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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 3, 2024 12:36:39 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 3, 2024 13:17:31 GMT -5
Panic! Along with your flailing and failing cult leader! Effing morons. Especially with your convicted felon taking a percentage off the top- his version of the viggerish to pay his legal fees! Republicans are racing to plug a massive money hole — before it’s too late. The leader of House Republicans’ biggest super PAC told donors last month he needed $35 million more to compete with Democrats in the fall. Senate GOP campaign chair Steve Daines used his primetime speaking slot at the Republican convention to lament that massive spending from Democrats was keeping him awake at night. And his House GOP counterpart warned that their party’s challengers trailed Democratic incumbents by a collective $37 million at the end of June. Republicans were already worried about a glaring financial gap even before Kamala Harris’ rise. Now, with the election just two months away, they found themselves in an even more dire position: Democrats have seen a flood of enthusiasm in recent weeks, they’re far outspending Republicans on air and their donors are more energized than ever — with campaign finance data showing a surge in grassroots fundraising in late July after President Joe Biden dropped out. Panic is starting to set in. www.politico.com/news/2024/09/03/republican-campaign-money-problems-congress-00176947Trump’s campaign spent nearly $30 million in legal fees during the second half of 2022. His fundraising agreement with the RNC sends donations to his campaign and a political action committee covering his legal bills before they reach the party itself. thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4698795-rnc-co-chair-lara-trump-fundraising-donald-trump-legal-fees/
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 3, 2024 19:01:08 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 3, 2024 19:42:34 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 3, 2024 20:27:35 GMT -5
"Republicans" are truly morons who are unable to learn the lessons of the past shutdowns. I looked at what caused each of the five prior crises and what the polls said after they were resolved. The results bode poorly for Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his fellow Republicans: Since 2010 at least, the public has always blamed and soured on the GOP more than Democrats in the wake of these standoffs. fivethirtyeight.com/features/government-shutdown-polls/
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 3, 2024 22:58:56 GMT -5
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 4, 2024 10:02:24 GMT -5
For the “vote with my wallet” crowd, Harris should be the obvious choice. Despite what Trump and his band of lying buffoons tell you, his tariff plans are atrocious and would lead to stunted economic growth, if not a complete reversal of the strides made against inflation. If he would make the economy worse, there is literally not a single thing that he beats Harris on (unless of course you think dehumanizing and treating immigrants as vermin is a plus). All of his policies are considerably less popular than hers. www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/goldman-sachs-economic-downturn-trump-1235094814/
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 4, 2024 18:38:17 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 4, 2024 20:29:32 GMT -5
Who cares, she's just another whack job RINO. Just ask the Republican voters in Wyoming. Better get ready for a military tribunal, Liz.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 5, 2024 0:41:36 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 5, 2024 0:49:17 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 5, 2024 7:29:20 GMT -5
SOCIOPATH #1 + SOCIOPATH #2 = MAGA GOP ticket JD Vance’s repeated digs at childless women are worse than you thought In the latest installment of “JD Vance insults childless people,” which arrived last week, the Republican vice-presidential nominee turned his attention to teachers. “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child,” he told the Center for Christian Virtue, in remarks unearthed from 2021. “... That really disorients me. And it really disturbs me.” It would have been an odd thing for almost anyone to say, but, as many immediately pointed out, it was an especially strange sentiment from a practicing Catholic, given the battalions of nuns who have long been the backbone of religious education in America. Something even more hopeless than misogyny, not a worldview as much as a brain wiring. Vance did not say he found childless teachers pitiable; he said he was “really disturbed” by them. Vance did not say he found childless voters uninformed; he said they lacked “investment.” Vance did not merely use “childless cat ladies” as a lazy punchline; he lamented that “we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it.” In this way of thinking, someone who does not have children could only possibly be interested in children for nefarious purposes. Someone who does not have children could only possibly vote in their own immediate self-interest, rather than caring about the future of the country as a whole. These people could not have a direct stake in anything that exists outside themselves, because they could not care about anyone outside of themselves. In short, Vance seems to think that people who do not have children also cannot have empathy. And by revealing that, he may have revealed the limits of his own compassion. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/09/04/jd-vance-women-children/
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Post by CTHoya08 on Sept 5, 2024 8:41:10 GMT -5
The amusing part of this line of thinking to me is that my mother always said she was more Republican-leaning before having children ("Why would I want to pay higher taxes when I don't even have any kids in the schools?"). The selfishness that he's projecting onto childless women is actually far more in line with the (overwhelmingly male) libertarian Silicon Valley types that bankrolled his entire career than the "broaden the social-safety net" policies of the Democrats.
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Post by tashoya on Sept 5, 2024 9:38:54 GMT -5
For the “vote with my wallet” crowd, Harris should be the obvious choice. Despite what Trump and his band of lying buffoons tell you, his tariff plans are atrocious and would lead to stunted economic growth, if not a complete reversal of the strides made against inflation. If he would make the economy worse, there is literally not a single thing that he beats Harris on (unless of course you think dehumanizing and treating immigrants as vermin is a plus). All of his policies are considerably less popular than hers. www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/goldman-sachs-economic-downturn-trump-1235094814/Unless, of course, like the orange idiot, one has no conception of how tariffs work.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 5, 2024 16:59:21 GMT -5
Speaking Of tariffs
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 5, 2024 18:39:04 GMT -5
Of course she had notes, they were written on her hand. What, you couldn't tell that? And Walz had notes too, they were taped to the back of Kamala's head. What, you couldn't tell that either?
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 5, 2024 18:53:46 GMT -5
In speech, Trump repeatedly insults Jewish Americans who back Democrats Former president Donald Trump, in a speech Thursday to Jewish Republicans, repeatedly denigrated Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats and warned, without evidence, that Israel “will no longer exist” if Vice President Kamala Harris becomes president. Trump has long questioned how Jewish Americans could vote for Democrats, even as polls show they support the party by wide margins, and Trump’s rhetoric toward the voting bloc is criticized as antisemitic. “I don’t understand how anybody can support them — and I say it constantly — if you had them to support and you were Jewish, you have to have your head examined,” Trump told the Republican Jewish Coalition. “They’ve been very bad to you.” The Harris campaign responded to Trump’s speech by arguing he has not been as consistent of a supporter of Israel as he claims to be. The campaign noted, among other things, that Trump was reportedly angry at Netanyahu for congratulating Biden on his 2020 election victory over Trump, who continues to deny the result. “Donald Trump has made it obvious he would turn on Israel in a moment if it suited his personal interests, and in fact he has done so in the past,” Harris national security spokesperson Morgan Finkelstein said in a statement. “Meanwhile, the Vice President has been incredibly clear: She has been a lifelong supporter of the State of Israel as a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people.” Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, denounced Trump’s repeated criticism of Jewish Americans who vote Democratic. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/05/trump-harris-republican-jewish-coalition/
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 5, 2024 19:12:41 GMT -5
The problem is, as with everything with Trump, his behavior has been normalized. Literally nobody else in the history of American politics could get away with something this completely nonsensical. But this is just Trump being Trump. Our mainstream media is utterly failing right now. It’s the complete opposite of what right-wingers believe: the media treats this absolute buffoon and imbecile with kid gloves.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 5, 2024 19:22:54 GMT -5
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