A New Politics Thread

[PhillyPhreak54]

I'm sick of the ads already.

We have a local race for county judge, which isn't a judge in the criminal sense, but think more county mayor type gig. It's fairly important.

The incumbent is a young Latina and the MAGAts and redneck brigade loathe her. She's done a pretty good job. But the GOP picked a lady who conveniently is using her Latin maiden name and they've been pouring on the GOP playbook ads.

She's been bought by a lot of developers and oil and gas people. The developers want to keep building sans flood control measures. The O&G people don't want the environmental inconveniences of actually not polluting.

I probably had 25 of the MAGAts fliers in my mailbox.

Early voting starts Monday. I can't wait to vote against all of the MAGAts

[MDS]

if you read the mentions she was interviewed in 2016 or something...looks like a full of shtein human who is giving reporters what they want to hear

even so what she saying is entirely what other people will say and do

[phattymatty]

georgia is a republican state...theres enough of a % of white people from the suburbs that didnt like trump. dont get it twisted.

they won 2 senate seats in jan 2021 because maga idiots were so depressed and thought their votes werent going to count. the osoff seat was on that ballot because purdue barely fell under 50% in november (remember, purdue easily beat osoff in november on the same ticket biden beat trump). they do antiquated runoffs that were designed to prevent black candidates from winning so the whole thing was really just a 1 in a million technicality.

nothing you said is wrong but I'm talking literally about the debate itself.  there should be dozens of sound bites coming out of it.  Warnock didn't even bring up abortion or any of the 100 dumb things / lies walker has said over the last few months.  such a wasted opportunity. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah because for some reason dems refuse to fight fire with fire.

They always try to be the statesmen and above the fray - which in theory is how it should be - as leaders and lawmakers.

But since the GOP and their followers are all about owning the libs the dems need to fight back. And its stupid to have to do that because it should not have devolved into this. But here we are.

[SD]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/10/21/mar-a-lago-documents-included-top-secret-information-on-irans-missile-program-report/amp/

The documents included information about Iran's missile program and intelligence-gathering operations in China, according to sources who spoke under the condition of anonymity to the Post

They launch an investigation into why he took these specific documents yet? That's some serious shtein to take

[SD]

Fetterman didn't sound good tonight. The fracking question was especially brutal.

[MDS]

he was abysmal...like difficult to watch. couldnt string a sentence together and looked spaced out. i have no idea who let him do this but good lord i hope nobody of consequence actually watched that thing

[Rome]

Who cares what Fetterman sounded like?

Oz literally said abortion is between a woman, her doctor and local political leaders. 

WHAT WOMAN VOTES FOR THAT?

That should immediately disqualify him for office, but yeah, Fetterman has trouble verbally communicating after a stroke. 

Ooooohhhh boy we are assfarged in this hellhole of a country right now.

[SD]

Who cares what Fetterman sounded like?

Oz literally said abortion is between a woman, her doctor and local political leaders. 

WHAT WOMAN VOTES FOR THAT?

That should immediately disqualify him for office, but yeah, Fetterman has trouble verbally communicating after a stroke. 

Ooooohhhh boy we are assfarged in this hellhole of a country right now.

Maybe suburban women save us but I just don't see it after last night. Oz was already cutting it close now I'd be surprised if he's not the favorite. The Dems can only blame themselves. And yes we're f'd.

[Diomedes]

An otherwise pleasant woman I know recently revealed herself to be, in her words, "Pro-Putin."  I don't talk politics with folks I don't know, but I did use the word "Nazi" in a metaphor about the job I was doing.  (Clearing an over grown lot, and pitching the organic material down an embankment into a pile, I was saying how I couldn't put anything man made with it, because once there's some rubbish in your brush pile, it's no longer a brush pile, it's a garbage pile...just like having a Nazi at your political rally makes it a Nazi rally.)  This apparently she took as a sign that, like she and her husband, I might also take their view that the Ukranians are "Nazis who are killing their own people" in order to "launder money for" the elites, or the globalists, or I forget who. 

I'm struck by how fundamentally stupid people like this are.  They literally can't execute even a shadow of critical thinking.  They do not read, like, at all.  Not even romance novels or other pop-lit.  They don't read the Wall Street Journal.  They don't even read the Washington Times.  Everything they get as far as information comes from Fox News and YouTube/Facebook.  There's no intellectual curiosity, or for that matter, ability.  They're scared and stupid and that's just how the fascists like them to be. 

When the fall of America is dissected and recorded, the conservative movement to weaken public schools and undermine higher education will be highlighted as a crucial preparatory step for the fascists to draft supporters.

I told the lady I thought war was awful but that "I'm not political" and don't have any interest in Ukraine.   Fine with me if I'm a sheep to her.  Baaa, baaa.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yep.

People are farging stupid and it is directly tied to far right "news" sources, FB and YT. Any time I hear people say "well I saw it on FB" or the frustrating "do your own research" clowns I automatically tune them out and pass judgement on them as idiots.

[MDS]

Who cares what Fetterman sounded like?

if this was a primary i wouldnt vote for him...he needs to rest and recover not work a high powered job. people with disabilities should of course get opportunities but this dude cannot be cognitively capable of doing this job right now.

now parlay that mindset to 10s of thousands of moderate voters and thats how you get oz winning.

fetterman camp is tripling down on abortion and trying to hold onto votes off that because theres nothing else they have. early voting has started so votes are banked but 2 weeks is a long time in politics.

[Munson]

Tbf the senate is about as cushy a job as you can get. They get a ton of days off haha

[PhillyPhreak54]

Musk has taken over Twitter and is firing everyone - including the lady who made the call to permanently ban Cheeto Dick.

Just in time for the election!

[MDS]

if youre on twitter all the time youd think twitter is important but 99% of the population thankfully is not on twitter