The same reason the government doesn’t fix immigration or healthcare or gun control. These issues are hard and volatile. That makes the fairly toxic for politicians who are always chasing reelection to address honestly. Combined that with lobbyist and special interests and we are left with endless quagmires where nothing important ever gets done unless an actual catastrophe actually occurs (though with guns that isn’t even enough).
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Goddammit they work for a health insurance company.
‘Can’t afford health insurance’: California CVS workers take strike vote — Guardian US
More than 7,000 workers to hold strike vote this week amid accusations of staff shortages and expensive healthcare
Do you have Apple News+?I can’t find the story without a pay wall.
Anyhow, turns out it was the republicans the whole time (as usual):
He’s killing the dogs! Trump loyalist allegedly said he beat dog to death, report says
The head of a conservative group allegedly admitted to killing a dog, The Guardian reports.
Guy that currently runs the heritage foundation allegedly boasted he killed his neighbor’s dog with a shovel. Neighbor does say dog went missing. Also Kari Lake eating dog. Also also everything RFK Jr does.
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I mean I read it on Apple. lolDo you have Apple News+?
If yes here is the link:
He’s killing the dogs! Trump loyalist allegedly said he beat dog to death, report says — NJ.com
One of the leaders behind Project 2025 allegedly told his colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel, The Guardian reports.
If no:
He’s killing the dogs! Trump loyalist allegedly said he beat dog to death, report says
Published: Sep. 24, 2024
One of the leaders behind Project 2025 allegedly told his colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel, The Guardian reports.
Kevin Roberts, the now-president of the Heritage Foundation, allegedly told his colleagues and other guests at a dinner party in 2004 that he killed the neighbor’s pit bull with a shovel, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. The report includes interviews with his colleagues from the New Mexico State University from the time.
“My recollection of his account was that he was discussing in the hallway with various members of the faculty, including me, that a neighbor’s dog had been barking pretty relentlessly and was, you know, keeping the baby and probably the parents awake and that he kind of lost it and took a shovel and killed the dog. End of problem,” Kenneth Hammond, chair of the university’s history department at the time, told The Guardian.
The Guardian reported that one of Roberts’ colleagues and the colleague’s wife also recalled Roberts telling the story at a a dinner at his home. The outlet said three additional colleagues said they heard it from those who said they heard the story from Roberts.
“My husband and I were stunned. First of all, that he would do such a thing. And second of all, that he would tell us about it. If I did something horrific, I would not be telling my colleagues about it,” Marsha Weisiger, a colleague of Roberts at the time, told The Guardian.
Roberts denied killing the pit bull in a statement to The Guardian.
“This is a patently untrue and baseless story backed by zero evidence. In 2004, a neighbor’s chained pit bull attempted to jump a fence into my backyard as I was gardening with my young daughter. Thankfully, the owner arrived in time to restrain the animal before it could get loose and attack us,” Roberts said.
The Guardian said it also tracked down the person Roberts identified as his neighbor with the dogs.
“I’m not here to make up stories or to say he did it,” Daniel Aran said, according to The Guardian.
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“But it was right around 2004 when all that happened, that Loca was missing,” he said. “I wish I could say, yeah, I know this fool did that. But I can’t tell you that. But what I can tell you is that my dog went missing, and we never found her. She wasn’t at the dog catchers.”
The new report follows similar reports during the 2024 election season that connects politicians to animals. In her new book, Republican Kari Lake recounted how she shot and killed her dog on a family farm. In recent months, multiple reports have also connected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to an animal carcass, a dead bear and a beheaded whale.
In addition, former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) have put forward false claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and dogs. City and state officials have reiterated that there’s no evidence of that.
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country. And it’s a shame,” Trump said during the debate earlier this month.
The Guardian noted it “could not independently verify whether Roberts actually killed a dog or whether Roberts’s account of his interactions with his neighbor’s dog was accurate.”
Here's the Guardian link
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My gut feeling is Kamala will win the popular vote in a landslide. But it's the electoral college that wins the presidency. PA is much too close for comfort, but I do think there is a 50% chance she wins Florida (and quite possibly North Carolina) which would give her enough without PA, AZ or GA.
I think she'll lose florida by at least 5 points. She'll win PA, MI, and WI, and it'll be over. GA, AZ or NV might swing for her but they won't matter.
Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota also torpedoed her bid to be Trumps VP when she included a story about shooting her misbehaving puppy in her autobiography.I can’t find the story without a pay wall.
Anyhow, turns out it was the republicans the whole time (as usual):
He’s killing the dogs! Trump loyalist allegedly said he beat dog to death, report says
The head of a conservative group allegedly admitted to killing a dog, The Guardian reports.
Guy that currently runs the heritage foundation allegedly boasted he killed his neighbor’s dog with a shovel. Neighbor does say dog went missing. Also Kari Lake eating dog. Also also everything RFK Jr does.
Every state is different obviously, but they have similar constituencies. If you look at past historical electoral college maps PA, WI, MI have all voted the same and all voted for the winning candidate in every Presidential election since 1988. If Trump carries PA he will likely win WI and MI too and might also carry the Omaha district and Minnesota would like be teeter towards Trump as well.
It’ll be interesting to see what Trump thinks if(when) she bungles this case.
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MO didn’t want to be outdone by South Carolina…Also Missouri commited legal murder of an innocent man tonight.
Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite questions over evidence, after Supreme Court denies final bid for delay
Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in Missouri, but DNA testing raised questions.
