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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The more I think about it, it's an enormous red flag that an actor, who thus far has been very apolitical to the point that I can find almost nothing about his political beliefs, not even whether he's a Democrat or a Republican, suddenly decides that he is qualified to run for Governor. Not a lower office, not something like county judge, state legislator, or the House. Governor.
At least some other celebrities, as @clement107 mentioned, do advocacy work or are activists for good causes. McConaughey hasn't really done anything in that sphere, AFAIK.
And from an interview he did with Esquire
, he sounds to me like a bothsider centrist who doesn't really pay attention to politics except to think that it's broken.
MM: I hope so. We have great distrust in the government, we don't believe them, what leaders should lead them. We're looking at politics and we're going, What's your purpose? What is politics? It sounds like a broken business. We're supposed to follow you, you're leaders? It sounds like a pep rally. All these stations put the news out and it all sounds like soft pornography. When we don't trust ourselves, then all of a sudden we don't trust others. That can lead to anarchy. We gotta find a common denominator with which we can go, Hey, I don't care what church you go to, I don't care what side of the aisle in the White House you sit on, or the capital, and what do we agree on? What are our common denominators? I think it’s gonna certain values that we can rely on.
Democrats actually have a pretty decent bench in Texas. Let's please not elevate this guy.
Illinois turning blue was after Obama's time as community organizer (I checked Wikipedia, and it seemed to be focused mostly on local issues, unlike Abrams' focus on voting rights. So I don't know that he had much to do with it.
Edited by nova92 on Nov 18th 2020 at 7:25:06 AM
Admittedly a big part of it I imagine is there's...not a lot to do, since he's already lost the election, so outrage can't really do much that isn't already being done.
Leviticus 19:34Trump has been losing his cases largely because there isn't any legal arguments to be actually made. His PA case in Federal Court will get tossed because ultimately it's two Republican voters who weren't given the opportunity to cure their own ballots by their own counties, so they're suing all other counties to get them to throw out their ballots to hand Trump the election. With any luck Rudy will get penalized by the court for wasting their time and Trump's time (as they legally have an obligation to not file meritless lawsuits on behalf of their client).
Courts are not going to rule in Trump's favour that two voters' inability to cure their ballots, or that some counties not going beyond their legal requirements, is cause to force an entire state to assign its electors to someone else.
You have to wonder how they keep replacing the lawyers that leave.
It looks like the Georgia recount is not only going as expected (i.e no big changes), some small counties after recounting are reporting the exact same tallies as before
. That and experiences elsewhere indicate that this election went through very well, with no widespread irregularities or the like. The article notes that this has drawn praise in some places.
Also, regarding the Georgia Secretary of State Trump Campaign Officials Started Pressuring Georgia’s Secretary of State Long Before the Election
. A refreshing break from Kemp although still with a "too good to be true" timbre.
Even Evil Has Standards or Pragmatic Villainy, take your pick.
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And the sooner those younger people start building up their resumes and skills, the sooner they can enter into higher level politics while still being relatively young (ie; Obama).
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