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https://nitter.net/BernieSanders/status/1393972598237696007

Time for the already miniscule left vote to split EVEN FURTHER

"Yada yada yada I will not be running for re-election to the United States Senate, but what I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together."

Joe Manchin Says He Won't Seek Reelection in 2024 | TIME

MSNBC chyron said he wasn't running for president. But the anchor did quote his odd quip about traveling the country and the anchor said "That still sounds a presidential announcement."

Like let's put aside socialism, morals, basic humanity. Why the fuck does the west support Israel to the degree it does? Like it only alienates basically every other potential partner in the ME. It can't effectively serve as a barracks state because who would we need that army to fight that wouldn't only make things worse? Their economy is basically propped up by the USA. Yes they serve as a platform for weapons and systems testing, but they don't need a complete blank cheque too it. Like I don't get this logic. Cut em a check and pull bibi's leash and wash your hands of it. Like the logic of "Unconditional 110% support" is just fuckin nuts. Yeah sure a good bit of it us ideology, but there has to be some matrierial calculus in there somewhere. They are basically sacrificing the baby Ukraine over this.

couldn't successfully legally argue for removing the county health officer and gutting the county health dept so they "settled" to buy them out. No less than 3 private for profit urgent care facilities have propped up around the general vacinity of the local county health deptartment.

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Nice short video (4 mins) explaining "how to" bribe a politician, going over the three laws that make it possible and when/how they came to be.

TLDR: You can only give $5k to a candidate, directly or via a group (i.e. PAC). But you can give as much money as you want to a group/company that is not directly affiliated with the candidate. That group (a Super PAC) can spend as much money as it wants to support the candidate in any way - ads, posters, pamphlets etc. Thus, bribery is legal in the US as long as it's not direct.

Probably should've grown some fruits and vegetables in that garden unless you've somehow learned how to eat your own bullcrap.

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Summaries so far:

• Beshear won Kentucky relatively handily, turns out impoverished appalachian voters care more for getting disaster aid than for mass surveillance on trans kids, whodathunkit? (The other statewide offices didn't get a boost from him, though.)
• Heading north, "Skibidi Rizz" Ohio is adding constitutional protection for abortions and legalizing cannabis.
• Virginia has voted not to open a casino in Richmond.
• Meanwhile in Texas, a measure banning any implementation of a state income tax is likely to be approved, to the delight of techbros everywhere trying to build their cult compounds there.
• Bridgeport, Connecticut got its Dem primary results thrown out after inconsistencies were noted, meaning that the general election gets to happen before the primaries happen again.
• Colorado opposed transferring tax refund money to school funding, instead supporting the usage of the tobacco tax to fund preschools.
• Maine voted against the state government expropriating the for-profit electricity duopoly
• In the West Bronx (minus the "We Have Soviet Microdistricts At Home" Co-op City), Republican Kristy Marmorato (endorsed by the Proud Boys- always a good sign that a candidate is Normal) holds a slight lead over Democrat Marjorie Velazquez (who has spent the past year becoming the Borough's Charlie Crist).
• Pennsylvania has voted by 53% for the Dem nominee in the state supreme court.
• Philadelphia has elected an Eric Adams-type Law And Order mayor, sure that'll bring crime rates down this time
• Socdem Sara Innamorato was elected to be the county executive of Allegheny County. The chances of me moving to Pittsburgh would continue to increase if it weren't for her being an Israel defender. On the other hand, Blue Dog-turned-Republican Steve Zappala narrowly beat progressive Matt Dugan.
• Danica Roem has become Virginia's first trans state senator, in the 30th seat. Youngkin spent half a million backing her opponent in a safe D seat, leaving swing district Republicans to dry and handing over the state legislature to Dems. Nice Work!
• Democrat Susanna Gibson, thought to be dead in the water after the reveal of her past as a Chatubate streamer (with which there's nothing wrong), tan surprisingly competitively in Virginia's 57th district, but lost because Virginians are prudes. She somehow managed to win over the suburbs, though
• rip youngkin next election though lmao
• Ed Durr, the most famous Truck Driver to hold a Republican state legislature seat, is voted out in New Jersey.
• Basically everywhere, Moms For Liberty's school board candidates are flopping.
• And in my hometown of Charleston, there's gonna be a runoff against Desantisite William Cogswell and infamously pro-gentrification incumbent John Tecklenberg. DSA-adjacent Mika Gadsden only got 3 percent of the vote.
• Charleston doesn't deserve to be inhabited. Neither does anywhere else in South Carolina.

How is this guy not divided in two at the neck?

Never in my life have I seen a nation more desperately in need of regime change.

Remember that pollster Fox kept bringing out around 2016 with the live polling panel yadda yadda? Yeah it's Frank Luntz and he wrote the book on modern hasbara propaganda language.

Knowing is half the battle. Arm yourself with knowledge.

Full sauce here (PDF)

This is pretty triggering for it's obvious phrasing. But once you see the "language" and bullshit here, you'll see it everywhere

His last campaign was filled with troops service troops and now he's nodding to the neocon PNAC Project for a New American Century.

Can't be bought? FEC.GOV ..... bankrolled by the Meijer billionaire clan, DeVos Billionares, VanAndel billionaires for starters. $5600 each.