@Lerxst1992 This is another example of under-sampling. Both most recent polls on the special election had the Democrat up by 4 and within the MOE. He outperformed the polls by four points. Considering the polling is within a small congressional district, it should be even more accurate.
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i heard frank luntz called this "the final wake up call for the gop house". whatever the fuck that means, as we all know they will triple down on their unpopular positions on basically everything.
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i heard frank luntz called this "the final wake up call for the gop house". whatever the fuck that means, as we all know they will triple down on their unpopular positions on basically everything.
The POOTWH minority wing of the party, and I’m not sure they’re the minority, is owned lock, stock and barrel by Putin on the ritz. Of course they’re going to quadruple down.
i heard frank luntz called this "the final wake up call for the gop house". whatever the fuck that means, as we all know they will triple down on their unpopular positions on basically everything.
Right, their takeaway is that they were not extreme enough and the mass of right wing voters stayed home.
Much of the GOP is on-board with the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
A new poll shows nearly one-third of Republicans believe Swift is part of a ‘covert government effort.’ Those who have heard of the theory are about evenly split.
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Much of the GOP is on-board with the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
A new poll shows nearly one-third of Republicans believe Swift is part of a ‘covert government effort.’ Those who have heard of the theory are about evenly split.
You've really gotta watch out for Taylor Swift and her radical band of left wing senators:
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Much of the GOP is on-board with the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
A new poll shows nearly one-third of Republicans believe Swift is part of a ‘covert government effort.’ Those who have heard of the theory are about evenly split.
i know i have said it before, but we really are in the stupidest of all timelines.
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Much of the GOP is on-board with the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
A new poll shows nearly one-third of Republicans believe Swift is part of a ‘covert government effort.’ Those who have heard of the theory are about evenly split.
i know i have said it before, but we really are in the stupidest of all timelines.
And the crazy thing...virtually all of these magats voting for tRump voted for Mittens...now he's toxic
They're the same people who called anyone "Unamerican" for not thinking GW Bush walked on water. The right-wing pundit outrage machine is just telling them different things now.
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Which side are you on? Has anyone asked POOTWH for his comments on the death of Navalny or is he too busy hawking his branded sneakers at $400 a pop?
OpinionAlexei Navalny and the fight to save Russian democracy
When Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in 2021, after treatment abroad for a near-fatal poisoning by Russian government agents, he knew he would likely be imprisoned for his opposition to President Vladimir Putin. And he knew that, in Russia, a prison sentence could become a death sentence. Despite the risks, he went back to confront Mr. Putin’s deepening repression, and refused to be silent, even when he was sentenced to 19 years on trumped-up charges — which he was serving at a remote Russian penal colony in the Arctic. That is where Mr. Navalny died on Friday at the age of 47; we don’t know exactly how he met his end, but we know why. Mr. Putin bears responsibility.
The Kremlin leader has a taste for the trappings of wealth but only distaste for true political competition. After coming to power in 2000, he easily shoved aside wealthy oligarchs, muted the independent media and installed his own cronies as the new elite. But in later years, he faced in Mr. Navalny a true rival. Mr. Navalny summoned tens of thousands of people to the streets to protest the “party of crooks and thieves,” as he called Mr. Putin and his cadre of former KGB men. Mr. Navalny captured the hopes of many Russians to be a normal country — a democratic one.
Mr. Putin undoubtedly hopes that Mr. Navalny’s death not only eliminates an irrepressible, principled and courageous opponent, but also will squelch the aspirations he embodied for so many others: to live without fear from the state, to choose their leaders, to say and think what they believe, to make free choices in a free market and to travel the world. All of these liberties were denied in the Soviet Union, where Mr. Navalny was born; they were unleashed tentatively under the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and then fully during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, when Mr. Navalny came of age.
Yeltsin failed in one crucial respect, to establish the rule of law. Russia was thrust into an era of fierce oligarchic capitalism: wild, violent and corrupt. This profoundly shaped Mr. Navalny’s early career after law school, when he focused on fighting corruption by exposing it. He was also a youthful nationalist who campaigned against immigration to Russia from Central Asia and who took part in a march in Moscow that drew some extremists.
As Mr. Putin pushed Russia deeper into dictatorship, especially after the protests of 2011-2012, Mr. Navalny evolved into more of a champion of democracy and practical political action. His campaign for mayor of Moscow in 2013 displayed a flair for grass-roots mobilization. It spawned a national movement. Mr. Navalny pioneered Smart Voting, an app that challenged United Russia, the Kremlin-backed party, by helping voters find local candidates opposed to Mr. Putin’s party. Mr. Navalny and his associates also demonstrated extraordinary talent with video, creating a series of YouTube documentaries that exposed the lavish lifestyles of Mr. Putin and his elite. Even from his Arctic jail cell, Mr. Navalny just a few weeks ago proposed ways that millions of Russians could protest on the day of Russia’s upcoming presidential election, which Mr. Putin is certain to win without serious competition.
Through it all, Mr. Putin tried desperately to repress Mr. Navalny and his movement using censorship, subversion, arrests and the attempted poisoning of Mr. Navalny with the nerve agent Novichok while he was on a trip in central Russia in August 2020. Mr. Navalny survived and fought back with an incredible, steely determination. An Oscar-winning documentary film about his struggle shows him on the phone with one of the poisoning’s perpetrators — an officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service — coaxing the man into a devastating confession.
For all his personal suffering, Mr. Navalny never succumbed to despair or lost his mordant sense of humor. Trapped in solitary confinement in prison, he noted on X (formerly Twitter) that he was held in “a 2.5 x 3 meter concrete kennel.” Most of the time, these cells were cold and damp, he said, but “I got the beach version — it’s very hot and there’s almost no air.” He was often denied a pencil and paper but, in November, having been imprisoned for more than 1,000 days, he posted an appeal for Russians to read books about their own recent history.
Mr. Navalny’s death is a reminder to the United States and its allies that, in Mr. Putin, they are up against a ruthless foe whose primary method is to use force. Mr. Navalny’s death is an enormous loss to his family and friends, and to the ideal of a free and democratic Russia. But such ideals cannot be slain. Mr. Navalny’s legacy will be a never-ending struggle to realize them.
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Paramore rejects Tenn. honor after Allison Russell denied same recognition
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D) brought two resolutions to the floor of the lower chamber on Monday, both of them congratulating Nashville-area musicians on winning their first Grammy awards the week before.
One was for Paramore, a Tennessee-based emo-pop band that had won Grammys for best rock album and best alternative music performance. The other was for Allison Russell, a folk musician who had won the Grammy for best American roots performance.
The resolutions were so perfunctory that they were placed on the chamber’s consent calendar, a grouping of noncontroversial bills that representatives pass en masse.
But Rep. Jeremy Faison (R) had a problem with one of them. With an objection, he removed the resolution honoring Russell from the consent calendar, while not doing the same for the one honoring Paramore. Jones responded that singling out Russell, who is Black, is a “shameful” example of “Jim Crow thinking.” Paramore, whose members are White, rebuked Faison’s objection as “blatant racism.”
In a statement sent by the Tennessee House Republican Caucus, Faison said that, as a member of the Republican leadership, he had been approached by several members with questions about Russell, “which made it appropriate for us to press pause on that particular resolution.”
Faison and Jennifer Easton, a spokeswoman for House Republicans, did not respond to requests for comment about the questions raised by the caucus.
Russell said in an interview with The Washington Post that the objection to her recognition recalled the controversy that erupted in the legislature last year when Jones and two other representatives faced expulsion over their participation in a gun-control demonstration. The two Black members of the trio that became known as the “Tennessee Three” — Jones and Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D) — were expelled, while the White member of the group survived the bid to oust her. Jones and Pearson won back their seats in an election held later in the year.
Jones addressed the most recent incident Monday on the House floor.
“It’s shameful that this body during a month where we honor Black voices and history want to replay out this type of Jim Crow thinking that’s rooted in a legacy of racism,” Jones told The Post.
Although the resolution focused on Russell’s Grammy win, her music is tied into her political activism, she said. In recent years, she has been an outspoken critic of Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers, including their efforts to expel the Tennessee Three as well as enact legislation targeting LGBTQ+ rights and banning drag shows. When such laws passed, Russell in March organized the Love Rising benefit concert in Nashville, which featured more than a dozen artists, including herself, Williams, Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, Hozier and Mya Byrne.
Russell said she felt compelled to organize the concert to fight what she called “legislative terrorism.”
Russell, who moved to Nashville seven years ago, didn’t know about Jones’s resolution until after the controversy erupted. She said it is clear why Faison blocked passage of the resolution and his Republican colleagues joined him in sending it to a committee instead of debating it on the House floor.
Hardly anyone would have noticed Russell’s legislative honor — the likes of which are routinely given to Tennesseans who have won professional accolades, such as teacher or fire chief of the year — if it sailed through. By blocking it, Faison shone a flood light on Russell and her music, Russell said.
“They only succeeded in vastly amplifying our voices,” she said.
Other artists have rallied around Russell. On Friday, Paramore rejected “any acknowledgment or honor” from the Tennessee House until Russell is given the same honor. In a statement to The Post, Paramore singer Hayley Williams praised Russell as an “incredibly talented musician and songwriter” whose music is deeply rooted in folk and Americana but nevertheless spans genres.
Russell is also “a brilliant Black woman,” she added.
“The blatant racism of our state leadership is embarrassing and cruel,” Williams said.
At the end of Monday’s session, Jones, the representative who introduced the resolutions honoring Russell and Paramore, tried to address his colleagues about the former being blocked.
“Black History Month is happening every day, and just a few minutes ago there was a resolution to honor someone who is making Black history,” he said before House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) interrupted to say the time was to be used for announcements, not engaging in debate.
Jones tried again.
“The announcement is to announce that there are people in our midst who are making Black history, and I want to honor them during this Black History Month, including those who are here in Nashville and in our state of Tennessee who are making Black history every day and deserve to be honored.
“I would like to announce that it’s concerning that this body chooses to denigrate, or to — ” he said, before Sexton cut off his mic, apologized and moved on.
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Much of the GOP is on-board with the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
A new poll shows nearly one-third of Republicans believe Swift is part of a ‘covert government effort.’ Those who have heard of the theory are about evenly split.
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LOL. Would of be a Washington Senator, but that baseball team is long gone!
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And the crazy thing...virtually all of these magats voting for tRump voted for Mittens...now he's toxic
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Opinion Alexei Navalny and the fight to save Russian democracy
When Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in 2021, after treatment abroad for a near-fatal poisoning by Russian government agents, he knew he would likely be imprisoned for his opposition to President Vladimir Putin. And he knew that, in Russia, a prison sentence could become a death sentence. Despite the risks, he went back to confront Mr. Putin’s deepening repression, and refused to be silent, even when he was sentenced to 19 years on trumped-up charges — which he was serving at a remote Russian penal colony in the Arctic. That is where Mr. Navalny died on Friday at the age of 47; we don’t know exactly how he met his end, but we know why. Mr. Putin bears responsibility.
The Kremlin leader has a taste for the trappings of wealth but only distaste for true political competition. After coming to power in 2000, he easily shoved aside wealthy oligarchs, muted the independent media and installed his own cronies as the new elite. But in later years, he faced in Mr. Navalny a true rival. Mr. Navalny summoned tens of thousands of people to the streets to protest the “party of crooks and thieves,” as he called Mr. Putin and his cadre of former KGB men. Mr. Navalny captured the hopes of many Russians to be a normal country — a democratic one.
Mr. Putin undoubtedly hopes that Mr. Navalny’s death not only eliminates an irrepressible, principled and courageous opponent, but also will squelch the aspirations he embodied for so many others: to live without fear from the state, to choose their leaders, to say and think what they believe, to make free choices in a free market and to travel the world. All of these liberties were denied in the Soviet Union, where Mr. Navalny was born; they were unleashed tentatively under the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and then fully during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, when Mr. Navalny came of age.
Yeltsin failed in one crucial respect, to establish the rule of law. Russia was thrust into an era of fierce oligarchic capitalism: wild, violent and corrupt. This profoundly shaped Mr. Navalny’s early career after law school, when he focused on fighting corruption by exposing it. He was also a youthful nationalist who campaigned against immigration to Russia from Central Asia and who took part in a march in Moscow that drew some extremists.
As Mr. Putin pushed Russia deeper into dictatorship, especially after the protests of 2011-2012, Mr. Navalny evolved into more of a champion of democracy and practical political action. His campaign for mayor of Moscow in 2013 displayed a flair for grass-roots mobilization. It spawned a national movement. Mr. Navalny pioneered Smart Voting, an app that challenged United Russia, the Kremlin-backed party, by helping voters find local candidates opposed to Mr. Putin’s party. Mr. Navalny and his associates also demonstrated extraordinary talent with video, creating a series of YouTube documentaries that exposed the lavish lifestyles of Mr. Putin and his elite. Even from his Arctic jail cell, Mr. Navalny just a few weeks ago proposed ways that millions of Russians could protest on the day of Russia’s upcoming presidential election, which Mr. Putin is certain to win without serious competition.
Through it all, Mr. Putin tried desperately to repress Mr. Navalny and his movement using censorship, subversion, arrests and the attempted poisoning of Mr. Navalny with the nerve agent Novichok while he was on a trip in central Russia in August 2020. Mr. Navalny survived and fought back with an incredible, steely determination. An Oscar-winning documentary film about his struggle shows him on the phone with one of the poisoning’s perpetrators — an officer of Russia’s Federal Security Service — coaxing the man into a devastating confession.
For all his personal suffering, Mr. Navalny never succumbed to despair or lost his mordant sense of humor. Trapped in solitary confinement in prison, he noted on X (formerly Twitter) that he was held in “a 2.5 x 3 meter concrete kennel.” Most of the time, these cells were cold and damp, he said, but “I got the beach version — it’s very hot and there’s almost no air.” He was often denied a pencil and paper but, in November, having been imprisoned for more than 1,000 days, he posted an appeal for Russians to read books about their own recent history.
Mr. Navalny’s death is a reminder to the United States and its allies that, in Mr. Putin, they are up against a ruthless foe whose primary method is to use force. Mr. Navalny’s death is an enormous loss to his family and friends, and to the ideal of a free and democratic Russia. But such ideals cannot be slain. Mr. Navalny’s legacy will be a never-ending struggle to realize them.
Opinion | Alexei Navalny died in struggle for democracy - The Washington Post
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Paramore rejects Tenn. honor after Allison Russell denied same recognition
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D) brought two resolutions to the floor of the lower chamber on Monday, both of them congratulating Nashville-area musicians on winning their first Grammy awards the week before.
One was for Paramore, a Tennessee-based emo-pop band that had won Grammys for best rock album and best alternative music performance. The other was for Allison Russell, a folk musician who had won the Grammy for best American roots performance.
The resolutions were so perfunctory that they were placed on the chamber’s consent calendar, a grouping of noncontroversial bills that representatives pass en masse.
But Rep. Jeremy Faison (R) had a problem with one of them. With an objection, he removed the resolution honoring Russell from the consent calendar, while not doing the same for the one honoring Paramore. Jones responded that singling out Russell, who is Black, is a “shameful” example of “Jim Crow thinking.” Paramore, whose members are White, rebuked Faison’s objection as “blatant racism.”
In a statement sent by the Tennessee House Republican Caucus, Faison said that, as a member of the Republican leadership, he had been approached by several members with questions about Russell, “which made it appropriate for us to press pause on that particular resolution.”
Faison and Jennifer Easton, a spokeswoman for House Republicans, did not respond to requests for comment about the questions raised by the caucus.
Russell said in an interview with The Washington Post that the objection to her recognition recalled the controversy that erupted in the legislature last year when Jones and two other representatives faced expulsion over their participation in a gun-control demonstration. The two Black members of the trio that became known as the “Tennessee Three” — Jones and Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D) — were expelled, while the White member of the group survived the bid to oust her. Jones and Pearson won back their seats in an election held later in the year.
Jones addressed the most recent incident Monday on the House floor.
“It’s shameful that this body during a month where we honor Black voices and history want to replay out this type of Jim Crow thinking that’s rooted in a legacy of racism,” Jones told The Post.
Although the resolution focused on Russell’s Grammy win, her music is tied into her political activism, she said. In recent years, she has been an outspoken critic of Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers, including their efforts to expel the Tennessee Three as well as enact legislation targeting LGBTQ+ rights and banning drag shows. When such laws passed, Russell in March organized the Love Rising benefit concert in Nashville, which featured more than a dozen artists, including herself, Williams, Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, Hozier and Mya Byrne.
Russell said she felt compelled to organize the concert to fight what she called “legislative terrorism.”
Russell, who moved to Nashville seven years ago, didn’t know about Jones’s resolution until after the controversy erupted. She said it is clear why Faison blocked passage of the resolution and his Republican colleagues joined him in sending it to a committee instead of debating it on the House floor.
Hardly anyone would have noticed Russell’s legislative honor — the likes of which are routinely given to Tennesseans who have won professional accolades, such as teacher or fire chief of the year — if it sailed through. By blocking it, Faison shone a flood light on Russell and her music, Russell said.
“They only succeeded in vastly amplifying our voices,” she said.
Other artists have rallied around Russell. On Friday, Paramore rejected “any acknowledgment or honor” from the Tennessee House until Russell is given the same honor. In a statement to The Post, Paramore singer Hayley Williams praised Russell as an “incredibly talented musician and songwriter” whose music is deeply rooted in folk and Americana but nevertheless spans genres.
Russell is also “a brilliant Black woman,” she added.
“The blatant racism of our state leadership is embarrassing and cruel,” Williams said.
At the end of Monday’s session, Jones, the representative who introduced the resolutions honoring Russell and Paramore, tried to address his colleagues about the former being blocked.
“Black History Month is happening every day, and just a few minutes ago there was a resolution to honor someone who is making Black history,” he said before House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) interrupted to say the time was to be used for announcements, not engaging in debate.
Jones tried again.
“The announcement is to announce that there are people in our midst who are making Black history, and I want to honor them during this Black History Month, including those who are here in Nashville and in our state of Tennessee who are making Black history every day and deserve to be honored.
“I would like to announce that it’s concerning that this body chooses to denigrate, or to — ” he said, before Sexton cut off his mic, apologized and moved on.
Tennessee lawmaker blocks resolution honoring Grammy winner Allison Russell - The Washington Post
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other hand we have the Kenyan and the Indian/Jamaican running government. and you know both are black.....
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