115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

[mookie1995]

What is the source of the deeply religious roots of the deep South?

Crappy life here, but will be rewarded in heaven

[burd]

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It is? Then don't have an abortion.

It may be that simple for you and me, but I don't think it is for some who hold deep seated religious beliefs on the subject. I think it is a wrong-headed and, in my mind, foolish way of thinking that has serious consequences, but that is another matter.

[Kepler]

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Crappy life here, but will be rewarded in heaven

Uncle Karl said it all:

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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Fox news just said their poll has Moore down 10 points. Hahaha. Good strategy

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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https://news.vice.com/story/why-thes...g-by-roy-moore

Everyone understand Alabama now?

Oh, I understand it very well. Well enough to know it's not a place worth my time or money, and that anyone who attends college there, or continues to live there when they have the means to go elsewhere, is rock stupid.

[Kepler]

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Fox news just said their poll has Moore down 10 points. Hahaha. Good strategy

"They try. Oh how they try." -- Lorenzo St. DuBois

[Kepler]

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AL Public Poll

[geezer]

Fox news just said their poll has Moore down 10 points. Hahaha. Good strategy

It’s a real poll from this weekend, having filtered out the “likely voters”, and shows Moore losing 2% over the past month. Trust me, Fox News is not trying to gin up fake enthusiasm for Jones. If anything they’re downplaying it on the editorial side.
Did you see their other GOP senator go after Moore yesterday? The republicans are already in grieving over 2018.

[Kepler]

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It’s a real poll from this weekend, having filtered out the “likely voters”, and shows Moore losing 2% over the past month. Trust me, Fox News is not trying to gin up fake enthusiasm for Jones. If anything they’re downplaying it on the editorial side.

Deliberate Bias pollsters (Rasmussen, TCJ, Strategic Vision, whichever front Frank Luntz uses this week) often sandbag to try to give the other side overconfidence.

[geezer]

Bias pollsters (Rasmussen, TCJ, Strategic Vision, whichever front Frank Luntz uses this week) often sandbag to try to give the other side overconfidence.

I think rage, enthusiasm, uprising, are all better descriptors than overconfidence. Dems will be out voting while Rs are in their basements scrubbing at the stink of their own shame and loathing.

[Kepler]

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while Rs are in their basements scrubbing at the stink of their own shame and loathing.

65% of white Evangelicals support Moore. There is no sense of shame in the Republican party and no capacity for self-examination.

[Kepler]

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Hey, let's repeal all the amendments except the first ten!

[St. Clown]

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Hey, let's repeal all the amendments except the first ten!

In addition to being batshyte crazy on pretty much everything, he's also a 9/11 Truther. Oh, FFS. AL deserves him.

[joecct]

Hey, let's repeal all the amendments except the first ten!

Presidential election/succession
Slavery / involuntary servitude
Women vote
DC electoral votes
18 year old vote
Congressional pay
Direct election of senators
Income tax

I can see wanting a few to go, but not all and certainly not the 1st 3.

[BassAle]

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I think rage, enthusiasm, uprising, are all better descriptors than overconfidence. Dems will be out voting while Rs are in their basements scrubbing at the stink of their own shame and loathing.

I read some first hand accounts of people out banging on doors as part of a get out the vote campaign. They talked about poor predominantly black neighborhoods where the people didn't have TVs, computers, etc. Many didn't even know there was a special election and didn't know who Jones even was. Jones needs Obama level turn out from the black voters to make up for his disadvantage among the white electorate. I don't think it is going to happen.