The They who said it
She goes on Fox News, makes statements which are plausibly deniable while also being likely Transphobic, and is aggressively a "Both Sides are Exactly the Same Amount of Bad" pseudo-centrist. She demands instant solutions to all problems from any politician in power. Her endorsing a republican against Newsom is not a surprise, considering how fashionable it is for centrists of that stripe to say WhattaboutNewsomThough and But-His-French-Laundry-Party in their hunt for a way to justify feeling superior by "not giving into the extremists" or whatever their reasoning behind not wanting to think too hard about things is that they think makes them sound clever and worldly and not too lazy to actually look at the information that is out there.
An interesting point re: COVID-19 management and Newsom's chances: Back when recall-mania started there was some sentiment that California’s stricter Covid policies hadn’t even been effective but as of today they have about 20% fewer deaths per capita than Florida and 15% fewer than Texas
. Now true, there is apparently a lot of argument about how the tables look like after adjustment by age etc. but anyway.
I am guessing that since Florida's governor is discouraging vaccinations
plus concerns that Florida's vaccination tabs were bogus to begin with due to including non-Floridians, it's probably not going to change.
Notice how Republicans are already rolling out the election fraud claims despite much of the election not being finished yet
, to say nothing that their verbiage ("reinstated") presumes that Newsom isn't the legitimate governor...
In a move surprising few not among the politically uninformed who seem to exist purely to make shocked faces whenever the Republicans affirm that yes, they really don't like functioning democracy.
At this point, I'm actually surprised that more people aren't actively being sued by voting machine companies considering how often this whining about imaginary fraud happens.
Well, today's the day. I'm gonna vote after work and then see what happens. We will probably have a presumptive winner by tomorrow morning at the latest, even if there are some ballots still being counted.
Based on how the parties voted, we're probably going to see a big Blue lead when the counting starts due to Democrats dominance in the mail ballots. Then Red start gaining ground as Republicans vote in person today. And then another Blue shot as late arriving mail ballots come in at the end.
x3 My Republican mom said she was going to fill out my ballet for me. Surely there's no hypocrisy there.
Better an anticlimax than a shocking Wham Episode that makes fucking Larry Elder our state's new governor.
I like my politics boring, thanks.
Edited by M84 on Sep 15th 2021 at 12:04:31 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedAh, wonderful. Expected, but still nice. Of course, I'd like someone less scandal-prone than Newsom, but that can wait until we get viable candidates who don't range from "random idiot" to "aggressively unsubtly fascist" with no good stages between.
Yeah. I ended up picking the guy who wasn't called Kevin. Brandon or something. He seemed actively "fine". (EDIT: I just checked, Brandon Ross. He got Fifth Place, behind Newsom, Elder, Kevin, and Faulkner, and outperformed perennial candidate John Cox.)
Edited by Florien on Sep 14th 2021 at 10:43:33 AM
The whole thing is just California Republicans desperate for attention.
Still, CA's recall system is really bad. Why is it so easy to get a recall? And why does it function exactly like an election?
Continue writing our story of peace.
