Sadly this sounds pretty spot on.
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vox is quite informative to understand the procedural aspects of american politics, its helped me understand much of this kavanaugh business.
Can be insufferably wonkish tho, and itâs uniformly terrible wrt foreign policy.
Tobias funke has taken the floor
get on with it, Cornyn
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whatâs happening here, and itâs really quite interesting, is the trump admin are saying climate change is real but itâs too late, we are all already dead, so there is no point in trying to deal with it
Who is it?
His daughter
Guessed it might be. Queezy enough as it is, butâŚ
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Youâll never guess what⌠turns out that Trump isnât self made and fiddled his taxes. Iâm stunned!
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We already knew his dad was a multi-millionaire (and KKK sympathiser), no? Has some new news come to light?
Genuinely think he could do anything bar possibly ban firearms and it not impact his popularity amongst his base. Even if thereâs proof of his gigantic money laundering and links to Russia theyâll just deny it and move on.
Oh sorry, yeah. I was pretending to be stunned by the nytâs exhaustive expose of all his financial dealings. We all know he is crook and of course it makes no difference at all to anything.
The obsession with Trumpâs base in the media (and I guess among the Democrat establishment too) is baffling. Well, OK itâs not baffling as I know why they do it (the media likes to frame the only way to beat someone like Trump as âtry to win over the racistsâ), but it is infuriating.
Apparently two midterms polls recently had one with the Democrat lead halving and one with the lead doubling, so good to see the picture is totally clear then.
His base is what, 26% of the electorate? And theyâre unreachable and will excuse anything that he does.
Iâm not saying that they should be ignored, but no one who opposes Trump should be seeking to win their approval at all. There are still three quarters of the electorate to try and appeal to, and two thirds of that rarely vote in presidential elections, let alone mid-terms.
The fact that the Democratic establishment are not doing this shows just how broken the US system is.
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I feel like thereâs been almost no discussion of the measly 55% turnout at the 2016 election. I know the UK has been pretty bad with general election turnout at times, but the fact nearly half of voters didnât/couldnât vote for a new President seems to have gone unnoticed. Instead we get yet another profile of some Trump voters in a diner.
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Trumpâs dad was so famously evil Woody Guthrie wrote a song about him. Thatâs evil!
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Yeah, and that was the difference between Obama and Clinton.
Clinton supporters boast that she won more votes than any other candidate bar Obama, but thatâs a failing. The winning candidate should always win the most votes in history in a country with a growing voting age population, even if you factor in the deliberate disinfranchisement of many parts of the non-white population in Republican states.
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