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20 hours agoWhat progress was obstructed here? He started at 7 in the evening and went through the middle of the night, I doubt Republicans had plans to move some critical legislation at 3am.
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I mean, giving an extra long speech where you point out all the terrible things Trump is doing and read letters from constituents is doing something, it’s just not a filibuster or anywhere near the level of intensity we need. Telling Republicans they’re hurting people isn’t going to change their minds.
Also, “can’t” is bullshit, they just don’t want to
Huh, I’d never considered that difference. Every grammar resource I’ve seen online says “in spite of” and “despite” currently have the exact same meaning and the emotional connotations of “spite” (which seems to have just meant “in opposition to” for longer than it’s meant “in opposition to for vindictive reasons”) never got inferred into the phrase “in spite of”, but I actually think your reading makes more sense for how it should be (if only because there’s no point in having “in spite of” and “despite” mean different things).
I’d be ok with just ruling out that first option
I’m sure RFK’s CDC will get right to the bottom of what happened here and prevent it from happening again /s
This isn’t even the worst thing to come out of Rankin County in the past few years, they’re home of the police department that the media dubbed the goon* squad for their habit of just straight up kidnapping and torturing people. Like, they only got caught because a dumb bastard forgot to unload his gun before doing a mock execution and accidentally shot the tongue off of someone and they couldn’t come up with anyway to make the forensics on that look like anything other than what it was (they did try to argue they were somehow defending themselves for a few days).
*Slang changes fast, okay?
“felt like a kidnapping.”
In related news, these snozzberries feel like like snozzberries
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A photo of the victim taken by the news publication who interviewed her for this story
Moreover, caption for that photo points out how she “fell” out of a five story window at her abuser’s apartment and the full version of it shows she’s standing on a cane, i.e. dealing with a permanent physical disability because of her abuser’s abuse
But since the thumbnail cut off her cane and since you’ve still got a bit of a point regardless of the details I just added I’ve updated the post
Be nice or I’ll stab
myselfevery citizeneveryone in the country.Legal permanent residents, international students, etc. are all going to have to suffer American prices too, but otherwise yeah, it’s not themselves they’re hurting
Economic events that are bad for most people in a state can very easily be opportunities for oligarchs who have the money to invest in the right things. If getting a bigger slice for themselves means a smaller pie overall they’re ok with it.
Was he supposed to raise his hands or throw his weapon away in the split second between when he realized the person in his driveway was a cop and when he got shot? I don’t think he had time to do both.
He needs a t-shirt that says “If you see me running, try to keep up!”
Nah, this is wrong, lots of kids born in rural areas full of redneck trash are able to see through their bullshit. The problem is that when they grow up their choices are either looking over their shoulders their whole lives while being blackballed from every decent paying job in the area, or moving away to the nearest city where Democratic politicians are already taking 90% of the votes. Either way, rural red areas stay red, and they will until Democratic politicians find the spine and justification for sending national guard troops in and going full Reconstruction on these little hillbilly fiefdoms.
Voters 50-plus put their weight behind Republican Trump over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. These voters favored Trump over Harris, 52 to 47 percent, according to AP VoteCast.
They were also a majority of the electorate, though that number differs slightly depending on the source. AP VoteCast, which starts surveying voters a week before Election Day in order to capture early voters, reports that voters 50-plus constituted 52 percent of the electorate. Traditional exit polls, which survey people as they leave the polls on election day, put that number at 55 percent.
Middle-aged voters were especially influential in tilting the election to Trump. A commanding 56 percent of voters ages 50-64 cast ballots for Trump, with 43 percent voting for Harris, exit polls show. The candidates were tied at 49 percent among voters 65 and older. The two age groups together comprise well over half of the national electorate, meaning they provided the critical difference for the returning president-elect.
Trump improved his performance among voters among those 50 to 64 by 4 percentage points from his previous presidential run in 2020, exit polling shows.
“The older voters showed up,” says Republican pollster Bob Ward, a partner with Fabrizio Ward who teamed up with a Democratic counterpart to conduct AARP’s bipartisan preelection surveys this year. “It was big, and we didn’t see any surge of younger voters coming out in full force…. It’s the reason why Trump is now the president-elect.”
Not sure where you’re checking, but it seems like you’re misinformed
Young people were more likely to vote for Harris compared with all other age groups, according to CIRCLE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/11/08/2024-election-young-voters-data/76115224007/
Nope, a motion for cloture would end this speech and any other debate and move the Senate along to its next vote