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I went to elementary school with Desantis and have this stupid dirt on him. It's the elementary school poetry he wrote for our school literary magazine. Hope this sinks him in 2024.  Edit: this is the worst snipe.
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I went to elementary school with Desantis and have this stupid dirt on him. It's the elementary school poetry he wrote for our school literary magazine. Hope this sinks him in 2024. We all write stupid and cringey poo poo in our school years but it’s entirely on us to move past it. I’m betting that Ron never did.
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Nov 9, 2022 07:15
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Edit: this is the worst snipe. Do you know what a snipe is? Also, how exactly is this bad?
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Nov 9, 2022 09:46
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R's are pretty pissed at Trump right now. Talking all kinds of poo poo about him. I wouldn't be surprised if Biden, DNC et al aren't particularly perturbed about Florida. Before tonight Trump would've swatted DeSantis like a fly. Now DeSantis has the clout, and the environment is much more favorable, for him to get in some real body blows against Trump before he hits the mat.
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Nov 9, 2022 10:05
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-Blackadder- posted:R's are pretty pissed at Trump right now. Talking all kinds of poo poo about him. DeSantis lives safely in the Florida state media bubble, Trump shouldn't be afraid of him at all. Charlie loving Crist made DeSantis look like a constipated baby on the debate stage, Trump will eat him alive. There is only one Lord of the Chuds. Trump's real problem is that he's not selling when the national election results come in.
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Nov 9, 2022 10:15
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trump's still in a better position than he was in 2015 i think (to win the gop primary i mean)
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Nov 9, 2022 10:22
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Desantis is only getting if Trump drops dead before the election. If he's not picking up the GrubHub tab for Mar-A-Lago to encourage Trump to eat all the McDonalds he wants he's already behind.
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Nov 9, 2022 10:28
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I went to elementary school with Desantis and have this stupid dirt on him. It's the elementary school poetry he wrote for our school literary magazine. Hope this sinks him in 2024. Best snipe. At least he'll be the first presidential candidate to exhibit signs of dementia in the 7th grade
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Nov 9, 2022 10:31
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-Blackadder- posted:R's are pretty pissed at Trump right now. Talking all kinds of poo poo about him. Except they know for sure Biden can beat Trump and the risk is someone new beats Biden.
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Nov 9, 2022 10:59
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Sodomy Hussein posted:DeSantis lives safely in the Florida state media bubble, Trump shouldn't be afraid of him at all. Charlie loving Crist made DeSantis look like a constipated baby on the debate stage Crist still got blown out. As did Clinton after she clobbered Trump in debates. It's long been known that Debates don't shift opinions. It wouldn't be DeSantis' debate skills that would doom him, it'd be his questionable ability to generate Trump-level enthusiasm and his weird unlikable prick personality. It's also unknown if his 3rd World Iron fist dictator schtick will actually play on the national stage. Regardless, Trump clearly is afraid of him. And the Midterms aren't helping. But don't take my word for it. yronic heroism posted:Except they know for sure Biden can beat Trump and the risk is someone new beats Biden. But since Trump is almost certainly running, DeSantis would have to beat Trump in the primary (which apparently people seem to think is somewhat unlikely) if he were to face Biden. Which leaves us back at DeSantis just softening up Trump. But who knows, maybe we'll get a nightmare scenario and Trump and DeSantis will unite. Doubtful Trump's ego would allow it, but the Harris/DeSantis debates would be uniformly terrible.
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Nov 9, 2022 11:52
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-Blackadder- posted:Crist still got blown out. So in a local red state where you are the incumbent governor, the winds are with you and it doesn't really matter that you're a charisma black hole when all the party and donors are invested in you. None of this is the case when you go up against the king-in-exile and voters are looking for who excites them, not Guy with (R) Next to His Name. Now I don't think given these results tonight that Trump wins in 2024 but he's going to sail through the primary unless he dies. All of these guys doing their best Trump impression have absolutely none of his charisma or low animal cunning.
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Nov 9, 2022 12:15
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-Blackadder- posted:Crist still got blown out. Is there any reason DeSantis isn't just running as VP? He is young enough, he would get the cred even if Trump loses and he would be the designated heir in 2028 either way since Trump won't probably be able to run then either way. Is he just a similar impossible narcissist fascist megalomaniac? He's a Republican politician, isn't their spine surgically removed and lips surgically attached to Trump's rear end in a top hat as a routine procedure now?
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Nov 9, 2022 12:37
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-Blackadder- posted:But who knows, maybe we'll get a nightmare scenario and Trump and DeSantis will unite. Doubtful Trump's ego would allow it, but the Harris/DeSantis debates would be uniformly terrible. Didn't the GOP say they're not gonna do presidential debates anymore?
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Nov 9, 2022 12:44
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DarkCrawler posted:Is there any reason DeSantis isn't just running as VP? He is young enough, he would get the cred even if Trump loses and he would be the designated heir in 2028 either way since Trump won't probably be able to run then either way. Is he just a similar impossible narcissist fascist megalomaniac? He's a Republican politician, isn't their spine surgically removed and lips surgically attached to Trump's rear end in a top hat as a routine procedure now? Well, Trump would have to pick him as VP and I doubt he's interested in that.
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Nov 9, 2022 12:44
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Prism posted:Well, Trump would have to pick him as VP and I doubt he's interested in that. What the gently caress he cares? Just kiss his rear end and he'll love you. He's not going to go with Pence, right?
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Nov 9, 2022 12:47
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Looks like Fetterman won if I'm reading correctly, so that's good. Sucks about Texas, though I can't say I'm surprised
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Nov 9, 2022 12:57
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the_steve posted:Sucks about Texas An evergreen statement
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DarkCrawler posted:What the gently caress he cares? Just kiss his rear end and he'll love you. He's not going to go with Pence, right? I envy your ability to forget just how insanely paranoid and petty Trump is. It doesn't matter how much DeSantis sucks up, the minute Trump catches wind that the media has seen him as a contender for the nomination and has at least occasionally polled higher, he will not let go of it.
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Nov 9, 2022 13:30
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Overall the results aren't great and we don't know the full damage yet, but it looks like the Red Wave didn't quite deliver. Senate stays in Democratic control for the next two years, and while Republicans are probably going to take the House, it's looking to be a single digit majority. A lot of races still left to be called though.
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Nov 9, 2022 13:34
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Also Doug Mastriano isn't my governor, so trans people and abortions will stay legal in PA for the time being.
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Nov 9, 2022 13:35
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Yeah, being one of Trump's toadies involves an endless cycle of personal humiliation and abject debasement in order to stay inside the inner circle. It's poison to someone who's trying to build a strong national profile.
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Nov 9, 2022 13:37
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I am glad NY kept Hochul even though I don't give a poo poo about her personally. Just the (remote) threat of a NY Republican governor for 4 years at this point in history was terrifying. I live in an area with a lot of Zeldin signs and entitled white people with Fox News addictions, so it was hard to get out of that anecdotal headspace.
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Nov 9, 2022 13:40
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Looks like all the abortion-ban ballot initiatives failed, thank Allah Abortion on the Ballot https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-abortion.html
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Nov 9, 2022 13:43
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Do we know how a hypothetical Trump/DeSantis primary (or if you prefer, Trump/DeSantis vs DeSantis/Trump tickets) poll nationally? Like yeah DeSantis has an insane army of Floridian devotees, but Trump has oke of those in all (or lets say most) states not just Florida. Like is there a big idk Idahoans for DeSantis movement
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projecthalaxy posted:Do we know how a hypothetical Trump/DeSantis primary (or if you prefer, Trump/DeSantis vs DeSantis/Trump tickets) poll nationally? Like yeah DeSantis has an insane army of Floridian devotees, but Trump has oke of those in all (or lets say most) states not just Florida. Like is there a big idk Idahoans for DeSantis movement Anecdotally (NC/NY), I've heard my very Trumpy relatives speak fondly of DeSantis pretty often, and my less-Trumpy-but-still-Republican relatives even moreso. I mean, Fox News loves him and talk show hosts hate him, so that's basically all you need to know. The rest usually flows pretty predictably out of that. Of course that still tells us relatively little about "undecided voters" but I'm not convinced there's really any way to know that ahead of time at this point. From skimming the news this morning, it certainly seems like the narrative is solidifying around "GOP didn't do great, Trumpy candidates failed, DeSantis excelled." Including Fox News.
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Nov 9, 2022 13:59
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I went to elementary school with Desantis and have this stupid dirt on him. It's the elementary school poetry he wrote for our school literary magazine. Hope this sinks him in 2024. Can I throw this gorgon rear end poetry on Twitter
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Nov 9, 2022 14:21
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I went to elementary school with Desantis and have this stupid dirt on him. It's the elementary school poetry he wrote for our school literary magazine. Hope this sinks him in 2024. Who bit who? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fof40yqaW1U
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Nov 9, 2022 14:25
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In good news, Michigan has a Democratic house, senate and governor for the first time in like 40 years!
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Kloaked00 posted:In good news, Michigan has a Democratic house, senate and governor for the first time in like 40 years! Does that mean the poison water gets fixed?
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Nov 9, 2022 14:32
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-Blackadder- posted:Crist still got blown out. DeSantis is short with weird stubby little arms and can't wear a suit well. This is ultimately what would really doom him nationally.
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skylined! posted:DeSantis is short with weird stubby little arms and can't wear a suit well. This is ultimately what would really doom him nationally. Counterpoint trump willingly wears bad fitting suits and leans like his property’s foundations and yet he still commands a following
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DeSantis’ biggest downfall is he’s a short-tempered rear end in a top hat that can’t channel that energy to smarmy “burns” on his opponent. Trump followers just love his schoolyard bully energy. It’s got all the finesse of a 13 year old who thinks he’s roasting his enemies with his sick burns. They love that poo poo. DeSantis just gets angry and becomes an rear end in a top hat. That’s not bigly enough for them.
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Nov 9, 2022 14:46
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Looks like all the abortion-ban ballot initiatives failed, thank Allah Where's that pushing two red buttons meme? Becoming pro-choice to align with the electorate at large Double down on making 10 year olds carry to term Next cycle we are going to see some Republicans candidates announce that they are proudly pro-choice (with "reasonable" caveats to being against "late term abortions").
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Nov 9, 2022 14:50
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davecrazy posted:Next cycle we are going to see some Republicans candidates announce that they are proudly pro-choice (with "reasonable" caveats to being against "late term abortions"). There won't be. There is a substantial minority of republican voters who are single issue anti abortion. They'll vote against them in the primaries and won't turn out for general elections. The GOP is wedded to the anti-abortion movement and has no choice but to keep pushing abortion bans in order to keep this group motivated.
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[quote="Morrow" post="527600396"] There won't be. There is a substantial minority of republican voters who are single issue anti abortion. They'll vote against them in the primaries and won't turn out for general elections. The GOP is wedded to the anti-abortion movement and has no choice but to keep pushing abortion bans in order to keep this group motivated. I don't see how this does not crack the religious right/country club coalition. The Republican party can not continue to hang its hat on a major plank that is 70/30 against them.
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Nov 9, 2022 15:16
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I went to elementary school with Desantis and have this stupid dirt on him. It's the elementary school poetry he wrote for our school literary magazine. Hope this sinks him in 2024.
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Nov 9, 2022 15:36
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I guarantee they will. They will just continue to game the system as much as possible in order to enforce minority rule. They already have a propaganda empire that is making stupid people fearful of others instead of caring about policy so they have a baseline of voters, now they just have to continue gerrymandering and voter suppressing and winning supreme court decisions on their voter maps.
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I love that some right wing idiots are complaining that they didn’t run hard enough on culture war bullshit That’s absolutely not what I saw, they were open about supporting a national abortion ban and attacking trans people
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FlamingLiberal posted:I love that some right wing idiots are complaining that they didn’t run hard enough on culture war bullshit the one thing that republicans did reasonably well, aside from noted idiot lindsey graham who was immediately stuffed into a sack and thrown in a river, was to shut up about their goal of a national abortion ban and to say wishy-washy stuff that could have sounded like that they wouldn't impose one the second they got a chance problem is, that was not a particularly convincing lie
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So how long until states start passing laws raising the voting age to 40?
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