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  1. 3 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I remember 2022 being essentially a complete disaster for republicans. 

    I honestly can’t think of much that is different from 2020 except for the emigration from California (largely red voters) to other already red states. 

    Abortion abortion abortion. This is a big reason why Arizona is going to stay blue, and is one of the two big question marks for the presidential.

    1. The Republican nominee for governor in NC makes Roger Taney look like an abolitionist. If the Democrat wins governor by daylight, does he drag Biden across the wire there? 

    2. Abortion on the ballot in Florida is unlikely to get the 60% needed for passage. However, does this ballot measure crank up blue turnout enough to spoil the party for Rick Scott and/or Trump? Florida is also the only spot on the board for the blue team to try playing offense in the Senate (sorry Texas, but if Beto couldn't get rid of Cruz in 2018, it's not happening now), so resources will not be a problem.

    My pick: same as 2020 except Biden wins North Carolina.

  2. 22 hours ago, bolverk said:

    That's surprising. I haven't looked at any polls lately, but the Tories haven't been pretty far down in them lately. If they are, why not wait for improvement and the scheduled elections?

    I don't get the timing, either.

    I've also read that over the winter, there were a couple of by-elections where Israel somehow became the focal point, and they resulted in a third party winning the seat. Maybe the thought is to use that result and somehow end up with a hung Parliament with them as the largest bloc, and form a coalition government from there. 

    But if that was the thought, why didn't he call the election then?

    On an aside, I feel that there is more knowledge of the Westminster style of Parliament in this thread than in much of the US combined. 

  3. 31 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Many people are saying it.  Lots of people.  People with tears in their eyes.  Tremendous people.  

     

    The reason why the people around him have tears in their eyes is because he smells like he got run over by a herd of sheep with diarrhea.

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  4. On 4/11/2024 at 4:49 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

    Why would Utah get the Olympics again so soon?

    Because they're the only place in the Americas that could host the Winter Olympics tomorrow, and the IOC is quickly running out of places to put them.

    The IOC wanted them for 2030, but hard on the heels of LA 2028 was a no-go for Salt Lake.

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    49 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    For the Polls Are AIDS group, Trump is winning the yoot vote by 29%
     

     

     

    Channel 5, the newsroom that commissioned this poll, is the worst local news in the Twin Cities, and has been for some time. 

    Trump winning U34s 54-29? I want a dose of whatever drugs this pollster is smoking.

    The MNGOP, or rather what's left of it, was crowing about this. All you need to know about them is that their main financier during the 2010s is currently serving 21 years in the federal joint for sex trafficking.

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  6. Sale of the Timberwolves falls through. ARod and Marc Lore don't have the money and can't come up with it.

     

    This is going to leave ARod/Lore with something like 40% of the team.

  7. 29 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    This should make the young people happy.

     

    https://www.newsweek.com/older-americans-stis-1884175

    Older Americans now have twice as many sexually transmitted infections (STI) when compared to a decade ago, a new study has found.

    According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the rates of STIs in adults aged 55 and older have doubled over the past decade.

    "Rising divorce rates, forgoing condoms as there is no risk of pregnancy, the availability of drugs for sexual dysfunction, the large number of older adults living together in retirement communities, and the increased use of dating apps are likely to have contributed to the growing incidence of STIs in the over 50s", Justyna Kowalska, who is presenting the research, said in a statement.

    "These data likely underestimate the true extent of the problem, as limited access to sexual health services for the over 50s, and trying to avoid the stigma and embarrassment both on the part of older people and healthcare professionals, is leading to this age group not seeking help for STIs."

    For example, gonorrhea cases rose from 15 per 100,000 people in 2015, to 57 per 100,000 in 2019.

    Obligatory

     

  8. 3 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Dems flipped SCOWI in 2023. It was a big deal. Led to fair maps for the state legislature and a post-2024 challenge to the congressional maps. SCOMI flipped in 2020 

    The last time Wisconsin elected a Legislature under fair maps was either 2008 or 2010. 

    One big reason why the SCOWI went Democrat last year is because all the students that were in elementary school during the open teacher rebellion of 2011 watched their teachers get boatraced in the years since.

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  9. 3 hours ago, 'stache said:

    Man, I just don't think of Scarlett Johansen that much, but she's damn good at acting. That she managed to put that together and execute it perfectly in a matter of days is incredible. So good.

    It helps that her husband is the head writer at SNL, but it still takes chops to go from inspiration to doing the sketch in 36 hours or less.

  10. 1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:

    This.

    They’ll completely ignore all the meat around the fake electors shit and focus on super narrow actions that they can throw up their hands and punt by saying something like ‘we can’t discern if what he was doing was as a candidate or the president and an official act’.

    its going to be bad and are only hope is the orange menace losing… which will still be bad bc im almost assured there will be more violence, because him winning is going to be REALLY bad.

    Never underestimate the ability of this Court to come up with the worst possible outcome.

    If the Court was serious, oral argument would have been much sooner than the end of April. The Steel Seizure Case went from the initial suit on April 5 to final resolution on June 2, including oral argument 10 days after the DC Circuit heard the case en banc

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