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https://twitter.com/CATargetBot0001/status/1713607786653982994 George Anthony Devolder-Santos raised -17,000 dollars in the last three months 
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mannerup fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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Oct 15, 2023 20:32
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How do you claw back a campaign contribution??
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Oct 15, 2023 20:34
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smackfu posted:How does plurality help if all the Dems vote for Jeffries? Because you would end up with a Speaker no matter what?
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Oct 15, 2023 20:34
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smackfu posted:How does plurality help if all the Dems vote for Jeffries? Do you know what a plurality is...?
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Oct 15, 2023 20:37
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Failed Imagineer posted:Do you know what a plurality is...? Oh so just basically electing Jeffries then. Good luck with that.
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Oct 15, 2023 20:39
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smackfu posted:Oh so just basically electing Jeffries then. Either electing Jeffries or forcing enough Republican unity via the threat of him. Even in the scenario I am suggesting, this only occurs if poo poo stays shut down for a while and poo poo gets really bad.
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Oct 15, 2023 20:40
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mannerup fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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Oct 15, 2023 20:41
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smackfu posted:How do you claw back a campaign contribution??
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Oct 15, 2023 20:51
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haveblue posted:I don’t think the country can make it to January 2025 without passing legislation of any kind. For one thing, a >1 year government shutdown will end in mass resignations and the complete collapse of the federal bureaucracy. The last shutdown ended when it looked like all civilian air activity was going to halt. Can’t wait to see what exerts enough pressure to end this one Isn’t there some point where the Executive Branch just fixes things on a monthly basis and Biden keeps pointing out that he won’t let the country drown while the GOP learns to swim?
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Oct 15, 2023 21:33
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ghostwritingduck posted:Isn’t there some point where the Executive Branch just fixes things on a monthly basis and Biden keeps pointing out that he won’t let the country drown while the GOP learns to swim? The executive branch can do SOME finagling things on it's own but that mostly consist of robbing peter to pay paul, congress 100% unambiguously controls the purse and has set things up so the executive needs constant affirmative permission from congress to actually spend money
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Oct 15, 2023 21:38
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Silly Burrito posted:Completely agree. Cannot emphasize enough how bad the state Democratic Party is. https://twitter.com/samkarlin/status/1713564336847802846 The GOP was assured majorities in the House and Senate before voting even started because the Democrats didn't even field enough challengers. There's now nothing holding back the Republicans from going completely ham on all kinds of horrible abortion, anti-gay, anti-trans poo poo.
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Oct 15, 2023 22:14
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PostNouveau posted:Cannot emphasize enough how bad the state Democratic Party is. $28,000??? What the gently caress man?
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Oct 15, 2023 22:24
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Silly Burrito posted:$28,000??? What the gently caress man? Did they have one fundraising dinner and call it quits?
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Oct 15, 2023 23:30
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Silly Burrito posted:$28,000??? What the gently caress man? 2 percentage points from forcing a runoff for Landry where maybe Wilson, freed from a field of like 15 candidates, can put up a fight, and they spent like 2 rounds of direct mailers in Sept.
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Oct 15, 2023 23:34
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I haven’t been paying attention to this race. Trump won Louisiana by 18 points in 2020. Why would people expect the Dems to be competitive?
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Oct 16, 2023 02:03
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smackfu posted:I haven’t been paying attention to this race. Trump won Louisiana by 18 points in 2020. Why would people expect the Dems to be competitive? I think it's more they expected dems to actually try to compete?
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Oct 16, 2023 02:09
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smackfu posted:I haven’t been paying attention to this race. Trump won Louisiana by 18 points in 2020. Why would people expect the Dems to be competitive?
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Oct 16, 2023 02:11
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National, state, and local politics can be completely disconnected from each other too.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:13
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the_steve posted:I think it's more they expected dems to actually try to compete? This is it. FlamingLiberal posted:The current governor is a Dem. He got two terms there. Now granted he was anti-abortion but still. Yeah, he was basically Republican lite but still, he was way better than his predecessor. Landry is going to take all the Fox News scary things and look at those instead of helping the people.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:17
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the_steve posted:I think it's more they expected dems to actually try to compete?
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Oct 16, 2023 02:25
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$28,000 is pathetic even in a massively red state. That's not even trying.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:30
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Biden did an interview on 60 minutes and uh, yeah he looks like poo poo. I'm half his age and if I was working the kind of long days he's no doubt been working this past week I'd look like poo poo too. But still, it's a bit concerning when the guy with his finger on the nuclear button looks like he's about to nod off any second. https://youtu.be/d403nALfQrE?si=g2pjAYYZXjf5DuE7
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Oct 16, 2023 02:37
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Sounds like... opportunity! Someone should go to Louisiana, kill the apparently frail and weak King of the Democrats there, and assume the throne as the new King of the Louisiana Democrats.Charliegrs posted:Biden did an interview on 60 minutes and uh, yeah he looks like poo poo. I'm half his age and if I was working the kind of long days he's no doubt been working this past week I'd look like poo poo too. But still, it's a bit concerning when the guy with his finger on the nuclear button looks like he's about to nod off any second. I would prefer ALL nuclear button-watchers to just nod off on the job, frankly. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 16, 2023 02:38
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mutata posted:
As long as the molly-guard is still down. Otherwise it could be an issue.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:41
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smackfu posted:I haven’t been paying attention to this race. Trump won Louisiana by 18 points in 2020. Why would people expect the Dems to be competitive? It wouldn't make any sense to expect them to win, but it's kind of disappointing that they didn't even try. Mississippi Democrats got a credible candidate who has a campaign. Once in a while the Republican turns out to be a pedophile who got banned from malls for harassing teenagers.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:48
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We have our first confirmed hate crime murder directly attributable to the current propaganda against Palestinians since the outbreak of hostilities last week. 71-year-old Chicago landlord broke into the apartment of two of his tenants, a mother and boy, and stabbed them both repeatedly. The 6-year-old boy died and his mother is in the hospital. FLIPADELPHIA fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Oct 16, 2023 03:34
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FewtureMD posted:Speaking of Santos... I love our world. Our large world.
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Oct 16, 2023 11:31
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James Garfield posted:It wouldn't make any sense to expect them to win, but it's kind of disappointing that they didn't even try. Mississippi Democrats got a credible candidate who has a campaign. Yeah, and even if you don't expect to win, politics is all about perception. You want your base to, at the very least, perceive you as having tried to win, otherwise they're going to figure the party has abandoned their area and aren't going to want to donate/volunteer/bother showing up to vote and then it just becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Oct 16, 2023 12:42
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I get that Louisana dems are bad and terrible, but can someone explain why 35% turnout is considered so bad in a non-november odd-year election? It seems to me that the whole system here exists to suppress turnout and that result seems reasonable
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Oct 16, 2023 12:47
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Ohio had just about 40% of registered voters turn up to vote down a hugely anti democratic special election amendment to our own loving constitution. Our Secretary of State estimated it would be an 8% turnout (gently caress you LaRose).
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Oct 16, 2023 13:03
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George Santos will be in Washington a very long time.
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Oct 16, 2023 13:03
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the_steve posted:Yeah, and even if you don't expect to win, politics is all about perception. Also, these things build on each other. The party should be building infostructure of volunteers, fundraisers, and candidates to build out for the future.
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Oct 16, 2023 13:06
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Foxfire_ posted:It's easy to say things like "They should run a competitive candidate in every district", but in terms of actually doing that, it means that you need people who are willing to basically drop their lives for a few months to campaign, get dragged through the media, knock on doors and do cold call fundraising, and then most likely lose by a lot in the end no matter how hard they tried. It's a lot to ask and it's hard to find candidates. I'm reminded of how in 2020 there was some republican who won in a local race against the dem incumbent and he did zero campaigning, he only did the bare minimum to get his name on the ballot (hopefully someone remembers the guy I'm talking about? I forget his name and I'm not able to find it. I wanna say it happened in New York or New Jersey?). Of course that's not the ideal way to go about things, but a minuscule chance of it working out sure is better than a guaranteed 0% chance. Especially since dems are counting on a backlash against republicans over abortion - it would make sense to make sure that no races go unchallenged just because you never know when there will be a freaky outlier result like that. Even if it just involves following in the steps of that example, it's better than nothing.
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Oct 16, 2023 13:09
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Nonsense posted:George Santos will be in Washington a very long time. Like the state? In federal prison?
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Oct 16, 2023 13:14
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Foxfire_ posted:It's easy to say things like "They should run a competitive candidate in every district", but in terms of actually doing that, it means that you need people who are willing to basically drop their lives for a few months to campaign, get dragged through the media, knock on doors and do cold call fundraising, and then most likely lose by a lot in the end no matter how hard they tried. It's a lot to ask and it's hard to find candidates. My district Dems won't even bother sending a single person to man a booth at the county fair even when they do have a competitive candidate running. The Republicans sure do show up every year, though. The complete disregard for no-brainer outreach like that makes it easy to poo poo on them. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Oct 16, 2023 13:33
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i am a moron posted:Ohio had just about 40% of registered voters turn up to vote down a hugely anti democratic special election amendment to our own loving constitution. Our Secretary of State estimated it would be an 8% turnout (gently caress you LaRose). Yeah, I think they really underestimated just how pissed off people were about that. And judging by the churches around here being plastered with “Vote No to Proposition 1” signs, they’re probably expecting this next vote to not go well for them either.
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Oct 16, 2023 13:56
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Srice posted:I'm reminded of how in 2020 there was some republican who won in a local race against the dem incumbent and he did zero campaigning, he only did the bare minimum to get his name on the ballot (hopefully someone remembers the guy I'm talking about? I forget his name and I'm not able to find it. I wanna say it happened in New York or New Jersey?). Of course that's not the ideal way to go about things, but a minuscule chance of it working out sure is better than a guaranteed 0% chance. Especially since dems are counting on a backlash against republicans over abortion - it would make sense to make sure that no races go unchallenged just because you never know when there will be a freaky outlier result like that. Even if it just involves following in the steps of that example, it's better than nothing. The GOP in Florida just signed people up with similar looking names to really screw with the election process. No campaigns or anything. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-florida-orlando-government-and-politics-b82ae695a6356d167f373d2055eef651
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Oct 16, 2023 14:08
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TVs Ian posted:Yeah, I think they really underestimated just how pissed off people were about that. They picked what would have been the new threshold for amendments based on polling for Prop 1. It was looking like it would pass something like 55-45, iirc, which is why the threshold in the special election set it to 60. It was incredibly blatant.
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There seems to be a block of House Republicans who want it to be known that they are very opposed to Jim Jordan as Speaker, but also not very organized. Part of the reason they didn't hold a vote last week was because there is a small group that says they won't support Jordan and are fielding YET ANOTHER alternate candidate. They haven't found anybody to do it yet, though. They expect to have a name nominated before the end of today and by Tuesday at the latest. https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1713674456202174929 quote:Jordan to face a challenger in floor vote Tuesday
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