They can take away all that Commie stuff, like food assistance, and rent assistance, and educational assistance, and medical care assistance, and give that money to the “JCs”, while giving the people they took the assistance away from, a lecture on “personal responsibility”
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Tax cuts are Commie stuff. If the JCs can’t make it on their own, too bad. No subsidies. No tax cuts. No depreciation. JCs exist to pay taxes.
Reality is that many states have so gerrymandered their districts, Michigan is one of the few to reverse that trend recently, there are few “purple” districts left. By the count of one analyst on the news recently, there are only a couple dozen non-safe districts for the “freeedom” faction, in the entire country.
Then there is another thing. A Michigan analyst on the news recently said the full throated defense of Israel, in DC, may not play well in the heavily Muslim areas of south eastern Michigan. The Muslims will, almost certainly, not vote “freeedom” instead, but simply stay home, handing the election to “freeedom” by withholding their vote.
Tidbit on the news last night: anti-Semitic attacks in the US, since October 7th, number over 300, vs about 90 over the same period last year. Anti-Muslim attacks over the same period number over 700.
Steve
Jews suffer most disproportionately from hate crimes. From the FBI for the latest year:
Bias Type Number Pct %Pop Ratio Anti-Black 3424 29% 14.2 2.0 Anti-Jewish 1124 10 1.9 5.3 Anti-Hispanic 738 6 18.7 0.3 Anti-Asian 499 4 5.9 0.7 Anti-Muslim 158 1 0.9 1.1
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#
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In recent years, Muslims seem to have fallen out of the hate bull’s eye, in favor of “wokies”, gays, and Hispanics.
Here are the numbers, since Oct 7, for both Jews and Muslims.
Thanks to the TOOWMNBN***ist coup in the GOP, Christian Nationalists like our new Speaker of the House are now in the ascendant, but I think they, their sympathizers, and onlookers underestimate the intensity of the counterattack they will face from queers if they act out their suppressive fantasies.
We homos will NOT vansih quietly and peacefully; we are in every community, church, family, and most work places in the USA, and the memories of suicidal depression, judicial acquiesence to murders, abuse by “religious leaders” and etc is very very fresh. We also now have lots and lots of straight friends of every stripe.
The problem is that many of the Christian Nationalists would love to engage in bloody religious warfare, just like Hamas and their ilk.
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TOOWMNBN***= the other one who must not be named
I an not sure I would style it a “coup”. Every person in the caucus was elected. Yes, the districts in some states have been gerrymandered to favor the most extreme, and the constituents have been groomed by entities like Fox Noise, but those Congressmen were elected.
As offered, from time to time, since the regime during the early 2000s, I don’t know how the US gets out of the spiral it is in.
Speaking of Fox Noise, the new Speaker was interviewed, by Hannity, today. Again, it isn’t the gun’s fault. It all the fault of the person. Maybe we will see a new proposal for universal mental examination for “incorrect thought”, like the plan that was floated in the early 2000s.
Steve
It becomes a coup when those elected officials start looking at illegal ways to ignore the results of elections. Which is what those people did, and will absolutely try again in 2024. Please note, TFG recently said at a rally “don’t bother voting”. Why on Earth would he say that? Think about it…
Unfortunately, I’m not sure either. A large part of the country appears to be entirely immune from fact.
They are not that organized to let such a thing float for long.
Like a clogged toilet that is not the point.
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Zeihan was right the independents are looking on with disgust at an economic slowdown to ‘save’ a buck for the government. We know we are into demand side econ and we or those of us who want a wealthier society are screaming inside.
I’d call it a soft coup. Elected, yes, but who decided who gets to vote and how much the votes count? When you can be 40% of the population but only get 10% of the legislative voting power, how is that “elected”?
When your state population is 10% of another, yet you have the same voice in the Senate, how is that “elected”?
Some have learned to play the game not for the people but for the power. I don’t know that there’s a way out of it, but it can’t end well (eventually.) Heck, even Russia and North Korea have “elections”, if you can call them that. We’re not quite that bad.
Yet.
Elected by the various states, for the protection of the smaller states. It’s a feature, not a bug.
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Goofy,
That soft coup is the soft problem.
The actual problem is the boomers believe in supply-side economics. The boomers have not actually noticed that no one is running on supply-side economics.
Now the boomers are voting for control at any cost. Minorities and women need not apply.
The face of this all is changing. The mid-terms are the wrong way to gauge any of this.
Yes, but the gerrymandering, vote suppression, and the like make it something other than a fair, democratic election.
The way to fix it, all of it - and I do mean all of it, are nonpartisan blanket primaries (jungle primaries) with instant runoff.
The root of all of our problems start with lightly attended partisan primaries. I am convinced of this. Fix the primaries, and everything else would slowly fix itself over time.
I used the word coup because the new Speaker supported and apparently still supports the previous coup attempt (to use the Congressional certification process to disregard the state results for the Electoral College) and the GOP is now dominated by those people.
Traitors, to use a technical term.
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The new Speaker styles himself a “Constitutional” lawyer. Apparently we have cafeteria Constitutionalism, the same as we have cafeteria Christianity. Adherents embrace the parts they like, but reject the parts they don’t like, like the congregation members who admonish their pastor for talking about all the wokie stuff Jesus said.
This is the fundamental vulnerability of the democratic process and adherence to rule of law. Anyone can run for office. No-one can be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without legal due process. If an extremist ideology gets traction, people with the worst intentions can be elected, and twist the law in perverse ways.
A piece I saw on the news wire this morning: a certain Gov has decreed that college student organizations that support “justice in Palestine” be shut down in the state’s universities, for “supporting terrorism”. So much for “free speech”. It is this sort of thing that has caused me to stop supporting certain charities out of concern that any of them go outside the allowed boundries wrt their policies or actions, and put me on a suspect list, as happened to Yusuf, during the last great spasm of hate for Muslims, 20 years ago.
Steve
That is exactly right. And I go right back to why did the TFG at a recent rally tell his supporters to not worry about voting?
This is dangerous stuff. I honestly thought we were past this when Americans rejected and fired TFG. I appear to be very wrong.
…and that is why I resolved, some time ago, not to volunteer at a polling place again, like I did in 2018. Because I had to declare a party affiliation to work at a polling place, I even checked with the Township Clerk’s office to see when my records will fall out of their system. The message being propagated by the “thought leader” is it is more important to intimidate other voters and polling place workers.
Steve
That’s some BS, right there.
It can make sense if it is part of a larger design to insure each significant party has at least one witness there to the entire process so no one can scream “vote stealing ballot stuffing” afterwards.
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