Random political thought thread.

[Virtual ghost]

2024 Senate Election Map

New consensus map.

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

Bonza​

 

[ceecee]

Here in Michigan, they ousted the totally insane, black female (DEI hire obviously) GOP chair and got an oldie but a goodie, regular white, Dutch Reformed, far right winger (with his own far right non-profit thinktank) to run the party. He said there is nothing for GOP campaigns, nothing for staff, zero money. Oh and they also owe a lot of money to various banks. I lol at the idea of him having to cut Trump a 5% check. I mean, Trump did make him ambassador the Hague and in his first week in The Netherlands, pissed off the media, the Muslims and the King. That has to be a record.

US ambassador to The Hague apologizes for making Muslim remarks after denial

Pete Hoekstra says statements about Muslim migrants in the Netherlands were ‘simply wrong’ after last month telling a TV interviewer they were ‘fake news’

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Cat]

Here in Michigan, they ousted the totally insane, black female (DEI hire obviously) GOP chair and got an oldie but a goodie, regular white, Dutch Reformed, far right winger (with his own far right non-profit thinktank) to run the party. He said there is nothing for GOP campaigns, nothing for staff, zero money. Oh and they also owe a lot of money to various banks. I lol at the idea of him having to cut Trump a 5% check. I mean, Trump did make him ambassador the Hague and in his first week in The Netherlands, pissed off the media, the Muslims and the King. That has to be a record.

US ambassador to The Hague apologizes for making Muslim remarks after denial

Pete Hoekstra says statements about Muslim migrants in the Netherlands were ‘simply wrong’ after last month telling a TV interviewer they were ‘fake news’

www.theguardian.com

None of those words make sense when you string them together like that. It's like saying "Honest Billionare" or "Non greedy Corporation", "Flat earthers" and "Disney Adult."

 

[Virtual ghost]

As you know I am not a Trump fan. However here I just have to disagree and that means that I actually think this is good idea in the terms of campaign organization. In the case that he is looking for 30% that could cause problems. However 5% really shouldn't make that much of a hole. Especially because if Trump is doing well that will surely have down ballot effect and that 5% should more than pay itself off. Therefore this video was evidently made by a man who believes that "we are all individuals", or something among those lines. However this game can be played differently while still getting job done. The goal is evidently to take higher offices first and later will be enough time take local level ones. After all it is evident that Republican transformation of the country is designed to have top-down structure. Not the other way around. Therefore in that sense this makes perfect sense. You first take the hill and from there you shell targets with clarity.


I know that this is "devil's advocate" post but I think that this had to be said. In the case that collectivism doesn't work we would now be living in a pretty different world than the one we are living.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Here in Michigan, they ousted the totally insane, black female (DEI hire obviously) GOP chair and got an oldie but a goodie, regular white, Dutch Reformed, far right winger (with his own far right non-profit thinktank) to run the party. He said there is nothing for GOP campaigns, nothing for staff, zero money. Oh and they also owe a lot of money to various banks. I lol at the idea of him having to cut Trump a 5% check. I mean, Trump did make him ambassador the Hague and in his first week in The Netherlands, pissed off the media, the Muslims and the King. That has to be a record.

US ambassador to The Hague apologizes for making Muslim remarks after denial

Pete Hoekstra says statements about Muslim migrants in the Netherlands were ‘simply wrong’ after last month telling a TV interviewer they were ‘fake news’

www.theguardian.com

His ambassador to Denmark was in a movie called Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell.

Carla Sands - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[The Cat]

His ambassador to Denmark was in a movie called Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell.

Carla Sands - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Oh Yeah! Wild.

 

[Virtual ghost]

4 House primaries to watch in Pennsylvania

 

[Virtual ghost]

California talks universal health care … again

 

[ceecee]

None of those words make sense when you string them together like that. It's like saying "Honest Billionare" or "Non greedy Corporation", "Flat earthers" and "Disney Adult."

I thought about deleting the non-profit part but I never came back to actually edit as all of them are right, especially the libs, and none of them do much thinking.

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

I thought about deleting the non-profit part but I never came back to actually edit as all of them are right, especially the libs, and none of them do much thinking.

lib think tanks can be some of the more irritating ones because for people paid to think they sure dont seem to do much of it about anything anyone who works for a living can access.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Unexpected slowdown in economic growth stokes uncertainty for Biden

 

[Virtual ghost]

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/12/student-loan-cancellations-7billion-biden

What they're saying: President Biden pledged in a statement Friday that he will "never stop working to cancel student debt – no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us."

• "From day one of my Administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity," he said.

This is one reason I'm voting for him. It seems that he means what he says. And I was extremely reluctant to support him in 2020, although I did so because I was anti-Trump.

This is less about how it affects me. I have not benefited from any of this. The consistency with which he's pushing on this is a pleasant surprise. I don't expect things to turn out perfectly, but I want politicians to signal that they give a shit. I've said before that what we need is a fighter, and to my surprise, Biden ended up being that.

 

[Red Herring]

Mexico is banning conversion therapy.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

LOL. I love how they didn't mince words these days.

Now we get this:

Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US

Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Coriolis]

Now we get this:

Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US

Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’

www.theguardian.com

Trump should ask himself why folks don't want to come here from those countries like they used to.