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8 hours agoThat’s been a thing for a decade or more. Twitter journalism is the lowest form of journalism. Right below listicles.
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Didn’t Cooter get his own spinoff show? I know he became a Congressman irl.
Sounds about white.
Vice President Cooter, how do you respond to the comments from Them Duke Boys?
Fascism does that.
in Texas, you say
Unrelated (?)
The Nuclear Option: Judicial Engineering by Design
The term “nuclear option” sounds dramatic, but what unfolded was exactly that: a procedural detonation that reshaped the U.S. judiciary—and cleared the runway for Donald Trump’s legal invincibility. In 2017, Mitch McConnell pulled the nuclear trigger for Supreme Court confirmations. Facing a filibuster on Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch, McConnell changed the rules to force him through with just 51 votes.
What followed was a full-on Federalist Society takeover of the federal judiciary:
• 3 Supreme Court justices: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett
• Over 200 lower court judges, all fast-tracked under the new simple-majority rulesLet’s just say: McConnell caught the car—which turned out to be a MAGA bus barreling straight toward the Constitution. And no, his idol Ronald Reagan wouldn’t be pleased—at this trajectory, our children will soon be learning Russian.
Well THAT’S fucking COMMITMENT
It seems we must. Now.
We never have before, and the Democrats don’t campaign on it, so I highly doubt it.
That’s just silly. Crazy wrong.
. . .the last President to really move the country left was FDR. Biden did too, but he barely even tried to undo the previous Trump administration.
So that contradicts your first statement.
To be clear, Democrats are far better than Republicans for the left, but it’s not because we expect to get any of what we want from either.
You’re ignoring the inherent contradiction by claiming what’s “wanted” was and is never supported. That’s not the case.
Of course that’s a big, if interesting, if.
Kinda like “if monkeys come flying out of my ass”. Even so, it’s hardly all that interesting. We still won’t understand how Trump won in 2016. We still won’t understand the rising tide of fascism in the US and the rest of the neoliberal world. We’ll be no closer to taking back Congress in 2026, or doing anything with our proof of election fraud without it.
Hardly interesting to find that stuff out? Okay. I couldn’t disagree more. We know from a number of sources trump colluded with russia for things like money and intelligence, we know there were a lot of voter roll break-ins and so on. And we know the Cambridge Analytica piece. That’s a lot already - it’s not an impenetrable fortress of unknowable things.
I’m not “interested” in expending time, resources, or political capital on a witch-hunt that even Kamala and Walz don’t find valuable.
Fair enough then. IF anything happens you can read about it in the checkout line. And Kamala and Walz wouldn’t support this publicly but I have no doubt they’d find any uncovered truths valuable.
Yeah I know, every leftist wants to see the Democrats collapse because they can’t wish the same on the republiQans.
IF there’s anything to this, it means the Democrats won, though and leftists would get a lot of what they want. That they don’t care about that is all we need to know as it comes to midterms.
Of course that’s a big, if interesting, if.
OH. The next article in the series explains it. “Drop off” meaning the drop between Presidential selection and the next-most powerful office. In this case Pres - Senator.
The data above reflects what’s commonly referred to as the “drop-off”—the difference between the number of votes cast for the presidential race and those cast for the next down-ballot race within the same party.
In mail-in voting, Harris and Trump show similar drop-off rates (1.48% vs. 1.96%), which aligns with expected voter behavior. But on Election Day, the numbers diverge sharply: Trump’s drop-off rate skyrockets to 4.51%, while Harris’ plummets to 0.87%.
That kind of disparity is impossible to ignore. According to this data—on Election Day only—voters selected Democrats down-ballot, then flipped to Trump at the top of the ticket.
“Critics”, ffs.