US PoliERA 2018 |OT10| McConnell is "mule piss"
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I'll never understand what people hope to achieve by complaining about complacency to a bunch of hyper engaged politics nuts.
So, update? The guy who did the "I want to be your n-----" ad did another one. It's called "Uncle Tom"
You can view it at his website: https://www.greeneforstate.com
He's basically begging for money so people buy a t-shirt.
You can view it at his website: https://www.greeneforstate.com
He's basically begging for money so people buy a t-shirt.
I've facetiously referred to Post-Trump Stress Disorder before, but I think it's an actual phenomenon.
I don't mean people who are concerned about and angry at this administration. We all should be screaming at them, voting against them, combating their odious views through protest and legislation at the federal and state level.
I mean people who were so deeply scarred by 2016 that they reflexively reject any good or even decent news.
Jeff Flake is the biggest fucking fraud in the Senate. Total corrupt douchebag who actually paved the way for Kavanaugh's confirmation. It was a brilliant move in hindsight to get Simply Susan on board.
It's terribly sad however that the media writ large fell for his stunt and still believe he is a "moderate". HE IS NOT!!
It's terribly sad however that the media writ large fell for his stunt and still believe he is a "moderate". HE IS NOT!!
Arizona:
(Of note: Dr. Hiral had a more R electorate - R+20 I think - during her special election, and still came within 5 of Debbie Lesko.)
(Of note: Dr. Hiral had a more R electorate - R+20 I think - during her special election, and still came within 5 of Debbie Lesko.)
Oh where she destroyed that poor woman's life? With that razor coated nuclear barb about the mere fact that she wears makeup? A joke that literally had no reliance on appearance? A joke that would have worked just as well with a hat she wore a lot
Anyway her life was destroyed. Everything is upside down for her now.
Is this the Trump equivalent of that old thought experiment about a government creating an entire subsidized economy on digging an infinitely deep hole?
I'm sure that will happen but it is really beneficial? The House GOP has passed literally hundreds of crazy right wing bills that won't go anywhere and nobody really cares. I'm sure it mattered at some point when people cared about issues more than their team and didn't get their news by tweet
You cannot make this stuff up. Every day a new low. Trump is suing the estate of the guy who died in a fire in Trump Tower, and the amount includes fees racked up after the guys death. Remember, this was the place with no sprinklers, because Trump successfully lobbied against the regulation which would have required sprinkers to be installed. He never mentioned the guy by name, or offered condolences to his family, instead his only mention was a tweet where he praised his own "well built building".
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/trump-tower-fire-board-sues-estate.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/trump-tower-fire-board-sues-estate.html
For 62 years starting in 1933, the Democrats controlled the House for all but four years and the Senate for all but ten but many of those majorities existed on paper only due to Dixiecrats. I think it was NBC's coverage of the 1980 election where for the House they kept separate tallies of Democrats vs Republicans and Liberals vs Conservatives (i.e. Republicans + Dixiecrats). Indeed while Democrats retained nominal control of the House that election, Reagan had a working Congressional majority to pass much of his legislative priorities.
I think the difference is the things the GOP passed are universally awful legislation so it's good they don't go anywhere obviously, but the Democrats will presumably be passing good legislation that people will want and if we don't get the Senate we could use the fact that Republicans refuse to bring that legislation up as an effective sandbag on their candidates going into 2020.
Flake understands there is a sickness, but he is down with it.
God this is fucking crazyyy. For those who can't see, Minnesota's early voting in 2018 is blazing past even 2016, more than 50,000 ballots ahead.
Nearly 3 million people voted in 2016 and over 400,000 people have already voted (or requested? not totally sure).
I was going to vote early but was weary of some early voting ballots being "lost" and not being counted. So I'll just make sure to show up early on November 6th. I also chatted with a fast food employee and the conversation went to politics and they said they won't vote because they don't like politics and no ride to the polling station. I'm tempted to go back there and tell them that I'd take them to their polling station if it meant they would vote. Young people need to take this more seriously.
You should also tell them that Uber and Lyft are offering free Election Day rides!
https://www.fastcompany.com/9024711...ering-free-rides-to-the-polls-on-election-day
Meanwhile my absentee ballot was lost in the mail, so I have to have another one sent to me, maybe, and I don't know if it will get out to me in time to vote and sent it back since it's being sent to an address on the opposite coast and someone is going to have to overnight it to me.
Basically, I may end up spending 500 bucks for a same day coast to coast flight so I can vote and make sure it gets counted. Yay...
They might. You could get it tomorrow. 10/22 should be the latest that you get it though.
Toxic masculinity? Sure. But I think more than a few people, myself included would love seeing his dumb ass take a punch to the face.
I'll go ahead and tell them that, thanks for the information!
I remember Iowa's early voting being way behind for Clinton compared to Obama.
Yeah. My favorite trivia is to state that "the MS legislature flipped from Dem to GOP in 2011. What was the last year before that where the GOP had control?"
Never
Things really fell apart after the Comey letter but I think the most worrisome sign (that people tended to shrug off) around this time from two years ago was how Clinton's position in Ohio polling was deteriorating.
People were super hyped about Florida early voting to the point where they thought Florida was in the bag. And then the panhandle rural surge sent everyone catatonic.
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I don't know how anyone could listen to that speech of hers and think that her vote was ever really in doubt.
I hope Sherrod Brown carries Richard Cordray to the governor's mansion. Fuck. Why is Cordray TIIIIIEEEDDDD
Hahahaha omg I just corrected that hoping no one saw it but I also howled lol
That sucks dude. Is WA mail ballots only, or do they have places you can vote in person/vote early?
I try not to give out too many personal details, but suffice to say I have two options right now for voting in November as far as I can tell. They mail me out a new ballot, a family member gets it for me and overnights it to where I am (cost of like 50 bucks, but whatever), I vote, mail it, and it gets in on time. Alternatively I book a same day flight to get to my polling location in the morning, vote, then fly back same day.
And, to be honest, I'm not super complaining about it, because I value voting (unlike that mod who did a "woe is me" thread) and I have the means to do it. It's just frustrating because I hate doing absentee voting, or basically not voting in person all the time. And I feel like every time I've had to do absentee voting, it's been a bad election (results-wise).
Glad there's other options if something goes wrong with the mail. Except in McDoogle's case, where it doesn't help at all.
edit: you know, if you have friends in the area...
i'm just saying, hypothetically, if someone were to instruct another person on what votes to cast on their ballot for them, is that vote fraud? and if it was, how would they prove it?
... of course i would NEVER recommend doing something like this haha that would be bad. if it is illegal. which it might be. and that's terrible.
edit: you know, if you have friends in the area...
i'm just saying, hypothetically, if someone were to instruct another person on what votes to cast on their ballot for them, is that vote fraud? and if it was, how would they prove it?
... of course i would NEVER recommend doing something like this haha that would be bad. if it is illegal. which it might be. and that's terrible.
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