Marjorie Taylor Greene wants "national divorce," but dummy doesn't see who a secession would hurt most

Was that cop who sat on George Floyd’s neck until he died thinking racist thoughts as he did so?

IOW, what she’s thinking doesn’t really matter, does it?

I suspect she is talking shit to raise money, but what matters is the effects her words have.

Now I’m wondering, as people are getting hurt and killed, what the effects of talking strategy like that are? What GOOD that even does.

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In reality, the checkpoints and road blockades so beloved of fascists (especially the dim-witted orc followers who correctly see it as a guaranteed jobs programme) will spring up everywhere.

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rule of goats!

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Michigan was heavily Gerrymandered for 40 years, this last election was the first with less Gerrymandered maps. Fascist goons never had majority support.

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Spot On Doctor Who GIF by BBC America

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hahahahh !! oh wait , were you at all serious ??
please allow me to laugh all the heartier !!
heheheh
no , but really , you seem to have forgot a < satire > or /s tag !!

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Saaaay, are you one of them there Brussels Dictator minions? :face_with_monocle:

A veritable Brussels sprout, as it were?

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That doesn’t make sense. Most of the grumbling about unelected leaders in the EU comes from the UK, which vests a good deal of power in the 1922 committee, and only occasionally in the electorate itself.

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Nope. Easier to just arrest traitors and seditionists. Don’t take their garbage seriously.
Such talk is tantamount to actively plotting the destruction of the country.

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It doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to emotionally resonate.

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MTG’s mind palace:

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Looking at the List of United States cities by population on Wikipedia, the cities you listed and their populations in the 2020 census:

  • Houston, 2304580
  • San Antonio, 1434625
  • Dallas, 1304379
  • Austin, 961855
  • Columbus OH, 905748
  • Charlotte, 874579
  • Nashville, 689447
  • Memphis, 633104
  • Atlanta, 498715
  • Cleveland, 372624
  • Cincinnatti, 309317
  • Boise, 237446
  • Huntsville, 215006
  • Des Moines, 214133
  • Charleston, 150227

for a total population of 10,607,070. Not quite 50 million, but larger than any city in the US (New York is 1st at 8,804,190.)

I don’t know if you want to add Fort Worth, TX (13th) to the list since Biden won its county by 0.22%. If so add in 918915 to the list of blue cities in red states. If you also add in Indianapolis, Indiana (15th) which Biden won 63% to 34% add 887642.

I think the largest red city would be Jacksonville, FL (currently 12th on the list, 949611) Oklahoma City (20th, 681054) would also be red. That’s it for top 20 (assuming we include Fort Worth and Indianapolis in your list.)

I referred to this page often during the pandemic, to put the death toll in some sort of perspective. :frowning:

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I didn’t include Atlanta, because Georgia voted for Biden in 2022, and that was the premise of the post I was replying to.

The other factor is, it’s not just the cities. It’s really the whole metropolitan area that trends blue. I should have included Fort Worth, and I left off Florida completely, so add in Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville.

Going by metropolitan areas, 50 million might be an underestimate. Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston are > 7M people each. Miami is another 6. Tampa and Orlando are 3 each. San Antonio and Charlotte are 3M each. I forgot Indianapolis, too, which represents 2M along with Ohio’s 3 Cs, each. That’s 40 just with those.

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Her mind is the pot and her crap is what slops out.

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That’s not a coincidence

Each party designs its policies and its strategies so that it can just barely win without offering any unnecessary concessions to “the other side”

When public opinion changes, so do the party platforms—they keep focusing on new and different wedge issues to get to 51% every time

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Interesting. I wonder to what degree the drop in polling accuracy is affecting this?

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It doesn’t have to be super precise.

Look at the “gay marriage issue”—nobody’s talking about it anymore. It’s over. It’s a done deal. They’ve all moved on to other things, things that they think are still (or newly) close to fifty-fifty.

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Though one party finds better ROI on suppressing votes than on earning them.

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One party has decided it’s in their interest to throw opposition to democracy itself on the pile with its other wedge issues

What could possibly go wrong :grimacing:

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