Wake Up, America! Wake Up! PLEASE!!
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Much of America didn't know there was an election last night.Last night, I do think that much of America woke up!
Much of American political activity woke up last night.
Some republicans see a path, and some Democrats see a correction is needed.
Yeah, whatever. You keep telling yourself that. It's working out great for the Republicans. VA goes solid red first time in 12 years - among other wins last night for that nasty, mean, racist, Trump-loving party. Meanwhile... sleepy Joe's gas prices are almost as fun as supply chain empty store shelves. But, yes, please keep up the correction!
What? One fucking race that doesn't change a fucking thing in Congress?
VA has one term governors written in their constitution. The last 12 years were R-D-D.
In the Senate it's been D-D-D-D In the Presidential it's been D-D-D-D.
Solid red would be ignoring the Democrats in the US Senate, both of them.
Don't care about them being mean and nasty. So what?
'Other wins'??? Care to explain?
And they kept Trump ass away from this election as long as and as much as they could.
Congressional Republicans can't do that. They have this thing called votes and while they can run from Trump, they can't run from their support of him.
Youngkin was new, never been in office and denounced some of Trumps words and did not Campaign with him.
Are you this dumb, or hoping your audience is this dumb?
Gas prices are international and we already subsidize the cost. You are aware right?
Gas companies are private businesses, you want the government to dictate to them how much oil they should put on the market.
Great, I can get behind a nice liberal position like that. Fuck the free market when it comes to oil.
Supply chain issue is a labor shortage issue. We have more jobs that people unemployed. Fuck, should we manipulate the job market too? Or pay better wages so that the incentive is there?
Being where you are, I'd think you'd understand this.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Well, that is true, @blkdlaur, but then again the Democrat will have history on his side because if he does win, that will be the first time in history that a Democrat is re-elected in NJ!
Oh yea, congrats to Youngkin for winning in Virginia though damn, Republicans, why did it take ya'll 12 years to get elected again in Virginia? Damn, that's a long ass time!!
Takes that long to wash the stink off.Well, that is true, @blkdlaur, but then again the Democrat will have history on his side because if he does win, that will be the first time in history that a Democrat is re-elected in NJ!
Oh yea, congrats to Youngkin for winning in Virginia though damn, Republicans, why did it take ya'll 12 years to get elected again in Virginia? Damn, that's a long ass time!!
Bush Sr gets Elected- Virginia goes Blue next year
Clinton gets Elected- Virginia goes Red next year
Bush Jr gets Elected - Virginia goes Blue next year
Obama gets Elected- Virginia goes Red next year
Trump gets Elected - Virginia goes Blue next year
Biden gets Elected - Virginia goes Red next year
That's called a pattern. A pretty easy one to decipher.
There are multiple ones - this section is reserved for political discourse.
He's been all over this site in the wrong forums all day looking for attention.
I'm calling fake.
Shameless Republicans Filibuster Voting-Rights Protections They Used to Support
For the third time this year, Senate Republicans filibustered voting-rights legislation to death. The first two bills to succumb to the filibuster were the comprehensive For the People Act and a more modest Freedom to Vote Act, whose chief sponsor was the famously bipartisan Senator Joe Manchin. But the measure Republicans killed on Tuesday, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, is fundamentally different from the earlier bills, even though Mitch McConnell won’t acknowledge it:
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Last night, voters across America rejected Democrats and their radical agenda. So what are Senate Democrats doing today? Trying to pass a bill that would give Attorney General Garland sweeping new powers to micromanage election laws and voting procedures across the country.
1:20 PM · Nov 3, 2021
The John Lewis legislation would not give the attorney general “sweeping new powers,” if by that you mean powers greater than those most of his predecessors had dating back to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The bill doesn’t, like the two earlier voting-rights measures McConnell killed, create new grounds; it takes back ground removed by a 5-4 Supreme Court majority in 2013. Before that, these “sweeping powers” were supported by nearly everyone in Congress, including Mitch McConnell, as election law expert Rick Hasen points out:
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A reminder that the last time the Senate voted on renewal of the Voting Rights Act (in 2006), the bill passed 98-0, including the vote of Senator McConnell. He never called VRA preclearance a power grab then.
The Shelby County v. Holder decision invalidated a provision of the VRA (the formula for determining jurisdictions subject to a Justice Department preclearance for voting and election law changes) as outdated but did not strike down the Section 5 preclearance authority at all. Indeed, Chief Justice John Roberts all but invited Congress to update Section 4 instead of allowing it to be guided by 40-year-old data. That is precisely what the John Lewis Act is designed to do. At most it restores to the Justice Department powers it possessed last time Congress extended the VRA with a unanimous vote by the Senate and the support (and signature) of Republican president George W. Bush, who said: “My administration will vigorously enforce the provisions of this law, and we will defend it in court.”
What’s changed in the last 15 years to make the entire Senate GOP (with the exception of Lisa Murkowski) flip from insisting upon to contemptuously opposing a robust Voting Rights Act? It couldn’t be quibbles with the exact formula for preclearance jurisdiction contained in the John Lewis Act, since Republicans (again, other than Murkowski) have never bothered to enter into negotiations over the language or offered their own approach. This isn’t a matter of differing avenues to a shared goal; it’s a rejection of voting rights itself.
some of this devolution likely stems from the recent avid interest in enacting voter-suppression laws among state-level Republicans, which has led their congressional allies to oppose any and all federal election legislation. Some of it may come from a sense that a Republican Party that all but denies the very existence of white racism is building a political home for white racists. And there’s no question the lagging commitment of the GOP to democracy itself under the lash of Donald J. Trump has undermined many old commitments. But whatever the underlying motives, the hypocritical and categorical abandonment of voting rights by the party of Lincoln is shameless.
I'm shocked!!!Shameless Republicans Filibuster Voting-Rights Protections They Used to Support
For the third time this year, Senate Republicans filibustered voting-rights legislation to death. The first two bills to succumb to the filibuster were the comprehensive For the People Act and a more modest Freedom to Vote Act, whose chief sponsor was the famously bipartisan Senator Joe Manchin. But the measure Republicans killed on Tuesday, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, is fundamentally different from the earlier bills, even though Mitch McConnell won’t acknowledge it:
Leader McConnell
@LeaderMcConnell
Last night, voters across America rejected Democrats and their radical agenda. So what are Senate Democrats doing today? Trying to pass a bill that would give Attorney General Garland sweeping new powers to micromanage election laws and voting procedures across the country.
1:20 PM · Nov 3, 2021
The John Lewis legislation would not give the attorney general “sweeping new powers,” if by that you mean powers greater than those most of his predecessors had dating back to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The bill doesn’t, like the two earlier voting-rights measures McConnell killed, create new grounds; it takes back ground removed by a 5-4 Supreme Court majority in 2013. Before that, these “sweeping powers” were supported by nearly everyone in Congress, including Mitch McConnell, as election law expert Rick Hasen points out:
Rick Hasen
@rickhasen
A reminder that the last time the Senate voted on renewal of the Voting Rights Act (in 2006), the bill passed 98-0, including the vote of Senator McConnell. He never called VRA preclearance a power grab then.
The Shelby County v. Holder decision invalidated a provision of the VRA (the formula for determining jurisdictions subject to a Justice Department preclearance for voting and election law changes) as outdated but did not strike down the Section 5 preclearance authority at all. Indeed, Chief Justice John Roberts all but invited Congress to update Section 4 instead of allowing it to be guided by 40-year-old data. That is precisely what the John Lewis Act is designed to do. At most it restores to the Justice Department powers it possessed last time Congress extended the VRA with a unanimous vote by the Senate and the support (and signature) of Republican president George W. Bush, who said: “My administration will vigorously enforce the provisions of this law, and we will defend it in court.”
What’s changed in the last 15 years to make the entire Senate GOP (with the exception of Lisa Murkowski) flip from insisting upon to contemptuously opposing a robust Voting Rights Act? It couldn’t be quibbles with the exact formula for preclearance jurisdiction contained in the John Lewis Act, since Republicans (again, other than Murkowski) have never bothered to enter into negotiations over the language or offered their own approach. This isn’t a matter of differing avenues to a shared goal; it’s a rejection of voting rights itself.
some of this devolution likely stems from the recent avid interest in enacting voter-suppression laws among state-level Republicans, which has led their congressional allies to oppose any and all federal election legislation. Some of it may come from a sense that a Republican Party that all but denies the very existence of white racism is building a political home for white racists. And there’s no question the lagging commitment of the GOP to democracy itself under the lash of Donald J. Trump has undermined many old commitments. But whatever the underlying motives, the hypocritical and categorical abandonment of voting rights by the party of Lincoln is shameless.
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Judging by the previous patterns when it pertains to Virginia, it was going to be a Republican governor to be elected! No shock about that whatsoever especially if you are aware of the pattern from several previous gubernatorial elections in Virginia!!
Congrats to Phil Murphy being re-elected! The first in four decades to do that!!
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Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy wins re-election -AP
Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy won a second term, narrowly defeating Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, a day after polls closed in an election that proved an unexpected nail-biter for the incumbent.
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