Voted in Ohio today for Nan Whaley for governor and Tim Ryan for Senate. Felt fucking good. Tim can do it.
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It was Vance. But he got Trump's endorsement. Welcome to 2022, lol.
I kinda agree. It's not a slam dunk, but I think it does galvanize voters who may normally sit the midterms out. I think it helps Dems in their own version of using culture war politics (except this isn't ginned up CRT hysteria, it's people justifiably angry). I think republicans underestimate how popular abortion access is.
I also think it's a wakeup call. A lot of people simply didn't think it would ever happen.
No, that was Vance.
Who was basically an afterthought until he was endorsed by Trump a few weeks ago.
Now he can actually win this election. He was trailing by double digits.
I still can't fucking believe how powerful Trump is. He truly is their God.
He might win, but it's not like Vance is walking away with a clear majority
Don't know if Vance is the best candidate tbh.
He's probably the most presentable I guess, certainly has less of the sweaty all the time look Mandel rocks.
I think people are overlooking the significance of Vance winning.
This once again proves Trumps support is extremely beneficial. Vance went from 8% to 26% and now winning almost overnight.
Vance is a scary mother fucker with deep ties to Thiel and Musk and is another breed of the libertarians encroaching on the MAGA crowd which powers money with stupidity and racism.
This once again proves Trumps support is extremely beneficial. Vance went from 8% to 26% and now winning almost overnight.
Vance is a scary mother fucker with deep ties to Thiel and Musk and is another breed of the libertarians encroaching on the MAGA crowd which powers money with stupidity and racism.
They are dog whistling. There are like a dozen cases mentioned in that opinion saying they aren't historical rights. They want cases on those brought to the SC to overturn them.
He was down almost 20 points in the polls a few weeks ago!
Trump literally won him the race. That's insane to me... After all that has happened.
I feel like Mandel is a nutcase and would fare worse than Vance in the general. Vance is smarter, that alone makes him dangerous.
I live in an area that is ride or die Trump.
Houses have Trump 2020 and 2024 flags up.
They still believe Trump was fighting the elite pedos.
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Yeah, Vance is a Thiel acolyte whose mission is to radically transform the government by bringing a Ceasar like dictator to power.
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Issue with polls for Ohio Senate Primary was all the polls had massive undecideds north of 20%+ (a good amount in the high 30% to 40%) for most of the race.
Ohio also keeps its current SoS pretty easily
Yeah my area too.
I see it, but I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around it.
That sure ended well for Ceasar!Yeah, Vance is a Thiel acolyte whose mission is to radically transform the government by bringing a Ceasar like dictator to power.
Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets
They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.
I can.
They've been spoon-fed trash for decades now, they don't believe any source that doesn't affirm what they feel.
Modern conservatism is a cult.
Not only did it end poorly for Caesar, the whole dynamic around most dictators' rise to power involves getting the military involved and the relationship between the far right and the military is weirdly shaky lately.
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Not to be optimistic, but despite Vance winning tonight, I think there is going to be a significant amount of Trump voters staying home due to him not being on the ballot. That and abortion rights might tip the scale in democrat favor despite gerrymandering. P.S. nice to see ya back Hunter
I wonder if the continued focus on the leak is a smart strategy. I mean, it comes off as insensitive given the topic at hand.
I feel like we were doing things like this ahead of Virginia and we know how that turned out
The counts are too low to extrapolate this to anything meaningful imo
There is also a very distinct possibility that the leaker is a conservative, so all this harsh rhetoric could blow up in their face. But it's all they've got, really.
They won't give a shit about the leak in a few months... Particularly if the investigation proves it was leaked by a Republican Justice's staffer.
But losing abortion rights? That sting isn't going anywhere. When this is made official in a few months, the pain will be brought back to the surface again.
Do you think there will be an United States in 25 - 50 years? Take away the idea of climate change and if we will still be alive and let's say life continues the same way.
Or will it just be a bunch of Soviet/Eastern Europe states that just have their own governments?
Or will it just be a bunch of Soviet/Eastern Europe states that just have their own governments?
Texas has been the starting point of a lot of initiatives such as the Delaymander starting the current trend of gerrymandering. The state's a test run to try and find ways to stay in power in a state that's trending blue, matching their efforts in the country. If Republicans can keep Texas in line, they can do the same for the rest of the country. It also has a lot of moneyed interests such as lobbyists and oil tycoons that would be very displeased if Republicans lose.
Folks from out of state moving here are largely Conservative or will vote Conservative. Ted Cruz won due to folks who moved here rather than Texans already here.
The GOP have a path forward especially in South Texas if Dems continue to not have any urgency here.
Reading through the thread, I imagine the party not even backing the GOP candidate but a write-in one instead is a good part of the reason.
The pandemic most certainly didn't not force republicans in California to move. You had rich urbanites fleeing for cheaper areas to be remote and pay less taxes. Cruz was 4 years ago. Lot had changed.
Rich urbanites can still be Conservative. I'm not saying everyone moving here is but a huge portion are. I know Cruz was 4 years ago. The cities haven't stopped growing. Abbott has said a few times that internal polling shows transplants are more Conservative than Liberal.
South Texas is sliding rightward. That's changed as well. It's a stronghold that the Dems may lose here.
They can't actually enforce that statement at all though, it's not binding in any way. A future Court could happily ignore it with a stroke of a pen.
Since 1994, 59 countries have expanded abortion rights. Only 5 have moved backward:
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Nicaragua
El Salvador
Honduras
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I don't think so. The American "empire" has been in slow collapse for a very long time. External issues as well as internal issues will expand the have/have not dichotomy and will lead to major flashpoints. I can totally see the climate crisis normalizing far-right positions of "let them die" when disasters happen. They're starting internationally with their more open objections to supporting Ukraine, and that's just on war, their favorite pastime to fund and defend.
Unfortunately, you're correct. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better in Texas. Abbott is gonna likely win over Beto, just based on the latest polls.
Is showing me tweets from brain rotted liberals supposed to be an argument for something or what? I've voted and will continue to (spitefully) but the fact that we aren't doing shit despite controlling the other two branches of gov't that can absolutey stop an overturning of Roe v Wade is beyond pathetic.
When the Dems lose these midterms and the White House again over the next two years it will be their failure, not the people they've fucking failed again and again.
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The fact that you are taking your time to attack the only ones trying to fight this off instead of the monsters doing the actions that are causing harm is quite telling yes.
Criticizing the people that I put into power for not keeping their promises makes me just like the monsters I trusted them to fight???
And as for then "fighting" it, they aren't! Dems & dumbass liberals response has been "just vote harder":
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I'd say you have a very unrealistic view of our government if you thought a 50 seat majority in the senate gave us cart blanche to fix everything. Let alone the ability to overcome the court.Criticizing the people that I put into power for not keeping their promises makes me just like the monsters I trusted them to fight???
Pretending Dems aren't fixing things or whining they aren't doing fast enough for you to personally benefit wholesale from them because they barely have numbers to do so in the government is neither arguement for facisim or pushing the vulnerable into regressive polices. If not for Dems and people who voted for them to get things like Social Security, ACA, Civil Rights, Covid Aid etc this US would have been gone decades nor would women and minority rights be a thing and millions would dead or worse. I'm tried of this crap from who in reality care so little for the issues they want they can't be bother to pay attention on how their government works and what they are doing to address their constituents but expect to act like Door Dash.
R voters are the group that actually don't get anything from their party because their ideals are based bitterness, hate and getting in a way of Ds. People like you are ones happily letting succeed in that because not everything the Dems work benefits you.
Women are about get their rights put on the chopping block after they warned voters about Trump in 2016 and people like you didn't bother to show mid-terms 2012 after ACA passed so he could his SC pick on the bench to prevent this nonsense. Biden at this point has done protect to them ever did so please spare me the dumb memes.
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