#Mid-term elections

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Evangelist and teacher Elijah Abraham of Living Oasis ministries shares about his recent month-long trip to Indonesia and surrounding countries preaching and teaching Christian pastors. We discuss the true gospel, evangelism, theology and sound doctrine, and the cancer of seeker-sensitive churches. Elijah has been on three international trips since last November. We also address next week’s Midterm elections in the U.S. and the need for Bible-believing Christians to vote while we still have our religious freedoms.

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Democrats will keep control of the Senate, NBC News projects

Democrats will keep control of the Senate, NBC News projects

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gestures, walking out of the Senate Chamber, celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduct Act at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. T Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Democrats will hold their razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate, NBC News projects, staving off a full-bore effort by Republicans to leverage…

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uh oh

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Some Words of Perspective ...

Some Words of Perspective …

If you could use a bit of encouragement today, Robert Reich has just the right message with his Election Day thoughts.  No, he doesn’t promise that everything will come up rosy in the morning, but … he does put things into context, a historical context, that reminds us that even if it ain’t a bed of roses, it also isn’t a box of thorns with nary a bud. Take a look … listen to what he has to say…

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Polls Are Open In Wisonsin

Polls Are Open In Wisonsin

and they close at 8 PM. If you are in line at 8 PM you will be able to vote. Remember to bring your photo ID. And you can register to vote at the polls!!!

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Political Merry-go-round

Political Merry-go-round #Blog #Blogger #Blogging #Politics #ToxicPolitics #MidTerm #PoliticalMerryGoRound #Elections

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”― Isaac Asimov Many of the founding fathers believed that most of our population was too…

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Walker & Smiley: Tokens for the Conservative Subway

Walker & Smiley: Tokens for the Conservative Subway

BRIEFLY – and I can hear any slumming The Pour Fool readers snickering before their screens – this is a quick thought on this mid-term election cycle that was prompted by a short video I found on Twitter (pre-Musk), in which an annoyed-looking young African-American man did a verbal checklist about why Herschel Walker is that One Special Negro who makes old, white, Republican hearts flutter.In…

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Sign Me Up – I’ll Campaign for Him

Sign Me Up – I’ll Campaign for Him

We’re getting closer to the mid-term elections. In fact, on Monday, I’ll once again serve as an election clerk during “early voting” as well as on Election Day. I am honored to do so, and besides, I thoroughly enjoy doing it. Seeing eager people come in and exercise their right to vote. The candidates on the ballot will have been vetted and all those who had hoped to make the cut, will now be…

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Article from July 27, 2022

Party representatives have claimed it’s because they want to highlight the extremism of today’s GOP, knowing that even candidates who are running as “moderates” will feel pressure to appeal to voters on their right flank. They have denied that it’s with the intent of making extremist candidates more appealing to a Republican primary base and because they think it will be easier to beat those kinds of opponents in November.

But that’s what it looks like to some Democratic operatives, who have mixed reviews of that strategy. Some think it’s too dangerous and that it could lead to some of those extremist candidates actually getting elected. Democratic strategist Howard Wolfson told Politico that the strategy of “putting people into positions where they may actually get elected and have control over the election system in this country — people who don’t believe in democracy — is a very, very risky strategy.”

Article from May 31, 2022

Diane Murray struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day. But when the time came, the 54-year-old Georgia Democrat cast a ballot in last week’s Republican primary for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. While state law allowed her to participate in either party’s primary, she said it felt like a violation of her core values to vote for the Republican. But it had to be done, she decided, to prevent a Donald Trump -backed “election denier” from becoming the battleground state’s election chief. “I feel strongly that our democracy is at risk, and that people who are holding up the big lie, as we call it, and holding onto the former president are dangerous to democracy,” said Murray, who works at the University of Georgia. “I don’t know I’ll do it again because of how I felt afterward. I just felt icky.”

Raffensperger, a conservative who refused to support the former president’s direct calls to overturn the 2020 election, probably would not have won the May 24 Republican primary without people like Murray. An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, an unusually high number of so-called crossover voters

Article from August 28, 2024

The lawsuit, filed before a state judge in Atlanta, argues the rules violate a state law that makes certification a mandatory duty. The suit asks the judge to find the rules are invalid because the State Election Board, now dominated by allies of former President Donald Trump, is exceeding its legal authority.

The actions of the board alarm Democrats and voting rights activists, playing out against Georgia's background of partisan struggles over voting procedures that predates even the 2020 presidential election. It's a battle in yet another state over what had long been an administrative afterthought: state and local boards certifying results.

Just another day of totally healthy and fair elections and their outcomes thanks to Democrat's inability to stop literally sponsoring and platforming Trump supporters with their party's funds.

Yeah, that $81 million Kamala raised in a day?

This is most definitely what she's using it for.

And they think our rights are worth the win. The house fucking speaker said it herself in 2022

But hey at least democrats are doing this to us right

At least Trump didn't say he wanted us to have the most lethal military on earth, right? If HE said it'd be bad. But with Kamala it's fine.

Four years later, the DNC sounds a lot different, reflecting how public opinion toward immigration in general has soured as concerns over how secure the border is have risen. Gone are the heartfelt testimonies from undocumented immigrants, the repudiation of Trump-era policies, and the calls for better treatment of migrants and expansion of asylum protections. Instead, Wednesday evening’s speakers embraced tougher policies for asylum seekers, praised President Joe Biden’s attempts to negotiate a bipartisan border security bill, and conceded the changed reality of immigration politics since the pandemic’s dawn. In other words, Democrats’ speeches on immigration and the border were drastically different than the ones at the conventions of 2012, 2016, or 2020 — because reality and the public’s feelings have changed drastically too.

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by Tyler O'Neil | The transgender agenda appears to have weaseled its way onto the ballot in two states, but voters may not know it. Hidden in the language of two proposed state constitutional amendments is a “right” to transgender medical interventions that would undermine parental rights and make children vulnerable to...

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lucasfilm. lucasfilm we need to talk. again. your timeline does not work with the implications in the novels. you have these two pages in timelines:

thus we have:

42bby: dooku leaves order; mandalorian clan wars begin

41bby: padawan: obi-wan's 'first' mission. lenahra visit. and dooku visiting temple, disparaging banquet hall:

40bby: master & apprentice: mission to pijal. however. H O W E V E R this part of the novel exists:

making the implication that dooku has not even been talking to the order, let alone visiting since leaving two years prior.

(not to mention the mandalorian clan wars/civil war placement is also wrong, as it has to take place after the trip to lenahra because kiersten white wrote it that way but that's allowed leeway from me because they at least used a circa)

publishing order is: master & apprentice —> dooku: jedi lost —> padawan, with claudia grey & cavan scott coordinating the events in their novels, so i'm more inclined to take the 2-year silence as accurate over dooku visiting in the year after his departure.

which is a long way to say that i'm excising that scene from padawan (thus leaving obi-wan to discover orla's map to lenahra as one of his regular visits to that dining hall) and kidnapping it to a couple years later for galaxies.

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Mark Kelly wins Arizona Senate race, bringing Democrats one seat away from majority, NBC News projects

Mark Kelly wins Arizona Senate race, bringing Democrats one seat away from majority, NBC News projects

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and his wife former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, daughters Charlotte, Samantha and son in law Mark Sudman wave during his election night rally at the Rialto Theatre on November 08, 2022 in Tucson, Arizona. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly will hold on to his U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, pushing Democrats closer to retaining control of the…

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Living in a predominantly black southern city sometimes makes you forget you stay in racist states. It’s almost like living on your own island……. until elections lol

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I want to ask every young person who is no older than 40 years old . Why do they think it is cool to stay a liberal and a Democrat? Is it because the mainstream media says so? Is it because peer pressure from your peers that they may think you are uncool if they found out you're a conservative? Or is it because it is a popular trend to younger crowds?