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Abolishinist

(1,286 posts)
3. Lake going down is much more than I expected, frankly. I cannot stomach her.
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 12:26 AM
Nov 2022

We attended a fund-raiser for Mark Kelly, if he and Warnock win this will be a good night for me, regardless of what else happens.

Kali

(55,003 posts)
7. and Tom Horne
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 10:37 AM
Nov 2022

can go fuck himself

edit: oh shit he pulled ahead
he can still fuck himself though

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
10. I'm on pins and needles. Kalifornia resident getting ready to start a travel gig on an Az reservatio
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 11:29 AM
Nov 2022

Disgusted with what I've watched Republican leadership destroy in this state. It's part of their relatively new disenfranchise efforts that screwed me up this trip here. Long story short I've always been able to open a P.O. Box on my temporary stays in Az. Now not allowed unless proof of a local 911 address is provided, thank you asshole Dejoy: but it gets even more complicated: The tax office won't give me that information unless I file a prohibitively expensive building permit (that's where Az colluded to fuck over roadie voters!) Dog dammit. I finally opened a private post box to get my mail, but it's in Gallup, close to where I'll be.
Anyway glad as I'm seeing Az get blue-er... last I checked just now Lake stands at only 13,000 votes behind Hobbs at 70 percent count.
It's a squeaker now.

Kali

(55,003 posts)
11. yeah that Post Office thing...
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 12:01 PM
Nov 2022

not sure when it got implemented but seemed to be aimed at harming homeless and vulnerable rural folks.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
12. Just another verse to the "deregulation" song they sing.
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 02:04 PM
Nov 2022

Same time the Uglycans sing "We're protecting your freedoms" they meet in the night to strangle everyone but their corporate benefactors. 2010 just after the midterms they spent much of the night passing huge corporate giveaway bills on the Federal level, Az shit all over us in kind.
"News media" never mentioned any of this except one I'll mention.
I just happened to be up, at an RV park near Seattle that had nothing better than C-span on their lousy cable. I Googled several of the bills they were passing fast as hotcakes as Democrats slept.
One of those bills was a "jobs" bill Republicans bragged about for years, led on their flocks about the "job creators". Oh yeah. I read the actual bill. It came with minimum profiteering stipulations specific egregious profiteering goals the named corporations had to meet before adding any employees! One of those was G.E.: who laid off hundreds of their workforce before the year was up. Still those fat, greasy MF'ers bragged on how their jobs bill *cough* created jobs, then turned right around to blame Obama for unemployment numbers.
Most of our government's shitty deals never get reported anywhere anymore. It's nearly all fake controversy sofball batting that contains very little information. That night served me up an angry plate of learning government tricks the Republicans are 99 percent complicit in bamboozlery. I was wide awake and angrier than ever at Republicans after that sleepless night.
Half of RayGun's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine did us all irreparable damage ever since.
Walter Cronkite often used to report "congress today passed "X" bill that effectively..."
I dare not say much more.

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