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2 hours ago, Tweety said:

After the record breaking gains Republicans made in Obama's first term, I fully expect that things are going to tip the Republicans way in mid-terms this year.  

I think you're correct that if things continue in this vein it is going to be a painful trouncing.  A good deal of Republicans that didn't vote for Trump and Independents that swing to the right and usually vote Republican but voted for Biden are going to vote Republican.  

I disagree with TMB that voting laws are going to tip the scale that much.  It's going to be dissatisfaction with the Biden administration that will cause the trouncing.

I find it interesting that few months ago we were already talking about mid-terms and now we're already talking about 2024.

On the other hand, like most Presidents he should continue to do his best and not worry about polls.  He has bigger problems than polls.

I think even though Americans have a very poor short term memory situation going, trump will never be forgotten for the acute anxiety he caused to so many! 

He had TOO MUCH going on that will provide the headlines for Dems to keep him in the news if he decides to run from jail. 

Americans are unaware of the rest of the world's impression of him and the awe that they hold him in. No one, because of social media will have ever seen a maniac like him before and they won't want a repeat! 

The wealthy especially, will not want him back. He roiled the markets like never before! People want predictability, not the chaos he brings. And, practically everyone from his cadre will be doing some jail time or on their way. Even his kids are likely to end up in jail! 

Biden will capitulate and put pressure on Sinema and Manchin when he sees the writing on the wall. He's a dumbass for sure like everyone else who's a brown noser but the centrist will eventually wear thin. Sinema knows that she will be primaried! And eventually the news will turn to Manchin's children because they are as big a crook as he is! No doubt that the filibuster is done with soon to push through his agendas. 

And then there's Putin if he's still around! Because of trump, his business has been exposed like never before. Notice how the cyber crimes have practically stopped! Trump needs to find a hole that no one can find him in because Putin does not like exposure! 

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So Texas wants an opposing view to the holocaust taught in schools! 

Bet they didn't bank on the publicity just like they didn't think about the abortion ban. 

If it's one thing with morons that you can guarantee, it's they will always provide you with another opportunity to ridicule them! 

The amount of morons this country seems to produce is astonishing! And republicans have really cornered the market in that sector! 

Here's an opposing view, EVERYONE OPPOSES IT! 

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10 minutes ago, Curious1997 said:

I think even though Americans have a very poor short term memory situation going, trump will never be forgotten for the acute anxiety he caused to so many! 

The media attention in the coming year will very possibly be brutal for Trump.  The 0106 commission will be publishing some very difficult realities for republicans.  While we know that Trumpublicans in Congress will do what they can to protect Trump from accountability, the American public already demonstrated that they will vote against Trump. 

That may not change the outcome of the midterm because gerrymandering really does work relative to representative seats. Unfortunately, the Trump effect means that the republicans elected are likely to be in the mold of MTG...loud, extreme, divisive and not as interested in governing as interested in celebrity and spectacle. 

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"History isn't kind to the men who held Mussolini's jacket"

Trump weakened the USA.

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28 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

The media attention in the coming year will very possibly be brutal for Trump.  The 0106 commission will be publishing some very difficult realities for republicans.  While we know that Trumpublicans in Congress will do what they can to protect Trump from accountability, the American public already demonstrated that they will vote against Trump. 

That may not change the outcome of the midterm because gerrymandering really does work relative to representative seats. Unfortunately, the Trump effect means that the republicans elected are likely to be in the mold of MTG...loud, extreme, divisive and not as interested in governing as interested in celebrity and spectacle. 

If Biden would pull his head out of his *** and realize that he was elected because people hated trump so much that he needs to forget about his old idiotic 'friends with everyone ways' and put the squeeze in so that the filibuster can happen, the midterms will be safe! 

Trump was brilliant for the media and they might actually help him because of corporate profits. Filibuster, Supreme Court, send the message to the lower courts and the country is back on track! 

I would criminalize every jurisdiction looking to gerrymandering or voter suppression and if Garland isn't on board, fire his ***! 

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1 hour ago, Curious1997 said:

I think even though Americans have a very poor short term memory situation going, trump will never be forgotten for the acute anxiety he caused to so many! 

I'm talking mid-terms, but hopefully extreme Trump-like candidates like MTG won't get elected because of reasonable voters.  But I still think that people that aren't Trump supporters are still going to back to voting Republican in a big way in the mid-terms.  Time will tell.

Speaking of MTG, she tweeted a Happy Columbus Day which in my opinion was a direct mockery of Indigenous People's Day that was supported by Biden and was widely praised by Native Americans.  Only her point was lost because she misspelled Columbus and got mocked for that.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/indigenous-peoples-day-joe-biden/index.html

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Lancet recently published a study of police violence over time.  

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We found that more than half of all deaths due to police violence that we estimated in the USA from 1980 to 2018 were unreported in the NVSS. Compounding this, we found substantial differences in the age-standardised mortality rate due to police violence over time and by racial and ethnic groups within the USA. Proven public health intervention strategies are needed to address these systematic biases. State-level estimates allow for appropriate targeting of these strategies to address police violence and improve its reporting.

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The total under-reporting is also disparate by race and ethnicity. From 1980 to 2018, the greatest under-reporting of deaths was among non-Hispanic Black people, with 5670 deaths (5390–5970) missing out of an estimated 9540 total deaths (9260–9830), which is 59·5% (58·3–60·7) misclassified.

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1980 to 2018, the top five states with the highest under-reporting rates were Oklahoma, with an estimated 83·7% (82·0–85·3) of deaths misclassified; Wyoming, with 79·1% (71·3–85·7); Alabama, with 76·9% (73·9–79·9); Louisiana, with 75·7% (72·8–78·4); and Nebraska, with 72·9% (67·3–77·8).

Interesting, eh?

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17 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Deflection? LOL

Trump's polling fell too...he just stayed in the low places that Biden is now visiting.  Trump would have bragged about a 60% approval rating and likely would have inflated it as he inflates most of his claims.  

The reality is that most of us could care less what Biden's polling numbers are...he's a vast improvement over the last guy. But I'm happy to entertain your interest in the polling.  

Who gives a damn about polls anyway?  Gee, I remember a time, not too long ago when they were WRONG and Biden won.

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4 minutes ago, subee said:

Who gives a damn about polls anyway?  Gee, I remember a time, not too long ago when they were WRONG and Biden won.

Yep. 

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On 10/14/2021 at 8:46 AM, Cclm said:

Yes. My short sentence about ballots is in par with a Nazi tactic. Got me. Do you not think that's a little bit insulting to the millions of people who died? So for now on if I say the word "ballot" that word is not not allowed because ballots are used  in  elections and Nazis tried to instill doubt through elections and elections have ballots which means a Nazi tactic? 

I didn't suggest that the election was stolen., I thought it was a funny coincidence.  I never said that's why I thought he lost the election because of that. Didn't Hillary claim the same? Or Gore who even got a recount?  That the election was stolen from them? Oh but they were demos so the rule doesn't apply to them. Right.....

I've been called a Nazi and a white supremacist numerous times. This is a tactic used by activist to shut down speech. I will assume that's not what you were trying to do with your comment. They know nobody wants to be called that(especially white people, kinda destroys the narrative that they all have latent racism by virtue of their skin color) to shut down speech. Sounds kind of like well, Nazi Germany . Except if you have a different opinion, they killed you instead of calling you a name. 

This works though. How many people have had their lives destroyed because of something they said that was taken out of context? 

Slowly people are not tolerating this. It is losing it effect. 

 

What would be insulting to the victims of Nazism would be to have learned nothing from it.

The Nazi party came to power despite losing elections by falsely claiming the system was rigged against them and then subverting the mechanisms that put those democratically elected into power and instead installing their own leaders through aggression and false propaganda.  If you want to honor the victims of Nazism then it would make more sense to at least disapprove when similar tactics are used today.

You keep saying that you haven't suggested the election was stolen, but then make these claims: 

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I do believe that the deceitful demoncrats exploited the pandemic and that's what "stole" the election from Trump

So you're not saying something stole the election from Trump, you're saying something "stole" the election from Trump?  

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By Beth Reinhard,, Jacqueline Alemany and Tom Hamburger

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/publix-heiress-capitol-riot-wren/2021/10/16/34b7d55a-2481-11ec-a6ad-9ee7deda7f34_story.html

The heiress donated to the heir to STOP THE STEAL.  Is it possible that generational wealth has become disinterested in American democracy? Maybe they favor a plutocracy instead. 

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36 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

By Beth Reinhard,, Jacqueline Alemany and Tom Hamburger

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/publix-heiress-capitol-riot-wren/2021/10/16/34b7d55a-2481-11ec-a6ad-9ee7deda7f34_story.html

The heiress donated to the heir to STOP THE STEAL.  Is it possible that generational wealth has become disinterested in American democracy? Maybe they favor a plutocracy instead. 

And whether she knew about the robo-call or not is irrelevant to me.  When you lie with snakes, expect to be bitten.

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