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      Do you remember the Senator’s pedophile son in Sin City? Well look no further than the literal Senator’s son Gaetz.

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    Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Newsmax that “for every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement” in 2024.

    Isn’t this just racism and sexism directed at everybody? He just called white non-MAGA Republican women “Karens” while simultaneously using Hispanic names in a backhandedly insulting way.

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        Well now…you learn something new every day. Thanks for that.

        (I work in a school district with an overwhelmingly Hispanic population. There are over 50 kids in my district with the first name Jamal and only one of them has an Arabic last name. Most of the others have Hispanic last names. I never knew the name was actually Arabic in origin.)

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          That’s interesting too! I live in West Los Angeles and the only Jamal I know is Iranian. Looking online though, except for the murdered journalist Jamal Kashoggi, I’m seeing mostly Black sports stars. So, still racist, as expected.

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        Diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s an overall banner for corporate initiatives to avoid being as racist and sexist etc as they have previously been.

        This of course seen as a horrifying affront to a bunch of white men who formerly benefitted from the racism and sexism.

        You can guess which party is on which side of the debate.

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    Just look at that cunts face… How can anyone vote for that.

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    The amount of propaganda that right-trash spews into S Florida is nuts. And those folks are pretty helpless against it as they cannibalize their own fairly regularly.

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    After 2020 and 2022, I’m just waiting for this sudden change of heart from traditionally strong Democratic demographics… Seems like copium from Gaetz.

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      Copium: in 2016, Trump got 6% of black voters. In 2020, he got 8%. That’s a 33% increase in just 4 years. Hispanic votes went from 28% Trump to 38%, so a similar 35% increase. With another 35% increase, he’s on track to get a majority of Hispanic voters in 2024 and, I dunno, maybe 110% of black votes?

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        And yet, the the net-margin of victory widened between 2016 and 2020. Which speaks to fallacies of statistics and “doubling” of percentages of tiny numbers.

        In spite of traditionally losing midterms because of lack of youth turnout, a 2022 midterm during terrible economic conditions still saw Democrats victorious over what was supposed to be a Red Wave.

        Fair point on the Hispanic population, but: The key question when it comes to Hispanic voters is where that rise in support is. We know, for example, that Cuban-Americans in Florida overwhelmingly skew Republican; that doesn’t particularly change the outcome. We know, too, that Texas state rhetoric has made inroads with the Hispanic population there who’ve now opted to shut the door behind them. But again, we never expected nor need much from Texas either. So it comes down to states like Nevada to see the impact of the remaining subset of the Hispanic population which yes, will be close.