I heard McDichael is crushing it in early results from Dugnutt county

This is a containment thread for live discussion of US Midterms. Go to town.

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    Dems gonna control the majority in my State legislature. Absolute bluenami(My state passed one of the transphobic measures btw)

    (I’m just trying to get the thread past 1400 comments)

  • xenon [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    seeing libs saying “im gonna tell my reps to codify abortion rights” fell-for-it-again-award

    obama promised to do that in his original campaign and had democrat supermajority for 8 years

    and he spent it bombing children

  • CARCOSA [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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    @oliveoil@hexbear.net

    "Call to agitprop. Mods please pin.

    Alabama elected a trans woman to state senate.

    Alabama elected a trans woman to state senate.

    Alabama elected a trans woman to state senate.

    Hammer this narrative, don’t give the pro-centrism narratives any space to breathe or grow."

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Folks, I’ve already commented on how Talarico is the Portuguese word for “guy who has sex with another guy’s wife”, but a crucial piece of information I had overlooked has come to my attention just now and I must share it.

    The previous sitting senator whose seat is now being taken over by Talarico is called John Cornyn. Cornyn sounds just like “corninho”, which would be the Portuguese word for “little cuck”. Folks, you heard it here first; the little cuck’s senate seat is being taken over by the guy who has sex with married women.

    From now on, all of you should consult with me or any of the other Brazilians on Hexbear before taking any kind of political action, because clearly the Brazilluminati are in control and we have a very immature sense of humor. You have been warned.

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    JD Vance is blaming the Iran War for the loss. Shocking, as we all know it’s impossible for a VP to distance themselves in any way from an unpopular administration.

    Very likely he still goes down with the administration, but people are dumb as shit so who knows. Bush ran saying he’d be very reluctant to commit troops in nation building, then invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump distanced himself from those wars and then attacked Iran. Now Vance is trying to distance himself from Iran football-lucy

  • Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    So I had this brilliant idea to start an online campaign to ban cisgender people from public bathrooms and sports. The ads would be super scary and highlight real statistics showing how cisgender people are more likely to do certain terrible crimes or other stuff.

    Thoughts? Anyone have ideas to add to this? What if you could even somehow get anti-cisgender proposals on ballots in some places? Imagine how funny it would be for the cis to ban themselves from public life.

  • ghosts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2027 Blueeee Waveeeee Predictions 🏄‍♀️🗽

    ICE: “Needs more funding so it can be reformed”

    Iran War: “End the war - but without giving in to Iranian demands and Iran can never have a nuke”

    Israeli Genocide: “No more free offensive weapons shipments - Israel must pay their own way. Defensive weapons (Iron Dome, 2,000 lb bombs, white phosphorus) must continue.”

    Trans Rights: “No”

    Climate Change: “Protect oil and gas jobs while reinstating tax credits for Teslas”

    Minimum Wage Raise: “We had to remove this via amendment to ensure that the tariff reform bill passes. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good!”

    Student Loan Forgiveness: “No”

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    Fuck. It looks like AP just called the race for I-638 in Washington state, i.e. the anti-trans bill.

    Even if it gets overturned by the courts, the voting result is very fucking distressing to me, and speaks to how rampant transphobia is in blue states if they felt comfortable enough to call the race with 1/3 of the ballots outstanding in a deep blue state.

    I know some people will harp on how a lot of those who voted yes are profoundly ignorant and couldn’t be assed to do any kind of research and will be horrified when they realize it will affect their own cis daughters (if allowed to see the light of day). And that’s true.

    But the way the initiative was presented to voters made it pretty clear that it was a transphobic bill.

    Idk I just think it speaks to the “fuck you, I’ve got mine” mentality that many cis-liberals and faux-leftists have.

    I’ve never been more convinced that a disturbing number of these people would vote yes on an initiative that gave them free health care and college if the same initiative also promised to institutionalize all trans people.