Wow, what a horrible response to that question. I see where he is coming from but you can not be a 1 issue candidate.
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He should team up with Tulsi Gabbard to form a new political party.
As GOP redraws lines to assure new wins, Democrats have just 12 months left to protect democracy
As things stand right now, Republicans are heavily favored to take control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections. This isn't because of dissatisfaction with Democratic results, or because a year before election day Democratic candidates have all botched their campaigns irrecoverably. It's because in more states than not, Republicans are the ones drawing the lines of where each new congressional district will go, and Republicans have already redrawn maps in enough states to be all but assured of victory when Election Day finally rolls around.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...have-just-12-months-left-to-protect-democracy
As things stand right now, Republicans are heavily favored to take control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections. This isn't because of dissatisfaction with Democratic results, or because a year before election day Democratic candidates have all botched their campaigns irrecoverably. It's because in more states than not, Republicans are the ones drawing the lines of where each new congressional district will go, and Republicans have already redrawn maps in enough states to be all but assured of victory when Election Day finally rolls around.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...have-just-12-months-left-to-protect-democracy
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That one works on two levels.
Yep.
The generic ballot is at R+3.7 right now according to RCP. Gerrymandering isn't the only reason that seats will flip R.
Dems getting their excuses in early.
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it's actually amazing how fecked that country is. More people voting is cheating.
As an Aussie, this is just bonkers. Our entire system is set up to FORCE you to vote, they will bend over backwards to get your vote in the ballot box and the "capitalist liberal democracy" of the USA continues to have this unabashed diarrhea on a daily basis.
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She just can’t help herself.
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Same post alert!
Imagine listening to that and thinking 'yeah, I'm going to vote for her!'..
You OK hun? PM me.
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This guy, Jose Antonio Kast, could be the next chilean president. Running on a pretty much carbon copy of Trump/Bolsonaro. The guy is deeply neo-liberal, pro religion and pro military, and blames all the problems on immigration (wants to build a ditch in the northern frontier) and communism.
The guy quitted what would be the equal to the Republican party in the US, "Chile Vamos", the chilean right wing conglomerate and started his own right wing party, accusing the former of not being right enough. The fecker named his party as "republican party" hahah.
He won the first leg of the elections, closely followed by Gabriel Boric, and now they both gonna face each other mid december for the presidency.
Boric, is part of another outsider political coalition (social democrats European style), started by young people, that was born as an alternative to La Nueva Mayoria, the equivalent of the US Democratic party. These "democrats", La Nueva Mayoria, just as their US counterpart, is controlled by corporations/businessmen and is nowhere near what you would expect from a left wing party, so a new party was bound to eventually rise up.
Anyway, the US implanted status quo is in shambles, people getting extreme, and for the first time since the return of democracy in 1990, and outsider will reach the chilean presidency. Specially if Boric wins, because Kast is obviously more of the same status quo, but way more cnutish (the guy is descendent of a NAZI officer ffs).
The US democracy might be ripe for the same.
Now Kast is going to prepare the elections in the US (going to meet with neoliberal businessmen associations and with US Senator, Marcos Rubio).
ps. Over 50% abstention in the first round elections. So here is Roger Waters calling the people of Chile to go out and vote.
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what a crazy world we live in.
ps2. pray for us.
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Crazy as it sounds, she's taking back the apology because her proponents and supporters pleaded with her to not to cave in. They have their own echo chamber.
A real piece of work. If only GOP wasn't likely to take back the house next year, I wouldn't mind her yapping about so that I can keep laughing at her buffonery.
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You broke my heart, Fredo.
Disgusting that his shows never even mentioned the allegations against his brother. Everything is either left or right in America even if it involves sexual allegations. An absolute feck up of a country and you see the same on Twitter with the Ghislaine Maxwell case where everything boils down to which side of the political spectrum people are on and nothing to do with the ‘alleged’ victims.
Feck em all
Feck em all
The kid has furberia, that's for sure.
CNN didn't allow him to talk about his brother's case. He's still on the hook for helping him on the down low though.
So Roe dies today right?
It's only challenging after 15 weeks so not totally but its going to be a major case. May come down to Coney Barret and Kavanaugh.
I doubt Roe will ever dramatically die. It will just be put on terminal life-support, and possibly slip into a coma.
That makes sense. The religious right loves people on life support and in a coma almost as much as they love unborn fetuses.
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Do you think an adverse ruling is enough for Dems to stop a midterms' rout?
Probably their only chance outside of a black swan event.
And that is only if they can leverage that well to stop the bleeding, which I don't trust the current democrats to do.
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Once the Republicans win on abortion, what's next? I rememebr Jon Oliver had that great show on how and why it became such a hot issue - basically it just polled really well.
If they get this, there isn't really another polarising issue out there imo. If anything, the GOP should try and push this til after the midterms.
If they get this, there isn't really another polarising issue out there imo. If anything, the GOP should try and push this til after the midterms.
Oh, but the conservative side will find something to polarize.
Love to see minority rule take further hold in my country.
May hope spring eternal.
Seems to me, with my admittedly small understanding, that this is essentially leading to the assertion of an individual state's right to set its own abortion policy. A victory here will likely encourage other red legislatures to enact similar, or more severe policies even if each is met with a challenge that ultimately wends its merry way to the Supreme Court.
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If the states end up having the right to set abortion laws, could states make it illegal to Cross state lines for an abortion?