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Women rock 👍
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looks like Trump has just announced his run
not going to listen too it all but im pretty sure i just heard him say he went decades without a war.....is he counting his time before being president?
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I was listening to a podcast this morning, where they suggested that he announced so early because he knew this was coming. It gives him a great story in return and really puts the Biden Whitehouse in a terrible position. It would be bad if they investigated him either way, but investigating a politician running against you totally feeds into Trump's story for his base.
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@gt12 is that just going to split the republican vote though? Trumpers become even more committed...others distance themselves?
It probably depends on whether Trump wins the nomination or not? However, I'd say that the Republicans will group aroun the candidate either way, once it gets to the election proper.
One interesting thing for me is that it looks like they'll be a federal law guaranteeing gay marriage and interracial marriage (in relation to comments from Thomas about whether previous SC judgements can be revisited), so much of the discussion will depend on abortion policies rather than generating fear about the Supreme court going fully rogue beyond that.
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@gt12 interracial marriage? is that not already allowed?
No federal law, it came from a key supreme court decision 'Loving vs Virginia' and has never been guaranteed by a subsequent law.
Edit: By the way, I don't think Thomas threatened Loving vs Virginia, he did threaten gay marriage and also access to contraception as these come from ‘substantive due process' arguments.
Edit edit: Interracial marriage comes from another precedent, see discussion here.
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@Kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@gt12 wow, i had no idea, so easy to be ignorant (me that is)
Looks like the law will go through during the lame duck session.
Seems that it "would not prevent states from passing laws banning those marriages" which is surprising (it only recognizes existing marriages and those carried out in other states).
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@Tim i have to say i cant see in the tweet where it explains how the protests have lead to the increase, on the surface it seems to just show there has been an increase since then. Without the "why" is seems like a correlation v causation situations
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@Kiwiwomble Reduction in policing in black areas, IIRC. OP has a couple of links that attempt to determine causality in the thread, I think.
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You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh...
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It’s become a laughing stock, it’s just annoying though that we aren’t that far behind.
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@Catogrande said in US Politics:
It’s become a laughing stock, it’s just annoying though that we aren’t that far behind.
TBF, Biden probably confused his garage for his office and his Corvette for the safe,
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Biden seems deeply unpopular on Twitter. I know that's not real life but Obama and Trump always garnered massive amounts of likes, whereas Biden is actually getting ratio'd with some of his tweets. I wonder what the general feeling among Americans is on him at the moment.
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@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
Biden seems deeply unpopular on Twitter. I know that's not real life but Obama and Trump always garnered massive amounts of likes, whereas Biden is actually getting ratio'd with some of his tweets. I wonder what the general feeling among Americans is on him at the moment.
Opinion probably based on party lines as usual
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@canefan said in US Politics:
@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
Biden seems deeply unpopular on Twitter. I know that's not real life but Obama and Trump always garnered massive amounts of likes, whereas Biden is actually getting ratio'd with some of his tweets. I wonder what the general feeling among Americans is on him at the moment.
Opinion probably based on party lines as usual
Yeah, the Republican's are replying with the usual comments, but he's getting basically no support from the left. Very odd President.
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