Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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The Venn diagram of Trump supporters and Musk supporters isn't quite a circle, but it's close enough that a lot of people are now worried because Mom and Dad are fighting.
Elon tried to be witty by posting one of those two button memes with "hate Trump" or "hate Elon" not realizing that those things are not mutually exclusive. Made it really easy to answer, so much so that he deleted the tweet not much later.
I'm surprised he would delete this; his followers don't care one bit what the far left really think about anything
Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill restaurant closes after landlord refused to renew the lease
Rep. Lauren Boebert and her husband are praying and planning to continue the Shooters brand, culture, name and presence in Rifle
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--Patrick
figmentPez
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Once again, Republicans are the ones committing voter fraud:
As always, if you want to know what they do, see what they accuse others of.
GasBandit
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It's a depressing time to be a Texan. I'm sure if DA were here he'd be looking at me, wide eyed and expectant, to know when I'm going to be exercising my 2A rights to vote from the rooftops. But even if I were violently inclined, it's past that. If someone were to assassinate a Republican politician - one who UNQUESTIONINGLY would be better off with his or her brains 3 feet behind them - the remaining ones would use it as a rallying cry to strengthen their cause. Greg Abbott dies? DeSantis becomes president. And Vice versa.
All I can do is keep voting Democrat and hope the gerrymandering doesn't make that as fruitless as I think it will.
And boy is the first half of that sentence one I never thought I'd be typing. Trump really was a game changer.
All I can do is keep voting Democrat and hope the gerrymandering doesn't make that as fruitless as I think it will.
And boy is the first half of that sentence one I never thought I'd be typing. Trump really was a game changer.
They've moved past gerrymandering, remember? They're in the process of empowering legislatures with "voter nullification" abilities when determining how to distribute electoral college votes.
But only in red states, of course.
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Case in point:
I never took you for an optimist before.
GasBandit
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Well, I mean the first one IS a midterm, so there's always the chance it won't count.
figmentPez
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The racists are being loud about what they believe:
They know this is their shot at power. They are going to get the power they want, or watch everything burn. Either way their goal is violence.
They know this is their shot at power. They are going to get the power they want, or watch everything burn. Either way their goal is violence.
Capitalists: "The most efficient way to maximize profits is to increase prices to the point where some will not be able to afford your product BUT they are offset by the wealthier customers who can."
Laborers: "You apparently can't afford me, I'm going somewhere else."
Capitalists: "Wait, not like that."
--Patrick
figmentPez
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Monkeypox is the new "blame it on the gays" disease, and that's gonna cause a huge amount of problems once school starts up and kids start spreading it around heavily. It's not an STD, despite sex greatly increasing the risk of it being spread. Little kids are gross and are going to spread it. Teenagers like to kiss and are going to spread it.
Conservatives are already ramping up the propaganda machine to weaponize this against LGBTQ+.
Conservatives are already ramping up the propaganda machine to weaponize this against LGBTQ+.
Wait, don't tell me. These are the same assholes who, when talking about helping immigrants, will say "Nuh uh! What about helping Americans, first? We can't help immigrants while veterans and homeless people suffer!"
Meanwhile, they go out of their way to ensure veterans and homeless people suffer, too.
I mean, fucking duh. But also, McConnel had a meeting with one of them and said they would get it done and then the prick voted against it. These people are the lowest of the low. They are playing with fire, here.
"We're going to try and siphon off moderate votes from the Democrats so Trump can more easily win again". Oh, sorry, I mean, "we're starting a third party to appeal to all moderates from both sides"
I'm in favor of having more parties, but in the current climate, all they're doing is taking the 1% anti-Trump Reps who remain, and the conservative Dems who have been targeted by right wing propaganda enough to believe the whole Democratic party has become a woke communist hysteria front and throwing their votes away. Yang, sure, yeah.
I'm in favor of having more parties, but in the current climate, all they're doing is taking the 1% anti-Trump Reps who remain, and the conservative Dems who have been targeted by right wing propaganda enough to believe the whole Democratic party has become a woke communist hysteria front and throwing their votes away. Yang, sure, yeah.
Reminder that the last presidential election was won by a total of some 50.000 votes spread across four-five states. Reminder that Gore lost to Bush by, what, 15 votes. These will get a LOT of dark money and push from Republican companies. If they can siphon off 1% of the Democratic vote, less than 0.5% of the total vote, that's enough to make a huge swing.
Sadly, Democrats are much less herd-minded in some ways and are much morep rone to fighting in divided order than Republicans. Trump (or deSantis) will get all votes from everything to the right of center. The "moderates" won't vote for X, the "progressives" aren't enthusiastic about Y, the liberals aren't in favor of Z, etc etc. It's not hard to see how this sort of thing can very much affect elections, when Stein, Nader, et al have shown that they do.
Or Kanye in 2020, which was supposed to ruin Trump’s campaign.