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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1478842
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1478842
How absolutely American to not make any connection to money.
Like the kind of money it takes to employ a band of lawyers to come up with the information required to gerrymander, or how those in government in all these failing states treat governing like some kind of divine right, passed on from father to son, and from husband to wife.
Americans, tax payers, are not represented by our system of government. Only the rich can afford to participate.
We’ve got a guy running for the third time who did not respect the result of the second time, and because he has money he can have his own media outlet that has thrown so much bullshit into our body politic that half the voting population are ready to go to guns.
It’s the money. It’s the fucking money. Everything else is fiddling while Rome burns.
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“Democrats control both houses of the state Legislature for the first time since 1984.”
Another way to read that…
Citizens of Michigan have been denied their representative government for forty years, an entire generation.
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Former Michigan GOP Executive Director Jason Roe told Politico, “Everyone is just trying to pretend it didn’t happen,” which ex-New Hampshire Republican Party chair and anti-Trump Lincoln Project founder Jennifer Horn says is “an acquiescence to the idea that they are going to nominate a despicable human being who has been identified as a sexual abuser.”
Though Horn noted that her former party has a “long history of dismissing and demeaning issues that are important to women,” it doesn’t change the fact that “it’s really, really disappointing to see them be so silent,” she said.
On the other hand, GOP strategist Bob Heckman said, “Trump chaos is baked in the cake at this point,” which is why the party’s collective “reaction was a big yawn.”
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It’s just insane.
I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if tfg isn’t looking to use 'my influence on patriotic ‘Muricans’ as leverage to get concessions when he loses.
He loves him a little extortion. It always brightens his day.
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Actually, 40 years is almost 2 generations.
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Somewhere along the line, I was told it was 32 years.
Thanks.
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No worries. I think demographers set a generation at 25 years, give or take, the age when adults generally start having children, thus creating another generation.
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Well it has been 48 hours and so far dump has not mentioned E Jean Carroll. silence, nothing
But he did throw his lawyer under the bus
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It amazes me how Republicans pivoted so quickly from “See, even Biden agrees with us that the border is broken!” to “No, we’re not going to let Biden get a win by fixing the border. We’ll keep it open to give Trump a political talking point to beat Biden with.”
Don’t the Republicans care that this flip-flop could be a huge own-goal for them? I realize the rank hypocrisy isn’t a concern — they embraced Herschel Walker through the revelations that he pressured women to have abortion — but I thought that calculus of winning would prevent them from foreswearing a border solution.
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There is no GOP. Its now a full blown Trump cult
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Is that post from Trump underbussing Habba real? It doesn’t sound like him.
By saying “Maybe next time I’ll choose a law firm and lawyer that has some more practical experience in high ticket litigation” he’s admitting he made a mistake. He never does that.
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There are mathematical and statistical ways to measure the degree to which districts accurately reflect, or not, the underlying electorate or voting population.
Identifying a problem is the first step in solving it.
“ We bridge the gap between mathematics and the law to achieve fair representation through redistricting reform.”
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(picture the tears in my eyes fellow hivers): Sir, why should we trust your judgement on anything when everyone you’ve chosen for a job has failed so spectacularly. This does not reflect well on your acumen, or ability to lead.
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Might want to point out how many agency head Trump churned through, plus towards the end how many “acting” heads of this and that were in his administration.
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