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On March 07 2024 04:39 Introvert wrote:
But in different and good news Katie Porter will be out of Congress entirely after this year, so that's a plus. The downside is the clown Schiff will be a senator, but at this point that's normal here in CA.
My favorite part of the California senate election is that after Diane Feinstein died Gavin Newsom fulfilled his promise to appoint a black woman to the Senate. Conveniently enough there was a prominent black congresswoman vying for the seat that ran in this election named Barbara Lee. Except Newsom didn't nominate Barbara Lee because he didn't want to give her an incumbent advantage in this election so instead he chose a black woman from Maryland that wasn't even a resident of California to appoint. He wanted someone to just be a caretaker of the Senate seat until the election.
What do you call this? Pandering? Tokenism? How is it not incredibly insulting to offer such an unbelievably hollow gesture to essentially say "I'm going to nominate a black woman to be a baby sitter for this Senate seat for a few months" Does he think black people are too stupid to see through this hollow pandering? No wonder black voters are leaving the Democrat party...
Barbara Lee didn't win. She came in 3rd among Democrats. One of her proposals was the raise the minimum wage to $50/hour. A ridiculous proposition according to economists but I'd argue it's ideas like that that would make her the best fit to hold elected office in California.
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I take great issue with going from "Gavin Newsom did this dumb thing that treats black voters like they're stupid" to "No wonder black voters are leaving the Democrat party." There's an important missing piece in the logic chain there. You could certainly make a statement about how Newsom's behavior is just the latest in a sequence of other similar examples... but you didn't.
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On March 07 2024 06:42 JimmiC wrote:
From what I have been reading the Maga crowd is so awful to any Haley supporters that there is almost no chance they will vote Trump in the election. That being said there is a lot of time for those wounds to heal so we shall see how deep they really are.
Lying Ted and his ugly wife made campaign calls for Trump.
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On March 07 2024 08:08 micronesia wrote:
I take great issue with going from "Gavin Newsom did this dumb thing that treats black voters like they're stupid" to "No wonder black voters are leaving the Democrat party." There's an important missing piece in the logic chain there. You could certainly make a statement about how Newsom's behavior is just the latest in a sequence of other similar examples... but you didn't.
Well I didn't want to go into a whole rant but since you asked, some other examples are Congressional Dems taking a knee in the capital while wearing Kente cloth, or passing an "anti-lynching" law in 2022 when the last lynching happened over 40 years ago.
But I suspect the real reason that blacks voters are leaving the Democrat party are things like this
+ Show Spoiler +
Video contents - some alert Harlem (historically black neighborhood of NYC) residents caught government officials attempting to turn a vacant luxury apartment building into a migrant shelter. After they were caught they backtracked and said it will no longer be used for migrant housing.
Or the example where 2,000 students were forced back into remote learning while their high school was used as a temporary migrant shelter.
Youtube has plenty of videos of city council meetings of NYC, Baltimore, Chicago, etc. where you can see how royally PISSED off these residents are about the city coffers being opened to help migrants. It's hard to fault them, imaging being on the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder for years and looking for help and suddenly there are tens of millions of dollars available for migrants that just showed up. A lot of them are feeling left out in the cold and unfortunately slapping a BLM bumper sticker on a car isn't going to fix that.
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On March 07 2024 08:05 BlackJack wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2024 04:39 Introvert wrote:
But in different and good news Katie Porter will be out of Congress entirely after this year, so that's a plus. The downside is the clown Schiff will be a senator, but at this point that's normal here in CA. My favorite part of the California senate election is that after Diane Feinstein died Gavin Newsom fulfilled his promise to appoint a black woman to the Senate. Conveniently enough there was a prominent black congresswoman vying for the seat that ran in this election named Barbara Lee. Except Newsom didn't nominate Barbara Lee because he didn't want to give her an incumbent advantage in this election so instead he chose a black woman from Maryland that wasn't even a resident of California to appoint. He wanted someone to just be a caretaker of the Senate seat until the election. What do you call this? Pandering? Tokenism? How is it not incredibly insulting to offer such an unbelievably hollow gesture to essentially say "I'm going to nominate a black woman to be a baby sitter for this Senate seat for a few months" Does he think black people are too stupid to see through this hollow pandering? No wonder black voters are leaving the Democrat party... Barbara Lee didn't win. She came in 3rd among Democrats. One of her proposals was the raise the minimum wage to $50/hour. A ridiculous proposition according to economists but I'd argue it's ideas like that that would make her the best fit to hold elected office in California.
Well Newsom is a politician I take particular pleasure in watching get humiliated or twisted into knots. Lee was unpopular, but still it is funny he had to go all the way to MD because of a stupid promise. But then again, Biden made the same mistake! At least it's worth a laugh, and Kamala is basically Biden's insurance.
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In case anyone missed it today: Nikki Haley dropped out. Trump vs. Biden is official, barring a death or unexpected removal.
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On March 07 2024 10:35 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
In case anyone missed it today: Nikki Haley dropped out. Trump vs. Biden is official, barring a death or unexpected removal.
Nope, still just as unofficial as it was yesterday. Nikki Haley want going anywhere yesterday. Now she's acknowledged that, it doesn't mean Trump is the nominee.
Both Trump and Biden still have to go through the hoops of a few more primaries to get the required delegates, and then be nominated at their respective congresses for it to be official.
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On March 07 2024 15:17 Acrofales wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2024 10:35 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
In case anyone missed it today: Nikki Haley dropped out. Trump vs. Biden is official, barring a death or unexpected removal.
Nope, still just as unofficial as it was yesterday. Nikki Haley want going anywhere yesterday. Now she's acknowledged that, it doesn't mean Trump is the nominee. Both Trump and Biden still have to go through the hoops of a few more primaries to get the required delegates, and then be nominated at their respective congresses for it to be official.
I agree that there is still the formality of playing out some extra primaries, just to reach the required delegate count. I meant that no one is left to oppose Trump, so the rest is just really operating on auto-pilot. For all intents and purposes, the primaries are over. If anyone had thought Haley had a chance at becoming the nominee over Trump, they now know that they're wrong.
Apparently, Haley hasn't endorsed Trump yet. For Biden's sake, I hope that Trump doesn't pick Haley as his runningmate. I think that a Trump/Haley ticket would be very tough for Biden/Harris to beat.
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Northern Ireland27459 Posts
On March 07 2024 18:23 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2024 15:17 Acrofales wrote:On March 07 2024 10:35 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
In case anyone missed it today: Nikki Haley dropped out. Trump vs. Biden is official, barring a death or unexpected removal.
Nope, still just as unofficial as it was yesterday. Nikki Haley want going anywhere yesterday. Now she's acknowledged that, it doesn't mean Trump is the nominee. Both Trump and Biden still have to go through the hoops of a few more primaries to get the required delegates, and then be nominated at their respective congresses for it to be official. I agree that there is still the formality of playing out some extra primaries, just to reach the required delegate count. I meant that no one is left to oppose Trump, so the rest is just really operating on auto-pilot. For all intents and purposes, the primaries are over. If anyone had thought Haley had a chance at becoming the nominee over Trump, they now know that they're wrong. Apparently, Haley hasn't endorsed Trump yet. For Biden's sake, I hope that Trump doesn't pick Haley as his runningmate. I think that a Trump/Haley ticket would be very tough for Biden/Harris to beat.
It would be the sensible move pragmatically, something tells me Trump’s ego and general dislike of folks challenging him would preclude it, but hey more surprising things have happened.
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Yeah Haley ran as anti-Trump. I can't see his ego getting over that, and since Pence denied him his attempted Coup I would suspect he wants someone deep in the cult who will be willing to shit over the constitution for him.
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On March 07 2024 18:48 Gorsameth wrote:
Yeah Haley ran as anti-Trump. I can't see his ego getting over that, and since Pence denied him his attempted Coup I would suspect he wants someone deep in the cult who will be willing to shit over the constitution for him.
I think that makes sense, and that kind of cultist-Trump redundancy for a runningmate could give Biden a decent opening. Trump needs to lock in the voters who chose Haley in the primary, and he's not going to do that by picking someone like Ramaswamy or Scott, who is either already hardcore-MAGA or has no popularity.
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Huh? For VP I thought Trump was going to pick South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who Matt Gaetz said is "a fine bitch." Trump would love that wouldn't he?
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9-0 decision, wow. So, what now? Notice that nothing was accomplished except revealing to a greater percentage of the public that the establishment is corrupt and holds democracy in disdain. This has been a victory for Trump in every possible way. Every time one of these "compassionate," "diverse," and "tolerant" people foams at the mouth on TV about the decision, they only continue to reveal to the public that the pose of tolerance isn't real.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -Napoleon
Trump is truly a master at drawing the shadow out. The other day I watched people foaming at the mouth that Trump was Hitler because he said something about the "blood of the nation." Normal people watch all of this and they take notice. It seems his popularity among black and Hispanic voters is also increasing, and the lawfare isn't working. This is going to be one of the most lopsided electoral landslides in American political history.
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On March 08 2024 03:49 sevencck wrote:
This is going to be one of the most lopsided electoral landslides in American political history.
What evidence do you have for this prediction?
And what evidence would convince you that your prediction is unwarranted?
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Colbert brought up a decent point that if congress has to decide on what qualifies, but refuses to when it clearly happens... then the entire system is borked.
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On March 08 2024 04:41 Gahlo wrote:
Colbert brought up a decent point that if congress has to decide on what qualifies, but refuses to when it clearly happens... then the entire system is borked.
By design. It was never built to survive a party system where faction is placed above country.
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On March 08 2024 04:41 Gahlo wrote:
Colbert brought up a decent point that if congress has to decide on what qualifies, but refuses to when it clearly happens... then the entire system is borked. I mean... Is it still a question that it is borked?
I thought that was rather obvious by now, and I don't just mean about disqualifying insurrectionists. I mean the entire thing, in general
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On March 08 2024 04:37 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2024 03:49 sevencck wrote:
This is going to be one of the most lopsided electoral landslides in American political history. What evidence do you have for this prediction? And what evidence would convince you that your prediction is unwarranted?
He's said this before without any evidence but most of what maga people do are vibe based so don't expect any logic or reasoning with them.
Just because a guy says that a group of people is poisoning the blood of the nation and be wants to round them up by the millions into concentration camps he gets accused of being Hitler. Like normal people are watching that.
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On March 08 2024 10:38 Sermokala wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2024 04:37 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On March 08 2024 03:49 sevencck wrote:
This is going to be one of the most lopsided electoral landslides in American political history. What evidence do you have for this prediction? And what evidence would convince you that your prediction is unwarranted? He's said this before without any evidence but most of what maga people do are vibe based so don't expect any logic or reasoning with them. Just because a guy says that a group of people is poisoning the blood of the nation and be wants to round them up by the millions into concentration camps he gets accused of being Hitler. Like normal people are watching that.
As I've explained, I'm pretty sure Trump does this on purpose. That's what you hear when he says "blood of the nation," I guess: concentration camps. Seems like bizarre shadow projection to me.
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On March 08 2024 10:55 sevencck wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2024 10:38 Sermokala wrote:On March 08 2024 04:37 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:On March 08 2024 03:49 sevencck wrote:
This is going to be one of the most lopsided electoral landslides in American political history. What evidence do you have for this prediction? And what evidence would convince you that your prediction is unwarranted? He's said this before without any evidence but most of what maga people do are vibe based so don't expect any logic or reasoning with them. Just because a guy says that a group of people is poisoning the blood of the nation and be wants to round them up by the millions into concentration camps he gets accused of being Hitler. Like normal people are watching that. As I've explained, I'm pretty sure Trump does this on purpose. That's what you hear when he says "blood of the nation," I guess: concentration camps. Seems like bizarre shadow projection to me.
Oh yeah we know he does this on purpose. He uses the same words Hitler used when he wanted to demonize a population so people would be okay with the forceful rounding up of them into camps where that population could be concentrated in.
There's no shadow projection he's outright telling you what he wants to do. Are you under the impression that people are going to willingly be torn from their children and be sent to camps with a smile on their face? Do you think that they will then be deposited safely in some other nation? What do you think is suppose to happen when they get there?
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