- Another popular thing was children being able to stay on their parents' insurance until the age of 26.
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It's so infuriating that now we have to hope trump doesn't die, since we'd get vance.
There's gonna be soooo much face-eating and finding out going forward from Jan 20, 2025
At least if people wear those handmaid hats to the protests that should help skirt the facial recognition systems.
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-eyes-6-billion-parting-gift-joe-biden-pentagon-1982641
According to that, it looks like $4B in military aid as weapons pulled from US stocks and $2B in USAI money.
And I don't have any drugs either.
Supposedly there was a leaked report from 23andme showing she was genetically not black.
Whenever some stupid shit comes out of trump's mouth his minions go put out propaganda to make him be "right". They have bot armies to amplify their posts to spread themand make people believe it (plus his followers already want to believe it so their job is easy). Musk has made this very easy to do on Xitter.
So this is just another example. When he said she wasn't black and got made fun of, they rushed to put out propaganda on social media that there was a 23andme test showing she wasn't Black and "see? he was right!" and amplified it to spread it even more. They do that with everything, like after the debate they put out pictures of grills with meat cooking on them that they said were cats and everyone just believes it.
He is sending another $6 billion to Ukraine.
The Democratic primaries were held as always. Biden won, as the sitting president (almost?) always does because there are no serious challengers. Maybe there should have been a stronger effort to challenge him but it would have probably accomplished nothing but disruption. After he dropped out there wasn't time to hold new primaries.
But yeah, that's why I said people have a lot more power further down the ballot, the more local the closer it is to the people and the more democratic. On a national level your voice is one among millions and as you say, the earlier primary states have the most power. and unfortunately yes, that voting strategy usually takes many election cycles of concerted effort by a movement to start working. On the R side, you could say it started back in the 80's with the "moral majority" movement. One thing they did that was really effective was focusing their efforts on the State level and getting control of state legislatures.
A couple of things that make this harder for D's is that it is a big tent party with diverse positions that can make it like herding cats, whereas with R's their positions have been much more consistent (until the first trump candidacy and presidency, and now they're consistent again, all having fallen into line under him). The other thing is that R's and conservatives are spread out everywhere in the rural areas, while D's and liberals are concentrated in the cities as a minority of the population in the many red states and an oversized majority in the few blue states. That also works to the R's advantage in controlling more state legislatures. It's a tough situation.
I think they're making a distinction between policy issues and social issues. The policy issues are popular but the social issues not so much. I read that R's ran a huge ad buy with an anti-trans ad that was very effective in swinging lots of male voters over to them. That's one example of what they mean by the "woke" stuff. It scares conservatives and moderate dems--not the objective reality of the policies as much as messaging spin they put on it, designed to create fear and loathing. Like it or not, it's effective.
They will run whoever wins in the primaries, which means that voting in the primaries is where you have much more power. Start early on supporting candidates who you think can win and help them win the primaries.
This works much better in down-ballot races than at the POTUS-level, but even there if you get a big enough movement going it can work. That's how Trump got the R nomination in 2016 after all--the R establishment hated him and didn't want him to win but he got the votes.
On the DNC side, after outcry about what happened with Bernie in 2016, they changed the rules to limit the power of the superdelegates to rig things like they did it 2016, by preventing them from voting on the first ballot and other rules on what they can do. Whether those reforms are enough has not yet been tested.
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