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TN Toffee
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Glad to see the GOP finally recognize the pressing issues of our time in the run-up to the midterms.
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GOP New Hampshire Senate nominee repeats hoax that kids are using litter boxes in schools | CNN Politics
The Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire shared at a Thursday event the hoax claim that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools.
Martin Alvito
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It's insanity. If you have no winning electoral agenda, just make stuff up from whole cloth.Glad to see the GOP finally recognize the pressing issues of our time in the run-up to the midterms.
GOP New Hampshire Senate nominee repeats hoax that kids are using litter boxes in schools | CNN Politics
The Republican Senate nominee in New Hampshire shared at a Thursday event the hoax claim that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools.
It's like dozens of candidates are Todd Akin 2.0, except that they're largely getting away with it ten years later.
TN Toffee
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It’s like the two sides aren’t even on the same plane of existence anymore.
The issues that matter to me are things like finding a way for all of us to just be able to go to the doctor like every other person in the developed world, or finding a way to stop being the only country on earth that sends several dozen children home from school in body bags every year. Hardly a radical agenda IMO.
Meanwhile, what they seem to care about is making sure kids don’t find out that slavery was somehow less than awesome for the enslaved peoples, being able to bully as many gay/trans kids into suicide as possible, and (apparently) putting an end to all the kids dressing up as cats and using litterboxes in schools. Oh, and guns.
Of course after saying “. “Fifty percent today of ... Black people’s deaths today is abortion.... It’s not racism; that’s too wide of a term. It’s genocide and population control that Black people are in today in America, that is promoted by the music and the media that Black people make, that Jewish record labels get paid off of“ Ye is giving his endorsement to the guy who allegedly arranged for two abortions.
bluestevon
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U.S. politics at an all time low point in terms of looking around for any politician with genuine gravitas and a brain.
Always had some serious hitters in both the Senate and Congress, right now just seems to be a collection of meh
Always had some serious hitters in both the Senate and Congress, right now just seems to be a collection of meh
Martin Alvito
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Does seem a rather long way from Gephardt, Kennedy, Michel and Dole. The short version of the history from there is that Gingrich won.
bluestevon
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I think it's symptomatic of modern politics (least in the western world) just across the board doesn't seem anyone I look at and think they have anything too them of substance,
Not sure exactly why although have a strong feeking it's down to WEF influence pushing the ability to look nice and do the WEF line politically above any other regard.
Weird I long for the days of a Kennedy, Merkel, Shirac etc hell even Reagan or Thatcher much as I despised each, both at least has forceful opinions and backbone to them.
Only the two Irish emps I've seen recently who seem to actually say what they believe in, well Gabbard does too but her reasons for doing so i wouldn't exactly call honest
Martin Alvito
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I suppose that my point was that we very quickly went from horse-traders with principles to a world where horse-trading is viewed as a loser move. I would trace that shift to Gingrich, Armey, DeLay and DeLay's opposite number in Pelosi. Fundraising quickly started trumping substance, and that model was mirrored all over the West.
Bipartisanship is dead across all issue areas, and a zero-sum thought process has replaced the possibility of cooperative gains as the meaningful time horizon has been shortened by the twenty-four hour news cycle.
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Meh is overly generous
TN Toffee
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I think big part of that can also be traced to the almost total fusing of the Republican Party and the Evangelical Church. It’s much easier to get a person to horse-trade when they don’t view their political positions as being divinely inspired.
We've passed so many points of 'this must be it, surely this is the wake up call' that i think there's a general feeling that anything can happen now.
We're not seeing the start of something nasty, we're seeing the process of it growing steadily without showing any signs of abating.
The attack on the Speakers husband, The richest man taking over twitter and stripping any safeguards, a cultural icon going full anti semite, all in the last few days and not one republican voter will change their vote. They're doubling and tripling down because God told them to.
I think it's easy to point the finger at politicians. And perhaps that is where the blame lies.
But I also believe strongly that it's much deeper than that - our society is an absolute mess, and our elected officials feel like they can't risk (generally) speaking the truth about all this nonsense and risk alienating someone who might vote for him or her.
We live in a world where the media feels compelled to "both sides" issues lest they look partisan. When the reality is one side is so far gone it's not even a "political" debate any more.
There is no way to fix this because of the alternate reality right wing media has created over the past 35 years
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