If you are Georgia (USA) please make sure you have voted or are about to on Tuesday. Want to make an even bigger difference, help someone else vote: Babysit, drive, take a shift.. whatever you can do so they can vote as well. It's important.

@OldCountryDoctor @Jule_B Yep, lots of us share this disgust and hope that Georgia elects the only man worth supporting. 🤞

If Warnock doesn't win tuesday, I'm going to lose it. His opponent doesn't even know he's running for Senate! WtELF 🤦‍♀️

#georgia #politics
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/03/herschel-walker-campaign-tuesdays-runoff-00072066

#CoSoConversationStarter
#StarTrek

Who was the last Republican President to win the popular vote as well as the electoral college.

Probably George Bush Senior. And that was a long time ago. That should tell us something about the actual makeup of American society.

How have we allowed the electoral college to ruin America like this?

@peeppeepcircus

excellent question. i wish i knew.

what i do know is that we are facing an increased interest in #fascism, both worldwide and within the USA itself. both #turkey and #hungary are examples of that

#politics

@Darkenyght1701 @OldCountryDoctor @MrElias Lke a cancer.

@OldCountryDoctor @MrElias That was shown when Obama was elected POTUS.
SLPC determined that the number of hate groups exploded exponentially.

@OldCountryDoctor @MrElias actually I was off by a decade.
Gingrich rose to power in the 1980s during the Clinton administration.
He forced Jim Wright out as Speaker of the House, and only left because of his own financial scandal.
But it doesn't change the fact he was the guiding light of the party for years after he left office.

@MsJudyJetson @Pawstalker @nopuppet_007 Same… 😞. The Obama era gave me hope. The era that’s followed has all but completely dashed those hopes. Hope is hanging by a very thin string…

@OldCountryDoctor @MrElias 2015?
Try earlier than that.Try the 1990s and the rise of Newt Gingrich, who I blame for laying the groundwork for much of today's GQP.
Try OKC....when these fringe groups first slithered out of the shadows.

Outlets like HuffPo (seen on The Bird) are busy quoting GOP reps about trump's remarks like "We can't just chase down every crazy thing he says"

The massive problem with that is this isn't Trump saying something so untethered from reality that it doesn't merit a response.

This is the former POTUS actively saying he wants to seize power, in plain language.

it is being dismissed as "being crazy" at our deep, deep peril.

#Politics

@WhiteHorse

sadly, that turnaround would entail extensive public education – in civics, history, and [i would also argue] philosophy [at least logic, but preferably ethics too].

and all that is just too hard for most people. meanwhile, the politics of scandal and rage get immediate results, for relatively cheap.

keep 'em ignorant, keep 'em afraid, and get the white males among 'em to the polls. that's the #GQP strategy now.

#politics

We have laws and even in the constitution against sedition.
All they need to do to stop this fascist attack on our country is enforce the fucking laws. Politicians agreeing with Trump on the constitution are seditionists breaking their oath of office. Remove them immediately.

#politics #DFG #constitution #sedition #fascism

Trump's call to terminate the constitution feels half-rehearsed. I think GQP membets hoped to try to reinstate him based on the delusional "red wave." #politics

@John_Scotus

How does anyone vote #GQP in this country?

I just can’t grasp it.

#politics

@LiberalLibrarian

he's too addled to be embarrassed.

also too addled to realize he is himself being used as a sock puppet for the #GQP. when they cease to find him useful, they will toss him aside without a second thought. [ditto #kanye who ought to have understood this long ago]

#politics #GA #herschel

@witchestruthpost

MAGAt attack is unspeakable. We in NC are outraged.

#politics
#lgbtq
#guncontrolnow

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2022/12/04/moore-county-power-outage-investigated-as-vandalism/69699328007/

#Politics

The headline says "Vandalism" but it absolutely was not vandalism, and was instead, political Fascist Terrorism.

Everyone needs to be paying attention to this sort of thing, because it's only going to get worse if these people are not stopped ASAP.

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[Tim Hogan wrote:]

Erdogan and Orban can't be trusted. Therefore the US Senate should immediately adopt mutual defense agreements with Sweden and Finland that can sunset when the domestic political forces in Hungary and Turkey bring new leadership who are not allies of a monster.

#politics #NATO #russia #sweden #finland