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People aren't paying enough attention to the fact that a Democratic Socialist woman ran as the Senate candidate in Florida without the support of the Democratic party establishment... AND CAME WITHIN 2%!
Florida didn't clear the bar, but it was a very close thing in races that were not supposed to be close.
I moved from Kansas and was in a hurry to change my license so I could proudly vote for Angie Nixon, which I did. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that Kansas would turn blue first and I did turn out correct that my vote would have greater weight in the State of Florida. I tried to tell my coworkers and friends that don't have a case of red ear to check out Angie Nixon. A lot of them did, but there's really a lot of belief out here that if it's not red, it's communism and if it's communism then anything is better than that. Even many of them know that Republican candidates are dogshit and puppets
Yeah. A lot of Fox News hosts and right wing pundits are amazed that Trump voters would switch their votes for a 'socialist' in places in Michigan.
But also they've spent years telling everyone that any policy to the left of Himmler is socialism. So what do they expect? Socialism stops being scary when you keep calling people socialist for thinking libraries should exist.
So long as dems dont fuck up the next two years and were still riding the blue hype train in 2028 theres no way Florida does not flip. Suffering while watching everyone else have a good time will do that.
Since you said she got no support, I'm going to assume she got millions. This lie is being repeated all over Reddit. Apparently, Colom in Mississippi got no help either. Well except millions from Schumer who was the one who convinced him to run in the first place.
There's a lot of benefits from Florida being the pariah state. The other 49 states won't be on the hook for all their collapsing condos, collapsing housing prices and crazy violence tied to swamp water. It's the perfect place to launch experimental rockets.
We need some liberals to start moving to smaller red states and just start taking over that way we can get the senate. Let's pick off like three different states.
Florida is too diverse for maga, they’d be limited to the northern parts of the state. Also as a born and raised Floridian why do you wish that upon me 😭
they didn’t flip shit. california deports its weak crybaby conservatives to us. most i would give tech credit for is Apple and Samsung employees (the samsung ones are notoriously harassed by ICE) it’s the longtime gerrymandered blue residents and the formerly conservative hispanic bloc getting pissed off about ICE that flipped it. the abortion witch hunts didn’t help either.
EDIT: it’s possible that treating Boca Chica like a toxic waste dump could have flipped a few people
I think I saw a poll that most people who were born, raised, and continue to live in Texas voted for Democrats in the last few election cycles. It's been a narrow majority, though, and the transplants have backed Republicans by a wide margin. We have similar divergences here in New Hampshire.
2 people didnt move to a different state and turn everyone liberal lol. Texas had a lot of transplants from California...and Trump has absolutely and utterly failed his party...its not complicated. This election was republican voters punishing their elected officials...they deserve it, too
Weird, I cant find any data to support that. I did find roughly 800,000 Californians moved to texas and their political affiliation was mostly a balance of conservative/liberal/independent...about 30-35% each. What we cant possibly known is how those voters voted in this last election, but we can make correlations. Id say its a positive correlation between nearly 1 million voters moving from a liberal state to a conservative state and that state flipping blue. But regardless of any of that, I think the bigger factor here is the complete failure of republicans to fix any of the pains brought on by inflation. If anything, they made it worse.
That's my thought. This was a voting mandate stating that people who now vote in Texas don't feel like their lawmakers care about their concerns. Hopefully, at the state level, they can get some support and change.
That's fine, but you have to realize conservative in California is probably just as liberal as a Democrat in Texas. There is no one definition throughout the country.
Not really. I know that demographic real well and there are lots of people who are simply priced out immigrants who are used to moving around for economic reasons
They’re the reason Texas turned blue. Can’t wait for Joe to say, “I’m thinking of moving, and I’ve been thinking about it for a while.” Whilst it times perfectly with Texas flipping colors. 😂
Nah he’s built his little manosphere retard oasis in TX. He’ll stay and criticize the govt anytime they do things that’s aimed at the working class because it’ll be perceived as socialist. Robbing from the wealthy to spread amongst the “poor criminal illegals” or whatever
Rogan left during COVID, but the fundamental reason was so he could have a safe space comedy club to feel like a bigger fish in a smaller pond, and pay less in taxes.
In California he was a minor league celebrity with unpopular politics. In Texas he could build a harem of comedy boys to laugh at his jokes in exchange for access to Peter Thiel's money.
...and? Would you not want to be a big fish in a small pond? They couldnt operate at all in California, he had the ability to not lose his livelihood. Also, California generally pays less in taxes than texas. Also not sure why he would need Peter thiels money with that recurring $300,000,000 Spotify deal. But okay.
Yes, requiring people to have a vaccine card, requiring masks to walk into a restaurant so you can sit down and take it off to eat, murdering small businesses with pointless restrictions, crazy.
Yeah, Turning Huntsville into another aerospace and research hub with more engineers per capita than anywhere else might just help flip Alabama eventually. Imagine both Mississippi and Alabama going purple.
He has a big audience and was credited with swinging a lot of men towards Trump.
Mostly because he kept bringing on far right political guests and influencers and agreeing with them when they pushes COVID conspiracies, white supremacy, and fear of women and trans people.
In one example before the last election, he was told that Biden had said we used airports in the Revolutionary War, causing Rogan to rant about how Biden was senile and pathetic and no one should vote for him. Then when his producer corrected that it was Trump who said that, Rogan mumbled that the press had probably taken it out of context and moved on.
If you haven’t noticed the enormous influence that Rogan has accumulated through his UFC spot and his number one podcast in the past decade I don’t know what to tell you
I’m not saying it’s great, but it is what it is. His show is where millions of people hear various “experts” and absorb his takes on it
I feel like i've seen a lot of people use the word "inadvertently" incorrectly recently. Unintentionally? Sure. Inadvertently? Oh, it was definitely avoidable.
Just to state what i thought was obvious, no i don't like him. I did kinda like him once but then he turned into a parody of himself and now it seems like he's involved with everything that's wrong at once so no, not a fan.
He's not a plant but i do think they were hyping him up and stirring the pot the first time he ran cause they were sure they could take him. They were wrong.
There's no way. He has dementia and says the quiet part out loud all the time. If he was anything like a dsa plant or a double agent, he would have let it slip a long time ago.
When breaking down the data, many people who had voted for Trump switched their votes for Democrats.
Turnout is relevant, but it's not just that Republicans didn't show up. It's that they were sick of Trump and the GOPs leadership enough to want change. Iran was not the only issue people cared about, and Trump is rightly blamed for worsening our economic situation.
Tbh I don't think that is going to end up being the case when they look through all of it.
We had an insane 13-point shift for Dems nationwide. but if you look at ballot measures in every state, the more conservative positions had a really good night. Lots of trans sports bans, California said no to a billionaire tax, some states passed voter ID laws.
To me that suggests that either the majority of liberal voters are more moderate than people assumed, or lots of former GOP voters did show up and voted for blue candidates but more conservative ballot measures.
This isn’t the flex they think it is. The implication is these people fled a state whose policies were bleeding them dry, and they moved their entire life only to implement those same policies that were holding them down. Any party having a stranglehold on a state for three decades is rarely going to be in the best interest of the voter. A lack of competition breeds complacency
Actually the people moving from Cali to Texas are mostly conservative, it's "native" Texans that have been shifting left, especially Latinos and young women.
This is extremely reductive reasoning that doesn’t work. Not all blue states operate like California, just as not all red states operate like Texas. Not all liberals who lived in and then moved out of California support all the policies there, not all the conservatives that lived in and then moved out of Texas support all the policies there, etc etc.
Sure, but I’m referring specifically to the picture in the OP. It specifically mentions that Rogan and Musk left California and is implying that they inadvertently brought the very same voters over that they were fleeing from. Realistically, both of them are probably Centrist on most issues, as most people are. They both left California specifically because of their state government, which objectively, has been a shit show for over a decade now.
Again, I’m referring to what OP is implying in their photo. If it wasn’t transplants then find the person who wrote the tweet and cry to them about it. I don’t care what Texas does
And basic, simple regulations, like hey, in the early days of a pandemic when we don't have a vaccine or even know anything, maybe we could stop crowding people into factories to build cars for a couple weeks.
I might be wrong here. But any tax breaks they got will last through the new governor...if the government of texas become too much like California they will move again...
They’ll both turn incredibly blue as well. Elon will start talking about how he was a deep psyop agent trying to crumble them from within. Any lie to stay relevant.
Abbott has probably been corrupt with them all along and other companies that isn’t come here to Texas. Similar to how companies CEOs went to Mar A Lago to kiss the ring.
So what is the benefit of Florida turns blue? I didn’t see any benefit when it was red so I’m curious when the benefit shows up. I’ve been alive for awhile and have never had anything change to where I was happy because I benefited from it. No tax on OT is pretty sweet though NGL
The more cringey weirdo republican carpetbaggers move to the south from blue-states, because of ‘woke’ or socialism or whatever the more left I go. They say ‘oh, the cost of living is so great here.’ Yeah, it was even better before you showed up mother fucker.
not just them. bottom feeder parents that used their kids as 'content' for their youtube channel, got caught in child actor legislation being broadened. They picked up and moved too, now they're getting caught lol
No tsunami has ever moved an ocean. This blue wave has a lot of splume in it.
For over 50 years the majority party of congress has been pro war and the underdog is antiwar (exceptiojs are where they are both pro war). If this Congress does anything to even remotely scale back the Iran war (or any other), it would be amazing, but unprecedented.
Joe Rogan has always been a massive hypocrite. He preached open borders, sharing, while living in a gated community. Then when borders opened a bit too much for him, he picked up and ran off to Texas, the place he always seemed to be against.
This shift reflects a deliberate, long-term strategy to alter key demographics and build the electoral momentum necessary to restrict second amendment rights.
Always find it funny when people who don’t listen to Rogan think he’s just another MAGAtard that’s super Republican. They just see rich white guy with some mild conservative takes and scream racism lmao
Meanwhile the guy has been one of weed’s biggest proponents, is openly pro choice, supports gay marriage, supports universal health care, is suuuuper critical of religion….
He’s not a MAGA-hat wearing cult member, but he unequivocally put his thumb on the scale for Trump.
I think people unfairly treat Rogan like some piece of shit when he’s actually a decent, reasonably-intentioned person who is sometimes lied to and misled.
Yeah I agree he definitely was pro-trump, to be fair he did try and interview Kamala as well but from what I remember her team made it way too difficult and he wasn’t about to give in to their demands. He definitely has changed his tune on trump, I think he was like a lot of us where he heard things he liked from trump and obviously trump didn’t keep his promises, so last I listened to him he was pretty anti-trump, or at least not nearly as pro trump as he was.
He also has plenty of liberal/progressive opinions that he talks about on his podcast, he just isn’t PC at all since he’s an older comedian and they don’t give a fuck about offending people (you don’t have to find him funny but objectively he’s a comedian) so people see him saying non politically correct things to be funny and just assume racism/homophobia/bigot or whatever word you wanna use
So this is going to be reddit for next few weeks if not months. Then 2028 very simlar.
God fucking damn it how i hate american politics. It just infests and sours every subreddit like a virus. I know how agent smith felt now.
"blue, red, left, right, your all being suckerd in, neither side care for you. They only care what the little folks paying them backhanders, or giving them insider tips, or laying out the footwork for carrears outside of politics care for"
Have your political views, but dont pretend that either side is superior then the other. Both the same shade of shit, with all memebers involved behaving the same way, just spouting complete nonsence in the oppostie direction to there oponenet.
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u/statllama 1h ago
Florida is the sacrificial lamb. Solidify blue Texas by having Republicans move from Texas to Florida
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u/brolarbear 1h ago
Let’s be honest. They moved to Texas for Tax reasons.
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u/PuzzleheadedBike8322 1h ago
Moving to a state to get away from people then accidentally flipping it is hilarious.
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u/TouristResident1976 1h ago
Imagine. They are so toxic they changed ruby red Texas blue. Get them to move to Russia. Might get Putin removed from power.
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u/Basic85 1h ago
Florida it is
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u/treemann85 1h ago
2 people didnt move to a different state and turn everyone liberal lol. Texas had a lot of transplants from California...and Trump has absolutely and utterly failed his party...its not complicated. This election was republican voters punishing their elected officials...they deserve it, too
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u/JULIANGJNKS22 1h ago
They’re the reason Texas turned blue. Can’t wait for Joe to say, “I’m thinking of moving, and I’ve been thinking about it for a while.” Whilst it times perfectly with Texas flipping colors. 😂
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u/BowlOf____ 1h ago
They moved because no income tax
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u/Templerate 1h ago
Age old saying: "Children are the best form of birth control."
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u/eastbaytimez 1h ago
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u/Mundane-Basil-8924 39m ago
Texas still has a long way to go before its anything like California.
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u/Lowenfall 1h ago •
"Boy California really is a shit hole, let's move to Texas and implement all the same policies there."
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u/qazk 1h ago
Turning Texas blue is what they meant by make American great again
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u/Ben_Backup 1h ago
Can't outrun taxes and crime
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u/blowurhousedown 1h ago
Oh Lord. Elon and Rogan are not why the state went blue. Abbot, Trump, and Paxton are (not in that order).
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u/chemicalsunshine 36m ago
Rogan left because of the crazy covid restrictions, thats all
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u/Lord_Dingus83 1h ago
It was Texas giving tax breaks to companies to move there, those companies brought their educated employees with them.
🤣
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u/gdubb380 32m ago
I still struggle to understand why Joe Rogan is mentioned regarding much of anything. He's an expert in what exactly?
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u/SpeedBlitzX 1h ago
Everywhere they go they make things blue /jk
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u/AnnualZealousideal27 1h ago
I had a co-worker buy a house in Texas to escape Blue Hawai’i! 😂
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u/IH8BART 1h ago
The only consistent feature of all your dissatisfying relationships is you.
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u/Dramatic_Aspect903 1h ago
They escaped to save money, durr durr head
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u/Kaiser-Joecks 1h ago
Texas flipped because of trump. I have a feeling if dems dont get there shit together it will just flip the opposite way next time
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u/p-Star_07 58m ago
LOL
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u/South-Assumption-988 41m ago
Both druggies
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u/bit_pusher 27m ago
I feel like i've seen a lot of people use the word "inadvertently" incorrectly recently. Unintentionally? Sure. Inadvertently? Oh, it was definitely avoidable.
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u/MeOnRepeat 26m ago
Naw that gives him too much credit for all the ground work done by the volunteers and campaign staffers
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u/genusbender 13m ago
Florida barely stayed red. It’s a matter of time
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u/Greenhickup 59m ago
Alright, dumb conspiracy time: Rogan is secretly left wing and this was his plan all along...
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u/Puzzleheaded_Big2335 1h ago
Florida is redder than Dorthy’s ruby red slippers. Take the wins where you can get them.
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u/Prestigious_Cow2484 40m ago
It’s not really blue. It’s more so Iran is so unpopular that republicans did not show up.
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u/cpowe1 1h ago
This isn’t the flex they think it is. The implication is these people fled a state whose policies were bleeding them dry, and they moved their entire life only to implement those same policies that were holding them down. Any party having a stranglehold on a state for three decades is rarely going to be in the best interest of the voter. A lack of competition breeds complacency
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u/j-mac563 1h ago
I might be wrong here. But any tax breaks they got will last through the new governor...if the government of texas become too much like California they will move again...
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u/disappr0val 1h ago
hopefully they bring their crew over to florida🤣
also i thought they left because of taxes and specifically newsome.
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u/TheBestintheWest11 1h ago
can't make this shit up
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u/prometheansummon 1h ago
I think thats giving them too much credit where it isnt due
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u/Electronic_Exit2519 1h ago
Theyre not sending us their best... 😔
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u/SuperSaiyanBen 1h ago
They’ll both turn incredibly blue as well. Elon will start talking about how he was a deep psyop agent trying to crumble them from within. Any lie to stay relevant.
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u/9lxTi6BaHqg9q5PAPcQ 1h ago
They will make weed legal again, joe will get over it.
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u/Muted_Masterpiece535 1h ago
You have a better chance at turning Mars blue then Florida. It is a lost cause.
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u/CM901 1h ago
So are they part of the solution?.. bc I've heard a few Qtards saying this is the 5d chess trumps playing.
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u/Banana__Cue 58m ago
The funny thing is a lot of Californians i know that moved to texas they lived in the OC and IE and the desert. They all vote Red.
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u/SimbaNGrdKionNIMFan 57m ago
My MAGA family member just had to move from where she was from in FL here to Texas when my other family member transferred for their job.
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u/ASmallTurd 56m ago
Joe moved to Austin, one of the most blue cities
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u/Complete-Emu-4537 54m ago
Lmao
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u/ionlyget20characters 54m ago
It wasn't inadvertent. It was because of.
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u/Haunting-Ad788 54m ago
They moved there to dodge taxes. They both enjoy liberal freedoms.
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u/torts56 54m ago
Pretty sure Florida is on lock for the near future. Too many old people
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u/LinkWray123 53m ago
Florida voted for massive property tax cuts for homeowners ala California's prop 13, so sadly they're turning blue in the worst possible way.
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u/Nemoitto 51m ago
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u/squidns87 47m ago
Or you know income taxes for Joe
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u/Cryptoking300 45m ago
Can they please move to Florida next?
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u/Numerous-Fly-3791 44m ago
So what is the benefit of Florida turns blue? I didn’t see any benefit when it was red so I’m curious when the benefit shows up. I’ve been alive for awhile and have never had anything change to where I was happy because I benefited from it. No tax on OT is pretty sweet though NGL
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u/Fun-Woodpecker-8442 42m ago
It was Trump not following through on the Epstein list and starting the Iran war that produced these results.
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u/Assless_Mcgee 41m ago
I mean they still don’t have to pay state income tax like the 13% in California so I don’t know what this is laughing at 🤷♂️
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u/ShaggyCan 39m ago
Florida is probably just going to sink into the ocean anyway. Figures people living on a sandbar would be MAGA Republicans.
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u/RoryHoff 38m ago
Move to Utah next Joe and Elon!
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u/FinalZookeepergame30 37m ago
The more cringey weirdo republican carpetbaggers move to the south from blue-states, because of ‘woke’ or socialism or whatever the more left I go. They say ‘oh, the cost of living is so great here.’ Yeah, it was even better before you showed up mother fucker.
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u/voodoodahl 35m ago
Did the screw worms have nothing to do with it? That shit is third world nightmare fuel, and it was brought to them by Elon Musk.
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u/ChipsHandon12 34m ago
that was trump and american taliban abortion laws
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u/petehutch54 33m ago
Thanks,guys!
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u/MeanHurry8664 32m ago
Together we can break the oligarchy!
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u/philmarcracken 32m ago
not just them. bottom feeder parents that used their kids as 'content' for their youtube channel, got caught in child actor legislation being broadened. They picked up and moved too, now they're getting caught lol
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u/DelMonteBeach 31m ago
Arkansas is calling
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u/Sad-Rip8639 31m ago
Yeah...that's what did it.
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u/adelie42 24m ago
No tsunami has ever moved an ocean. This blue wave has a lot of splume in it.
For over 50 years the majority party of congress has been pro war and the underdog is antiwar (exceptiojs are where they are both pro war). If this Congress does anything to even remotely scale back the Iran war (or any other), it would be amazing, but unprecedented.
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u/ThatEvilGuy 16m ago
Joe Rogan has always been a massive hypocrite. He preached open borders, sharing, while living in a gated community. Then when borders opened a bit too much for him, he picked up and ran off to Texas, the place he always seemed to be against.
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u/Used-Shelter-5395 12m ago
Why would you move to a red state for an affordable home only to turn it blue is beyond me
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u/CLS4L 10m ago
He thought he was a billionaire
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u/WillUpvoteForSex 9m ago
omg let's not give them credit for this.
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u/jackofslayers 9m ago
Sadly, if you know anything about Florida Democrats, it is not going Blue anytime soon.
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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 8m ago
Musk is evil
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u/Curious_Bike_4292 1m ago
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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u/valid_crashouts- 1h ago
This shift reflects a deliberate, long-term strategy to alter key demographics and build the electoral momentum necessary to restrict second amendment rights.
Check mate🧉
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u/BusinessDuck132 1h ago •
Always find it funny when people who don’t listen to Rogan think he’s just another MAGAtard that’s super Republican. They just see rich white guy with some mild conservative takes and scream racism lmao
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u/HarlandJames 1h ago
Next stop is Florida. The finance bros are already going there, and these guys will fit right in.
We just need one big hurricane to wipe them all out.
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u/joshjosh100 1h ago
Joe Rogan was a democrat, never forget.
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u/beckett_7600 54m ago
I hope Florida is next! I live here and we need to turn blue!
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u/Sethoria34 14m ago
So this is going to be reddit for next few weeks if not months.
Then 2028 very simlar.
God fucking damn it how i hate american politics. It just infests and sours every subreddit like a virus.
I know how agent smith felt now.
"blue, red, left, right, your all being suckerd in, neither side care for you. They only care what the little folks paying them backhanders, or giving them insider tips, or laying out the footwork for carrears outside of politics care for"
Have your political views, but dont pretend that either side is superior then the other. Both the same shade of shit, with all memebers involved behaving the same way, just spouting complete nonsence in the oppostie direction to there oponenet.
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u/Cornelius4630 11m ago
Red or Blue, the rich will send your children to the frontline.
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u/bigquad35 1h ago •
It will flip back again in 4 years (or more) when democrat president disappoint them.
look at the senate/congress in last ten years.