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Can someone give me a tl;dr on whatever the latest right wing froth of "squatting" is?

It's interesting. Orange Man Bad can't sell his shares for six months per an agreement. It'll be interesting to see if a company that's hemorrhaging money, with a tiny user base, is enough to keep that obviously inflated price that high for six months. The other problem is, for Orange Man Bad to realize any profits he'd have to sell his shares, but without his involvement what's the point of the app? There's every likelihood that as soon as he announces he's cashing in, the price plummets and he realizes a tiny fraction of that grossly inflated value.

Exactly. This is just another in a long trend, dating back to the 2022 mid-terms that the Republicans were supposed to sweep, that have hinged on women voters protecting their rights. It's a fair point to bring up that only 6,000 people voted in this special election. But it's also fair to point out that the Republican platform is not driving their voters to the polls. This was a solid red county that a Democrat flipped decisively in Alabama, among the reddest of states. Only 6,000 people showed up. Low turnouts are typical of special and primary elections. But the salient point here is that the Republican platform - which comes from the top down - is not popular among Independents and a lot of Republicans. That's why they've lost since overturning Roe.

It's the ultimate "be careful what you wish for." The Republicans have been playing a decades-long game to stack the Supreme Court and overturn Roe, and now they're setting their sights on Obergefell, trans rights, religious exemptions to discrimination laws, etc. Problem is, when that plan was hatched, America was a very different place. Today more people want freedom of choice, freedom to have the consensual sex they want to have, they want legal weed, they want the government out of their reproductive lives, sex lives and healthcare. The country changed, but Republicans didn't. I think that's going to bite them hard, starting this year (although it really started in 2022).

It is the correct thread. Abortion rights are on the ballot. If Biden doesn't win, abortion will be criminalized early in the next term.

Democrats keep winning elections. That is a huge change in just two years. Could probably draw a straight line from overturning Roe to all of these results.

Mexico is going to pay for it. Jokes aside, he was asked about that, and he said that will come later. Finding out who's responsible could take years in maritime law, but that bridge needs to be rebuilt now.

Matt (I'm pretty positive) has a naval background. He's pretty sharp about these things, and helpfully explains them in terms laymen like me can understand.

Yeah, you can see in the video it loses power, regains it, loses it again, regains it again, but by that time it had drifted over 500 feet off course.

Christians, didn't Jesus make a whip and rid the temple of people like this? This bible costs SIXTY DOLLARS.

This has to be the 87th time you've posted this.

Lake is focused on her Senate run. I think she knows she has a better chance of winning that than winning as a Veep for this candidate. There is zero chance Scott is the choice. Mostly because of his race. Not only does Orange Man Bad have a notorious racist streak, his likely voters are similarly racist. Rubio is probably the top candidate. He's a household name, he's Hispanic, he's tame.

ISIS knows how brutal the Russians can be. I don't grasp why those guys would murder all of those people, then allow themselves to be taken alive. ISIS has used suicide bombers in the past. Surely it had to be better for these men to complete their mission, then suicide, rather than be taken alive to be tortured for... who knows how long.

I was just going to do this but my contractor stopped over and I had to let them in.

If you read through their explanation, the person simply guessed at more recent presidents. I would imagine that was posted because of the last ten people on that person's ranking.

What is it about conservatives that make then so adamantly stand up for and play the victim for billionaires (and people who claim to be billionaires but obviously aren't)?

Every vehicle on that stage was built by union labor.

They were always going to do this.

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You're splaining at @Moiraine for something you pedantically told me you understand. She gets it. You get it. We all get it.

You realize that's a direct quote from Dick Cheney in his daughter's new campaign ad, and not something the Babylon Bee made up as satire, right? The rest of the "article" is satire. That quote is from Dick. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/d!(k-cheney-trump-threat-ad-b2138602.html

You are correct. That was a bit of retconning from my memory.

Remember when Graham posted this? He was vehemently against Orange Man Bad. And then suddenly... he wasn't. Wonder what they have on Lindsey that made him tuck tail and work for the guy who he said this about: