Random Politics Thread

[The Cat]

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1577116360521314305

 

[The Cat]

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1577286492849774593

 

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[Z Buck McFate]

If people are this bent out of shape over centrists like Obama and Biden, they're going to lose their shit if and when an actual demsoc or progressive is elected to office.

Sometimes I wonder if even someone like Joe Walsh or Liz Cheney would generate the same amount of outrage and hysteria. Because it doesn't seem to be about needing content that warrants the hysteria so much as it's about generating mass hysteria to make the other side threatening.

I suspect actual progressive candidates wouldn't generate more fear-mongering, is my point.

Eta: Though maybe it'd actually give Tucker an aneurysm if the content really did start causing actual outrage on top of all the manufactured outrage? Yet another reason to vote progressive.

 

[The Cat]

 

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From CNN: Republicans hold a near-historic lead on a key midterm indicator

 

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1577304131466846210

 

[The Cat]

scandles, scandles stick like brambles,
Like tangled thorns that cut the hands,
And never do they stick to plans.​

 

[The Cat]

Dana Loesch doesn't care if Herschel Walker paid 'skank' for abortion

The Republican nominee has denied the claims, and has threatened to sue at least one media outlet for defamation.

www.newsweek.com

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[ceecee]

And you won't hear anything public from the USG and I hope nothing from her wife or allies. That will only slow or stop things. But it would be an excellent time to for NBA players to stand in solidarity with their WNBA sisters. It would also be a perfect time for Brandon to decriminalize all drugs in the US at the federal level. Cannabis at the very least.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1578097875480895489

Dank Brandon

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

The weed move is a hail mary, just like releasing oil from the SPR.

They must be scared to be pulling out guns this big for the midterm.

Hopefully they go back into their bag of tricks when this doesn't improve polling.

I want their cubbard bare of levers to pull when we get to '24

 

[The Cat]

 

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Tyson Foods joins exodus from Chicago

 

[Z Buck McFate]

Has anyone else outside illinois been getting these shitty political ads that are disguised as a newspaper? I'm livid about them. The name is changed according to the county it's delivered in - there's an emphasis on it being "local news" - but it's the same fucking ad underneath the name. "Real data. Real value. Real news." Delivered for free, unrequested, to absolutely every residence - without a single advertisement in any of them. Loaded with blatant disinformation; mostly about trans kids getting mutilated, Pritzker putting dangerous criminals out on the streets (SAFE-T act), and public schools "failing."

There isn't a single mention in these fucking things about whose paying for them. Isn't that illegal? This "weekly news" started six weeks ago, and I assume the timing is intentional - they wanted enough time to effectively fear-monger, but didn't want to allow enough time for legal problems to harm credibility.

I haven't watched the "defense" they posted on YouTube. I've read a couple stories covering it when it first started happening, and seeing people defend it by saying "like MSM isn't biased" is depressing enough.

Bailey (Pritzker's opponent) isn't as aggressively ignorant as Walker, but he's still dumb as a post. He's stated that he hasn't seen any indication that crime guns in Illinois are coming from Indiana (there's such a clear, easily provable trail of it that Chicago started a lawsuit against a single gun store responsible for (I want to say 20%?) a lot of it), and that Pritzker is focusing on guns too much and not enough on border security ( ...in Illinois).

If we get Bailey as a governor - if we have to deal with this absolutely moronic GOP puppet-to-big-money-source bullshit in Illinois - I'm really going to lose my shit.