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Full transcript, if you read faster than he talkshttps://www.c-span.org/vide...

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Short list of biggest accomplishments: https://joebiden.com/accomp...100 things: https://twitter.com/What46H...

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When are we going to change the name of the Edmund Petrie Bridge?

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look at Biden CRTing at everyone.

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That's a fair point. It could also be that the racism was just that much more virulent in the deepest parts of the south. Four years later, George Wallace was carrying those deep south states. Back in those days, even some southerners were saying "Mississippi, holy shit, dial it back a little bit."

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just stick up signs over the existing ones - its what we do here until the authorities get the point

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Under Szalasi, Hitler's stooge, and not Orban.

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Has anyone noticed that Joe Biden is making America great again?

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Selma is a reckoning https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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It's good to have a president who will at least enforce the federal voting laws that are still in place. In an alternate timeline, you could imagine a Trump DOJ bringing suits only against Democrats for "ballot harvesting" or some other "fraud based" nonsense.

In the meantime, the DNC can focus its voter outreach efforts on helping overcome restrictive voter laws by helping voters navigate these systems.

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yes I have He is the right person for this timeline

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Reverend Barber is a national treasure, and I try to remind myself that I doubt he wants me sitting on my ass praising him—he wants work.

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Haven’t seen you in forever, my friend!

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Beat me to it!

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A great example of the power of voting rights is the career of one of Selma's villains, George Wallace. In his first run for governor, he was a moderate on race, got beaten by a race baiting opponent, and learned his lesson for his 1962 run, where he race-baited like the worst of them. He won big time, of course Alabama's electorate was nearly 100% white then. By the late-'60s, voting rights legislation has passed, and in trying to appeal to a more national electorate as a POTUS candidate, Wallace makes his racial appeals more subtle (compared to 1962, at least). Then in his final run for governor in the early 1980s, at a time when a Democrat in Alabama needed black voters' support, Wallace walks back his previous race baiting and wins a majority of black support in his last successful governorship run.

Whether Wallace was a true bigot who changed or hid his spots by the end, or just an opportunist who saw which way the wind blows, the lesson is that the power of the vote makes a difference. The sad postscript for Alabama is that the bigoted whites discovered the GOP, did not need black votes, and here we are.

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How can that be? He never wears a made in China cap that says "Make America Great Again"!

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