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[QUOTE=Kirby101;5337939]Next four years. We are going to be outraged that with only an extra Veep vote in the Senate and[B][COLOR="#0000FF"] 15 in the House[/COLOR][/B] we don't pass Universal Healthcare, revamp the tax system with a top rate of 75%, outlaw assault weapons and eliminate Police brutality.[/QUOTE]
How did they wind up in that position?
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Q aren't even watching it.
[img] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsM1ABPXAAAyupA?format=jpg&name=large[/img]
Just say Trump, we know that's your "God." No wonder he loves these people.
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There needs to be a religious reckoning for these idiots.
I am Christian and I am fairly confident God has nothing to do with this.
They are worshiping an orange Florida spray tan man. Talk about false idols ...
*facepalm*
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[QUOTE=numberthirty;5338079]How did they wind up in that position?[/QUOTE]
Lost some of the swing seats they gained in 2018. Tough to beat gerrymandering and the "defund the police" stuff worked in the suburbs.
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[QUOTE=Amadeus Arkham;5338074][URL="https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1352020742993563649"][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsNb6b4UwAANz13?format=jpg&name=medium[/IMG][/URL]
Then are we sure he actually wrote it then?[/QUOTE]
I can't figure out how to embed a tweet, [URL="https://twitter.com/aleta_j1/status/1352019970826244098/photo/1"]so here is the link[/URL]
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[QUOTE=Kirby101;5338117]Lost some of the swing seats they gained in 2018. [B][COLOR="#0000FF"]Tough to beat gerrymandering and the "defund the police" stuff worked in the suburbs.[/COLOR][/B][/QUOTE]
Not as tough as what your own political calculations will cost you.
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[QUOTE=BeastieRunner;5338114]There needs to be a religious reckoning for these idiots.
I am Christian and I am fairly confident God has nothing to do with this.
They are worshiping an orange Florida spray tan man. Talk about false idols ...
*facepalm*[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, there is a "Religious..." slant on a lot of this sort of nonsense all over the world.
It's sort of tough trying to convince the folks who seem to believe that they are actually the true believers.
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[QUOTE=Kirby101;5338117]Lost some of the swing seats they gained in 2018. Tough to beat gerrymandering and the "defund the police" stuff worked in the suburbs.[/QUOTE]
That's not the actual reason. As Steven Attewell points out:
[quote][url]https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/the-squad-vs-the-mods-misses-the-point[/url]
[quote]If you can remember back to the Before Times of 2018, Democrats retook the House in a wave election in which Democrats had an 8.6% margin in the Congressional popular vote. This allowed Democrats to win seats in traditionally Republican areas from rural Pennsylvania to California’s Orange County. However, when you’re in one of those marginal seats in 2020 and Republicans turn out in also-historic (although slightly smaller) numbers in an extremely polarized election, it doesn’t really matter what your ideology or campaign strategy is, the other side has more voters than you do.[/quote]
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The truth is that 2020 saw high turnout with both parties. There was a red wave and a blue wave. A lot of low-propensity GOP voters turned out because Pandemic furloughed and made many working at home, so that freed them to trot on Election Day.
On balance, the fact that Dems retained the House Majority in the face of that, and even retained some of those Red areas is the more impressive story.
If you want to get into the reasons for why Republicans turned out in large numbers, I think the big unifying issue was RBG's death and Barrett's nomination. The way that was rammed through the senate and the appalling jerkishness of the hypocrisy meant that many red voters knew that they had to turn out in large numbers to stop the Dems from expanding the courts.
Couple that with the Republicans halting and dragging the passage of a second stimulus bill and well it ain't no mystery.
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[QUOTE=Revolutionary_Jack;5338136]That's not the actual reason. As Steven Attewell points out:
The truth is that 2020 saw high turnout with both parties. There was a red wave and a blue wave. A lot of low-propensity GOP voters turned out because Pandemic furloughed and made many working at home, so that freed them to trot on Election Day.
On balance, the fact that Dems retained the House Majority in the face of that, and even retained some of those Red areas is the more impressive story.
If you want to get into the reasons for why Republicans turned out in large numbers, I think the big unifying issue was RBG's death and Barrett's nomination. The way that was rammed through the senate and the appalling jerkishness of the hypocrisy meant that many red voters knew that they had to turn out in large numbers to stop the Dems from expanding the courts.
Couple that with the Republicans halting and dragging the passage of a second stimulus bill and well it ain't no mystery.[/QUOTE]
I'll accept that as the answer. Of course the gerrymandering plays into what are "traditional Republican seats".
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[QUOTE=numberthirty;5338131]Not as tough as what your own political calculations will cost you.[/QUOTE]
Huh? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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[QUOTE=Kirby101;5338149]Huh? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯[/QUOTE]
Fairly simple...
If you think that something similar to this -
[QUOTE=Revolutionary_Jack;5338136]...
Couple that with[B][COLOR="#0000FF"] the Republicans halting and dragging the passage of a second stimulus bill [/COLOR][/B]and well it ain't no mystery.[/QUOTE]
Did not happen when Pelosi put the brakes on a similar package in October?
You are probably on "Less Than Solid..." footing.
In the same way that Trump fumbling the way he handled the pandemic cost him, the way that Democrats handle having been put behind the wheel could decide where they wind up in a couple of years.
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In other good news, looks like QAnon is starting to fall apart at the seams with all but the most deluded finally comprehending that the whole thing was a deluded piece of nonsense to begin with or, as one of them put it, a LARP.
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[QUOTE=Steel Inquisitor;5338099]Q aren't even watching it.
[img] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsM1ABPXAAAyupA?format=jpg&name=large[/img]
Just say Trump, we know that's your "God." No wonder he loves these people.[/QUOTE]
Affordable and accessible mental health is more important than ever.
Cult de-programming is going to be needed for a lot of people.
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[QUOTE=Powerboy;5338167]In other good news, looks like QAnon is starting to fall apart at the seams with all but the most deluded finally comprehending that the whole thing was a deluded piece of nonsense to begin with or, as one of them put it, a LARP.[/QUOTE]
Yup. They got played as surely as the people who enrolled in Trump University got played.
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At least Trump University attempted to appear legitimate. Q was only ever gobbledygook for idiots.