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Thing is, Republicans lose wherever they don't get to cheat. This is for two reasons:
And then the news media continue to present Republican policy positions and candidates as if they were normal American behavior by normal Americans.
They're really not. They only win when they cheat.
What policy positions? Donald J. Trump was president of this country. What part of that tells you that policy positions can break a candidate? Democrat apathy is what decides elections.
"Anti-woke" is a policy position. It means "Anything we can caricature using black English, it is our intention to harm."
Yep ~ in a sane world they'd be extinct like the Dodo ~ but they keep getting a pass
People ideologically to the left of "republican" generally believe in human rights, so they haven't exterminated them.
The paradox of tolerance is only a paradox when all context is removed from actions.
IMO, only pacifists and fools should believe in perpetual nonviolence.
Liked it when Nikki Haley called Vivek Ramaswamy scum. It's an apt description.
BUT a year ago, this week, she called for the deportation of U.S.-born Sen. Warnock at a rally to elect MAGA domestic abuser Herschel Walker.
She’s a bigoted extremist like the rest of them.
Haley looked and sounded good though. She’s the one I’m worried about. I think Biden could easily handle the others. Haley is a legitimate threat.
Good thing Republicans are too stupid and sexist to legitimately entertain her.
They didn’t seem to mind Sarah Palin, she’s still entertaining them.
Palin wasn't the main party on the ticket. Obviously a different timeline, but I can't imagine she would have had as much support as the POTUS candidate.
Haley will never sway the Trump crowd. Because she's a woman. It's awful to say, but I know it's true.
The takeaways should be that nobody gives a shit because these are the also-rans. The Republican nominee will be Trump, and then they're gonna be fucked because he'll be campaigning from jail.
I don't think he'll do a day in prision. From what I see from American posts, your justice system is all kinds of fucked and plagued with corruption.
Yeah dude will delay and appeal forever and die on the toilet before he dies in a jail cell.
Why not both
One can hope
Here's to hoping
I want to believe... Just really can't fathom it or even imagine it actually happening.
Any of these fuckers realize the party is toast yet?
endless loop of attack ads of 10 year old girls forced to carry to term their rapists baby with Donald Trump saying "I'm the guy who killed Roe vs. Wade" with the entire GOP laughing and clapping him on the back as it fades to black with the words THIS IS WHO THEY ARE across the screen
Could you imagine if the Democratic party had the cajones to do that?
That would hurt their chances to 'reach across the aisle'.
They already have done that bud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/us/politics/abortion-ads-democrats-election.html
In the days before Tuesday’s election, voters across Ohio heard a stark warning in an ad that blanketed the airwaves. “She could be your neighbor, or niece, your sister or daughter,” the ad said, “But if she is raped and gets pregnant, a law in Ohio would force her to have the child.”
In Kentucky, a young woman named Hadley spoke directly to voters in an ad from Gov. Andy Beshear’s campaign. “I was raped by my stepfather after years of sexual abuse,” she said. “I was 12. Anyone who believes there should be no exceptions for rape and incest could never understand what it’s like to stand in my shoes.”
Deeply personal and explicit, the ads signaled a new tone in Democrats’ messaging on abortion rights, one that confronts head-on the consequences of strict anti-abortion laws.
Maybe you need the cajones to open your eyes lol. Jokes aside and to your point, this shit is LATE AS FUCK. Better than never tho
That doesn't sound nearly as hard hitting to me personally. Doesn't include the attack on the Republicans for making this happen.
I just listened to the one featuring Hailey, and it is hard-hitting. It is her telling her story. It left the Kentucky Uncle Tom speechless, and he never recovered from it. They absolutely will do this in every state. It worked, and they have endless clips to use and, unfortunately, endless children being raped by Republicans.
“We’ve become a party of losers,” he [Ramaswamy] lamented
"lol" said anyone with an ounce of sanity left in this country, "lmao"
The last time they won as an aggregate was 2016. They've been severely underperforming ever since, and the SCOTUS takeover was a direct result of the 2016 win.
The problem is, they don't have to win to exert their influence due to the extremely broken US electoral system.
If you don’t like losing?
Maybe don’t pick fights with a megacorp with a large proportion of the best litigators in the world in the world on retainer… over deeply unpopular culture war bullshit…. When thst megacorp is one of your state’s top employers and revenue-generators…,
"Megacorps" shouldn't be a thing, and corporations should be subordinate to governments. Just not DeSantis.
It's the rare example where amoral capitalistic greed can actually lead to a more morally defensible position than the actively horrible ideology against which it is compared. Disney doesn't give a fuck about any human being's particular right to be any version of themselves one way or the other, but they do care about how much money they can make off of the largest swathe of people, and they've done the math and figured they make more money being more accepting than the Republican party.
It is, in fact, a case in which "We believe nothing Lebowski!" is actually preferable to "At least it's an ethos!"
That's a great analogy via movie quotes if I've ever seen one! Need to rewatch that movie... :)
You're about to be mugged, when suddenly, the mugger is swept up by a tornado! "What a relief!", you think, as you float 100 feet up into the air.
Gotta admit. I didn’t have build a wall on the northern border on my bingo card. Canadian drug traffickers everywhere all the sudden. Vivek is something else.
Edit: It’s borderline criminal that no one on his communication staff thought to add “… and make Trudeau pay for it.” He needs to hire more trump staffers.
You know you’ve run out of shit to bitch about when you start to go after Canada.
"We've had first Wall yes, but what about Second Wall?"
"Takaways"
I don't think that I will..
Lawrence O'Donnell said nobody is really trying to hit trump because "This is the debate in case trump chokes on a cheeseburger" and I'm still laughing
My takeaway is I had a better night not hearing that little ratfucker Ramaswamy talk as quickly as possible.
I don't even need to watch it to know it was a shit show.
Are they really losing though?I mean, they control SCOTUS & the House, and plenty of states are still tossups wrt governor.
Maybe it is because I moved from Reddit to /kbin, but I didn't even know they had a third debate. Or maybe it is because this whole Republican primary is such a waste of time. When is the Democratic debate, come to think of it... lol.