• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I don’t care about her hypocrisy. It’s good to have any sitting Republican saying these things. It’s something, at least.

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      16 hours ago

      Yup. She’s an awful human and way too into 4chan-tier conspiracies, but she is at least (at last) seeing part of what the actual problem is for the average person.

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        Personally, I think it is because she’s a true believer. She’s crazy, and too dumb to be trusted to be let in on the grift, so she just fights for what she’s “supposed” to be fighting for. While that is normally something awful, the situation does make the broken clock right twice a day.

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      21 hours ago

      I 100% agree. However, and I hate that I’m saying this… She is correct. Cost of living is, beyond all doubt, the #1 issue for the American working class at this present time. We are feeling personally hurt in our pocketbooks, regardless of the subjective level of empathetic psychological harm we are experiencing, which obviously only applies to the ones who care for their fellow man.

      Truly, if we want them out, it needs to be made very clear that the GOP is not financially in their personal best interests. Selfishness is a far greater motivator to empathy. I may see a starving child, but if I’m starving too? Shit man, I’ve never starved before. Who knows?

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        19 hours ago

        Even that isn’t guaranteed. They’ve voted for racism over their finances before, they can do it again

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          19 hours ago

          Not a one of them believes that. Yes, it’s true, and that was explicitly the reason. But they would swear up and down that they voted for him because of money, not culture wars. A self-selling lie, to be sure, but if you want to understand their reasoning, you need to accept that they do not believe they were/are being self-defeating.

          Again, if they believe, beyond their own ability to ignore it, that Trump os bad for THEIR finances, they’ll drop him. It’s in their selfish nature.

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            It was also very strongly touted to be one of the biggest reasons for the economy being as rough as it is. The brown people are taking your jobs and wasting your tax dollars and murdering your children and eating the dogs… A ton of people voted to get them out to save the economy. The funny thing is a ton of those people are/were the main reason prices aren’t higher. It’s a self own in like 12 different ways.

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      20 hours ago

      Yeah I would be OWNED. Very triggered. It would also piss me off if they did Medicare for all and called it Trumpcare. Grrrr I would be so mad.

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      Monkey’s paw curls

      All rent is to be raised 84%. Any individuals not able to provide your local GOP-verified children’s bathroom genitals and housing inspector with proof of residency in accommodations not less than 600 sq. ft. per resident shall report to public housing, local section, within 10 business days after proof of residency is due, or, in event of notice of eviction, within five days after receiving notice of eviction, which ever is sooner. Individuals reporting to public housing are allowed three sets of clothing, to include one pair of shoes, and personal items that may fit into 14 gallon bag. All items exceeding quantity or space shall be sold at auction, proceeds to line local rep’s pocket benefit public housing program. Individuals housed in public housing without proof of income of $100,000 or greater, or from three jobs, shall participate in public-work-program, at daily rate of $45.00 or $5.00 per hour, whichever is lesser. Failure to participate in public-work-program shall be offense punishable by 45 days in Jeff Bezon ™ factory, and fines to be paid by auction of personal property until amount of fine is paid; fines not to exceed $15,000. Jeff Bezon ™ factory work shall pay at $7.25 per day towards fine amount. Other corporate work may be substituted at local GOP-verified county council overseer liaison’s discretion.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      20 hours ago

      “Biden and Barack Hussein Obama ruined the economy and the liberals insist on taking all your money to fund DEI and protect immigrants who just want to rape your pets”

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    I go on a rollercoaster of quizzical excitement to disappointment every time I see a post about this woman. Can we please stop abbreviating her name Magic the Gathering?

    I can’t handle all this acronym stress in my feed /hj

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      I get similar confusion over HRC sometimes. Hillary Rodham Clinton is retired but the Human Rights Campaign still has political statements to make. The confusing part is that she’d probably agree with most of them.

      BLM is another one, although context usually clarifies if we’re talking about the Bureau of (usually tribal) Land Management or Black Lives Matter.

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      She’s probably a lot smarter than you think.

      It looks like she’s positioning herself for 2028. “MAGA is bigger than any one person, even Donald Trump. I’m a maverick like Sarah Palin! I don’t mind bucking the party when they are wrong, and I’ll fight like hell for the party when they are right! I’ll work with anyone to make America Great Again!”

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        19 hours ago

        I just don’t see a woman being the face of the Republicans anytime soon besides the plastic ones meant to take all the heat in Trump’s admin.

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          I think the MAGats are going to need a new leader soon, and MTG is as likely as anyone. I don’t see Vance getting the juices flowing and Donald Jr. couldn’t open a can of soup if he had a battalion helping him.

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      I mean all of those are partially true but she just takes it to crazy levels because it gets her attention, and clearly that strategy works because we all know her name.

      Countries all over the world have been using cloud seeding for decades to help with precipitation. Solar Radiation Management (SRM) has been used in small tests to attempt to reflect more sunlight back into space to cool the planet (via marine cloud brightening, MCB), but the other methods such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) has only ever been theoretical or tested at a micro scale.

      Israeli intelligence has some satellites that use various forms of remote sensing, which aren’t necessarily lasers, but she’s dumb so a laser could mean anything to her. The Jewish executive thing is actually just dumb/antisemitic though.

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      I think she just wants the Republicans in Georgia who are skeptical about voting for a Republican regime that aren’t fixing anything feep better about voting for her.

      This administration lied saying he would bring food prices down to get the lower and middle class Republicans support. Soon as he won the election before taking office started changing his tone to, well we can’t really bring down prices as that would be hard/bad.

      Then now he’s starting to say we can increase imports of beef from South America to try to decrease beef prices… Which is a slap in the face to every Midwest/ranching state that voted for him on cutting imports, increasing exports, America first bs. While wanting to be racist against everyone Hispanic.

      She’s in the stage of, I need re-election so start telling the voters I want to help the again.

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    No they won’t because the supreme Court is going to allow them to gerrymander based on race and they’ll pick up 13 seats.

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      They didnt even need the Supreme Court for that. Democrats have been rolling over and allowing Republicans to gerrymander states. Just look at what happened in Texas.

      I do wonder where all those people went that told me that it was okay the Dems backed down in Texas because Dems in California were going to gerrymander their state and negate any gains Republicans made elsewhere. Apparently that memo got lost in the mail somewhere and Republicans were given everything they wanted yet again.

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    A broken clock is still right twice a day.

    And because some people always misinterpret that statement as “support”: This does not mean the clock shouldn’t be replaced.

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    21 hours ago

    This troll just wants to be contrarian to whatever is currently going on, and she tries to grab the spotlight for herself in that manner. Sadly it often works.

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    20 hours ago

    Crazy bitch helps set fire to building … warns everyone that the building might burn down

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    She does have a point. Republicans may be doing everything they can to rig the districts to keep their majority, but that district-rigging is based on historical trends regarding where likely partisan voters are. It can very easily backfire if there is a shift in the electorate.

    What I am hoping for is that Republicans get thoroughly trounced in the midterms, so badly that the nerds realize that Republicans would have been better off with the old maps.

    But that isnt really all that likely, is it?

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      Going from memory of looking at some statistical analysis of Proposition 50 in California, the Democratic gerrymandering-because-Texas-is-Republican-gerrymandering ballot item, the California Democrats sought to create districts where they maintained a ten percentage point lead. I dunno what the Republican states are doing, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s comparable. Just to give some idea of the margin one might be talking about.

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        Republicans have been gerrymandering hard for decades. While democrats did some, they didn’t go at it with the same gusto. The result is many dem states have a lot more room for error on future gerrymandering. A lot of Republican created districts have fallen under that 10% margin. This could have a significant impact on an election if they lower these margins even more during a wave.

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        That’s in california where they have margin to play with. In texas, there’s a lot less wiggle room and some analysis I saw when they were pushing theirs through suggested (based on mid-cycle elections) that the resultant maps were actually going to result in +5 D seats. Treat the above as me making stuff up though because I can’t find that source now :(