This makes me unreasonably angry. I used to have a Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula and they are super cool and delicate little things who do not want to hurt you (except mine thought my hand was another female spider and would rear up if I reached into her environment).
Anyway, Tarantulas are amazing and this woman is a psycho who should also be charged with animal cruelty.
The district is extremely rural and Republican and the opposition to Boebert were unable to coalesce around any one candidate, thus splitting the slightly less crazy vote. Let’s be clear here though, none of the other candidates were good picks either.
Reliable demographics or voting blocks get preferential treatment over fair-weather voters. If you want to know why even the GOP won’t overtly kill social security or medicare (unless they include a way to keep current recipients on benefits), it’s because old people vote very reliably. Though with the modern day cultists this isn’t as true anymore since MAGAs will happily let the GOP take everything from them if they think it will hurt their perceived political enemies.
This is just useful expenditure of political capital. As a politician you want to stick your neck out for groups that are definitely showing up.
Politicians famously consider the opinions of people who don’t vote. /s
I’m happy to work with and listen to people capable of basic human compassion, but my patience for those who seek only to hurt the less fortunate and the marginalized has reached its limit.
I’ll reserve my pity for those more deserving.
The risk is low because we have not yet detected a variant with the mutations needed to facilitate human to human spread. If we do it will jump from low to extreme very quickly.
I had a rescue dog that reportedly killed chickens when she was a puppy. She was the sweetest smartest dog i ever had, but very timid. For years if we raised our arms above our waist she would cower, if we raised our voice, she would cower. It was a challenge to discipline her because of her obvious past trauma so we trained her to go into timeout, if she misbehaved we would get out an egg timer and she would have to sit under the dining room table until it went off. This really worked as a deterrent.
When she was older she had some health issues and we did some x-rays for unrelated reasons. We discovered that when she was young (before we got her) someone had broken both her front legs. The vet said the nature of the breaks suggested they were deliberate. It was the first time in my life I felt actual rage.
We know that she believes any being not immediately useful to her is unworthy of life. This is such a core part of her identity that she believes she deserves accolades for it. She didn’t just kill her dog, she did it and then bragged about it because she thinks it makes her look strong.
This woman is a psychopath.
“We accused specific private individuals of serious crimes without evidence and now they are suing us! This is persecution!”
I wonder why they don’t just clear the courtroom of reporters during juror selection and let them back in for the actual trial.
What are you on about? Buck is criticizing Greene because she is threatening to oust Johnson for pushing to pass a Ukraine aid package. She is carrying water for the Kremlin.
It’s just a motte and bailey argument, we don’t have to name things after Trump.
A ataggering number of Republican voters seem to think the people they elect will not do the things they say they will do if handed power.
That’s the logical play, but they better get the aid up front because Johnson isn’t trustworthy and obviously isn’t in control of his own party.
This is madness.
Why would he need to raise the money? He told the court he had $500M in liquid assets.
Could it be that he was being untruthful in his statement to the court? I think there is a word for that.
Isn’t it more traditional to wait until after your fascist party seizes power before purging your membership?
The only way Biden leaves the race is by his own choice. He can be cajoled to leave but the party isn’t going to force him out. The question would be who would replace him and he would have a lot of say in that matter. I would say Harris and Newsome would be the two most likely picks. Personally, I think Newsome would be the right choice since he is corporate enough to please the neoiberals but forward on enough issues to not totally lose the progressives.