Didn’t Betoblose by only like 2% or so? That’s very close. If California had a republican within 5%, the GOP’d sell their moms to buy ads.
Texas is a suppressed, nonvoting, fairly purple state. There’s always a chance and this year is probably as good as it could be since reformation.
They both have an honest shot of winning the general - I hope whoever loses the primary doesn’t poison the other
I’ve liked what I’ve seen of Kat online but she’s faced accusations of carpetbagging by locals. Biss sounds decent, so I won’t be too sad if he beats Kat even if I’d prefer another brash progressive voice in congress
Any men seeking to learn Japanese from their local girlfriend, be warned: you will sound a bit gay to everyone for awhile. Fortunately, this is common enough that most Japanese won’t razz you for it
There’s already speculation that handlers at the DNC knew at the time and knowingly chose to risk losing rather than risk offending AIPAC
That’s the one that will really hurt (the right people) - Canada and EU dropping US copyright would hurt too, and if all else fails, just dump Treasuries
An illegal immigrant coming to our country and doing voter fraud? Lock him up
Pretty standard for California. Remember when Gray Davis was recalled? 240 candidates Also how we got Schwarzenegger as Gov, who ended up fine enough I guess
I think it’s kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that’s the one he’s using for this, but it’s like that. There’s a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.
As much of a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it’s bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst
Edit: this one isn’t smoot-hawley (1930), sorry. Trade act of 1974. 15%, 150 days and a lot of exemptions under section 122. Congress should still do it job
That’s somewhat true, there has been mixed local/state resistance - I was focusing on nationally. I wonder if there’s some pressure being applied behind the scenes to local Dems, fear of retribution, or if it’s mere fecklessness.
My conspiracy hat suspicions are that Dem leadership is willingly sacrificing our rights/lives and letting things get worse in the hopes of boosting their midterm election chances. Althe answer to that is progressive sweep in the primaries
There’s a somewhat valid excuse that the Dems are minority powers in house, Senate, and supreme court (which is now partisan) and the American system doesn’t grant any political power at all to a minority party against a lock-step majority.
That said, remember during COVID peaks, when Trump had his BS press conference updates? Andrew Cuomo, himself no saint, also had daily (?) live streams to give important information and quarantine/medical advice. Dem politicians could absolutely be using their voices right now to make a lot of noise - even without mechanical political power.
Some clouds don’t have silver linings after all. What an asshole. It’s always such a challenge to identify the worst cabinet member, but Jr is a top contender
There’s a weirdly vacant amorality about modern issues. I think the MIC shuffle goes something like
-CEO is obligated to enhance shareholder value, so supplies weapons (stand-in for lossy shit that doesn’t help QoL of most people), Company spreads manufacturing around a bunch of regions in a country -Government permits arm sales because otherwise weapons mfgs would cut jobs (and couldn’t develop as many new weapons for the Gov’s use)
Truly breaking out of this will probably require courage and PPE that our electeds don’t have
I get the argument, but a lot of it relies on the law being applied universally. The SAVE act’s most stringent requirements are for registration, which won’t affect existing voters, unless … the administration finds some way to purge voter rolls of legitimate voters who then have to re-register. This is partially why they’re suing states for voter rolls - even trying to extort MN’s with ICE.
In a blue wave year, Dems could make serious inroads into or even flip red states. The SAVE act would let red state politicians tip the scales with near impunity. Don’t rely on the chance that it’ll hurt their own too (or more) - assholes will use the Act to hurt you or your neighbor and it needs to be stopped
It’s got me wondering what tear gas smells like
Tell them to DM me
I wonder if DOJ tried to Honeypot the Congress folks that went to see the files with false documents. We know their searches were monitored. I hate that I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don’t know what I’d put past these assholes
And because it’s sort of close, an easy target, and he’s obsessed with a legacy. Also because he sucks
I think there’s this assumption that the more centrist a dem is, the more electable they are and that may have been true decades ago. Now though? With how polarized the electorate is, people either vote for their party’s candidate or the couch. Trump got roughly the same number of votes in 2024 (77M) as 2020( 74M) maybe he changed some minds; but Harris got 7M fewer votes than biden (81->74). People stayed home. “Not trump” wasn’t enough to get excited about for enough folks, and that’s about all Newsom has to offer
I genuinely believe Bernie is more electable than Newsom. We should give voters some credit
This is the right answer. USA is first-past-the-post voting, so vote/campaign for who you love in the primary and vote for outcome in the general