hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
33m ago
The immigration hawks gave us Texas bluer than New York. Zoomers speaking of 100 million deportations turned out 1.75 million non-voting but eligible Hispanics because they don't want their technically-illegal abuelita sent back.
And there is no benefit to deporting abuelita. Her three children and 10 grandchildren were born here, deporting her doesn't change their legal status. She doesn't have access to social security, if she didn't work for cash she probably doesn't know whose stolen ID she worked under- the company she worked for took care of all that. The only thing it does is make US citizens that zoomers Trump hired to be mean on twitter dislike for failing a paper bag test upset.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
Not-trad social conservatism is genuinely popular in America and most Americans don't think of it as meaningfully opposed to libertarianism- and MTG is dramatically better at lowest common denominator appeal.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Candace Owens seems weirdly less controversial because she doesn't talk about race. Batshit crazy stuff yes, but it's not any more out their than broadly typical normie woman slop like horoscopes. It's dramatically less offensive than Fuentes and the Fuentards.
hydroacetylene
16hr ago
it's probably because they're spies.
Oh, I would imagine the majority of women OK with being a CEO's concubine are better described as 'golddiggers' and are happier knowing absolutely nothing about his work beyond what he's willing to buy them with the money he earns from it.
hydroacetylene
20hr ago
It's called the Khazar hypothesis and it's fairly common albeit fringe.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
They won by way less than anyone expected because woke was unpopular.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
Fuentes has more influence among GOP staffers than actual voters, who have mostly never heard of the guy.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
If they're crew cab, then they are literally the exact same thing as a consumer pickup that you use to commute between your suburban home and the office- just with fewer bells and whistles. Commercial customers are more likely to order trucks as part of a planned replacement cycle rather than show up to the lot to buy day of, so the economics of keeping them in stock are different.
The things that make work pickup trucks radically different are usually aftermarket modifications to base model vehicles which have identical commercial and personal builds from the manufacturer. Commercial full sized work vans, on the other hand, are built differently, but very few people are shopping for a full sized van for personal use.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
IIRC the book of Mormon does not contain anything from the actual bible.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm not old enough to remember the church before VII. But my grandmother referred to mantillas as 'doilies' because she just literally didn't know the term; when she was a teen and young adult she had to wear a hat or a scarf, of course, but she called them those things, and not a 'veil'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Perhaps orthogonal to your point, but People of Praise is not a traditionalist Catholic group, and gets along very poorly with trads. There are traditionalist Catholics appointed to the judiciary(the most prominent of whom is Clarence Thomas) by republicans aplenty; the thing they have in common is that that they are all men.
People of Praise is a charismatic Catholic group theoretically open to non-Catholic Christians. This is the... well technically louder, but you know what I mean- strain of conservative Catholicism.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There's truth to this, but the base model pickup trucks aren't really any more expensive when adjusted for inflation- the ones sold today are mostly luxury vehicles.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You can buy a new pickup truck from an American dealership for under $40k, they're more expensive than sedans but not by that much. The base models just don't sell very well(there are luxury vehicle versions of all the main pickup truck models and they sell like hotcakes). Rising expectations are most of the affordability crisis.
Obviously, politicians can't say that out loud. But it is true. Groceries are higher, but not by as much as American's expectations of what they should be eating. My parents grew up eating pasta, hotdogs, and other cheap dishes multiple nights a week. My grandparents got most of their calories from rice growing up(no, this was not during the depression). Now Americans think eating chicken thighs is poverty. Base model(no bells and whistles) vehicles sell so poorly that dealers don't even bother to stock them(although they will special order- manufacturers make them). House sizes are gigantic even compared to the relatively recent past and most of the extra space is essentially wasted.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
putting mainstream Republicans in gulags is an issue that polls extremely well with mainstream Democrats.
You mind providing the evidence for this?
As far as I know, the closest evidence for it is that during Covid-19, democrats broadly supported draconian unconstitutional measures that would have hurt their political enemies very strongly.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I expect Jeffries to mostly try to impeach Trump. Legitimately don't know if he'll get removed from office- the senate is smart enough to understand their partisan incentives are the opposite of what you'd expect, but also political enough that they can't just straightforwardly follow game theory.
In Texas, Democrats will legalize pot in some form. They will also cut off funding for schoolchoice. I expect them to try, and fail, to bring teacher's unions to Texas, and lose control of the house in '28(in the bluest year since the seventies they have a narrower margin of control than republicans usually get). Ted Cruz will likely endorse the sort of normiecons who do well in the suburbs for statewide elections in 2030, and this will help republicans.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Like, you can't keep saying, "but I do have precedence" over and over again, while doing something 20% worse each and every time.
Clinton-Bush-Obama-Trump
Yeah, I think you can.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Things are not 'bad enough economically'. There are legitimate complaints about the economy, yes, but this isn't even 2008. We saw a gigantic blue wave for other reasons- voters rated 'corruption' as the only issue that was more important to them than 'affordability', and in practice that's probably mostly Epstein and other low-IQ conspiracy theories. I think ICE and the GOP being way-too-online also backfired electorally.
Remember, in '08 the economy was way worse but republicans didn't lose nearly as hard.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
While voters clearly don't like trans, it's clearly not a high-salience issue for voters most of the time. I think voters brutally punish being way-too-online, at least in normal years, but when trans issues aren't suddenly relevant due to recent events they are in themselves typically ignored by voters.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Facebook owns instagram, which is where the normie teens are, at much higher rates than tiktok.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Do indigenous activist even want to expel white people from North America and return to governance under various native policies, like in the sense of they rub a lamp and have any three wishes, would they use them for that? It seems to me they just want free shit.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Anne Romney probably did veil in the context the mormon tradition requires. ACB may or may not; you'd have to send someone to watch her at church. No one cares because they wear normal western clothing. The plain folk veil with bonnets, the actual trad western headcovering(mantillas which are now popular among younger Catholics would have been completely unknown in the Anglosphere when veiling was actually required).
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Hinojosa ran on, explicitly, California-fying Texas. Her two big policy proposals are bringing in teacher's unions and increasing permitting requirements.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
A minor correction- data centers are 80/20 but republicans are much closer to evenly split.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Yeah, but the senate skews towards 'good at political game theory'.
No, do not vote for the most right wing candidate in every election. Vote for the most right wing candidate who can win. Learn from the Arizona GOP(Texas was mostly sunk by this being a very very blue year, but the TxGOP not learning this lesson is a legitimate possibility going forwards).
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