it's mostly true: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news...18/drug-testing-welfare-applicants/53620604/1[thread="509493"]Quote:[/thread]
honestly, i don't believe this stat at all.
that tweet is misleading.
yup. it's an L for them no matter how you cut it.
I'm not ninja. read my edits.
Whatever happened to Julian Castro? I remember his 2012 DNC speech and found myself pretty inspired.
oh ok didn't see the edit but yeah nowhere near 87,000 drug tests were performed.
system is pretty dumb
why can't we send in a fake Republican (Colbert?) Manchurian candidate style. once he's in office he/she will switch sides completely.
and give up his band?BTW, Martin Carcetti is gonna run again in 2020
O"Malley so far up his own *** it is amazing at times.
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-Here is the thing, Dems should not put to much hope in approval ratings when it comes to elections. Maybe you can use to argue what kind of mandate he has, but that is about it.
The people sampled to judge approval rating don't really reflect the likely voter population, especially for a midterm.
The electorate Trump will face in 2020, and the GOP will face in 2018 will still be whiter and more conservative, than the sample used for doing approve ratings.
Also, people can disprove of the job he is doing for many reasons, than doesn't mean they would not vote for him again.
If all registered voters actually voted, the GOP would get massacred up and down the ticket constantly.
-Until you see sustain sub 30s numbers and his popularity among Republicans get much lower, don't celebrate.
Liberals have to dig in their heels and vote. The Tea Party ****** up Obama's **** when dude was in the low 40s, because liberals didn't bother showing up in midterms and special elections.
We need to return the favor to Trump and the entire GOP. Hold the Senate where it is, cut down the House lead, get as many state reps, Governors, and Attorney Generals in place to increase voting access, and 2020 we have a chance to land a real blow against white supremacy and conservatism.
Let us keep sight of that.
-But still, it is funny to point and laugh at this buffoon sometimes
Yea, but that doesn't mean the other 86,999 all passed the screening. According to articles, many refused to take the test, and lost their benefits immediatley.
-Here is the thing, Dems should not put to much hope in approval ratings when it comes to elections. Maybe you can use to argue what kind of mandate he has, but that is about it.
The people sampled to judge approval rating don't really reflect the likely voter population, especially for a midterm.
The electorate Trump will face in 2020, and the GOP will face in 2018 will still be whiter and more conservative, than the sample used for doing approve ratings.
Also, people can disprove of the job he is doing for many reasons, than doesn't mean they would not vote for him again.
If all registered voters actually voted, the GOP would get massacred up and down the ticket constantly.
-Until you see sustain sub 30s numbers and his popularity among Republicans get much lower, don't celebrate.
Liberals have to dig in their heels and vote. The Tea Party ****** up Obama's **** when dude was in the low 40s, because liberals didn't bother showing up in midterms and special elections.
We need to return the favor to Trump and the entire GOP. Hold the Senate where it is, cut down the House lead, get as many state reps, Governors, and Attorney Generals in place to increase voting access, and 2020 we have a chance to land a real blow against white supremacy and conservatism.
Let us keep sight of that.
-But still, it is funny to point and laugh at this buffoon sometimes
Yes to all of this.
I think that the way to seal the deal is for Democrats to talk more like Republicans who talk more like AM radio show hosts. The trick is to talk like you have authority, that you do not actually have, and then claim that wield that authority in order to protect the listener from the ravages that the other side has and will unleash.
I want Bernie releasing his Monthly audit where it calculates all of the money that Trump's administration stole from American families each month. I want Elizabeth warren to issue her financial criminal watch list. Cory Booker, please start having a monthly top ten list of suspected white supremacists and known white supremacists.
Issue reports of known Republican rapists in congress. Play up every single hate crime (have profiles and back ground stories about the victims and read these profiles out loud on TV and during filibusters). Send out campaign literature with Betsy DeVos' head being severed by a French Revolution era mob. Demand unrealistic things such as provision where a State's Electoral College votes are based on its share of GDP (privileging California and New York).
In the last 20 years, we had exactly one liberal who could drive turnout with positive message and he was Barack Obama and he isn't running any more so let's get visceral, gruesome, Gothic, Dutertesque and use fear to drive turnout.
Republicans drive turnout based on fervid dreams of FEMA camps, their towns and cities under martial law and forced separation of children from their parents. Democrats will be judged failures if they fail to drum up similar turnout when their own coalition actually is subjected or will soon be subjected to those horrors in real life.
