LOL only took years of being sh*tted on 24/7, being told that the influx of Hispanics is poisoning the blood of this country, and being racially profiled and brutalized by ICE for them to wake up that’s when Jose realized republicans will never view him as Josh
91% of the vote share in the neighborhood??? Jesus christ those are north Korean numbers. I knew Trump was poison in the Hispanic community but didn't know it was that bad. Midterms will be brutal for Republicans. If talarico gets 75% of the Hispanic vote he wins statewide
A Repub won the Georgia special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Green. It's one of the reddest districts in the country, but he only won by 11 points, which means the Democrat shaved over 20 points off of the 2024 numbers for Green and Trump. 20 points in a deep, deep red district means a massive blue wave if it holds into November. So massive that GOP money will be neutralized.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court victory was a bloodbath for Repubs. The Dem candidate won by 20 points and turned over 15 counties from red to blue. It now gives Dems state court majorities in Wisconsin (5-2), Pennsylvania (6-1), and Michigan (5-2) heading into the mid-terms.
You must be younger than me. Before 2013, you could present your voter registration card in Texas to cast a ballot. No state was requiring photo ID until South Dakota in 2003 and the Save Act would flip this completely around.
There are still some states that don't require any ID to vote in person. I used to live in one (Minnesota). You just showed up to vote, verbally gave your name and address and then you got your ballot. They do have voter ID for absentee voting (you have to provide a DL number/last four of SSN/Passport number) but for in person voting, you just verbally attest to your identity. I always found that to be a little silly. I think showing a voter registration card, utility bill or something trivial like that should be required but it's just always been like that there. Although to Minnesota's credit, they always top the nation in voter turnout so maybe they're doing something right. On the SAVE Act, one thing that doesn't make sense is that the legislation is largely predicated on the 14th amendment conferring birthright citizenship. If the Trump admin wins that case, then birth certificates (and any identity document with place of birth) no longer prove citizenship. Then you're really down to relying on a very tiny handful of documents that can prove citizenship.
I imagine you've just given more thought to the issue than the White House has. Regardless, I imagine anything that limits voter access for the hoi polloi is 100% a-ok with Trump.
All that gives me a little hope, but I don't think this country will ever be the same again. Sure, it could be better without someone as sick as Trump, but the system is skewed. Super PACs and the richest of the rich are corrupting not only elections, but our country itself. You have all these private interest groups and deep-pocketed benefactors pouring money into these Super PACs to advance their own private interests. They are pouring millions and billions into the Super PACs, dark money groups, and with money funneled through LLCs, crypto, and who knows what else. It's all so shady. Those types don't have the interests of the majority of Americans, and will make sure that most policies go their way. They want a candidate willing to serve their interests first, not the interests of the majority of Americans. Between and the corruption just seems to get worse. The odds of any meaningful candidate aren't good. Sure, the candidates put on a pedestal by the Super PACs spew their campaign promises and lies, then bend a knee to all those big donors of the Super PACs once they are elected. Trump is the prime example of how corrupt and destructive this system has become. It's apparently legal now to mix your family personal businesses with government contracts, and take bribes and donations for policies and pardons. Look at how the Trump family has raked billions already with influence peddling and their businesses. Whether it's in crypto, donations, deals for policies, and government contracts, both here and abroad, it's making them a fortune. It's sick and disturbing, but, totally legal according to them. Nothing will ever be the same again I'm afraid, and the wealthiest, and most corrupt of all don't give a damn who suffers. I think that gap between the top 1% and the rest will start widening at a rate that will change everything for the worse, especially if they can bribe their way into the White House Administration. I think we are pretty much end Democracy and an economy where young couples can afford a home with a stay at home Mom raising children. It will never be the same as we once knew it.
It's funny how in 2024 and 2020 all the pundits were twisting themselves in knots over the Latino vote. "Latinos are moving toward Trump!" Never underestimate the power of racism. I've heard a lot of vitriolic comments from Hispanics (Latinos?) toward the Black community. When you put a Black candidate on the ticket (and, worse!, a woman), you siphoned off Latino votes. Did they slowly wake up to the fact that Republicans view them no more favorably than they do those fools standing behind the Orange God at his rallies with their "Blacks for Trump" signs? Democratic voters are some of their own worst enemies.
I’ve never seen a group of people play themselves worse than Hispanics we have some low IQ tap dancing black MAGAs, but they’re so few in number they’re almost irrelevant…and it’s obvious a lot of them are just grifting But Latinos? How are you gonna vote for your own brutalization and harassment? When republicans cry that white people will be a minority in this country in 2050 or whatever, it’s not because of black people, it’s because of y’all. And you think they rock with you? They don’t want you here. Never have, never will. They don’t care legal or illegal. They don’t care if you’re Christian, have “family values,” or all that other BS. If Trump successfully did away with birthright citizenship and could remove anchor babies en masse, they’d be celebrating. they’re mad Trump isn’t rounding up enough Hispanics and booting them out the country
They want you here when you mow their lawn, they don't want here when they miss out on a management position because they have a worse resume than you.
"going after criminals" when it's your friends, family and neighbors Republicans probably lost this cohort for a generation.
I remember what republican driven Prop 187 in California did with Hispanics driving them towards the Democrats in droves, and they never recovered in that state and that’s peanuts compared to what republicans are now doing to them nationwide
Eh, it still depends on who the Dems run, just like in 2024. Sadly. I think a lot of demographics and a lot of Americans are less driven by policy than a lot of us libs on this forum. It could be like: "yeah, that last a-hole deported a lot of my friends, but this new guy seems kinda cool and funny. And the dems are running some fancy-pants lady man."
