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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You know, I wonder if Utah's homebuilding program was done for political reasons: In 2010 they thought they would receive an extra congressional district but didn't. Perhaps they figured that the census process may undercount homeless people and build homes for them so that they become visible for the next census.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI'm actually pretty interested to see just how much more thin Trump's support is gonna get over time. He's not doing especially great now considering he only just got into office, and I don't think he can really offer the white working class or anyone other than plutocrats anything that isn't scraps off the table or meaningless symbolic gestures at best like the Carrier deal. The hardcore Republican base might stand by him but they can't win elections by themselves.
More on that Today interview of W: Bush stopped short of directly calling out Trump but he was way more direct on the issues than when anyone asked him about Obama
(NPR)
Also, the reason for the interview is that he's been doing some pretty good work with military vets. It won't get me saying he was a terribly good President but I can give him credit for trying to be a good human.
edited 27th Feb '17 1:52:22 PM by Elle
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That might be part of the reason, but the Mormons actually have a really good track record with dealing with homeless people. They take the charity part of their religion seriously.
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Even the Carrier deal failed to gain him much support, considering how Carrier used the extra money to further automate the factory and fire a bunch of their employees.
edited 27th Feb '17 1:49:12 PM by Zendervai
Start a mass campaign to get I Ds for the pooris one way.
Also work on increasing polling stations within urban areas.
If I wanted to be dirty, I'd also get Californians to immigrate to more purple states like Florida, Arizona,Virginia, New Hampshire and the Rust Belt states.
Because the House of Representatives has been capped at 435, it's lead to big growth only netting a couple electoral votes max per decade so it wouldn't do much.
A carpetbagger strategy would work better. Now the downside is that an emigration influx of Californians especially from urban areas to other states could lead to Republicans becoming more competitive in California.
Trump is making me miss Bush, so far the only thing making him slightly less worse that Bush is that Trump hasn't started a War for Fun and Profit yet.
Inter arma enim silent legesIt does not matter whether there is a cap or not. Share of the total is important not the absolute number. Sides you need to fix the housing problem anyway. Specially if The Water Knife becomes Truth in Television.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIt's so obvious now, Sean Spicer is the leaker! (/s)
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Well, those are our fellow nationals, and we're theoretically all together trying to build a better place for ourselves and our progeny and those from abroad who would join us in good faith.
I suspect they'd genuinely miss the hypocrisy of their position, given the number of commenters projecting racism and despotism upon the democrats.
If it's not too belittling, I'd look at our task as more psychiatry (restoring reality) than penal (revenge). Everything should be on the table from a S.Africa-style "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" to offering financial and other support to Republicans shown willing to combat tea partiers and other reactionaries and restore the party to, if not Lincoln, then, at least Ike. (It's either that or cower and fear for our futures every election cycle).
Then get on with finishing Reconstruction.
edited 27th Feb '17 2:48:30 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesThe War for Fun and Profit is coming. It'll probably be Iran this time, because lighting the Middle East on fire is the only place SCROTUS won't run afoul of a nuclear arsenal.
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To do that, you'd have to assume good faith from Republicans. Something they haven't had since at least Reagan and his lies about [strikeout]inner city black people[/strikeout] "welfare queens".
The best way to do that is expose them for what they are, just like what was done to the religious right in the last 30 years Showing that many homophobic senators cheated on their wives and being gay while advocating torturing the gay away camps certainly made it easier to prove what hypocritical scumbags they really were. Unfortunately I think the only thing that could do that now is to get around the press ban and make his supporters see...Trump's wife asking him to do something, him saying "Yes honey" and doing it.
Not to mention, they won't compromise again. They spent 8 years trying to stop Obama at everything and even shut down the government when things didn't go there way. They need to be replaced.
edited 27th Feb '17 3:05:40 PM by Wildcard
What do you people think about this?
Short version: the key to convincing the WWC without selling out minorities is to making narratives that highlight the commonalities between all groups.
Yeah that seems pretty accurate to me.
Democrats have an image problem. Because right now Democrats are seen as the party for the elites, globalists, cultural marxists and the lazy poor looking for handouts.
Whereas Republicans have successfully co-opted the image of the party of patriotism, manliness, anti-establishment bitterness, the middle class, the working class and family values.
So let me get this straight: all centrist Democrats are tarred with the brush of corruption apropos of nothing, but we must not put all the people who voted for the neofascist into a single box? Really?
Oh and if you want to fight "coroporatocracy" you'll want to start with dealing with the Trump fanboys since they're the ones openly advocating for it.
As a sidenote, your precious "progressive" bloc is hardly clean. Under the logic you espouse here, Sanders is a bought and paid for stooge of the NRA, as we discussed during the election.
I suppose that if this were the 90s you'd tell me all about how they "proved" Whitewater too, huh?
The Daily Kos is the definition of fringe left wing writing. The Huffington Post isn't as bad, but is still not exactly a reputable journal, and I say that as someone who reads it everyday (take a look at their coverage of GMOs, advertising for "holistic medicine" etc).
As for Chris Hedges, the guy was at one point an absolutely brilliant journalist. His book critiquing the religious right was great, as were his debate takedowns of Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. In recent years, however, he's pretty much gone off the rails, and it's a damn shame.

Monday pro-Trump rallies a massive flop as event photos show tiny crowds
That shows how much steam Trump supporters actually have without the man himself. Without him in an area, the turn out of Trump supporters is half of what it would be with him at best. It also suggests that a lot of people who were at Trump rallies in any area he is in are simply tag-along's from out of state, like a Band or a famous Speaker or even freakin' McRibs!
It also hopefully starts showing that Independents are losing patience with Trump and his ilk and are waiting for him to do something for them, not just talk about it.