Mid-Term Elections 2022. Hey Jack, I Was Right
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
In the meantime, I fully expect Democrats to honor their promises and finally get around to codifying Roe v. Wade, and enshrine Social Security in perpetuity, raise the minimum wage to $15, and free medical care for all, as well as dismantling the Electoral College in the next two years. /sarcasm
We know you're not going to do any of that. So in the meantime can the House finally get around to passing the unanimous Senate bill to put an end to Daylight Savings Time.
Thanks!
1) No Republican Congressman will vote for any of those bills.
2) Democrats can't pass those bills unless they have 66.67% (not 50% plus 1) of Congress on their side. A funny and poorly understood fact: The writers of the Constitution, a majority of whom were slave owners, didn't want the Abolitionists to legislate the end of slavery. With a few clever tricks in writing the Constitution, it became impossible to end slavery (without a Civil War) unless 66.67% of Congress were Abolitionists. All those clever legal tricks that were written into the Constitution to protect slavery are still usable by Congressmen who do not want changes made in the Law in other areas besides slavery.
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 second:Quote:Two things you ignore:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
In the meantime, I fully expect Democrats to honor their promises and finally get around to codifying Roe v. Wade, and enshrine Social Security in perpetuity, raise the minimum wage to $15, and free medical care for all, as well as dismantling the Electoral College in the next two years. /sarcasm
We know you're not going to do any of that. So in the meantime can the House finally get around to passing the unanimous Senate bill to put an end to Daylight Savings Time.
Thanks!
1) No Republican Congressman will vote for any of those bills.
2) Democrats can't pass those bills unless they have 66.67% (not 50% plus 1) of Congress on their side. A funny and poorly understood fact: The writers of the Constitution, a majority of whom were slave owners, didn't want the Abolitionists to legislate the end of slavery. With a few clever tricks in writing the Constitution, it became impossible to end slavery (without a Civil War) unless 66.67% of Congress were Abolitionists. All those clever legal tricks that were written into the Constitution to protect slavery are still usable by Congressmen who do not want changes made in the Law in other areas besides slavery.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I'm not ignoring any of that.
All of the Democrats running last night did when they constantly lied on Twitter that these are things that they were going to do if their idiot electorate didn't allow the GOP to take back majority control of the Senate and the House.
Take a look for yourself. Every single one of them lied in my Twitter feed every single day for the last month making those promises even though they knew there wasn't any way they'd ever be able to deliver on those promises even if they wanted to.
Even you were sitting here posting dumb lies through articles making these promises.
All I'm doing is calling out the lies and the hypocrisy of it all.
Now that you've gotten what you wanted, you're not actually going to get anything that you wanted.
But maybe in the next two years Biden* will give enough away to Ukraine and up his total taxpayer dollars to Ukraine by the end of his single term Presidency high enough that it could have paid for at least 10 years of ending world hunger.
But two years from now, people will still be dying all over the world of hunger, our homeless population will continue to grow, an ever larger portion of the middle-class will fall below the poverty line while they're all still working for a pittance, with 10s of millions of them left without healthcare and wondering if there's even going to be any social security by the time they retire.
Nobody won last night except for the politicians that won last night.
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Originally posted by second:
Americans take a stand for decency as the GOP red wave turns to dust, surprising all of us
I'll posit that Americans don’t love it when a political party broadly embraces a bullying figure like former President Donald Trump. They don’t take kindly to candidates who deny election results.
This isn't just a win for Democrats – it's a win for decency
I’m sure Republicans will still find a way to crow about their far-lower-than-expected gains.
More at https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2022/11/09/midterm-elections-de
mocrats-trump-republicans-red-wave/8307501001/
Before the roe reversel, Kevin MCcarthy predicted a 60 seat route of the democrats in the house. Opps...
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Comprehending the underwhelming performance of the GOP
By Rajan Laad
There was supposed to be a red wave that would put the corrupt, entitled, arrogant Democrats in their place. The GOP was supposed to take the House by an emphatic margin and possibly the Senate, too.
They said it was not a question of if, but when it would happen.
As someone on Twitter rightly observed, at this point, the GOP would be lucky to have a Red Trickle. Even if the GOP takes the House, it will be by a slim margin.
Joe Biden, despite his catastrophic misgovernance, historic unpopularity, and rapidly declining cognitive abilities, could end up with a better midterm record than Democrat stars such as Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
There have been various theories on why it went so wrong.
Postmortem analyses are always easy. You have the results; all you have to do is walk backward and provide reasons. Had the GOP won in a landslide, the very pundits who are certain why they underperformed tonight would have provided another set of reasons.
Let's examine some theories that are being put forth.
Did the narrative of the Red Wave seem like hubris?
At times, rosy expectations can be the mother of all disappointments. The relentless talk of a red wave, which began in conservative media and spread like wildfire, could have had multiple consequences.
Perhaps GOP voters presumed that a victory was inevitable and chose to stay home. Perhaps Democrat voters, thinking their party needs them in times of peril, chose to vote.
Perhaps some voters thought of this talk of the red wave as hubris.
Voters often do not like politicians taking them for granted and second-guessing them.
Perhaps they decided to give the GOP a reality check?
The overturning of Roe v. Wade?
It will never be easy to gauge what impact the overturning of Roe had on the mind of the public, especially women.
Dr. Oz said, "I don't want the federal government involved with that at all. I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting the democracy that's always allowed our nation to thrive to put the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves."
Oz was making a broader point about law-making by consulting all parties involved. Most of the mainstream media claimed that Dr. Oz thinks the decision to have an abortion must be among a woman, her doctor, and local politicians.
Perhaps women truly feared that the Republicans would be involved each time they visited the gynecologist. Perhaps women feared imprisonment for even mentioning abortion. Perhaps they believed the claim that contraception would also be restricted.
Fear tactics often work, irrespective of whether the claims are factual.
Perhaps the Democrats managed to scare people sufficiently.
Was it the media?
The mainstream media are the propaganda arm of the Democrats, while most Republicans get their news from Fox News, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, NewsMax, and various other right-leaning websites.
But what about independents? Perhaps they brought the media narrative that if the GOP wins, there will never, ever be elections in the U.S., and Trump will become a dictator.
End of the Trump era?
Some experts claimed that Trump's choice of candidates was a major reason for the GOP's subpar performance. They cite the loss of Dr. Oz to severely cognitively impaired John Fetterman to demonstrate their point. They feel Trump incorrectly endorsed celebrity Dr. Oz; perhaps a principled conservative and a Pennsylvania local would have served better. They claim that the underperforming of the GOP is proof that Trump's era has passed. They claim he should gracefully step aside and allow Ron DeSantis to be the nominee in 2024. They claim Trump lacks discipline, has too much baggage, and polarizes people with his rhetoric.
So what has Trump's record been so far in the race?
But:
Since Trump descended the escalator in 2015 to announce his presidential campaign, there are many who have been preNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:I used the example of ending slavery to remind you about how Congress was designed to work for slave owners who wrote the Constitution. Congressmen justified NOT ending slavery by claiming the slaves were better if they remain slaves. A Congressman can justify anything because the Congressmen think like lawyers, where the world is made only of words, not facts, not truth, and certainly there are never consequences for the lawyers who speak nonsense. Designing Congress that way in the Constitution made it impossible to pass a law ending slavery because more than half the states had slaves. It is NOT possible to make slavery illegal when it is something that the lawyers say is legal, biblical, moral, wholesome and where a Congressman could say Abolitionists are Cancer and that ending slavery would be worse than Communism, worse than genocide, worse than the destruction of all life on Earth, etc. In the 19th Century, Congressmen didn't have any boundary limits on what they could claim is true.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
But two years from now, people will still be dying all over the world of hunger, our homeless population will continue to grow, an ever larger portion of the middle-class will fall below the poverty line while they're all still working for a pittance, with 10s of millions of them left without healthcare and wondering if there's even going to be any social security by the time they retire.
Nobody won last night except for the politicians that won last night.
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Guess what, 6ix? Present day Congressmen can use the same verbal tricks used to maintain slavery for new purposes. Want to end Social Security? A Congressman can spew nonsense to justify that. Want to set the minimum wage to zero? A Congressman will have the words to justify that. No healthcare for all, except the rich? A Congressman can find the words to justify that, too! The only way to stop this verbal nonsense is to have 66.67% of Congressmen vote to oppose the nonsense. But there hasn't been 66.67% of Congress on the same side in the 21st Century. As in the 19th Century, in the 21st there still are no boundary limits (other than the 66.67% rule) that prevent Congress from doing nothing or being ridiculously ineffectual as they talk endlessly because lawyers can't shut the fuck up.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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It's time to get the Neo-Cons out for good.
I don't want to hear one more fucking word about abortion coming from a Republican's mouth ever again. In fact, while I don't care if a Republican goes to church or not, I want every Republican who talks about it in public to be ousted from office.
Put McConnell, McCarthy and Romney and the rest of the Neo-Cons out to pasture where Nancy Pelosi and the Clintons belong. I don't ever want to hear a single word from any of them again.
Fuck you Republicans. Fuck you so hard. You suck so fucking bad that you delivered us into two more years of Biden*'s agenda when every historical trend was in your favor.
I want the Democrats to win seats in the Senate, keep the house and gain at least one Gubernatorial slot when the votes are tallied.
If we're going to burn the world down, let's go all in. The time for half-measures is over.
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US election results: What would a Republican-led Congress do?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63527765
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Man... you Dems are losing full states that have been blue since GWB's terrible presidency.
Another failed prediction by Six, Democrats might also gain a Governor?
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political theater continues?
'The libs over at MSNBC are seriously out here drooling over a hypothetical John Fetterman presidential run and we are officially living in a simulation'
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1437430786868383758
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