What will it take for them to understand he does not care about them?
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In watching a Republican apologist for the new Georgia voter suppression bill – in which he claimed that walking up to people with food or water meant that 1) they could proselytize during those fleeting seconds and 2) if they were wearing t-shirts with ‘political slogans’ on them like #BLM (I wonder how many candidates are running under the BLM party banner?) that would itself be electioneering – it occurred to me that setting up a table 151 feet away from the door (or whatever the distance rule is) and asking the people in line to pass stuff forward to the people who have passed back a request for food/beverage would provide a sense of collective spirit for everyone in the line, and anger the Republicans who couldn’t do anything about it…so, a win-win.
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I call bullshit (at least on the conservatives claiming they watch less). I grew up with nothing but conservative men and I can tell you that as a bloc, they have very little other than sports in their lives. Hell, their entire personae are often wrapped around their teams. The ones who aren’t into sports fill that hole with the other major driver of tribalism, jingoism and narrow-mindedness; religion. And even then, if the local team is heading for the playoffs, you’ll see the team flags come out and endless inane jokes from the pulpit.
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The “money bomb” did not bring victory, as Trump lost the electoral college by 306 votes to 232. He also lost the popular vote by more than 7m ballots.But, the Times said, “the recurring donations swelled Mr Trump’s treasury in September and October, just as his finances were deteriorating. He was then able to use tens of millions of dollars he raised after the election, under the guise of fighting his unfounded fraud claims, to help cover the refunds he owed.”
…The Times reported that the practice was used for the Georgia Senate runoffs in January and continues to be used by the Republican party.
It also detailed distressing experiences affecting Trump donors hit by surprise deductions and consequent trouble with banks and credit card companies.
Victor Amelino, a 78-year-old from California, donated $990 in September. It recurred seven times for a total of almost $8,000, the Times said.
Calling the Trump campaign and the RNC “bandits”, Amelino told the paper: “I’m retired. I can’t afford to pay all that damn money.”
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Probably none, but some might be running against it. 
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It’s so weird to think that just a few years ago Mike Huckabee was widely considered one of the “grown-ups” in the Republican Party.
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Who thought that? He was always a spoiled toddler with a platform.
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I agree he never earned the respect he was given, but just as one example of how he was treated as a serious person and a serious contender for President there was the friendly banter/respectful interviews/free publicity that Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien showed him in 2008.
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There are people who are too dumb to be teachers
“Your son has learned to lie to everybody and make excuses,” Newman apparently says on the recording. “Because you’ve taught him to make excuses that nothing is his fault. This is what Black people do. This is what Black people do. White people do it, too, but Black people do it way more.”
Newman seems to claim in the recording that she and several other teachers had made failed attempts to reach Stokes throughout the school year to discuss her son’s progress, saying it was “the first time I reached that woman the whole year.”
“These parents, that’s what kinds of pieces of s— they are,” Newman says. “Black. He’s Black. They’re a Black family.”
The claim says that during the rant, Stokes called the school principal, who immediately called Newman and told her that her video was still on. Newman denied the remarks she made, still on video, while Stokes continued the recording.
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…all of this while many of his colleagues are staying quiet about Gaetz crossing state lines to pay money to do minors.
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We were reading about this this morning, so I went onto McConnel’s campaign page to see what was going on there.
If you sign up for a basic donation, the “donate again on April 30” is checked, but the auto recurring donation box isn’t checked.
BUT…if you buy any of the merchandise ($65 fleece, anyone) both of those are checked, so you’re setup for a recurring $65/mo, plus the 4/30 “money bomb.”
That hit me as even more sneaky than I first understood, because people aren’t even signing up to “donate,” but rather, just shopping.
And yet, I find absolutely no sympathy in my heart for these dupes.
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Unlike Huckabee, Lieu has literal skin in this game. It’s unsurprising he’s a little less civil in that second tweet.
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Get 'im, Ted.
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more evidence, as if we needed it, that clarence thomas has been trolling us since his nomination hearing–
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Thomas’ argument falls flat on one key point: the cost of entry into web hosting is effectively zero which is the integral component to all social media platforms. He would have to prove that there are unnecessary barriers of entry perpetrated by EVERY web host provider on the planet. That’s a tall order imo. Even then, he would have to show in terms of the spirit of the laws that regulate telcos as common carriers also applies to computer information systems and networks (IIRC the 90s dereg bills essentially says no to telcos and info providers being the same or siilar).
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while i agree with you on this, the operative question is whether thomas can get 4 other justices to agree with him, regardless of the reasonableness or rationality of his argument. he could lose roberts or kavanaugh and still carry the day.
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It’s funny because their target audience usually passes out at 10pm
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