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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Because I was watching KUSI a few minutes ago and there was story on someone painting an anti-trump mural in their charter school's parking lot. Said mural consists of two Aztec warriors decapitating Trump and shoving an spear through his head.
Needless to say, the school ain't taking it well and has started to cover it up and the public's reactions have ranged from shocked to an mild degree of sympathy.
Aside from reasserting that politics do affects students, I think it's an little bit on the extreme side to show your dislike of people like that.
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to breakThat's the implicit message behind the "Great Again" part of the slogan. Regressing America to a time when "uppity" womenfolk and minorities knew their place and gay people stayed in their closets and transpeople didn't exist.
Also something about economic anxiety, but we've seen recent articles and polls suggesting this wasn't that big a deal to a lot of Trump voters. At least not compared to the bigotry. And let's face it, the economic anxiety was in large part along the lines of "I don't like the fact that the Hispanic people down the street have better stuff than I do."
edited 2nd May '18 6:55:43 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedWow, Cambridge Analytics has links to Blackwa....Xe....Academi.
No wonder they're trying out the rebranding and forget strategy.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/21/cambridge-analytica-links-erik-prince-blackwater-f/
It's just rich how The '50s also were defined by every society in Western Europe and the US tearing up their floorboards to search for Russian infiltrators in their governments.
You just know that the KGB/SVR has always been itching to one up the Cambridge Five someday.
Personally I am still confident in the upcoming Blue Wave due to the fact that the data looks rather different when looking at the actual elections
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That's from Five Thirty Eight. A little more recently, they had this to say: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-horrible-2018-senate-map-couldnt-have-come-at-a-better-time/
The Top Republican for California's Senate Seat this year, the seat Dianne Feinstein currently has, is an out and out Neo-Nazi
. Patrick Little not only attended the Unite the Right Rally last year, he wants to free the US 'from the Jews', wants to limit how many Jewish People can be in Academia and Government, supports the breaking apart of the USA, denies the Holocaust, and said that if he were more Religious that Adolf Hitler would be the 'Second Coming of Christ'.
If it weren't for California's Jungle Primary system, this would only be a story of how Republicans really are devolving into a Neo-Nazi Party; but because of said System, this man has a good chance of getting into an actual contest against Feinstein, or worse, against no Democrat at all.
Has anything actully linked Trump’s aproval rise (which has been slowly going on for a while now) to events in Korea instead of the more likely culprit of a growing economy due to Obama’s economic policy desicion s kicking in?
You know, before we start wishing for a war to break out and all that jazz.
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Shit like this is why I laugh whenever someone claims California is some kind of liberal progressive paradise state. We've got plenty of reactionary assholes too.
I suspect some people are just getting more used to Trump's bullshit and think it's not so bad since the economy is doing okay.
edited 2nd May '18 7:08:43 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedRightwing propaganda has done a very good job of branding the Democratic Party as being anti-military even while the Democratic Party are the only ones who seem to give two shits about veterans. The GOP's approach when they aren't ignoring them is to pay lip service while slashing the VA budget in a bid to privatize it.
Disgusted, but not surprised
I had to point out several times during Obama's tenure that he, as President, asked for an x% raise for the military, but the Republican Congress said we only deserved (x/2)% (or less). Some of them still wouldn't believe me that yes, a Democratic President wanted more for the military than a Republican. There's this impression that the shrinking/"neutering"note of the military in the 90's was because Democrats hate the idea of the US having a military.
Guilini says
that it was perfectly legal for Trump to pay back Cohen the $130,000 in hush money Cohen spent to keep Daniels quiet because it wasn't campain money.
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I was just about to post that! I didn't know if it was important enough to do so or not.
But yeah, the exact wording Giuliani said ('[Michael Cohen] funneled [the money] through his Law Firm, and Trump repaid it') makes me find it incredibly suspect. Even if Trump didn't use Campaign Finances (and the odds are he did use Campaign Finances) to silence Daniels, it sounds like Trump did it in possibly the most dark and shady way to do it.
edited 2nd May '18 7:39:15 PM by DingoWalley1

The 6 Senate seats Democrats could maybe, possibly win from Republicans
A Vox article that is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Most of these are long shots, but with the current national environment, and certain weird situations in the individual states, who knows.
Some basic information on the likely Republican and Democratic Candidates in each state.