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    Election 2024 & Presidential Race: Demented WannaBe Dictator Trump vs President Biden

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    3 hours ago, Captain Wiggles said:

     

    Why? The guys done absolutely nothing. 

    That's exactly why. You see this a lot in MD where a couple of times since 2000 a Republican wins as governor, does basically nothing because they're always outnumbered by Dems in the house and senate, and just kinda play the centrist and get lots of national attention for it. I definitely remember Hogan being held up as a great example of a "Smart, Moderate, Centrist" Republican to counter Trump on the national stage. Kind of like how Christy was briefly viewed in a similarly favorable way as a Republican governor of deep blue NJ before (gestures to everything). Sort of the same thing with Ehrlich before him (but that was more for a Senate run and less for President). If you can get a Republican governor in a blue state (think Arnold in CA or Romney in MA) then they've basically got the opposition doing the hard work of keeping Republican's craziest ideas from ever coming close to fruition. VA may not quite be reliably "blue" yet, as evidenced by the fact that for the first part of Youngkin's term the Dems basically had a single seat keeping the Republicans from full control, but because the Dems still controlled the VA senate, they were able to stop Youngkin from going full-MAGA. Despite what a lot on the right want to believe, Republican policies (when they exist) are quite unpopular at the moment.

     

    So while Youngkin is probably upset that he didn't get to implement all the policies he wanted, he does have to be breathing a small sigh of relief that the Democrats have always had some manner of control in the state. After all, now he can still claim to his base that he believes all the policies and ideas that got him elected, but gosh darnit (sorry, is that language too spicy for Sweatervest?) those evil Dems had just enough power to stop him. What's a guy to do (shrug)? But now he can also appeal to moderates/centrist with the "Look, a Republican ran VA and it's just fine! I can do it at a broader scale, trust me!" and possibly get away with it.

     

    And because establishment Republicans can mostly recognize this, but decide instead to spin it as "See? The government can work just fine when nothing gets done! See what happens when you let a common sense Republican slow down the Democrat crazies in these blue states?! Put us in charge of everything so nothing can get done anywhere, then things will be even better!" then Republican like Youngkin can be seen as a net positive for this reason. At least for a little while.

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    The Sewer That Is The GOP: With All The White Supremacists, Conspiracy Nutters, And Other Malicious Whacko Subgroups, How Does It Get Fixed?

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    9 hours ago, mistertim said:

    Right wingers really can't seem to figure out whether they love or hate Jews. On one hand they scream about unconditionally supporting Israel and wiping out the Palestinians, but on the other hand their ranks are full of blatant white nationalist antisemites and they also love Elon Musk, antisemitic tweets and all.

     

    With antisemitic tweet, Elon Musk reveals his ‘actual truth’

     

     

     

    9 hours ago, balki1867 said:

     

    There's a fringe belief within the evangelist community that the Messiah won't return until the Jews rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, which can't be done without destroying the Al-Aqsa mosque that currently sits in that location. (Note also that the mosque was built ~300 years after the temple was destroyed by Rome-- most evangelicals paint the story as if Muslim conquerors destroyed the temple themselves).  So while they don't care for Jews, they need the Jews to eradicate the Palestinians and rebuild the Temple.

     

    Conversely, many Jews believe they aren't supposed to rebuild the Temple until the Messiah comes back and tells them to, so this is the worst chicken and egg conundrum ever.

     

    balki basically nailed it. At least from the Christian side, I can't speak to the Jewish side of it. Evangelicals that believe in a literal Book of Revelation with a Rapture and Armageddon and all that believe that Israel as a country needs to exist for the End Times prophecies to come true. But that's where it stops. Many of them do not give a single actual **** about the Jews as a whole or even the Jews that they desperately want to hang on to this territory at all costs (to them, not us, obviously) so that Jesus can come back and smite the sinners and all that jazz. The actual Jewish people in Israel (and everybody there, really, but again they specifically think there needs to be a Jewish state of Israel) are nothing but a piece of the prophetic puzzle. A means to an end. And, in fact, every war that Israel gets itself involved in is just one more chance for Armageddon and the end times to finally come about. And if each war happens to get a bunch of unbelievers (Jews and Muslims) killed in the process regardless....there aren't exactly a lot of tears shed over either side, really.

     

    I, sadly, grew up in this fringe version of Christianity, so I've seen a lot of this first hand my entire life. It's very depressing, and the exact reason you can see so many die-hard Christian Zionists who are also very anti-Semitic. It's just another version of "They have the right to exist, but they should go back to where they belong" mindset, but with a nihilistic religious backing that makes it nearly impossible to change their minds.

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    Osama Bin Laden's reason for attacking America gaining popularity with some TikTokers

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    21 minutes ago, Fan since a Fetus said:

    A MAGA person I’ve known for 25+ years recently said to me “can you believe people don’t think 9/11 was an inside job?” 

    "Of course it was an inside job! If Donald Trump hadn't planted the explosives at the Twin Towers, he never would've had the tallest building in NYC! You can't expect a man as proud as DJT to have to settle for the 3rd tallest building!"

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    Anti-Vaxxer thread (New York Reports 1st Polio Case in Nearly a Decade)

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    One of those "If I were dictator..." musings:

     

    If you choose not to vaccine your kid for a non-medical reason, and your kid gets a preventable disease, you get charged with attempted murder. For every person that your child infects? attempted murder. If your kid dies or someone they infected dies? First degree murder.

     

    I'm tiring of coddling these morons. They were annoying before, but had low enough numbers and not enough power to be a legitimate societal threat. Now they've found a purchase in the extra stupid and are about to bring back diseases we had eliminated from out country. You want to be a selfish asshole and pretend your imagined "rights" mean you get to do whatever you want and suffer no consequences for your own actions? No. If you or your child ever leave your ****ing property for any reason whatsoever to enter a public space, you're no longer some imagined Ayn Randian Uber Patriot who everybody else must suffer because you're a super special SovCit with stacks of papers that make no sense but we have to obey.

     

    Your God tells you that vaxxing your kids is evil? Funny, my God tells me that vaxxing children behind their idiot and murderous parents' backs is the holiest thing I can do. Sounds like my God is better and yours can be ignored, sucks for you because that's my religion so you need to let me practice it as freely as I want no matter how it affects others, right? 

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