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FlamingLiberal posted:More than two years after South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg killed a man with his car on the highway and fled the scene, he was finally removed from office during his impeachment trial. He had been refusing to resign and forced the supermajority GOP state legislature to impeach and remove him. Don’t forget he was probably drunk, claimed he didn’t slow down because he thought he hit a deer, then returned the next morning to….make sure the deer wasn’t still suffering?
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Wonder if this moment was in the backs of the senates mind when they started working on that new protection for judges AND NO ONE ELSE law
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Jun 24, 2022 15:21
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This is going to turn North Carolina into a war zone. https://twitter.com/nc_governor/status/1540344093120798722?s=21&t=DgYOrB2hMRt4__N4TFmPOw Hopefully the gas prices keep the chuds from rolling into Asheville.
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Jun 24, 2022 15:45
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Cimber posted:I wonder though if there is a silver lining. Abortion was pretty much the thing that held a lot of the various conservative groups together. With that gone are we now going to see the high water mark of modern American Conservatism? Will the big tent republicans start fracturing? As soon as it leaked, McConnell started musing about what they’d go after next. They’re already moving on trans rights. Gay marriage is there too.
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Jun 24, 2022 16:10
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Is there any other job where you could fail as miserably as dem leadership and not be expected to resign?
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Jun 24, 2022 22:26
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I don’t follow joe biden and I think this was sent Twitter wide? https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1540468564402094080?s=21&t=d6WekK3WDVb7PvoH3397Hw Edit: never mind, I was following him.
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Jun 24, 2022 23:59
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Get used to this https://twitter.com/az_rww/status/1540544199056949249?s=21&t=2o5grLJ4YVlIFOqGDEwmcQ
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Jun 25, 2022 05:19
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Mormon Star Wars posted:In order to do what the tea party did for Republicans, you have to be willing to non-stop attack "DINOs" like they did "RINOs." Given what we have seen in the thread - that attacking Cuellar is going to far, because he has to win the election - I really don't think Democrats replicating that success is possible. People aren't even willing to suggest people go after Manchin, and he's directly responsible for a lot of our situation! To do what the tea party did for the Republican Party, you need a highly centralized, highly organized, very well funded group of people and a complicit media apparatus. The only thing organic about the tea party movement was the inherent racism‘s it used to stoke their anger. The tea party was a coordinated effort to shift Republican party and the GOP voter base in a reactionary direction in order to serve various business interests. The GOP leadership and the money behind it actively encouraged the shift, and suffered a few acceptable losses along the way from people I got primaried. The only thing they probably did not expect was a true believer Conman winning the presidency, but they got everything they wanted from him anyway. The same dynamic simply does not exist within the democratic party, as the party itself is far more focused on suppressing the left and fundraising than it is about shifting their own politics. And as we have seen multiple times, the Dems are more than happy to help promote the farthest of right wing candidates to make their own center right policies seem more progressive.
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Jun 26, 2022 17:10
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Bar Ran Dun posted:I grew up in Florida and my family lives there. I live in Washington state. It is very difficult to take arguments like this seriously when the leader ship that created the current version of the democratic party which has allowed all of this to go on for decades without any meaningful resistance are still in power with no pressure to relinquish it. I think the “lesser of two evils“ argument would be a lot more convincing if the people whose incompetence has got us to this point were facing any kind of professional consequences.
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Jun 26, 2022 17:28
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Rigel posted:I might have been thinking about Medicaid's long term care, where nursing homes make you spend down your assets. This is called the donut hole and it’s why i tell all my patients with new, progressive diagnoses to make sure they don’t legally own anything like a boat, car, retirement fund etc because it can take over a year to legally do this and they want to be prepared when the time comes.
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Jun 26, 2022 20:35
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I AM GRANDO posted:Does Biden even really want to run? I guess there’s no way for us to know, but when my grandpa was 80, he mostly liked naps. Also he was dead three years later. As bad as biden was on the trail and debates in 20, he’s worse now, and at his age the decline isn’t not linear. There’s already been plenty of anonymous quotes which sound a whole lot like his aides don’t want him speaking extemporaneously.
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Jun 26, 2022 21:53
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Also I’d like to point out that at no point in Biden’s career would he have been up to this moment. It is difficult to imagine a dem less equipped and willing to deal with the crises at hand.
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Jun 26, 2022 22:01
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If we’re just tossing names into the pot then Roy Cooper is basically centrist libs dream. Won re-election at the same time trump carried the state, has generally come down on the right side of dem idpol issues, puts NC and keeps GA in play etc FizFashizzle fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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cat botherer posted:Real talk: what would it take for Pelosi to lose her speaker (soon minority leader) status? I can’t imagine anybody but the DCCist of the DCC think she’s doing great. Enough shame to compel her to step down.
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Jun 27, 2022 22:42
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The establishment has heard the whispers eluded to in this thread and are giving joe the dreaded “vote of confidence.” https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1542440334289936386?s=21&t=WPQvhrdLITXYHH7UsJeYHw quote:People who have spoken with the president described to NBC News what’s become a familiar exercise. Biden will argue he’s the only one who can beat Trump, sometimes ticking through the names of potential Democratic candidates if he stepped aside — Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, even Vice President Kamala Harris. Then rhetorically asks: Can any of them beat his 2020 rival? So basically 1. Trump!? 2. Roe v wade 3. African Americans and suburban women Just useless
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Jun 30, 2022 10:43
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McConnell might realize that time is no longer on his side.
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Jun 30, 2022 12:33
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There goes your majority. https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1542508251589124096?s=21&t=iY8rinxNqnh3A8dYiTp1mw Hip surgery at his age is, uh, dicey.
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Jun 30, 2022 15:02
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Riptor posted:Scott had said that, had Sanders become president or whatever, he would have replaced him with another Democratic-leaning Independent. I suspect he might do the same here; keep in mind that VT elects governors every 2 years (including this November) so if Leahy were to die and if Scott were to put a Republican in his place, he'd be committing political suicide Leahy won’t be able to vote. Iron Lung posted:Not really if they do the surgery immediately. Love to take 82 year olds off their aspirin and oral anticoagulation to do a surgery that by itself drastically increases their stroke risk requiring anesthesia which at his age causes notable cognitive decline.
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Jun 30, 2022 15:30
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Cimber posted:I wodner if the people who say that abortion should be illegal in the last 3 months of pregnancy actually stop and think about who's getting abortions at that time. They think it’s just women who don’t fit into their bathing suits anymore and want to go party. There is no second thought to it.
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Not sure why you’re assuming Cheney runs as a Republican.
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Charliegrs posted:I wonder if there's even going to be a Republican primary in 2024 if Trump announces he's running. Like what Republicans are going to want to go into a debate with their orange god king? Maybe DeSantis but I highly doubt it. Plenty of grifters and people angling for (brief) cabinet positions
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Jul 5, 2022 02:22
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A scenario where penn, North Carolina, and Georgia all overturn their elections is effectively secession with them joining presumably the rest of the south east. at that point you’re in Clancy-realm. It did lead me to think about how the gop is backing themselves into a corner where they CANNOT accept a loss in 2024 (or any race in 2022) and how this is going to create pressure by itself. Pressure on the Dems as well. Like imagine a scenario where a dem victory in 2024 depends on them contesting obvious shenanigans in North Carolina or whatever with huge implied violence nationally and low level violence and protesting breaking out regionally. Does anyone think they fight?
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Twincityhacker posted:I briefly saw that there was a shooting incident in Philidephia last night on the morning news and finally had time to look it up. https://twitter.com/sharifajackson/status/1544167574837100544?s=21&t=PUOQM9c6SfnRmMwNoWtrfg Thank god for that mythril weave in his hat.
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Jul 5, 2022 16:57
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Huh. Well that’s certainly unexpected. https://twitter.com/andrewfeinberg/status/1544377749309165569?s=21&t=PUOQM9c6SfnRmMwNoWtrfg These aren’t congressional subpoenas either.
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Jul 5, 2022 19:17
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Everyone on Herschel Walker's campaign thinks he is a pathological liar and mentally unstable, but they are hanging on for the paycheck and in the vain hope that they can steer him in the right direction. It’s very possible Walker is not lying to the best of his knowledge.
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Jul 7, 2022 19:23
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Who in the world are the 6% https://twitter.com/terellwright2/status/1546463806632648705?s=21&t=DGTrhIRJeVkMJEQ7RgS50A quote:President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, as voters nationwide have soured on his leadership, giving him a meager 33 percent job-approval rating. Do that many dem donors have kids under 30? Also lmao at the random lanyard who has to convince college kids to knock on doors for biden.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
Over 65 crowd are the most likely to have seen a parent suffer cognitive decline and know it when they see it.
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Jul 11, 2022 14:41
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Using EMTALA is clever because it threatens hospital medicare reimbursement. https://twitter.com/ap/status/1546605593011650561?s=21&t=RXmAEaOsl_-_tny_sxmkZQ quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday told hospitals that they “must” provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency treatment guidelines preempts state laws in jurisdictions that now ban the procedure without any exceptions following the Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to abortion. EMTALA is a lot of things but basically if someone comes in to the er they get evaluated regardless of ability to pay. If they require advanced care they get it, and if the hospital can’t provide they have agreements with higher lvl facilities that can. Hospitals that break this law risk losing Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and huge fines.
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Jul 12, 2022 00:30
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Newsome vs Trump would be great because both he and his competitors son would both have been married to the same person.
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Jul 12, 2022 02:06
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VorpalBunny posted:Whatever happened to that dude? What will it take for these ghouls to spill the tea? Primaried, threatened to invoke “dark maga” on social media, and is currently drying out somewhere, I presume.
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yronic heroism posted:Do you have any proof of this or is it just a generic “Dems bad” speculation? Chris coons dreams of being joe manchin. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 15, 2022 10:43
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Scuffy_1989 posted:What makes you think that the writers of the Constitution, upon seeing a demonstration of an AR-15, wouldn't just say "gently caress yeah, these things look awesome for killing the British/Indians. We'll take 1,000!" ? Because none of them would want to risk one of their slaves getting any ideas.
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Jul 18, 2022 22:09
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Regardless, if the Dems manage to actually gain a seat in November, manchin needs to lose everything. There’s no functional difference between 50 and 51 dem votes.
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Jul 21, 2022 11:00
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:there's a strange tension between the democratic leadership's two primary impulses baked into the hearings. on the one hand, their proposition to their base has been 'we keep you safe from Republicans,' and as such they have to present Republicans as the existential threat to democracy they are absolutely trying to be. Yeah I think they’ve done too good of a job. They’ve really put together a compelling and well made narrative that is as complete as could be without having the inner circle confess. Unfortunately they are backing themself into a corner where anything will be a disappointment. And I have incredibly low expectations for the Dems to do anything. And unless by some miracle trump is imprisoned (lol) he and his followers will use it as vindication.
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Dubar posted:The opinion of anyone not named Merrick Garland is irrelevant to opening a criminal investigation in this case Luckily I can read his thoughts.
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Jul 25, 2022 12:53
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It's also possible that Sinema is just completely out of her depth on top of positioning herself to cash out. After her curtsy no vote and the backlash, she posted advertisements on political job boards trying to hire an advisor from advisor from Arizona.
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Jul 29, 2022 11:27
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Can’t wait to see those texts between Greenwald and Jones, and absolutely dreading the pictures sent between him and MTG.
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Thiels almost certainly smart enough to keep multiple levels between him and Alex Jones.
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Seyser Koze posted:Which power did the parliamentarian exercise to make that happen? The ability to say that a price cap on something sold by private industry is not covered in reconciliation. This is only an issue because now thune is getting it stripped to “protect the integrity of the reconciliation process.”
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