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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I keep hearing that but I've never seen anyone link to a for sure story about that anecdote. In any event, it's not like Republicans haven't lost elections before. Fox will just double down and their viewers will keep believing whatever they say, even if it's contradicting something they said previously.
Okey I will used my background in venezuela(And the fact I just graduate in political science) to said I can said exactly what is happeing here: polarization
When it come to polarization three step happen here: first it create a maniquean narrative that place any part or political actor as THE thing that is more important, so the republican is not just a party of conservative values but is THE party of tradicional values of america and whatever other thing, one can said the dems did engage a little bit with the "yes we can" and the overhype of obama but the republican went did end.
Second is the distrust of rule and rise of populism: once you decide you a holder of true values, democracy become a stright jacker, after all...if you already knew the truth, why go with democracy?
In this case the republican dosent put party over country: as far they care THEY ARE the country.
Third and final is violence, violence is normalized and eventually glorified, chosing people for larger engaging in violence, this is the final part of trump and why so many relish in their awfullness, is also why they become so incompetent, to the point they didnt repeal obamacare even with everything in their side.
ALL this happen in venezuela and it took nearly 15 years of consecutive voting and nearly the destruction of the economy for people finally saying "Okey guys, this was bad idea", compared to that the republicans still can coast a lot of good will with their base.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"IIRC, Fox was founded to make it so a repeat of America turning against Nixon didn't happen, not specifically so that a Republican didn't lose re-election.
The exact denialism and conspiracy theories regarding Trump is kind of new, though I'd say for it to happen required us to get to a pretty low place to begin with, and that took time. It took 9/11, 9/11 conspiracy theories, distrust of authority growing due to legitimate mistakes by our leaders (and sometimes things people spin as mistakes), birtherism, etc.
In addition, Trump is also very much a 'trial by fire' deal for a lot of systems that would protect his image. Intentionally or not, he's essentially playing a big game of chicken with a lot of people and testing how far people will go to defend him, and he's taking those institutions much further than they were meant to be taken.
Leviticus 19:34Today's What the Fuck Just Happened Today:
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/11/09/day-1390/
Global: Total confirmed cases: ~50,767,000; deaths: ~1,262,000
U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~10,030,000; deaths: ~239,000
Source: Johns Hopkins University
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Live Blogs: New York Times
/ Washington Post
/ CNN
/ Bloomberg
/ Wall Street Journal
2/ Biden named 13 health experts to his Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and declared the pandemic “one of the most important battles our administration will face.” Biden added: “I will be informed by science and by experts.” The panel will be co-chaired by the former FDA commissioner, former Surgeon General, and an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Yale. While Biden is unable to take control of the country’s response until after his Jan. 20 inauguration, the advisory board will work to create a plan for bringing the pandemic under control — a process Biden says will begin immediately after his inauguration – despite uncertainty over how much the Trump administration will cooperate. Biden also warned that the U.S. was facing a “dark winter” as the coronavirus continues to spread and appealed to Americans to wear mask, saying “a mask is not a political statement.” (New York Times / Washington Post / Associated Press / Axios / NPR / NBC News / Bloomberg)
3/ Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is reportedly more than 90% effective, according to an analysis by an independent data monitoring committee. Pfizer plans to ask the FDA for emergency authorization later this month, after it has collected two months of safety data. By the end of the year it will have manufactured enough doses to immunize 15 to 20 million people. Pfizer did not join Operation Warp Speed, the Jared Kushner initiative to rush a vaccine to market by providing funding for research and manufacturing. Instead, Pfizer invested $2 billion on the project and then made a $1.95 billion deal with the U.S. government to provide 100 million doses. (New York Times / Washington Post / Associated Press / STAT News / Politico / CNBC)
https://apnews.com/article/pfizer-vaccine-effective-early-data-4f4ae2e3bad122d17742be22a2240ae8
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a close Trump ally, tested positive for coronavirus antibodies on Election Day. In March, Gaetz wore a gas mask on the House floor during a vote on an emergency funding bill to fight the spread of COVID-19. (Politico / The Hill)
4/ Biden plans to sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 to reverse Trump’s policies, including rejoining the Paris climate accord, reversing the country’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization, repealing the ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and reinstating the program allowing “Dreamers” to remain in the country. (Washington Post)
5/ Trump and his campaign continue to baselessly claim widespread election fraud, alleging that observers were blocked from ballot-counting rooms. The claim is without any basis in fact and is contradicted by several of Trump’s own legal filings. (New York Times / Washington Post / Axios)
https://www.axios.com/trump-legal-strategy-fraud-45ab43eb-c5bd-4710-a227-0dceacebb511.html
6/ Mitch McConnell supported Trump’s refusal to concede the election, saying Trump was “100 percent within his rights” to challenge the outcome and “look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options.” McConnell, declining to recognize Biden’s victory, added that Trump was right to not concede the presidential race because no states have certified their results yet. Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump’s reelection effort, said conceding “is not even in our vocabulary right now.” (New York Times / NBC News / Politico)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/mcconnell-shrugs-trump-concession-delay-n1247174
7/ A Trump administration appointee has refused to recognize Biden as the winner of the election and has declined to sign a letter allowing Biden’s transition team to formally begin its work. Emily Murphy, the administrator for the General Services Administration, must first affirm the election results in order for Biden’s transition to receive the legally mandated millions of dollars in federal funding, as well as access to government officials, office space in agencies, and equipment authorized for the transition team. Meanwhile, John Barsa, the acting deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development told political appointees that the transition of power hasn’t started and will not begin until Murphy signs off. (Washington Post / CNBC / CNN)
8/ Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper by tweet. Trump tweeted that Christopher Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, would immediately become acting defense secretary now that “Esper has been terminated.” Trump nominated Esper last year as his fourth defense secretary and the two had been at odds since Esper declined to deploy active-service troops to U.S. cities at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests this summer. Two White House officials said that FBI Director Christopher Wray and CIA Director Gina Haspel could be next. (Washington Post / New York Times / Politico / CNBC / Wall Street Journal / CNN / The Guardian / Reuters / USA Today)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-defense-idUSKBN27P2IK
9/ Trump told advisers he’s thinking about running for president again in 2024. (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/trump-2024-presidential-run-4add0d86-02be-41f9-b2fd-5aaca96ce6ce.html![]()
Edited by sgamer82 on Nov 9th 2020 at 8:25:11 AM
The DOJ's top election crimes prosecutor quit in protest: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/william-barr-voting-irregularities/index.html
Personally, I think it was a really bad idea for him to do this, as he'll just be replaced by a crony who will go through with it...
Oh no, the XBOX sales! Not that XBOX was impressive to begin with.
Continue writing our story of peace.Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) will NOT support court packing or destroying the Filibuster
, saying that both are "crazy" and that removing the Filibuster would destroy the Senate. He's also against Medicare For All and Defunding the Police.
So even if we get 50-50, forget getting anything done, even stuff he agrees with. We're gonna need 51-52 Seats, near improbable but currently not impossible.
Correct, both 2016 and 2020 were outliers in terms of age. If elected Hillary Clinton would have been the second oldest president ever elected, while Donald Trump took Reagan's record for oldest, and in turn lost the record to Joe Biden.
Most presidents have taken office in their fifties, with a median age of slightly over 55.
As a note of presidential age trivia, no president has yet come from Generation X or the Millennials. Bill Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump are all Baby Boomers (Bill, Dubya, and Trump were all born in 1946, while Obama is from the trail end of the generation, having been born in 1961), and president-elect Biden is from the Silent Generation and is actually the first president(-elect) of his generational cohort.
Not if you keep the Filibuster; Republicans will filibuster literally everything that comes out of the House that doesn't have overwhelming Bipartisan Support. No Civil Rights Acts, no Voting Reforms, No Criminal Reforms, no Healthcare laws, no Green New Deal, no Infrastructure of any kind, no fixing the Tax Code (without Budget Reconciliation). Everything will be Filibustered by Republicans in a 50-50 Senate, thus nothing will be voted for.
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Nov 9th 2020 at 11:48:35 AM
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It won't, it never has, they're basically going to cause us undue grief the next 4 years because of their own stupidity. That is going based on previous circumstances. If there's anybody who I want kicked out of office more than anybody else on the Democrat's side, it's him. He's a DINO, and I don't call just anybody that.
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I believe you are correct, and I have edited.
Edited by ScubaWolf on Nov 9th 2020 at 11:59:26 AM
"In a move surprising absolutely no one"Part of why I really hope that there would just be more than two parties, because having 5-8 "moderates" who think being reasonable is crazy just gives you facepalm when you realize they are main reason why nothing gets done even if democrats do as best they could do
Not much other votes can do besides spam them mail in hopes that removes the idea of "people voted for moderates" in their head
Edited by SpookyMask on Nov 9th 2020 at 6:59:43 PM
Please enlighten us, Senator, what moderate Republicans have sprung into office from the ether since the last time they tried to remove the ACA in its entirety? One of the vital votes to prevent it from being scrapped with the far more narrow base majority than you want by committing to this hopeless notion of bipartisanship is dead.
And he thinks that even in the most optimistic scenario 8 or 9 Republicans are going to flip and suddenly support it? Ah, the words I have for people like that.

@Draghinazzo I'd say it's a matter of a million being a statistic. There are people who are good on a micro-level, but on a macro-level support sinister ideals, especially if they don't fully understand them.
Then you also have to consider topics like bigotry which by definition involve being less-nice to some than to others.
Another thing is also that society often peddles a narrative about personal relationships being more important than "petty" values like political opinions. The narrative goes something like "Family is very important. You shouldn't let politics get in the way of being courteous to your family, and should stick up for your family even when you disagree with them". Love, family, and loyalty are highly prized by our culture, if not humanity in general, yet this can be weaponized to pacify morality by making the cause of goodness look like a source of discord. We arrive at a forked-tongue society where people use one tongue to loudly speak kind words to 'their' people (who are expected to be kind in return) while using their other tongue to whisper evil things.
However, I would advise people to consider something Jesus once said in the book of Matthew starting in chapter 10, verse 34: "Do not assume that I came to bring peace to this Earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be members of his own household".
Leviticus 19:34