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2018 mid-term election

smartcooky said:
Well I, for one, am still waiting for S&A's predicted flood of "Liberal Tears".

Every time I look at the NYT's election pointer, it seems to be pointing further left into the blue as the Democrats' majority keeps increasing.

Last time I looked it was 226 - 198
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Meanwhile Trump is behaving pretty salty.
 
PhantomWolf said:
You were aware that there was a 9.2% shift for Democrats and that they had the best results in an election since Watergate?

That they also restored 1/3 of the state seats lost over Obama's 8 years in office?

That they picked up 6 Governorships?

And they picked up the House against gerrymandering that needed a 7% swing to overcome?

Even in the Senate that got nearly 50% more Senate votes than Republicans, but lost mostly due to the seats up for reelection being in insanely red states.
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iI guess I didn't realize all that. Perhaps I undersold their victory.

Losing four seats in the Senate is significant, popular vote notwithstanding.
 
Mississippi will go to the Republican in the run-off, but there is a lot of news about lynchings going around:

Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith lit up social media Sunday morning after a video clip surfaced in which she says she would be “on the front row” at “a public hanging," laughing as she says it, then drawing more laughter from the crowd.

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Hyde-Smith’s talk of “public hanging” comes just days after Clayton Hickey, a nurse at a Memphis health facility, wore a t-shirt with a rebel flag, a noose and the words “Mississippi Justice” to vote at a polling place in Olive Branch, Miss. Regional One Hospital confirmed Thursday that Hickey, a former Memphis police officer, had been fired.

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“She said what?” Espy campaign Communications Director Danny Blanton said after the Jackson Free Press read the comments to him this morning. “I’m kind of stunned.”

#Blanton got off the phone to watch the video, and called back.

#“I’m shocked that somebody would still use a reference like that in this day and time,” Blanton said. “Regardless of what context it was used in, it still showed a lack of judgment.”

#Between 1877 and 1950, Mississippi had the highest number of lynchings of African Americans of any states in the United States, just as the state had been the wealthiest from slavery before the Civil War, and then later passed the most onerous laws after Reconstruction to stop black people from voting and gain equal rights in the state.

#Across Mississippi, 654 lynchings were reported in that period, including two in Lee County, where Hyde-Smith’s comments were made. Lynchings—extrajudicial mob justice used to intimidate African Americans—were usually done by hanging, often in front of crowds of joyous whites who even mailed postcards with lynching photographs to friends and family.

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Angus Johnson, a historian at the City University of New York, called her comment “an obscenity.”

#“The last execution by hanging in Mississippi occurred in 1940,” Johnson tweeted. “The last alleged lynching by hanging in Mississippi occurred in 2018. Cindy Hyde-Smith was born in 1959. Public executions aren’t part of the history of Mississippi in her lifetime. Lynchings are.”

#“And, of course, many of Mississippi’s public executions were themselves legal lynchings,” Johnson continued. “To speak of ‘public hangings’ in Mississippi is to evoke a long and brutal history of racial terror. To joke about it is to utter an obscenity. Whatever her intention, Hyde-Smith’s joke amounts to this: ‘We are not the kind of people who are hanged. We are the kind of people who do the hanging.’”

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While public lynchings are thought of as a thing of the past, several suspected cases have occurred in Mississippi in recent decades.

#In Scott County, the family of Willie Jones, Jr. is still seeking answers after he was found hanging from a tree outside his mother’s home in February. The family rejected a suicide ruling, and, in a press release, pointed to the fact that he had been dating a white woman for years whom he had a child with.

#In an eerily similar story, 17-year-old Raynard Johnson was found hanging outside his family’s home in Kokomo, Miss., in 2000. In that case, the family also rejected a suicide ruling, and pointed to the fact that he was known for dating white girls. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson led a march down the country road that passed in front of his family’s home, but the U.S. Department of Justice ultimately ruled the case a suicide.

#In 2003, Nick Naylor was found hanging from a dog leash in Kemper County after he took his dogs for a walk and never returned. His death, too, was ruled a suicide, and his family also rejected the ruling.

#In 2017, Mississippi State Rep. Karl Oliver, R-Winona, called for lynchings after then-New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of Confederate monuments in that city.

#“If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, ‘leadership’ of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED!” Oliver wrote on Facebook at the time. “Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State.”

#Oliver later apologized after his comments drew widespread rebuke. He still serves in the Mississippi Legislature.
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Linky.
 
Just in case Florida needs more conflicts of interest:

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi strongly urged state police Sunday to investigate Republican claims of voter fraud in Broward and Palm Beach counties — a day after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it found no evidence of it.

In a sharply-worded letter to Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen, Bondi wrote that she was "deeply troubled" that he hadn't opened an investigation.

"Your duty to investigate this matter is clear," Bondi wrote, in a letter to FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen. "I am directing you to take the necessary steps to promote public safety and to assure that our state will guarantee integrity in our election process."

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Bondi, a Republican, is a close ally of Gov. Rick Scott, who made claims of "rampant fraud" during a Thursday night news conference, where he alleged the supervisors in Broward and Palm Beach were helping his opponent, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.

FDLE has said that it had not opened an investigation because workers from the Secretary of State, who have been observing the election in Broward County, have not reported any fraud.

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Bondi, a Republican, is a close ally of Scott. And she's said to be in contention as President Donald Trump's pick as the next U.S. Attorney General. Trump has repeated Scott's claims of voter fraud.
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Linky.

In addition to all of that, this is the same Pam Bondi that blocked the investigation into Trump University after receiving a donation from Trump.
 
The joke is that Republicans aren't even subtle about their lies and corruption anymore.
 
Trump Tweets

"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!"
 
A defeated Minnesota GOP Representative wrote an opinion piece, released on Veterans Day, blaming the late Senator McCain for the Republicans losing control of the House. Meghan McCain called the piece "abhorrent".

In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, outgoing Minnesota GOP Rep. Jason Lewis pinned the wave of Democratic victories last week on McCain's vote in July 2017 to sink a GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare.
"MCain's last-minute decision prompted a 'green wave' of liberal special-interest money, which was used to propagate false claims that the House plan 'gutted coverage for people with pre-existing conditions,'" Lewis wrote.
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Bear in mind that this is the guy who has complained about people not being able to call women "sluts" anymore. But McCain is why he lost.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

"The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!"
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Is he in direct contact with Putin's team to give him salacious headlines for his twitter feed?
 
Armitage72 said:
A defeated Minnesota GOP Representative wrote an opinion piece, released on Veterans Day, blaming the late Senator McCain for the Republicans losing control of the House. Meghan McCain called the piece "abhorrent".




Bear in mind that this is the guy who has complained about people not being able to call women "sluts" anymore. But McCain is why he lost.
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The way I see it, McCain saved their bacon. There was no consensus about what to do about healthcare beyond repeal. All those years of complaining, but no actual solution. Some wanted minor tweaks, some wanted the terrible system from before the ACA, and some had no ideas whatsoever. I doubt they could put anything meaningful into place after a repeal, and for all it's flaws, the ACA was a response to a real problem in this country.
 
And Dana Rohrabacher, Putin's #1 fanboy in the US Congress, goes down and can retire to his dacha.That really is sweet.
Guy was so fawning in his support for Putin that othere in GOP criticized him for it.
 
dudalb said:
And Dana Rohrabacher, Putin's #1 fanboy in the US Congress, goes down and can retire to his dacha.That really is sweet.
Guy was so fawning in his support for Putin that othere in GOP criticized him for it.
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Until Ryan told them all to shut the **** up.
 
Who was it that was gloating over Sinema 'losing' on election night?

Would he like some ketchup on that crow he's now having to eat?
 
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