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At an assembly at Fairbanks' West Valley High School in 1995, Young was answering questions about cutting federal funding for the arts. He said that such funding had "photographs of people doing offensive things," and "things that are absolutely ridiculous." When asked for an example, Young quickly replied "buttfucking",

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According to data from the Department of Justice, in 2018 the number of deaths in state prisons hit the highest level since recording started in 2001. Though illness accounted for the vast majority, homicides and suicides also set records. Preliminary data for 2020 show deaths in state and federal prisons increased by 46% over 2019—unsurprisingly, given how fast covid spread inside. Violence may well have increased too, but it is hard to tell, because state departments of corrections often do not release information about it (local jails, which are usually reserved for suspects awaiting trial, are even worse). So evidence is patchy. A single jail in St Louis had four riots last year, as prisoners protested about delays to their court hearings.

some plague rats posted:

Just wondering, under the new regime do we have to respond to this like it's an actual argument, or are we allowed to say "drat, that is stupid as poo poo"? mods?

some plague rats posted:

Why the rush to change subject? You can just let people talk about stuff, sanctions are currently eventing from the US, right? It's not like we're pushing over people who want to talk about other stuff and slapping the books out of their hands or anything.
Pretty sure that thread would die on the vine, because sanctions aren't a big enough topic to sustain an entire thread, which is what seems to happen every time this gets tried. It comes across as the mods going "stop talking about this, but in a way that's your fault instead of mine".

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Former Representative Will Hurd is running for the Republican nomination in 2024. He is technically the first candidate to officially enter.

He's going to run as a compassionate conservative who advocates tax cuts, a focus on conservative issues that resonate with black and hispanic voters like school choice and religious liberty, stopping the focus on transgender and CRT issues, and bringing a muscular American foreign policy back to the world after Joe Biden's pullback of America.

Basically, 2002-era George W. Bush.

We'll see how that works for him.

He would also be the only African-American and youngest Republican candidate.

That makes Hurd the only confirmed candidate and the following are potential candidates:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/will-hurd-2024-book/629398/

FizFashizzle posted:

Surely this is just grift. She’s barely coherent at this point.

https://twitter.com/jwpetersnyt/status/1510044599393427461?s=21&t=1cfBNzkcrRNuOpNbeou5qA

Bugsy posted:

Nancy Pelsoi has covid.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/politics/nancy-pelosi-has-covid/index.html

And Merrick Garland, along with bunch of other people including the commerce secretary and Adam Schiff got covid over the weekend at a fancy party as well.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/merrick-garland-covid-19/

Republicans posted:

It would be funny if the last one managed to hang on through nostalgia like the last blockbuster video.

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These challenger campaigns are largely quixotic, run by veterans, political newcomers and local elected leaders who can muster barely a small fraction of the money, organization and news media attention as their incumbent opponents.

They also lack endorsements from former President Donald J. Trump, a critical weakness for Republican voters still loyal to him.

Still, there is precedent for upset wins against powerful incumbents. Just two years ago, Ms. Boebert was a restaurant owner with no elected experience when she ousted a Republican incumbent by running a savvy pro-Trump campaign.

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The latest upstarts are trying to tap into something different: a sense of voter exasperation with fringe views and the unending cycles of provocation and outrage that feel tailor-made to maximize social media clicks and donor response.

Mr. Morgan describes himself as an earnest outsider — a former soldier who opposes abortion and wants to finish Mr. Trump’s border wall. He said he would be conservative but not combative, adding that Mr. Gosar’s ties to white nationalists and censure have tarnished voters and cost the district clout.

“I think people are ready to get along again, to come back together,” he said, sounding almost Bidenesque at times in his appeal to comity.

The message is resonating with at least some Republican and independent voters who count themselves among the nearly 80 percent of Americans who say they disapprove of Congress and want to register their disgust of both parties by voting out any incumbent.

“The Republican Party stinks, too,” said Dale Kelley, a real estate agent in Bullhead City, Ariz., who signed Mr. Morgan’s petition largely because he was an outsider and veteran untethered to Washington.

Some Republican voters said they had grown embarrassed by members of Congress who promoted QAnon conspiracy theories, jeered at Mr. Biden’s State of the Union address or talked of cocaine-fueled orgies.

Coylynn Colbaugh, who runs a turquoise mine with her husband outside Kingman, said the antics “give us a bad name.” She is planning to vote for Mr. Morgan in the primary.

Some also disapproved of a handful of far-right Republicans who voted against measures such as sending American aid to Ukraine, economically punishing Russia or investigating it for war crimes. In Georgia, Jennifer Strahan, a health care consultant who is challenging Ms. Taylor Greene in the Republican primary, has sharply criticized the congresswoman’s rhetoric on Ukraine.

“Our congresswoman is serving as a megaphone for Putin and communist Russia, parroting Putin talking points and belittling Ukrainian freedom fighters,” Ms. Strahan said.

selec posted:

The one officer in the station’s radio wasn’t working either per NYT.

Either this dude got really lucky or…well, you know.

GreyjoyBastard posted:

"I wish iowa wasn't the first state primary"

finger on monkey's paw curls and now we get to pay disproportionate attention to New Jersey

mastershakeman posted:

Imagine them trying to eat dipped Italian beef

Tnega posted:

In today's "the only thing we can do is the impossible" news, New Jersey and Oregon are considering lifting their self-serve gasoline bans.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

https://twitter.com/eyokley/status/1518598149081808896

Main Paineframe posted:

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

When they finally did try to take him down in an organized way, they went all in on family values, abortion, and infidelity to try and sink him with evangelicals. But, they apparently didn't know their base well enough to realize that evangelicals really cared a lot more about the racism and "saying what we're all thinking" than they cared about family values, religion, and infidelity. And once Jerry Falwell endorsed Trump and Trump swore up and down he was as pro-life as they come, the abortion single-issue voters ended up on his side.

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Representative Conor Lamb was supposed to be a Democratic rising star — a Marine veteran, former prosecutor and Pennsylvania moderate who had won in Trump territory and swing suburbs alike. Scores of Democratic officials endorsed him in his run for Senate, eager to pick up a Republican-held open seat and have him roll into Washington next year to bridge the partisan chasm.

It hasn’t quite worked out that way.

Mr. Lamb now heads into the state’s Democratic primary on Tuesday on a much less competitive footing than he or his supporters had hoped. He trails by double digits in polling behind John Fetterman, the shorts-wearing lieutenant governor whose outsider image has resonated with the Democratic base.

Two distinct forces appear to have worked against Mr. Lamb: his campaign’s strategic missteps and his misfortune to be running at a time when Democrats, much like Republicans, are rejecting their party’s centrists.

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Some Democrats appear more eager to elect fighters than candidates who might be tempted, like party moderates, to block their priorities.

“ look at him as another Joe Manchin,” said Elen Snyder, a Democrat and member of Newtown Township’s board of supervisors in Bucks County, referring to Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the Democrat who has stymied the White House on many issues. Her local Democratic committee interviewed Mr. Lamb but declined to endorse him.

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Still, his progressive politics — he was an early backer of Bernie Sanders — and iconoclastic style have made him well-liked by the party base and created an online fund-raising juggernaut. Mr. Fetterman’s approval with Democrats in the state was 67 percent in a recent Franklin & Marshall College Poll, compared with 46 percent for Mr. Lamb.

“Fetterman astutely ran a campaign focused on Democratic voters more than Democratic elites,” said J.J. Balaban, a Democratic strategist in the state.

BiggerBoat posted:

I'm OK with it.

Slowpoke! posted:

We are going to get some wild post-Congress poo poo from Madison Cawthorn for the rest of his life, which given his age, will probably be longer than all of us posting here.

Rigel posted:

Looks like the error mostly benefitted the Democrats, though. 5 out of 6 undercounted states was a red state, and 6 out of 8 overcounted states was a blue state. Not really surprising given how the GOP was making GBS threads on the census while the Democrats were making a big deal within their states about getting everyone to respond.

theCalamity posted:

How are we defining authoritarian here? Probably should get a shared understanding of what everyone is working off of

BiggerBoat posted:

Ray Liotta died at age 67

Is that a current event?

selec posted:

It’s just that we observe the same things, but come away with different understandings of what they mean. I think it’s the unbreachable divide of materialist focus and analysis vs a faith in the entrenched liberal hegemon.

VideoGameVet posted:

Dallas Morning News:



I don't think the police are going to be able to talk there way out of this mess.

The Sean posted:

What you linked to was an opinion piece and lists no full, complete, concrete law that supports your argument. Nothing about what you linked to, even the conclusion, supports your argument. It is incredibly clear if you actually read it. He'll, even read the conclusion that you just quoted. It doesn't support your argument with any objectivity. I would say "nice try" but it's not clear that you tried.

Exactly this.

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