There is nothing to be grateful for. During the pandemic people hated inconvenience more than the death of people.
You can say this war matters but the obvious follow up is asking how republicans in power would do anything different.
as far as getting people to show up and vote, that part doesn't matter. btw, Trump's play on this, like the Ukraine Invasion, is going to be "10/7 wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been cheated out of the presidency." Total bullshit, of course, but effective in a way bc it can't actually be disproven.
Still referendum vs choice. Also team youth polling is insanely broken. Trump isn't winning 18 to 34yos.
I do think this polling is great for impacting their behavior though, seen by conditional aid calls etc
I don't think they're apathetic I think none of us answer our phones for anybody and use call screening tech that makes us not even get the calls or texts at all. This is where you have to square the polls with actual election results. Combined with the divide between online polling and phone polling you can find plausible explanations.
then he better start forcing aid convoys past the Israelis (though I think it might be too late to salvage anything from this gigantic debacle).
Bold of you to include the average TMB user with the “youth vote”. Sorry, I would have replied earlier but I was taking a train to a free doctors visit without having to use one of my 30 vacation days.
I forget where I saw it, but I enjoyed seeing something to the effect of “WH and aides surprised by sentiment in polling”
life there won’t be better with trump life her will undoubtedly be worse with trump so Fuck it don’t vote
For now The economic data is rough for old girl, like only country in Western Europe with a lower standard of living than twenty years ago
yeah i only really care when it's like October and normies are paying attention to make their decisions
might have already been posted but dc they also made all phone calls free. one lady said she was charged more than all her other expenses(house, car, etc) combined just to call her husband in jail. abhorrent shit
I regert to inform everyone that during my travels this weekend through west tx that the trump 2024 and fuck joe brandon flags were back out in full effect. one person even went as far to spray paint a large sign on their fence that said 'fuck joe biden he is a china whore and dont do dumb shit' I was a little confused by the second part of the sign, but clearly they were working through some things.
Federal appeals court ruling threatens enforcement of the Voting Rights Act The decision from the 8th Circuit is likely headed to the Supreme Court. By ZACH MONTELLARO 11/20/2023 12:02 PM EST Updated: 11/20/2023 02:10 PM EST A federal appeals court issued a ruling Monday that could gut the Voting Rights Act, saying only the federal government — not private citizens or civil rights groups — is allowed to sue under a key section of the landmark civil rights law. The decision out of the 8th Circuit will almost certainly be appealed and is likely headed to the Supreme Court. Should it stand, it would mark a dramatic rollback of the enforcement of the law that led to increased minority power and representation in American politics. The appellate court ruled that there is no “private right of action” for Section 2 of the law — which prohibits voting practices that discriminate on the basis of race. Spoiler That, in practice, would severely limit the scope of the protections of Section 2. On paper, those protections are themselves unchanged by the ruling. But for decades, private parties — including civil rights groups, individual voters and political parties — have brought Section 2 challenges on everything from redistricting to voter ID requirements. “After reviewing the text, history, and structure of the Voting Rights Act, the district court concluded that private parties cannot enforce Section 2,” the judges wrote. “The enforcement power belonged solely to the Attorney General of the United States.” The majority opinion from the three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit was authored by Judge David Stras — an appointee of Donald Trump — and joined by Judge Raymond Gruender, a George W. Bush appointee. Chief Judge Lavenski Smith, another Bush appointee, dissented. “The ruling has put the Voting Rights Act in jeopardy, and is very cavalierly tossing aside critical protections that voters have very much fought and died for,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, the director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, who argued the case in front of the appellate court. The decision originates in a racial gerrymandering case out of Arkansas, where the state chapter of the NAACP and others alleged that the state’s legislative districts violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting power of Black voters. A lower-court judge, also a Trump appointee, ruled in early 2022 that he couldn’t decide the case on its merits because he found there was no private right of action — that, effectively, they had no right to bring the lawsuit. On Monday, the circuit court affirmed that finding. made it harder to win on Section 2 claims, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion that the court was explicitly not ruling on whether a private right exists. “Our cases have assumed — without deciding — that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 furnishes” that right, he wrote. “Lower courts have treated this as an open question.” Justice Clarence Thomas concurred with Gorsuch’s opinion at the time. A decision to bar private challenges under the Voting Rights Act would reverse decades of legal practice. Outside groups have repeatedly brought successful Section 2 challenges, and litigate alleged violations of the law far more frequently than the federal government does. “We’re talking orders of magnitude of a difference in terms of enforcement of these rights,” Lakin said. In a statement, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, a Republican, celebrated the ruling. “For far too long, courts across the country have allowed political activists to file meritless lawsuits seeking to seize control of how states conduct elections and redistricting,” he said. “This decision confirms that enforcement of the Voting Rights Act should be handled by politically accountable officials and not by outside special interest groups.” wrote on Monday. “If minority voters are going to continue to elect representatives of their choice, they are going to need private attorneys to bring those suits.” Most recently, the Supreme Court sided this summer with a group of civil rights groups and individual voters who argued that Alabama’s congressional maps likely violated the Voting Rights Act — which led to the court-ordered creation of an additional majority-Black district next year. Thomas pointedly noted in his dissent in that case that the court had not addressed the private right of action question. Other federal courts have also recently considered — and rejected — the argument that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not have a private right of action. A ruling out of the 5th Circuit this month in a fight over Louisiana’s congressional lines noted that “there has not been frequent need in the circuit courts to analyze the issue” of a private right of action. The court there wrote that the Supreme Court has at times expressly noted the ability of private parties to bring lawsuits, and other circuits have found that that right exists explicitly. The 5th Circuit judges ultimately held that a private right exists. The immediate next step following Monday’s ruling was not immediately clear. Legal experts expect the case to end up in front of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court could choose to hear an appeal directly, or the entirety of the 8th Circuit could weigh in on the case first. Lakin, the ACLU attorney, said early Monday afternoon that the challengers had not yet decided “our next step of actions.” But, she noted, the recent circuit split makes her believe the Supreme Court will “be interested in taking up the case.”
Ah the Wynn dealers benefited from being a featured property during F1. Now do the strip casino that was slashing prices through race day. Nevermind, a whale tipping dealers is the only important metric, you are right. FWIW the crowd at a well known off strip sports book was “comparable” to a boxing match. Definitely bigger than the Super Bowl. source: the sous chef at chiles
https://www.reviewjournal.com/busin...oncur: F1 was best Las Vegas event in history Resort leaders concur: F1 was best Las Vegas event in history
“properties around the circuit did exceptionally well.” I don’t remember arguing the featured properties wouldn’t have a good weekend. The whole argument was about “BIGGER THAN THE SUPER BOWL!” which was misleading due to the nature of an average Super Bowl in Vegas vs a Super Bowl in the city. but whatever I’m sure you know more about what’s going on because you are googling for headlines that fit your argument.
I want this to stop and never come back and if I can’t have that, maybe just let me die. Which means that this topic should really be in the Trumpocalypse thread.
idk man it sounds like Vegas did pretty well overall. Representatives of the city’s largest resorts said because of the visitor profile of the average F1 guest, the city’s luxury resorts — MGM Resorts International’s Bellagio, Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and Aria properties; Caesars Entertainment Inc.’s Caesars Palace and Paris-Las Vegas; and both Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s properties — did the best. “We were completely full,” said Sean McBurney, regional president for Caesars Entertainment. “I think, regardless of where the properties were located, whether it was near the track or not, performed as if it was New Year’s Eve,” said Lanzino, who spent much of his time at the Bellagio Fountain Club.