Dr. Strangelove

What do people expect? Sadly, political violence is just doing to increase. Especially from the Right.

They also have very, very few women on the app. Most dating apps suffer from a similar imbalance. But this one, unsurprisingly, has the worst ratio of any major dating app.

Really it's more about demographics than the performance against specific candidates. Montana and Kansas are similar in that they are White states with large numbers of college educated voters. Democrats tend to do well with them. Montana especially has elected Democrats in the past, although that will be increasingly difficult. By throwing support behind a candidate to the Right of the average Democrat candidate (but still to the left of a Republican) it increases their chances of winning. Especially if the candidate is MAGA, they would be highly susceptible to this because they're generally terrible political candidates with even worse policy ideas. When it comes to the Senate, it at least helps the Democrats pass popular items at the expense of their more progressive policies (which don't have a chance of passing anyway).

Mike Lee will win by high single digits. Which, honestly, would be an amazing performance. Democrats may want to throw their support behind 3rd party candidates in states like Kansas and Montana. The strategy might be more successful there.

I really don't think that would happen, as funny as it would be. Trump would win the nomination in a landslide and DeSantis, if he runs, would go whimpering back to Florida like the slimy, moronic dog that he is. If DeSantis decided to run as a third party candidate, which is extremely doubtful, the MAGA horde would turn on him instantly. After Trump, they'll simply latch onto the next Trump-wannabe who, like DeSantis, will lack a single original thought, policy, and provide absolutely nothing other than empty substance. And the MAGA horde will love it.

Illinois: 34 Nebraska:13 Rushing: 95 Passing: 190

The difference between DeSantis and Trump is that Trump would've looked the camera in the eye and said he'd serve 12 years. Or heck, he'd be both Governor of Florida and President simultaneously. If Trump runs, he might make DeSantis cry on a debate stage. Plus, the puny illegal acts DeSantis is pulling isn't close to the number of felonies Trump has been acquiring. Republican voters will flock to that as a sign of a Patriotic American fighting the system.

So you're going to give a big thank you to Biden for his energy policies keeping prices lower than our Western peers? Good thing we don't have this guy anymore (sorry I would link the actual tweet but this bozo has his account suspended for trying to destroy Democracy, you Rs really know how to pick the good ones): Who was President in 2019 pre-pandemic? Must've been an oil hating Democrat!

Not really. It contributed but not by huge numbers. This is pretty common knowledge. Inflation is high everywhere because most of the world is suffering from the same issues - high demand and a supply chain that can't meet it. Most places are worse than the United States. Inflation in the Eurozone is 9.9%, compared to the 8.2% in the US. If anything, the United States is doing better on the inflation front while simultaneously keeping the job market at historic levels.

The GOP will use her to get the vote of the extremely stupid and will discard her whenever they see fit. I would love a Trump-Greene ticket. It has absolutely no chance of happening, but watching hordes of Conservative voters rationalize voting for it would be hilarious. If there's one thing about Republican voters, it's that they will not be deterred from voting for a candidate no matter how terrible. We're going to have Senator Herschel Walker for this reason.

If America didn't want this, they wouldn't be poised to elect it in a few weeks. Republicans want to make the country a s#!thole, I say let them. Hopefully they gut the social safety net once they're done with Democracy. America gets what it deserves.

I thought I was laying the sarcasm pretty thick. I'm well aware that the median Republican voter is a lost cause.

Imagine voting for this twice, then watching evil President Brandon: *Cap insulin prices for Medicare recipients *Provide over the counter hearing aides *Raise taxes on the wealthy to combat climate change *Use the surplus of the Inflation Reduction Act - mainly by using government power to get cheaper drugs to the elderly - to forgive student loans And then voting for a party grappling with QAnon because gas prices rose in the United States less quickly than the EU.

The Wisconsin State legislature is supposed to represent the state, but despite receiving fewer votes than Democrats, the Republican Party controls a near super majority.

My reference to gerrymandering was simply to point out that the political power of Democrats - because of demographic shifts - is easy to mitigate. My apologies for the confusion. Regarding the Senate, I'm aware. The issue is that by and large, people are moving to the same handful of areas. Phoenix, Atlanta, several cities in Texas. They're leaving from more states than they're moving to. It's consolidation over time. Democrats are going to turn Arizona, Georgia, and Texas solidly blue however that net gain of 6 Senate seats is negated by the number of states they're leaving, most of rural America and the upper midwest. Losing Iowa, Ohio, eventually Wisconsin, PA, Michigan, etc. is a net Republican gain regarding the Senate.

The Presidency will be a bit easier. Even though it will still have a rural bias, it at least has some weight for bigger states. Texas, for example, may be a solid blue state in the mid 2030s giving Democrats a large Electoral College advantage for a time, however, they can only elect two Senators no matter how many voters live there.

I think my point is that it doesn't matter. Most people are moving to the same few cities, which makes them easier to gerrymander and reduces the number of Sentors they elect. If current trends continue, 30% of Americans will elect 70 Senators by 2040. There isn't anything Democrats can do to combat that, short of trying to convince rural voters - currently convinced there's widespread election fraud and Donald Trump will save them - to vote for them.

They do, the current trend is great for Republicans. The country is increasingly urbanized, and because the extreme rural bias of the Senate, this hurts Democrats. If the Democrats lose the Senate, which is extremely likely, they probably don't win it back for 12-14 years. Which means that since 2014, Democrats will control the Senate a grand total of 2 years out of 20 by the time they get it back in the 2030s. By then, the court system will be so packed with Republican judges the game is over. The reason Democrats are so apocalyptic is because they realize they've lost the game of politics, it's sort of over for them.

Yes, this never happens in Red states - which are far more dangerous, have much higher crime, and are regressive in every way imaginable. But I suppose when your political party has no solutions to problems other than enriching the wealthy at the expense of America, the only thing they have left is to motivate hordes of voters with scary make-believe problems.

Like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, Nevada will be a permanently red state in the near future. The current PVI of Nevada R+2 or so, and it's increasing every election cycle. Soon, states like Nevada will essentially turn into what Iowa and Ohio are today, former swing states that Democrats cannot compete in.

The goal is to strike fear in the hearts of future voters. Republicans like DeSantis are unconcerned if a certain policy is "illegal", they can do whatever they want with impunity. Honestly, the sooner Red states split off and form their own country, the better.

Good. The American experiment of Democracy hinges on the back of voters who decide elections based on if gas goes up 10 cents or not. If the constituency of Democracy doesn't care about the system, let it crumble. We can only carry Conservative voters forward kicking and screaming for so long. If they want to make up fake issues - voter fraud, CRT, Trans-Athletes - instead of confronting actual problems, let their politicians ravage the social safety net keeping huge swaths of the American public out of poverty. Let them cut taxes for the wealthy exploiting them, why do we care anymore?

Republicans and hypocrisy are like peanut butter and jelly.

It's possible. Although, to be honest, I don't think Florida is going to be a competitive state anymore. Rubio is pretty likely to win by 7% or more. Although Demmings destroying him to the point where the guy looked like he might cry for his mommy on stage was pretty glorious.

This has the creeping and dangerous scent of Socialism written all over it. Congress should immediately pass the "End Socialism Now Act" which would immediately end Socialism in this country. States only receive from the federal government what they pay in taxes, within individual states cities and villages only get from the state what they pay in taxes. It's high time the leeches around us picked themselves up by their bootstraps. No more handouts.