Thursday, October 13, 2022

Politics: 2022 US House Elections

I wanted to get this done before the primaries started. And now this will be my last post before the 2022 midterms. There is a lot to talk about in this post so I might as well get to all of it that I can within my time limit to get this done as soon as possible.

 

One of the things that makes this election different than all of the others is redistricting. This makes me think of the song Shape of You. Candidates of both parties have already lost seats due to being pitted against each other in the primaries and other seats are already vacant.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwWNGJdvx8

 

One of the more infamous Congresspeople in the House right now is Matt Gaetz who has a lot of accusations against him. He may not face criminal charges due to victims not wanting to cooperate with testifying (and not that he’s technically innocent). Here are links about him.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/10/2079642/-Another-revelation-for-Rep-Matt-Gaetz-as-latest-witness-says-he-was-in-the-room-where-it-happened

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/doj-probe-focused-on-matt-gaetzs-alleged-payment-for-sex.html

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/15/2116830/-MATT-GAETZ-showed-up-to-fundraise-in-his-home-district-and-we-were-ready-for-him?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/30/2113590/-FBI-manhunt-for-Gaetz-supporter-who-left-terrifying-voicemail-threatening-to-kill-Rebekah-Jones?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

I forget which YouTuber that I like covered this topic, but there was a video about a question about the insurrection that is worth covering in this blog. Enjoy this and hopefully you will see a good point raised about this.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQMdwLE9l2Y

 

The next section is about Marjorie Taylor Greene who is already the most infamous Congresswoman despite merely being a freshman lawmaker. I can’t think of much else to say that these links don’t already cover already.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/4/1974938/-Trump-s-future-Republican-star-posts-threat-to-Democratic-lawmakers-on-Facebook?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/6/2019772/-M-T-Greene-is-Seriously-in-Trouble-with-Republicans?detail=emaildkre2

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/23/2070875/-Notorious-anti-vaxxer-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-discovered-to-own-stock-in-three-major-vaccine-makers?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/15/2123200/-Greene-kicked-a-GEN-z-activist-legal-action-may-follow

 

Of course, there are bad parts involving some good people who lost primaries. The Republicans prove just how horrible they are by smacking the free thinkers in their party with signs right in the face. Here’s what they did to Liz Cheney.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/5/2029105/-By-ousting-Cheney-House-Republicans-are-laying-the-groundwork-for-nullifying-the-2024-election?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

Going to another Congresswoman, we get to Lauren Boebert who might not survive this election or other ones in the future. People like her who are part of the sedition caucus should be easy targets for Democrats. But will they win against them?

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/10/2039195/-Lauren-Boebert-created-her-own-sockpuppet-to-like-her-tweets-defend-her-nonsense-and-follow-AOC?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lauren-boebert-dangerously-close-to-being-upset-by-a-little-known-democratic-rival-poll/ar-AA12BzBt?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=3115559373994e50b22df9cf819d21b2

 

Even when we get to the 147 members of the sedition caucus, 139 of them members of the House, a lot of them still voted to honor the police officers who protected the capitol. But there are 12 who didn’t. They apparently didn’t like an insurrection being called that.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/18/2021621/-Twelve-angry-Republicans-are-more-concerned-about-protecting-insurrectionists-than-honoring-police?detail=emaildkre

 

They are Andy Biggs, Michael Cloud, Andrew Clyde, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Bob Good, Lance Gooden, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Harris, Thomas Massie, John Rose, and Greg Steube.

 

We won’t know for a while if redistricting alone will give Republicans a majority again in the House of Representatives. But it is looking like they will. The main reason why I don’t feel that we should say that even beforehand is that we seem to just say that things are rigged against us and not accepting our own failures. We don’t need that nonsense.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-census-numbers-shift-political-power-south-to-republican-strongholds/ar-BB1g4Uua?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

 

Now when it came to campaign contributions regarding the sedition caucus, know that I might do a potential post on this later called the politics of drinking soda, even if it relates to far more than just what brands of soda are conservatives and which ones are liberal. The point is, a lot of companies that stopped giving money to the sedition caucus wound up resuming those donations not too long later.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/7/2038719/-Jan-6-didn-t-have-the-impact-on-campaign-giving-that-big-corporations-wanted-you-to-believe?detail=emaildkre

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/28/2037468/-Toyota-digs-in-sees-no-problem-in-funding-insurrectionist-Republican-lawmakers-campaigns?detail=emaildkreicymi

 

Since we’ve gotten a Democratic trifecta, we got what we expected: good things. There were a vote for covid aid relief that not one single Republican voted in favor of. And, true to form, as soon as people revealed that they liked it, Republicans tried to take credit for the very thing that they voted against. They do this a lot, especially with coverage for preexisting conditions. Pay attention to the voting record. Ignore what they say in ads.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/15/2021157/-Watch-out-for-Republicans-trying-to-claim-credit-for-American-Rescue-Plan-s-state-and-local-aid?detail=emaildkre

 

While I will get more into later some of the good things regarding the primaries this year in a follow up post that I will explain in this post, I should get to Madison Cawthorne, a Republican so infamous, he lost a non redistricting primary race.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/10/2073845/-Madison-Cawthorne-Insurrectionist-gets-challenged-by-NC-13-Citizens?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/6/2096259/-BREAKING-Video-of-Madison-Cawthorn-Apparently-Face-F-king-His-Cousin-Surfaces-Really-Yes-Really?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/19/2099048/-Madison-Cawthorn-calls-for-Dark-MAGA-to-truly-take-command?pm_source=story_sidebar&pm_medium=web&pm_campaign=recommended

 

One of the dumbest things about Republicans is their refusal to take covid seriously, even this late into the pandemic. This is despite the fact that red states have among the highest per capita dead of covid.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/8/2079264/-Rep-Reschenthaler-downplays-COVID-deaths-in-children-saying-they-had-underlying-conditions

 

Something to watch out for is the Supreme Court case regarding Alabama redistricting that I will be sure to follow. It is weird that there was already a decision, sort of, in that case, even though it hasn’t been decided yet, if that makes sense. I will tell you that this case and Moore versus Harper are the two that I most care about in this upcoming term. We’ll see if the Roberts court can top Citizens “United” as most horrendous decision that they did.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill_v._Milligan

 

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/02/in-5-4-vote-justices-reinstate-alabama-voting-map-despite-lower-courts-ruling-that-it-dilutes-black-votes/

 

For all of the people who are convinced that it is the Democrats who are corrupt despite not mentioning a single example to back up that belief, here is yet another example of how there was a Republican who did something illegal.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/25/2093937/-Rep-Ronny-Jackson-Trump-s-former-White-House-doc-spent-campaign-funds-on-country-club-membership

 

While I had no idea why Andy Biggs didn’t vote on Trump’s second impeachment, what I do know is that he is a terrible person and not just because he voted against honoring the police officers who protected the capitol. Why do Republicans blantantly lie about January 6th 2021? Do they have to disagree with anything there is video evidence supporting the exact opposite of what they always say?

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/2/2049799/-Andy-Biggs-wants-to-make-support-for-Jan-6-insurgency-a-requirement-for-being-a-Republican?detail=emaildkre

 

Seditious Countdown will be included in future posts of this blog where instead of doing results of the Congressional races, I will post a number of the remaining members of the Sedition Caucus with updates as to what happened to all of the ones no longer in office and what might have happened to those who sought and actually got higher office. This will be done after January 3rd of any odd numbered year where I will also include updates to the House races. I may do that regardless of if I cover House races before the election.

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Politics: 2022 Secretary of State Elections

There is only one other post other than this one to cover before the midterms and it will get up there sometime soon. I just need to write it and the other ones that I’m behind on. I am now going to do my first of any posts on secretary of state elections.

 

State with elections: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington (special), Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

 

They are more important than perhaps they should be because of the America First Secretary of State Coalition. These are people who think that Trump only lost in 2020 because of fraud that somehow failed to affect any of the other elections somehow. There are other reasons too. But I don’t want any of them to win.

 

Let’s get to the bad news first. There were some successes in primaries. In the Pennysylvania governor race and secretary of state races in Michigan, New Mexico, Arizona, Indiana, and Nevada, these Trump backed candidates all won the primary. Will they win the general election in the end? I guess that we’ll see and hope not.

 

But there is good news. They have so far had more failures in primaries and run-offs. The Trump backed candidates in Kansas, Colorado, Alabama, South Carolina, California, Georgia, Idaho, and Nebraska all lost the primaries or run-offs. For those keeping track, more of the Trump backed candidates in his colliation lost than won. And that’s not factoring in to what might happen in the general elections where more might lose.

 

I won’t talk that much about the other elections in the country relating to secretary of state. But there is one incumbent that I know is terrible and that’s the one in Ohio. He has taken part in voter purges, something that should be illegal. It is weird that it happened in Georgia in 2018 and it wasn’t considered as big a deal as it was then as it is now.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/12/1968733/-Sleazy-Ohio-Republican-Secretary-of-State-Blocks-Ballot-Drop-Boxes-to-suppress-voter-turnout?utm_campaign=trending

 

As an autstic person, it can be hard to get behind candidates who openly disagree with and mock the progress they try to make. Republicans do terrible with people with special needs while lying about protecting those with pre-existing conditions. I guess that they hope that they don’t vote at all like the one in Minnesota openly admits.

 

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/8/2115232/-Minnesota-secretary-of-state-candidate-questioned-whether-disabled-people-should-be-voting

 

And there you have it. I have only one more post that has to be done before the general election happens as I cover some of the House races. I’ll have a different type of follow up post for after the election that I’ll get to later and explain in that post. I’ll see you then.