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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:We already know that the Republicans will stand in the way of all of it. They LIKE it broken, because their masters want to suck up all the money in the country.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I ca hardly wait to see Biden fulfill his destiny as fixer of all that is wrong.
Me too comrade, me to.
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Hey dipshit reaver. You're posting in pink because you're fucking with my signature. In other words you're doing it on purpose. If you can't stand by your posts then stop posting instead of making it look as though I posted it. I'm not a socialist far left conspiracy nut. If you really believe what you say then own it.
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Yes, 55 Percent of White Women Voted for Trump. No, I’m Not Surprised.
Maya Angelou once said, “When people show you who they are, believe them.” Her lesson stemmed from the notion that people know themselves better than any other individual ever could. When people express beliefs or exhibit behaviors that relate to their own commitments and ethics, we should take them seriously. It’s time to take this voting for Republicans as an indication of a widespread political orientation among white women, rather than as a shocking aberration for one election only.
Political scientist Jane Junn explains that, “The elephant in the room is white and female, and she has been standing there since 1952. This result has been hiding in plain sight, obscured by a normative bias that women are more Democratic than men.”
White women have only voted in plurality for a Democratic presidential candidate twice since 1952: once in 1964 for Lyndon B. Johnson and in 1996 for Bill Clinton.
https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-
trump-no-im-not-surprised/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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... the last few days have been filled with close House races (finally) being projected. And those projections reveal just how poorly House Democrats did.
With just a handful of races still uncalled at this point, Republicans have gained nine seats -- having won 12 Democratic-held districts and lost just three of their own.
And there's a handful of close races still to count.
And yet Biden* 'won' despite all the republican down ballot votes.
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Quote:Proving, once again, that the election was legit.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/2020-house-races-majority/
index.html
... the last few days have been filled with close House races (finally) being projected. And those projections reveal just how poorly House Democrats did.
With just a handful of races still uncalled at this point, Republicans have gained nine seats -- having won 12 Democratic-held districts and lost just three of their own.
And there's a handful of close races still to count.
And yet Biden* 'won' despite all the republican down ballot votes.
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Covid, Climate and the Power of Denial
Why the 2020 Election makes it hard to be optimistic about the future. If we can’t face up to a pandemic, how can we avoid a climate change apocalypse?
Trump paid less of a penalty than expected for his deadly failure to deal with Covid-19, and few down-ballot Republicans seem to have paid any penalty at all. As a headline put it, “With pandemic raging, Republicans say election results validate their approach.”
And their approach, in case you missed it, has been denial and a refusal to take even the most basic, low-cost precautions — like requiring that people wear masks in public.
The epidemiological consequences of this cynical irresponsibility will be ghastly. I’m not sure how many people realize just how terrible this winter is going to be. Now on to a bigger problem -- climate change.
Right-wingers always claim that taking climate seriously would doom the economy, but the truth is that at this point the economics of climate action look remarkably benign. Spectacular progress in renewable energy technology makes it fairly easy to see how the economy can wean itself from fossil fuels. A recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund suggests that a “green infrastructure push” would, if anything, lead to faster economic growth over the next few decades.
But climate action remains very difficult politically given (a) the power of special interests and (b) the indirect link between costs and benefits. Consider, for example, the problem posed by methane leaks from fracking wells. Better enforcement to limit these leaks would have huge benefits — but the benefits would be widely distributed across time and space. How do you get people in West Texas to accept even a small rise in costs now when the payoff includes, say, a reduced probability of destructive hurricanes a decade from now in Florida?
This indirectness made many of us pessimistic about the prospects for climate action. But Covid-19 suggests that we weren’t pessimistic enough. After all, the consequences of irresponsible behavior during a pandemic are vastly more obvious and immediate than the costs of climate inaction.
Furthermore, it’s a lot easier to discredit Covid deniers than it is to discredit climate-change deniers: All you have to do is point out the many, many times these deniers falsely asserted that the disease was about to go away.
So getting people to act responsibly on the coronavirus should be much easier than getting action on climate change. Yet what we see instead is widespread refusal to acknowledge the risks, accusations that cheap, common-sense rules like wearing masks constitute “tyranny,” and violent threats against public officials.
So what do you think will happen when the Biden administration tries to make climate a priority?
More at www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/coronavirus-climate.html
The truth is that every country that has made significant cuts in GHGs has had its economy grow, and grow strongly. Switzerland, for example, is the most intensively industrialized country on earth, yet it produces roughly 3 times as much GDP per ton of GHGs as the US, and has 30% higher per capita GDP - and, btw, its public services work the way they are supposed to work. Fighting Climate Change create jobs, reduces negative externalities, creates wealth and makes us all richer, not poorer. What is killing jobs and harming the economy is failing to do anything about Climate Change.
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/switzerland?country=CHE~USA
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by reaverfan:Quote:Proving, once again, that the election was legit.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/2020-house-races-majority/
index.html
... the last few days have been filled with close House races (finally) being projected. And those projections reveal just how poorly House Democrats did.
With just a handful of races still uncalled at this point, Republicans have gained nine seats -- having won 12 Democratic-held districts and lost just three of their own.
And there's a handful of close races still to count.
And yet Biden* 'won' despite all the republican down ballot votes.
She's referring to the countless forged ballots that voted only for Biden and no choices were made down ballot.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Here’s a little story. I had lunch a few days ago with a Republican friend. Not a tea party crank, just a normal, moderate Republican. We were talking about Donald Trump and he said, Well, at least you have to give him credit for Warp Speed. No Democrat would ever have done that.
I just looked at him. I barely knew what to say. Why wouldn’t a Democrat have done it?
Oh come on.
But Warp Speed was mainly about spending money. Democrats love to spend money. You’re always complaining about it.
Hmmm.
Any president would have done it.
This is an example of how we inhabit different sets of realities. Aside from the admittedly catchy name, which I give Trump credit for, Warp Speed was a program that Bill Gates and others had been talking about for months. Warp Speed was funded by the CARES Act, which passed with unanimous Democratic support. Of course a Democratic president would have pushed for something like Warp Speed.
So what had convinced my friend that a Democrat never would have come up with something like that? It’s a mystery.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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