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@TaraSetmayer Nah, all of you can be fired. We're done playing these games.
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@TaraSetmayer Kimmel said she looked like a widow then one of Kimmel friends tried to kill her husband the next day
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Who wants to tell Melania that in America we have something called First Amendment protected speech that includes mocking anyone we want to, especially public figures like her.
Get over it.
MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
Melania Trump is very upset that Jimmy Kimmel made jokes about her
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@thinbluesublime @kkondik Is it 2020?
All the red trends reverse, all the blue accelerate
Zzz
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NEW Crystal Ball: How we would rate the new FL GOP gerrymander (if it goes into effect)
For seats Rs intend to flip, we think FL-25 is a Toss-up, FL-14/22 would be more like Leans R, & FL-9 would be Likely/Safe R
More here: centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/ho…
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@Lenector1 @kkondik With 30% approval rating and not being on the ballot, u sure its a 9 to him?
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@celeste43_ @kkondik You think Florida is gonna let you have unlimited ballot harvesting bullshit?
lol, lmao even
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"If all of the gains that Republicans made in Florida since Ron DeSantis became governor never happened then then this map would result in 1 fewer seat than Republicans won in 2024." Ok.
Jacob Ogles@jacobogles
How much of a gamble is new @RonDeSantis map? If you run 2018 results (the last blue wave), Democrats could be expected to win nine seats, a one district pickup from what they have now. That's assuming @DarrenSoto and @KathyCastor would not significantly outperform top of ticket.
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Right. I am sure the same people who celebrated Charlie Kirk getting his neck blown out in front of the entire world will go back to being totally normal democrats when President Trump leaves.
Legal Phil@Legal_Fil
Part of me can’t wait for Trump to exit the national stage b/c I look forward to quasi-normalcy. The other part of me thinks, “I’ve seen a lot of peoples’ true selves. A complete unwillingness to be honest, the glee is being depraved. Quasi-normalcy will only be an illusion.”
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@KatieLaney7 And from the right too.
I’m sure this will set some people off, but we can’t act as if the outrageous conduct is a one-side thing.
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Part of me can’t wait for Trump to exit the national stage b/c I look forward to quasi-normalcy.
The other part of me thinks, “I’ve seen a lot of peoples’ true selves. A complete unwillingness to be honest, the glee is being depraved. Quasi-normalcy will only be an illusion.”
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@billybinion Kimmel said she looked like a widow and 2 days later some libtard tried to assassinate her husband. Are you for real?
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I said this last time there was Kimmel drama and I'll say it again: The Trump White House calling for his firing will just temporarily make him *more* popular. I need the administration to Google the Streisand effect. If you don't like Jimmy Kimmel, then he is best ignored.
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I empathize a lot with the first lady, and I don't find Jimmy Kimmel funny. He still has free speech rights, because the First Amendment does not just protect funny people with tasteful jokes. The government should not be pressuring a private company to fire someone.
First Lady Melania Trump@FLOTUS
Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.
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@DavidSipes15166 @DixieBearFren @PhilWMagness @ChristianHeiens So Christian it gave us Roe and Obergefell
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@DixieBearFren @PhilWMagness @ChristianHeiens They are NOT the same. America Classic Liberalism is based upon traditional Christian philosophy from Aquinas and the Protestant reformers. Progressivism is nearly godless.
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A noble sentiment, and one that is hopelessly doomed in the long run.
It's precisely because we are a liberal democracy that we have now come to view "our fellow citizens" as "devils incarnate or personifications of evil." The inherent pluralistic nature of liberalism has allowed the birth of new ideologies, beliefs, and worldviews that now threaten to destroy the traditional values and beliefs that have defined America for centuries.
There are now totally incompatible visions of the good, both vying for supremacy within the same polis. There's no scenario where oikophibic liberals and nationalist conservatives can live together in the same state for long.
>One side thinks the country itself is illegitimate and borders are violence, and the other believes that dissolving national borders and mass importing millions of foreigners are the prerequisites to total state collapse.
>One side believes that gender is fluid and mutilating children is an act of individual liberation, and the other believes that the traditional family is the bedrock of society.
>One side believes that White Men are uniquely evil and that state power must be wielded to tear them down from their privileged place in society, and the other side counts White Men as one of their core constituencies.
>One side are a bunch of blank slate liberals who believe any disparities are the product of systemic injustice, and the other side accepts group differences as a natural component of life.
>One side hates this country, its history, its way of life, its people, and the civilization that birthed it all, and the other does not.
These two groups cannot coexist in the same polis forever. One will eventually destroy the other, regardless of whether you or anyone else for that matter considers it moral.
Robert P. George@McCormickProf
I'll probably get clobbered for this, but here goes: Please, can everyone, right or left, MAGA or anti-MAGA, Republican or Democrat, stop catastrophizing and trying to get everyone on your side worked up into a rage? It's not Flight 93. We're not on the verge of fascism. We do not need to take desperate measures. Our fellow citizens with whom we disagree are not devils incarnate or personifications of evil. We need to argue with our political adversaries--passionately perhaps--but with respect for their humanity and dignity. We don't need to destroy them. That mustn't be our aim. We all say we believe in democracy. Good! But democracy is all about persuading, giving reasons, engaging one another as fellow citizens, despite our disagreements. Let's rebuild civic friendship. We can do this. (Thank you for your attention to this matter.)
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What if the biggest thing about Ozempic isn't weight loss?
Semaglutide: 40% CRP reduction independent of weight change. Lowers infection risk. Activates liver repair cells directly via GLP-1 receptors.
Arthritis, Crohn's, MASH, heart disease all improving.
We've been calling these "weight loss drugs." They're anti-inflammatory drugs with a weight loss side effect.
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The modern left has been well established as the party of political violence
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@tencor_7144 we will have more stable maps that will mean less swing districts, so MOST of us wont have to deal with political ads
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All gerrymandering is bad, and what was even the whole point of all of this when we're just gonna have worse maps all around and the US House landscape barely changed from early 2025 in terms of a tipping point partisanship standpoint.
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The thing about this whole Florida gerrymandering discourse is that if Rs are losing Trump +15 South Florida seats this year they are well on their way to a comfortable minority anyways. It's about the path to 218, not 200.
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If anyone has a DRA map let me know. I have a feeling some of these seats aren't super safe.
Fox News@FoxNews
FIRST ON FOX: DeSantis reveals new redistricting map proposal -- GOP gains FOUR seats
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@NOVAaocfan20 @AustinHoney30 No? I just hate democrats and wouldn't piss on one on fire.
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If the FL SC had any dignity they’d shoot down this map but we know they don’t so the map will be implemented
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Democrats are mad about a potential 24-4 (85.7%) map in Florida, a Trump +13 state, all while they are claiming the following states are not gerrymandered:
Virginia 10/1 (91%) for a Harris +5.8 state
California 48/4 (92.3%) for a Harris +20.14 state
- where the incumbent governor won by less than in Florida in 2022
New York 19/7 (73%), where they went for at least 20/6 (77%), in a Harris +12.6 state.
- this state was just 15/11 in 2022. New York's first-in-the-nation Mid-decade gerrymandering efforts flipped 4 seats from Republican to Democrat, an astonishing gain of 8 seats, even as Trump pulled New York closer than it's been since 1988. Since Michael Freaking Dukakis.
And again: New York drew first blood. Not us. They are just mad that we noticed what they were doing. (Illinois drew preliminary blood.)
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On a proportionality basis, the Ronmander map in Florida is still significantly fairer than the Democrat gerrymander in Virginia.
Dems won 42% of the vote in Florida and will win between 14 and 21% of the congressional seats under DeSantis' new map.
Meanwhile, the GOP won 46% of the vote in Virginia and will win just 9% of the congressional seats under the Dem gerrymander.
DeSantis' new map is also vastly more fair than California's. Trump won 38% of the vote in CA, and yet Republicans are likely to win just 7% of the state's congressional seats.
If you look at the gap between the state's popular vote breakdown and the percentage of seats the minority party is expected to win under the map, Florida's new map is almost perfectly on par with Illinois or Maryland.
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@NOVAaocfan20 @AustinHoney30 We need dems in NOVA to start moving to Gitmo.
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@AustinHoney30 We need the dems there to start moving up to Georgia or North Carolina.
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