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(4,002 posts)Wow. Like my name here... I guess anyone could see the light?
Demsrule86
(71,531 posts)PortTack
(35,819 posts)Walleye
(44,418 posts)Right wingers sure are backing some losers
czarjak
(13,569 posts)mnmoderatedem
(3,906 posts)why do so many other conservatives have such a different viewpoint?
Qutzupalotl
(15,775 posts)and try to live by them, even if theirs sound different from ours. You could maybe say the same of Romney and now I'm drawing a blank. For all the rest, principles are just lip service.
inthewind21
(4,616 posts)Or is he going with whatever way the $$ train is going? My how quickly people forget.
https://www.theroot.com/when-a-deadbeat-dad-attacks-a-college-grad-joe-walsh-b-1820645059
https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/98025-joe-walsh-just-your-average-regular-deadbeat-dad-kind-of-a-guy/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/steve-chapman/chi-joe-walsh-not-a-deadbeat-20120420-story.html
Qutzupalotl
(15,775 posts)I can't read the Trib link because I'm not a subscriber.
Scrivener7
(59,232 posts)person than he was before that. I wonder what happened to him.
oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)They bought into the "great businessman" shtick back in 15 but soured on him. One voted Biden in 20 & the other skipped that line.
I still dont understand how he got far MORE votes in 20 than 16.
SunSeeker
(58,146 posts)Joe got a shit load more votes too (than Hillary got), getting 7 million more than Trump. If you make voting easy, more people vote. But over the last couple years, red states have cut back on mail-in voting after covid emergency measures were dropped. Republicans fear anything that makes voting easy, since when everyone votes, Republicans lose.
oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)What more did they need to turnout?
SunSeeker
(58,146 posts)BOSSHOG
(44,738 posts)Not at all. The only objection, allowing more people to vote only aids democrats. Giving people a day off is socialism, says people who have slaved away for 20, 30, 40 years to enjoy a lower middle class existence while spending their evenings screaming at the TV and drinking cheap beer, while trying to figure out a way to pay for a new trump flag in their yard since the old one is faded and ugly. Kinda like the GOP of today.
SunSeeker
(58,146 posts)Those rubes with the Trump flags benefit from a democratic government that cares about their actual needs, but they prefer a party that makes them feel good about their bigotry.
soldierant
(9,308 posts)people employed in hospitals, call centers, or other entities which cannot or do not shut down for a holiday.
I'm not opposed to making it a holiday, but that alone, without mail-in ballots, will effectively disenfranchise these people, who are often underpaid and could really use a voice.
SunSeeker
(58,146 posts)I was responding to the question about what more could we do, besides mail-in ballots, which we had in 2020, and yet 1/3 of eligible voters still didn't vote.
But first and foremost, we need universal mail-in ballots. It's ridiculous we don't have it already. Mail-in ballots are quite secure, and provide a paper trail for ballot audits/recounts (much to the detriment of Republicans). And contrary to Republican bloviating, they do not increase voter fraud.
soldierant
(9,308 posts)oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)I'm sorry but every state has weeks of early voting, there's NO excuse for anyone to not vote. We dont need another holiday. If they're not voting now a day off isnt going to change anything.
SunSeeker
(58,146 posts)A lot of countries hold their elections on weekends for this reason.
Not every state has "weeks" of early in person voting. Some only have 9-10 days, and, like in Texas, it is only done during business hours M-F, when people have to be at work. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/early-in-person-voting
oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)We just already have 12 Fed holidays we dont need another one.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,619 posts)The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)One thing is clear NATO has been completely redefined. Ukraine is winning because of NATO unity. Ukraine is not even in NATO. NATO has not put a single boot on the ground in Ukraine. Just imagine what would happen if someone attacked a NATO country. Turns out peace insurance is inexpensive. NATO = Peace
The filthy orange freak wanted us to leave NATO!!!!
Donald Trump we should pull out of NATO.
Just think about a world without NATO.
Demsrule86
(71,531 posts)the puppet would have obeyed. Putin's goal IMHO has always been to restore the USSR in which he spent his younger years torturing and executing people as a KGB agent.
dalton99a
(93,485 posts)Faux pas
(16,274 posts)republianmushroom
(22,236 posts)Blue Owl
(58,851 posts)Cha
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Blue Owl
(58,851 posts)Definitely as fake and artificial as the snack product itself!
Cha
(318,313 posts)Snack Product.. during his time as Putin's Puppet in our WH he was known as Cheeto Mussolini at times bc of his Fake Orange Skin and wannbe like a Mussolini..
And, now Cheeto Jesus is dead on due to his Nailing himself on the Cross.
Blue Owl
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Cha
(318,313 posts)The Looks on those People's faces as he's walking through like his head finally Morphed into a Giant CHEETO! T
Mahalo Blue Owl & RAYGUN!!
