Republicans: continued

[Tero]

Congress orders the disabled to re-able themselves.
https://www.threads.com/@tero55jarvi/po ... sp46O-ryww

[Tero]

Republicans still can't imagine voting for a Democrat.

when in private with a ballot, how many folk who voted for Trump will choose the Dem candidate?

This is the wrong perspective and the wrong question, as I and many others have repeatedly pointed out. The political atmosphere in the US has become so polarized and venomously partisan that the mythical swing voter has effectively ceased to exist. Elections are won not by peeling supporters from the other side to yours; they’re won by convincing the other side’s supporters to stay home (or throw away their vote on some alternative protest candidate). Trump won 2024 in large part because Dems didn’t show up for Harris the way they did for Biden, and the hopes for Dems going forward lie not in getting lukewarm Trumpers to mark the D box but in convincing them Trump and the Rs aren’t delivering what they said they would, thereby depressing R voter turnout (while simultaneously offering something positive to keep up D voter participation). It’s a waste of time to imagine R voters going D at anything beyond fractional levels.

https://boards.straightdope.com

[JimC]

In Oz, with compulsory voting, we don't have that particular can of political worms...

[pErvinalia]

And with preferential voting a vote for a third party candidate isn't wasted.

[Tero]

Comer to impeach Biden yet. For hiding his mental decline.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2 ... s-00385900

[Brian Peacock]

House
Republican introduces bill to rename DC Metro the ‘Trump Train,’ ‘WMAGA’

Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) introduced a bill Thursday to rename the Washington, D.C., subway system after President Trump and his MAGA slogan.

The Make Autorail Great Again Act would withhold federal funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, known as WMATA, until it rebrands as the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access, or WMAGA — a similar acronym to the Make America Great Again slogan — and renames the Metrorail the Trump Train.

“WMATA has received billions in federal assistance over the years and continues to face operational, safety, and fiscal challenges,” Steube said in a statement. “In the spirit of DOGE, this bill demands accountability by conditioning federal funding on reforms that signal a cultural shift away from bureaucratic stagnation toward public-facing excellence and patriotism.”...

"In the spirit of DOGE!"

[pErvinalia]

It's a cult.

[Woodbutcher]

It's a disease.

[JimC]

It's a diseased fascist cult!

[Svartalf]

and the worst part is that all three of you are correct

[Tero]

DEI pilots skit
https://www.threads.com/@thedailyshow/p ... qO7ppqGCyg

[Tero]

"They are getting all those benefits without paying taxes." They are not:
https://www.usa.gov/itin

[Sean Hayden]

What benefits?

[Tero]

I don't know. I think we fed them and maybe some medical care. Normally you cannot get on Medicaid until some 5 years of temporary status. Haitians in Ohio.

[Tero]

What voters want. Fox has done a good job.
https://bsky.app/profile/tero88jarvi.bs ... 6l746xts2f