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  1. Arch had looked pretty good most of the night. Not perfect, but pretty damn good.
  2. Receiver was fucking held! That's why the ball sailed past Ugh
  3. Fair points, Ima, I just saw that really easy out for the Rs (a one-year extension) and was terrified they'd accept that offer.
  4. Again, I think the Rs would have likely capitulated before things got too bad and accepted the offer to extend the subsidies for a single year. This would have been the worst possible outcome for Dems. Everyone will have forgotten about the shutdown in a year, and nobody would feel the pain of the increased premiums before the midterms. It seems you think the Rs would have held on long enough to tank the economy in ways that would still be felt next year - one can make some compelling arguments to that end, I'm sure, but to say it with "no uncertain terms and with no caveats"? eh..
  5. You might be right that some Dems feel that way, but those aren't really the people that matter in this case. The people who pulled the lever for Harris are going to vote D in the midterms, almost no matter what. What the Dems should care about is getting people who voted for Trump to either stay home or switch and vote with their economic interests. I think they did about as good as they could do with the cards they had in that regard. I don't even know that they planned it - but ultimately that's the way it happened. If the Rs had agreed to extend subsidies a year in return for passing the CR, that would have been a disaster for Dems, IMO. This seems like about as good an outcome as they could have hoped for. The Rs will own those exploding premiums, as much as is possible in our disinformation society.
  6. But it wouldn't have gone that far - either A) the Rs cave and extend the subsidies a single year - this would have been a win for them ultimately, I think, without actually solving the problem or B) they nuke the filibuster and pass the bill without any D support. B might have brought more attention, definitely more pain, but ultimately the same outcome, no? It's up the the voters to notice their premiums are unaffordable to motivate them to possibly vote differently.
  7. This is my thinking too - they brought attention to the fact that the shutdown was over ACA subsidies. This is all abstract and doesn't really matter to most people. But ACA open enrollment is happening right now (opened Nov 1) - when people see the new premiums they should make the connection - why is my premium doubling? Oh - isn't that why the government was just shut down - maybe the Dems really did have a good reason, maybe Obamacare was actually helping me, yada yada.. Many of those people receiving subsidies may also receive SNAP - they got a double-dose of what the party many of them voted in thinks of them.
  8. For the folks that think the Dems blundered this, what outcome did you want to see it as a success? In my eyes, if the Rs acquiesced and extended the subsidies, ultimately that would have helped the Rs, not the Dems. The Trump voters aren't getting the same info you and I are, they need to touch the stove and see the dysfunction affect them personally to be swayed. So what was the desired outcome? Extend the shutdown longer to extract maximum pain to make the Rs look even less able to govern? I can see that I guess - but at the risk that it backfires or doesn't really change the opinions of the average low info Trump voter. Force the Rs to nuke to fillibuster? What good does that do the Dems? (asking honestly). Can't they just nuke it next time they are in control if they want it out of the way? What?
  9. I understand morally why some Dems might want to extend ACA subsidies, I don't understand politically why they'd want to (right now). I really don't understand why they'd want to extend them only 1 year - which would stave off the pain of increased premiums until post midterms. The Dems seemed to stumble into a good outcome - they shined a bright light on the fact that Rs are refusing to extend subsidies, without getting the subsidies extended. This seems like a good political outcome ahead of the midterms when people who have freshly lost their insurance or been forced to pay out the ass for it are headed to the polls remembering Rs allowed the govt to be shut down rather than help. What an I missing?
  10. I'm in the same boat.. No, pools are not worth it. It seems there are thousands affected and very few have or likely will see any compensation. My builder went OOB. The concrete company that mixed the faulty concrete is OOB. The respective insurance companies are finding any reason to not pay out.. it's a mess.
  11. Is it frowned on to post for-sale firearms in this forum?
  12. How many times can they mention Freemantle and his 2 fouls?
  13. "Sure is starting to feel a lot like the early 2000's. So glad we bent over and let these ****bag ****stick foreskin sucker asswipes into the SEC with us. **** Sankey with a 10-foot claw dildo in the ass for eternity. "
  14. If anyone is interested in 2 tix to Billy Strings at Moody Center tomorrow - check the For Sale (best buy coupons) board.
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