This probably belongs in “Elections” but I couldn’t find a thread that I thought it would fit with, and didn’t think it was worth starting whole new thread, so I thought I’d stick it here instead.
Along with their endorsements of Democratic candidates for KS 2nd and 3rd district seats, the Sunday Kansas City Star published this editorial explaining why they were not endorsing any major GOP candidates in this year’s election. It seems one of their criteria for endorsement is the opportunity to meet with candidates one-on-one to ask questions, get their position on issues, etc. Only one GOP candidate, KS-3 incumbent Kevin Yoder, bothered to sit down and answer questions. All the other major candidates either ignored requests for interviews, or cancelled/rescheduled at the last minute until the clock finally ran out. I guess if all you have to campaign on is scare tactics rather than actual goals or accomplishments, it doesn’t make any sense to bother sitting down with a reporter.
The “militias” probably believe they’re liberating materiel that by rights belongs to them.* “After all, our taxes bought that stuff for the army, amirite?”* :dubious:
I guess she reckons the only ones who’ve got preexisting conditions are those who have been able to pay for treatment so far (never mind that a preexisting condition can require no long-term treatment, or be treatable with a cheap body milk, or be something you “caught” recently such as pregnancy). If you’re too poor to pay for a doctor the first time you have something lasting longer than a week, and it kills you… well, that would mean only the rich survive.
Didn’t know the Gospel needed to be made great again. OTOH, if there’s an Antichrist-In-Waiting* out there, Trump’s certainly laying out the game plan for him.
No, I don’t believe in any of that End Times/Antichrist/Rapture crap. I’m being strictly hypothetical here.
So NPR did a quick story on the election, and in order to keep it balanced interviewed two Democratic women voters and two Republican woman voters in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately in the end it wasn’t as balanced as they might have hoped. The two Democrats went as expected, but when they interviewed the Republicans, the women claimed to never have heard the highly publicized sound bite Trump offered to pay the legal bills of people who assault protesters had his rallies despite “Watching all kinds of Channels” and “Reading all kinds of Websites”, and then proceeded to use two bogus claims (which were parenthetically debunked by the interviewer) as reasons for their voting Republican.
Nobody is walking into Carmine’s on Saturday night and getting a table right away. The place is huge and they surely had already seated plenty of morons and just didn’t have room for two more.
I’m certain we all remember the peace in Ireland that descended when they were all Christian. Of course, numbnuts Harris probably doesn’t consider Catholics Christian, so he wouldn’t consider that a fair comparison.
AFAICT it’s just hate-fuel for racist whites, as was the fake “I is Andrew Gillum” robocall produced by the same podcast studio as this one. They just enjoy the feeling of being able to mock black people (and Jews) with racist stereotypes and get away with it. I doubt that there’s any serious strategizing about electoral impact involved in this bile-spewing.
Negress? Good grief. What happened with their invective? I mean, they had plenty of opportunity to use other “fun” words to rile up the fearful. For my Year 12 class (as it’s called in Western Australia) this week, I have to show them the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. One of the characters uses the terms “half-caste” and “quadroon”. Oh, yeah; I’m sure a fair (heh, heh) percentage of the pubbie base in the US longs to bring such terms back into vogue.