I mean I get that. But when I say got a DUI, I meant arrested for it. They weren’t convicted. But even that’s enough due to how canada treats dui vs the US. My point was more that all the arguments about how strict US immigration is kind of ignores every other country, and all of that is kinda derailing tbh. The main thing is, we shouldn’t assume in the US that we can just leave this country if the senators we don’t like get elected. This senator quitting too is basically them ceding the party to Trump
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At least Missourians voted for a dead guy instead of the person who would later become G.W. Bush’s Attorney General. That showed some degree of responsibility on their part. Will they be as thoughtful when Blunt’s seat comes up for decision in the next election? There’s been a lot of Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, QAnon, and twice impeached loser donald trump since then, so my hopes aren’t particularly high at this point.
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History and conventional wisdom says that the opposition party does quite well during a midterm election, so by that wisdom you’d expect it to be the Democrat senators who are retiring.
Of course, the same wisdom said the Purdue and Loeffer should have had an easy ride Jan 5th. But they had Donald Trump “helping” them. Hoping for the same in 2022.
MO is a small state where the electoral politics are determined almost entirely by (St. Louis + Kansas City) vs (everyone else). Note that STL elected Cori Bush to the House. There are glimmers of progressivism there waiting to be tapped, particularly as the rural areas age out. On the other hand, however, there’s a serious brain drain problem (which I’ll admit I’m part of). I’ve met a lot of ex-Missourians on the West Coast and none of us have even the faintest intention of moving back.
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It did not, if you actual paid any attention to what’s been happening in GA for the past few years. The fact that the top of the ticket lost in November brings that home.
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Um, no. How about not. We clearly can’t rely on the “mad man theory” given how many manifestly unfit candidates have been elected in recent years.
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I think we should count on the opposite… we already have examples in the house with marjorie taylor greene, lauren boebert, and madison cawthorn. These people are spectacularly dangerous fools. Vacancies in republican strongholds are terrible news.
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If “Jewish Space Lasers!” and “Satanic Pedophile Cannibals!” isn’t crazy enough to be un-electable then pray tell what would be?
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Anybody else ever think that Roy Blount Jr. must be Roy Blunt’s son?
Speak French, Georgian, an Athabascan language? Come with an income that is outside the country?
(I’m not complaining, these are reasonable conditions!)
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Chicken.
Even more hilarious considering the geographical situation.
Only point of disagreement is that the Republican Party has been a right-wing populist death cult since at least ~1980, probably since the 1960s.
All of these resignations make me initially happy, then deeply frightened. There’s some joy in seeing a Republican step down, but the likely outcome of more Marjorie Taylor-Greens holding elected office is terrifying. I’m hoping at least in PA, Toomey’s seat may go to a Democrat.
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yeah, like that wacky trump character who thought he could be president the last time around, what a goofball!
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This! Americans like to joke about it (including all my friends) but I can say that as someone who has moved to a different country once and is preparing to do it a second time, it is no picnic. It is expensive, time consuming, and difficult. Never presume people can “just move” from where they were born. It’s actually quite a privilege to be able to do so.
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Besides the fact that such strategies have NEVER worked.
“I will make Nero my successor. The people will be so mad they will bring back the Republic”
“This Napoleon guy will outrage the public so much, they will be begging for the return of the monarchy”
“Lets keep this guy Hitler close. We will make him the Chancellor, a pointless secondary position and neuter him”
“No sane person is going to pick Donald Trump in the primary”
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Especially right now in the middle of a) a pandemic and b) a wave of global anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Enter or emigrate? Work there or visit? It is harder to become a Canadian citizen, but I don’t know about work visas.
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I’m talking about the first stage which is the work visa and such. But that to be anything over a short amount of time does require you to go for permanent residency. If you overstay in Canada you are basically barred from ever coming back
