American Politics from 2019 on

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WASHINGTON—Exhibiting a growing sense of panic as screens lit up with rumors and speculation about potential candidates, the nation reportedly watched helplessly Wednesday as the 2028 election cycle began. “Oh God, no, it’s not even 2027 yet—what do you mean people are talking about 2028?”
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Vance has two years to sideline frump and make himself popular, not impossible... though it's certainly going to be acrobatic.

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One Trumper win. At least he is black, so he does not stick out so much at the governor convention, being a trumper.

...of the Trump-supporting Byron Donalds in Florida’s race for governor. Donalds will become the first Black governor of that state. If you could resurrect Jefferson Davis and tell him that the governor of Florida will be a Black Republican married to a white woman, he would crawl straight back into his coffin.”

“That this was MAGA’s big win in a night of defeats is remarkable, given the movement’s hostility toward diversity, and its nostalgia for an America where rigid race and gender hierarchies were enforced by the state. Even where Republicans won, in other words, President Trump’s racially exclusive conception of American citizenship lost. Trump could browbeat corporate America into eliminating DEI programs; he could threaten colleges to let in fewer students of color; he could direct the full power of the federal government toward deporting immigrants. But he could not will away the America that actually exists.

"The America that emerges from the midterm elections is not the monochrome world of Madison Avenue ad campaigns from the 1950s. It is a diverse country, made up of many different kinds of people, all of whom are American. The victories of Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia, Aaron Ford in Nevada, and David Crowley in Wisconsin, in addition to that of Donalds, mean that there will be more Black governors than ever in U.S. history.

"This happened despite the president, and the many Republicans who followed his lead, trying to make the midterms about a familiar theme: the country being invaded by strange people who do not belong here, let alone in the halls of power."

“What these wins do say, however, is that the real America is not the “Real America” of conservative fan fiction inspired by the years 1945 to 1964. Real Americans are not just those whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, or whose ancestors served in the Revolution or Civil War, or who describe themselves with pathetic euphemisms such as “Heritage American.” As Abraham Lincoln once said, newcomers who believe in the principle that “all men are created equal” have “a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration; and so they are.”

Now, there are some on the right that are scared to death of this diversity.

“Democrats imported millions of foreigners, handed them a bunch of free shit, and then registered them to vote,” the account of the influencer Chaya Raichik posted on X. “If we ever want to win again we need deportations and denaturalizations ramped up on steroids or our country will forever be lost to the communists.”

“Raichik’s call for ethnic cleansing is grotesque, but it nonetheless illustrates how those on the extreme right see the problem, which is that there are Americans who are not white whose votes count as much as theirs. You cannot call for people to be exiled because of their ethnic background and expect them to vote for you.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/ ... ft/689286/

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Kid gets job making 97 000 a year
he has 7 suits for the job

https://www.threads.com/@cindyj417/post ... Jtg1RpP5Yw