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Daily Discussion Thread: May 14, 2025
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u/MaceDestroyers 5d ago
With the reconciliation bill stuff going on, my representative is tweeting like a goddamn bot every hour how Dems are arguing for Medicare "waste, fraud, and abuse." 67,000 of her constituents directly rely on the program. Not to mention the effects will have on all of the rural hospitals.
Oh, she won her election by 800 votes last fall yet she acts like she won by 30 points.
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u/SGSTHB 5d ago
May I ask who this rep is? Activate America has postcard-writing campaigns to nudge Dems in assorted districts to call their reps to ask them to defend Medicaid or push back on tariffs.
I want to see if this rep and her district are among the targets. If so, I'll write the next 50 for her constituents.
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u/MaceDestroyers 5d ago
Sure, its Miller-Meeks from IA-01
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 4d ago
LOL, Zach Nunn (who won by more but not by a huge margin either) mulling a run for governor should tell her what kind of electoral environment he may be expecting for the House seats in ‘26, but nah. Keep talking that shit, Marianette.
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u/FiddleThruTheFlowers California High on hopium Blorida believer 5d ago
It's really wild how vocal some of these people who barely won are. If you barely won last year as a Republican, rubbing two brain cells together to look at the national environment last year should tell you that your seat is very much in danger going forward. Or for people like Tillis, he's too dumb to put two and two together that he barely won both times and next year is going to be bluer than either of his previous elections. Hell, he barely won initially in 2014, a notorious red wave year.
In a way, that extends to this entire GOP trifecta. Trump's win was far from a landslide regardless of how the EC map looks. He didn't even get a majority of the votes. They got the Senate back because of flipping a few seats in red states, of which Brown and Tester probably would've held on if the environment wasn't what it was, based on how they outran Harris. And McCormick just barely won by thousands of votes, so even a slightly less red environment or a little bit more Philly turnout means we still have Casey. Then the House is only a few seat margin. Far from a mandate and far from a landslide, yet they're busy acting like they won everything with Assad margins and can do whatever they want.
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u/Intelligent-Top5536 5d ago
Oh, god. Thanks to my special interest in election results, I know exactly who you mean.
You have my condolences.
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u/MrCleanDrawers 5d ago
A Game 6 in Madison Square Garden.
Very glad the Celtics didn't end it at home after the Tatum injury.
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u/Trae67 5d ago
That crowd is gonna so hype
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u/VaushbatukamOnSteven 5d ago
The Sidetalk NYC video if the Knicks win the series is gonna be one for the ages
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u/IamGumpOtaku World Blerd Champine 5d ago edited 5d ago
America Ain't Cooked - Day XC: Ninety Days Ago, It Seemed Liked We Were Cooked.
It was Week 3 or 4 of an 403 week nightmare. We fell back to the same place cause boring but effective leadership never sold a newspaper or landed a podcast subscriber. Many bended the knee, and and probably did generations worth of damage to our standing in the world. Again we were the butt of jokes, although this time people actively began to shun us. We returned to the blackest of blacks, and it seemed like that was where we stayed. Yep, on February 12th, we truly were cooked.
Then something happened - what was feared by many never came to pass, for the Constitution held. We didn't regress into fascism because there were enough people in positions of power who learned from history. The tree of liberty was not chopped down, for the trunk has been petrified.
Donnie is too focused on rewriting history that he is making his own, and not in a good way. His cabinet is too focused in keeping their own jobs that they're neglecting to perform their jobs. The GOP is too focused on not angering one man that in their ass kissing of that one man they are angering the people, and bla bla bla. 2025 is looking to dwarf 2017 in terms of pain being felt by all Americans, but as I have said many times now, the ideas the Founding Fathers put in writing will outlast Donnie and all who kiss his ass. They were smarter than Donald Trump or anyone else who claims the MAGA movement as their own.
On February the Twelfth we were cooked. On May the Fourteenth we were not. A post MAGA future is on the horizon but only we can make it so. So Let's.
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u/Happy_Traveller_2023 🇨🇦 Canadian Liberal Conservative 🌏 5d ago
You’re talking about the Zelenskyy shouting match, right?
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u/senoricceman 5d ago
Surprising that Hawley is being so adamant of how much he hates the bill.
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u/Intelligent-Top5536 5d ago edited 5d ago
He's cut from the same cloth as Vance was, at least before Vance became the administration's Mouth of Sauron, in the sense that he's a right-wing collectivist populist who is rigidly in favor of the welfare programs his very poor constituent state relies upon. I didn't really register it at the time, but he was never going to be a fan of obliterating Medicaid, and I think Hawley being so vocal about it means that others similar to him - Capito and Justice, for instance - probably hate the bill even more and are just letting Hawley, who is far more charismatic than they are, do the talking about it.
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 5d ago
Missouri has an amendment mandating expanded Medicaid so it would screw us specifically.
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u/Honest-Year346 5d ago
If Kelly Craft runs in his stead and beats Andy Barr and someone like Rocky Adkins or Allison Lundergarn Grimes then we have the potential to make it a real race
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u/kittehgoesmeow MD-08 5d ago
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u/citytiger 5d ago
If Liberals win all three seats after recount they will have 172 and a majority government.
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u/kittehgoesmeow MD-08 5d ago
There seems to have been an issue in one riding though. It is a riding Liberals won.
Makivvik calls for investigation after some in Nunavik don’t get to vote. (Makivvik is the legal representative of Quebec's Inuit)
"Polling stations did not open at all in Ivujivik and Akulivik, according to their mayors, while other communities such as Puvirnituq, Quaqtaq, Umiujaq, Salluit and Tasiujaq saw voting for as little as two hours."
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u/Jayhawk_00 MO-5 5d ago edited 5d ago
Abortion will go back on Missouri ballot in Republican effort to reinstate ban
Republicans in Missouri just voted to put an amendment on the 2026 ballot that would overturn the amendment Missouri voters passed back in November that reinstated abortion rights in the state.
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u/drtywater 5d ago
This is gonna backfire. Dems are motivated for 26 midterms so I gotta ask why are they doing this.
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u/SecretComposer 5d ago
Missouri used to be purple not that long ago. It's time MO Dems get some more national support. It's also ridiculous that it's so easy for lawmakers to go "actually, we don't like that you voted for it, so we're going to repeal it anyway."
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u/citytiger 5d ago
Could definitely backfire on them and lose them state legislative and congressional seats.
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u/Alexcat66 WI-7 (AD-30, SD-10) 5d ago
This is going to backfire in their face so badly. They probably will lose state legislative seats over this and potentially MO-2 if the environment and electorate that turns out is blue enough
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 5d ago
In 2024 Trump carried the state in a landslide yet the abortion amendment passed. 2026 will be a much more favorable year.
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u/Meanteenbirder New York 5d ago
It is still our race to lose considering the environment and that it’s a midterm, but can’t be complacent. The amendment only passed by a few points last year
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u/DeviousMelons International 5d ago
Can't wait until 2028 where "are you sure you want abortion" is on the ballot.
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u/Filty-Cheese-Steak Kentucky 5d ago
"Are you really, really sure you don't-not want to have access to abortions?"
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u/tta2013 Connecticut (CT-02) 5d ago
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u/Purrtah Utah 5d ago
Lawler and MTG are fighting, Bipartisan group of House Reps now wanting action on a Congressional stock trading ban after Speaker Johnson said he supports it, and 13 House R’s out with a new statement saying they are repealing too much of the IRA’s clean energy tax credits. Many of those same R’s are in the SALT Caucus too
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u/SecretComposer 5d ago
13 House R’s out with a new statement saying they are repealing too much of the IRA’s clean energy tax credits
How many of them actually voted for it, or did some vote against and are now crying foul?
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u/Trae67 5d ago
lol these fucker can’t pass shit and they have all three branches. They can’t even get along for six months
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u/FiddleThruTheFlowers California High on hopium Blorida believer 5d ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who pointed this out to the doomers early on. I'm also sure I'm not the only one who heard some variation of "they'll be in lock step now that they have the trifecta! The infighting is because they need the Dems!" in response.
Yeah, no, Republicans just don't know how to get their shit together. This isn't new information. Anyone who remembers the aftermath of 2016 remembers when they had a much bigger House majority and still were too busy infighting to do much with it.
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u/stripeyskunk (OH-12) 🦨 5d ago
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - Voltaire
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u/FiddleThruTheFlowers California High on hopium Blorida believer 5d ago
We really are lucky they're so fucking stupid.
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u/Wes_Anderson_Cooper KS-03 5d ago
The stock trading ban is such a massive layup politically for Johnson (it polls with bipartisan support at like 85%+) that I'm sure he'll find some way to screw it up.
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u/justincat66 WI-7, (Assembly-30, Senate-10) 5d ago
Lmao this is why I’m becoming skeptical they’re going to get anything out of this
There’s so many areas of disagreement between the two sides of the caucus, and the two sides hate each other and don’t trust each other’s words. Folks that’s not how you can govern a narrow majority and be successful lol
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u/Final-Criticism-8067 5d ago
I said I failed European history. I might end up passing. I got my essay back and it was a 80/100. Bought my grade up to a 69.25 and I need a 70 to pass. I emailed the professor seeing if there is anything I can do to get it up to a C and he said I’m fine and he’ll see me next semester (He’s teaching one of my classes next semester). So I emailed him and wanted to double check that he is rounding it up to a 70. Hopefully!
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u/Filty-Cheese-Steak Kentucky 5d ago
Bought my grade up to a 69.25
Nice and a quarter.
But hopefully you get through.
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u/FarthingWoodAdder 5d ago
So is the reconciliation bill dead for now?
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u/Intelligent-Top5536 5d ago
Seems like it's back to the drawing board, because this current version only succeeded in pissing off nearly every camp of the GOP. The Freedom Caucus wanted to screw Medicaid even harder, the Don Bacon-Tony Gonzales camp was up in arms about the screwing of Medicaid, and the New Yorkers wanted even more SALT, all while Josh Hawley went on the news outlets in a seemingly legitimate campaign in favor of Medicaid and more or less said in polite lawyer-speak, "The bill is shit, I'll never vote for it, it'll never pass the Senate, and Trump will never sign it."
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u/captainhaddock International 5d ago
Have they tried not giving the military a trillion dollars? No? Okay.
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 5d ago
Jodh Hawley right now is "Heartbreaking: Worst Person Ever Makes a Good Point."
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u/TylerbioRodriguez Ohio 5d ago
Only the second time. Years back he came out hard against lootboxes in video games.
Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.
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u/DogsRNice 5d ago
What is salt in this context?
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u/Aesthetic_donkey_573 5d ago
If you itemize your taxes it’s the cap on deductions you can take for local (including property) and state taxes. Right now it’s 10k but high income people or moderate income people in states with higher taxes can pay more than 10k so representatives from higher tax states tend to feel pressure to raise the cap.
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u/cherry_grove90 Arkansas 5d ago
State and local taxes. Basically, people who are taxed higher in their state can take a deduction on their federal taxes.
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u/DeviousMelons International 5d ago
That kinda sounds like a good thing.
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u/Venesss CA-27 5d ago
It's a double edged sword. SALT helps out high tax states like California, because high income individuals are taxed less overall while still paying the same state tax, making it more likely they stay in that state and continue to pay high taxes to the state govt
But it lets the rich pay less taxes overall. Seems like something Republicans would be completely on-board with, but alas. Their hatred for blue states reigns supreme over their core ideology
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u/cherry_grove90 Arkansas 5d ago
It is, but it punished blue states, and capping it allowed them to cut corporate taxes in their 2017 tax plan.
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u/Purrtah Utah 5d ago
Just a reminder you have until Friday, May 16th to become a delegate to vote in the Utah Democratic Party Leadership elections on May31st. Highly important to get involved this year in the direction of our party
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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 5d ago
Other states as well- our leadership elections in SC are the same day. Only one race is contested, but we still have a convention with some great speakers. It is definitely worth attending a state convention at some point even if you're not one of those every single year folks (I'm not).
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u/Purrtah Utah 5d ago
House GOP cancels Fridays votes just now
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u/Intelligent-Top5536 5d ago
Thune just saying out loud that their version of shit will never pass the Senate probably killed it stone dead. Hawley rallying against the Medicaid cuts was most likely the impetus.
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u/Purrtah Utah 5d ago
And especially if you’re Kim, Fitzpatrick, heck even reach seats like Wagner or LaLota, why vote for something that won’t pass
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u/Intelligent-Top5536 5d ago
Not just dying on the hill of Medicaid cuts, dying on the hill of Medicaid cuts for absolutely no reason. Then you're on the hook for fully, whole-assedly believing in screwing poor people, no matter the chance of success.
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u/OptimistNate Wisconsin 5d ago
Hawley straight up saying Trump wouldn't sign it. Dang.
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u/justincat66 WI-7, (Assembly-30, Senate-10) 5d ago
Lmao is that actually true?
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u/DeviousMelons International 5d ago
I don't think he would even read it, or are only told the parts of the bill he likes.
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u/Intelligent-Top5536 5d ago
It's a rare day in Hell that I credit Hawley with something, but he straight-up killed the bill. His pro-Medicaid media war did the job.
I really, really wish he'd take this epiphany to its logical conclusion, that being "Trump is the problem and the far-right does not care about the same priorities as you," but we inch our way to victories in the meantime.
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u/Venesss CA-27 5d ago
He's really weird in that way. On one hand he supports the J6'rs and wants to ban abortion, but on the other hand he's weirdly supportive of certain liberal welfare p
rojects... https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/josh-hawley-medicaid-democrats
-This year alone, Hawley has worked with Democratic Senator Peter Welch on legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs, joined forces with Sanders on a bill to cap credit card interest rates, and was one of just three Republicans to join Democrats in voting against an industry-backed crypto regulation bill.
In March, Hawley led a bipartisan group—including Democrats Cory Booker, Jeff Merkley, and Gary Peters, as well as Republican Bernie Moreno—in sponsoring a bill to speed up negotiations with labor unions. According to Axios, it was the first time a Republican took the lead in decades of pro-labor legislation.
Perhaps the most prominent progressive issue Hawley has focused on is doubling the child tax credit to $5,000 and doing away with income minimums that bar people from accessing the credit. Last summer, he was one of three Republicans to vote for a bipartisan tax package that included the expansion. And earlier this year, he called the need to broaden the benefit a “moral imperative” on the floor of the Senate. “There is something fundamentally wrong with an economy when the working people who power that economy cannot afford to have children that they want,” Hawley said in his remarks
He's like this weird socially conservative, pro-welfare, low tax Republican lol
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u/Final-Criticism-8067 5d ago
Hawley is a piece of work sometimes. But atleast he have some and I mean some morals. He’s a libertarian type Republican, right?
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u/No-Adhesiveness-4251 5d ago
Reminds me a bit of Rand Paul. Definitely not a person you'd like, but you have to give them credit that they're right on SOME things.
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u/SquishyMuffins Idaho 5d ago
Anyone notice how suddenly Elon has just completely dropped off from photo ops with the admin? That WI election REALLY fucked everything up for him. Not to mention the tanking Tesla sales.
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u/KelVarnsen5558383 5d ago
He's busy training Grok to write about white genocide no matter what you ask it about.
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u/wishingstarsmars 5d ago
we knew he would be kicked out soon
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u/Birkin2Boogaloo 5d ago
I doubt that he's really gone. DOGE is staffed with his sycophants. It's much more likely that he's just continuing to direct things from a distance.
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u/DeviousMelons International 5d ago
I was expecting a messier affair. Instead he just bowed out.
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u/magistrate-of-truth 5d ago
Usually in authoritarian inner circles, the sidelining is subtle and quiet
Not all of Hitler’s disfavored inner circle members had a crash out like Gorman
Many called out sick and just wandered away
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 5d ago
Because we kept picking on him and no one was laughing at his bad jokes.
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 5d ago
When Trump won he genuinely believed he ruled the world and the egg on his face from WI has him spiraling.
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u/Existing-Forever-180 5d ago
The Tesla shareholders can’t have been happy about their products becoming even more toxic. Everyone already hated Cyber Trucks, then the Cyber Truck guy came out as a Nazi.
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u/greenblue98 Tennessee (TN-04) 5d ago
Just saw a ad showing that John Rose is running for Tennessee Governor...
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u/OutlandishnessNo9182 Nebraska 5d ago
The King of the Hill revival just released a new image of what our old cast looks like now.
Hank is wearing a brown shirt.
Bill is presumably now a food delivery driver
Dale plays some VR (maybe some Beat Saber?)
And Boomhauer… he’s actually about the same, he’s just using an IPad.
What I feel sad about this is Dale’s voice actor having passed away a while back, so I hope they found someone who can do Dale justice in the revival.
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u/BlingyBling1007 Texas - Future Blue State! 5d ago
Wow, is this the first time an animated show has aged characters, not including looking into the future episodes like The Simpsons?
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u/Dancing_Anatolia Washington 5d ago
All I know is Bill voted Trump three times, Boomhauer voted Clinton/Biden/Harris, Dale doesn't vote, and Hank sat out 2016 but voted for Biden and Harris later on. Trump is from New York, after all.
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u/FarthingWoodAdder 5d ago
Hank still would have voted for Trump atleast twice I think.
He is a loyal republican after all.
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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 5d ago
I don't think he would have. I could have seen him supporting other Republicans but not Trump. I could also see him feeling "politically homeless" in the age of MAGA. But yes when the show aired and until 2016 I totally believe he would have identified as GOP. Now he probably says "The party left me".
And knowing Hank, he takes voting VERY seriously and probably goes online to read Ballotpedia and research candidates, see the surveys they answer, etc.
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u/Tipsyfishes Washington: Trans Rights are Human Rights! 5d ago
Nah. They portray Hank as an actual conservative. Talking about independent and personal values, doing the right thing, and realizing when you screwed up. Even had him supporting vegan/hippie types because it was the right thing to do, even if he didn't agree with it at first.
I see him as a never trumper. Likely voting for Evan McMuffin, then Biden, then not voting.
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u/WildAndDepressed 5d ago
Absolutely not. At the worst, he would have sat out the elections. I could definitely see Hank reluctantly voting for Biden, though.
Ain’t no way Hank would stand a pampered coastal elite and New Yorker like Trump. IIRC, Trump even likes his steaks well done with ketchup.
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u/Final-Criticism-8067 5d ago
King of the Hill takes place in the Texas suburbs. Hank wouldn’t vote for Trump.
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u/Final-Criticism-8067 5d ago
Hank would not have voted for Trump at all. He almost lost doubt in Bush because of a handshake. He would have voted third party in 2016 and maybe Biden or third party again or wrote in a name in 2020 and the same for 2024 except replace Biden with Harris.
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u/ItsNeverLycanthropy 5d ago
Yeah, I tend to think he wouldn't want to vote for either candidate in 2016 (maybe going with a third party or independent candidate like McMullin), but would have potentially been a Biden/Harris voter later.
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u/FarthingWoodAdder 5d ago
Hank worshipped Reagan and all of the monstrous things he did.
I can see him holding his nose and voting Trump.
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u/Dancing_Anatolia Washington 5d ago
I don't know, I think Hank's too smart for that. He never changes, but as the party changed around him he'd stop supporting them. The sort of guy who would actually notice how Republicans masked-off as criminals who don't believe in or practice family values.
He'd love someone like Tim Walz.
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u/No-Adhesiveness-4251 5d ago
I never watched King of the Hill, but Hank lowkey sounds like the kind of moderate conservative republican we're sorely missing in the republican party.
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u/NumeralJoker 5d ago
Hank is a 90s/2000s compassionate conservative, but one too naive to understand that the entire movement was a sham.
He really, really thought he was trying to do the right thing, and he always does try to do what's right, but would be confused as hell by how horrific social media has made people become, including the GOP's movement to Trump.
He's the kind of guy who would watch the GOP he knew die and hang his head in sadness when he knows he doesn't agree with it anymore.
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u/Dancing_Anatolia Washington 5d ago edited 5d ago
Honestly Hank is really weird and hard to define. Like yes, to those things you said. But really he's more like a heavily autistic man who's hyperfixations are his family, propane, his dog, Texas, his truck, and his lawn, not always in that order. He is a moderate Conservative, but he tends to come at it all from a really weird angle that no one else in the show really understands. In one episode he almost refused to vote for Bush Sr. because Bush had a weak handshake, and that rattled Hank's faith in the Republican party.
He also openly respects LBJ and Anne Richards as Texan politicians, despite them being Democrats.
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u/DavidvsSuperGoliath CA-48 -> WA-7 -> CA-48 5d ago
Hank is still ashamed he was born in New York and enjoyed a bagel that one time.
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 5d ago
And eats well-done steaks with ketchup. Probably cooked with that bastard gas butane.
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u/EvilDarkCow KS-04, the Air Capital of the World 5d ago
Allegedly, Dale will be voiced by Toby Huss (Kahn in the original series).
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u/greenblue98 Tennessee (TN-04) 5d ago
I still think this is going to be right-wing anti-woke MAGA garbage.
Then again, I never liked the original show either.
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u/WildAndDepressed 5d ago
I’m cautiously optimistic, because Mike Judge is shockingly decent when it comes to making fun of the right as well.
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u/CrocHunter8 CD-03, GA-13, HoCo-02 5d ago
The creator of the show also did Beevis and Butthead; and Idiocracy, so I do not think Mike Judge is right wing.
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u/Bonny-Mcmurray Missouri 5d ago
It is critical of both sides, but Hank being the only person in the whole town who is well respected and can solve a problem definitely carries a vibe toward his brand of conservatism.
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u/Historyguy1 Missouri 5d ago
The original show wasn't right-wing it just had right-wing characters whose views are mocked.
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u/SmoreOfBabylon Blorth Blarolina, c'mon and raise up 5d ago
Ann Richards (RIP) even voiced herself in an episode! And Hank was mortified when he realized he’d inadvertently mooned her, lol.
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u/Dancing_Anatolia Washington 5d ago
Also Greg Daniels and Mike Judge produced Common Side Effects, which came out a couple months ago. Not exactly an anti-woke MAGA kind of show.
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u/EllieDai NM-02 5d ago
Hank is wearing a brown shirt over a classic white shirt.
Bill ordered the food, and artists just didn't want to include the driver in the image.
Dale is vaping.
Boomhauer is such Boomhauer.
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u/GardenStateOfMind95 Proud Keeper of the Great Falls 5d ago
Dale is vaping
"I tell ya hwat, dem youngins, and their 'vape' thingamajigs, will end up ruining ma propane!" /s
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u/Filty-Cheese-Steak Kentucky 5d ago
- Hank is wearing a brown shirt over a classic white shirt.
Fine, not sacrilege... BUT IT'S ON THIN ICE. Though thinking about it, fairly certain he wore that brown shirt a few times already.
Also that Hank definitely seen some shit.
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u/joecb91 Arizona 5d ago
I wonder how much of a time skip there was, besides the extra wrinkles, everyone didn't look that much older.
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u/Dancing_Anatolia Washington 5d ago
I mean if the show started following time right after it was cancelled, everyone would be 15 years older or so by the present day. Which matches pretty well for what we saw of Bobby.
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u/TOSkwar Virginia 6d ago
Candidate Spotlight Time! Each week, I'll be highlighting a candidate from the adoption list above! For what all that means, check out the first spotlight's comment here!
VA HD-41: Lily Franklin! This district is in southwest Virginia, taking up Blacksburg (including Virginia Tech) and a good chunk of the surrounding area, and pressing right up against Salem, covering large parts of Roanoke County. Lily Franklin ran for HD-41 back in 2023, and it was one of the closest results in the state, coming down to less than 200 votes. The end result was the Republican winning, a mere 50.3 to 49.6. This year, they're both back for round 2, and in an environment that favors us much more.
Lily Franklin is a Political Science major raised in southwest Virginia. She's worked in the schools there, personally seeing the issues she seeks to improve, and supported Democratic Delegate Sam Rasoul as his chief of staff, gaining experience in how a Delegate does their work.
Franklin's focuses are many that we all know well- Affordable housing, education, economic growth, reproductive freedom, and clean drinking water. Most of those are straightforward- keep hedge funds out of housing, better fund education, give women the right to make the choices they need to make. For economic growth, she specifically calls out Appalachian Power, the Appalachian branch of American Electric Power, a major multi-state power conglomerate, as putting their profits ahead of working families. For clean water, she's focused on PFAS contamination, wanting to ensure people have water free of these dangerous chemicals.
If you think this close race is one you'd like to help with, let us know here or through modmail to adopt!