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Honestly, that’s how the right did things. There was a thing where they asked Congress people why they voted the way they did, and the Congress people said that they were responding to the phone calls and comments they got [at least for things that weren’t directly paid for, I assume]. The Congress people said they got an average of four right wing message for every one leftist message. Fox News gets them agitated and angry and they call their Reps to see demand action. The left falls down on that follow through. We need to keep up the pressure. 5calls is a good place to start.

Because Trump is now a lame duck. The smart people are moving on within the next eight months, using their contacts to find a safe landing space. The ones who hang on until the end will have less job opportunities.

they’re working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel

He’s just pissed because he likes to use underpaid immigrants at his hotels and golf courses.

Illegally stealing water from aquifers, illegally discharging waste, increase pollution, hasten climate change, raising the temperature in the surrounding countryside by several degrees, corrupting local and state politics, not paying taxes, literally stealing every piece of knowledge, art and literature ever made by the entirety of mankind, all so that they can get rid of jobs, hallucinate answers and enable technofascist billionaires.

Or you can listen to Bernie himself.

The lack of punishment is ridiculous.

The ability to be elected to office even with felony convictions is a safeguard. If you were barred from office if you had a felony, then this government would just keep charging everyone it hated with felonies, hoping either for a conviction, the person to go bankrupt and give up, or create enough smoke that the potential constituents don’t vote for them.

I mean, you know Ken Paxton would’ve had Talarico and O’Rourke up on charges, and enough Texans are Fox addicts that they’d have either eventually gotten a conviction for something or at least discouraged people from voting from them. And you know Trump would be relentlessly going after AOC, Omar, Sanders, Mamdani, etc.

The victory marks a major political shift for the three-member Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state’s massive oil and gas industry, overseeing everything from pipeline safety to natural gas rates. […] Despite his victory, Republicans will retain a 2-1 majority on the commission, meaning Rosenthal will face limits on his ability to implement his priorities without support from his Republican colleagues.

It’s his safe space.

No, asshole, we want generational change. GTFOH.

Convenient how these past-minute changes only affect a heavily Democratic area, and gives plenty of room to allege “irregularities” when poll workers are directed to a place they’re not familiar with that was set up at the last minute. Not to mention the confusion amongst everyone who’s going to show up at the wrong place and have voting take significantly more time than they anticipated.

Behind closed doors, very little of this went over well with the state’s other Republican Party bigwigs, many of whom were furious at Ramaswamy for doing something that could imperil the elections of others on the Ohio GOP ticket

Yeah, they didn’t care about the ad, just that it could drag them down with him.

I mean, what else can they do but keep on? They’ve lost a lot of the American public, but if they lose the American Congress, that’ll really start to hurt.

Same reason a bunch of Trump officials will start leaving next year (for personal reasons, to spend more time with their family, to pursue a wonderful opportunity, etc): if they leave now, it’s easier for them to line up jobs elsewhere in the right-wing universe. If they wait until after Election Day, there’ll be a bunch more people competing for the same positions. This way, they can get in early.

the meeting was speedily publicized by the White House with photos and a video, without consent of the participants, and less than two weeks away from the midterm elections.

Imagine being so naive to believe that it wouldn’t be politicized - or that the White House believed in consent.

So? It’s better than the shit the Republicans have passed.

We have anticipated shenanigans in this election because we always experience shenanigans in elections in Texas

Doesn’t speak well for the people running the elections then, nor the people who put them in place. Perhaps they should just change over the entire government there.

Just to clarify the headline: he went to a No Kings protest to document the government’s response to the protest and was hit in the eye by an ICE projectile. This was state violence against a citizen, not protestors attacking a counter-protestor or agitator.

You’ve had five years to secure the border, and Texas Republicans have had decades to do so. If you haven’t secured it by now, maybe you should try a different approach.

It’s not (only) about trying to boost his poll numbers for the election, it’s about power: declaring the emergency allows him to somewhat bypass the legislature, letting him do things he wants to do without much oversight or restraint. What’s that saying about “if you let the government have extra powers in an emergency, it will always declare an emergency to do what it wants”? Yeah, that.

Why is he even relevant to rector proceedings in a Scottish university?

As mentioned twice in the article, Cleese was himself a rector at that very University.

Trump supporters are notoriously difficult to reach

Funny. That used to be the younger generations bc cellphones and not picking up in general. Now it’s the older generations with their copper landlines?