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What are Republicans doing to Unify the country?

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The Thriller said:
What are Republicans doing to unify the country? This story is nuts

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In secret recording, Florida Republican threatens to send Russian-Ukrainian ‘hit squad’ after rival

“I really don't want to have to end anybody's life for the good of the people of the United States of America. ... But if it needs to be done, it needs to be done," William Braddock says in the clip.
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Republicans do field some smoking hot candidates.
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As for the guy threatening to kill the lovely Ms. Luna, I don't think he was even a candidate. He was a stalker whom Luna had taken out a restraining order against. After the restraining order, Braddock told a local newspaper that he planned to run for office but he never actually filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Stalkers are no joke. My wife has had at least 3 she's known of.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
In your own words, what is it that you don't like about Ron DeSantis?
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What difference does it make? He was/is a Trumpublican. Reason enough. If he was the type of leader who demonstrated in his words how much he would like to see the warring sides in the culture wars seek out common ground, engage in a dialog that hopes for compromise, hopes for healthy resolutions, help warring Americans find a way forward as a unified people, if he, or any Trumpublican, spoke words that inspire, not divide, that I could respect. But I don’t see that. Maybe he’s a more competent demagogue than Trump. That’s an unnerving thought. Sounds like he’ll seek the nomination. He was as anti-science as Trump was during the height of the pandemic. Owning the libs is as much a part of his political DNA as any of the Trumpublicans. So, what’s to like? Not asking, because I don’t care.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
In your own words, what is it that you don't like about Ron DeSantis?
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If he beat out Trump for the 2024 nomination, I admit I would have to see that as a positive. At least initially. I just think he represents a reactionary movement in this country that is mostly visible in the culture wars, but also in the Trumpublicans moves at the state level with their election “reform” measures. I don’t see him calling out the Big Lie, making him part of the problem, not the solution. It’s no surprise to me that we are living in a tumultuous era, this is the kind of stress we should expect in a society and culture undergoing change in its self image, and trying to establish who we are as a nation. That seems to be the situation in a nutshell. We are engaged in trying to decide who we are as a people and nation, and I see DeSantis as aligned with reactionary, and anti-democratic forces.
 
Red said:
We are engaged in trying to decide who we are as a people and nation, and I see DeSantis as aligned with reactionary, and anti-democratic forces.
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Nothing DeSantis has done worries me that much, but that bar has been set rather low recently.

The Democrat I see as the equivalent to Florida governor DeSantis is California governor Newsom. I don’t see DeSantis or Newsom as able to beat their current party heads, both Trump and Biden will have to decide not to run in 2024. I tend to judge DeSantis by contrasting him against Newsom, and between the two I know which one worries me more.

Gavin Newsom is an authoritarian, straight up. If you want real fascism, Gavin is your guy. Governor Newsom has used something called the California Emergency Services Act to effectively dissolve the entire Legislative Branch of California. It isn’t as if they were even in the way. Gavin’s party has filibuster-proof supermajorities in both the California House and Senate.

Gavin Newsom is unilaterally striking down laws he doesn’t think should exist, and creating new ones all by himself. Even the state budget is unilaterally created by Gavin Newsom. I don’t think the California House and Senate are even rubber stamping it. Newsome just says what the budget is, cites DREOA (Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Act) and then it is. Now that the pandemic is winding down, Newsom has made it crystal clear that he is not relinquishing his emergency powers.

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Given the way California has set up the election process, the political leaders are determined by funding rather than popularity. California has legalized a practice called ballot harvesting. Ballots do not need to be collected at polling locations. Parties can pay ballot harvesters to go out to groups at their homes over wherever they gather, watch individuals fill out the ballots, offer helpful voting tips, collect those ballots, and then the ballot harvesters can turn those ballots in on the behalf of the voter. If the ballots voting the wrong way accidently fall into the trash on the way to being dropped off, then oops.

The practice of ballot harvesting is so effective, they turned Orange County blue. That would be like holding a vote at the Sundance Film Festival and reporting the majority of everyone there supported Trump. The people who can afford the most ballot harvesters are whomever the Silicon Valley tech companies want to win.

I’m not going to try to convince you to vote for DeSantis. I know you’d take Newsom every day of the week because he will be running as a democrat. I’m just saying that if you like democracy, real democracy, and you think the US should have 3 branches of government with checks and balances on power rather than concentrating all power in the hands of a single person, then you could do a lot worse than Ron DeSantis.
 
Red said:
If he beat out Trump for the 2024 nomination, I admit I would have to see that as a positive.
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Not me. Trump sucks and most of america knows it at this point. There is no way he would win another presidential election. Pretty sure the vast majority of our population doesn't want to go through that again.
If trump wins the republican nomination then I guess I'm gonna have to vote again even though I prefer not to.

Also, odds are he will be dead before 2024. He is already past the average life expectancy, has a horrible diet, doesn't exercise at all (he literally believes that exercise is bad for you lol), doesn't sleep nearly enough, and is a very stressed out and angry individual.
 
fishonjazz said:
Not me. Trump sucks and most of america knows it at this point. There is no way he would win another presidential election. Pretty sure the vast majority of our population doesn't want to go through that again.
If trump wins the republican nomination then I guess I'm gonna have to vote again even though I prefer not to.

Also, odds are he will be dead before 2024. He is already past the average life expectancy, has a horrible diet, doesn't exercise at all (he literally believes that exercise is bad for you lol), doesn't sleep nearly enough, and is a very stressed out and angry individual.
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Will I get banned again if I say I'm rooting for that?
 
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