Right, because his floundering is somebody else’s fault, and not just that he somehow manages to be a transparently amoral megalomaniac and an incompetent boob at the same time.
He’s like what you’d get if you combined Mussolini and Mr. Bean.
While his super PAC has already raised $130 million, it can't run his campaign. Campaigns rely on many continuous small donations which DeSantis is just not pulling in. Mega donors too seem uncertain on DeSantis, and justifiably so given that he has been trailing Trump by 30% points in the national polls for a few months now and isn't closing in. No one wants to fund a loser.
Neither is okay. Super PAC expenditures cannot be made “in concert or cooperation with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, the candidate's campaign or a political party”
That suit was against the FEC for not holding Rick Scott accountable for illegal coordination with a super PAC. He delayed declaration of his Senate candidacy while the super PAC raised funds for him and colluded with him on expenditures. No campaign no foul right? A district court sided with the FEC but the decision was appealed in circuit court Jan this year. The case is still ongoing. Anyway, even if the appeal doesn't do anything, the case does not provide a precedent for collusion after the declaration of candidacy - that's still illegal.
…Greene insisted that no one had informed her that she had been voted out. Some Freedom Caucus members suggested that Greene has been avoiding Perry’s attempts to reach her to deliver the news.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been removed from the conservative group, citing her repeated “attacks” on GOP colleagues.
The vile, stupid, shocking, racist, anti-American things that she constantly spewed didn't bother them, but criticizing fellow Republicans? Unacceptable! Narcissistic sociopaths can't have that.
“I’m mostly focused on the work I’m doing and serving my district, not interested in any drama."
None of those things are true. She's never focused on her work, and she absolutely cares more about drama than any part of her job. If it wasn't for the drama she causes, shed still be some dumb nobody
It's always the ones who "don't care about drama" that are the instigators of the most drama.
People who actually don't care about drama, like people who are actually smart, don't proclaim it.
If you told me they made a comic about The Scarecrow getting kicked out of the Legion of Doom for being too nasty, I wouldn't believe you. But here we are.
I read the original blog post and I don't think the recommendations he gives the party are going to help.
If, as the data shows, more young people don't think politics are able to meet our challenges, how is better Tik Tok content going to convince them? Especially when we know that any legislative or executive initiative to help things is going to get stopped by a corrupt Supreme Court.
Hope you will, really from the bottom of my heart. I am writing from the EU, a region where no matter what we vote we’re double tied with what you on the other side of the Atlantic decide. So please be wise next year and think of all the lives that depend on your freedom of choice.
We have a very shitty two party system here in the US. 3rd party candidates don’t receive screen time and anyone who gains momentum on their own that isn’t sanctioned by either of the two parties are pressured into backing out of the race while simultaneously endorsing one of the “chosen” candidates.
When you can have a president sit for 4 years and the country has only gotten worse, there should be no question about them running again. They do though. It’s not what the people want, it’s which of the two candidates is going to be less shitty. It’s far more important that we keep up the illusion of choice than actually give power to the people.
Even “less sh*tty” is a valid criterion, though! I totally agree with your idea about the “illusion of choice”, but it doesn’t depend on the number of parties. With many smaller parties it would be even worse, since after the elections nobody has the majority and they have to create (to say as much politely as possible) “original” coalitions to rule a government which in the end is useless because most decisions are supranational.
Yeah! Let’s vote even harder this time. We need to make sure the guy who got $250,000 from MBNA after he wrote the legislation that made student loans inescapable defeats a literal Nazi! That’ll teach em!
We've got a couple options change what we can, give up and revolution... two of those options are viable for me. ATM the best thing I can really do is talk with coworkers/acquaintances about their concerns in the world and how we can address them. The more I talk with maga folk about their concerns the more common ground I find with them... we all want a better life for our children/community we just get caught up in how to get there. Listen to concerns, find the common ground and come prepared with receipts... I cant say I've changed anyones mind but I will say the die hard liberal/left wing hating coworkers no longer have the direct hate and can see what folk like me are getting at... All this to say don't give up friend we can still do a lot at the community level, the institutional level will come with time.
We saw what happened when people didn't give enough of a shit to vote - you get Nazis in government and a supreme court fucked for generations.
People need to stop acting like electoral politics has no place, because not playing the game means all the rules are set against you going forward and they tell you to get fucked even harder than they would normally.
Even after all the bull shit, my parent still refuses to fucking vote. This weekend she tried to start a conversation about how the ice caps are melting. Yeah, no shit! Not like you have done ANYTHING to prevent it either. Mine and my young niece's futures are totally bleak because of the older generation being proudly ignorant and selfish. It's infuriating!
That sucks, sorry to hear it. My mom, of all people, who I don’t think has ever voted, asked me the other day if I was going to vote no on issue 1 in the upcoming special election in Ohio, in which a yes vote would prevent a ballot issue protecting women’s reproductive rights from being up for the vote in November. It’s gotten bad enough here that she is going to vote. There’s a red line for everyone, maybe you need to help yours find it.
im so tired of this shit. call their bluff then. im so tired of them pulling this shit. im tired of their voter rewarding this shit. im tiring of having to worry about this shit. theres no problem. but no republicans cry about the deficit after cutting taxes and the solution is to cut benefits. no fuck you. raise taxes if the government isnt bringing enough in, and start on those you last cut taxes on. im tired of hearing about rolling back benefits and labor protections, especially recently where theyve been rolling back child labor protections. like fuck that shit were not some developing country where child labor is still a thing. weve dealt with that a century ago. but its back thanks to asshole republicans.
ugh im so sick of this charade. they want to pretend they are not doing anything and could sorta give it away back with clinton but when it did not happen with bush and then did with obama and then didn't with trump and now does with biden. No one is fooled.
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