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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
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When you never know if you’re going to see something crazy pop up in the news, sometimes it’s still surprising, and yet totally unsurprising, when certain things pop up in the news.
Today’s surprisingly unsurprising thing is that racist-ass former Maricopa County, AZ sheriff Joe Arpaio, fresh off his being pardoned by our multiple bun-less McDonald’s filet-o-fish consumer in chief for assorted rasist-ass shit he did as sheriff, is going to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to replace Jeff Flake, who is !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , because he was ostracized by the GOP for daring to criticize Trump on topics other than his fast food habits.
Arpaio is running in the Republican primary against, among others, former Arizona state senator Kelli Ward, who also !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , in what will surely be a contest of who can say more stupid ridiculous shit about how much they like Trump.
So now the rest of the country gets to sit back and hope that yet another deep red state doesn’t elect an objectively awful—for reasons unrelated to any choice of political party—candidate who happens to run as a Republican, in what will surely be too close of a race.
Dammit Joe Arpaio, we just got done with that shit with creepy-ass Roy Moore. Remember him? The guy who cruises the mall for teenage girls and responded to claims that he was racist against black people and anti-Semitic by !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to say they can’t be racist against black people because they have black friends, and they can’t be anti-Semitic because they have one Jewish attorney (who, turns out, actually !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! )?
Roy Moore only barely lost because a whole lot of white people in Alabama just, oh fuck, here’s a graph because I don’t have anything nice to say about white people in Alabama other than a lot of them voted for Roy Moore.
I have 3% more faith in the white people of Arizona to not elect Joe Arpaio than I did in the white people of Alabama to not elect Roy Moore, and the white people in Alabama voted a hell of a lot for Roy Moore. Thankfully a whole lot of
other
people voted for Doug Jones. With any luck there are enough minorities in Arizona who show up and show out against Arpaio for all the shit he was racist about.
Azrek
> Textured Soy Protein
01/09/2018 at 13:44 |
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No...I live in Florida. Welcome to normal.
random001
> Textured Soy Protein
01/09/2018 at 13:45 |
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I know. What the hell.
In other news, hey lady, you liking the angle of the dangle? (name that movie)
ttyymmnn
> Textured Soy Protein
01/09/2018 at 13:57 |
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Great read. However, it was the black turnout that really pushed Jones over the top in Alabama.
Mercedes Streeter
> ttyymmnn
01/09/2018 at 14:05 |
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Interestingly enough, the black turnout is also what helped to push Clinton over the top in the popular vote. I believe it’s something like 95% of black voters voted Clinton.
Unfortunately you know, gerrymandering, red states, electoral college, etc etc...
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ttyymmnn
> Mercedes Streeter
01/09/2018 at 14:20 |
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Which is exactly why Trump and his cronies have absolutely no interest in carrying out a thorough census.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Textured Soy Protein
01/09/2018 at 14:24 |
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Quick note: Doug Jones won AL fair and square because most educated people of all races (under the age of 60) voted for him — including most of my friends who are primarily white evangelicals in their 30s and 40s (key point: with kids; people with young children supported Jones by a landslide).
Jones was the moderate candidate and Moore was the increasingly nutty fringe candidate who alienated almost everyone over the years. I’m curious to see what future elections look like as the old-line electorate die off.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Ash78, voting early and often
01/09/2018 at 14:30 |
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Sure, if you break it up into specific demographics, yeah, certain groups of white people went for Jones. Which is good! But taken overall, 63% of white women and 72% of white men voted for Moore, and Jones only had a 21,924 vote, 1.7% margin of victory. It was, by definition, a close race in which a large majority of white people who voted chose Moore.
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Textured Soy Protein
> ttyymmnn
01/09/2018 at 14:32 |
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Well yeah, exactly. That’s in my handy graph.
Point is that it took near-Obama levels of black support to cancel out the white voters who voted for Roy Moore in spite of the fact that he was, well, Roy Moore.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> Textured Soy Protein
01/09/2018 at 14:34 |
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It’s still meaningful — anecdotally, about 80% of my peers are centrist/conservative, most with a libertarian bent. They would have voted for almost any Republican...except Moore. Naturally, only two parties ever make the ballot here.
In terms of yard signs in my area (yes, another anecdote), Jones had Moore by about 20:1. It was crazy.
In other words, I’ve never seen such sudden and vocal support for a Dem in my adult lifetime.
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ttyymmnn
> Textured Soy Protein
01/09/2018 at 14:35 |
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I misread your penultimate paragraph to mean that it was the whites who defeated Moore, rather than it being whites that almost made him a Senator.
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Textured Soy Protein
> Ash78, voting early and often
01/09/2018 at 14:42 |
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I’m going to assume you’re in a wealthier, more-educated suburb of a larger city because those were the areas where white folks leaned Jones.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> Textured Soy Protein
01/09/2018 at 14:47 |
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Yep — and our metro areas are getting bigger over time, with truly rural areas shrinking. There’s still a big contingent of old-school blue collar people (who perhaps fondly remember segregation) who would never vote for a Dem, ever. Even people they would normally be friends with, that political affiliation can be suicide for many.
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Textured Soy Protein
> ttyymmnn
01/09/2018 at 15:09 |
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I edited the paragraph after the graph to hopefully reduce any confusion.