Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[Wat Tyler]

Get used to four more years of Trump and his confederate mob

 

[LinekersLegs]

Fwiw Ohio has a Republican governor.

 

[ilikecheese]

Fwiw Ohio has a Republican governor.

Oh look the antisemites have crawled out of their cave.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[TheBigIguana]

Fwiw Ohio has a Republican governor.

Maryland has something similar going on and also has a GOP governor. However he has never been in line with Trump (he couldn't be governor here if he was) and has even gone on TV saying it's not true that they have the testing to reopen a majority of the state. I actually feel pretty decent about Hogan handling this, and if it came down to it I could handle having someone of his ilk running the country despite not agreeing policy wise, but it's pretty clear that section of the Republican party is gone now.

 

[RAFUH]

Basically, white rural (US) males are asshats.

 

[Walken]

Basically, white rural (US) males are asshats.

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Would there be any tangible difference if it had been Sanders or just anyone who didn't immediately inject apathy into the Democrat bid?

 

[sdk]

Would there be any tangible difference if it had been Sanders or just anyone who didn't immediately inject apathy into the Democrat bid?

Probably not. The GOP has won the votes of the majority of white men (and especially rural white men) for years.

 

[RAFUH]

Honestly don't know - our politics are so wrecked.

I think the vast majority have already decided Trump or anyone else (Bernie bros aside)

It will come down to turn out in purple states. I think the Dem candidate easily wins the popular vote, but that doesn't matter.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Probably not. The GOP has won the votes of the majority of white men (and especially rural white men) for years.

You'd have to think they're not gonna be swayed by a Jewish socialist.

 

[Walken]

Probably not. The GOP has won the votes of the majority of white men (and especially rural white men) for years.

There is certainly a very distinct demographic of people at these 'protests'

 

[sdk]

There is certainly a very distinct demographic of people at these 'protests'

It's hard to credit the topical sincerity of shutdown protesters when they all show up tricked out in Trump merch, particularly in Michigan, where the big Lansing protest was organized and underwritten by a group run by Betsy DeVos, Trump's Michigan-born billionaire god-botherer AmWay heiress Sec'y of Education.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Maryland has something similar going on and also has a GOP governor. However he has never been in line with Trump (he couldn't be governor here if he was) and has even gone on TV saying it's not true that they have the testing to reopen a majority of the state. I actually feel pretty decent about Hogan handling this, and if it came down to it I could handle having someone of his ilk running the country despite not agreeing policy wise, but it's pretty clear that section of the Republican party is gone now.

Agree Hogan seems to be doing a good job

 

[LinekersLegs]

This is going to hit hard states with a lot of energy companies at a very bad time for overall unemployment.

 

[riddick]

How is oil in negative territory even possible??