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Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 10:36 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
McParadigm wrote:
The long term answer just cannot be to invest more money in high traffic, but my god do we need to innovate our public transit. We haven’t reasonably evolved our approach to bussing in decades, even as we’ve packed more and more people into the areas they serve and put more and more cars on the road around them.
I like the bus, but we did two carless years in Seattle in 2014-15 and it was a fucking chore.
The Adam Ruins Everything podcast has an episode (the first one, actually) about cars that was pretty interesting. It's nothing like the show, just him sitting with one of the experts he has on the show and talking about their thing.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Wed September 11, 2019 2:10 am
Troglodyte
Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 9:53 pm Posts: 22531 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
He's currently losing. The whole reason this election is happening is because Republicans cheated their asses of, and now they're gonna elect the next one that stumbles in.
They should've handed the win to McCready last year. This just rewards cheating. Don't get caught? You win! Get caught? You win anyhow.
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Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Wed September 11, 2019 3:20 am
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47127 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
We published an interview today with a democratic candidate running for federal office in 2020, against a republican incumbent. Asked what he’s hearing on the campaign trail, he said “the people know the tariffs are hurting us, that taxpayers are paying for the ag bailouts, and that China isn’t hurting us but rather we are hurting ourselves.” I believe him to a fair extent.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Wed September 11, 2019 3:29 am
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Well I mean, yeah, those things are true.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Wed September 11, 2019 1:10 pm
NEVER STOP JAMMING!
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 1:56 am Posts: 21836
Quote:
9 things I think I think after the North Carolina redo election
House Republicans weren’t likely to gain the majority before the redo election and aren’t likely after the redo election
Since McCready and Republican Mark Harris finished within 905 votes of each other last November, this redo election was an opportunity to see how much the political environment has shifted in the last 10 months. Now we have an answer: not much. That’s bad news for the Republicans considering they lost a net of 40 House seats last cycle and only gained Senate seats because of a favorable map.
This is not a sustainable path to victory for the GOP
Republicans spent more than $6 million holding an open seat that the president carried by double digits. The party will not have the resources to replicate that across the 25 districts with suburban territory that they currently hold and that Trump carried in 2016 by narrower margins than North Carolina’s 9th (h/t to my colleague Leah Askarinam).
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Wed September 11, 2019 9:58 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
yeah, I imagine that's going to be a new rule shortly in all of the states where there has to be a certain number of people present to even present a vote.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Wed September 11, 2019 10:01 pm
Production Police
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47127 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Took me a minute to find it, but here's where the NC thing stands:
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The state budget still can’t pass without the Senate also overriding Cooper’s veto. However the Republican majority only needs one Democrat to vote with all of them to obtain the necessary override. The override had not been added to the Senate calendar as of late Wednesday afternoon.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Thu September 12, 2019 2:56 am
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
tragabigzanda wrote:
Yes but the prospect of those realities getting through to a swingable voting block amidst the daily noise is interesting
Ah, fair point.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Fri September 13, 2019 5:17 am
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
A government strong enough to curtail civil liberties but too weak to provide any essential services? Sign me up baby
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Post subject: Re: Local/State Politics: Engage Now Or Die!
Posted: Fri September 13, 2019 12:20 pm
Troglodyte
Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 9:53 pm Posts: 22531 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
tragabigzanda wrote:
Took me a minute to find it, but here's where the NC thing stands:
Quote:
The state budget still can’t pass without the Senate also overriding Cooper’s veto. However the Republican majority only needs one Democrat to vote with all of them to obtain the necessary override. The override had not been added to the Senate calendar as of late Wednesday afternoon.
I mean, holy shit! Republicans had to tell the Democrats they weren't going to vote, then they went around and secretly planned to come in and vote when the Democrats through they wouldn't be there. And 55 assholes thought, "oh yeah, this is how government should be run," and they went ahead and voted.
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