American Politics 4.0 - Orangeyou Glad He’s Back?

[Drak]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Why is the Edmonton Journal even concerned with a municipal election in another country.

Red scare tactics.

[Firebot]

If there's anyone who is still flying into a dystopian country, it's going to be more difficult.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s/86991384007/

Federal officials said Wednesday, Nov. 5, that flight cuts are coming to major airports amid the funding crisis, which has now lasted for 37 days. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there will be a 10% reduction in flights at 40 major airports at the end of the week.

"We are going to work with the airlines to do this in a systematic way," he said.

Duffy did not specify how long the restrictions might last or which airports would be impacted, but officials stated they will begin on the morning of Friday, Nov. 7.

Don't worry I'm sure things will be fine by Thanksgiving....

Meanwhile, US soldiers stranded in Germany are told to go to food banks.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/05/...-the-food-bank

Uhmerica is great.

[puffnstuff]

Reminder of one of the big reasons for the shutdown...its not just tax breaks for billionaires and healthcare

https://popular.info/p/speaker-johns...nted-democracy

Speaker Johnson’s unprecedented, democracy-thwarting effort to keep the Epstein files secret

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Why is the Edmonton Journal even concerned with a municipal election in another country.

You are looking at it wrong. Well, first I think the EJ just grabbed it form the NP that i had posted earlier. But the assumption it's an Edmonton paper is why you are puzzled. It's a US owned paper that's attempting to manipulate Canadians into the same BS culture trash their own society is collapsing under. You might notice the author is a raging bigot spreading hate. Unfortunately there are plenty of Canadians to nod along to his written diarrhea, pay for it, and support it.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Reminder of one of the big reasons for the shutdown...its not just tax breaks for billionaires and healthcare

https://popular.info/p/speaker-johns...nted-democracy

Speaker Johnson’s unprecedented, democracy-thwarting effort to keep the Epstein files secret

Marjorie says she could read the list provided by victims in the House. [cnn]

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by troutman

Marjorie says she could read the list provided by victims in the House. [cnn]

Am I transitioning from hating Marjorie because she is crazy to liking her because she is crazy...?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Am I transitioning from hating Marjorie because she is crazy to liking her because she is crazy...?

With the Shutdown, she is doing a media tour. Was on Maher last week, and CNN this morning.

[Drak]

Originally Posted by troutman

Marjorie says she could read the list provided by victims in the House. [cnn]

She’s not to be trusted. She claims she loves Trump, that hasn’t changed. She’ll skip reading anything about him. This tour she’s on is performative BS.

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Am I transitioning from hating Marjorie because she is crazy to liking her because she is crazy...?

She's been making a lot of great points for a few months now, and has shown she's not afraid to oppose Trump.

Interestingly, Trump doesn't froth at the fingers when MTG moves out of step, like he does with everyone else. It seems like he's afraid of her - cause she's crazy.

[Fuzz]

Never team up with crazy.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Never team up with crazy.

Every one of my University girlfriends supports your post.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by WideReceiver

Edmonton Journal is spewing MAGA bull$h1t.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1986169661788966967

Postmedia doesn't even try to hide it's crap anymore

[CliffFletcher]

A reminder that persuasion and appealing to swing voters is still important in politics. As polarized as the U.S. is, the electorate aren’t all committed Dem vs Reps partisans.

In the Trump era, Democrats have seemed to excel among the highly engaged, highly educated voters who predominate in low-turnout, off-year elections, only to struggle when more irregular and less educated voters flock to the polls in presidential years.

But on Tuesday, when Democrats won the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races by wide margins, it wasn’t simply because more Democratic-leaning voters showed up to the polls while more Republican-leaning voters sat out. The Democratic candidates also succeeded at winning over a modest but meaningful sliver of President Trump’s supporters, based on exit polls and authoritative voter file records.

… the two Democrats won so decisively because they also flipped a crucial sliver of voters who said they supported Mr. Trump in 2024. Ms. Sherrill and Ms. Spanberger both won 7 percent of Mr. Trump’s supporters, according to the exit polls.

It may not seem like much to flip 7 percent of Mr. Trump’s backers, but consider: When a voter flips, it adds one voter to one party and also deducts one from the other, making it twice as significant as turning out a new voter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...hispanics.html

[WideReceiver]

Originally Posted by wittynickname

This wasn't just a solidly Democratic state thing. Pennsylvania is as purple as it comes, and the Supreme Court Dems that were up for retention won their votes by over 20 percentage points. There were two Superior Court seats open as well, and the Dem candidates won both of those. In my county (including Pittsburgh) there were 497 total races and Republicans won only 11 of them. Across the state, in Bucks County north of Philly, Dems now hold every seat in the county for the first time in history. In Clearfield County (DEEP Pennsyltucky), the Dem candidate won a Court of Common Pleas race in a county Trump won by over 50 points last year.


In Mississippi - as far from a Democratic stronghold as you can get - Dems broke the GOP supermajority in their house for the first time since 2019.


Every single county in Virginia moved to the left (including Appalachia).


This wasn't just a defeat for the GOP, this was a demolishing. All manner of Dems won - Mamdani is the face and gets the most headlines, but along with his Dem Socialist platform, Spanberger and Sherrill are much more moderate but still cruised to easy victories.


I'm really, really hoping that the DNC takes a few messages from this:
1) Youth. We're tired of seeing 75+ year olds running our government into the ground. We want to see our peers as the face of politics.
2) Running the correct candidate in the correct locales. Make no mistake, Mamdani isn't winning in the suburban Midwest. Kamala Harris was a radical liberal socialist to many of those people (I live and work here, I know these people). Mamdani is excellent for New York and can easily win there, but other places need to run more moderate candidates. There is no one perfect candidate for every district/city/state.
3) They cannot cave on the shutdown now. Clearly what Trump is doing is intensely unpopular, and across the board, Dems who were willing to battle back were victorious. People want candidates who will fight regardless of just where exactly they land on the center-center left-left spectrum.


This is certainly not to say Dems are suddenly way better at campaigning and lots of this is typical buyer's remorse in the off year after a presidential election. Unfortunately a lot of this is just dumb people who voted for Trump (or just stayed home) last November, who are now realizing that when you touch the stove it's pretty damn hot. Sure would be nice if they'd figured that out a year ago, but at this point I'll take any good news I can get, and there was a lot of that yesterday, across a lot of states, and most with commanding margins. I don't think the GOP won a single big race yesterday.

Strong argument. You’ve convinced me.

[Geraldsh]

Trump said if his name was on the ballot Dems would not have won anywhere.

[WideReceiver]

Which is pure bullsh1t, of course.

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Am I transitioning from hating Marjorie because she is crazy to liking her because she is crazy...?

She is still who she is...

BLITZER: Are you still against the covid vaccine? Because the other day I got the covid booster and the flu shot
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I am opposed, Wolf, and I'm opposed because I know so many people who had vaccine injuries

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by Geraldsh

Trump said if his name was on the ballot Dems would not have won anywhere.

He also said the 'whole world would be in recession' if not for his tariffs

Ok grandpa...

[troutman]

Two Signs That Democrats Flipped Trump Supporters on Tuesday

It wasn’t just about superior turnout. Party switchers played a significant role in Virginia and New Jersey.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...e=articleShare

Although this suggests an impressive Democratic turnout, it also implies that turnout alone didn’t explain the decisive victory — because Ms. Sherrill and Ms. Spanberger won by 13 and 15 points.

Instead, the two Democrats won so decisively because they also flipped a crucial sliver of voters who said they supported Mr. Trump in 2024. Ms. Sherrill and Ms. Spanberger both won 7 percent of Mr. Trump’s supporters, according to the exit polls.

It may not seem like much to flip 7 percent of Mr. Trump’s backers, but consider: When a voter flips, it adds one voter to one party and also deducts one from the other, making it twice as significant as turning out a new voter

[speede5]

She's dangerous. She is still unhinged and has a lot of bad beliefs. She's just positioning to jump in to the Rep leadership if Trump and his ilk go down.