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Dr. Strangelove

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. I thought I was laying the sarcasm pretty thick. I'm well aware that the median Republican voter is a lost cause.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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?
  15. Republicans and hypocrisy are like peanut butter and jelly.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The Trump clip where he's asked what his favorite Bible verse is was an absolute all timer.
  19. Emphasizing inflation risks getting blamed for it. Dems are in an impossible position, however I would say that Abortion, erosion of Democracy, etc. has greatly helped them. Instead of losing 40-50 House seats and 6 Senate seats in a normal midterm wave, they're likely to "only" lose 20-25 House seats and 1-2 Senate seats. Now, this isn't enough to prevent House Republicans from sabatoging the economy, entitlements, etc. in order for they to easily win a trifecta in 2024, but the reality is the Abortion/Democracy under threat issue HAS helped them. It simply isn't enough.
  20. Sure, the Republican utopia is a future with a Democracy they've shredded in pursuit of power, mostly to reduce taxes for the rich and to nominate judges to the Judiciary to uphold whatever laws they see fit, regardless of constitutional muster. They'll embrace the likes of Viktor Orban, guest speaker at CPAC and other conservative events, because Republicans love the idea that his regime was sanctioned by the European Union for quote "damaging democracy" and after they voted to declare Hungary no longer a full Democracy. They hope to emulate him in their pursuit of power. Finally, the moronic elements of the Republican Party - Trump, Bannon, anybody associated with MAGA - will use the movement to grift supporters, mostly poor, out of money. For Trump, it's to pay for his numerous lawsuits after his prodigious appetite for committing felonies, for Bannon simply money he stole to enrich himself. MAGA is simply a means to an end: the vast manipulation of America's uneducated to help greedy s#!tbags pursue power and wealth. It doesn't have policies to lift people out of poverty, it does not acknowledge the many problems America faces (it outright pretends they don't exist), it's a giant grifting operation that provides absolutely nothing to the people who need it the most: the voters who support it.
  21. Honestly I imagine he's the biggest boogie man that haunts your MAGA dreams. Although the Viktor Orban picture hanging neatly next to the one of Ron DeSantis above your bed - along with a copy of "Democracy: is it good?" on your nightstand - should keep the evil spirit of Hunter Biden away.
  22. Yeah but have you heard of Hunter Biden?
  23. This is pretty catastrophic news for Democrats.
  24. I called the American voter stupid and cited the conservative posters history on this board as evidence. Accurately, I might add: You voted for Trump twice, with all the evidence in the world telling you it was a bad idea. Now the average Republican candidate for office has to say the Big Lie that the country is full of election fraud as a pre-requisite for office. This is because conservative voters demand it. This is dangerous and comes from the wild imaginations of hordes of MAGA voters.
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