2026 Mid-Term Elections

[ZiprHead]

Pillow guy lost.

And right on cue...

Mike Lindell refuses to concede in Minnesota primary despite getting far fewer votes

With almost all votes counted in Republican primary for governor, Lisa Demuth is ahead by over 10% of ballots

www.theguardian.com

 

[laughing dog]

Pillow guy lost.

The Mn GOP is breathing a huge sigh of relief. Even though the convention endorsed batshit candidate came in behind Lindell, the relatively sane one - Lisa Demuth- took first by a safe margin. Although it is disturbing that batshit received over 50% of the vote.

 

[Toni]

Apparently hatred and bigotry against Muslims is considered to be a winning campaign strategy in Michigan, the state with the most Muslims in the entire country.

Opposing political Islam is not "hatred and bigotry". And without the Islamist settler colonies of Dearbornistan and Hamtramckabad Haley Stevens would have won the nomination handily.

Have you ever been to Dearborn? Or even to Michigan? Even once? I lived in Michigan for 5 years. It is hardly the islamic center that you believe it is. More than half of the people of Arab decent in the area are actually Christian. Persons of Arabic descent living in Michigan comprise the largest population of Arab Americans in the US and they comprise less than 1% of the population of Michigan.

 

[southernhybrid]

Although not related to the midterms, since somebody brought this up, I felt like straightening him out regarding his claims about MCATS

https://www.medsmarter.com/blog/med-school-success-affected-mcat-scores/

n 2015, the exam was redesigned to help ensure that people entering medical schools also have basic understandings of behavioral science and social science. It’s important to include those who may perform low on the MCAT, but possess many other characteristics that can bring value to the healthcare system to the candidate pool.

According to the AAMC study mentioned above, MCAT scores and GPAs are given great weight when determining medical school eligibility. But there are other qualities that lead to success as practicing physician. These are characteristics med schools also look for in potential candidates, such as:

• Resume
• Leadership skills
• Volunteer work
• Community service
• Interview results
• Extra-curricular activities

So, in the end, your MCAT score may be a predictor of how well you’ll do during your first year of medical school. But it does not directly affect your long-term success as a med student, during your residency or as a practicing physician.

Apparently hatred and bigotry against Muslims is considered to be a winning campaign strategy in Michigan, the state with the most Muslims in the entire country.

Opposing political Islam is not "hatred and bigotry". And without the Islamist settler colonies of Dearbornistan and Hamtramckabad Haley Stevens would have won the nomination handily.

Have you ever been to Dearborn? Or even to Michigan? Even once? I lived in Michigan for 5 years. It is hardly the islamic center that you believe it is. More than half of the people of Arab decent in the area are actually Christian. Persons of Arabic descent living in Michigan comprise the largest population of Arab Americans in the US and they comprise less than 1% of the population of Michigan.

My husband's grandparents were Arabic immigrants and they were Catholics. Plus, as I've stated before Muslims make up less than 2% of the US population. I'm not worried about them. I'm worried about the White Christian Nationalists who are trying to force a theocracy on us. Why isn't Derec bothered by that? Why doesn't he make ups some insulting names for them? Like me, he lives in the Bible Belt where we are constantly bombarded by evangelical Christians who voted and many still support the worst president we've ever had.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Opposing political Islam is not "hatred and bigotry". And without the Islamist settler colonies

Which evil Arab Muslims are besieging neighborhoods and stealing the homes of white people, again?

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Apparently hatred and bigotry against Muslims is considered to be a winning campaign strategy in Michigan, the state with the most Muslims in the entire country.

Opposing political Islam is not "hatred and bigotry". And without the Islamist settler colonies of Dearbornistan and Hamtramckabad Haley Stevens would have won the nomination handily.

Have you ever been to Dearborn?

He's too afraid to go there.

 

[Derec]

Which evil Arab Muslims are besieging neighborhoods and stealing the homes of white people, again?

I never said something about stealing, but Muslims have colonized e.g. Hamtramck, MI so thoroughly that there are no non-Muslims left on the city council.

Given the small margin between the Islamist candidate El Sayed and Stevens, the Muslim vote definitely put him over the top.

 

[Derec]

Amy Coney Bryant had exactly zero trial experience before being elevated to USSC Justice.

Define "trial experience" and why that should be a sine qua non criterion for qualifications?

Her academic credentials are good and she’s clerked a lot but her actual experience as a judge was 3 years—pretty light.

Elena Kagen was not a judge at all before she was nominated to SCOTUS, and yet I do not see you call her "unqualified".
We need to separate what we think of justices' positions from their qualifications. And again, none of this justifies limiting nomination to only one race and one gender.

 

[Elixir]

Muslims make up less than 2% of the US population. I'm not worried about them. I'm worried about the White Christian Nationalists who are trying to force a theocracy on us.

…as we all SHOULD be. After all it is they who ransacked the nation’s Capitol at the behest of a fraud, a convict and a rapist.
I watched it live, and saw nary a towelhead. Just a bunch of entitled lilly white people attacking cops and defiling OUR/my property.

Why isn't Derec bothered by that? Why doesn't he make ups some insulting names for them?

I think the thin veil of D’s pretense is quite transparent to people here. All the ”why” questions about his behavior have the same obvious answer, and it’s not the one he ritually gives.

 

[Derec]

It looks like the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin Governor is David Crowley who is leading the Francine Hong (a bete noir of conservatives and chicken littles) by a little over 3,000 votes with 98.2% of the votes counted.

Wisconsin definitely dodged a bullet with this one. You do not need to be a "conservative", much less "chicken little" to think that Hong is coocoo for cocoa puffs.

And while the outcome was favorable in this case, the two top candidates were close and both <40%, i.e. neither received the majority. I think voting system should be reformed to require majority support. Some instant runoff system would be a good alternative to the traditional runoff.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

It looks like the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin Governor is David Crowley who is leading the Francine Hong (a bete noir of conservatives and chicken littles) by a little over 3,000 votes with 98.2% of the votes counted.

Wisconsin definitely dodged a bullet with this one. You do not need to be a "conservative", much less "chicken little" to think that Hong is coocoo for cocoa puffs.

You are a conservative though.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Candidate Who Called For Executing LGBTQ People Loses Primary

Republican Jadon MacCormack, who made headlines earlier this year with a slew of inflammatory, hateful remarks and social media posts, lost his primary to former Pomfret First Selectman Anthony Emilio Tuesday.

Among other comments and posts, MacCormack called for the execution of LGBTQ people, called Catholicism a false religion, said the Salem witch trials were morally justified to counter the threat of witches, and agreed with a post accusing Israel of worshipping the devil. MacCormack was the party-endorsed candidate.

In a social media post shortly after 9 p.m., Emilio thanked supporters for the honor of representing the party in the 50th District race against five-term incumbent Democrat Pat Boyd.

“Public service is about much more than winning political points, it is about respecting every resident, listening to different perspectives, and working together to find solutions that strengthen our communities,” Emilio wrote. “As I look ahead to the general election, I will work to earn the trust of residents across the entire 50th District, regardless of party or political affiliation.”

The Associated Press called the race for Emilio as early returns showed him receiving nearly 80% of the vote. With over 80% of the precincts counted, the public results counter on the Secretary of the State’s website showed Emilio with 298 votes to MacCormack’s 78.

Emilio was a last-minute petitioning entry into the race, after MacCormack won the party endorsement at the district convention. Shortly afterward, a social media post titled “Happy Straight Month,” made in direct response to Pride Month, contained numerous comments that drew criticism from both sides of the political aisle.

 

[laughing dog]

It looks like the Democratic candidate for Wisconsin Governor is David Crowley who is leading the Francine Hong (a bete noir of conservatives and chicken littles) by a little over 3,000 votes with 98.2% of the votes counted.

Wisconsin definitely dodged a bullet with this one. You do not need to be a "conservative", much less "chicken little" to think that Hong is coocoo for cocoa puffs.

And while the outcome was favorable in this case, the two top candidates were close and both <40%, i.e. neither received the majority. I think voting system should be reformed to require majority support. Some instant runoff system would be a good alternative to the traditional runoff.

Wisconsin is capable of changing their voting law if the legislature so chooses.

 

[Toni]

Amy Coney Bryant had exactly zero trial experience before being elevated to USSC Justice.

Define "trial experience" and why that should be a sine qua non criterion for qualifications?

Her academic credentials are good and she’s clerked a lot but her actual experience as a judge was 3 years—pretty light.

Elena Kagen was not a judge at all before she was nominated to SCOTUS, and yet I do not see you call her "unqualified".
We need to separate what we think of justices' positions from their qualifications. And again, none of this justifies limiting nomination to only one race and one gender.

For at least 200 years, only one race and one gender was even considered as a justice first USSC. Or for Senator or Congressman and for most of that: doctor, lawyer, architect, banker, etc.

Some people feel as though, given the plethora richness and depth on well qualified candidates, that it is time to look further those who have previously been I represented on the bench.

Think about it: Why do you object to a black woman on the bench? Is it because you fear that a black woman wont consider your point of view ( should you ever find yourself before the bench) but instead draw more heavily from her own experiences as a black woman? You don’t have to answer me but be honest with yourself. And then consider whether that might be just exactly how persons of color and women have felt fir the vast majority of the history of this country-or this world, frankly.

Rest assured: I see no evidence that women or people of color treat white men the way that white men have treated them.

 

[Toni]

Which evil Arab Muslims are besieging neighborhoods and stealing the homes of white people, again?

I never said something about stealing, but Muslims have colonized e.g. Hamtramck, MI so thoroughly that there are no non-Muslims left on the city council.

Given the small margin between the Islamist candidate El Sayed and Stevens, the Muslim vote definitely put him over the top.

It is always so shocking when people from one ethnic group choose to live near others in the same ethnic group!

Unfortunately, sometimes this happens because some of the already established residents of a locality decide to move out one or two neighbor from group move in. Whether that new group is black, or Jewish, or Catholic or Polish or Korean or Russian or ( insert group) and whether it is entirely by choice or whether it is a result of flight from dominant group from the sullying of the neighborhood by the entry of whichever out group du jour moved in. Property values are declared to be destroyed making the neighborhood newly affordable to recent immigrant group looking for homes. This is fairly common. Up until about the last 50-60 years in my town, there was a Polish dude of town and. German ( and everyone else) side of town, which largely fell along class lines. Abd was enforced by school policy: Studebts from the predominately Polish side of town schools could only access college prep classes if they were in band. You know what you needed to join band? Enough money to rent an instrument and uniform and ideally lessons. Hard to do on subsistence wages paid by factories. Factory owners needed a group guaranteed not to move up and out so that they would always have a source of cheap compliant labor. The German/Polish boundaries have blurred over the last few generations but it took the pandemic before the factories began to pay above minimum wage.

 

[ZiprHead]

Which evil Arab Muslims are besieging neighborhoods and stealing the homes of white people, again?

I never said something about stealing, but Muslims have colonized e.g. Hamtramck, MI so thoroughly that there are no non-Muslims left on the city council.

How do you know they are all Muslim?

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Which evil Arab Muslims are besieging neighborhoods and stealing the homes of white people, again?

I never said something about stealing, but Muslims have colonized e.g. Hamtramck, MI so thoroughly that there are no non-Muslims left on the city council.

Given the small margin between the Islamist candidate El Sayed and Stevens, the Muslim vote definitely put him over the top.

Neato, are they prohibiting non-Muslims from joining the council?

 

[laughing dog]

Which evil Arab Muslims are besieging neighborhoods and stealing the homes of white people, again?

I never said something about stealing, but Muslims have colonized e.g. Hamtramck, MI so thoroughly that there are no non-Muslims left on the city council.

Unless you are hinting at some form of election fraud, what's the problem? The city council of my town is all white even though the city is only about 85% white. I know lots of cities where the city council is all white even though whites are 70% or less of the population. Is that a problem for them as well?

 

[Elixir]

AI:

“Residents’ reactions have been mixed. The council’s repeated electoral success indicates substantial support, but some residents—especially LGBTQ+ people and progressive allies—have strongly criticized particular actions associated with its socially conservative positions.”

If you get enough XYZ living together, they get to pick a Chief. If ABCs don’t like it, they can go to the back of the alphabet. Apparently.
Likely outcome is that larger County or State entities will absorb the offending territory… same principle, to the next order of magnitude. Ethnic-religious concentrations tend to get gradually assimilated…
We used to call out such predominance as examples of tyranny by the majority, but really, that’s just life in a democracy. Which is another reason it’s the worst form of government except for all the others.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

“Residents’ reactions have been mixed. The council’s repeated electoral success indicates substantial support, but some residents—especially LGBTQ+ people and progressive allies—have strongly criticized particular actions associated with its socially conservative positions.”

Socially conservative you say?! So like, no different than what the default "socially conservative" demographic believes?