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  • The other races are close, also. There are two others where the Republican is ahead by less than .2% , and they are still counting. And the last race is in Alaska, the Republican is currently up by 2% but they haven’t done the Ranked Choice voting calculations and there may be enough people who picked the Democrat 2nd to put her over the top.

    While it’s unlikely that Democrats could manage to win all 4 of the remaining seats, if they do then Republicans would hold a slim 1-seat majority, which Beavis already resigned away. So unless Florida could schedule the special election quickly, the House could be evenly divided, even before a few GOP’ers leave for Trump’s cabinet













  • Hegseth also has deep connections with the so-called TheoBros, a collection of ultra-conservative and extremely online millennial Christian men who follow an Idaho pastor named Douglas Wilson. Some of Wilson’s followers believe that the United States should, as Mother Jones’ Kiera Butler has written, “be subject to Biblical law.”

    Interesting. The only difference between these guys and Islamic Fundamentalists who are in charge in places like Afghanistan are which book they want to use as the basis of their laws, and the color of their hats.



  • I understand all this stuff. This shit is hard. But all that is preferable to just being plucked off the street and effectively disappeared. As bad as it was for non-whites here before, it’s about to get much worse.

    And the Blue State thing matters because I believe that Trump will not get Congress to go along with a militarization of this deportation effort, and the existing Federal infrastructure is not enough to pull it off. So he will have to heavily lean on red states who will be happy to send State Police to violate these people’s rights as long as the Feds look the other way. Moving to a state that will not go along with that will go a long way toward keeping them safe


  • “It would be a mistake,” Lindsay Aime, a Haitian immigrant who has temporary protected status until 2026, said of the deportation plan. “All the businesses across Springfield, if you lose good, beautiful workers, you will feel it economically.”

    I am surprised more non-citizens (and even the naturalized citizens) aren’t leaving that town and state right away. I understand it’s hard to uproot your family and just move to a different state. But they are going to be forced out in a few months regardless, and if Trump does it they will get put in detention until they get flown back, no questions asked. And we all know Trump is starting there. At least if these people go move to a Blue state the local police won’t help the Feds find them.

    And people shouldn’t think they are safe just because they have permanent residence, or even are citizens. I expect whoever Trump recruits to round up these people to not ask those types of questions. They will detain anyone who looks like they don’t belong, confiscate their ID, then conveniently lose it, leaving them with no proof. Do you think AG Gaetz will care about that?



  • dhork@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldLiberals Are Giving Up on America
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    5 days ago

    I think the reason why Democratic politicians have so much trouble articulating their vision is that their voters will call them out on blatant lies, so their positions need to have some logical consistency, or else those politicians will not win their support.

    Republicans are not so encumbered. I think their base enjoys being lied to.