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2022 Midterm Election
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- Zarathud
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Republicans betrayed classical liberal democracy in the 80s. They never were what they promised.
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"I don't stand by anything." - Trump
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
“It is the impractical things in this tumultuous hell-scape of a world that matter most. A book, a name, chicken soup. They help us remember that, even in our darkest hour, life is still to be savored.” - Poe, Altered Carbon
- Alefroth
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Cool. Keep refusing to learn from mistakes. That'll go well.em2nought wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:21 am Walker's loss rests solely on the GOP and their constant telephone harassment of anyone who makes a donation to a candidate. I'd have donated, but the RNC would be calling me every week begging for more during the next four years if I did. I'm sure others feel the same way. The NRA does the same crap.
Democrats are lucky, they have mostly BIG donors who they treat much better.
- Octavious
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Nothing to do with him being totally unqualified. Nope nothing at all. It's super depressing how many people actually voted for the dude.
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- Remus West
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
What I took from that is even hard core supporters are starting to realize and tire of the grift.Alefroth wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:22 pmCool. Keep refusing to learn from mistakes. That'll go well.em2nought wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:21 am Walker's loss rests solely on the GOP and their constant telephone harassment of anyone who makes a donation to a candidate. I'd have donated, but the RNC would be calling me every week begging for more during the next four years if I did. I'm sure others feel the same way. The NRA does the same crap.
Democrats are lucky, they have mostly BIG donors who they treat much better.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” - H.L. Mencken
- Isgrimnur
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Senate passes $1.7 trillion government funding billEl Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:32 amSeems like he has no ability to shutdown the government until the new majority comes in, right? So wouldn't this be mostly theatre?malchior wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:23 amHe is fighting off an insurgency in the Housecaucus that threatens his chances at Speaker of House. He probably (correctly IMO) calculates that causing this sort of ruckus is good for him.LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:51 am CNBC reporting McCarthy ready to shutdown government at the end of this week so the GOP controlled house can have a majority for the next spending bill. So this is now a thing. Oddly, the Senate is pushing hard to get the spending bill in.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
- El Guapo
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Speaking as a government employee who wouldn't mind some mandatory time off, I oppose this compromise.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 9:04 pmSenate passes $1.7 trillion government funding billEl Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:32 amSeems like he has no ability to shutdown the government until the new majority comes in, right? So wouldn't this be mostly theatre?malchior wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:23 amHe is fighting off an insurgency in the Housecaucus that threatens his chances at Speaker of House. He probably (correctly IMO) calculates that causing this sort of ruckus is good for him.LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:51 am CNBC reporting McCarthy ready to shutdown government at the end of this week so the GOP controlled house can have a majority for the next spending bill. So this is now a thing. Oddly, the Senate is pushing hard to get the spending bill in.
Black Lives Matter.
- pr0ner
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Join an agency that keeps working during government shutdowns like the cool kids do?El Guapo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:53 pmSpeaking as a government employee who wouldn't mind some mandatory time off, I oppose this compromise.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 9:04 pmSenate passes $1.7 trillion government funding billEl Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:32 amSeems like he has no ability to shutdown the government until the new majority comes in, right? So wouldn't this be mostly theatre?malchior wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:23 amHe is fighting off an insurgency in the Housecaucus that threatens his chances at Speaker of House. He probably (correctly IMO) calculates that causing this sort of ruckus is good for him.LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:51 am CNBC reporting McCarthy ready to shutdown government at the end of this week so the GOP controlled house can have a majority for the next spending bill. So this is now a thing. Oddly, the Senate is pushing hard to get the spending bill in.
Hodor.
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
He wants time off so that wouldn't help.pr0ner wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:30 pmJoin an agency that keeps working during government shutdowns like the cool kids do?El Guapo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:53 pmSpeaking as a government employee who wouldn't mind some mandatory time off, I oppose this compromise.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 9:04 pmSenate passes $1.7 trillion government funding billEl Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:32 amSeems like he has no ability to shutdown the government until the new majority comes in, right? So wouldn't this be mostly theatre?malchior wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:23 amHe is fighting off an insurgency in the Housecaucus that threatens his chances at Speaker of House. He probably (correctly IMO) calculates that causing this sort of ruckus is good for him.LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:51 am CNBC reporting McCarthy ready to shutdown government at the end of this week so the GOP controlled house can have a majority for the next spending bill. So this is now a thing. Oddly, the Senate is pushing hard to get the spending bill in.
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- pr0ner
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Heh.stessier wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 1:13 pmHe wants time off so that wouldn't help.pr0ner wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:30 pmJoin an agency that keeps working during government shutdowns like the cool kids do?El Guapo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:53 pmSpeaking as a government employee who wouldn't mind some mandatory time off, I oppose this compromise.Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 9:04 pmSenate passes $1.7 trillion government funding billEl Guapo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:32 amSeems like he has no ability to shutdown the government until the new majority comes in, right? So wouldn't this be mostly theatre?malchior wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 10:23 amHe is fighting off an insurgency in the Housecaucus that threatens his chances at Speaker of House. He probably (correctly IMO) calculates that causing this sort of ruckus is good for him.LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:51 am CNBC reporting McCarthy ready to shutdown government at the end of this week so the GOP controlled house can have a majority for the next spending bill. So this is now a thing. Oddly, the Senate is pushing hard to get the spending bill in.
Hodor.
- Grifman
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Surprise, Kari Lake lost her election fraud case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... n-lawsuit/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... n-lawsuit/
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- Alefroth
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How will they spin this one? The judge was pressured by death threats?
- El Guapo
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
This isn't hard stuff. If you're in the Kari Lake base, anytime that democrats win it is by definition corrupt, and the details don't matter all that much. For Republican-leaning voters that aren't firmly in the base, mainstream GOP types will go on Fox News and talk about a few things that seem vaguely odd in a "just asking questions" way.
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- Grifman
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. – G.K. Chesterton
- hepcat
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
Coincidentally, her state doesn’t find her appealing either.
He won. Period.
- Unagi
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- Grifman
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
They keep trying:
A for effort, if nothing more.
A for effort, if nothing more.
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Re: 2022 Midterm Election
As with all things, the real winners are the lawyers.
It's almost as if people are the problem.