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GuppyGal

(1,748 posts)
1. Me thinks this ain't gonna play very well with the country at large....
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 04:42 PM
Apr 2023

But WTF do I know I never thought in a million years Americans would elect a supreme dotard.

Ocelot II

(115,879 posts)
2. Events like this can be galvanizing. Justin Jones will be going places
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 04:42 PM
Apr 2023

and this will become a movement. The GOPers will be damn sorry they did this.

Tommy Carcetti

(43,209 posts)
4. The so-called Streisand Effect.
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 04:48 PM
Apr 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Streisand effect is the way in which attempts to hide, remove, or censor information can lead to the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information.

Codifer

(548 posts)
5. If any of those dipshit fascists had the sense that Gawd gave a goose,
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 04:51 PM
Apr 2023

they would say to that fascist speaker of the house: "LISTEN YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER, YOU ARE ON NATIONAL TV!!!!! Everyone can see you got no clothes!"

rurallib

(62,460 posts)
6. One of the issues cited for the Protosiewicz win in Wisconsin was
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 05:25 PM
Apr 2023

gerrymandering. Gen Z broke 80% for Dems and millennial nearly that much.

This is very much in line with gerrymandering as an issue of stealing democracy.

Fuck around and find out, extremist right wing repukes.

Sky Jewels

(7,154 posts)
7. And yet I keep getting in discussions with DUers who won't give Gen Z any credit.
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 05:33 PM
Apr 2023

They say that they are unaware and don't vote. That's wrong! It's the young folks who have been saving our asses since the 2018 midterms. The problem is with Gen X (my too-conservative generation), Boomers, Silents (and the few remaining Greatests, who are in their late 90s at the youngest).

Yes, these are generalities, "not all Boomers," etc. blah etc. blah...

Sky Jewels

(7,154 posts)
11. Yes indeed.
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 10:06 PM
Apr 2023

And I hope they continue to enter the political fray in ever greater numbers, in all sorts of elected positions.

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