Yeah, that’s exactly what I meant and tbh I’m not sure how people didn’t get that. Also, the state of Virginia is being active here by purging these voters in the first place. Status quo bias is a real thing and the AP seems to be bending over backwards to use it to make Republicans in Virginia and on the supreme court seem more reasonable than they’re being.
If she honestly believes that she’s an idiot, and if she doesn’t she’s way too comfortable with lying to the American people about important issues. The truth of the matter is that if a person has supported the Republican party in the last five decades they are dangerous garbage, and unless they’re willing to put in the work to recycle themselves into something more positive we need to contain them and have their toxicity diluted to the point where it can’t hurt anyone, just like we would with any other waste. Elected Dems ignoring this difficult but painfully obvious truth is why our politics have kept getting worse as the Republicans have gotten crazier and faced no consequences for it.
Kind of a weird headline considering the supreme court is actually overturning a lower court ruling to leave Virginia’s voters in place
Or maybe just people unwilling to support Harris because of her refusal to commit to stopping Palestinian genocide who are sick of hearing they’re Trump supporters
Is it too late to switch the nomination back?
*obviously fucked up at something they’re not even allowed to attempt in the first place under the plain text of federal law, but whatever.
I mean, that’s the natural result of Biden’s reluctance to blame Republicans for anything and all his efforts to work with them and praise them whenever they do anything remotely positive, and now Harris can’t stop bragging about all the endorsements she got from Republicans who helped set these cycles up in the past. It’s totally predictable that a lot of people are confused and just think “politicians” are to blame when we have Dems like this.
Ctrl-F’s for “Merrick Garland”
Sure is a weird coincidence how we’ve had recessions after the last 3 or 4 Republican presidents /s
Ctrl-F’s for “Merrick Garland”
Maybe the fact that every time Kamala says she wants to appoint Republicans to her cabinet and sign Republican immigration policies into law she slides in the polls a bit should tell us something
I don’t think America’s electorate on the whole is any worse or better than any other country’s, we just have an incredibly anti-democratic election system and a lot of tax code and finance law bullshit that’s allowed people to get wealthy through grifting and genocide and monopolies then pass that money down to their shitty children who have nothing better to spend their time and efforts on than making sure things stay broken
Until producers stop giving him money and actors refuse to work with him he’ll continue spreading hate, the guy has been an obvious bigot and moron his entire life
An American security contractor and a Chinese embassy employee are at a bar. The American says, “I gotta say, your propaganda is impressive. You sure know how to keep your people in line.”
“Oh, you’re too gracious,” the embassy worker says. “And besides, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda.”
The contractor chokes on his drink and gives his friend a bewildered look.
“What are you talking about? There’s no propaganda in America.”
this particular hatred
History has repeatedly shown us they’ll just move on to a new target for their bigotry because that’s the only way they can come close to getting a majority of voters to back their economic plans that only serve a wealthy few. Like, trans people right now are just what gay people were for their party 10-20 years ago.
Founded in 2006 as a division of the Russian media holding RBC Group (abbreviation for “RosBusinessConsulting”), but in 2010, the agency “RBC-Ukraine” left the composition of the Russian holding, and in 2015, it completely came under the control of Ukrainian media businessman Yosyp Pintus. On January 29, 2016, the Russian holding “RBC” tried to challenge the use of the “RBC” brand in court, but lost the case
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Good to know, thank you! Relatedly, I feel like a dummy for not thinking to check Wikipedia first
Huh, does this RBC Ukraine publication have any connection to RBC.ru? My disinformation senses are starting to tingle (although it seems like basically all the factual claims they’re making have been backed up by other reporting).
e; turns out they broke away over a decade ago and had to fight their former owners in court, so they seem pretty independent of RBC .ru
I’m honestly not sure how that contradicts what I was trying to say there, but yeah as for my source the next paragraph of the same article
So to recap, these voters were registered, Virginia tried to purge them less than 90 days before an election, a federal court told them to stop that and return things to normal, and the supreme court said “no, don’t stop,” so the AP headline that basically says “supreme court stops stop” seems overly convoluted to me and like it’s kind of burying the lede here