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

[Sassy Colombian]

I'm not sure if this violates forum rules
but Stacey Abrams needs all the financial support we can muster.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/georgiasenate

@Ruairi77 Thanks for encouraging this donation. I have made one as well. I love Stacey Abrams and the work that she has been doing ever since Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from her. Before Biden chose Kamala, she was actually my choice for VP.

 

[riddick]

I still can't believe how poor the Democratic party did in the Senate. It's unbelievable to me that getting to 50/50 is a massive massive longshot

 

[verreauxi]

Don’t have specifics but impeding/penalizing fellow Americans from voting just because they have moved to your state seems very undemocratic.

Military people do it all the time.

 

[Rook]

I still can't believe how poor the Democratic party did in the Senate. It's unbelievable to me that getting to 50/50 is a massive massive longshot

senate used to have a lot of republician senators in blue states and the dems vice versa, that's rarely the case anymore and there are a lot more red states than blue.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[Moomin]

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/local-arkansas-police-chief-quits-violence-democrats

 

[trueblue84]

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/local-arkansas-police-chief-quits-violence-democrats

Wow. Not sure what more you can say about that.

 

[RAFUH]

Wow. Not sure what more you can say about that.

Small town Arkansas...
I'm truly not surprised

 

[RAFUH]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[verreauxi]

Idiot right-wing "own the lib" types love to poke fun at college kids who want to be called by a different pronoun than convention. And while you might disagree with it, it is a truly harmless request that has no meaningful bearing on your livelihood.

In other news...



From the UPI (and owners of the photo), they state:

 

[TN Toffee]

With all the craziness surrounding the presidential race, I somehow missed that this woman ended up winning her Congressional race in Colorado. I’m the farthest thing from an educational elitist, but sending someone to Congress who didn’t finish high school, believes in Qanon, and has a dodgy legal history is, to say the least, concerning.

Just How Unqualified Is Lauren Boebert, Really? | Colorado Pols

The Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby has up today one of the more thorough bio pieces we've seen so far on Lauren Boebert, the upstart QAnon-curious Republican nominee for red-leaning CD-3 who shook Republican politics in western Colorado hard by handily defeating longtime incumbent Rep...

www.coloradopols.com

 

[RAFUH]

 

[TN Toffee]

What a dips***. With intellectual titans like him at the helm, I’m sure their succession will be wildly secessful.