This is a fair assessment. You're right about the focus in the absurdities of it. They did spend time covering the seriousness of it but it did get lost in the weirder stuff.
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And to be clear, I don't think it was necessarily malicious in the cackling villain sort of way. I see why the shaman guy drew more coverage; crazy sells papers
Here's the thing, though - this part of the population has always existed. Impeach Earl Warren signs were up all over the country in the aftermath of Brown and people on JFK's staff joked about how it was a bad idea for him to visit Dallas in the leadup to his assassination. It's just that the authoritarians used to be split, and one half of the authoritarians needed to ally with moderate suburbanites to win elections, and the other half were in a weird alliance with people completely opposed to them, that was slowly falling apart.
I mean, my sad pushback on all of this is the media could've covered it 24/7 the way we wanted them too, and I don't think it would actually effect things that much on the margins. 35-40% have always wanted an authoritarian state and another 5-10% are OK allying w/ the authoritarians to get tax cuts, abortion restrictions, etc.
I mean, my sad pushback on all of this is the media could've covered it 24/7 the way we wanted them too, and I don't think it would actually effect things that much on the margins. 35-40% have always wanted an authoritarian state and another 5-10% are OK allying w/ the authoritarians to get tax cuts, abortion restrictions, etc.
@Reuters: Biden nominates ex-Senator Flake as ambassador to Turkey
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Biden nominates ex-Senator Flake as ambassador to Turkey
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated Republican former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake as ambassador to Turkey, tapping a political appointee for a critical post as ties between the two NATO allies remains strained.t.co
being ambassador is just gift to people who support you, it doesnt really mean anything tbh
There is a dark alchemical mixture brewing, composed of stupid republican politicians, and the growing movement among their base to reject everything that isn't part of their delusional ideology.
Republicans will do and say anything to appeal to the base. And the base is growing more demented by the day. It says something when McConnell starts to recognize the danger.
But surprise, the party is quickly becoming comprised solely of people who cannot think beyond the next performative display of loyalty to the crusade.
Makes sense for them on safe red states. Georgia and Arizona being bluish purple and other crucial swing states is where the GOP starts rigging them in their favor
To be fair, this only happened since Kentucky has a Democratic governor. Gubernatorial races in states like Arizona and Georgia will be crucial in 2022.
Ugh, it'd be an amazing twist if he did, but I'm doubtful. Furthermore, if they're about to start carving out exemptions for certain types of legislation, just give up the ghost already. Like Manchin himself said, it's like saying "you're a little bit pregnant."
this sounds great, excited to see it pass and where it all goes.
Drunken Giuliani urged Trump to 'just say we won' on election night
www.theguardian.com
Drunken Giuliani urged Trump to ‘just say we won’ on election night, book says
As key states started to slip away from Trump, Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged former president to lie, according to new book
www.theguardian.com
Yeah I realized that it was just a rough calculation after I posted it, but most of that stuff should be in this plan anyway. The full proposal should be released soon enough.
The hilarious thing is, taxing the rich (and corporations especially) is in itself a politically popular thing to do. You could announce new corporate taxes without them paying for a thing and people would like it.
So, yeah, sure, it's fully funded. Twist my arm why don't you.
So, yeah, sure, it's fully funded. Twist my arm why don't you.
And that's the plan they've stuck with to this day.Drunken Giuliani urged Trump to 'just say we won' on election night
Drunken Giuliani urged Trump to ‘just say we won’ on election night, book says
As key states started to slip away from Trump, Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged former president to lie, according to new book
Lots of us were predicting this exact action from Trump well in advance. Maybe it happened like this, but it was clearly the plan all along with trying to undermine people's confidence in mail in votes etc.Drunken Giuliani urged Trump to 'just say we won' on election night
Drunken Giuliani urged Trump to ‘just say we won’ on election night, book says
As key states started to slip away from Trump, Rudy Giuliani repeatedly urged former president to lie, according to new book
Still crazy thinking back to that call. Everyone freaking out and worrying that they called AZ too prematurely before anyone else.
Makes me squirm just thinking about it.
say what we will about Fox, their election desk is pretty good. Remember the 2012 election where the election desk was arguing with the news desk about obama winning lol
"Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better, or is this real?"
- Megyn Kelly
Was that when Karl Rove tried to do math live on air for why the elections wasn't over yet ?
no compromise needed is the idea if its through reconciliation, manchin was okay with it if they had funding which seems like they do
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