The Armageddon Election 2024 Or Apocalypse 2024

Actually due to resignations the number will be 217 to 215 so provided every member is present the Rs can only lose two votes…

My son says you need 218 votes to be elected speaker…

kosmo wrote:
Actually due to resignations the number will be 217 to 215 so provided every member is present the Rs can only lose two votes…

exactly what trump wants: the House is now his hostage.  johnson has zero room to maneuver.

This is depressing, this really would have changed everything


Republicans only won the House by 7,500 total votes in three congressional districts—an average of 2,500 votes in each.

That’s how close Democrats came to taking the House, in a country of over 340 million people. 7,500 votes.

You can look at it that way….

hutch wrote:
You can look at it that way….

I mean that ship has sailed

but the democratic party lost WAAAAY more than the GOP/Trump won
I just don't know how they will learn the lessons of their loss and how their messaging is so unappealing to so many

Dejecty-hatch wrote:
their messaging is so unappealing to so many

IMO it's less about "unappealing" and more about "missing the mark".  it was the economy stupid, and the Dems struck out on that one.  i just read a twat to the effect of "trump was elected to fix an economy that doesn't need fixing" - how did the Dems miss that so completely?  people traveled more this thanksgiving than ever before, and black friday & cyber monday smashed all records - doesn't sound like an economy in recession, now does it?  inflation is back down*, and inflation has been lower in the US than other industrialized countries since the pandemic - but you wouldn't know it, given how the GOP owned the "we need to turn around the disastrous biden economy ASAP" narrative…

Your response is why we lost

Yes the wealthy are still wealthy

But the voters that used to be Dems… were hurting and regardless of inflation slowing down the grove prices are stilll 20-40% higher then they were a few years ago


We lost those people… and Trump welcomed them with open arms… even if it was on false promises

This argument that people spending for Christmas or traveling means a lot of people aren’t hurting is so moronic yet I keep seeing it….

Just cause you spend more doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck to see a small bag of chips at $6.99 or ground beef at TJs going from $3.49 to 4.99 etc etc.  There is no way in hell people’s salaries kept up with rising food prices. And inflation affects the less well off disproportionately. Of course it doesn’t affect Sweetcell though..

But keep spouting this none sense liberals.. keep missing the message…

hutch wrote:
This argument that people spending for Christmas or traveling means a lot of people aren’t hurting is so moronic yet I keep seeing it….

Just cause you spend more doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck to see a small bag of chips at $6.99 or ground beef at TJs going from $3.49 to 4.99 etc etc.  There is no way in hell people’s salaries kept up with rising food prices. And inflation affects the less well off disproportionately. Of course it doesn’t affect Sweetcell though..

But keep spouting this none sense liberals.. keep missing the message…

Once in a while I will make veggie sloppy Joes and my daughter will get a small bag of Doritos to scoop up the Joe but will skip the bun. And the Doritos cost $2.69, not $6.99.

Brilliant space!

Jonathan Richman
March 13, 14 and 15
Ottobar

hutch wrote:
Jonathan Richman
March 13, 14 and 15
Ottobar

Dancing at a lesbian bar has been endangered due to the election results, so you're technically correct.

Julian, wrote:

hutch wrote:
Jonathan Richman
March 13, 14 and 15
Ottobar

Dancing at a lesbian bar has been endangered due to the election results, so you're technically correct.

Does anyone remember there was a time you couldn’t dance at some bars in NYC as they had to buy some really expensive cabaret licenses or something and they were enforcing it

I read all the lesbian bars are closing down so that’s why you can’t dance at a lesbian bar anymore.

Dejecty-hatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:

hutch wrote:
Jonathan Richman
March 13, 14 and 15
Ottobar

Dancing at a lesbian bar has been endangered due to the election results, so you're technically correct.

Does anyone remember there was a time you couldn’t dance at some bars in NYC as they had to buy some really expensive cabaret licenses or something and they were enforcing it

yup, it was a really ridiculous leftover from prohibition.  apparently it was only repealed in 2017, per the googles.