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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

The IRA did a lot more than adding employees to the IRS. By the way, they did not double the size. Because of cuts, they literally don't have enough people to process tax returns. They also needed to add IT people and fill existing vacancies. Here's more:

Prescription drug price reform: One of the most significant provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act will allow Medicare to negotiate the price of certain prescription drugs, bringing down the price beneficiaries will pay for their medications. Medicare recipients will have a $2,000 cap on annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs, starting in 2025.

IRS tax enforcement: The IRS has been sounding the alarm for years about being underfunded and being unable to deliver on its duties. The bill invests $80 billion in the nation’s tax agency over the next 10 years.

Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidy extension: Currently, medical insurance premiums under the ACA are subsidized by the federal government to lower premiums. These subsidies, which were scheduled to expire at the end of this year, will be extended through 2025. Approximately 3 million Americans could lose their health insurance if these subsidies weren’t extended, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Energy security and climate change investments: The bill includes numerous investments in climate protection, including tax credits for households to offset energy costs, investments in clean energy production and tax credits aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

If you are a person who complains about China, you must understand that we need to invest in technologies that will help us because energy independent.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

You voted for a lying, mentally ill, ignorant, dead beat domestic abuser instead of a benign candidate who doesn’t have any of this baggage so that the Republicans could gain control of the Senate, but the Republicans failed to gain control because of candidates like Walker. How do you feel about your vote now?

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

So your complaint is that a Junior senator that has been in office for less than 2 years didn’t wave some magic wand and make obesity go away? Do you hold the oh I don’t know, the the Republican governor of GA to the same standards? Aren’t you the party of individual responsibility and bootstraps???

Not even getting into the fact that Type 1 diabetics need insulin, plenty of non-obese people with Type II do as well, and so on. Essentially you’re good with price gouging by pharmaceutical companies.

Back to Herschel. He is truly unintelligible.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

Obesity will never get under control because no politician wants to take on the crappy USDA food pyramid or big ag or “food scientists” who concoct snacks that combine sugar, salt, and fat at scientific levels so people crave them. Americans are addicted to cheap, easy “food products”. Look at how much flack Bloomberg got on his soda policy or Michelle Obama on her vegetable garden and Just Move campaign? Focus on obesity? It would be easier to achieve peace in the Middle East.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

What’s your problem with Rev Warnock?

I'll answer for PP: he's a Black Democrat.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

What’s your problem with Rev Warnock?

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

Oh my God this is the most ignorant statement I've read in a while. You do know that the VAST MAJORITY of people that need insulin are Type 1, which has no correlation to obesity, right? Yes, let's punish those people because we want to fat-shame. JFC Republicans do not need to be involved in making medical decisions. Fking infuriating.

PP has no idea what Type 1 diabetes is, just like Herschel.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

Oh my God this is the most ignorant statement I've read in a while. You do know that the VAST MAJORITY of people that need insulin are Type 1, which has no correlation to obesity, right? Yes, let's punish those people because we want to fat-shame. JFC Republicans do not need to be involved in making medical decisions. Fking infuriating.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

It would be a lock if GA didn’t have the weird 50% rule. Hershel is the stereotypical absentee father that Republicans love to blame for crime and welfare. Shame on anyone who votes for him.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

HW is hard to support. I voted for him but not because I wanted to. I did it for GOP control of the Senate. Warnock seems relatively benign but his campaign isnt really helping. I see/hear nothing about him despite living in a swing district, and when I looked him up on the internet, most of his campaign is 1) "I voted for the inflation reduction act" and 2) "I want to expand healthcare and cap the cost of insulin."

On the first point, this isnt compelling because he is making himself just a Dem seat instead of offering more. And, I'm not a fan of the IRA. Why is it a selling point that you doubled the size of the IRS? Just no, no. On the second point, it sounds good but also maybe we wouldnt need so much insulin if GA focused on reducing obesity.

Neither candidate is really great. If the GOP had chosen to run someone normal, like ANYONE NORMAL, it would have been a lock.

Apparently even Ted Cruz dislikes Herschel Walker since he sounds like he’s campaigning for Raphael Warnock at this rally 🙃

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Anonymous wrote:Just some thoughts on the campaigns...

I live in Georgia and receive HW mailers. I dont receive Warnock ones-- which itself is unusual since I live in a swing district and despite my current R views, my voting record has been mostly democratic.

The pitch HW's campaign makes is essentially, "he isnt a democrat." I have received 3 so far. One was handwritten on a postcard and was the most detailed. It said HW would vote to keep government spending down to control inflation, he would support the police and strengthen the criminal justice system, and he would keep men out of women's sports (their phrasing, not mine).

The other one could be summarized as, "he is a Republican."

The final one was on a black mailer in white lettering that said "2023 could be worse." Then on the other side, there were blurbs that essentially said voting for HW would constrain the progressive left.

I think this is effective messaging.

If you currently have R views—after all of this—you’re not a Warnock voter.

I was on the fence, and previously posted here I would vote for Warnock. Im still shakey but likely to vote HW.

If “he isn’t a Democrat” is all it takes to convince you, you are a Republican. Own it.

Yeah, I do. This isnt about me, though. It is super odd that Warnock isnt sending any campaign material to people with a long and established history of voting democratic. It's a tight race, and Warnock's to lose, really.

You're going to vote for Walker because you didn't get any Warnock mailers? Come on, tell the truth. You were always going to vote for Walker.

Oh, no. That's not my reason at all. As I said, this isnt about me or my reasoning. Im sharing what I am observing about the campaigns. My reason is actually that I would rather have the GOP control the senate, even if that comes with serious issues with HW. I actually came to this while listening to Democratic talking points about Fetterman.

Because abortion rights are not of concern to you.
Because integrity is not of concern to you.
Because you don't want Biden to get to appoint another SCOTUS if a seat becomes open.
Because you want nothing to get through congress the next two years -- which it won't if Republicans control it. You know that, of course.

When Democrats were in control, they slowed down the Senate to the point it would have taken 11 years for Trump to get his administration staffed. McConnell then changed the rules to cut down on debate time from 30 hours to 2 per nominee.

THE DEMOCRATS NEVER CONTROLLED THE SENATE WHILE TRUMP WAS PRESIDENT.

That's how McConnell got to change the rules, and eventually speed things up.

So Trump was never affected by those delays, and McConnell took charge of the Senate in January 2015 after which Obama’s appointees were stymied - one of them died waiting for her hearing. Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

No they were blocked for years. McConnell was very reluctant to change the rules on this.