? Would you care if the VP was a different gender or race than the presidential nominee?

Peter Theil for helping ICE and aiding war crimes with the help of Palantir

Elon Musk for election fraud and gutting programs without congressional approval.

The Trump family for insider trading and illegal government contracts.

I’m sure there’s more but that’s what I can think of off the top of my head. I think we should imprison them and be placed in non luxury prison filled with commoners. Then we seize their assets.

The Reading Market Basket is always crowded even when there’s a Stop n Shop next to it. It’s always hectic inside and they’re keep changing the layout for items very often.

With Sony announcing they’re ceasing production of physical games in late 2028, it’s causing people to be worried that it’ll be the standard for all media. Everything is streaming now and companies are beginning to limit release of physical media. Is there anything we can do to prevent these companies from stopping production of physical media?

I am excluding Puerto Rico and DC because they have a chance to becoming states in our lifetimes. I am referring to territories like Guam, The Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and The US Virgin Islands.

Guam: ~153,000
US Virgin Islands: ~87,000
American Samoa: ~49,000
Northern Mariana Islands: ~47,000

We did take them over during our imperialism days and have pretty much ignored them besides military bases, tourism, and maritime border claims.

The NMI wants to merge with Guam because they’re on the same island chain but half of Guam wants to maintain their independence. The US Virgin Islands are next to Puerto Rico but combining both of them would be like combing Spain and Portugal.

Guam is essentially a military base that has tons of tourism from Asian countries since it’s the closest place that’s in America that feels like America. If you know what I mean.

American Samoa is the only territory where most of the ethnic population has had family living there for the entire history of the island. They make their money off the Tuna canning industry. They would likely want to join Samoa.

The only thing politically they can do is participate in party primaries. They have one delegate each that doesn’t even vote in congress.

If they were US states, then Guam, NMI, and American Samoa would be Republican and the US Virgin Islands would be Democrat.

This idea excludes PR and DC since they’re closest to statehood as of now. I am referring to territories that’ll never be states within our lifetimes. Which are Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands.

Each territory’s non voting member of Congress gets one vote. All territories vote together. Whichever decision gets 3/5th of the vote would be submitted by the head territory representative voted via popular vote by all the 4 territories.

During the presidential election, the four territories get 1 electoral vote in the election. This would make the slimmest Electoral Vote margin go from 270-268 to 270-269. It’ll eliminate a situation where we’d have a 269-269 tie.

He’s immune from the 22nd amendment because of the grandfather clause. The only big concerns would be his public image of being in a wheelchair and hiding it. Also running for a fifth term would make people hesitant. But biggest of all…the Japanese interment camps.

This is a joke question obviously, but I am curious to know how people would think of this if ever such a situation happened.

Say said politician has political opinions you agree with 95% of the time and is a Democrat in a safe blue area like MA-6 (My district) where the goth capital of America is located, Salem, MA.

I know hot take, but the electoral college sucks. But did you guys know we almost abolished it?

In 1968, the Richard Nixon won the election with 301 EV but only won the popular vote by 1% from Hubert Humphrey. Governor George Wallace ran in the American Independent Party and got 46 EV. This raised concerns that that a third party would hold the election hostage for political concessions.

- The President and Vice President would be elected as a single ticket separate from each other but within their own party.

- A presidential candidate must win 40% of the popular vote to win the election, if no candidate achieved 40% minimum, then there would be a runoff election. The runoff will also happen if both candidates get 40% of the vote.

President Richard Nixon supported the bill and said he would sign it.

It passed the House 338 - 70

When it entered the senate it got immediately filibustered by the Southern Democrats + Senators from a state with small populations.

The first motion failed to secure 60 votes (54 - 36) and the second failed (53 - 34) which officially killed the bill in 1971.