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Yes this was an election on trump, but not ONLY on trump. Paxton was hated by Texans, Ramaswamy in Ohio thought attacking his opponent with a pedophile defender ally was a solid political move. Collins in Maine is embroiled in a corruption investigation.

The Republicans that are not trump contributed plenty to their own defeat.

I am wondering if the GOP sees this voting bloodbath as a referendum on trump. If so then they might feel he’s more of a liability than an asset and they 25th Amendment him.

“If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you,” Trump Jr. wrote on Twitter in September 2016, Reuters reported. “Would you take a handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem.” The maker of Skittles objected to the post, the news agency reported.

So trump is making an argument against 100% of immigrants, not just those from Syria. That stands in direct conflict with his policy of increased white South African refugees. Musk, as white South African immigrant, is projected to be responsible for over 14 million deaths by 2030 because of his work in DOGE destroying USAID. That’s one shitty Skittle, but I see trump doing nothing about it.

Not that I’m defending Greek life, but advocating the banning is suggesting it is Greek life that is the cause of party and hookup culture. That seems to be a very suspect position. Partying and hooking up exist in many many places where Greek life doesn’t and has never existed.

I doubt young people are going to give up on partying and hooking up just because there isn’t a frat or sorority house around. It seems more likely the outcome of banning Greek life is that the party and hookup culture continues to exist outside of the Greek life events and locations.

I don’t know what state you live in, but thats how it works in mine.

In mine, each county has a County Board of Elections which determine the number and location of polling places. Those County Board of Elections members are appointed by our Secretary of State. The Secretary of State is an elected position by all voters in the state.

So again, Gerrymandering would have zero effect on location or number of polling places in my state.

How does it work in your state where you’re seeing Gerrymandering could affect the number or location of polling places?

Can you give an example of a rule you’re thinking of that a gerrymandered state legislature has made that will have a material effect on the outcome of the state’s US Senate race, or even more specifically on Ohio’s which is where this conversation started?

I expected him to cheat.

I’m wondering if thats why he’s shocked that he did cheat but still got blown out in the election results.

especially as horribly germmandered as it illegally is.

We’re talking about a US Senate seat here. Gerrymandering has no effect.

I’m sure there’s a School House Rock episode that would explain this better than I can, but the short of it is this: Each state in the USA, no matter how big or small, gets TWO US Senators they send to Washington to represent them in the Senate, no more, no less. Both of the US Senators represent all residents of the state. Every 6 years (the length of term of a Senator), all residents in the entire state vote in that US Senatorial election.

You may be instead thinking about races in the US House of Representatives where there are Congressional districts carving up the geography inside a state. There’s no such concept for the US Senators each state sends to Washington.

I’ve already voted.

Ramaswamy’s ad may have ensured a Democrat wins the Senate.

I hope obvious political stunt list leads to real problems for the list makers.

I think they’re not actually going for a stunt to win political points. Instead, I think they’re trying to create a legal pretext to challenge the results of the election when the GOP get voted out. They’ll refuse to relinquish power citing some well meaning historical laws regarding election results exceptions as a justification for their autocracy. Even if they finally concede under the rule of the courts, they may be going to just extend their control and influence beyond the established time when they should have been gone.

That seems to be dependent on a dramatic misconception of how American politics works.

Is it? This coming midterm election’s prime issue is affordability.

It seems that only a very small demographic are observing this type of information

Most voters are paying attention to affordability issues. Increasing American incomes, lowering medical costs, controlling residential electricity costs, stopping the stupid war in Iran, all speak to affordability.

Dems will likely do well, but I don’t think they’ll get 2/3rd majority and republicans for sure aren’t gonna help Dems, they’re too far gone.

Every progressive policy that passes the House and Senate but gets vetoed by trump becomes a reason to vote for a Democratic President in 2028. Trump would almost be doing the Democrats a favor if he vetoed everything. Bluedog Democrats in Congress could vote for all kinds of progressive things with the knowledge they won’t pass into law. They’d be able to score all the political points with their constituency without suffering any fallout from their corporate donors. Imagine if, in the next 2 years, Democrats in Congress pass:

• Universal Healthcare
• Federal Minimum wage increase
• Cost ceilings on residential electric bills
• Slashed defense budget
• Increase in Social Security trust fund
• Resolution ending military actions
• Epstein file transparency laws

All of these trump would veto, of course, but that leaves the GOP significantly worse off in the next election.

No, that would do the opposite. Import tariffs are paid by the buyer and export tariffs are paid by the seller. It would still raise the price for the end customer, but at Canadians’ expense instead of at Americans’ expense.

Think beyond step one.

I’m highly confident the Canadian sellers would feel no need to do the US buyer any favors, by shouldering the export tariffs. In response to the creation of export tariffs, Canadian sellers would raise their prices the account for the new costs, those costs would be passed onto US buyers. Because the net price of the item the US buyer is paying doesn’t change, the US buyers wouldn’t even bat an eye and simply pay it like they always do.

While a business owner might have a mild interest in the geopolticial reason for an expense, to the business, the reason is immaterial. The result is what matters; how much the invoice is to get X input the business requires. If they have previously been paying $5 extra per unit to the US Government for import tariffs, and that disppears but the price of the item from Canada goes up $5 (because the Canadian seller raised the price to cover the new export tariffs the seller is paying), the end resulting price to being the exact same and it is simply business as usual to the US buyer. In this case here, if the US buyer’s price doesn’t even change, I’m not even sure they’d notice.

Trump’s order exempted ​plywood sheets, some paper products, certain machinery and refrigeration equipment, and packing crates and boxes, as well as fresh and dried seaweed, the White House said.

Ottawa should play an Uno Reverse card and put export tariffs on all of these goods equal to exactly what trump just removed keeping the price of these goods exactly the same to Maine voters. Canada can use the tariff revenue to subsidize other Canadian goods trump has put import tariffs on to help out those Canadian industries.

Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister responsible for trade with the US, said Ottawa was ​assessing Trump’s latest tariff change. “Canada stands ready to ​work constructively and in good faith towards ⁠a more mutually beneficial trading relationship that respects Canada’s interests,” LeBlanc said in a statement

I hope this means export tariffs from Canada.

I would also recommend blocking them. Look at their post history. They’ve been banned from nearly every Lemmy community they’ve posted in. If that doesn’t scream “bad faith”, I’m not sure what does.

Tommy thought words were just some kind of incantation; say predefined fix words and the magic happens.

El-Sayed just taught Teepell that words instead are a conduit for critical thinking and communication. Teepell kept trying to say the incantation to have the effect he wanted, and nothing happened except Teepell getting verbally walked over for his own stupidity.

Maybe the Mooch was the Planck unit and the Zachariah is the quantum unit?

Hang on, I think others posted that Mooch was fired before he signed his contract. This would suggest that a Mooch is in superposition existing in both a fired from employment and not yet hired for employment simultaneously. So only observation can collapse the waveform to obtain a singular value of a Mooch for a given moment.

Her only press conference was about 15 minutes long. It sounds like she burned up all of her allotted 15 minutes of fame in one go.

We’ll see what he does after the elections.

He’ll have his hands full with impeachment hearings. /hopefully