Dr. Strangelove

That link never claimed he did. What he did do was hold a press conference with city employees who made those statements and he stood there and didn't correct them, knowing it's false and knowing it's causing unnecessary harm. It's not as important as other groups, but still necessary to curb the spread to older people as much as possible. A sitting governor making a specific announcement that he's not going to order them to even make them an option is idiotic, dangerous, and further plays into the distrust that is a mainstay of the GOP base.

I agree, it's at the margins. The coalition of Democrats is easily fractured, so I can see small portions - mostly college educated White men - breaking rank. Not many others though. But don't be mistaken: we don't have to ask ourselves what Democrats would hypothetically do if huge swaths of their base wanted to overturn an election because it would never happen.

Ha, can't help but notice you had to clarify "adults" because he sowed distrust for vaccines in children. Which makes sense, Republicans don't care if they get mowed down by assault rifles, why protect them from infectious disease? Vaccine disinformation is why counties that vote for Trump has the highest death rates. Its why Trumpy hopefuls like DeSantis held a press conference full of vaccine disinformation. Instead of blaming just Trump, I'm better served to blame the entire Conservative media arm for killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. Wow, you really got me with that one!

Difficult to say. With ideological sorting, my best guess is that moderate candidates like the ones you mentioned would do better with college educated whites, especially men, and worse with the black coalitions of the Democrats. The net gain may not be much, but maybe a few percent? In a hypothetical where the Democratic Party were the ones destroying American Democracy motivated by conspiracy, I'd guess the college educated portions would not tolerate it. It's why individuals with Bachelors Degrees overwhelmingly vote for Democrats in the first place.

Biden can't force the hordes of brainwashed Trumpers to get vaccinated, despite making them free. I mean, the next crazy idiot leader of your party is currently not ordering vaccines for children. Nice try going for the ignorance play though. It's your go to move when confronted with reality. Maybe layoff the hydroquinone or stop injecting bleach, might help you drum up better responses.

Yeah, that graph is referring to the unvaccinated. Who did they vote for? Which party ran a campaign of vaccine distrust? You play the clueless game far to often.

They were referring to voters like you who will vote for Republicans even if they destroy Democracy. Hispanic voters voting for Republicans does not make what Trump said - and what you supported twice with your vote - any less racist and vile. As for your Cheetos handling of Covid, that analysis was reported here. According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins, found here, the US is second in the world in deaths per 100k people. The vast majority of those deaths are among the unvaccinated, as shown in the first link. Comparing it to the Eurozone is difficult, but the average deaths per 100k people in Italy, the UK, Portugal, France, Spain, and Germany would be an average number of deaths: 234 in the Eurozone vs 308 (per 100k) in America, nearly 25% less. Extrapolated out to the 1,000,000 or so people who've died so far, that's 250k more people than Europe.

Yeah, Republicans like you are never going to vote any other way. You'll twist anything to rationalize your vote for the party. When they say "nobody gives a s#!t" they're referring to voters like you who'd rather vote to tear down the 250 year old American experiment of Liberal Democracy rather than let a Democrat win. Now, I get it: when the bloated Cheeto said Mexicans are rapists and murderers you percolated in your seat with excitement. But the last time you voted we ended up with a pandemic that unnecessarily killed 320,000 Americans, so maybe sit the next one out, please?

If you read a few sentences regarding his Jurisprudence, he's absolutely beyond bat s#!t crazy.

This guy is going to win because he has an R next to his name. He's obviously extremely unequipped to handle the job. But Republican voters have absolutely no standards.

I know. Trying to overthrow a democratically elected President is absolutely a NOTHING-burger even with well documented proof and testimony from Republicans and members of Trumps inner circle. Just MOVE ON Liz Cheney. I mean, the Founding Father's wrote the constitution so we could just violate it. DemoRATs are dumb for not doing it first. What about that is so hard for these RINOs to understand. #MAGA #MexicansAreRapistsAndMurderers #injectbleach #stopthesteal Regards, -Trump Voters

For Ron Johnson, it means reelection. The citizens of Wisconsin have a choice. *Punish a politician for attempting a fraudulent coup and breaking a 250 year precedent of a democratic and peaceful transfer of power *Reward it with their vote. We all know what Republican voters are going to do. America is failing because their voters are absolute morons.

They aren't trying very hard not to appear like clowns. These Republican Senators are a joke.

Just have to hope he plays better than his rating, like most of our commits. With NIL, I was hoping Nebraska's recruiting would see an uptick. It seems we're recruiting the same kind of player as the pre-NIL days.

Couldn't agree more. But America is getting what it deserves. If partisan citizens want to be grifted into voting for Republicans so they can pass tax cuts for the wealthy and implement a wave of Christian-nafionalism via the courts, we deserve the collective misery coming our way.

Certainly possible, but I think that the amount they're building may not keep up with demand. House prices may drop in the short term, but I'm guessing the growth through 2035 with be substantial. I say this because America produces around 2 million households that earn over $100k per year and only builds 1.3-1.4 million houses. Now, some of those earners already have a cheaper house and they aren't evenly distributed across the country. But that sort of imbalance is likely to keep prices elevated.

One is cyclical and happens over time and isn't a political choice. The other is a dangerous political decision which will have long lasting effects on our democracy. Let's not act like these are equal or even remotely close to it. This is going to be the case for a long time. Most people refinanced to a rate in the high 2% or low 3% range over the pandemic. People aren't going to be eager to trade those rates in for a more expensive house at a higher rate. House inventory is going to remain low for a awhile- with millennial workers entering their prime earning years, house prices should continue to climb for quite some time.

You are aware that Oil and Gas companies have stated - many times - that they would lose money expanding operations, yes? You know it's a joke when the first complaint was "canceling keystone XL", a project that wouldn't be completed for a decade and that doesn't even add new oil or refinery capacities. Furthermore, do you think Europeans, who pay much higher prices, are blaming Joe Biden? OR do you think the factors pushing up prices in Europe? For the love of God, please don't vote. The last time you elected a guy, we got "inject bleach" cheeto man. I mean, let's pretend for a nanosecond that you're correct - which in this universe and in nearly all versions of any scientifically plausible multiverse you are not - are gas prices as bad as election denial and your parties assault on Democracy?

Per capita is the best way to do it, although imperfect. The best way is to measure "per x number of people". For example, if a gang went to a small town and killed 50 out of 100 people and then moved to the next big town and killed 51 out of 1000, we wouldn't say the big town was more dangerous because they had a higher raw number of deaths. According to this link, by almost every metric, gun violence disproportionately affects red states. They based this on a per 100k basis, which is a good way to even out small populations with big ones.

We really need to let these Conservative states go. They can form their own country (provided they band together and payback the Federal Government all that tax money they've leeched). We don't need to tyranize them with government subsidies anymore. It's sad that their official party platform is based around conspiracy, untruths, and hatred for gay marriage. But that's been their form of Conservatism for decades. We've just gotten to the point where their voters are proud to come out into the open with it.

They're exactly what conservative voters want. Stop blaming them and start blaming the constituency that elects them. If conservatives really wanted to stop Assault Rifles from massacreing school children, they'd punish politicians who allow it. They don't want to stop Assault Rifles from being in the hands of pretty much anybody, so they vote for politicians who do.

Republican voters. Not their politicians mind you, they know full well its all bulls#!t.

But Cheeto Man good, Biden man bad. Gas is Bidens fault. Vote for Republicans, the American Experiment of liberal Democracy is a 250 year old dying fad anyway.

This is simply a term used to define voters with college educated vs not-college educated; it has nothing to do with "Street smarts", intelligence, or business savvy. That term is common in political science or discussions around voting blocs. This trend is a phenomenon of Trump and the 2016 race. Individuals with college educations tended to be horrified by Trumps rhetoric during his campaign, and rightfully so. Education level is now the strongest prediction of voting behavior. You calling them indoctrinated is pretty funny, if not indictive of the anti-intellectual trend of the Right we've witnessed over the last 50 years, and put into overdrive under Trump.

Oil companies collectively lost ~$300 billion during the 2010s oil boom, with many small shale oil companies going bust. Completing pipeline projects is fine, but would not help supply since a pipeline does not pump new oil out of the ground, it simply moves it. Oil companies want to move their oil for cheaper prices, but it's not going to dramatically affect the price of gas even if they were magically completed ahead of schedule. The real reason oil companies don't want to build new refineries or start new drilling projects is because they would lose money long term. Oil and gas is a slowly dying business, just like coal in the 20th Century. Oil and gas executives know it, political leaders from both sides know it, everybody knows it.