Vote! If you live in the US and are registered to vote, then vote! Today, Tuesday November 6th 2018, is the day of “the most important midterm election of our lifetime” as both the left and right seem to agree. It is one of the few things that both former president Barack Obama and right-wing blowhard Sean Hannity agree on.
If you have any questions about voting, check out vote.org.
This election will determine whether Congress will be a check on President Trump. If the Democrats gain either the Senate or the House of Representatives, they can block laws he wants to pass. They can ask for his tax returns. They can do proper investigations. If they gain the Senate, they can block his judges, who are filling up the courts, not just the Supreme Court. Those judges will still be there long after Trump is dead and gone.
I am going to vote straight Democratic. The Republicans are not standing up to Trump as they should. They have become the Party of Trump, not a conservative party or even a little-d democratic one. As vote suppressors Republicans are the enemies of democracy.
Even if you are Republican, vote! The more people who vote, the more the government can express the will of the people, however imperfectly. Politicians need donors, but they also need votes.
– Abagond, 2018.
See also:
- The midterms
- New York: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Florida: Andrew Gillum
- Georgia: Brian Kemp
- The Republicans are going over a cliff
- US Election Day 2016 – that horrifying night two years ago. I can still remember Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin swinging in the wind – and they were not even supposed to be swing states!
- Sean Hannity
- past endorsements:
- 2008: Barack Obama
- 2012: Barack Obama
- 2016: Hillary Clinton
- How to remove a US president
Reblogged this on Project ENGAGE.
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I am pulling for Beto O’Rourke and here’s to giving the middle finger to Ted Cruz. I am pulling for Stacey Abrams in Georgia. Boo! Hiss! To Desantis in Florida and Brian Kemp, Trump’s parasitic twins.
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Fuck voting, it’s a white thing now.
Look at what Obama did for black people, nothing, but Obama went all out for Gays,women and illegals. When have you heard a politicians say the word poor. So fuck voting.
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It will be interesting here in Texas with the Governor’s race a Mexican-American, LGBT woman running for this office. I am interested to see how many will support her in Texas. This is a conservative state.
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If you vote Democrat get ready to learn Spanish
and women and Gays will be in your faces 24-7.
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Yes vote to put mostly white people in office who doesn’t give a flying fuck about black people that makes a lot of sense.
VOTING= WASTING YOUR TIME!
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Vote Red gang
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@ Big Boy
If voting were a waste of time, the Repubs would not use so many dirty tricks trying to keep large numbers of people from voting.
Are you just here to write silly things?
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@ Big Boy
How’s the weather in Russia today?
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If voting wasn’t important why are the Republicans working so hard to suppress the voting rights act?
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Man, Vladimir and the gang are always up to some f**kery.
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The Democrats always use black people for fools just whistle for them a they will come running while the white Democrats look out for illegals, Gays, Abortionist, Muslims and feminist. Do they care about black people hell no!
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@ Big Boy
So you are here to just write silly things. Too much time on your hands, huh?
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@abagond
Did american police change after Trump got elected? I see in your site that 14 unarmed black men were killed this year. It’s 14 more than the ideal number, but IIRC it’s one tenth the number of Clinton, Bush and Obama. And in Brazil we see that number on a dayly basis
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@ Alberto Monteiro
The number of unarmed Blacks killed by police has dropped like a rock – too quickly to think it is a real change.
As to the police, more of them now use body cameras, so that is good. But Trump, unlike Obama, is not going to push to reform violently racist police departments.
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@ Alberto Monteiro
Yeah, Brazil seems to be way worse, but that is small comfort if you live in the US.
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Body cameras wouldn’t work in Brazil: they would find a way to turn them off
In the case of the kidnap and murder of Amarildo the police car had a GPS, but it registered nothing
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@abagond
“The number of unarmed Blacks killed by police has dropped like a rock – too quickly to think it is a real change”
I actually wonder if some things were, in a sense, deliberately worse under Obama. IOW, the white sense of disenfranchisement was higher so it caused the very racist police departments to become more overtly violent. It would parallel the resurgence of the KKK in response to black social and political mobility.
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In a word, terrorism.
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Ted Cruz has been re-elected to the Senate.😢😩😡🤬😡🤮
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Democrats take the House and Republicans take the Senate. (Sigh)
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Yes, and the bulletproof Republican majority in the Senate will allow the Senate to rubberstamp the many racist and reactionary nominees that will control the federal judiciary for decades to come–maybe, 30, 40 years. Get ready for a de facto return to the 1940s, folks, sans the Whites Only signs.
On another, but related note, as preposterous as the Trump attempt to change the 14th Amendment by fiat seems, against the backdrop of this new federal judiciary it is, unfortunately, quite plausible. Meant to deny citizenship to the happenstance birth of children born to visiting diplomats, the 14th Amendment offers a loophole, namely, that children born of parents not under the jurisdiction of the U.S. are not citizens. Now clearly the undocumented immigrants ARE subject to U.S. jurisdiction, a simple test being whether or not they can be jailed for violating American laws while on American soil. BUT a far-right federal judiciary coupled with a packed Supreme Court–you know, the S.C. that gave us such masterpieces of jurisprudence as Citizens United and Shelby v. Holder–can perform such contortions of logic and common sense as to actually gut the 14th.
I still hold a glimmer of hope, but it is the quixotic kind of hope Porgy held when he set off to find Bess in New York.
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Yeah, this now has a good chance of happening, with Maxine Waters likely to lead the Financial services committee. They can subpoena the records.
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re: Origin
Yes, I noticed this too.
Under Obama, before Trump came on the scene, the white sense of disenfranchisement was directed mostly towards blacks.
Trump’s rhetoric is mostly against Muslims and other non-Christians, foreigners, immigrants, people not speaking English, etc. Intolerance towards LGBT is framed in a religious reference. The white sense of disenfranchisement has shifted towards other targets (although voter disenfranchisement targeting blacks is as strong as ever).
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I hope this is not the last we will hear of Beto O’Rourke I hope he considers running for President in 2020
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I am thinking of a Kamala Harris / Beto O’Rourke ticket.
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I read that O’Rourke was a contender.
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76% White women voted for Ted Cruz in Texas and 76% white women voted for Brian Kemp. White women contribute to the patriarchy and white conservative politics. White women are no friend of people of color.
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Historic first were made women of color and religious minorities and LGBT were voted into congress.
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White women are just as dangerous as white men when it comes to preserving their ‘power’ albeit through their menfolk.
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Florida and Georgia are perfect examples that black votes matter because right wing conservatives were working overtime like some dastardly cartoon villains to surpress votes.
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@Herneith: So true
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For all concerned about (racial) voter suppression and the general okey-doke in our elections, I highly recommend Carol Anderson’s new book One Person, No Vote. In addition, her book before that, White Rage, is a must read. Without the Republican voter hi-jinks–and the Democrats unwise boast of such–there actual would’ve been a blue tsunami.
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@ Richard Ill: I have Carol Anderson on my list of books and essays to read along with Professor Joe Feagin’s books. Heard both of them when they were guest on Chauncey DeVega’s podcast. Thanks for sharing.
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@ Richard III: Your post pretty much summarizes exactly what happened in the mid term elections. Good points.
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It was supposed to be my first time this year; however, I clearly should have prepared to mail my registration form in before the deadline… Still, I do not believe voting to be a civic duty more than I do a necessity for people to believe that they have some liberty over circumstances of which they do not. Nonetheless, my misanthropy does not relish me of my guilt for not participating, as I do believe that individuals ought to have a personal pursuit of voting as a means to better one’s “feel for life” so to speak.
However, I can assure you that for individuals like my mother– who complained about not being able to have a MAGA hat due to familial opposition, I am simply not sure…
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Wait, is Big Boy a new troll?
Also, @Big Boy, you sound like a measly child who thought that he heard something cool and needs to tell everyone else about it– like Mark Dice.
As well, I cannot imagine that the majority, White people, regardless of political orientation would have the welfare of Black people at heart. Just take a look at KKK membership. “Democrats” made it, but I doubt that many were ultimately concerned about denying brethren membership purely on politics.
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Today I was talking to a woman who makes it her business to preach the gospel of voting at her job. I live in NYC, and the task of voting is not as onerous as it is in many place in the country; but we did have a 4-page ballot–2 sheets, back and front–complete with 3 propositions that were complex to the point of opacity.
At one point I mentioned to her that one can “cash” a blank ballot, in essence a vote for “none of the above,” keeping one’s voting record intact. In fact, even if people are ignorant of the candidates or indifferent to the process, they owe it to their neighbors to vote even if cashing a blank. My reasoning:
Suppose in this election 30% of eligible voter in District A vote; in District B, 90% of voters vote. Further, suppose that 99% of A’s voters scrupulously fill out the entire 4-pager; meanwhile 99% of B’s voters cash blanks. Which district is going to be valued more highly? Which district gets more love? Drum roll, please…. District B. While District A has more knowledgeable voters, 70% don’t bother to vote. District B, on the other hand, is a treasure trove of voters who can be swayed (mined) in future elections.
I say, Do It For Your Neighbors (and your neighborhood).
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Trump went all over the country supporting those candidates who embrace him and used scare tactics and lies and hateful rhetoric about the caravans from Central America coming to invade the country. These scare tactics are how the Republicans won the Senate during the mid term election. White conservative voters with racial resentment ate the hateful garbage that Trump dished out to them.
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@ Mary Burrell
I deleted a comment where you gave Big Boy dietary advice.
@ Big Boy
I deleted your comments that were in moderation, mainly for name calling and moderated language. Please review the comment policy:
Going forward all your comments will now automatically go to moderation. If you try to get around that, you will be instantly banned.
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Its possible the voting in the future will move to block chain as a way to be more inclusive, eliminate voter suppression, and make voting easy with the results transparent and immutable.
Democracy Earth is a tech foundation whose goal is to develop “liquod democracy”.
They have a “white paper” that forms the basis of there iniative and though somewhat technical is worth a read.
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/israel/palestine
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^^^ Sorry I posted the wrong link. Please edit..
https://www.democracy.earth/
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