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[GhostBox]

 

[Armani?]

The Georgia ad is just meaningless team sporting to me, but yeah, it makes Trump look weak

[Communion]

41 minutes ago, woohoo said:

Can they carve out the filibuster only for certain issues like abortion rights and other things and leave it for the rest of legislation? 

All this does is add additional administrative delays to what Republicans would do anyway.

 

Carve-outs already exist to the filibuster. Budget reconciliation is itself a carve-out to pass budget-related legislation once-a-year by a simple majority.

 

Senate rules only require a 51-seat majority vote to make changes to procedural rules like the filibuster. Dems did this for judgeships except for the SCOTUS and then Republicans four years later just... added SCOTUS to the filibuster carve out anyway!

 

if the idea is that doing away with the filibuster would lead to Republicans getting everything they want *gestures around* well.

Edited September 28 by Communion

[Sannie]

33 minutes ago, VOSS said:

They could. That was already done for judicial appointments and a couple of other things I believe. But doing it for something like abortion would definitely open the floodgates. I don't think Rs would use it to ban abortion when they took power in the senate but we could see right to work nationwide and **** like that

Yes, they would. IDK how many times the GOP has to show us who they are before we finally start taking them seriously.  

 

15 minutes ago, Armani? said:

The Georgia ad is just meaningless team sporting to me, but yeah, it makes Trump look weak

Yea, when you have the money, hit the little man where it hurts most lol.

[FameFatale]

 

[Sannie]

[FameFatale]

Um yikes 

 

 

[VOSS]

 

[GhostBox]

16 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

Um yikes 

 

 

wtf 💀

[GhostBox]

 

he can't get over it 💀

Edited September 28 by GhostBox

[RihRihGirrrl]

25 minutes ago, GhostBox said:

 

he can't get over it 💀

He hates being a loser....and he's too dumb to realize that he always looks like a loser 

[Blade]

expecting these to be bad for Harris considering Atlas Intel had Trump up nationally

[Sannie]

3 minutes ago, Blade said:

expecting these to be bad for Harris considering Atlas Intel had Trump up nationally

The next few weeks are going to be hell poll wise as we experience an influx of R-leaning pollsters attempt to flood the zone. I advise people to check in on what polls they're looking at and react accordingly. As we've seen with Rasmussen, they're all getting marching orders from the Trump campaign to boost him just to make him feel better about himself.

[byzantium]

3 minutes ago, Sannie said:

The next few weeks are going to be hell poll wise as we experience an influx of R-leaning pollsters attempt to flood the zone. I advise people to check in on what polls they're looking at and react accordingly. As we've seen with Rasmussen, they're all getting marching orders from the Trump campaign to boost him just to make him feel better about himself.

Isn't this good for us?  Like we want the polls to favor Trump and make the democrats feel like they need to work harder.  

[Sannie]

1 minute ago, byzantium said:

Isn't this good for us?  Like we want the polls to favor Trump and make the democrats feel like they need to work harder.  

I mean, I guess it depends on how you look at it. This could invigorate Dems, but it could also make them feel like there's no point in voting. It's a coin flip.

 

I personally was talking about it being hell in this thread.  I pray for @Relampago. her mental health once these R-leaning pollsters start flooding the zone.

[Bears01]

17 minutes ago, Sannie said:

The next few weeks are going to be hell poll wise as we experience an influx of R-leaning pollsters attempt to flood the zone. I advise people to check in on what polls they're looking at and react accordingly. As we've seen with Rasmussen, they're all getting marching orders from the Trump campaign to boost him just to make him feel better about himself.

Atlas is an A+ rated pollster…..

[Sannie]

4 minutes ago, Bears01 said:

Atlas is an A+ rated pollster…..

No, sorry, I didn't mean to imply this about Atlas kskdndjdj. I was referring to, I think it's called Insider Advantage??? My quoting of that post just made my comment even more confusing.

[Blade]

Is Atlas Intel R-leaning?

[GhostBox]

 

[GhostBox]

 

[dabunique]

I need Biden to head his ass to florida ahora cojones

[shelven]

53 minutes ago, Blade said:

Is Atlas Intel R-leaning?

Not formally, but they've been by far Trump's best (high quality) pollster this cycle. Their post-debate poll was Trump +4 nationally  And their only other Harris/Trump poll was +2 Trump nationally, so it seems to be something in their methodology as opposed to the post-debate poll being an outlier.

 

If the polls they're releasing tonight are even slightly better than an utter disaster for Harris, I'll consider that a win

[Gottasadae]

43 minutes ago, GhostBox said:

 

Ok, her team is kinda ate here 

[shelven]

2 hours ago, FameFatale said:

Um yikes 

 

 

It's deeply, existentially depressing that this type of talk from him has become so normalized that even Dems barely bat an eye anymore when he says stuff like this. A statement like this by a presidential candidate even 20 years ago would have led to them experiencing a blowout loss (or the very least, they would have been pressured by the media and public to release a lengthy apology). Now literally nobody cares.

 

That's why I'm still ultimately so pessimistic about the future of US electoral politics even if Trump loses and finally goes away. His existence the last decade has fundamentally changed electoral politics moving forward because it's shown future candidates that there's basically nothing off limits anymore as long as you have a certain type of charisma that appeals to uneducated, rural white voters. I really don't know how things get better going forward.

[FameFatale]