Mid-Term Elections 2022. Hey Jack, I Was Right

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RCP now shows 2 Senate pickups as well as two Governor pickups for the GOP.

And nobody worth listening to is daring to say that Democrats have a chance to hold the house.

Joe Biden* is finished.

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"Let's leave abortion decisions to the states," they said.

The big picture: Graham's anti-abortion law comes less than two months out from the midterm elections, with abortion expected to be an important issue for voters following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will announce plans for a new bill on national abortion restrictions Tuesday.

Driving the news: That's according to an email from Graham's office on Monday night saying he will hold a press conference with anti-abortion leaders on the introduction of the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act.

Graham has previously introduced bills that sought to ban abortions nationally from 20 weeks. But the new measure is expected to call for a ban from 15 weeks, per the Washington Post. Representatives for Graham did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment on the matter.

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/13/lindsey-graham-national-abortion-rest
rictions-bill

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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You Democrats sure do love your NeoCons.

Get fucked.

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Ukraine becomes a front in America’s cultural and political wars

On Aug. 29 Tucker Carlson of Fox News attacked President Biden’s policy on Ukraine, asserting among other things: “By any actual reality-based measure, Vladimir Putin is not losing the war in Ukraine. He is winning the war in Ukraine.” Carlson went on, by the way, to assert that Biden is supporting Ukraine only because he wants to destroy the West.

Carlson’s timing was impeccable. Just a few days later, a large section of the Russian front near Kharkiv was overrun by a Ukrainian attack. It’s important to note that Putin’s forces weren’t just pushed back; they appear to have been routed. As the independent Institute for the Study of War reported, the Russians were driven into a “panicked and disorderly retreat,” leaving behind “large amounts of equipment and supplies that Ukrainian forces can use.”

The Russian collapse seemed to validate analyses by defense experts who have been saying for months that Western weapons have been shifting the military balance in Ukraine’s favor, that Putin’s army is desperately short on quality manpower and that it has been degraded by attrition and missile attacks on its rear areas. These analyses suggested that Russian forces might eventually reach a breaking point, although few expected that point to come so soon and so dramatically.

There’s something special about the MAGA embrace of the mystique of Russian might: a worldview that equates tough-guy swagger with effectiveness. This worldview has warped the right’s perception not just of the Russian Army but also of how to deal with many other issues. And it’s worth asking where it comes from.

Many Republicans have admired Putin for a long time — even before Donald Trump took over the G.O.P. Back in 2014, for example, Rudy Giuliani said of Putin, “That’s what you call a leader.” And Trump continued to praise Putin even after he invaded Ukraine.

So it’s not hard to see where the MAGA right’s admiration for Putinism comes from. After all, Putin’s Russia is autocratic, brutal and homophobic, with a personality cult built around its ruler. What’s not to like?

Yet admiring a regime’s values needn’t mean having faith in its military prowess. On the right, however, approval of authoritarian regimes is all bound up with assertions about their military prowess. For example, last year Ted Cruz tweeted about a video comparing scenes of a tough-looking Russian soldier with a shaved head with a U.S. Army recruiting video featuring a female corporal raised by two mothers. “Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea,” opined Cruz.

Actually, the U.S. military is sort of woke, in the sense that it is highly diverse and inclusive, encourages independent thinking and initiative on the part of junior officers and is, at the higher levels, quite intellectual.

The Russian Army, on the other hand, definitely isn’t woke. Conscripts face brutal hazing. According to Mark Hertling, a former commander of U.S. forces in Europe, it’s riddled with “mafialike” corruption and its officers are terrible.

The broader point is that modern wars aren’t won by looking tough. Courage — which the Ukrainians have shown in almost inconceivable abundance — is essential; but it doesn’t have much to do with bulging biceps. And bravery must go hand in hand with being smart and flexible, qualities the Russian Army evidently lacks.

Did I mention that women make up more than a fifth of Ukraine’s military?

The import of all these factors should be obvious. Modern war is like the modern economy (with an additional element of sheer terror, but still): Success depends more on skill, knowledge and openness to ideas than on muscle power. But the MAGA ethos is all bound up with exaltation of tough talk and denigration of expertise. (Prosecute Anthony Fauci!) The American right needed to see Putin as a leader made powerful by his rejection of liberal values;

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Another wall of text from the propaganda machine that calls themselves the New York Times, I see...

Another wall of text that won't be read by anybody with two firing synapses.

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Another wall of text from the propaganda machine that calls themselves the New York Times, I see...

Another wall of text that won't be read by anybody with two firing synapses.

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Uh oh...

Looks like 1,300 NYT employees are figuring out that Joe Biden*'s inflation = BAD.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/1300-new-york-times-staffers-refus
e-order-to-return-to-office/

Fire all these fuckers if they won't come back to work. They can learn to code.

Or better yet, they can all be coal miners that will be required to fuel their coal burning cars.

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A Look at Trump's Endorsement Record as the Primaries End

https://news.yahoo.com/look-trumps-endorsement-record-primaries-183620
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A Look at Trump's Endorsement Record as the Primaries End

https://news.yahoo.com/look-trumps-endorsement-record-primaries-183620
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Here's a real look at Trump's endorsement record without the Leftist propaganda or lying by omission.

https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Donald_Trump

SPOILER ALERT 1: Every US Senate candidate he endorsed won the Primary.

SPOILER ALERT 2: Of all the US House candidates he endorsed, only 6 lost the Primary. I stopped counting after 100 endorsements, but there's at least 150.

SPOILER ALERT 3: Of the 25 State Legislative seats he endorsed, 1 was not on the primary ballot and only 5 lost the Primary.

SPOILER ALERT 4: Of the 46 State Executive seats he endorsed, only 7 lost the Primary.

SPOILER ALERT 5: Of the 4 local endorsements by Trump, 0 lost.

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Another wall of text from the propaganda machine that calls themselves the New York Times, I see... Another wall of text that won't be read by anybody with two firing synapses.

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Lindsey Graham’s Federal Abortion Ban will nudge the election. But which way?

Holy. Shit. Republicans’ newly-introduced national abortion ban would put doctors in prison for up to 5 years, force women to undergo extremely invasive trans-vaginal ultrasounds, and keep in place statewide bans that force rape victims to give birth.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/09/lindsey-graham-republicans
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Another wall of text from the propaganda machine that calls themselves the New York Times, I see... Another wall of text that won't be read by anybody with two firing synapses.

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Lindsey Graham’s Federal Abortion Ban will nudge the election. But which way?

Holy. Shit. Republicans’ newly-introduced national abortion ban would put doctors in prison for up to 5 years, force women to undergo extremely invasive trans-vaginal ultrasounds, and keep in place statewide bans that force rape victims to give birth.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/09/lindsey-graham-republicans
-federal-abortion-ban.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Not "Republican's" ban. Lindsey's ban.

My first thought when seeing this yesterday was "Lindsey is an idiot".

And I found this headline, written by a dude who hates Democrats at Townhall.com, today...



Lindsey Graham Is an Idiot

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2022/09/15/lindsey-graham-
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Let me say at the outset that I’d rather have Lindsey Graham in the United States Senate than any Democrat, especially the clown he beat last time who is now the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (liberals fail up). Jamie Harrison is a racist pile of garbage on top of being a moron who would do everything he was told by the White House. Graham is a lot of things, and one of them is significantly better than Harrison is in every way. But he’s far from perfect and getting farther away from it every day.

When John McCain was alive Lindsey Graham followed him around like a puppy and did all he could to imitate him. When McCain died, Graham was kind of lost and latched on to President Donald Trump. Since Trump left office, Graham has been kind of lost – desperate to matter and get media attention while trying to placate his progressive instincts to “do something” about whatever the domestic issue is and embracing every prospect for war because that’s been the only constant in his career.

In that attempt to “matter” and “do something,” Senator Graham proposed this week to create a “new regulatory agency” to license companies like Twitter. As awful at these tech companies are and can be, the idea of a new regulatory agency is worse. Is there nothing that exists that could be repurposed? Graham isn’t even floating the idea of eliminating one or several existing agencies that have outlived their usefulness and reforming them to handle this, putting aside the idea of the feds licensing these companies. I might look favorably on it if there was a 3 to 1 elimination of existing jobs for the creation of new ones, something to shrink government at least a little. But it’s not part of this.

Graham’s proclamation on this new agency involves “teaming up” with Senator Elizabeth Warren, and there is no way she will ever allow for the shrinking of government or anything remotely good. How lost do you have to be to think Warren is an ally?

But working with a Massachusetts liberal is hardly the biggest problem Graham created this week. For reasons unknown, as he is not up this cycle, Graham decided to undercut the conservative argument against Roe v Wade being overturned and introduce a federal abortion ban after 15 weeks.

You might agree with the sentiment, but the execution is a horrible idea. First, it gives the left something to badger Republican candidates coast to coast on the issue. While that might play well in Georgia’s Senate race, it could be a different result in Pennsylvania or Ohio. Every campaign needs to be free to run however it deems best, they don’t needs some jackass in DC dictating terms and arming their opponents. Now they’ll all have to answer about Graham’s proposal repeatedly.

Second, the conservative argument against Roe in a nutshell was it’s horribly decided, and should it be overturned

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