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8 hours agoI’m referring specifically to the congressional primaries. That’s where we replace the centrist Democrats with progressives who will move the Overton Window back towards the left.
Looks like you had 15.1% statewide in 2024
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A lack of challengers is exceedingly rare. I was just discussing Fetterman’s election in another thread, where someone was saying he was better than Dr. Oz, but both options sucked. He also had three challengers in a primary that only saw 8.5% attendance.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/pennsylvania/democratic-primaries/senate
The Overton Window shift in the US is mostly due to persistent low primary attendance.
Congressional primaries have seen <15% attendance for the last 40 years. Retirees never miss a vote, and have very different needs than the working class. They’re the ones who have been packing our ballots with centrists and conservatives.
We should be voting twice every two years, not once every four, for federal elections alone. Sign up for mailers if you forget. Research the candidates on the ballot, rather than relying on advertising to coerce you into doing your civic duty.
7·2 days agoFor sure, but that’s a safety net. They can’t take out domestic loans against those accounts. They function on perpetual debt leveraged against their portfolios.
Portfolio, not bank account. They don’t pay taxes on unrealized gains.
I hope he wins and spends $1M on a golden visa.🖕
7·3 days agoI hope so. Tesla would be banned next week too.
1·5 days agoThat’s false. Judge Merchan elected to commute Trump’s sentence. They previously determined that the SCOTUS ruling for presidential immunity did not apply to the criminal business fraud case. His actions were not determined to be “official acts of the office of the president.”
The right finally gets a Jill Stein. Good luck with that.
Bahahahahaha! Billionaires are so scared, they don’t even know which shitty shill to run.
Well before these poor people succumb to a horrific death by a natural disaster, they will be perpetually feasted on by the trillions of mosquitoes in the Everglades.
Allegations Auschwitz will completely destroy the people unfortunate enough to survive.
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Did you see them laughing while voting down the Democrats’ amendments? Straight up sociopathic.
I guarantee she has a nice cushy lobbyist position lined up for Big Oil after pushing that bill through. She could give two shits about reelection with that fallback.
The shortage is artificial. You’d know that if you read the links you requested and then downvoted without reading.
Private equity bought excessive amounts of properties while interest rates were low during covid. They’re sitting on the properties to keep value high while slowly selling them off.
That’s the whole reason Abbott and DeSantis proposed getting rid of property taxes and increasing state income tax. Then private equity could sit on those properties indefinitely.
As of last count in January 2024, there were 771,480 unhoused people in the US. Blackstone alone owns more than 300,000 residencies.
Nationwide there are 16 million vacant homes — that’s 28 vacant homes for every unhoused person.
https://ips-dc.org/report-billionaire-blowback-on-housing/
Fortunately, we don’t need to build any new homes at all. We just need to repossess all vacant homes owned by private equity and distribute them among the unhoused. Easy peasy.
Nah. He was convicted of the state charges. That’s my point. He did not use immunity in that case. Therefore, “official acts” have yet to be defined by a judge.
He could be charged by the state as POTUS, and the state judge would determine of the acts that defined the criminal activity were “official acts.”
Word on the street is that the Majority Whip offered merch signed by Trump for their votes.
https://newrepublic.com/post/197596/trump-won-house-republican-budget-holdouts-free-merch
Unfortunately, 15% is above the national average for congressional primaries. That’s all we need to change to change the Democratic Party. All the funding in the world won’t matter if we all take it upon ourselves to research the candidates on the ballot and show up at the polls.
For a point of reference, Mamdani broke the record for NYC Mayoral Democratic Primary turnout with just 30%, up from 21% last election. We just need to outnumber the retirees.