CJ " We already sent 80 cartons to Clem, I mean Mr. Rollins" The little things on this show is awesome. How CJ used that line into making Republicans thinks they are being buddies with the person who is going after them...Brilliant

C.J. telling Leo: "We need to be investigated by someone who wants to kill us just to watch us die," always sends a chill down my spine due to how perfect Allison Janney's line reading is.

@jdb316

3 жыл бұрын

That's why she's won multiple Primetime Emmys and Screen Actors Guild awards, plus others.

I always felt like this moment... this conversation with Leo... is what led to the "only one name" moment later in the series, and CJ becoming Chief of Staff.

"You have ask the Congress that." And how Leo smiled seeing C.J deliver that nicely wrapped bait to the Republicans in the House of Representatives... Magnificent delivery by Allison Jenney.

If I remember correctly, Babish wanted the most bloodthirsty prosecutor he could find. CJ handed him over to him on a silver plate. Bring it on.

@DrownedInExile

3 жыл бұрын

You're right. I wonder why Babish has a problem with CJ now?

@pbdye1607

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrownedInExile Because she went around him. She should've revealed her plan to him before consulting Leo.

@partyguy101ify

2 жыл бұрын

@@pbdye1607 No, it's because of lazy continuity and writing for plot's sake. They are both good episodes, but the continuity of the show is horrible.

@philswaim392

2 жыл бұрын

I always wondered about that incongruity. Like... you wanted a bloodthirsty investigator and now youre saying hes a good guy and doesnt foam at the mouth?

@Jurgan6

Жыл бұрын

@@partyguy101ify it’s common in shows with high, world-altering stakes that they’re afraid to let things diverge from the real word too much. Another example is the argument over whether to use soft money for the re-elect campaign when there was a multi-episode arc in season one where they banned soft money.

Everybody's rightfully praising CJ's dialogue, but I'm marveling at the fact that CJ pulled Leo by the hand into a quiet room. That's trust and urgency and conviction and all sorts of important emotions right there without uttering a single word.

And that's why I loved this show ... they never held back from giving CJ hard hitting, back handed, brilliantly worked strategy tools to solve a problem when it looks like she's cornered. They were never afraid of giving a lead woman nasty, hard, brilliant lines and she read them, played them, pulled out all stops to be the amazing character - it was fast paced, ironic, sarcasm handled brilliantly.

@omegacon4

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, because press secretaries in real life can do more than read a teleprompter. /sarcasm

@frasierfreak92

2 ай бұрын

CJ was one of the best characters. She’d spent years doing Hollywood PR so she knew all the dirty tricks and she knew exactly how things would be portrayed.

@rcslyman8929

Ай бұрын

@@omegacon4 They can. They just don't, because they're simply mouthpieces. Certain ones can't even manage the podium, let alone the Press Room.

"He doesn't hate us". "That's just because he doesn't know us yet". 😂

After all these years, this show has NOT lost any of its power.

It's crazy how brilliant Allison Janney was throughout the series and especially to be brilliant in this complicated role is the testament to the fact why she's one of our greats

I love that CJ refers to him as 'Clem', accidentally on purpose

Allison Janney. Possibly THE most under-rated actress in history!

Babbish and CJ had insane chemistry. I wish they showed more of it.

@Kasino80

Жыл бұрын

Alison Janney and Oliver Platt generely have insane chemistry with anyone they share screens with. They enhance the acting of all their co-stars.

I love when she goes up to Leo and says "Leo; Giselle". Josh gets the message and immediately excuses himself.

@allendracabal0819

Жыл бұрын

If you have a moment, I'd love to hear the story behind that comment.

@heddalee

Күн бұрын

@@allendracabal0819 Giselle is a ballet; Josh wanted to be a ballerina when he was little.

@allendracabal0819

18 сағат бұрын

@@heddalee Thank you.

Dude! you can't end it there!, you have to let CJ get her line "come and get us" before you end it.

@iandhr1

4 жыл бұрын

While throwing a bottle cap way

@Dygear

3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!!! I WAS JUST THINKING THAT!

Cut it before CJ popped the cork and said “come get us.” Which is the whole point of the clip.🤦🏾‍♂️

"Yeah - but isn't that like how a mugger uses a gun to produce your wallet?" ROTFLMAO!! Great line!!

@rakjy5628

4 жыл бұрын

i thought that was funny

@larryhigginson3549

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutley but TV is a fairytale and fairytales are seldom true

Damn, I miss intelligent TV.

@TheStuport

8 жыл бұрын

The only thing that I ever complained about The West Wing was.....that hour sure went quick each week and the next six days were snail slow! Cheers

@gypsysnickerdoodle4354

5 жыл бұрын

try The Good Fight

@JimManeri

4 жыл бұрын

Damn I miss intelligent government

@cudamike6818

4 жыл бұрын

Derek, I think you mean that you miss intelligent government

@Plantlady70

3 жыл бұрын

And politicians.

3:31 - Love how Sam bumping into Donna is timed with the committee revelation, perfectly represents how shaken by the news she is.

This video leaves out some of the other things that CJ did like get the press to find a paper and the special prosecutor and Oliver published together. This was a whole story for her in this episode.

Aw, you cut off before the end where she looks at the screen and says "Come and get us". That's the best part of the last scene!

I like how she said Clem "accidentally" would make people think they are too familiar.

@partyguy101ify

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's part of the ingenious plan, and I love it.

One of the best shows of all time. So well written!

Sad for the time when Republicans were “well respected, deliberate and take (their) duties seriously, want to get the truth and want to avoid any appearance of impropriety” 🙃

@DrownedInExile

3 ай бұрын

That ship sailed decades ago.

This is my favorite political move in the whole series.

@MrRevertis

2 жыл бұрын

It's a future Chief of Staff move.

I really like how you cut that clip about 20 seconds early.

@brianwilliams4832

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was sloppy. The end of that episode was awesome

@cwildeman

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianwilliams4832 I just rewatched that clip after you replied, and it pissed me off all over again.

I love CJ. Probably the best character on the whole show and there are many great characters.

"Yah but isn't that like the way a mugger uses a gun to produce your wallet?!" The WRITING for this show my god 😂🥂

CJ: What do Republicans say about Clem Rollins? Ainsley: He's well respected, he's deliberate, he takes his duties seriously, he wants to get at the truth and he wants to avoid any appearance of impropriety or partisanship God, the show was fucking psychic

@angusperson4222

2 жыл бұрын

as someone who doesn't follow american politics too closely, what are you referring to?

@partyguy101ify

Жыл бұрын

@@angusperson4222 I think the comment was about former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his (overly-cautious) investigation of the Trump campaign's connections with Russia and the Kremlin.

Confirmed: C.J. Cregg is House Slytherin, and awesome at it.

@Sarah-jd9it

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, I respect your opinion, but I would say this is Ravenclaw or a Hermione-esque Gryffindor. The second mostly because of things she does in the rest of the series. Like the thing with Saudi Arabia, the environmental report ahead and Leo got into it over, the mad cow stuff etc. Don't get me wrong, I see how this would be taken that way, but C.J. even uses deviousness to serve the greater good and not just for personal gain. That's just my opinion though.

@ErisRising

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sarah-jd9it Slytherin aren't inevitably in it for personal gain, even though ambition is associated with them. It's mostly about the ruthlessness and cunning.

@Sarah-jd9it

4 жыл бұрын

@@ErisRising Again, I respect your opinion. I just disagree. Most examples of Slytherin cunning I have seen are about CYA and then if possible get your friends back. Snape is a primary example to the opposite, but I will say I pretty much hated Snape for his treatment of some of the children in his care. We are allowed to differ in opinion though and I will just say that this was obviously a thought provoking comment...at least for me.

It occurs to me, after CJ grabbed his hand, Leo spoke with Jed sometime after and said "you know, if I'm ever hit by a bus, CJ is right for the job". As in. CJ, just here, passed a job interview she didn't know she was having.

@ashwinoashwin

Жыл бұрын

Did this actually happen? I don’t remember it happening. Can you tell me which episode this conversation between leo and bartlet takes place?

@aetch77

Жыл бұрын

@@ashwinoashwin I think it happened Season 6 - Third-day story. Leo had a heart attack at Camp David, at some point he was found. Bartlet needed a chief of staff, Leo was no longer fit and recommended only one person - C.J. Later in the episode Bartlet asks C.J. to "Jump off a cliff", the same thing he asked of Leo.

I declare that I am a very sad person in that I love this programme in an unhealthy way. I have all the series on dvd, I have watched them all sequentially and back from the end again to the first show, several times! It is totally addictive, completely brilliant and almost better than Shakespeare. I feel deeply saddened when people say Breaking Bad is the best thing ever on TV, clearly they have never seen TWW...

@genehenrylindgren

6 жыл бұрын

It may be the best thing that tv has ever done.

@DavidHRyall

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@ktwashere5637

Жыл бұрын

swear to God there was a five year period where I watched my West Wing DVDs and nothing else. Not even the frickin news.

@karengustafson7666

Жыл бұрын

I just feel sad that we don’t have the West Wing anymore 😢

@JohnnyMac2237

Жыл бұрын

Your not the only one..this show got me through college by listening to it in. The background

I think the inspiration for this scene is otto von Bismarck. It's like how bismarck needed someone who can humiliate the entire german people to goad the south german states into war. An enemy who was already hated by all german people, an enemy they can win on their own but can portray as it was due to unity among the German states. An enemy that had just recently occupied parts of german land, and tried to suppress the German language. An enemy like France.

Back when the White House actually cared about following subpoenas

@jasonkoch3182

5 ай бұрын

(This is a television show)

Sorkin’s prescience is mystifying… the Republican House Reform and Oversight committee is exactly like irl 2022-2023 committee

Dear God, was this show brilliant for a long while.

Donna received a better education on Washington and how government works than a Harvard Political Science PhD. graduate.

A shame you left out the end bit where CJ pops the beer bottle cap off and says, 'Come get us.'

I think this was the moment he knew she had it in her to play politics with the best of em

@samsonguy10k

3 жыл бұрын

Which she did, but this shows how new Babbish was to the White House. Tribbey would have went into CJ's office, looked at her across the desk, and asked, "You ready to play hardball?"

Let me say this - if someone exists like C.J. Craig...and she becomes a salesperson for a corporation, expect her to gain the 'Top Salesperson of the Year' award every single year.

Allison Janney is the greatest actress ever

I always hated this. I know why she’s doing it but I still hate it. They finally have someone who just wants to do the job right and nobody likes it because it’s not good politics. This is the problem today everyone is fighting instead of just trying to do a good job.

@jacobtebbe4435

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to tell you this mate but, speaking as someone with a Bachelors degree in political science, a fascination with the history of the American government, and a few years working within state-level bureaucracy, it’s always been this way.

@Richman-iw4tv

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobtebbe4435 I hear ya. But just because something is the way it is doesn't mean it's right.

Like letting Jim Jordan investigate the White House

Favorite scene with Babbish is with the First Lady, and he talks about nature.

@kevinw712

5 жыл бұрын

I love it when CJ's trying to throw him off with the "the average number of men who wear ladies underwear compared to the number of presidents we've had" because she's just irked she has to be question to begin with, and Babbish with the completely deadpan expression "CJ. In my entire life, I've never found anything charming."

And this ladies and gentlemen is why I hate politics and the system. Why was having a good honest investigator a bad thing?

@sgold06

3 жыл бұрын

Because a long slow investigation can logjam everything else you're trying to do, for potentially years on end. Part of why the last administration wanted to rush things through so they could try to move past them.

Hmmmmm.........this whole line of thought......this sequence of scenes.....it feels current...sounds like current events....

well, we dont hang out in a little club...

@samsonguy10k

3 жыл бұрын

As we saw with the ten Republican Senators who voted to impeach Trump, Ainsley wouldn't do so well today. And that's a sad fact when people put their party before blind partisanship to defend a vile racist with dementia just to preserve their position.

The irony here is that it was the House investigation that ultimately set its sights on Leo and his substance abuse problem; leading Bartlett to accept a censure in order to spare Leo from further humiliation. CJ’s plan backfired, big time.

@BenjamUniverse

2 жыл бұрын

no. it allowed them to speed up the time table and get it over with. they would have had to wait until the special prosecutor then wait for the house to draw up articles of impeachment. that constantly open wound would have killed him politically.

I wanna TWW back again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

@sisenor4091

5 жыл бұрын

Trump’s version?

Ainsley should have been used more i really liked her.

@SpydeyDan

6 жыл бұрын

The cast of series regulars was full, so she Procter only ever a guest star on the show, which made it easy for her to be scooped up by CSI: Miami. Aaron Sorkin has actually gone on record saying that he regrets not pushing to make her a regular despite there not technically being an opening for a new one.

@d8264

4 жыл бұрын

EXAAAAAAAAAAAAACTLY

@moimeself1088

3 жыл бұрын

She was good. The only thing i didn't like was that "quirk" of her being obsessed with food. It always came across as contrived and out of place. But i really liked her.

@MichaelDXavier

2 жыл бұрын

The actor who played Ainsley is an example of how no matter how minor a character is on TWW, casting is important and their script gets special care. She was a brilliant character. She was so right for the part.

Disliked just because you cut out the "Come and get us" bit. I'm petty, OK?

@nostrebornod

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the exact same thing myself. The best part was cut.

Perfect example of ignoring what ought to be done in favor of political theater for theaters sake. Truth is irrelevant.

You cut out the best part!

I love that character!

you cut off the end where she opens the beer on the edge of the desk and whispers, "Come and get us".

It's so weird to watch The West Wing in 2019, and see these very themes being played out again.

@jerrybobteasdale

4 жыл бұрын

@Leo Peridot Sigh. It is plain to see that the accusation that Trump promotes White Supremacy is groundless. You've been fed a lie. A big, vicious, dangerous lie. I won't argue about it, either.

@Ryvaken

4 жыл бұрын

Even stronger now than when you first commented. President Trump's numbers are going up and all he had to do was declassify a phone call while the Democrats screech in rage.

@danieldickson8591

4 жыл бұрын

@@jerrybobteasdale Trump doesn't promote white supremacy. He uses it, channels it. He gives the white supremacists just enough slack that they think he's on their side, without actually saying so; so they'll vote for him. It's actually a pretty cunning con. Which is the only thing he was ever any good at.

@khankrum1

4 жыл бұрын

@Leo Peridot do you have a y knowlege or evifence to support that? Or are you merely paraphrasing unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

Only toxic and immoral individuals will thrive in such work environment, I won’t

CJ just described Trump in ten words or less.

@pablovelazquez5666

5 жыл бұрын

David Bennett from my location. You, a clueless, racist, punk ass Democrat

@luqas99

5 жыл бұрын

Pablo Look at you. It's embarrassing. In about four, maybe five years, the GOP will have moved on to their next sleazy demogogue and not one of you will be brave enough to admit you ever supported Trump. It's a political process that's happened many times before.

@OrenPanitch

3 жыл бұрын

@@luqas99 as opposed to the DNC sleazy demogogue? yawn

@luqas99

3 жыл бұрын

@@OrenPanitch The DNC don't have demogogues. Go and get some sleep

@OrenPanitch

3 жыл бұрын

@@luqas99 oh so Joe Biden et al won in 2020 due to rational policy ideas and not "orange Hitler white supremacist bad, responsible for all COVID deaths"? That's demagoguery

As it turns out, doesn't matter how good the Inquirer Is, as long as Republicans are the ones doing the slandering.

It cut off just before the best line!

FACTS!

You cut off the best part of the scene!!!!

Subpoenas are not a tool "to determine the scope of an inquiry." Subpoenas are a tool to obtain information that may be relevant to the subject matter of an action or inquiry. Big difference.

I miss Ainsley Hayes. They should have kept her.

@daveinstlouis

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Sorkin has said in a number of interviews he wishes he had kept Ainsley around.

WTH?! Dude you cut it off before the best part at the very end.

CJ is so awesome

“ you’d have to ask Congress that.”… no no you made the claim.

Lady Macbeth got NOTHING on Ms. CJ Cregg

She dropped the dynamite in the water, created the chum, n reeled in the sharks !🙀

"He doesn't hate us." "That's just cause he doesn't know us." LOL Reminds me of Farscape: "No one knows you here. It's only the people who know you, who want you dead!"

Can anyone tell me which episode of the West Wing this is from. I want to watch the whole episode. The White House counsel refers to CJ using one of his aides to get this done and I guess he means Ainsley Hayes. I do not recall seeing any scene where Hayes was used to do this, so I want to see that.

@jasonkoch3182

5 ай бұрын

CJ used Ainsley's Republican connections to help plant the seed that the White House was happy with the special prosecutor. It's season 3, episode 3.

Clinton tried this with Ken Star. Backfired pretty badly. Compare Star to Muller.

This decision more than likely allowed the Bartlet White House to go through this relatively unscathed, and helped Bartlet beat up Lionel Richie in November

@Sylvander1911

3 жыл бұрын

Lionel?

@MPal24

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sylvander1911 Lol, imagining Lionel Richie as a conservative Republican now haha

can someone please explain to me these scenes? I dont understand why it is so good. Sorry I am a bit dense :)

@DuchLizUniverStarMpf

9 жыл бұрын

Don't worry. Basically, here C.J. demonstrates how you can turn any situation to your own advantage. In this case, it's a matter of picking your enemy carefully. If the White House's enemy is someone that the American people love, then the people will hate the White House in comparison. But in setting the White House against an enemy the public hates, the people will root for the White House. So in choosing the enemy, C.J. can shape public perception. It's really clever :)

@theolamp5312

8 жыл бұрын

+Griffin O'sullivan - You are not dense. Aaron Sorkin throws so much fast paced dialogue and so many ideas at us that it hard for anyone to get a quick handle on it. And, the great ensemble cast has always been great at delivering his script. I agree with Michelle's interpretation.

@wchase62

8 жыл бұрын

+Michelle P. Foster The look Leo gives CJ at the briefing as he is watching her jerk the press around makes me think that this is when he started thinking she might be able to do the Chief of Staff job.

@kevinw712

5 жыл бұрын

@Watersmith53 Absolutely no one argues against that the show went down in quality after season 4 with Sorkin & Schlamme's departure. John Wells, whose job it then became to run the show for 3 more years, openly admits this, because the initial run was historic television (literally, it was the first drama ever to win the Emmy for best show each of its first 4 seasons). I've literally never spoken to another fan who doesn't qualify season 5 as the worst (though funnily enough it did have a handful of great individual episodes, in particular "The Supremes", just also lots of awful ones), but that both season 6 and 7, while clearly still not reaching close to Sorkin heights, were a significant improvement and still better than 80% of the rest of general television. you're sincerely the only person I've ever seen say that season7 was "horrible".

@leonkernan

3 жыл бұрын

And the reason Donna is asking Josh about it is she's realised her boyfriend at the time works in that area and she's about to lose him.

Leo: "Yeah, walk with me." It's The West Wing; it would be weird if you didn't walk and talk.

How many times in the series did someone refer to Josh by a woman’s name? I’ve seen two clips in a row already.

@samsonguy10k

3 жыл бұрын

Well, if you binged the series in one sitting, and did a drinking game for every time Josh was called by a feminine name, beaten up vocally by CJ, or outsmarted by Donna...you'd be dead.

Remember the days when being too partisan was considered a bad thing?

CJ reminds me of Sarah Huckabee Sanders in this scene with regards to the Mueller Investigation. Fascinating....

@danieldickson8591

4 жыл бұрын

CJ handles it much more shrewdly.

@ascotberks2018

4 жыл бұрын

Sarah huckabee was a liar. She was horrid at her job. Not at all like the character CJ.

@OrenPanitch

3 жыл бұрын

@@ascotberks2018 CJ lies or misdirects constantly to the press throughout the series, sometimes because she was kept out of the loop.

Seriously?! You cut it before "Come and get us" That was the closer right there.

Why on Earth would you cut that short?

This was actually a horrible political move. If it hadn’t been for one decent man (who had a thing for Donna) Leo’s entire history of drug and alcohol abuse would have been dragged into the open. C.J. came close to destroying the administration. I’m just saying.

@elenachristian9860

2 жыл бұрын

Uh no, Leo's history of drug and alcohol abuse came close to destroying the admin.

884k views and 255 subs? That's unfair !!

Trump had his chance with Comey.

@Ryvaken

4 жыл бұрын

In fiction, the House had to be baited to go after a President that had done wrong. In reality, the House charged in headlong after a President that they just don't like.

1:03 You see the light bulb going on.

1:30 Leo's face

2:34 that was smooth as hell. Man the writing can get good sometimes.

Bissonet no idea why I have no money nothing to offer

Why? Why does it have to be a fight?

@aalikane6219

8 жыл бұрын

+cooldude333 Because the President lied about having a degenerative neurological illness.... there was going to be a fight no matter what, at least in this situation CJ gets to control the spin, and the White House can help control the direction of the fight.

@theolamp5312

8 жыл бұрын

+aali “Aalikane” kane - Yes. Oliver was generally right in most of the advice he gave the First Family. But, in this case, CJ was right. For several years we had the privilege of seeing a great ensemble cast deliver great dialogue. The shows were more like well produced movies than a TV show (especially TWO CATHEDRALS).

@yeaitsme2000

6 жыл бұрын

Fight or force is the only thing to get the attention of the American people.

I know it’s a Labor Day and Anna Nicole married for Love and there were WMads ink. Irsq

Communism 101 kids.

Gisele 💀💀💀💀💀

CJ foretold the future with the current house of representatives

@Freelancer4tehwin

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because Bartlet withheld military aid to a country invaded by a major US geopolitical enemy with expansionist and imperialist tendencies lead by a totalitarian autocrat - who may or may not but most likely did effect a misinformation campaign against the American people to persuade them to elect Bartlet - all in exchange for personal political dirt excavated by foreign actors... Oh, wait, that's that other TV president, isn't it? The one who was on reality TV, not fiction.

@OrenPanitch

3 жыл бұрын

@@Freelancer4tehwin amazing you believe this conspiracy theory, but anyone who thinks the 2020 election had demonstrable amounts of irregularities is a nut-job *eye-roll*

Hate this change in the show. When Babbage was explaining a strategy in previous episode he said to pick a foaming at the mouth bartlet hater.

OK, opinions on 1:30, please. What would be going through your mind if a 6 foot blonde grabbed you by the hand and pulled you into an empty room?

@Vesperitis

5 жыл бұрын

Well as a full blooded man I would naturally be intrigued and hopeful, but the moment CJ opens her mouth and talks like this to me, I'd ask for her hand in marriage.

@MrPeterpiper1969

5 жыл бұрын

I've died and gone to Heaven, in fact all you'd hear from me is an enthusiastic "YES PLEASE" at least until CJ started talking politics. Alison Janney is an awesome actress as well as exeptionally attractive. For my money she was THE best of the ensemble cast with the possible exception of Martin Sheen himself. In truth TWW remains my all time favourite series and I deeply regret that almost nothing on TV has been so intelligently written, superbly shot and perfectly acted since. I have watched all of the Newsroom but feel it never had the chance to get going the way this did and frankly House of Cards, while excellent is just so dark that at times it actually makes me uncomfortable to watch certain episodes. For all his undeniable faults Spacey was superb in that.

@Casual_Sadism

5 жыл бұрын

I'd think all my birthdays and Christmases had come at once.

@rehanmemon3969

5 жыл бұрын

happy hour in the Lincoln bedroom?

@rehanmemon3969

5 жыл бұрын

promptly followed by me in tears and a marriage proposal.

Why is voting in America so complicated?

@lancer525

5 жыл бұрын

@TonkarzOfSolSystem Its really quite easy to understand. The conservitards, because all they care about is money and power, are trying to do everything they can to rig the system to make it harder for people who are legally entitled to vote, by purging voter rolls in majority-Democrat areas, by gerrymandering districts to give themselves disproportionate representation, and by outright fraudulent methods (such as those implemented recently in North Carolina) to maintain their stranglehold on power. They took the Governor's offices in two states (Florida and Georgia) by these means. They also use other political tricks for no other reason than it gives them an edge in manipulating voters to vote against their own best interests. Those interests are almost always counter to that of the conservitards. If the conservitards were to lose political power, they are terrified of two things: 1) that the opposition will do the same things to them that they've been doing to everyone for the last 30 years, and 2) that the average, regular American will see the truth that conservitards are only interested in money and power, and couldn't care less about helping the average citizen. The problem with that is, the Democrats are not so petty that they would destroy the country to keep power (see "Taking the high road" as a policy) or that they're as hateful or vindictive as conservitards are. I hope this explains it.

@kevinw712

5 жыл бұрын

@@lancer525 for the record, when you drop the "conservitards" (particularly several times) you sound equally as idiotic and immediately invalidate your entire argument as the ones who constantly toss out the unbelievably clever and hilariously sounding "libtards". but yes for Tonkarz's question, generally the Republicans try to discourage if not outright suppress voting as much as possible because the simple fact is, even today with where we are right now in April 2019, the majority of the country is more center-to-left leaning, so the more people that vote, the more likely Democrats win in practically a landslide every time. It's why Republicans have long fought so hard against what readily exists in several other countries of earlier/easier voting registration and making election day a national federal holiday so as few people have to worry about voting around their work schedule as possible.

@lancer525

5 жыл бұрын

@@kevinw712 For the "record" you arrogant ass, it's way beyond time that progressives and anyone else to the left of the Nazi CONSERVITARDS start fighting back, primarily by using their own tactics against them. I am tired of seeing anyone and everyone who isn't marching along in jack-booted lockstep, referred to as a "libtard" by all the ignorant twatwaffles of #comradepumpkinfuhrer 's deranged, treasonous, and totally un-American little world. I'm especially tired of progressives and leftists cowering in the corner and whimpering, "please don't hurt me". No more. And if you're not railing against them at the top of your lungs, you're equally to blame. So, kindly take your advice, and shove it right up your weak little ass.

@Ryvaken

4 жыл бұрын

In the 1700s the word State was largely synonymous with Nation, and the US Constitution was originally written with the intent that the States would do the majority of the actual business of governing and that the federal government would exist primarily to deal with foreign powers, interstate policies, and the rare nation-wide issue. The voting mechanisms reflect that priority: each independent state gets a strong enough voice that each entity has power, and the larger states get slightly larger voices. We are supposed to be fifty states first, one nation second, because the worst excesses of government come from the one nation attitude.

@noahorakwue2653

4 жыл бұрын

Short answers: 1. electoral college 2. voting registration requirements 3. limited number of voting locations 4. reshuffling voting districts 5. potentially suspicious number of uncounted ballots.

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