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Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by jbigelow76 »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #51
davidw wrote: post #27

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I'm beginning to come around to this point of view: https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/617c7b245793d... - we are not a serious nation. There's a global pandemic caused by an airborne pathogen, and people throw an absolute hissy fit over a minor inconvenience like masks. My kids wear them all day long in school, and while they don't love them, they are not constantly whining about them like some adults. My…

Probably it doesn't help that political leaders all over the world wear masks only for photo shoots. Internet is full of videos how they take masks off the second after shoot is over. People rightfully consider this to be a hypocrisy.

People rightfully consider this to be a hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy can effectively dampen voter turnout of your supporters if they are idealistic enough. But it's an absolute non-factor if you can sufficiently demonize your opponent(s) and their positions, just look at Trump and how he has wrapped Evangelical America around his little finger.

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Post by spoonjim »

voz_ wrote: post #130
vkou wrote: post #84

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Seattle has always been a socially liberal, bend-over-backwards for business town. It's how it can legalize marijuana and magic mushrooms, while having 11,000 people living in tents and homeless shelters. Unsurprisingly, since nobody likes seeing tents in city parks, and by the I-5 on-ramps, the city voted for a slate of politicians that will... Maintain the status quo. There's no plan for getting ~5,500 people house…

I don't want status quo, but I also don't want them housed. I want the ones that steal, rape, squat in parks, do drugs, sell drugs, defecate in public, and litter to all be thrown in jail.

Are you signing up to pay for that personally?

Re: Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

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Post by FredPret »

rlt wrote: post #20
umvi wrote: post #2

Any (relatively) unbiased sources that explain how NJ got into this predicament? Just current leadership being out of touch with the wants/needs of NJ citizens?

> how NJ got into this predicament? Possibly due to attitudes like describing an average citizen beating a career politician as “a predicament”

I know right, we’re watching democracy in action. This is what a really good system looks like

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Post by tw04 »

vmception wrote: post #37
detaro wrote: post #36

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I know this is more charged in the US, but you can still vote for whoever you like and just not tell people you don't want to tell about it.

I'm referring to the people running. This guy spent $150 on Dunkin donuts and put himself out there, home address and everything.

He's got a "don't tread on me" flag flying in his front yard. I don't think any of his acquaintances were unsure of his political beliefs.

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Post by ruined »

nostromo wrote: post #48

A Republican just won an election in Seattle City Government for the first time in three decades. This election has seen some big shifts in the electorate, even in some deeply-Democratic areas. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/republica...

my glass-almost-half-full take on this is that a significant chunk of the electorate was willing to vote for the candidate that literally supports burning down jails, which is astonishing no matter how you look at it

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Post by twofornone »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #66
xwdv wrote: post #64

Wow, there really is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

What is the idea?

I'll say it. People are tired of progressive extremism, like at once insisting that "CRT isn't being taught in schools" while with the other hand supporting CRT inspired school programs that teach racial awareness to children, and in particular white guilt to white children. You can look it up on the VA website, where CRT is explicitly mentioned as a part of primary school curriculum.

This is arguably the biggest elephant in the room - independents and moderate democrats are increasingly speaking openly about the fact that the democratic party is overtly anti-white. Search for it on reddit; before today at best such comments would be downvoted and at worst grounds for a ban. Now they're sitting at the top of the comment chains.

The election results in NJ and VA so far seem to mark a turning point. Hopefully soon enough to avoid the pendulum swinging back into true reactionary white supremacy - you know, the genocide kind. Meanwhile out of touch limousine liberals are doubling down on twitter and in media and blaming white supremacists for the election upsets. Something's going to break, one way or another.

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Post by trts »

busymom0 wrote: post #121
nostromo wrote: post #98

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That’s been a selling point in Seattle for a long time. Apparently she was just a bridge too far with tweets like these: https://www.twitter.com/ntkallday/status/1287215672372625410 https://www.twitter.com/ntkallday/status/1282015687603417089... Or deleted tweets like “I have not taken any of this anti bias training but i for sure hate this country” Keep in mind, 40% of votes went to this candidate. Her campaign mana…

> YAY! Thank you to the heroes that set the Children's Jail on fire. > This is a nice start. Lookin good Kenosha. (entire car lots burnt to the ground) And she was running to be the Attorney?

She got 41% of the vote https://projects.seattletimes.com/2021/election-results/#Key...

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Post by HarryHirsch »

acheron wrote: post #54
mynameisash wrote: post #43

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I'm in WA now, came from MN. It infuriates me thinking about voting in-person: my wife and I used to go to our city hall, wait in line maybe a half hour to 45 minutes. We'd snake our way through the line, get our IDs checked, fill out these forms just so , and if you get a technicality wrong, you'd have to work with someone to fix it. Yadda yadda, finally you'd have time in a booth to cast your vote. But now in WA, m…

The secret ballot is normally considered a cornerstone of democracy. Mail in voting completely destroys that. In my jaded perspective, that’s exactly why certain people and organizations love it so much.

Indeed. It's not unheard of that a local election in Britain is invalidated because of voting irregularities - someone collected ballot papers and made sure the vote goes to their man. I hear that that happens in ethnic enclaves in Miami as well.

The vote doesn't have to be convenient, but it absolutely has to be safe. Voter intimidation is impossible with in-person voting.

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Post by woah »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #138
CWuestefeld wrote: post #105

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I assume that "rather have a beer with" is a proxy for "has similar values to me" and "seems honest". Those seem reasonable qualifications for at least some offices. What would you place higher, for which offices?

I'd rank higher than beer-ability: * ability to hold, and describe, contradictory ideas * ability to convey complex policies in a way that doesn't bore people * ability to pick the right people to work with, and specifically the avoidance of a "yes-men" bubble * ability to listen to and have a reasonable understanding of scientific advice * previous independent out-of-country, out-of-language travel experience * disp…

Sounds like this is your own beer-ability criterion, except you have a taste for more intellectual drinking buddies than most.
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