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style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Trump's Closing Pitch to Voters: I Will Let You Die If You Don't Bow to My Demands111·9 months agoTrump voters do everything out of spite. They invent some really obviously stupid excuse to be mad at Democrats and use that as a justification to vote for Trump.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Trump biopic 'The Apprentice' hits theaters amid fury from his campaign75·9 months agoThis does seem pretty on-point:
Vanity Fair journalist Gabriel Sherman, who wrote the screenplay, draws a direct line between Cohn’s bare-knuckle tactics and Trump’s modern-day political persona. Cohn (Jeremy Strong) instructs Trump (Sebastian Stan) to relentlessly attack, “deny everything” and “never admit defeat.”
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Thou shalt run for office: Ohio pastor obeys the 11th Commandment6·9 months agoOne Sunday morning this past summer, less than 5 miles down the road from Calvary Church, Mullins’ Democratic opponent, Rev. Vanessa Cummings, was preaching at Payne Chapel AME Church. As Cummings finished delivering her sermon to the dozen or so people in the pews, she emphasized the need to pray for unity, world peace, and healing from divisiveness. She’s been a pastor at this 184-year-old Black church for three years and has ministered across the state. A longtime public servant and community activist, she served as vice mayor and city councilmember of nearby Oxford and is the vice president of Oxford’s NAACP chapter. She has long helped with voter registration and education drives. Today, I am the only white person in the room and I am reminded of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous observation that 11 a.m. on Sunday was the “most segregated hour of America.”
Sitting across from me in her office after the service, Cummings acknowledges that in a district that is nearly 62 percent Republican, the odds are stacked against her. But, she notes, “If I didn’t think I could win, I wouldn’t run.” The voters she’s spoken to on the campaign trail are desperately seeking change, Cummings tells me, and they’re tired of politicians making decisions against their constituents’ wishes because of their personal beliefs.
While her faith guides her in her personal life, she emphatically rejects the tenets of Christian nationalism that Mullins preaches. “She believes there’s no separation of church and state. I believe there is a separation of church and state,” Cummings says. “She believes this is a stupid position. I believe it’s a position we should fight for, to get to serve the people.”
Hmm. Which one would I vote for, I wonder?
style99@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.ml•Video From 2040 Begs This Question of Gaza Genocide in 2024: 'What Did You Do to Stop It?'216·9 months agoI really wish people would learn the difference between begging the question and raising the question.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•North Carolina eases voting rules as Trump allies fret over storm fallout39·9 months agoThe area hit hardest by Helene is deeply Republican. Trump won about 62% of the vote in 2020 in the 25 counties declared to be a disaster area after Helene, while Democratic President Joe Biden won about 51% in the remainder of the state, according to a Reuters analysis.
I’m not superstitious, but…
At a recent private fundraiser in South Carolina, Lara Trump, the RNC’s co-chair, encouraged donors to donate to the recovery efforts, according to one person in attendance. The better the infrastructure in the area, she said, the easier it will be for residents to get to the polls.
Funny. Republicans were doing everything humanly possible to screw over infrastructure, and now they want their “donors” to give a damn about it?
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Why conservatives get suspended more than liberals on social media142·9 months agoAs long as slander laws exist, this will continue to be true. You can’t be conservative and honest. It’s just not physically possible.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•How the North Carolina Legislature Left Homes Vulnerable to Helene | Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.6·9 months agoIn 2014, lawmakers passed laws to weaken protection for wetlands, which can help reduce flood damage by absorbing excess rainfall, according to Brooks Rainey Pearson, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Three years later, the legislature made it easier for developers to pave green spaces, increasing the risk of flooding caused by heavy rains, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center. Mr. Millis, of the home builders association, said that “storm water is heavily regulated in North Carolina.”
Last year, efforts by Republican lawmakers to ease the state’s building codes erupted into open confrontation with Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat.
The legislature passed a law that blocked the state from adopting new building codes until 2031. The law also included smaller changes, such as preventing local building inspectors from ensuring that home builders correctly install protective sheathing on homes exposed to winds of 140 miles per hour or less.
Governor Cooper vetoed the bill, saying it would “wipe out years of work to make homes safer.” But Republicans overrode his veto.
Republicans vs making the world worth living in.
That is a funny joke, and it’ll continue to be funny for the next 500 years (if right-wingers get their way).
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Trump tells women he ‘will be your protector’ as GOP struggles with outreach to female voters21·10 months agoGetting mansplained about how to take care of yourself by a convicted rapist, though, is perfectly okay with them.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Harris cuts Trump’s lead in Sun Belt states: Fox News poll15·10 months agoTrump, meanwhile, takes the 1-point lead over Harris in North Carolina, with 48 percent support to her 47 percent.
It’s progress, but there’s still a ways to go.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Trump tries to clean up mess from possibly illegal cemetery photo op31·10 months agoAccessory to a crime, you mean. They should lock all those damn criminals away.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Hey Republicans/Conservatives: Who will replace the illegal immigrants (most of them have jobs) that will be deported out of the country if Trump wins?12·11 months agoI think it’s amusing that you believe Trump supporters are capable of reason. They are a brainwashed cult, and they take their orders from Fox News.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Vance Defends Unsubstantiated Claims About Immigration and Crime4·11 months agoOn the subject of notable Hollywood documentaries, “Star Wars” shows how dangerous it is to your home planet to let raving lunatics run the government.
style99@lemm.eeto World News@lemmy.world•Kremlin could be 'nervous' as angry Russians send messages to Putin amid Ukraine counterattackEnglish36·11 months agoIf you think about it, it kind of makes sense. Putin can’t threaten to torture/imprison your friends and relatives if your friends and relatives are all sitting in a POW camp somewhere. There’s nothing to stop these people from calling him out.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Kamala Harris erases Trump’s poll lead in one week1773·1 year agoKamala should really be doing much better going against a despicable convicted rapist and a couch fucker.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•Trump calls Kamala Harris statement on Gaza war ‘disrespectful’21·1 year agoThe only thing that convicted rapist knows how to do is attack people.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•[Trump Shooting] Suspect was registered as Republican voter, state records show23·1 year agoFollow the money. Who paid him to do the shooting is what we should be asking.
style99@lemm.eeto politics @lemmy.world•[Trump Shooting] Suspect was registered as Republican voter, state records show21·1 year agoHow do we know he actually got shot?
The convicted rapist and the couch fucker really planted their flag on Toxic Masculinity hill, didn’t they?