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You're not kidding. https://apnews.com/article/new-york-florida-midterms-takeaways-bed284c7228aa63565957f2d7820e403

I'm in the education should be free/forgive it all camp. That said, this all seems like a really good move, unless I'm being naïve. The $10k will get the attention, but the 5% cap seems like a very huge positive to me.

Good for him. https://www.businessinsider.com/25-year-old-endorsed-bernie-sanders-won-primary-in-florida-2022-8

He sought foreign interference in a US election. He incited an insurrection against the peaceful transfer of power. He paid off a porn star with campaign funds. He attempted to overturn the count in Georgia. He's openly threatening the DOJ. And as many here will point out, that's just the tip of the iceberg. He should have been in prison before he even reached the Oval Office. I sincerely hope you're on the right side of this and will celebrate right along with you if things work out that way.

Yep.

https://www.ibtimes.sg/mexican-journalist-killed-hours-after-publishing-story-about-local-officials-involvement-66405

Next door neighbor passed away over the weekend. We weren't super close, but we were always friendly with each other. He was the first person to greet my son and I when we moved in. He had a pond with some goldfish in it that I would feed for him while he was out of town for work. He was, at least outwardly, always cheerful if not a bit corny. I would put him in my age range, about 5-7 years older than me would be my guess. But he was in seemingly way better shape. Exercised all the time, big time mountain biker. Lived by himself and was estranged from his family. His living room was basically a home gym. My understanding is that is he was found on the floor near the exercise equipment. In a blink of an eye, a life gone. Time for me to look into that coronary calcium screening, I guess.

Unless I'm on your ignore list...

Things like this are why some of us stay in the 'doomed' camps. How do you fight that kind of money? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/republican-dark-money.html

I don’t care what anyone says. Chili mango is an excellent munchie snack.

In a prior post you stated "that Roe was not a key initiating moment in the evangelical take over of the GOP. " Which the article quite clearly contradicts. Note: You tone it down a bit and in your 2035 state "But the political vehicle that that group coalesced behind in a politically effective way was abortion" But it wasn't Roe, it wasn't abortion, that got the evangelicals a foothold. Just like the drug war, which I'm pretty sure you oppose, it was racism. That they later turned to abortion to be that catalyst (as better detailed in that piece, and others easily googled) doesn't mean Roe was some horrible trigger. No more than a woman wearing a mini skirt is a trigger for rape.

Here you go, dude. I'm not negging you. I found your participation in the Covid thread to be something helpful. But in this thread you confound me. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/ Also, please note that the more overall important thing to me is the loss of women's rights soon to be followed by the loss of other's rights. For me, it really does boil down to her body, her choice. And given this SC and the movement behind overturning Roe, the loss of the country is kind of a package deal, imo. Just being honest with where I stand.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/548917-miguel-tweet/

By sleeping on mattresses made of money.

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https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/8/17/23310668/school-investigates-female-athlete-transgender-complaint

You're somewhat describing how I became a lefty and left my small town Texas whack-a-doo religious upbringing behind. Seeing more intelligent people question and ridicule assumptions I had held dearly a good chunk of my young life put me on a path of questioning everything. "If this really smart (and quite often funny) group of people think this way, and make this cogent argument, then why am I holding on to the opposite." Something about the unexamined life not being worth living.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/florida-school-district-now-requires-teachers-lgbtq-students-dont-say-gay/

On a more macro level, it was pointed out in a reddit comment that 8 of the 10 R's who voted to impeach Trump are out of office. 4 retiring, 4 lost.

The role she had then and the role she has now are in many respects the same one, applied to radically different circumstances—she is defending her movement against the pretenders who would sully its work. That she was wrong about Obama then and right about Trump now is obvious, but it was the willingness to play in the mud that made her a rising star and a member of Congress in the first place, just as it was the breakdown of public trust and civic guardrails during the Bush era that made possible Trump’s MAGA ascent. By the time she decided that orange man, in fact, bad, the damage had long since been done. She is left to critique the ruling party in exile; the sort of person who in a different context people like the Cheneys might think to covertly fund and equip. None of this is to erase the work she’s done as a dogged and justifiably incensed leader on the January 6 Committee. She stands almost alone in her caucus, in her decision to not just quietly retire, or gripe anonymously to the press, but to actually fight back and wield the power she has against the threat she’s so clearly recognized. She’ll be fine, of course, both professionally and financially, but if the stand she took cost nothing, well, a lot more people would have taken it. But perhaps her fate might also be a lesson to the aspiring public servants out there—that the movement you cynically stoke might some day come for you, too. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/liz-cheney-defeated-by-harriet-hagerman-wyoming-primary-donald-trump/

The breaking of the country started before him, imo. He is a POS and the cult is indeed a pox from which we might not recover. But that cult didn’t just sprout up overnight. They have been with us for some time, waiting for the monster who encouraged them to take their masks off. I stand by my rankings.

I don’t care about her and think her father is second to Kissinger in most evil politicos alive. But it is depressing that the reason she is out is because she went after Trump.

Its a start. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23282217/climate-bill-health-care-drugs-inflation-reduction-act

I don't understand why Scott Adams keeps getting posted in this thread. People haven't given a fuck about Dilbert in forever. This is the only place I see his dumb ass being discussed.