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The Illinois primaries are tomorrow and I've done basically zero research. I'm in IL-5/Sen District 20/Rep District 40. How should I vote if I want maximum gay space communism?
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Mar 20, 2018 03:35
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SirPhoebos posted:The Illinois primaries are tomorrow and I've done basically zero research. I'm in IL-5/Sen District 20/Rep District 40. You have an internet connection. Newspapers usually have sample ballots available, so you can see who is running. Google their names and see who you like.
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Mar 20, 2018 03:43
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evilweasel posted:Cuomo is fairly ruthlessly competent in a sort of amoral and occasionally extremely old-time machine politics corrupt way. But politically he is very, very, very middle of the road and has been One of the problems with Cuomo is that his "fix the MTA" and "fix the NYCHA" and "fix Upstate" all end up being "I will undermine whoever is doing it now, swoop into the rescue, then funnel public money at my cronies to ostensibly do it with as little oversight and follow-through I can get away with." There's a big set of trials in Albany, most recent one leading to a conviction on half the counts, of his various associates related to Upstate ventures which have consistently flopped.
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Mar 20, 2018 13:38
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about working to recapture the NY legislature and has at times seemed to prefer having republicans control it so that he doesn't need to be pushed left at all. He badly wants to run for President and would be a terrible candidate. He has done some very good stuff like came down like a sack of bricks on gun nuts in the aftermath of the sandy hook shooting, has pushed to improve the MTA somewhat and has tried to work on infrastructure projects (however there's a strong tendency towards budget gimmicks instead of spending money, and not actually stamping out the hilarious corruption that makes subways cost 5x-10x per mile what it costs in any other developed city on the planet). But he also routinely has childish fights with NYC's mayor (who is basically the epitome of "good positions, terrible at governing") that are a pain in the rear end.
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I'm kind of curious when candidates in Utah are going to notice Mitt Romney's fingers on the destruction of Toys 'R' Us. Plus the iHeart/Clearchannel bankruptcy, but that's a reorganization so I doubt anyone will care. edit: I think Romney wasn't actually around when Bain organized the Toys R Us LBO, but that sort of detail seems easy enough to "accidentally" lose in a tv ad. evilweasel fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Mar 20, 2018 15:20
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evilweasel posted:I'm kind of curious when candidates in Utah are going to notice Mitt Romney's fingers on the destruction of Toys 'R' Us. Plus the iHeart/Clearchannel bankruptcy, but that's a reorganization so I doubt anyone will care. Unless footage comes out of Mitt diddling a child, he's going to be the next senator from Utah. Nobody there who would vote for him would care if he had a hand in ruining companies. He's a tall wealthy Mormon guy and that's what matters.
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Mar 20, 2018 15:26
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evilweasel posted:I'm kind of curious when candidates in Utah are going to notice Mitt Romney's fingers on the destruction of Toys 'R' Us. Plus the iHeart/Clearchannel bankruptcy, but that's a reorganization so I doubt anyone will care. That said, if another successful Mormon businessman were to throw his* hat in the ring, things could get interesting. * There are some successful Mormon businesswomen, but this being Utah I'm not sure how they'd fare in a primary up against Mitt.
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Mar 20, 2018 15:39
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lol, she's still bitter over losing https://twitter.com/THR/status/976153167154040832
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Mar 20, 2018 19:34
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What qualifications do you even need to be a lesbian, I thought it was pretty simple
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Mar 20, 2018 19:37
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VitalSigns posted:What qualifications do you even need to be a lesbian, I thought it was pretty simple She's actually been a straight woman all along 
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Mar 20, 2018 20:11
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evilweasel posted:Plus the iHeart/Clearchannel bankruptcy, but that's a reorganization so I doubt anyone will care. Wait, iHeartMedia was ClearChannel? All of the sudden this bankruptcy fills me with schadenfreude...
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Mar 20, 2018 20:15
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VitalSigns posted:What qualifications do you even need to be a lesbian, I thought it was pretty simple She missed the exams, she’s lesbianing without a license. Real talk gently caress that lady, what a jerk.
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Mar 20, 2018 20:16
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VikingofRock posted:Wait, iHeartMedia was ClearChannel? All of the sudden this bankruptcy fills me with schadenfreude... yeah, since radio is a dying business they rebranded. but it's the sort of bankruptcy where the stockholders get wiped out, the lenders become the new stockholders, and the company goes on without much change except they have less debt.
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Mar 20, 2018 20:29
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SirPhoebos posted:The Illinois primaries are tomorrow and I've done basically zero research. I'm in IL-5/Sen District 20/Rep District 40. It's a little late (polls close in 1 hour) but the Suntimes Editorial Board did a pretty good Q&A with a lot of candidates, google the name and Suntimes and you'll see them. Here's your incumbent's (Quigley) https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/5th-congressional-district-democratic-candidate-mike-quigley-2018-illinois-primary/ You had the "cannibis candidate" in your district who apparently was lying about being a professor, lying about being in the FBI, lying about being at the Pentagon 9/11, and also apparently stood on a woman's chest? https://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2018/03/08/i-fell-in-love-with-the-cannabis-candidate-then-i-got-burned
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Mar 20, 2018 23:59
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Lightning Knight posted:She missed the exams, she’s lesbianing without a license. That's not even the best part, it's the back to back doublespeak praising Cuomo for two ideas that completely nullify one another. Well, it's the funniest part, I guess.
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Mar 21, 2018 00:00
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evilweasel posted:I'm kind of curious when candidates in Utah are going to notice Mitt Romney's fingers on the destruction of Toys 'R' Us. Plus the iHeart/Clearchannel bankruptcy, but that's a reorganization so I doubt anyone will care. The level of cartoon villainry that Bain has gotten up to came up a lot during his presidential run. There were people arguing that he only founded the company and that the worst offenses happened after he had no influence but it really didn't accomplish much; that company has always been lovely and greedy. That's a stain Romney will never be able to fully wash away. Hardcore Republicans probably won't care but the guy has been involved in economic piracy. Hard to say he worked for his fortune when Bain just runs around pillaging everything it can get its hands on.
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Mar 21, 2018 01:04
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evilweasel posted:Cuomo is fairly ruthlessly competent in a sort of amoral and occasionally extremely old-time machine politics corrupt way. But politically he is very, very, very middle of the road and has been He's single handedly staying in the way of unified Democratic government in the state by supporting "democrats" who caucus with republicans. He will give Liberals crumbs but he's standing in the way of basically any progressive achievements in the state. He's also a blatantly corrupt, horrible person. evilweasel posted:I disagree. Especially as you get more local, there's a lot of stuff a mayor or governor needs to do that aren't ideological and just need to be done competently. I don't care how competent a legislator is, I care that they vote the right way. But a mayor or a governor has a lot of actual running stuff they need to do, and if they're bad managers and generally incompetent at getting stuff done, that's bad. The NY governor controls New York City's subway system and a lot of other mass transit stuff, and those organizations are poorly run and hilariously corrupt: fixing that is an issue that doesn't really fit into an ideological niche nearly as much as just general competence. Cuomo did well to a certain degree with that (getting the 2nd Avenue Subway up and running "on time" after its fourth delay) but has been very bad in others (still denying it sufficient funding and not doing a good job scooping out the hilarious corruption, in large part because he's a very competent machine politician who likes corruption). Personnel is policy. I trust the people Cynthia Nixon would hire 1000x more than the thugs and goons who work for Cuomo. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Mar 21, 2018 01:07
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mcmagic posted:Personnel is policy. I trust the people Cynthia Nixon would hire 1000x more than the thugs and goons who work for Cuomo. This. He's like Ulysses S. Grant without the charm.
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Mar 21, 2018 03:06
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Was hoping Marie Newman was going to overthrow the Lipinski... 
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Mar 21, 2018 03:23
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Spiffster posted:Was hoping Marie Newman was going to overthrow the Lipinski... It's gonna come down to like 1000 votes... Ugh. ILL Dems also nominated a neo liberal trust fund oligarch for Gov. So poo poo night all around. mcmagic fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Mar 21, 2018 03:52
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The only shining moment in IL politics was voting out Joe Berrios for Cook County Assessor. Everything else was mostly a disappointment. I get to have my choice of billionaires for governor, woo.
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Mar 21, 2018 11:54
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https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/976445773327093760 Dem in TN-SEN is up 5 points, 46-41!
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Mar 21, 2018 15:04
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axeil posted:https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/976445773327093760 Wow. I'd assumed that was a longshot but that really puts the Senate in play.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:06
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evilweasel posted:Wow. I'd assumed that was a longshot but that really puts the Senate in play. Bredesen was a very popular governor. I figured he'd have a shot. Blackburn is a lunatic, as well, which helps.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:17
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evilweasel posted:Wow. I'd assumed that was a longshot but that really puts the Senate in play. Yeah if TN is in play maybe we can start hoping for the Senate. It makes the math a lot easier as if you win TN you can afford to lose one of ND/IN/MO/WV instead of needing to run the table. I'm of course assuming we pick up AZ and NV already.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:20
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Re:Senate... We still don't know whats going to happen with the 2 MS races plus there will PROBABLY be 2 seats open in AZ too. 3 of those 4 could flip in this climate.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:21
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https://twitter.com/TheNVIndy/status/976308032807215104 https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/976308429684817920 https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/976311814764941312 oh my god it gets better. Dirty Dean Heller is 24 points underwater in favorability and already losing by 5. Wrap it up Deanailures.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:29
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axeil posted:https://twitter.com/TheNVIndy/status/976308032807215104 He's done.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:30
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axeil posted:https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/976445773327093760 Laughing my rear end off that Republicans spent 8 years attacking Obamacare from the left and promising everyone they have a super-secret plan to fix it, then getting into power, scribbling "gently caress you" on a napkin and trying to pass it thinking people weren't going to be pissed.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:38
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VitalSigns posted:Laughing my rear end off that Republicans spent 8 years attacking Obamacare from the left and promising everyone they have a super-secret plan to fix it, then getting into power, scribbling "gently caress you" on a napkin and trying to pass it thinking people weren't going to be pissed. The really funny part is that outside observers were all pretty drat sure this was going to happen because Obamacare was the original GOP healthcare plan from the 90s. You either have to argue healthcare isn't a right which uh, good luck, or you're stuck with what happened with the GOP where they scream about it, get power, and realize they can't do poo poo.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:42
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Getting Bredesen to run was a massive get for Tennessee Dems. He was extremely popular as a Governor with mostly moderate stances that attracted a lot of Republicans. He brought the Titans and Predators franchises into town, and was instrumental in making downtown Nashville a popular tourist attraction instead of a skeevy place you wouldn't want to venture to.
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Mar 21, 2018 15:47
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Bredesen  there's a name I haven't seen in....my god has it been twenty years?Really popular mayor of Nashville when my husband lived there, and he didn't piss off bumpkin TN to boot.
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Mar 21, 2018 16:07
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axeil posted:The really funny part is that outside observers were all pretty drat sure this was going to happen because Obamacare was the original GOP healthcare plan from the 90s. You either have to argue healthcare isn't a right which uh, good luck, or you're stuck with what happened with the GOP where they scream about it, get power, and realize they can't do poo poo. If they had just expanded Medicaid in red states and said "gently caress the deficit" and dumped money into the subsidies until exchange plans became affordable they would have ruled the country for a generation. After election night I was worried Trump might not have been lying about everything and we were about to get whites-only socialism. But nope every bit of extra deficit spending had to go to the oligarchs, they could not help themselves from trying to kill 2/3 of the country.
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Mar 21, 2018 16:10
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VitalSigns posted:After election night I was worried Trump might not have been lying about everything and we were about to get whites-only socialism. I was also basically looking at the version of Trump as interpreted by a pair of Bern>Trump crossover voters who interpreted Bernie first as an isolationist and Trump first as a populist with an actual spine for populism. I was similarly concerned that, with a little bribery and enough anti-immigration action to make any improvements in quality of life attributable to "we secured 'are borders," a ruling class of comfortable-enough, employed-enough, white heteronormative Americans could have locked us down for the coming decade.
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Mar 21, 2018 16:17
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Bird in a Blender posted:The only shining moment in IL politics was voting out Joe Berrios for Cook County Assessor. Everything else was mostly a disappointment. One other shining moment: It's a very minor victory since it was only in a handful of precincts, but the referendum to lift the ban on rent control got >75% support.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:21
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CaptainRightful posted:One other shining moment: It's a very minor victory since it was only in a handful of precincts, but the referendum to lift the ban on rent control got >75% support. I say this a lot, but the referendums in Illinois don't mean poo poo. They are non-binding, and essentially just an official poll of the public. They can be used to try and sway politicians towards one side of an issue, but we're still reliant on somebody actually passing a law, so really nothing has changed yet.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:29
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Bird in a Blender posted:I say this a lot, but the referendums in Illinois don't mean poo poo. They are non-binding, and essentially just an official poll of the public. They can be used to try and sway politicians towards one side of an issue, but we're still reliant on somebody actually passing a law, so really nothing has changed yet. Yeah, that's why I said "very minor". But at least now the issue is in the public eye with significant support among those who voted.
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Mar 21, 2018 19:42
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What I can't get over is how close to 50% Bredesen's getting. Is there a credible Libertarian in Tennessee, or do they even allow third parties on the ballot? I imagine his path to victory is eeking out 49% win like Tester managed to do. Still, good news.
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Mar 21, 2018 20:22
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Getting Bredesen to run was a massive get for Tennessee Dems. He was extremely popular as a Governor with mostly moderate stances that attracted a lot of Republicans. He brought the Titans and Predators franchises into town, and was instrumental in making downtown Nashville a popular tourist attraction instead of a skeevy place you wouldn't want to venture to. and he's a former insurance company exec who kicked about 200,000 people off medicaid
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Mar 21, 2018 21:55
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VitalSigns posted:After election night I was worried Trump might not have been lying about everything and we were about to get whites-only socialism. RIP Steve Bannon: Not Nearly As Much Of A Mastermind As He Thought He Was
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Mar 21, 2018 22:35
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GreyjoyBastard posted:RIP Steve Bannon: Not Nearly As Much Of A Mastermind As He Thought He Was All according to Bannon's plan.
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