That's actually a pretty good idea. People could do it on their lunch hour, since most people don't work close to their polling place.
I work in a different county though. :/
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That's actually a pretty good idea. People could do it on their lunch hour, since most people don't work close to their polling place.
I work in a different county though. :/
That's rad but that's kinda fucked up that wasn't the default.
The nation needs mail in vote
There aren't actual Jews here in the States that are falling for Trump's "I and the GOP are the ones who love Isreal and the Jews and the Dems are anti-Semitic" bullshit, right? Right!?
Because fuck me, as someone with Jewish family members we're all outraged that he's going with this narrative. And with Netanyahu being his BFF it's even more infuriating becasue it makes it appear as though Jews are aligned with him.
Because fuck me, as someone with Jewish family members we're all outraged that he's going with this narrative. And with Netanyahu being his BFF it's even more infuriating becasue it makes it appear as though Jews are aligned with him.
It's a good idea as long as you don't allow your local governments to go "YOU CAN VOTE ANYWHERE, LET'S CLOSE THESE UNNEEDED POLLING PLACES IN MINORITY AREAS TO SAVE MONEY!"
Making AIPAC the enemy isn't going to help Dems cause here either
While there are conservative Jews, this AIPAC posturing is more for the evangelicals and racists.
Something I didn't know- topsoil lead is associated with behavior difficulties with young boys, but not young girls. (I suspect this isn't "they're affected less" but instead "Male Hormones x Lead Poisoning" has different and more noticeable negative interactions) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X18303174
And people wonder why I'm a-ok trading WWC votes for college educated ones.
And people wonder why I'm a-ok trading WWC votes for college educated ones.
If he were elected the GOP would immediately blame him for making race relations worse by being a black president, just like they did last time.
Yeah, what I should've asked is whether his messaging is working on Jews who aren't already conservative shitstains. Like, there aren't liberal or moderate Jewish voters who will be swayed into going for Trump in 2020 due to this bullshit I hope? Not in significant numbers, anyways.
3rd highest Dem demographic group behind black and LGBT americans IIRC.
I mean at this point saying you support a two-state solution just looks stupid anyway. Settlement construction has made the idea of a contiguous Palestinian state physically impossible now.
There are undoubtedly older American Jews who are in that audience.
Jesus H. Christ. This day is something else.
Put this one along side "No clear links to Russia"
When I look at people like this, I just wonder why they think "unification is a possibility.
1) Assuming Democrats were open to this, it would require movement on the GOP/Political Right side as well. Do they perceive a current, specific olive branch that would make this possible?
2) Another possibility would be for one party to assume the beliefs of the other party, whole cloth. Do they support the Democratic party taking up the same positions as the GOP?
3) Are they just lazy and don't want think about politics too much?
It's a thread about Russia trying to influence the outcome of Madagascar's elections, and likely make them puppets.
The fact that the Justice Dept itself put out a statement saying there was no wiretapping done and we're here right now is nutty. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/02/obama-trump-tower-wiretap-no-evidence-242284
I hope not. One side of my family has been longtime Republican, though often socially liberal, they appreciate the :ahem: fiscal responsibility of R's while Israel is often the cornerstone issue for them. It's like the one issue that rises above(though limiting estate tax being secretly the one true topic, but they proudly fly the Israel flag).
During Bush, it was a heavy topic as all the kids fought back against the bullshit rhetoric but they filled their day listening to anti-Obama bullshit and it was frustrating.
With Trump, they hate him. They say they voted Hillary in 2016. But every so often they try to weasel in a compliment for the guy. I think they were pleased on the decision to move the embassy, but I literally cannot even discuss Israel anymore with them so I dunno.
Boomers are really the worst generation.
I think it's pretty clear that when people ask Democrats to unify they country, they mean for Democrats to give up their policies and ideals to move to the right. They'll give lip service to some magical method of negotiating groundbreaking compromises, but deep down they just want the people trying to change the status quo to stop trying.
I suppose that we're still supposed to believe that that these are just accidents?
Every overture to a conservative Jewish constituency by the GOP has essentially been a shot straight to the heart of Evangelical supporters. It's the most transparent shit at this point that it's not Jewish support they're looking for as much as the veneer of it while pumping Evangelicals way up.
I think part of it is just being less informed, part of it is laziness (saying both sides to blame is easier for a Republican or Republican-leaning voter to accept that their party is single-handedly to blame for the intractable stonewalling in Congress over the past decade), and part of it is not just not wanting to acknowledge the enormity of the situation. It's like climate change: most climate deniers are not people with large investments in oil companies, they just don't want to accept we're on the precipice of some world-altering phenomenon that their lifestyle to date is partly to blame for and rather than make serious adjustments in their lives and way of thinking to accommodate this, it's easier to just tune out and pretend like everything will be fine if we just keep doing what we're doing. Similarly, nobody wants to think that the rift between left and right in this country is impossible to bridge because it kind of breaks the whole premise of the country: the United States.
Platitudes about bringing everybody together go down easier than indictments of centuries-old institutions that the country is built on.
I hate it too, but anyone thinking calls for bipartisanship, unity, decorum etc isn't an effective tactic with the broader electorate needs to step outside the Internet bubble. Few people will ever see Republicans as "the enemy" - there's a reason your racist uncle keeps getting invited to Thanksgiving every year.
They're white, old, and male. Which is the prime demographic of both the GOP and the WWC voters who abandoned the Dems over the past 50 years due to civil rights, a process that Reagan deliberately accelerated by attacking union power- we were holding onto those voters by delivering benefits via the union, and once the benefits cut off, they started voting on social issues instead.
This was my takeaway. Fucking unreal.
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*based on what Trump claimed, also with no evidence or claims of evidence
Yeah uh this is kind of unsettling.
They're so confident about this lately it's like they know, or think they know, the DOJ's position on the ACA minus penalty tax being unconstitutional has a really good chance of being reality. Barr seems to think so too based on his behavior yesterday.
Oral arguments in the district court start early July, then it ends up at SCOTUS, which will take additional time... it's like the timing of this is going to go right up to the 2020 election isn't it? Is that the end game? Grassley hinted at this taking at least a year.
And their promise of it covering pre-existing conditions is empty. How are you covering it? A high risk pool? Higher premiums?
Not to mention what happens to anyone else when they want coverage if they can't get it at work or are in between jobs?
No mention of that.
But yeah if SCOTUS kills ACA right before the 2020 election that's going to give a boost to Trump voter morale, no question.
This is fucking disgusting.
This guy is dumb as fuck and legit thinks San Antonio is some type of dystopian warzone thanks to it's Hispanic population
That explains the insane depth on the policy front holy shit.
Look forward to him bringing this up a lot if Beto is the nominee.
I'd be surprised if he even realized that Beto is from El Paso.
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