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Jason B.
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Cat Dad, Sports Fan, Professional Cynic, Transit Advocate, Xennial, anti-Republican. Nothing to write home about. CT born, NY raised, Currently NC via DC/Boston.
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That whole thread forgets anything that happened before 2023. Like how her dad ran the Meck Dems, her now-ex ran the NC Dems, how who she replaced got indicted for bribery to get someone to switch parties.

Stuff like created the Dem fatigue that created 2010.
Everyone forgets that she got her original NCGA seat because of the Jim Black bribery scandal when he paid a Republican to switch parties for a deadlocked NCGA. Or that her then-husband, Jerry Meek, was NCDP chair as a surrogate for her dad.
Definition!

aespa's favorite Toronto Blue Jay.

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Who has a guess?
I meant by Democrats at Republicans.
This is why I think that the only solution might be violence. Republicans already have cut Democrats out of everything and won't listen to them ever.
I remembered this being an @abreezeclayton.bsky.social factoid a while back, but on the @ place someone mentioned how much the Durham rolloff was: 2400 votes. 6 times the margin of error.

The rolloff in a place like Greenville or Hickory would've probably covered. Amazing. #NCpol
The ballot rolloff in Durham, let alone Charlotte/Raleigh/Durham, in which otherwise Democratic voters left the bubble for Cheri Beasley blank, was greater than the 401 votes Newby won by.

The pre-2023 North Carolina Dems handed this race on a silver platter to the Rs. Thanks Wayne & Bobbie. #NCPol
Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court.

But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.”

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Why people voted for suffering breaks my brain.
Newby never gets anywhere if the NC Dems of 2020 made a big deal about ballot rolloff or if they didn't fall asleep at the wheel regarding the courts.

The total leadership vacuum of an overextended Wayne Goodwin & a clueless Bobbie Richardson didn't help. #NorthCarolina #NCPol
Such deep reporting on a political figure that few people INSIDE North Carolina know about. #ncpol
401 votes. The rolloff in Durham where otherwise Democratic voters forgot to fill the oval for Cheri Beasley was greater than the margin of victory.

What I want to know is how the Democrats fell short so close but good luck getting any answer.
The ballot rolloff in Durham, let alone Charlotte/Raleigh/Durham, in which otherwise Democratic voters left the bubble for Cheri Beasley blank, was greater than the 401 votes Newby won by.

The pre-2023 North Carolina Dems handed this race on a silver platter to the Rs. Thanks Wayne & Bobbie. #NCPol
Few people outside North Carolina have heard of Paul Newby, the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court.

But Newby has had a huge impact on America and his state. He’s done this with the goal of delivering what he’s called “biblical justice, equal justice, for all.”

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Are you aware of how much of a mess the NC Dems were in the 2000s and how they ignored all warning signs about the Republicans?

2008 happened at the worst possible time for them long-term as it fueled a 2010 wipeout.
Is Matt Mercer the jerkass troll in real life that he portrays himself on Xitter as?
He defeated a black woman in her 50s by 401 votes. The ballot rolloff in Durham of people who voted Biden(/Cooper/Cunningham...) who left the Chief Justice bubble blank was beyond the margin of victory.

Heaven help what the rolloff in Charlotte and Raleigh was.
So Burt Sugarman, a.k.a Mr. Mary Hart, got hit by a foul ball at the World Series.

Given his MAGA ties, serves him right.
I thought the DFL was one of the few Democratic parties that was in good shape.

It seems like the only state parties which have a clue nowadays are Wisconsin and North Carolina.
You know what the world needs?

A word mark of "Jealous" with the interlocking LA in there.

You know what doesn't exist in LA?
- Losing sports teams (that's an Anaheim specialty)
- Conservatives (see above)
- Republicans
- Cold and damp weather

If they had affordable housing, it would be a utopia
The PWHL takeover game in Raleigh says hi.
You know who wouldn't have let SNAP benefits expire, causing the biggest hunger crisis this side of the (First) Great Depression?

Some ex of Willie Brown and Montel Williams. I believe she's with some Emhoff dude now. Because being a decent human being was a bridge too far in 2024.
Never ask a woman her age.
A man his salary.
A North Carolina Democratic voter why the party dropped the ball in 2022.
A North Carolina Democratic politician if they ever speak to their Republican colleagues.

The first two are good policy.
The latter two are commandments of #NCpol
Not at all. The two living donor cases I can think of (mother to child and friend to friend) took months to sort out.
Is it different if you know the person you're giving it to?

Never have I seen anyone regret opting for a mono-kidney lifestyle. So you get tired easier and can't take aspirin, you get to live life knowing a human being got a longer life.

We need to stop turning the young dead into martyrs.
I had a friend from college die from kidney failure and their own refusal to take a living donor after rejecting a dead donor kidney due to existing travel plans. I think he was dense and shortsighted.

Mangold the MAGA can RIH
Mangold the kidney failure victim...eh.
He may have been MAGA trash but nobody stepped up to give him a kidney in the week we had to do so.

We have failed as a species when people die of something that can easily be donated.
Make this make sense:

13 year old medically complex kid: *Gets Kidney via Mom, lives*

41 year old retired football player: *Doesn't get kidney, family is all too big to donate, dies*

98 year old retired entertainer: "Too old for a kidney."

Everyone who needs a kidney deserves one.