USA Mid Term elections in November

[Spearman]

It's hard to imagine what it must be like to grow up with a father like Cruz. We don't know what he is like with them at home, but seems consumed with his political life AND he is reviled by half the nation.
Remember how Kelly Ann Conway's daughter dealt with it.

 

[_Cerberus_]

Already the conservatives are calling the Georgia run off elections RIGGED! Welcome to the new buzz word for conservatives and whack jobs that will be used a fair bit going ahead. Can add that to the other list of popular buzz words they have used over the years. ANTIFA, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, WOKE, GAY AGENDA, COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS, and countless others.

Every state they lost at the 2020 elections, RIGGED!
Every close state they lost in the mid terms, RIGGED!
A popular Victorian Premier gets re-elected, RIGGED!
A literal Nazi gets booted from the Brazilian Presidency, RIGGED!

Welcome to the modern day conservative thinking. Where if you don't win or get what you want. It's RIGGED!*

*Perhaps most people just think they are all dead set F wits? And see through some of the shoddy characters the right like to deliver these days.

 

[Saint]

It's hard to imagine what it must be like to grow up with a father like Cruz. We don't know what he is like with them at home, but seems consumed with his political life AND he is reviled by half the nation.
Remember how Kelly Ann Conway's daughter dealt with it.

There's always the juxtaposition that Cruz would have lots of other people live in poverty and misery, but when it's letting hundreds and thousands of people live in squalor because Texas wants to make a point about Federal rules, then it's ok, but when it's too close to home, then it's off limits.

Cruz restricts access to mental health services, vocally calls against it. But, rightfully, people should treat this with absolute respect. It's the right thing to do, but geez it stinks.

Keep in mind, it was only a couple of weeks ago that Pelosi's husband being hit with a hammer was definitely not off-limits for Republicans and Fox.

 

[Blue1980]

Yay Warnock! Now I'll stop getting his fund-raising emails three times a day. Hopefully Democrats Abroad will also have a pause. Now I have to decide who to support in 2024.

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Need a stop the steal to grift more, but Walker already conceded.

Donnie will look dimly on that.

 

[Nikita Blue]

How the hell was it even this close Walker is a repugnant and morally flawed individual who should be no where need the halls of power

 

[Saint]

That number suggests it's the "white men", not the "white people" who are the problem.

White men in Georgia have been running things since they kicked out the natives and are in their last throes of trying to keep power.

We're going to look back at this era of white-male-dominated politics way worse than what it's already looked down upon.

Seems like the women have "cottoned" on even though I'm not convinced they wouldn't have let a white man slide on the hypocrisy that Walker has shown. In fact, I'm certain a white man would have got more votes from white women than Walker did.

Walker was an objectively terrible candidate by any measure at all and still got ~49% of the vote.

 

[sherb]

There's always the juxtaposition that Cruz would have lots of other people live in poverty and misery, but when it's letting hundreds and thousands of people live in squalor because Texas wants to make a point about Federal rules, then it's ok, but when it's too close to home, then it's off limits.

Cruz restricts access to mental health services, vocally calls against it. But, rightfully, people should treat this with absolute respect. It's the right thing to do, but geez it stinks.

Keep in mind, it was only a couple of weeks ago that Pelosi's husband being hit with a hammer was definitely not off-limits for Republicans and Fox.

I came across this. Kinda sums it up.

 

[Saint]

I came across this. Kinda sums it up.

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If this was a Democrat Senators daughter, Fox and Friends would be wondering if she was perhaps Trans, or not trans, or succumbed to godlessness, they'd be just awful.

The truth is that her father doesn't care about his daughter's rights and consistently votes and acts against them.

 

[Saint]

Just checked the Breitbart comments section to see what GOP supporters were saying about it.

It's all Social Media's fault (possibly true), plus a lack of faith (given this was in Ted Cruz's home, I think this might only be true if the child became old enough to realise their faith was built on hypocrisy).

Plus an interesting tangent about how apparently we know more about this than we do about Paul Pelosi's case.

So, in summary, they've used this tragedy as another chance to promote their conspiracy agendas.

 

[GreyCrow]

So, in summary, they've used this tragedy as another chance to promote their conspiracy agendas.

 

[Jetafl]

 

[Crow54]

Poor old Cenk. What a whiner. The Biden Administration has achieved quite a lot during the last couple of years.

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[Spearman]

Poor old Cenk. What a whiner. The Biden Administration has achieved quite a lot during the last couple of years.

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That's his(their) niche....uber progressive. They take shots at the corporate Dems as much as the moderate Reps, which I don't mind. But often they go way off the scale on some things.

 

[spinynorman]

Poor old Cenk. What a whiner. The Biden Administration has achieved quite a lot during the last couple of years.

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No doubt this is reflected in Biden's stunning popularity in the polls.

 

[Crow54]

No doubt this is reflected in Biden's stunning popularity in the polls.

Well it seemed to stem the red wave.

 

[spinynorman]

Well it seemed to stem the red wave.

People hate the Republicans more, yes - pithy retort but ignores the deep discontent felt by most people with the status quo.

Honestly, and I don't mean this to start a tired generational politics thing (as it's a lazy form of class politics). But I'm now mid-30s, long enough to see the awfulness of Bush and Howard, the excitement and subsequent disappointment of Obama and Rudd/Gillard, then the awfulness of Trump and Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison, and now an attempt to generate excitement about Biden and Albanese. I can't fathom how the baby boomers on here, who seem the most defensive of Biden and Albanese, have seen this play out for decades with diminishing returns and still seem to have an oddly earnest support of this all ongoing. It's honestly unsustainable, and it seems a good way to lose your mind.

 

[Crow54]

People hate the Republicans more, yes - pithy retort but ignores the deep discontent felt by most people with the status quo.

Honestly, and I don't mean this to start a tired generational politics thing (as it's a lazy form of class politics). But I'm now mid-30s, long enough to see the awfulness of Bush and Howard, the excitement and subsequent disappointment of Obama and Rudd/Gillard, then the awfulness of Trump and Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison, and now an attempt to generate excitement about Biden and Albanese. I can't fathom how the baby boomers on here, who seem the most defensive of Biden and Albanese, have seen this play out for decades with diminishing returns and still seem to have an oddly earnest support of this all ongoing. It's honestly unsustainable, and it seems a good way to lose your mind.

I'm not trying to generate excitement about Biden and Albanese. I'm not sure what you mean when you say boomers seem to have an oddly earnest support of "this all ongoing"? What isn't sustainable?

I did not have Biden as my top pick for the Presidency, but in hindsight, his many years of bi-partisan work in the Senate have achieved aims that other candidates may not have accomplished. I did not like Albanese at all, but have come to appreciate some of his better qualities, and I've been pleasantly surprised by his successful overseas trips (after seeing ScoMo's embarrassing visits) and hard work. Time will tell if his government will be successful over the next few years on the home front.

 

[Chief]

Albanese has some good fortune to be most immediately compared to Morrison.

We're always going to be disappointed that the marketing doesn't match the product.

Pack shots vs. product.

 

[Spearman]

People hate the Republicans more, yes - pithy retort but ignores the deep discontent felt by most people with the status quo.

Honestly, and I don't mean this to start a tired generational politics thing (as it's a lazy form of class politics). But I'm now mid-30s, long enough to see the awfulness of Bush and Howard, the excitement and subsequent disappointment of Obama and Rudd/Gillard, then the awfulness of Trump and Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison, and now an attempt to generate excitement about Biden and Albanese. I can't fathom how the baby boomers on here, who seem the most defensive of Biden and Albanese, have seen this play out for decades with diminishing returns and still seem to have an oddly earnest support of this all ongoing. It's honestly unsustainable, and it seems a good way to lose your mind.

This is true, maybe why Trump got elected, but it's also proof that R voters don't think critically about their votes. How can they be so upset about the status quo but not see how much their side is the cause of it?
When the GOP controlled all parts of government, what great steps did they take to help the working man? What did they do to regenerate the middle class? What did they do when the Dems actually tried to do something, however flawed?

Nobody had Biden on their scorecards before Trump. But there was no B.Clinton or Obama in the Dems lineup of 2020. And the old fart's admin has still come up with more helpful initiatives than the GOP.

 

[spinynorman]

I'm not trying to generate excitement about Biden and Albanese. I'm not sure what you mean when you say boomers seem to have an oddly earnest support of "this all ongoing"? What isn't sustainable?

Essentially I'm meaning neoliberalism, and the ongoing militarism, environmental destruction and widening inequality that is being worsened to differing degrees by political parties both right and "left" in the developed world.

I did not have Biden as my top pick for the Presidency, but in hindsight, his many years of bi-partisan work in the Senate have achieved aims that other candidates may not have accomplished. I did not like Albanese at all, but have come to appreciate some of his better qualities, and I've been pleasantly surprised by his successful overseas trips (after seeing ScoMo's embarrassing visits) and hard work. Time will tell if his government will be successful over the next few years on the home front.

Biden's bipartisanism has included the Iraq War, assisted in making Clarence Thomas a Supreme Court Justice and exacerbated mass incarceration. Bipartisanism for the sake of bipartisanism isn't a virtue, especially when drastic action is required to achieve that which I mention above.

This is true, maybe why Trump got elected, but it's also proof that R voters don't think critically about their votes. How can they be so upset about the status quo but not see how much their side is the cause of it?
When the GOP controlled all parts of government, what great steps did they take to help the working man? What did they do to regenerate the middle class? What did they do when the Dems actually tried to do something, however flawed?

I'd say the cause of the current problems in the US probably breaks 70-30 in favour of the Republicans. No doubt many people vote against their interests, as is the effect of an uneducated, depoliticised populace where mass movement politics has been all but killed. I'm not advocating for a vote for the Republicans, but when people voted for Obama and then switched their vote for Trump, it's pretty clear they want a change (and if Trump hadn't proven so inept in the face of Covid he probably would've gotten a second term against a staid establishment candidate like Biden). It's also why the most consistently popular politician in the United States is...

Nobody had Biden on their scorecards before Trump. But there was no B.Clinton or Obama in the Dems lineup of 2020. And the old fart's admin has still come up with more helpful initiatives than the GOP.

Bernie Sanders, who generated an excitement amongst the youth to an extent maybe even greater than Obama. Obama and Clinton were both disasters for the liberal cause, but I'm assuming you're touting them based on their charisma, which was undoubtedly vast (even if Clinton's lecherousness is increasingly difficult to overlook in the post-#MeToo world).

But Bernie's basically what I mean, because it speaks to something we're seeing outside just the US. Younger voters (an idea that's ageing, as it used to be that people's vote became more right wing with time, but now we're seeing that age go up, so basically under 40-45 could now be said the to be the youth vote) overwhelmingly supported a break with the status quo in him. We saw the same in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn, and the same in France with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But this is being opposed by older voters, who are voting in the establishment politicians who've seen the neoliberal decay over decades as I mentioned above. And that's my point - in that context, of things generally sliding and getting worse, how can people really be expected to be excited for minor "trimming around the edges" victories?

 

[magpie_marty]

Look's like the AZ Gov election is down to the wire.
An Arizona judge approved former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to inspect randomly selected ballots from the midterm election, giving her a small win in her efforts to challenge the results.

The ruling allows a representative of Ms. Lake’s team’s choice to inspect 50 random ballots cast on Election Day from six polling stations in the county.

I wonder what next for Kari,perhaps NFT'S..

 

[HaveCrankOnMe]

 

[Bloods86]

Kind of weird, Lake wanting to be humiliated in an even more public manner I guess.

 

[Royces Hart]

Interesting choice of photo

 

[bourbons]

No, its most definitely over

How do you guys keep falling for this shtick? Legit mind boggling.