Why the Republicans are in a panic about Hispanics – politicalbetting.com
Why the Republicans are in a panic about Hispanics – politicalbetting.com
There are things to be said about high/low propensity voters but the big takeaway seems to be this is a new swing voter audience. pic.twitter.com/VfYDMbsyCf
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GOP deserve to be out of office for two generations at least.
That trying to avoid the inevitable will just make the retribution worse is only partially relevant, because the retribution will be on a different generation of red-rosetted politicians.
(Why did the Latino vote swing so hard towards Trump last time? Long term factors, or did they just not like Harris?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV7ubGT3lUk
TRiP Leading – Rory & Al interview the former England manager and penalty-misser (and an advert for software for lawyers at the start).
I’ve got Santana at Fillmore West with Steppenwolf and The Staple Singers supporting, and the same artwork that they used on their first album. James Brown with Bobby Bird and Lynn Collins at the Paramount Theatre. The incredible and unpredictable Sly & the Family Stone with the Staple Singers at Madison Square Garden
And a three night run at the Fillmore Auditorium by Otis Redding in December 1967, weeks before he died. He had a different support act each night. First night was the Grateful Dead and last night Country Joe and the Fish
I’d never noticed until today the name of the band that played with him on the second night: Johnny Talbot and De Thangs. So I looked them up
I like them. This is Watcha Wanna Do from 1964
https://youtu.be/F6lafuzuGXw?si=6c-jYv8dupz3Ft5R
Grim stuff coming out about the 17-year old Farage. Waiting to find black and Asian pupils alone to intimidate them, regular antisemitic bullying, and Nazi salutes. Not a mild issue, whether 17 years old or not.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/18/deeply-shocking-nigel-farage-faces-fresh-claims-of-racism-and-antisemitism-at-school
It was the sheer numbers which surprised me.
But, either way, there's a fair Spanish colonial heritage whether in SA/Mexico or in the southern states of the USA such as California, Nevada, and New Mexico. So Spanish/Castilian was the colonial language and perhaps also a lingua franca.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/most-native-americans-speak-spanish
That some do is hardly surprising, since the Spanish were colonists before we were.
Never forgotten a colleague of mine making a joke about oranges back in the post-glacial era and having to have it explained to me, either.
This is pretty disgusting behavior to Jennifer Jacobs. Why does the rest of the media act like nothing shocking just happened?
https://x.com/neeratanden/status/1990799945612603887
Michael Flanders, introducing his song 'The English' in New York.
https://x.com/donaldtusk/status/1990818892491395549
Unpleasant for sure. Reprehensible certainly. We do not know if it is true or not, of course, it is just an allegation.
Most of us do stupid things when young.
The result is probably more Polish borders closed with Belarus, tighter security on Polish borders with Ukraine, and a continuation of NATO intelligence heading the way of the Ukranians with regard to Russian targets.
As a line of attack on him, however, I think dredging this stuff up from 40+ years ago is a complete waste of time.
https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-starmer-asylum-mahmood-labour-budget-taxes-badenoch-farage-12593360
I'm fed up with our timorous leaders. This sabotage is a direct result of us doing nothing about the repeated intrusions into NATO airspace. Next it will be a few metres of Estonia.
Clearly we can't know for sure who is telling the truth - but denial to the extent you're accusing half a dozen contemporaries of lying about their recollections of you, is rather more unusual.
And If they're running Andrew out of town who impacts on none of us surely Farage a possible next PM should be in our cross hairs
.......Daily Mail where are you?
So it's intended both to disrupt and to intimidate.
The alternative is to simply let Putin do what he wants.
https://x.com/edconwaysky/status/1990817996600652147?s=61
ExxonMobil is closing its plastics refinery in Mossmorran. 400 jobs.
For the first time since the UK invented polyethylene (the most important of all plastics) we are no longer manufacturing the key ingredient, ethylene, in this country...
Because that would not only be about the same cost as the damage to the railway line but a direct personal affront to the Womble lookalike.
I'm not entirely surprised, since those allowed such access to Trump are a selected group, from which those who are 'awkward' tend to get kicked out.
With a PostIt on it
“Next one’s coming faster”
This sabotage was ground based.
Unless you catch them at it you cannot take action against it only after the event.
Zack?
As we ought to have done much sooner.
When I was at primary school racism was everywhere and there were real racial tensions. To my shame I once racially abused an Asian kid. I was about 9, the word just came out of my mouth without thinking. It's probably the thing I'm most ashamed of. Not least as I'm married to an Asian woman and have three mixed race children.
If Farage was a card carrying racist at secondary school and can't admit to it now or show any remorse it is a massive red flag.
Which was a totally insane position to adopt, and along with the increasingly damaging revelations about his long history of antisemitic behaviour did a great deal to explode the nice guy image he had been carefully building up.
Europe is so scared of the risk of escalation that we're sitting back and letting Russia escalate with no deterrence to them escalating further, again and again.
Right now we are more scared of them and it shows, and so they can do pretty much what they want.
I doubt the UK has sufficient and if we do that we may as well be at war with Russia ourselves.
We also risk leaving ourselves without adequate to defend ourselves if we donate too much. We need to stop talking about increasing defence spending and get on with it. The timeline to get new kit is not weeks.
What would it take in terms of weapons for Ukraine to win and, more importantly, in terms of manpower. Does anyone really know outside of the upper echelons of NATO ?
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Nigel's problem is that it's much harder for him to say that, given the brand he has built up. And at least some of his supporters would leave him, either because they believe in free speech or because they believe in the alleged opinions of Young Nigel. It's not entirely fair to blame Adult Nige for the alleged sins of Young Nige, but since when has politics been fair?
I've still got a soft 'political' spot for Corbyn, though, I don't think he's seriously anti-semitic. Remember, Arabs are Semitic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xirOJE2zp-M
There might have been some sort of email mix-up at Goalhanger. TRiP had the footballer and now TRiE has MPs.
Richard & Marina name the MP who ITV wanted in the jungle this series but whose party pressured her (spoiler!) into dropping out, and which party leader wanted to do it but was turned down by ITV. And how much Matt Hancock trousered a couple of years ago.
So what do you think they should shoot down, now as you cannot delay a response to an attack, and where and who shoots it down ? NATO ?
This is why the Texas redistricting is so dangerous for the Republicans: it's taking a bunch of districts that were 60:40 to the Republicans last time (thanks to Hispanics swinging Republican), and making more of them, but making them 55:45.
If the Texas Hispanic vote swings back to the Democrats by even half of the numbers seen in New Jersey, then the Republicans could easily end up with a net loss of Congressional Districts.
Gerrymandering is a dangerous game.
Part of me thinks fuck him, he should account for it, part of me thinks should we go after such crimes after 40 plus years as that could open floodgates.
They’re playing games, knowing that their bluff is unlikely to be called.
And no, we don't risk leaving ourselves without adequate defences. The UK alone, obviously, cannot do it; a more determined Europe almost certainly could.
The bigger future risk is a Russian conquest of a large part of Ukraine, which would significantly increase both their manufacturing base and ability to recruit more cannon fodder. And any lengthy armistice in that situation would allow China to overtly help rebuild Russia's military.
We either stop this now, or fairly likely face some sort of repeat, within a decade.
So that's enough long-range firepower to destroy oil refineries, drone factories, railways, ammunition dumps, etc. We don't have that firepower available, but we could do so if we decided to and built the capability and gave the money to the Ukrainians to build the capability.
If we'd decided to do this three years ago the war would be over already.
Of course if it went to trial it’s a risk. If he was found not guilty he’d be even more insufferable
He will raise the money from under-taxed billionaires
Britain’s billionaires have a combined (high-) estimated wealth of about £800bn
I’m pretty sure that’s less than a decade of our current overspend, if you can turn all of their wealth into tax money
This isn’t serious policy; it’s a story for believers
And inflation spiked on Biden's watch, and the Democrats took the blame.
(To which I would add that Harris/Waltz was a combination designed almost entirely to not speak to Hispanics. Now, was that an issue as big as economics? Nope. But it didn't help.)
(This could also apply to his associating with the IRA, for example.)
I think he might still have got away with that - albeit it's not a great look for a political leader to admit poor judgement - if it hadn't been for his extraordinary and cack-handed attempts to cover it up. For example, when that photograph of him emerged laying a wreath to the perpetrators of the Munich massacre, his bizarre explanation that he was 'present, but not involved' made him look not only like an idiot (which was past praying for) but a liar and a coward as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitation_periods_in_the_United_Kingdom
It’s insane but it’s popular and cuts through with his target audience
Corbynks was an excellent typo. It should be his new nickname
I asked the other day but didn’t see if you’d responded
Do you think that the copper crisis might hinder the growth of cheap solar power?
I mean, just look at Megyn Kelly.
It’s a tell - like having lots of “88” decorating stuff. Or discussing IQ and black people.
It also ignores the origin of the term - the original anti-semites in Germany called themselves “anti-semites”.
All in all, not an argument I’d use.
Actually... maybe it would just be half the usernames. Still.