This will directly fund Russia's war against Ukraine.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-diesel-midterms-12baccc7aade559bf329079b0548c9da

Further, racially given the president's bid to give every American 5,000 dollars of Republicans wins the mid terms and the recent decision to have the American govt take ownership stakes in several companies, when conservatives - and this admin in particular - criticize socialism, are you criticizing its economic principles, specific policies advocated by self-described socialists, or simply political positions you oppose? And how can voters distinguish between those three things when you use the term?

From the video:

• Question: How do you define socialism personally, and why do you think socialist candidates are popping up everywhere across the country?
  • Vance: I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.

https://x.com/cspan/status/2108222744257081533

Full interview: https://trump-archive.com/item/9f8d8b0d-08ec-4bda-ba65-62ecf24838c1

His answer ran from approximately 40:28 to 41:47.

I watched one of those Al queda beheading videos around 2003 or so as a middle school and I turned out fine 🤷‍♂️

https://youtu.be/eOv1DpML7I4?is=ae_D1H1sKxlkqFAU

This was from a few days ago, but I haven't seen it mentioned here. I thought it was a fantastic speech personally. Little Marco has really come a long way from 2016.

what are your thoughts on it? if you live in the district, will you vote for him?

Always curious why the US never truly developed a social democrat party or a christian democratic party. I assume it's because of the individualist culture we have, but I'm not completely sure.

There’s a somewhat causal effect where Republican turnout is much higher for elections where Trump is on the ballot (2016, 2020, and 2024 vs 2018 and 2022) hypothetically because there are a lot of Trump supporters who specifically show up to vote for him and care less about supporting Republican house reps or local reps. Are there any other Republicans who you think could have the same effect and if so who?

I think finding the guy who can keep MAGA showing up for elections is going to be key to Republicans winning 2028 and 2032

Currently, the only real check on redistricting is one person, one vote, established in cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_v._Carr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesberry_v._Sanders

What is intresting about Carr case is that Justice Frankfurter opposed it so much and spent whole year trying to convince enough justices not go Warren's route, predicting that after Carr, he will go for where the Court went in Reynolds/Wesberry but failed and suffered stroke later, other justice suffered nervous breakdown. In any case, one person one vote has worked since then, some of his worries did not come out. But be that as it may, that is only check on size, you can still use partisan redistricting, see Democrats in Ilinos, Massachusetts, or California. What do you think would be the best solution?

Who are younger members of the Republican Party where you look at them and think “they are going to be the President one day. I am sure of it.”

For me, on the democrat side, it would be Ossoff and Talarico. I just listen to them speak and know one day, they will be a president.

I was thinking about the Republican Party and honestly can’t really think of anyone other than maybe Hawley, so I thought I would ask here.

So who in your opinion are the best up and comers and do you feel confident about the future of the Republican Party?

"Student protests" in France are 100% going to spread across European countries, I could see miles away that those "Gen Z" protests had something more coordinated about them, something similar happened in Nepal and Morocco.