If people want to talk about members of Congress being overly influenced by a special interest group pushing a wildly unpopular agenda that pushes voters away from Democrats then they should be discussing AIPAC https://t.co/2o22CMMtqw

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 17, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump

The freakout you’re seeing from the Left has far less to do with Trump and far more to do with realizing they’re losing their long monopoly on Cool. https://t.co/GOUACddYRK

— Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) November 17, 2024

!trump2024 GOATed

!grillers

!chuds @pizzashill your platinum rated pollster lmao maybe she can work with you stocking shelves.

!chuds

As the contested Pennsylvania Senate race barrels towards a $1 million recount, Democratic officials in a few blue counties are openly admitting to counting disqualified ballots in defiance of state law and court orders.

The Associated Press has called the race for Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick, who currently holds a 26,000 vote lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. But Casey has refused to concede and insisted that every vote be counted. The close margin -- within one percentage point -- triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law.

Yet the critical question is which votes should be counted? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail ballots lacking formally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results. However, Democratic officials in Philadelphia and surrounding Bucks, Centre and Montgomery counties are ignoring that court order.

"I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn't matter anymore in this country," Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that should be disqualified.

"People violate laws anytime they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it's because I want a court to pay attention. There's nothing more important than counting votes."

Officials estimate there are fewer than 80,000 provisional ballots left to be counted across the Keystone State, less than two percent of the vote, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. While the chance that Casey could make up his deficit is small, his attorneys and McCormick's have repeatedly clashed at county commissioner meetings this week as local officials have debated over whether to count small handfuls of ballots.

Democrats insist they are acting in good faith in believing that rejecting someone's vote because of a clerical error violates their constitutional rights.

In Montgomery County, for example, officials deliberated for 30 minutes over whether about 180 provisional ballots without secrecy envelopes should be counted. The Inquirer reported that several of these votes came from the same precincts, suggesting an error made by poll workers.

Democratic board chair Neil Makhija voted to accept the ballots so that voters would not be disenfranchised. But other members of the board, including one Democrat and a Republican, voted to reject the ballots on the advice of county attorneys who determined the law clearly states they should not be counted.

"We're talking about constitutional rights and I cannot take an action to throw out someone's ballot that is validly cast, otherwise, over an issue that we know ... is immaterial," Makhija said during Thursday's meeting. The board ultimately voted to count a total of 501 contested ballots.

Similar disputes over hundreds of votes have played out in Bucks, Chester and Delaware Counties.

Separately, there is ongoing litigation over undated mail ballots or those submitted with an incorrect date on the outer envelope. Several local Democratic officials have said an incorrect date should not be grounds to disqualify a person's vote. Lower courts have agreed with that reasoning, but Pennsylvania's high court has determined the law requires correct dates for mail ballots to be counted.

The McCormick campaign and Republican National Committee have asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reaffirm its Nov. 1 decision to stop Democrats from including undated mail ballots in their final tallies. The Casey campaign and the Pennsylvania Department of State have countered with legal motions arguing that the counties should be left alone and that the high court need not intervene as the challenges work their way through the appellate process.

The open defiance of court precedent has prompted Republicans to cry foul.

"Let's be clear about what's happening here: Democrats in Pennsylvania are brazenly trying to break the law by attempting to count illegal ballots. They are doing this because they want to steal a senate seat," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley wrote on X.

He said the RNC has filed four lawsuits contesting county decisions on undated ballots and vowed to "fight for as long as necessary" to ensure that McCormick's victory is upheld.

"This is the exact kind of left-wing election interference that undermines voter confidence," Whatley said.

Democrats have defended their actions and pointed out that McCormick himself had argued to count contested ballots when he trailed celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in the 2022 Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

In that case, McCormick's lawyer told a state judge that the object of Pennsylvania's election law is to let people vote, "not to play games of 'gotcha' with them."

There are potentially thousands of mail-in ballots with wrong or missing dates on the return envelope across the state, though most counties have not moved to count them.

A state-mandated recount must be finished by noon on Nov. 26. Officials have said they do not expect the process to change the outcome of the race by more than a few hundred votes.

Both McCormick and Casey were in Washington, D.C., this week. Casey participated in official Senate business and cast votes on the floor while McCormick attended new member orientation and met with other members of the new Republican majority to vote for conference leadership.

Jared Polis is a libertarian-leaning Democrat and Governor of Colorado. He's also GAY

He is the only notable politician to ever acknowledge /r/neoliberal. Here's an AMA he did with the sub.

Socially liberal, free market, gay -- surely Polis would have the undying loyalty of /r/neoliberal, right?

Unfortunately, Polis said some nice things about Trump ally RFK Jr.. This makes him persona non grata.

/u/TrixoftheTrade points out that /r/neoliberal promised to stop purity testing only yesterday

/uNytshaed asks why /r/neoliberal is defending a regulatory agency

/u/Industrial_Tech thinks /r/neoliberal wants to depolarize politics rather than ginning up blood hatred of Republicans

!neolibs

I say we change Florida’s welcome signs to this 👇 https://t.co/w1eBUvvg8F

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) August 12, 2019

US Muslim leaders who supported Trump to protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters.

“Trump won because of us and we’re not happy with his Secretary of State pick and others,”… pic.twitter.com/OAkVXGmoNv

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 15, 2024

On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back.

I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely.

We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven't fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.

What made my skin burn most wasn't that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didn't seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. Many of them didn't seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We don't even share the same future.

I am scared that the Trump administration will take away or restrict birth control and Plan B — the same way they did abortion. I am scared that the boys I know will see in a triumphant, boastful Mr. Trump the epitome of a manly man and model themselves after him. I was 8 years old the first time he was elected. Now I am 16. I am still unable to vote, but I am so much more aware of what I have to lose.

I have seen the ways in which many of the boys in my generation can be different from their fathers. The #MeToo movement went mainstream when they were still wearing Superman pajamas. On Tuesdays in health class, they learn about the dangers of inebriated consent. They don't pretend to gag when a girl mentions her period or a tampon falls out of her backpack. They don't find sexist jokes all that funny and don't often make them in public.

I've heard they even use new language in the locker room about getting rejected by a girl, one where no means no and don't try again. I love and care for many of these boys and have always felt they were on my side. I'm grateful to my school for taking gender equality as seriously as it does trigonometry.

But most of the guys I saw that Wednesday appeared nonchalant. A smiling student shook his friend's hand and said sarcastically, "Good election" in the same hallway where I saw a female teacher clutching a damp tissue.

Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities.

That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men. I have never felt more like a girl.

Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton's loss. Now at 16, I've had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger — but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher.

In a terrible way, I've never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5.

I can't predict how well I'm going to do on an English test tomorrow and I definitely can't predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I can do is tell you how I feel.

!chuds !foidmoment come laugh lol

I'd say the moral here is "women are stupid," but the writer is an actual child. The real shame is New York Times cute twinks elevating this sanctimonious slop.

The only people who discussed the election with me were actual friends and family, and none of them were really broken up about it. Everyone else just didn't talk about it and acted normal.

I kinda remember people acting like this 8 years ago tho. Some liberal teacher asked me how I was doing, and she was a bit shook when I said "Doing good!" in a generic small talk way

I look forward to working with the Trump Administration on fulfilling his promise to cap credit card interest rates at 10%.

We cannot continue to allow big banks to make record profits by ripping off Americans by charging them 25 to 30% interest rates.

That is usury.

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 15, 2024

What's with left first response to everything is go break down bunch of statues?

https://old.reddit.com/r/philly/comments/1gsawp2/time_to_pull_down_the_rocky_statue/

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/1grqyzx/i_wont_lie_this_hurt_and_was_disappointing/

https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1grveaw/rambo_gone_maga_mode/

"Soo when is Trump gonna grab Stallone, his wife, and their daughters' by their kitties?"

"Seriously, that butthole. I haven't cared about a lot of others but putting Rambo/Rocky on my shit list after all these years is a bummer. I'm going to be real upset if Kurt Russell or Willem Dafoe get sucked in."

"A girl dad at that. Imagine having all daughters and approving of a male feminist for President. Mind blowing."

"Ok I'm in Philadelphia and we've been pretty good to Stallone over the year. I'm not taking those stairs anymore. Actually the better entrance has on the other side, but still frick hjm and his limp peepee energy."

we need an RFK marley

!the_donald !neolibs !trump2024 !trump2028 !project2025

they emphasize that its espclecially important for the poor kids to have vitamin F in their water

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/nx-s1-5086886/fluoride-and-iq

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3409983/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8700808/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/08/19/study-raises-questions-about-fluoride-childrens-iq/

https://www.science.org/content/article/drinking-fluoridated-water-during-pregnancy-may-lower-iq-sons-controversial-study-says

https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/health/fluoride-iq-neurotoxin-study/index.html

https://www.vox.com/health/385541/rfk-jr-trump-hhs-vaccines-fluoride

IQ? Isn't that a dogwhistle???! And who's the US National Toxicology Program? Surely a bunch of antivax wingnuts that don't trust "The Science"

https://archive.ph/LTyEI

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/could-vice-president-kamala-harris-make-run-california-governor-two-years

!the_donald !trump2024 !trump2028 !kino

It might be the funniest shit ever to turn infowars into a legitimate honest to god newsroom run by the onion.