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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
John Mc Cain may have done well with the ACA but he was in no way separate from the problem.
For Republicans specifically, it started in 1964 with Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater.
For the country as a whole, it's been with us for as long as the United States of America have existed as a nation. There has never been a time in American history when we were not fighting this battle. Only the names have changed.
Well, the names and the fact that we've been making slow but steady progress in it.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 12th 2020 at 2:09:29 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Mc Cain is what I'd call A Lighter Shade of Black amidst the other archconservatives and reactionaries of the GOP.
How's that?
No, I'd like to know the logic for the reason that...again...she was a complete joke. McCain never would have picked her if she'd known how unqualified she was.
The Tea Party was already a huge deal and laying the groundwork for Trump but she had nothing to do with that.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Nov 12th 2020 at 3:02:59 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I don't think Murdoch is going to take this lying down. And between the two of them, I'd be much more afraid of Murdoch than Trump, irrespective of Trump's current position.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Nov 12th 2020 at 8:03:20 AM
PBS frontline: “A Serial Liar”: How Sarah Palin Ushered in the “Post-Truth” Political Era in Which Trump Has Thrived
But a new FRONTLINE documentary traces the use of online misinformation at high levels of the American political conversation back years further: to Sarah Palin, a former Alaska mayor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate.
“She is the first of a generation of politicians who live in a post-truth environment. She was, and there’s no polite way to say it, but a serial liar,” Steve Schmidt, who helped lead John Mc Cain’s 2008 presidential campaign and pushed him to choose Palin as his running mate, tells FRONTLINE in the documentary America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump.
“She would say things that are simply not true, or things that were picked up from the Internet,” the former GOP operative, who had also worked as a campaign adviser to President George W. Bush, continues. “And this obliteration of fact from fiction, of truth from lie, has become now endemic in American politics. But it started then.”
Edited by M84 on Nov 12th 2020 at 7:07:04 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedAlright, you've convinced me. I suppose I liked to think she was not as important a figure in the political sphere as she came and someone who hurt the GOP rather than changed it.
Fun fact: Mc Cain tried to get Susan Collins before Palin.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
He actually wanted Joe Lieberman at one point, but Lieberman was too liberal for the Republican Party.
Some positive news out of New Mexico. From AP News
and the NM Political Report
In the primary, 5 conservative Democrats in the state Senate lost primary challenges [1]
(two were even supported by Sen. Martin Heinrich [2]
). In the general election, Democrats lost two of those seats to Republicans, but kept three, and picked up another three across the state. On the whole, the balance of the state Senate has shifted further to the left. Democrats held the state House as well, with a comfortable majority, so hopefully they'll be able to get some good things done.
New Mexico is also a state with one of the largest Hispanic and Native American populations (by %) in the nation. This year, all three of their House Reps. are either Native or Hispanic women, and the number of Indigenous, Black, and LGBTQ people elected to the state legislature has increased as well. [3]
Edited by nova92 on Nov 12th 2020 at 3:49:24 AM
Trump is lashing out at Fox News heavily and is now promoting News Max and OANN.
I surely they lost favor for bailing out of the Trump boat before it sinks completely and certainly part of their audience will be gone.
But if I were to find a violin small enough to play a sad song with, it would be in the Planck scale.
Edited by AngelusNox on Nov 12th 2020 at 9:22:50 AM
Inter arma enim silent leges
Rupert is currently at the old-age of 89. Somehow, similarly with Donald, I doubt he will be around much longer.
Trump is targeting faithless electors now: https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1326989666055299074?s=20
I can't tell if this is a stealth parody: Republicans should own the Libs by abolishing the Electoral College
.
Either way, I laughed.
My musician pageFrom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Meet Georgia's 16 Democratic electors
The 16 are avowed Biden supporters who have worked for years to flip Georgia, which last voted for a Democrat for president in 1992. They'll cast their ballots for the former vice president on Dec. 14 if he maintains his lead over Trump, which now hovers around 10,000 votes.
Atop the list are two of the most familiar faces in state politics: Stacey Abrams and U.S. Rep.-elect Nikema Williams, the party's chair.

Yeah, I think it's fair to say Mc Cain had a few redeeming moments and qualities but it isn't enough for me to look favorably upon him overall.