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Fapcop said:
Carter was a shit president, but to be fair, he also had to deal with a shit congress full of literal Marxists.

“Carter urged cuts in government spending, refusing to endorse a congressional jobs bill that would have triggered government-funded employment if the unemployment rate were greater than 5 percent.”

Look at this shit. Congress was so buck broken, that it wanted weird, Soviet style policies.
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Most historians regard Carter as a guy with a solid record (Naval officer), a good attitude, and a hopeful platform that did not work because he was not good at maneuvering Congressional politics and got slapped with the energy crisis - which he did not create.

It's kind of strange that Democrats regard Carter so highly when, during his presidency, they brutalized him.
 
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Ethereal Eye said:
Saw that Jimmy Carter was trending on Xitter again, and it turns out to be lefties salivating over him voting for Kamala apparently.
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My stomach flips looking at some of these pictures. He is rotting away and probably didn't even know what was happening when his "family took him to vote".
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Why is his face all bruised up? Did he have surgery or something?
tehpope said:
I'm still gonna vote Trump. But Jimmy has a point.
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I'm gonna be so pissed if he actually does something that breaks the First Amendment, I hope to dear God he doesn't. This is not what we want from you, Trump, just give me my fucking WALL.
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
It's kind of strange that Democrats regard Carter so highly when, during his presidency, they brutalized him.
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He's the Democrat President with the least baggage. It's that simple. Every time Clinton and Obama come out, there's a risk of someone calling them out on all their personal and professional failures. Most of the people who would do the same to Carter are either dead or as infirmed as he is.
 
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Francis York Morgan said:
He's the Democrat President with the least baggage. It's that simple. Every time Clinton and Obama come out, there's a risk of someone calling them out on all their personal and professional failures. Most of the people who would do the same to Carter are either dead or as infirmed as he is.
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True. I also give Carter a lot of credit for his "Crisis of Confidence" speech. It was horribly received and he gets a lot of shit for it, but it was one of the few times in US political history that a president leveled with the public. He told Americans the hard truth and was punished for it politically.
 
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Ted Cruz says he's getting no help from national Republicans in tight race against Colin Allred​


As polls show his race tightening, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is lashing out at national Republicans for not doing more to help him in his battle against Democrat Colin Allred.
Cruz told Fox News he’s being massively outspent by Allred on the airwaves and couldn’t even afford to get his own ads on TV until three weeks ago. And he complained U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t spent a penny on the race even though his PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, is sitting on millions of dollars meant to fight for a GOP majority.

“Mitch McConnell runs the largest Republican super PAC in the country and has $400 million. But that super PAC is used to reward the Republican senators who obey him and to punish those who dare to stand up him,” Cruz said during an interview on Life, Liberty & Levin on FOX News on Friday.
Cruz’s comments come just days after Allred’s campaign announced it had raised $30.3 million since July — about $9 million more than Cruz raised during the same period. But Cruz said Allred is getting help from national Democrats. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee last month announced it is preparing to spend millions to support Allred as they see his chances improving to oust Cruz.
The committee didn’t spell out exactly how much it would spend. But Cruz told Fox that the combination of national money and Allred’s fundraising haul has his back against the wall going into the final three weeks of his bid to hold onto his seat in the U.S. Senate.
“We are in the middle of a full-on battle,” Cruz said. “We are being massively outspent.”
There is a heightened tension in part because in-person early voting in Texas starts next week and public polls have shown Cruz and Allred in a tight battle.
On Sunday, Politico reported on an internal polling memo by the Senate Leadership Fund that highlighted the trouble Cruz is in. The fund's internal polling, done by the Tarrance Group in Virginia, showed Cruz leading Allred by 3 percentage points in September. But as of Oct. 8 that was down to just 1 point.
In the memo, the group pointed out Cruz has much higher unfavorable ratings among voters than Allred. While 48% of respondents said they had an unfavorable view of Cruz, Allred’s unfavorables were at 36%.
Steven Law, the president and CEO of the Senate Leadership Fund, told the Wall Street Journal that he thinks Cruz has run a good campaign and "we feel okay about where that looks right now."
Cruz, 53, has been trying to chip away at that advantage. His campaign is running three different attack ads against Allred that accuse him of wanting to allow transgender girls to play on girls' sports teams — something Allred denied in a new ad of his own.
Allred, 41, meanwhile has been pounding Cruz with a rotation of ads with clips saying wants to raise the age for Social Security benefits and slamming him for leaving Texas for Cancun during the 2021 winter storms that left more than 200 people dead and millions without electricity in frigid temperatures.
Cruz, a Houston Republican and attorney, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012. He won his last re-election in 2018 by just 2.6 percentage points - the closest a Republican has come to losing statewide since the 1990s.
Allred, a Dallas Democrat and civil rights attorney, has been in Congress since 2018.
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
And being that blacks make up 13% of the population, that can swing states.

He just needs enough to cripple them. States can and have been won by thousands, hundreds even in terms of votes and coming down to the wire. Taking a chunk out of the Democrat core is something Team Blue hasn't had to fear in over half a century.
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I still think that Trump’s black vote potential is overstated as black undecided votes ultimately will mostly go to the Dems, while the core of his voting potential lies in the disaffected white male vote. Again, I swear we saw this in 2020 and even with the Platinum Plan, this did nothing for Trump.

That being said, while it may be an uphill battle for convince blacks to vote for Trump, it’s probably not as hard to convince them not to vote at all.
 
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jje100010001 said:
I still think that Trump’s black vote potential is overstated as black undecided votes ultimately will mostly go to the Dems, while the core of his voting potential lies in the disaffected white male vote. Again, I swear we saw this in 2020 and even with the Platinum Plan, this did nothing for Trump.

That being said, while it may be an uphill battle for convince blacks to vote for Trump, it’s probably not as hard to convince them not to vote at all.
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Trump hadn't gotten shot in 2020. Didn't have a fuck ton of felonies either. He didn't have street cred. Combine that with Kamala reminding every black male of their mother's that beat them every time they did something wrong, yeah, idk bro, I think he has a lock on at least 20-30% of the black vote. Which is all he needs.
 
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Francis York Morgan said:
I wouldn't say it's normalized at all. If it were, trannies would not have gotten anywhere near the pushback they received in the past couple of years. There's definitely an attempt made but it's falling on its face as more people are noticing what the Farms has for the better part of a decade.
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The normalization is at the "gender is a real thing that exists" level. That's actually a newish concept, and an unscientific one, made up by John Money (for our society) or various Jewish pedophiles (for Weimar 1.0). Most or a lot of people, I feel, even if they aren't accepting of troons (or at least, not "it's a social construct" political or AGP types), believes that your sex and what you believe about your sex can be different without you being obviously insane.

That's where the normalization is, and it's why they're trying to get vidya games to include shit like pronoun selectors and business cards/email signatures or children's cartoons to include preferred pronouns. The normalization seems to be around:
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  • There is no or very limited connection between gender and sex
  • Biology isn't real ("feminine penises" exist being backdoored as bodies are "type A" instead of "male")

The Last Stand said:
When I say normalized, I mean, they're around. Etched in modern culture whether you like it or not. I cannot unsee the trans craze to put it lightly. I would rather not known about it the way I have now.
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Picture the Transsexuals like the Goths of the 80s. By 2045, we'll look back and old media and go "oh, wow, that guy's in a dress, what the fuck" and have to explain to Generation Delta that "Oh, yeah, that was a thing that happened back then, the 20s were weird."

Sadly no Goths ever got their shitty facepaint tattooed on their face so the allegory isn't perfect, but, nothing ever is.

Escalating Violence said:
Most of that I bet went straight into her pockets.
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It was probably a combination of embezzlement and stuff filtered directly to various state party races and stuff. Remember, they had to consider Kamala a mulligan internally, this is a cycle where they're going to have to try and rebuild the DNC Party Machine -- and the puppet masters probably stole as much as they could grab.
 
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