Hi

I'm banned atm.

Insulting the mod's waifu

New opportunity in the Senate: Montana Senator Jon Tester votes "no" on ending govt shutdown.

http://archive.is/TMJ3g

Sad. Remember to spread this around.

His overall approval rating is basically in lock-step with his FP approval rating though.

Send those polls to data/TN

>Strongly Approve > Approve
This reminds me of how one of the polls in November 2016 actually had raw data published alongside the official data

And they actually had a methodology which involved multiplying their raw data with some gymnastic formulae which caused it to go from a Trump victory to a Clinton victory in the popular vote--and they actually changed them seemingly for the purpose of making Clinton look like she would win.

Yeah.

It's been proven at this point that McMullin proved Minnesota to swing to the Democrats, by the good old "Nader stole Florida." metric.

I can't tell if it's for better or for worse that the USA didn't have a Canadian-style Reform Party takeover, on that note.

The Progressive Conservatives in Canada were essentially replaced by their Ross Perot supporting counterparts in Canada, due to the fact that electing the Reform Party of Canada required electing a Reform legislature.

In other words, Ross Perot lost because he could never control Congress. Reform Canada won because precisely the opposite was true--Commons elects the Prime Minister.

But if Ross Perot became President in 1992 or 1996, would we have a Justin Trudeau like monster today?

The Canadian Tories, formed by the merger of the Reform/CA party with the Prog. Cons., have been failing to outlaw abortion and gay marriage pretty much continuously for decades.

And they can actually just suspend human rights and ban those things in Canada, as their Supreme Court is weak.

And they didn't even disclose Canadian immigration stats until they were leaked by dissidents under Trudeau

So no one even knew it was an issue.

And on top of that, they ratified NAFTA--the treaty they were founded to oppose--and joined the WTO.

That said, they didn't even get into office until Stephen Harper. So they basically had to repeal all of that.

That makes me think of how they keep invoking "The Emperor's New Clothes" when Trump only has plurality support.

McGovern claims in that ad that people are voting for Nixon because they're "expected" to do so.

Democrats use the "Emperor's new clothes" metaphor to claim they're like some sort of resistance counterculture; in other words, they believe we're all deceiving ourselves, hallucinating because Trump is so amazingly popular, while they see the truth thanks to the MSM.

It's like, Trump isn't even that popular, even if I wish he were.

No one is forcing themselves to hallucinate to think Trump is good.

Humorously the story also may or may not leave open the possibility that those who aren't deceiving themselves may in fact be deceiving themselves.

Because "only incompetents, morons, and inappropriately employed" see through the clothes.

Indeed.

I don't know.

If Trump got assassinated I would only really support Pence if he continued to be a hardliner on immigration.

I for one would start lobbying for Donald J. Trump Jr. to be nominated VP ASAP.

Infrastructure has always been a more Republican type of spending program.

The WPA and crap did nothing but build statues of naked people and crap, and FDR basically did nothing but minimum wage and welfare crap otherwise.

Then Eisenhower came in and built the Interstate

Then LBJ came in and passed more gibsmedats for the black voters

Kennedy didn't do anything except tax cuts and Apollo.

The gap between Republicans and Democrats on space tends to be that Republicans want to actually do shit in space, and Democrats want to play space cadet.

The Democrats went to the Moon with Apollo, took 2 steps, and went "wtf my feet are bouncing"

And then went back home

Bush on the other hand proposed a full colonization program with Constellation.

Yeah, but it was from 1963 to 1969. Nixon cancelled it after 1972 because it wasn't really accomplishing much anymore.

Indeed.

Indeed.

Yep. Infrastructure is at least capable of helping the economy; research is also helpful but it's not as consistently helpful.

Alright.

That in and of itself is an act of cowardice to most swing voters and may stunt publicity severely.

Yay

Yeah being a boring politician means you basically have no career advancement

But not everyone can run for President

I think the "Blue Wave" was basically just all those "Zizek is a Communist who's so far left he's a Fascist therefore I am voting for Trump." idiots.

They were never going to vote for a Democrat.

And if they were, they'd do it because they want someone who's so left-wing and extreme that it'll crash the world.

Alberta is already under a left-wing Socialist government because the right-wing parties were too busy infighting with their 60+% majority

It's actually a big part of why Trudeau was elected: Conservatives were extremely demoralized by being defeated by a landslide in Alberta.

The right-wing party was able to defeat the moderate "Progressive Conservatives," but the right lost over 20 points overall from all of the infighting, leaving them with a feeble simple majority between both parties--and because Canada's electoral system is a two-party-optimized FPTP system like the USA has...that meant the most united party, the New Democrats, won.

The New Democrats won 40% of the Alberta vote too, which gave them a huge amount of momentum until the CBC--Canada's equivalent of PBS or the BBC--actually began encouraging NDP voters to vote Liberal to stop the Tories from being reelected.

I wish the US actually got involved in foreign internal affairs so we could condemn the CBC for that, or do many things really.

And yeah, Alberta's feuding right-wing parties actually merged in 2017 to prevent another election like that.

Alberta 2019 could be a majority vote for the United Conservatives, which might be the first in recent Canadian history.

Ah, nope, Manitoba has a right-wing majority government as it is.

And so does Saskatchewan.

gross

I think /rsg/ might just be the type of thing that tends to be more active on Discord.

/hsg/ on /g/ basically stopped getting posted and became a Discord server

Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Illinois, and New Mexico

There are 33 Republican governors.

We need to really increase that to like 35, in order to attain a supermajority of states.

(This is necessary for a variety of things like Congressional term limits etc.)

Indeed.

Yeah but with MN the Senate is what's vital

How was your date with an SJW?

>.>

Nice

Yep

Some Protestants are like "yeah I pray and all but I'm also a genderfluid otherkin"

I had an ex like that in 2014 or so.

Yeah, like I can't see a rainbow flag at a Catholic Church.

Now that I think of it I think my ex was in that "Church of the Nazarene"

I don't know but the Pope is a heretic.

It came from Central America btw, Button Mash.

It spread across Latin America after it was started in El Salvador.

Indeed, the Left is basically irreligious.

Yeah that sounds like a good idea

Lol

If the Catholic Church actually began condemning illegal immigration etc., it would cause a major shift towards the GOP.

But atm it's got a lot of far-left/left-wing positions, combined with its far-right stances on sex-related issues.

Pfft I don't

But it's like open-borders/anti-death-penalty on one side and then anti-contraceptive on the other and you've basically got to pick 1.

Yeah, and even before the Kingdom of Israel there were still immigration restrictions.

Jesus said to make disciples of all nations, not to destroy them.

>another 1/5 turnout race

how the fuck do we improve this

an app for Republicans to know when to go to the polls, perhaps?

Tbh I think turnout will be much better when it's an actual midterm

And not a special election

Like when I went to the polls for Louisiana State Treasurer, I asked the poll lady how turnout is as I usually do