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Tucker Carlson has a three-part “investigative” series starting November 1st purportedly “what really happened,” “the story behind the story yada-yada,” about the Jan 06 “Insurrection,” which on it’s surface would be interesting, ‘specially ‘cos it features FBI agents and provocateurs in starring roles. The funny thing is his enemies are so completely losing their minds right now trying to do everything to either ban it or discredit before broadcast, it’s only convincing me and Barbra Streisand this is must-watch tv and going to do blockbuster numbers, crushing the same competition who are tonight pearl-clutching and hyperventilating promoting the thing. Right now Carlson is the single most dangerous radical in America. 🍿🍿🍿
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@kid-chocolate hold up. The same Tucker that provides entertainment rather than actual news you can/should trust? That should be a great watch
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He’s the best broadcaster on American tv, and it isn’t even close. He can handle an army of Maddows and Cuomos and Lemons and their neocon cohort with one hand tied behind his back. Gets Greenwald in front of a mass national audience a couple times a week, which is fantastic, and yes, I concur, he is entertaining too.
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Joe’s poll numbers and right track/wrong track are collapsing right now, he’s falling asleep on the job, and tonight was very bad with elections in blue states tilting decidedly red.
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Could probably go in the TV series thread, but does anyone watch The Circus with John Heilemann and Mark McKinnon?
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@tim said in US Politics:
Republicans won Virginia governorship. Apparently education was the biggest issue. McAulliffe probably shouldn't have said that they need to reduce the number of white teachers in schools.
They made a big play on critical race theory too.
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@tim said in US Politics:
Republicans won Virginia governorship. Apparently education was the biggest issue. McAulliffe probably shouldn't have said that they need to reduce the number of white teachers in schools.
I also read he effectively said that parents should have no say in what their children were taught in schools. Sounds as politically inept as Hilary Clinton.
EDIT: Eric Adams has won the NY Mayor contest. A former police captain, he campaigned on the need to tackle the divisive nature of NY politics and law and order & seems to have won broad support from that approach.
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New Jersey should have been a landslide for Democrats.
Not all votes are counted and I think the Dem candidate Murphy will sneak with the mail-in ballots yet to be counted in certain districts.
Currently.
Republican - Jack Ciattarelli 1,173,558 49.65%
Democrat - Philip Murphy 1,172,365 49.6%Seems a pretty big repudiation of Biden and the Dems to me.
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Quick summary needed please
Since Biden became President
Better or worse?
His lead
Crime
EconomyThanks
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@mikethesnow said in US Politics:
Quick summary needed please
Since Biden became President
Better or worse?
His lead
Crime
EconomyThanks
I can answer the first question. It depends upon which side of the political divide you are on.
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@mikethesnow said in US Politics:
Quick summary needed please
Since Biden became President
Better or worse?
His lead
Crime
EconomyThanks
Lead: He's plunging in the polls. Biden ran on a ticket of competence and unity and is seen to have failed on both. The chaotic Afghan withdrawal and the Democratic budget in-fighting in Congress being two key examples
Crime: Up, but with big caveats link here
Economy: Slowing and inflation is rising. Concerns about unemployment
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@mikethesnow said in US Politics:
Quick summary needed please
Since Biden became President
Better or worse?
His lead
Crime
EconomyThanks
Lead: He's plunging in the polls. Biden ran on a ticket of competence and unity and is seen to have failed on both. The chaotic Afghan withdrawal and the Democratic budget in-fighting in Congress being two key examples
Crime: Up, but with big caveats link here
Economy: Slowing and inflation is rising. Concerns about unemployment
Thanks
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The Beeb just had on a Democratic operative, a moderate Republican, then an actual voter from Virginia (voted for Biden last year, then the incoming Republican governor). Fantastic viewing seeing how far away the dems are from actually understanding the factors that driver voter behaviour at the state level.
This lady was just like any reasonable person; she does support Biden's infrastructure bill and other social support bill, but all that is happening at the national level. As a result, that's beside the point for her vote in the recent election. Rather, she wants her kids to go to school and learn the basics without political interference (right or left, she explained). As a result the message and policies of the republian respond to her needs, he says/will try to have schools open and get her kids learning math and English and that's what swung her vote.
Amazing to hear it so simply explained after having the democratic operative bleat on about how 'Dems have to keep fighting to get rid of lying Republicans'. The treat voters like idiots and rightfully got bitten in the arse.
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@voodoo said in US Politics:
Amazing that Biden is favourite to be the next Dem nominee still. And given that, not so surprising that Trump is fav to be the enxt President
Sleepy Joe sounds like a one term Prez based on the info on here. I don't know how the Dems unseat him as the nominee or whether they even want to. If we thought Biden vs Trump 1 was a cripple fight, heaven help us for B vs T 2
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@voodoo The tide even within MAGA movement is to Ron DeSantis. I’d handicap him right now at 3/5 to be next POTUS, but three years is a long time. He’ll demolish Kamala. I place Biden at even-odds he doesn’t make it past next November, and 3/2 he’s gone by June.
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As above, neither 45 nor 46 will be in the contest. It’s DeSantis vs Kamala — unless the incumbent Kamala is primaried and challenged at DNC, where I’d wager against her, b/c she polls badly even within her own party. This is a candidate who received exactly zero delegates in the last primaries, including her own party, and Dr Jill Biden is personally trying to kneecap her.
Adding: Energy for DTJ within MAGA base is not there. Three big strikes against. 1) He didn’t staff his office/cabinet/appointments with MAGA loyalists and original “base” supporters, but instead filled those positions with regime lifers and backstabbers, he didn’t “drain the swamp”; 2) Failure to pardon Julian Assange; 3) Isn’t rallying support for locked-down Jan 6 defendants. He’s lost confidence with his base, and they know how divisive he is with independents.. The energy is toward DeSantis. Right now Tucker Carlson is more persuasive (and effective) communicator of MAGA platforms than DJT.
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