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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets to Washington D.C. and immediately fights for climate policy.

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repoman0 said:
66% Democratic vote among 18-39 year olds is really, really bad for the future of the GOP. Think about 2020, with current 16-17 year olds eligible to vote and two more years worth of baby boomers gone ... Trumptards have a huge demographic problem. They're going to be an incredibly short-lived blip in history.
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I have every confidence that the liberals will deliver whatever is needed to keep the GOP relevant for a very, very long time. They always do.
 
IJTSSG said:
I have every confidence that the liberals will deliver whatever is needed to keep the GOP relevant for a very, very long time. They always do.
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Democrats make a gain in House seats unseen in over four decades, flipping seats that were once seen as 'safe' for the GOP, and driven in no small part by dramatic improvements in young voter turnout (which, as was shown earlier, is increasingly voting Democrat). But okay, keep pretending the GOP isn't declining in relevance.
 
Unfortunately, the Senate is designed to make America into a kakistocracy.
Every time a smart person leaves a stagnant backwards state for a growing progressive state, the power of that person's vote goes down, but power of remaining backward residents votes goes up when it comes to senators per vote.
 
I've started following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter and while she sometimes espouses ignorance on some issues - mainly foreign policy ones - she's only 30. She can learn.

I really liked her response to the Amazon HQ debacle. $1.5 billion being funneled to a corporation for the honour of having their headquarters in the state? Insanity. This is the crap that gives neo-liberalism a bad name.

I also really liked her responses to Fox News snickering about her not being able to afford a place to live in Washington D.C. Can you imagine a more appropriate representative for millennials than someone who can't afford to pay rent in the city where her job is?
 
yllus said:
I've started following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter and while she sometimes espouses ignorance on some issues - mainly foreign policy ones - she's only 30. She can learn.

I really liked her response to the Amazon HQ debacle. $1.5 billion being funneled to a corporation for the honour of having their headquarters in the state? Insanity. This is the crap that gives neo-liberalism a bad name.

I also really liked her responses to Fox News snickering about her not being able to afford a place to live in Washington D.C. Can you imagine a more appropriate representative for millennial than someone who can't afford to pay rent in the city where her job is?
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Seriously, I lol'd at that. Very fitting.
 
yllus said:
I also really liked her responses to Fox News snickering about her not being able to afford a place to live in Washington D.C. Can you imagine a more appropriate representative for millennials than someone who can't afford to pay rent in the city where her job is?
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Unfortunately the dumbfucks that can only afford to live in RVs will snicker along completely unaware of the irony.
 
Commodus said:
Democrats make a gain in House seats unseen in over four decades, flipping seats that were once seen as 'safe' for the GOP, and driven in no small part by dramatic improvements in young voter turnout (which, as was shown earlier, is increasingly voting Democrat). But okay, keep pretending the GOP isn't declining in relevance.
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Not even close to accurate.
Historically speaking, Democrats delivered a thoroughly average result in their first round as Trump’s opposition. Going all the way back to the Civil War, there were only two instances when a new party seized the presidency but didn’t lose seats in the House during their first midterm elections: Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 (during the Great Depression), and President George W. Bush in 2002
 
Greenman said:
Not even close to accurate.
Historically speaking, Democrats delivered a thoroughly average result in their first round as Trump’s opposition. Going all the way back to the Civil War, there were only two instances when a new party seized the presidency but didn’t lose seats in the House during their first midterm elections: Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 (during the Great Depression), and President George W. Bush in 2002
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Democrats picked up House seats that have been red for decades. They just about won a senate seat in TEXAS, and just about won the FL and GA governor mansion.

Keep on whistlin' past the graveyard.
 
Greenman said:
Not even close to accurate.
Historically speaking, Democrats delivered a thoroughly average result in their first round as Trump’s opposition. Going all the way back to the Civil War, there were only two instances when a new party seized the presidency but didn’t lose seats in the House during their first midterm elections: Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 (during the Great Depression), and President George W. Bush in 2002
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Sure everything is fine. No problem.
 
IJTSSG said:
LOL. Just about won. Here's your pat on the head and a trophy.
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Wow you guys are certainly winning. GOP only lost 33M votes to 45M votes.

Looking good for you in 2020.

People just don’t want to vote for conservatives. How did you guys shit the bed so bad in only two years?
 
Paratus said:
Wow you guys are certainly winning. GOP only lost 33M votes to 45M votes.

Looking good for you in 2020.

People just don’t want to vote for conservatives. How did you guys shit the bed so bad in only two years?
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Didn't the dems lose 69 house seats in the Obama mid terms? Yet he was reelected.
The presidents party always looses seats in the mid terms. 1934 and 2002 are the only years it didn't happen. This isn't some unique event that we've never seen before. Not losing any would have been astounding, losing 60 would have been surprising, but not unheard of, 24 is just ho hum.
 
Greenman said:
Didn't the dems lose 69 house seats in the Obama mid terms? Yet he was reelected.
The presidents party always looses seats in the mid terms. 1934 and 2002 are the only years it didn't happen. This isn't some unique event that we've never seen before. Not losing any would have been astounding, losing 60 would have been surprising, but not unheard of, 24 is just ho hum.
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Well yeah. The Dems screwed the pooch for several elections by refusing to compete everywhere. That’s over and quite frankly the only reason it was only around 38 seats lost was due to the conservative handicap.
 
Paratus said:
Well yeah. The Dems screwed the pooch for several elections by refusing to compete everywhere. That’s over and quite frankly the only reason it was only around 38 seats lost was due to the conservative handicap.
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I thought it was because the democratic candidates didn't get as many votes as the republicans they were running against.
 
Greenman said:
Not even close to accurate.
Historically speaking, Democrats delivered a thoroughly average result in their first round as Trump’s opposition. Going all the way back to the Civil War, there were only two instances when a new party seized the presidency but didn’t lose seats in the House during their first midterm elections: Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 (during the Great Depression), and President George W. Bush in 2002
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"Democrats make a gain in House seats unseen in over four decades, flipping seats that were once seen as 'safe' for the GOP,"

No, his post is accurate.
No Dem House has flipped as many Rep seats since 1974 (your link, your data) with a Rep president.
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Ah well the Ocean Heat Content uptake rate is only the 150A Bombs a minute for 49 years straight it was before this paper was written.

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This Ocasio-Cortex the Democrats are so proud of has a lot of Trump similarities....

Both from the corrupt state of NY.
Both greenhorns with no political experience.
Both loud mouths.
One wants Mexico to pay for a wall. The other wants corporations to pay for healthcare.

I wish her luck with the environment, but it's not a good start when you apply and win a new job and didn't think to take into account that you can't afford the place you'd have to relocate to.
 
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