limpid Posted June 23 Administrator Share Posted June 23 3 minutes ago, magnkarl said: Wow - the immigrants are bringing their own prisons and mental institutions? No wonder the US economy is booming! I wonder if they'd like to come and build some in the UK? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheAuthority Posted June 24 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24 16 hours ago, magnkarl said: Wow - the immigrants are bringing their own prisons and mental institutions? No wonder the US economy is booming! Interestingly, a lot of first gen US immigrants generally hate next gen illegal/legal immigrants. It's a weird snobbery/working class hatred that is fueled by certain sections of the media. It's disgusting that people like Thatcher* realized that the proletariat would easily hate each other when nudged. *Thatcher et al have made us hate each other for decades post WW2 - we are just manipulated by petty politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Shocking!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 6 minutes ago, nick76 said: Shocking!!! Chip Roy represents a district between Austin & San Antonio and is an absolute tool Thankfully we left Austin (lived there from 92-96) well before he came along. Statements like this are par for the course when it comes to this pile of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted June 25 VT Supporter Share Posted June 25 Just listened to this Jon Stewart podcast (didn't realize it was also on YT) It's truly scary. The GOP plan is this: If Trump wins, the day after he is inaugurated, Clarence Thomas & Samuel Alito will both retire and the Federalist Society have some very young and very conservative judges lined up to be nominated. It will cement a possible 7-2 conservative super majority on the supreme court for decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 11 minutes ago, TheAuthority said: Just listened to this Jon Stewart podcast (didn't realize it was also on YT) It's truly scary. The GOP plan is this: If Trump wins, the day after he is inaugurated, Clarence Thomas & Samuel Alito will both retire and the Federalist Society have some very young and very conservative judges lined up to be nominated. It will cement a possible 7-2 conservative super majority on the supreme court for decades. Leonard Leo & the damn Federalist Society have done immeasurable damage to this country In such a scenario, these new judges won’t only be very young & very conservative, they will be hardcore religious dogmatics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 This one caught me by surprise earlier. The republican end goal seems to be to regress by 50 years. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/25/republicans-no-fault-divorce Quote Some prominent conservative lawmakers and commentators are advocating for ending no-fault divorce, laws that exist in all 50 US states and allow a person to end a marriage without having to prove a spouse did something wrong, like commit adultery or domestic violence. The socially conservative, and often religious, rightwing opponents of such divorce laws are arguing that the practice deprives people – mostly men – of due process and hurt families, and by extension, society. Republican lawmakers in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have discussed eliminating or increasing restrictions on no-fault marriage laws. Defenders of the laws, which states started passing a half-century ago, see legislation and arguments to repeal them as the latest effort to restrict women’s rights – following the overturning of Roe v Wade and passage of abortion bans around the country – and say that without such protections, the country would return to an earlier era when women were often trapped in abusive marriages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 4 minutes ago, Davkaus said: This one caught me by surprise earlier. The republican end goal seems to be to regress by 50 years. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/25/republicans-no-fault-divorce I think their real goal is to go back 150 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 Thursday debate should be fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancvillan Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 (edited) Nate Silver's take... Think this table is pay walled, but obligatory link to his site is: https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model Edited June 26 by Vancvillan 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Townsend Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 FFS America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 I was in upstate NY last week and was being driven to my destination by a high school teacher who had to work as a Chauffeur. He seemed pretty much all there and teaches Astronomy and Physics, so much smarter than me! He thinks Biden will win the election by a larger margin than he did last time, because Trumps legal history is very much against the normal swing voters. He said Trump is more interested in ripping up institutions and would likely make a case for extending presidency periods for longer than 4 years, which I don't think many Americans would agree with. It helped settle my worries at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 27 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27 28 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: I was in upstate NY last week and was being driven to my destination by a high school teacher who had to work as a Chauffeur. He seemed pretty much all there and teaches Astronomy and Physics, so much smarter than me! He thinks Biden will win the election by a larger margin than he did last time, because Trumps legal history is very much against the normal swing voters. He said Trump is more interested in ripping up institutions and would likely make a case for extending presidency periods for longer than 4 years, which I don't think many Americans would agree with. It helped settle my worries at least. But no worries about the fact he tried to take The Whitehouse by force. Astonishing the whole thing really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 13 hours ago, Vancvillan said: Nate Silver's take... Think this table is pay walled, but obligatory link to his site is: https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model Nate Silver hasn’t been right since 2016 and consistently wrong on Biden, even his former site shows the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 Back in 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Dogg Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 17 minutes ago, nick76 said: Nate Silver hasn’t been right since 2016 and consistently wrong on Biden, even his former site shows the opposite. 2016 was only 1 election ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted June 27 Share Posted June 27 21 minutes ago, Mr_Dogg said: 2016 was only 1 election ago... Midterms etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 27 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27 1 hour ago, sidcow said: But no worries about the fact he tried to take The Whitehouse by force. The Capitol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 27 VT Supporter Share Posted June 27 19 minutes ago, mjmooney said: The Capitol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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