I'm just imagining 10-year-old me waking up Christmas morning and finding an empty tree, with my dad saying "Sorry, son. We can't do Christmas this year because the president is a shithead and we need to use the economy to send him a message."
Most people aren't going to do anything. We mostly have to hope the republicans score some kind of own goal, like cancelling SNAP for a couple of months.
If I were a Maine resident, I would vote against the guy with Nazi tattoos in a primary. I'd vote for him in the general, though. The absolute worst case scenario with him is that he votes the same way Collins does, anyway.
Wasn't there a follow up question on that one asking if you worked on the factory floor? I said yes because I worked at a fireworks warehouse for a summer.
Things are about to get a whole lot worse for his voters than they ever got during his first term. I think we will see some major response if SNAP benefits don't get paid next month.
I'm not sure if they are reversed so much as that it doesn't acknowledge that there are bubbles on both ends of that spectrum. Maybe there is some point to be made that people on the low score end are in a bubble by choice and people on the high end are just there.
I got a 56 on the quiz. I liked how half of it amounted to "Have you ever done any cool shit?" and then the other half was "How often do you watch the worst shows ever made?" and "How often do you eat at terrible restaurants?"
I think the republicans probably take this opportunity to fund healthcare and run a massive budget deficit that they can blame on the democrats. Meanwhile, their voters will continue to vote for them because nothing actually happened to them.
Well, for people who live in cities with populations under 100k, that complete collapse seems to be coming. It's going to be hard to have a baby when the hospital is 2 hours away.
The massive failure in American healthcare that is looming also just might bring about the support needed for a single payer system. Probably not, but maybe.
I don't see that as what he's advocating for. The vote to take healthcare away has already passed, with no democrats voting for it. This is the democrats keeping the government closed in a last-gasp effort to keep the republicans from suffering from their own bill. It would be awesome if it ends up working, but if the democrats end up caving so government workers can start getting paid again and Federal projects stop getting cancelled, that doesn't make it their fault that millions of people get the loss in healthcare that they voted for.