God Has Abandoned Us: U.S. Politics November 2023

xpost no, it's the upcoming MCU movie starring Halle Berry and Samuel Jackson

i support the attempts to get formulaic YA literature off the shelves and people reading real books

as if one leads to the other

i support the attempts to get formulaic YA literature off the shelves and people reading real books

Yeah, this is the thing — I don't support the psycho anti-"porn" lady, but I also don't support people reading YA fiction, which is absolutely garbage, just not the specific kind of garbage she thinks it is.

y'all never read Henry James' gargoyle novel

Let's ban YA books for non-conservative reasons!

an abundance of trashy novels is hardly a new thing

These women can't possibly think they can police all of this.

oh they are dumb as fuck

Fair point, I think they’re the ones who approvingly quoted Hitler recently.

Mein Kampf didn't have any dirty bits, did it?

Mein Kampf (Dirty Bit)

Mein Kampf gegen die schmutizge Teile

Girl,are you Poland? Because I'd like to invade you.

Hey I just met you
And this is crazy
Here's my border
So come invade me

Are we really getting het up about young adults reading young adult fiction? Come the fuck on

YA fiction gets kids reading, and I am all for it without judgement on content. In fact I’ve seen a lot of YA fiction that brings a lot to the table.

"flowers of indie rock womanhood" but it's YA fiction

I feel like there's bizarrely little attention being paid to the fact that there are a lot of elections that matter tomorrow! The last big election day before November 2024! Virginia and NJ legislatures, Kentucky gov, Ohio abortion referendum -- lotta stuff out there!

Dems are poised to take Virginia's House of Delegates and keep the State Senate, and embarrass our "affable, fleece-vest-wearing" billionaire basement church Governor.

Feeling good?

Mostly city council and mayoral stuff here. Too bad I won't vote for the Dem mayoral candidate because she supports building a basketball stadium in the center of the city, ruining the historic (and THRIVING) Chinatown next door. In fact, the Republican is arguably more to the left than the Dem! https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2023/10/27/candidates-clash-crime-sixers-arena-debate

I voted as I always do: old-school, in-person, on election day, pre-dawn, school gym, right when they open, fill in the ovals, get the frickin sticker.

Yes I know there are other ways to do it but I don't want to give Youngkin's assholes a single solitary reason to contest (or accidentally "forget") my vote.

Feeling good?

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Taking sides: Giddy vs. Geddy vs. Gibby

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"Hold my beer." - Gabby Hayes

Gabby Giffords, Gabby Douglas, and Yo Gabba Gabba have entered the chat

Are we really getting het up about young adults reading young adult fiction? Come the fuck on

― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, November 6, 2023 7:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

What happened to this message board? We used to take Ashlee Simpson records seriously and now we want to ban young adult novels?

i want to ban young adult navels

sorry but I'm finding it all but impossible to not post "You left out the g cause the g ain't in you"

she bans the tin drum

The line at the polling place just off William & Mary’s campus is out the door and only growing.

Most important thing about the line: it’s all young people who are registering to vote today — this doesn’t even include the line of students who were pre-registered! pic.twitter.com/pqN30JLvvD

— Eve Levenson (@eve_levenson) November 7, 2023

The new silent generation?

Too bad I won't vote for the Dem mayoral candidate because she supports building a basketball stadium in the center of the city, ruining the historic (and THRIVING) Chinatown next door.

my friends in philly feel the same way; she's also pro stop and frisk.

xpost Silent, but deadly.

They should never have threatened to take away these kids' YA novels.

Andy Beshear remains governor of Kentucky.

It's not called yet though, is it? I really like Andy Beshear, hope he wins

Kentuckian here: Polls only closed 40 minutes ago in the CST part of the state. The race hasn't been called and will continue to skew closer as more W KY results come in.

The Hill is calling it for Beshear

Looks pretty good in Ohio

people have been panicking about 2024 polls lately so this is definitely welcome news

I've seen enough: in a victory for the pro-choice side, Ohio Issue 1, a measure to establish a right to an abortion in the state constitution, passes.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2023

👍🏽

Yeah, I'm willing to stop stress-eating now. 79% reporting, and Beshear's up by more than 78K. That'll hold.

good job America

Cautious optimism here in VA. Every individual candidate I'm watching is comfortably ahead, and the overall trend looks promising. Ds will hold the Senate and (fingers crossed) have a good shot at flipping House control.

Happy about Beshear! And based on Ohio I feel like Dems in '24 need to just basically be "ABORTION and WEED! Any questions?"

In my blue-dot Southern Appalachian city, a leftist Black woman incumbent appears set to win reelection to City Council over a white male Republican developer who literally outspent her 10:1. (This despite her being the biggest thorn in the side of our center-left mayor, who I don't think would have been sad to see her go. Tho the mayor was also just easily reelected, so I think a lot of people voted for both of them.)

Interesting times.

One thing I got to wonder about these polling on how Trump is 'winning' over Biden is who the flack is answering these things. As a registered Democrat in KY who votes every election, I got absolutely bombarded with home calls for polls and mailers. I told more than a handful of these clowns calling to f'k off, it's none of their bizness. I got to think in a cell phone info. crush world, this is more the default than answering their BS.