DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Nov 23, 2020 19:25:56 GMT -5
Your anti-democratic Republican Party (not to mention the biggest losers): The impetus for the GOP’s growing aversion to democracy is clear: It has lost the popular vote in seven of the past eight presidential elections. That is a streak of futility unmatched in U.S. history. To maintain power — and avert the Venezuela-style apocalypse that many conservatives fear will result from Democratic dominance — the GOP must rely on institutions such as the electoral college and the Senate that give outsize weight to red states. The GOP has a popular vote problem and an electoral one. Joe Biden holds a lead of nearly six million in the popular vote, of which over five million comes from one state: California. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million and California by 4.3 million. Only one Republican in the last 35 years has won the popular vote and also carried California - George Bush in 1988. The Republicans have no good strategy on how to deal with any of the "left coast" (CA, OR, WI) and those three states alone encompass just short of 15 percent of the entire national vote. Trump's entire vote in Nebraska was 556,804, or the size of the city of Fresno. It's also interesting to see that the change in parties has come at the expense of the male vote. In 1952, 60% of men were Democrats. A lot lower now. cawp.rutgers.edu/gender-gap-party-idThe electoral problem is that both parties have retreated from ideas into tribes. Pro-life Democrats and pro-labor Republicans are eviscerated. The 2020 GOP electoral strategy fell to three categories: the rural, the elderly, and the evangelical. To rebuild an electoral base, the party must cast aside one of these tentpoles, and at no small cost, embrace younger, Hispanic and Asian voters. That's the horse race in 2024--does the party rebuild itself as it did after 1936 and 1964, or start the game two touchdowns down in CA, NY, and essentially even in TX, FL, and GA? All the electoral votes from the I-35 corridor won't cover that gap. There are 18 million Generation Z kids that will be turning 18 by 2024--they're not voting for Trump II. The GOP would be wise to realize that making America great "again" (and the dog whistle that it's not great now) doesn't sell to the Instagram generation.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 14:46:51 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 19:05:40 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Nov 24, 2020 21:57:55 GMT -5
Yet further evidence that a small cross-section of the most successful companies that can and will be replaced in the Index if they don't continue to meet hand-picked metrics of "success" aren't remotely reflective of the general health or state of the American economy. One would have a better chance at arguing an inverse relationship between the Dow and the general economy than at arguing a direct one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2020 22:53:53 GMT -5
“Principled conservatives who respect the rule of law and speak out suddenly find themselves outcasts in a party that is no longer about conservativism but Trumpism.”
“If the majority of GOP politicians couldn’t be bothered to do the easy work of debunking crackpot conspiracy theories, how likely are they to do the hard work of hardening our democracy?”
In conversations with more than two dozen Michigan insiders—elected officials, party elders, consultants, activists—it became apparent how the state’s conditions were ripe for this sort of slow-motion disaster. Michigan is home to Detroit, an overwhelmingly majority Black city, that has always been a favorite punching bag of white Republicans. The state had viral episodes of conflict and human error that were easily manipulated and deliberately misconstrued. It drew special attention from the highest levels of the party, and for the president, it had the potential to settle an important score with his adversary, Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Perhaps most important, Trump’s allies in Michigan proved to be more career-obsessed, and therefore more servile to his whims, than GOP officials in any other state he has cultivated during his presidency, willing to indulge his conspiratorial fantasies in ways other Republicans weren’t.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 25, 2020 6:34:25 GMT -5
The propaganda arm (at least for the time being) of the GOP takes it in the shorts. The source of GOP "alternative facts." You have to be pretty ignorant to believe Fox propaganda. Fox News has reached a settlement with Joel and Mary Rich, the couple who sued the network for emotional distress over a false story that Fox promoted on the air for almost a week about the 2016 death of their son, Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/11/24/fox-news-seth-rich-settlement/
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Post by TC on Nov 25, 2020 9:07:42 GMT -5
What happened to all that non-interventionist "we hate the globalists" stuff Trumpism was supposed to be about?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 9:41:42 GMT -5
Tbh nobody has it tougher in this country then Republican males.
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Post by TC on Nov 25, 2020 9:52:37 GMT -5
What the
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 25, 2020 10:19:53 GMT -5
Got to love the pro-life party. This also is maybe the best summary of how petty, mean, and dumb his entire presidency was:
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 25, 2020 13:39:56 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 15:17:23 GMT -5
So as far as I can tell Republicans are anti science, truth, and health experts. They are pro voter suppression, virus, and Trump
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2020 15:23:21 GMT -5
"The working class party"
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 26, 2020 9:13:27 GMT -5
Corrupt despicable Republicans. Cynical public speech aimed at winning political power had consequences in 1860, and it surely will have consequences now. In 1861, those consequences included a four-year Civil War that claimed the lives of 750,000 people and nearly destroyed the American democratic experiment. Thankfully, we’re still a long way from that today. But the experience of 1860 should serve as a warning of what can happen when political leaders deliberately inflame their supporters, trading short-term political gain for long-term ruin. on.theatln.tc/U6hg9k9
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2020 10:58:32 GMT -5
“The working class party”
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 28, 2020 7:16:52 GMT -5
Written by my former classmate from my LCMS middle school. This also led a significant number of evangelicals to ally themselves with the Republican Party because this is where their power base existed. Pastors and evangelical leaders became spokespersons for their party. They often became unapologetic cheerleaders for politicians who lacked any moral compass or personal integrity - or concept of truth. After all, they were joined at the hip to a political party and come "hell or high water" they intended to hang on to that power. And power has become the key to national transformation in the minds of many rather than God and the Holy Spirit. In fact, numerous posts by evangelicals in the run up to the recent election insuinated that one could not be a believer and vote for other than the Republican Party. Should Christians challenge unjust laws or practices in the fabric of our society. Yes. But we have been very selective in what we concerned ourselves with. Absent from the concerns of many white evangelicals, for instance, is the concern for racial reconcilliation and justice - a concern of the prophets througout the Old Testament. And Paul, in the New. We have been outspoken on the issue of abortion and the evil that it is, and have neglected the truth that to be pro-life is to be pro-life in all situations and for all people. Being pro-life means that I care about righteousness, justice and fairness in all of society. The command, "Thou shall not kill" is stated in the negative because one cannot catalogue all the ways that we keep this commandment by enhancing the lives of those around us, caring for the needy, the hurting, the poor and the hungry, or in dealing with racism that destroys the dignity and opportunities of many - those who are without power or marginalized by society. leadingfromthesandbox.blogspot.com/2020/11/evangelicals-and-their-false-god-of.html?m=1
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2020 13:50:57 GMT -5
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Post by EtomicB on Nov 28, 2020 16:26:42 GMT -5
Why is he referring to Pastor Warnock as "it"? Folks were actually cheering, smh...
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Nov 28, 2020 18:07:43 GMT -5
Written by my former classmate from my LCMS middle school. LCMS is also a widely used acronym for Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, which I used very often in my career with the EPA. One of the subjects in the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 18 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2020 23:27:05 GMT -5
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