@CountScrofula The repubs are often just as stupid, shooting themselves in the foot. I give credit to the failed blue wave and historic increase in the senate to Trump. People keep underestimating him but he is a crafty strategist. That's how he won.
“The silent majority has spoken at the polls”. Lol, you might want to check who the majority of voters , silent or otherwise, voted for. I’ll give you a clue, it’s a party whose name begins with D.
You got part of this one right, Jack. The silent majority has spoken, and Democrats now control the House as a result. Even with voter suppression and gerrymandering, Democrats won House races nationwide by something between 6 and 10 percent overall. It takes somewhere around a 5% majority for Democrats to break even in the House, given Republican shenanigans.
I mean, the Democrats blew their own brains out with this Kavanaugh thing.
And being totally maimed, they were able to take the house despite some pretty grotesque races, voting irregularities, and Trump hammering at them as being basically the antichrist. And some pretty bad Democratic leadership.
Sure. It was smaller than the blue way in 2006 and much smaller than the red wave in 2010. But whether races were won or not seems immaterial. I mean, fuck, for Beto to come that close in Texas? Gillum that close in Florida?
Definitely a shift more to the left. Everywhere.
I'm really impressed by counties in the Deep South going from solid "red" to "pink" or even neutralish.
Mine are out of college and working. Two conservatives one liberal. My wife is a liberal and believe it or not n9ne of us ever fight sbout it. I have a conversative nephew who will graduate from Vanderbilt this year. Mine were Temple Penn and Maryland. My other niece and nephew are liberals with crazy liberal parents. Penn and Texas.
The here and now is that Evers is governor after being outspent 3 to 1 😀
Re your second point: since about 1980 the GOP has successfully starved government by cutting taxes on the wealthy to create a fiscal “crisis”. Attracting talented people to teaching and local government takes inducements as they are salaried and cannot work more or adjust their business model as in the private sector to make more money.
I’m glad Wisconsin took a step to be more like Minnesota and less like Alabama or Kansas, which was the direction we were heading under Walker. @Budwick
@SW-User Since you're a complete ignoramus on what transgenderism is, maybe you shouldn't discuss it, because it makes you look stupid. I would suggest reading up on it a little instead of just repeating what your pastor says about it.
There's a difference between "errors in reporting" and just making shit up. I've noticed that many conservatives can't tell the difference, like differences in scale mean nothing. Trump has insulted people literally hundreds of times, but Hillary said "deplorables" once and that's just as bad if not worse. And Infowars wasn't making fun of child sex colonies on Mars, they were reporting on them as if they actually existed. Unless you're saying that Infowars is like "The Onion" and we should only watch it for the lulz and not consider it a valid news source.
Anyway it's obvious that nothing will change your mind, so there's no point in further discussion. If you think Trump has unusually high approval ratings for a president at this point in his tenure, I give up. That's so obviously wrong, if you actually believe it, you're clearly living in a different reality than I am.
@SW-User Great, Trump's approval jumped briefly after the Kavanaugh hearings. He's still historically unpopular, although your post proves that there are people who will love him regardless. I wonder if there's anything he could do that would make you turn against him. For example, he apparently violated campaign finance law with his payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. I guess the justification for that is he's so gosh-darned wonderful and good for America, he should be above the law. Now tell me if Obama had done that, you wouldn't have been screaming for his impeachment.
So you base your view of transgenderism on one co-worker you happen to know. At least you've revealed that you're a complete ignoramus on this subject and can be safely ignored. My concern is that transgender people are not discriminated against, or physically attacked by hateful bigots. For example, in my district, the Republican unfortunately won by a slim margin. I say "unfortunately" because this evil man was behind the "bathroom bill" a few years ago that would have prevented transgender people from using public toilets.
@Hikingguy to change it you must start at the bottom, attend all local city council and school board meeting and speak up..... question them constantly
