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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:54 am

Republicans to run on abortion in 2024
WHEREAS, After nearly five decades of advocacy and action by our Party against the judicial
tyranny of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court in the Dobbs decision rightfully corrected its error, and
it is now up to the people of the United States to debate and decide through their elected officials
in the states, and in Congress;
WHEREAS, The Republican Party is proud to stand up for the rights of the unborn and to ensure
that public policy at all levels – federal, state, local, and in the private sector – recognizes
and respects both the right to life of the unborn and the role that women play in every walk of
American life as leaders, citizens, and mothers;
WHEREAS, The Democratic Party has fallen away from the convictions that once led one of its
greatest leaders, Gov. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, to urge that we “extend the mantle
of protection again to every member of the human family, including the unborn”;
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:22 pm

I used the standard two guys imgflip meme generator (also called American Chopper) to make the point. It does not have a 3 square version.
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:54 pm

"On the subject of government, most Americans sound conservative in the abstract and liberal in the specific. They say government should be small and the budget should be balanced, but when it comes to particular things government actually does, they support almost all of them and want to spend more money on them."
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Fri Feb 03, 2023 1:00 pm

Same old deal: conspiracies are a fun hobby!
Arizona was a “perfect political science experiment” for the GOP nationally, Stan Barnes, a former state lawmaker and Republican consultant in Arizona, told me.

“We had the best candidate in anyone’s lifetime in Kari Lake, and she had the Republican wind at her back,” he said. “Yet, Kari lost. And I think the post-mortem is, you can’t stand on, ‘The whole system’s corrupt’ and ‘Elections are stolen’ as a platform for why people should vote for you.”

He said, “No matter what you or I think of the reality of it, if you want to win the election and you want to change things, it’s not the way to win.”

Yet denialism and its attendant conspiracies animate a large swath of the Republican Party — still. And if Arizona is any example, it suggests that a not insignificant percentage of the national electorate is determined to run the same doomed experiment again in 2024.

Inside the cavernous Dream City Church, where a conspiracy movie about the 2020 election called “The Deep Rig” premiered in 2021, and where the GOP now gathered in early 2023, there was no reckoning with midterm losses, at all.

Addressing the rank-and-file, the outgoing state party chair, Kelli Ward, said, “Things at the party are going great.”

In “Ultra MAGA” hats and pins that read “Don’t California My Arizona,” about 2,000 convention-goers streamed into a sanctuary with red and blue backlighting and large screens flanking the stage. They wanted audits of the last election, or the one before that, or of the state party’s finances itself. Some complained about voting machines, including those Arizona Republicans had used themselves that day to elect the new party chair, Jeff DeWit, a former state treasurer and former Trump campaign chief operating officer.

Distinct from procedural disputes about voting ID or mail voting, majorities of Republicans in poll after poll still adhere to Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was rigged. In the more than two years since Trump lost, as allegations of fraud have repeatedly been shown to be unfounded and nonfactual, it persists as an article of faith—– more an assertion of a belief that Democrats could not possibly have beaten them, even if they did.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:47 pm

State by state primaries are unpleasant to follow. Finally it becomes an enormous party week for the delegates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Repu ... _primaries

Nixon's primary in 1968 was famous with only one wealthy challenger.
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:50 pm

I was in the book store and looked at "current affairs" section. Politics is there as well as social commentary. I leafed through a Tucker Carlson book but could not bring myself to spend money even on a used copy I might find on line. I can't really listen to him, so this was a compromise to leaf through his book to see what his complaints were about the elitism of the left/the educated.

After some searches I found a political history book by an academic slightly on the conservative side. He describes populist movements on the left and then in the Reagan to Trump era. His conclusion is that the left deserved what they got for going too far. The current "protest" is a weird trumpian crowd. They hold up signs printed for the Trump rally because they are not really eloquent of smart enough to put their views onto a home made poster.

So this book is on order. I am going to visit the college campus when it gets warmer to see who is in the political science department. My son got a degree there abut 2010 or so.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:12 pm

Biden proposing woke tax, woke energy and woke science in hus talk.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:23 am

This tax probably will not work.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/07/bid ... -more.html
Companies were given cash during the pandemic. Congress should have put constraints on it then, not now.

(So this too will not pass)
Reich:
Corporate greed is Chevron spending a jaw-dropping $75 billion on stock buybacks after posting a record $36.5 billion in profit.
If there was ever a time to ban stock buybacks — or at least tax them more heavily — it's now.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
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Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by pErvinalia » Wed Feb 08, 2023 4:09 am

Well they will be taxed on the person who's share was bought back.
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:51 am

My once a day peek at Twitter. Unlike Instagram, you can still read it when not logged in.


Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
13h
It’s time to subpoena Anthony Fauci.

replies:

Rick Smith
@RickSmithShow
Replying to
@laurenboebert
Please tell me there is 1 republican who cares about working people
I hear Republicans complaining about Biden's policies but see nothing but bread and circus from the GOP

Please tell me there is a plan beyond the same tired trickle-down voodoo reaganomics that created this mess

🇺🇸tchaney: Proudly Old and in the Way.
@chaneykyoto
12h
Replying to
@RickSmithShow
and
@laurenboebert
You see bread? I only see circuses.

Harrison
@harrison_eth
10h
Replying to
@RickSmithShow
and
@laurenboebert
Changing tax to only be sales tax is one great step…..
Rick Smith
@RickSmithShow
10h
Replying to
@harrison_eth
and
@laurenboebert
This was so umpopular that the GOP has already buried it.
It would be a massive tax increase on working people. MASSIVE

Anthony Calise
@AnthonyCaliseDF
13h
Replying to
@RickSmithShow
and
@laurenboebert
Republicans ARE the party of working people. Dems plan is to massively tax working class and provide hand outs to all that can’t or do not work

Looking at Anthony: guy who watches Foxnews and sports. All of his intake.
https://twitter.com/AnthonyCaliseDF

(there are 7 tax brackets. Most working class are in the 10-20% bracket and the 10% group almost never pay tax at all)
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Sun Feb 12, 2023 11:57 am

One balloon saves defense funding. America to remain super power after all. Ukraine maybe not so much in the equation. Balloons are our enemy now. Plus China.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/385 ... o-defense/

Hoagland said that non-defense discretionary spending accounts for less than 15 percent of all federal spending.

He said that means there’s little chance Biden and Republican leaders will agree to a deficit reduction package of any significant size.

Other policy experts share that view.
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And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by JimC » Sun Feb 12, 2023 7:40 pm

Does that mean that your defence spending is ballooning? :tea:
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Sun Feb 12, 2023 8:48 pm

MTG: stop trillions to Ukraine
Newsweek:
The Omnibus bill also provides additional funding to Ukraine to help Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's troops fight Russian forces in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The U.S. financial assistance to the war-torn country is another form of spending that Greene said should stop.

"We must stop funding war in Ukraine and push for peace! Over $1 BILLION every single month goes to funding Ukraine's government and $113 BILLION spent in military equipment, weapons, and aid with no end in sight," she added. "We are on the verge of defaulting our country's debts and we are in over $34 TRILLION in debt. It's time to give a hard NO to the warmongers and tell the world we can't afford to play war anymore. Our taxes should only be spent on defending our homeland."
The Omnibus bill also provides additional funding to Ukraine to help Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's troops fight Russian forces in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The U.S. financial assistance to the war-torn country is another form of spending that Greene said should stop.

"We must stop funding war in Ukraine and push for peace! Over $1 BILLION every single month goes to funding Ukraine's government and $113 BILLION spent in military equipment, weapons, and aid with no end in sight," she added. "We are on the verge of defaulting our country's debts and we are in over $34 TRILLION in debt. It's time to give a hard NO to the warmongers and tell the world we can't afford to play war anymore. Our taxes should only be spent on defending our homeland."
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by Tero » Fri Feb 17, 2023 1:40 am

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First one in will be first one out. She is repeating worn out phrases and giving confusing statements about 15 week abortions.
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

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Re: American Politics from 2019 on

Post by pErvinalia » Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:19 am

Trump was the first one in, wasn't he? Hopefully he'll be the first one out. I see the Koch-head isn't funding him this time round.
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