“What is happening today in the West? That kind of democracy isn’t the rule of the majority, it’s the rule of the minority. We don’t need such a democracy.”
Okay, fine. I will reluctantly agree with her on that ONE single point. The US electoral college system is hot garbage.
That’s (most likely) not what she means. Not least because most Western countries don’t have an electoral college (but please do get rid of that institution:)). Instead, what she is probably referring to is developing respect for minorities aka “PC”, “wokeness” and “LGBTQ propaganda” (paraphraseling right-wing talking points here).
Oh you KNOW Putin loves shooting himself in the dick. He’s been doing it on the world stage for a year and a half now.
And the GOP shooting themselves in the dick…? Well I think at least some of their voters are starting to just how much their policies are hurting everyone. Like Boebert continuously voting against every policy that brings jobs into her district, and then trying to take credit when it passes anyway. She’s done it before, she’s about to do it again with the 850 new jobs coming in for solar energy, and people are noticing that shit. Hell the last time she tried doing a town hall people were yelling at her to do something because they were literally dying from the drought and all she wanted to talk about was the election being stolen from Trump. People noticed, and they voted pretty hard against her last year. In a district that’s something like 80% republican, she only won by 500 votes, and chances are good that district will flip next time.
I don’t think a GQP politician would even know how to be quiet. The only reason they got voted in was because they waved their arms around more than everyone else. In Boebert’s case, she’s going to lose to a Democrat because she hasn’t voted even once for the benefit of her district, and the Dem candidate is pushing that out as a big part of his platform. I just hope other states are seeing similar pushes.
Imho boebert keeping her seat is worth a dozen contested seats, she’s incredible for fundraising and media, she’s like aoc + hunter biden to the right.
I want her there to discredit all republicans, a seat for 2 years that goes right back to a quiet segregationist is worth the price.
I would agree that she’s definitely increasing the popcorn sales, but damnit I live here and she’s making Colorado in general look SO bad. On a map her district covers nearly half the state and I’ve seen comments from people worried that the whole state is going to hell.
Unfortunately I’ve seen enough of the news from the South - it seems to be all about telling the children they don’t matter, their education doesn’t matter, their whole identity doesn’t matter. One step behind that is the same treatment given to women. What is hard for me to swallow is that so many men all over this country (well, and the world) are so insecure in themselves that their only outlet is to stomp down everyone else. In the broad scheme of things Boebert doesn’t really have any power except as a comedian, and I do appreciate the fact that I live in a place where I have the luxury to complain about someone so inconsequential. I hope other states can find some sanity in the next election but I’m not holding my breath.
The south has always been poor and uneducated but before slavery ended they used to be able to say “at least we aren’t slaves”. Then during Jim crow it became “at least we aren’t black”. Then during civil rights it became “at least we aren’t women/gay” and “at least we’re Christians”.
Now it’s “at least we’re the Real Americans”.
They’re insecure because they literally have nothing else and can’t figure out how to have anything else. I escaped, everyone else I knew with any hope escaped too.
But my greatest fear has always been that they’d follow me…
They conscript their own young men and boys to fight in a war that no one asked for. No one invaded them. They force them to the front with no training or equipment to die for no reason. Only to give more money to the already rich, while the poor suffer.
As disgusting as this is, how could you expect them to treat their animals better?
The animals that need to be put down are in the Kremlin.
Ah ha! This is the sauce! I couldn’t figure this after looking at the time zones. Thank you for some sweet context. DST is the debbil. It was forced on much of the US by retail business lobbyists to, get this, have people commuting home earlier in the winter day so they’d shop more on the way home. They figured people would buy more if it were still daylight. There’s a county in Indiana that doesn’t recognize DST and never has.
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