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Bernardo de La Paz

(54,093 posts)
8. That's the Canadian system. Don't stop there. Keep going with your idea
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 02:11 PM
Thursday

Bring in a parliamentary system.

Liberal Party of Canada: Government
CONservatives: "Loyal" Opposition
New Democratic Party: usually third place, but once was Opposition
Bloc Quebecois (regional)
Green (a couple of seats)

The Liberal Party is the longest-serving and oldest active federal political party in the country, and has dominated federal politics of Canada for much of its history, holding power for almost 70 years of the 20th century.[21][12] As a result, it has sometimes been referred to as Canada's "natural governing party".[22][14][23]


Canada is in the middle of an election, called because we need an election now, a mandate now, not on some calendar schedule.

If the US had a parliament, Congress and tRump would be dissolved already by now. Congress by beginning a five week election campaign and tRump by the process seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Saves money too.

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Yah, losing the House and Senate - THEIR F-ing jobs!! Tadpole Raisin Thursday #1
That would be the kind of layoff I could celebrate. . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #6
Well Thommy boy...the DOW was down almost 1,600 this morning Bengus81 Thursday #2
Let's make it an even 100 years. C_U_L8R Thursday #3
This time the Republicans must lose Forever. delisen Thursday #4
2 parties is going to be the natural fallout of an electoral-college-based system. nt Gore1FL Thursday #7
The Electoral College was set up to throw a sop to the slave owning states. Out-lived its usefulness. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #9
Yep. But here we are. nt Gore1FL Thursday #10
That's the Canadian system. Don't stop there. Keep going with your idea Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #8
And we would need Stonealone Thursday #34
Every one of my conservative friends and family ScratchCat Thursday #5
And it will be a blood bath! Aussie105 Thursday #22
The Republicans in Congress are to blame as they are to cowardly to stand up to Trump. cstanleytech Thursday #11
Not in this day and age, with the RW servants helping them and a fickle voter demographic ffr Thursday #12
Dems have to waste so much of their time cleaning up repuke mess Skittles Thursday #19
Woe is me. twodogsbarking Thursday #13
E c onomists were writing artic les 2 years ago Warpy Thursday #14
I hope they are in total panic mode Grim Chieftain Thursday #15
Some voters would feel more of a connection to oval office if we had direct election for president Gum Logger Thursday #16
Fuck the whole lot of that motherfucking hill of shit that is MAGA and the fucking scumbags that support them. SoFlaBro Thursday #17
Where's your orange messiah nowww, nyeah? LudwigPastorius Thursday #18
Golfing Joinfortmill Thursday #25
"What we don't want is overreach." LOL. Well, that's what you've got. In spades. Martin68 Thursday #20
The OverReach ship has sailed, you nimrods. LuckyLib Thursday #33
Nailed it singling that quote out! KPN Thursday #21
Own it, Repubes. Paladin Thursday #23
Yup. And folks who weren't paying attention... Joinfortmill Thursday #24
Relax, GOP! That won't happen again... regnaD kciN Thursday #26
Here is what they are talking about: blue-wave Thursday #27
I posted about that earlier today in another thread (with respect to the number in the Senate during FDR's 4 terms) BumRushDaShow Thursday #30
I posted the numbers from the beginning of each session blue-wave Thursday #32
The numbers were continually fluctuating during each 2-year "class" BumRushDaShow Thursday #35
Different times though Polybius Yesterday #42
"In the early and mid 30's there just wasn't the deep divide that we have now." BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago #44
I knew when I wrote that reply that it would be countered Polybius 11 hrs ago #48
"We lost the House and the Senate for 60 years" BadgerMom Thursday #28
Wish the election was this Tuesday and not 11/2 yrs. FloridaBlues Thursday #29
Hopefully this time Quanto Magnus Thursday #31
yes, but last time they didn't have FoxNewsSucks Thursday #36
Repugs can go down with the rest of us. You are complicit, you refuse to speak for us vapor2 Thursday #37
Look at all these GOP cowards pretending they didn't want this. travelingthrulife Thursday #38
Hoping that this time they lose the House, Senate and Presidency Old Testament Libera Friday #39
Wouldn't THAT be nice???!!!! Jack Valentino Saturday #40
Tillis really needs to go back and study history Polybius Yesterday #41
You need to go back another 20 years to 1933 and FDR, starting with the 73rd Congress BumRushDaShow 19 hrs ago #43
Oh, I know all about those years Polybius 12 hrs ago #47
Since his argument was about "tariffs" BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago #49
And hopefully this time longer. republianmushroom 13 hrs ago #45
They're so short-sighted sakabatou 13 hrs ago #46
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