It would be amazing if you could snap your fingers and tomorrow everyone woke up to a fair progressive tax, universal healthcare, and forgiveness of student loans. Then ask them after a year if they want those taken away. Trump's base would be some of the biggest beneficiaries of these policies, but socialism.
2020 US Elections | Biden certified as President | Dems control Congress
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at Giuliani looking for suggestions about possible fraud on twitter because he has absolutely nothing... He's just pretending to please the Donald, I don't think even his mushy brain believes they have an actual case.Here's one for the British... last night a BBC reporter in the crowd called out to Biden " have you any comments for the BBC"?
....Joe replied, "I'm Irish"!
....Joe replied, "I'm Irish"!
It was just a joke, settle down. I'm very impressed you published a book, but I'm sure you had a very good editor.
Exactly. I’m in the UK. A large percentage of the voting base is voting to lower their quality of life under the guise of it getting better.
I will never understand it.
The smallest reduction of that would be WASPI women in England voting Tory at the last election, while claiming that Labour would tax them more.
Oh, you’re doing that thing where you realised you were a douche, repackaged it into a joke after the fact, then added another snidey comment on the end.
Just comment on content dude. I have no quarrel with you. If you’re
commenting on structure
That you still
managed to read, it’s a non event.
fecking hell
I've used this argument when RWNJs bring up "without California/without New York so-and-so wouldn't win the election. Said state should go away." I retort, "Well, you know California has the 6th* ranked economy in the world? How do you plan to supplement that massive hit to the US economy?" and "New York has the 10th* ranked economy."
And it's nonsense when they claim that without those votes in Cali & NY that a Dem would never win the election. So why do they get to cherry pick? If I took out the South/Midwest from the Carolinas to Kansas the Reps would be slaughtered. Or swap out Ohio and Texas. It draws blank stares. It's like they cannot wrap their head around my rebuttal - I'm equating population.
*Rankings vary per year.
My eyes, they're bleeding. The pain......
Have you ever considered writing romantic fiction?
This is a super fun graph to pull out:
https://howmuch.net/articles/federal-budget-receipts-and-expenditures-across-the-united-states
Yeah, any increase is partially due to simple math. Toss in voter engagement & enthusiasm, you have sizeable increases. Buy, the subjectivity in the reasons for the increases are also very important.
Those on the right keep asking how can Biden get more votes than Obama, but are trumpeting they fact that Trump got more votes to ham McCain & Romney.
Yep, you’re right. Completely forgot about that.
The Tea Party primaried the shit out of any Rep they deemed a RINO and/or not far enough to the right.
The saltiness on Fox News has been strong today and absolutely glorious! 
The vast majority of them voted for Trump. There’s certainly a lot of commonality to them.
They can be, we at least don't have mainstream TV news outlets as crazy as Fox. Some of our newspapers though...
Oh yeah definitely, it's just such a weird question to fail to answer even for someone like him.
Something about this rings so true.
Isn't that an old clip?
Some, perhaps, but that younger candidate would have probably had a POC as their running mate (or they would be a POC themselves). The overall result in votes would have been closer to this than not.
We saw this play out in 2008. The voting percentages were merely a couple different than 2020.
It’s just too simplistic to blame this on Biden. Doesn’t begin to discuss the reality of the 2020 votes.
There are so many fixed battle lines in America. Religion. Abortion. ‘Socialism/Communism’.
The manipulation and repackaging of people that don’t really give a feck about words and care about policy, into people that merely shout a slogan... it’s corrosive.
Americans become ‘Anti’ everything. They don’t support Capitalism, but they do vote against Communism, despite nobody trying to instill it. They don’t support suppression’s of personal freedom, but they do vote for parties that tell you that you should give birth to a child conceived through rape.
It’s all messaging. I said in pages past; I have travelled around large swathes of America. I have met people I don’t agree with, but most of those same people would give me a bed for the night. Or help me change a tyre. Or lend me $10 for Gas.
There are more Republicans I could enjoy spending time with, than those I would despise.
I am EVERYTHING that tens of millions of Americans would hate. A bleeding heart liberal that wants to end homelessness, end poverty/hunger and elevate the poorest of society to a healthy situation. But most of those people would also break bread with me.
Americans need to ignore this ridiculous divide that sees Red vs Blue.
After you take away the incumbency bias, these reasons will need to be studied.
Id be fine with him golfing every day til Jan.
I think comedy should be edgy. It’s kind of the point, but his opening salvo about “thank god for COVID because it keeps white mass shooters at home” was just in poor taste tbh. It wasn’t even particularly funny or well delivered. I mean there’s a salient social commentary there, but I think with all the people currently dying, and yet to die, of the virus; a “thank god for COVID line” was pretty weak. Could’ve made the same point but in a better way.
I’ve always been a Chapelle fan. Loved the Chapelle show. But his recent stuff hasn’t been great. I watched his Netflix specials, and some of his rantings about trans people weren’t particularly clever or funny. Again, even if he has a point, they weren’t delivered in a particularly humorous way.
I thought his set last night was pretty shit.
It wasn’t as though the crime bill was passed in a vacuum in 1994, there was key support for it by the AA community throughout many of its cultural factions. There was obviously rancor against it in the same factions, but it’s almost whitewashing to omit the facts on the ground in 1994.
It was hysterical.
He's tweeting again. Same auld shite, not worth quoting and already flagged by Twitter.
But when does voting this way with no apparent altruism & voting along with the negative aspects of society become bad enough people stop using this ‘reductive’ argument & start holding those who vote this way to account? It’s not as though placating & coddling those who help to enable racism will eradicate it. We’ve seen election results, one recent result in our favor isn’t going to change that.
It’s not going to be easy breaking that spot-on cycle you described.
I’d need unbanning too.
Someone call Jack to unban me and I'm in.
The picture that got me banned reminds me of him.
2ND round of golf?! He must be very fit
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I think there is a gender and education bias which cuts across ethnicities. When you look at Latino and Black voters who went for Trump, they are overwhelmingly non-college educated men. Having spoken to several (and granted this last part is very anecdotal), aside from being quite thick, there is a macho element to their voting motivation. “Tell it like it is”, “says what he wants”, “keeps it real”. He’s reflective of a lot of values still prevalent in less evolved segments of our society, regardless of race, where men want to keep women “in their place”, see homosexuals as “f****ts”, not have to watch their treatment of other people, and just generally be intolerant.
There are so many unevolved, uneducated men who are struggling to adapt to the changing attitudes and opportunities of modern society. They are being pushed back by empowered women, and being eclipsed by their achievement. They are getting left behind by an evolution of the industrial sector, which is moving away from manufacturing. And all that makes for a lot of angry men, who are yearning for a return to a time when they can “grab women by the pussy”, “call a spade a spade”, and not have to compete on an even playing field (yet it’s still far from that).
They are threatened and insecure, and that cuts across race.
It would be seismic positively how much both things you mentioned would help many out there, especially those who look at both as anathema.
Probably wasn't a fan of yesterday's result. Going for a rematch today.
Fair go. Not going to TELL you that it was funny. You laugh at whatever hits your funny bone.
But it does seem like you missed the overarching premise that was...
All of the things that Black people were subjugated for, are now experienced by poor white people.
The crack cocaine epidemic was packaged as a black problem.
The opiate addiction epidemic is packaged as an American problem.
ALL PROBLEMS inside a countries borders are that countries problems.
Black communities are chasing equity and equality. Poor White people are being brainwashed into believing that that drive is anti them. It’s not.
Far Right Republican politics only survives if they can create divides between oppressed classes of people.
All of the old redundant excuses for racism are falling. Only Old people and a minority of red-state young people are still on that sinking ship.
America elevates the rich to the detriment of the working class. If the white working class realises that the black working class are their mirror image albeit with more melanin, they’ll run the country inside a decade.
Chapelle has the ability to be funny at any level of comedy. I laugh at some of the dumbest shit. But I respect the scalpel sharp social commentary more. While laughing.
Yep. I spoke about this a few days back. There’s obviously an education divide, a religious divide, a culture divide. It will probably have to be distilled down to specific countries of origin within the Latino population in this country.
All of this drilling down will undoubtedly cause more rancor, division, & retrenchment when discussed, especially on the right side of the political spectrum as they will rail against being stereotyped & cast in a more negative light.
But, ultimately, why they voted as they did needs to be determined & bridging needs to occur. Difficult to start that process if granularity in their voting process isn’t shown light.
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