Old Freak Nasty

The Texas conundrum is that we won't develop a quality Democratic bench in the state until there's some tangible signs that there is a chance for state-wide wins. Otherwise it's just political suicide. I don't think Beto counts. With the Latino stupids trending MAGA I doubt anything will change in the state for the duration of this decade. Or we need a self funded billionaire to try and waste some of their money on a vanity campaign to make a dent in the margins enough that an establishment D can break through. Don't see one of those.

I've always thought one of the strangest long standing misconception about the two parties was that the GOP was always polled as the stronger party on the economy. It's stood through fallacy after fallacy being shattered to pieces. Will this crisis finally prove to independent and centrist leaning voters that this consensus is horseshit?

I can believe this, but is there publicly available reporting or data to suggest this figure? I'd be curious to read it.

If I was being cynical, the thin majority affords Santos a lot more teflon than appears. He could communicate to Kevin that he'll resign, thus handing over the seat to Democrats, if he doesn't get something in return. Not sure what the ask can be but we already know McCarthy has no backbone.

Is the 118th Congress finally going to break the GQPs chokehold on white men with college degrees? We know that the US will either default on its debt or will require a bottom of the 9th rally lead by Democrats or executive action by Biden to save the world's economy. Voting to preserve White Privilege matters when there is wealth and lifestyle to preserve. But these fascists are clearly showing they don't give a fuck about anything but grifting campaign funds and being reality TV stars and will happily bring down American democracy if it means they get theirs. How the fuck can anyone with a college degree vote R in 2024 anywhere on the ballot? This is insane.

I'd like to think the electorate would be wise to the GQP trying to pin the House dysfunction real-world consequences on the Biden presidency, but then I realized I put the words electorate and wise together. FNC will pin the economic chaos that's about to ensue on Biden and MAGA and other standard issue stupids are going to parrot it to anyone that will listen on Facebook. This McCarthy problem is going to become Biden's in time.

For most of the GQP said person is known to be the hostess at IHOP.

The only job offer Jay Wright will accept is $12m/yr from the Sixers. He is not at all realistic.

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Jewish population belies their financial strength and in particular how much they donate politically, with several mega-donors aligning GOP. https://www.jta.org/2020/09/24/politics/meet-the-top-15-jewish-political-donors I don't think the party wants this well to dry up. The MAGA base loves this rhetoric but the establishment is trying to wrestle control back and Trump pissing off some of these moneybags matters, especially since his elect-ability is in question so their business interests are not necessarily protected.

Picking a fight with Jews will be the end of Trump, given his already weakened political and legal standing. They are a far more powerful bloc than any group the shithead has thus far successfully vilified for his grievance wars.

Biden should offer him a pardon if he consumes a vegetable other than a fried potato.

Although I know this stunt is to strategize for her political survival, I believe she's going to retire. There's no way she'll be able to fund raise as an independent and then want to limp her way to 3% of the vote in 2024. What's the point in that? I'm not too worried she's going to give the seat away to the GQP.

If the GQP supported a generic white male suited corporate whore they would have easily won the seat. But no, lets throw our weight behind the most vile, misogynist, racist famous black puppet we can find. Lol

Agreed. So the solution is to not call out friends and family who support the guy who’s personal responsible for the dehumanization and implicated in the deaths of shootings of minorities of all stripes? I’m incredibly non-confrontational as a personality but I have started to speak up to people I love. Including one uncle who has over 30 years of very close relationships with the Bush family, invites to family weddings, etc. Their continuing support for Trump is simply disqualifying and dangerous for America. I’ve told them as much. I will say that there are some people that listen, some that ignore me and still others that may not say it to my face, but effectively have told me to fuck off because I spoke up. This is above family and personal friendships to me at this point. I hope for a day this will be gone and I can regain some of the people in my lives I’ve lost. I made a trip through the former Yugoslavia several years back and talked to a lot of locals who all said the war was just so fucking stupid with absolutely no reason for any of it. Just the people suffering for the maniacal egos of power hungry morons. I never thought I’d see my country heading to the precipice of the same. This hate is pointless, and it’s coming from one party. We have to talk about it with our close ones, and forcefully. My belief is that even if I lose people in my life, they have also lost me. There has to be a personal price to their support for Trump and if losing me is it, fine. It makes me want to cry.

Mormons are the only faction of the GQP coalition who are openly out on Trumpism and consistently vote so. It's the only place in the country that Romney can voice that much opposition to Trump, vote for impeachment, etc without risking being primaried. I imagine they do like Cheney but polls there have no bearing on GQP polls in any of the other 49 states.

Ok, so this is DEFINITELY going to happen again somewhere in the country, and likely soon.

The cabinet could have 25th amendment'd the motherfucker and rid themselves of the headache forever. The elements of the GQP that may want to backchannel Trump's demise are the "fringe" of the party. They hold no real ability to do anything to affect his stranglehold on the party. It's up to the voters to continually deny him and his minions the offices they run for since the government apparatus is built to conspire for the GQP and Trump has rendered any internal revolution impotent. He will be powerful culturally and politically until he dies which is hopefully soon. How much McDonald's beef can one consume before you succumb to it?

If this cunt doesn't go to jail I'd bet she'll be on the fast track to being the next Boobert. Moore County looks to be split between two solidly MAGA-ish districts. She's white, ex-military, marginally attractive, and has instantly won over the primary base and has name recognition with crazy.

The GOP is starting to win over the undereducated poor Hispanics and other minorities in significant numbers now so they might have a way to thread this needle and at least modestly push back on outward racism? It'll still be pretend to make sure the racists still come to the polls but they have to consolidate those gains in some way. But these poor Hispanics might just be as racist as their fellow poor undereducated whites and could be why they are attracted to the Trumpified GOP (as well as unconscious attraction to fascist style leadership). If that's the case, the lesson they take is racism works.

How much of his own money did he piss away? Haven't seen the composition of the $44bn or maybe I haven't looked hard enough. The Twitter name still has some residual value, like Circuit City.

I failed to specify that I was talking about the GQP primary. The general is different because 90% of the vote is pre-determined. The GQP woman also has to be favorably viewed unlike Clinton.

They'll have to coalesce around one before primary season begins. I have my doubts about that. Right now they think it's DeSantis but he's 44 and I think he's not going to run because his odds of winning the general election are low. But if it's not him all the roaches, many of whom have already been humiliated by Trump, will announce. Cruz, Christie, Cotton, Scott, Pence, etc. All the guys who have no chance. I think their best bet will be a woman, someone who is respected by the GQP as well as could appeal to the archetype that voted for Youngkin. Maybe Haley. It will be harder for the sledgehammer type approach he takes to these other slimy old white men to be as well received on a woman. Will be interesting to see if one wants to take on the shithead.

If Pence goes at Trump, his strategy will be the Katie Hobbs playbook. There will be no debate and we will barely see him.

Impressive showing for Qari's Election Result Protest yesterday