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GlyphGryph posted:This is a lot less contradictory when you recognize that the fully expanded statement is "Cut taxes for me". They do. It's just that the party never seems to be able to counter right wing narratives. Every Democratic attempt to make tax rates more equitable gets twisted as "TAX INCREASES FOR EVERYONE."
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I apologize if this isn't the right thread, but are there any polls out there tracking the Wisconsin Supreme Court election? How worried should we be?
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Bird in a Blender posted:There have been very few polls, the ones that exist show Protasiewicz (D) with a slight lead. She is way ahead in fundraising though, so that should help. Yeah. Vallas is going to run away with it, right?
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Apr 4, 2023 03:37
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Any Wisconsin news or is it too soon to tell?
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Apr 4, 2023 19:44
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Artonos posted:The Wisconsin polls close at 8 central and we should get an initial surge of vote counts dropped then. Wisconsin doesn't allow counting absentee or early votes til election day. It sounds like a lot of people are stressing out over whether Milwaukee and Madison turnout are going to be high enough to overcome high turnout in GOP-favored areas. Heartburn fuel.
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Apr 4, 2023 20:02
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Automata 10 Pack posted:https://twitter.com/Simon_El_Gato__/status/1643304035494113280?s=20 There's bad weather there too, right? It's hard to tell what's going on since there's no Jon Ralston-like pundit for Wisconsin as far as I can tell.
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metachronos posted:As a WI resident, so do I. Any suggestions on an account to follow? I’m going through election needle withdrawal.
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Apr 5, 2023 01:02
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Ballots coming in from Chicago now. https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1643408224689823747 Wisconsin polls close at 9pm EST/8pm CST.
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Apr 5, 2023 01:27
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https://twitter.com/Uncrewed/status/1643414874834235394 https://twitter.com/Uncrewed/status/1643417667922010120 Huh. This is better for Brandon than everyone expected...
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Apr 5, 2023 01:58
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Velocity Raptor posted:So my own dumb rear end can follow along, who are we rooting for in Chicago and WI? Brandon is the more progressive mayor. Vallas is the police-approved centrist choice. In Wisconsin, most people who are lurking these totally-not-dead forums will want Janet Protasiewicz to win. Daniel Kelly is the GOP choice and has worked with organizations to justify the case for overturning election results that the Republicans don't like.
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Apr 5, 2023 02:11
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I don't know if the Wisconsin State Senate race is going to go for the Dems, though. How likely will impeachment be if the GOP candidate wins? drat. It looks like a nailbiter. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...c®ion=NavBar It switched leads just when I was typing this out.
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Apr 5, 2023 02:52
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Some of those WI ballot initiatives look like the kind of depressing stuff that always seems to win even though they're horrible in execution. Hopefully people don't suffer too much more because of them.
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Apr 5, 2023 02:56
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The NY Times seems to be racheting back the percentage of votes counted for Sinykin. I can't tell if that's a good or bad sign.
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Apr 5, 2023 03:04
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Knodl's back in the lead with 87% of the vote in according to the NY Times. He's ahead by 720 votes. I have no idea what this district is like and am counting on Twitter strangers I don't know whether hope is now gone.
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Apr 5, 2023 03:11
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https://twitter.com/IPreferPi314/status/1643442184870596613 Is this true? I don't feel like looking it up.
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Apr 5, 2023 03:38
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Automata 10 Pack posted:No, I think they need a supermajority in congress as well. From what I could tell before running out of gas, a supermajority in both houses lets you override governor vetoes. I believe you only need a supermajority in the senate for an impeachment, but it's up for legal debate (for now) whether judges are impeachable under Wisconsin law. EDIT: Looks like Sinykin couldn't quite pull it off. That's hell of a Gerrymander the GOP has. https://twitter.com/elium2/status/1643445452451241984 https://twitter.com/elium2/status/1643445682534072320 I don't know if this guy is super reliable, but it seems to make sense. Others seem to be confirming the same point. https://twitter.com/NapervillePol/status/1643444798358003713 Eric Cantonese fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Dr. Mantis Toboggan posted:I am a random goon who lives in Milwaukee and I have come to the same conclusion from looking at the Milwaukee and Waukesha county clerk sites and comparing them to past election results. I looked up those two Milwaukee wards and they only contain industrial/commercial buildings. River Hills went roughly 700/500 Evers/Michels last year, and the places in Waukesha county are all very red. It looks like it'll be recount territory. Is it worthwhile for Sinykin to pay for that recount?
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Apr 5, 2023 04:20
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I guess the story in Wisconsin is going to be all about potential impeachment now. I wonder if the GOP has enough political vulnerability (or if there's enough hesitancy within their faction on the current Supreme Court) not to do it.
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Apr 5, 2023 05:01
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Class3KillStorm posted:In a way, wasn't that how Biden ended up winning last time, though? Sanders was way ahead on delegate count and everything in the early states, until Super Tuesday, when the more conservative Dems rallied around Biden and the number of delegates flooding his way ended up totally upending that race. If Klobuchar or Buttigieg or Harris or even Warren managed to get some real momentum (and not just media hype) out of the early primaries, Biden would have just sputtered out. Biden's late approach only looked like it worked out because the other "moderate" candidates kept cannibalizing themselves. DeSantis does not have this dynamic running against Trump.
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Apr 6, 2023 20:59
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nine-gear crow posted:loving hell, are you people EVER going to run out of goddamn Kennedys? No.  Robert Kennedy alone had 11 children.
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I AM GRANDO posted:This is a strange poll question. Aren’t people supposed to vote for the candidate with the policies they like the best? If elections were all about policies, then this world would probably be a lot better off. People don't work that way (and what you can blame for that is up to endless debate).
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Apr 10, 2023 14:14
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:It should be Trump dipping his well done steak in ketchup. Everybody has known about the well done steak and ketchup thing for years. If it didn't disgust people then (and it should have), it's not going to work now.
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Apr 14, 2023 16:50
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Has Mike Judge been vocal about "woke" stuff? In the past, he seems to have gone out of his way to avoid saying anything particularly partisan. Liberals and conservatives can both pick bits of his stuff that suits their views and I'm sure he'd love to keep it that way.
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Apr 14, 2023 18:57
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uninterrupted posted:It's kinda wild that for all the focus liberals focus on trumps Clemson McDonalds banquet, they've never found a player that complained about it. Ha. I have to say that I do love free McDonalds as well.
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Apr 15, 2023 20:45
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:In a surprise to nobody, McConnell says they will oppose any effort to replace Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee because Democrats just want to do so to "ram through their radical judges." Is there anything he can do about that?
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Apr 18, 2023 19:29
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Grater posted:It says something, not sure what, but the fact that fox keeps canning “talent” at what appears to be top of their game (to their mouth breathing fans) somehow doesn’t faze anyone. I hear people talking about Don Lemon and carlson the same breath, talking about them as if they are completely identical. That one is “left” and the other is “right” means that they faced the exact same situation, circumstances and their departures mean the same thing and their dismissal will have the same impact (to the left is the insinuation). If Don Lemon is a symbol of the left, then politics in the US is even more messed up than I thought.
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Apr 24, 2023 21:18
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Nonsense posted:I think Biden likes having her around. She had to put herself into lovely tasks, also I'm sure he was happy Obama didn't drop him. I don't think Biden was flailing as much as Harris has been with the VP role. If nothing else, I don't remember unhappy Biden gossip at the level of whatever is leaking out about Harris' camp's morale.
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Apr 26, 2023 14:55
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McCarthy managed to get some proposed debt ceiling legislation past the House, but 4 GOP Reps voted against it. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/26/debt-ceiling-house-passes-gop-bill-mccarthy-tries-to-draw-biden-into-talks.html I wonder how this will all end.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Didn't the new head of CNN say he wanted more balanced coverage? https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column Like others have said, CNN’s owner wants to chase money by shifting rightward.
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May 11, 2023 04:14
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Florida's on the verge of collapse?
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May 16, 2023 17:50
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Well, those all seem like someone else's problem and not DeSantis' problem.
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May 16, 2023 17:59
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Did I miss this coming up? Anyway, I don't know if this deal that the Biden Administration managed to help put together is too little too late, but at least there's an agreement. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1660741267867705344
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May 23, 2023 02:14
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Boris Galerkin posted:Does the NYC subway close for the night? Because the Paris one does or did. I remember this very clearly because I was Very Drunk and could not use the metro to get to my hotel, and I tried hailing a taxi but people kept walking up the street ahead of me to hail a taxi first and this kept going on forever. We walked home that night and it was bad times the next morning. The NYC subway operates 24/7, but trains start getting fewer and farther between late at night.
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May 27, 2023 00:35
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Any news on the debt ceiling? Is Kevin McCarthy flying too close to the sun?
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May 31, 2023 17:12
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Clarste posted:Uh, even if you allocated the independents 30/70, D still wouldn't win so I'm not sure what your point is here. The point is that Sinema is worthy of contempt because she will spoil the race for the Democrats and lead to another Republican senator in what should otherwise be a winnable state.
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May 31, 2023 21:10
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I don't know if you'll ever have a left-leaning news network beyond whatever MSNBC is in America. How do you attract advertising to a network that caters to a political demographic that less inclined to buy stuff?
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Jun 5, 2023 16:39
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Morrow posted:A few former Presidents attempted to go back to their old offices, but the only successful one was Cleveland. His vice president had died a year into his term and was never replaced. Very trivial fun fact: John Tyler is the earliest president with a living grandchild. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler His brother died back in 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8MOFhXm5U Tyler was having kids until his 70s.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Even when Democrats actually do decent things, they sure as gently caress don't want to advertise it, because then voters might start expecting them to do it more often. There's some level of this, but with respect to things like Bail Reform in NY, it's also hard as hell to explain succinctly to the hordes of easily-scared suburban voters and I think a lot of the more centrist/conservative Dems probably would love to reverse it.
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World Famous W posted:i don't know if it's still in schoolyard or whatnot since im pushing forty, but i remember in my childhood a "game" called 'smear the *****' (it very much a slur in this case) which was just an excuse to kick the poo poo out of anyone suspected. my brother grew up in that same environment so it probably has something to do with it for him I remember about 15 years ago or so it finally sunk in to me what "queer" was referring to. The version played where I grew up was like an informal version of rugby.
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