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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. As an aside, this board has a bad case of Democrat brain, a combination of internalized victimhood and a massive excess of fucks given. The only way Democrats and co-belligerents like me will get off the back foot is if we all stop worrying so much about our what they do and start making our own weather.
  2. He was elected by a majority voting coalition that intensely distrusts and dislikes each other and “Republican voters” are not the plurality. It does not matter who they blame. Like, at all. What matters is who everyone else blames, and what matters even more than that is subset the people who have real agency and stroke, and who they worry about pleasing. If a shutdown happens this is going to get uncomfortable for them.
  3. Shutdown-ready Trump expects Democrats to blink It seems like everyone expects this to happen, and I agree. @Bateshorn I’m curious what the vibe is on the ground I hate this game. As a matter of principle I don’t think the Government should ever shut down. The debt ceiling should be eliminated, for the simply reason that it has totally failed in its ostensible purpose and incentivizes playing chicken with people’s lives. a few points on the politics: 1) For the first time I can remember, there is *zero* reason for the minority party to help the majority with this. 2) For once, I think the President’s usually excellent political instincts have failed him on two points: First, If a prolonged shutdown happens, the GOP will wear it, and he’ll wear more of it than the Senate and House leadership. He has successfully convinced the public that he’s fully in control. He’ll actually take the blame here on the Republican side, and it will surprise him. Second, I don’t think the Democrats will cave this time. Of course it’s a lose-lose situation, but I *think* they have realized that the price of weakness is higher than the price of a shutdown, both long-term and short-term. The GOP will have to fix this themselves. 3) Of course, there are any number of ways the Democrats could cock this up. This is the party of Elizabeth Warren, after all. But all they really need to do here is play possum because the public doesn’t seem to expect the Government to actually shut down, and if it does, and a couple weeks go by, there’s going to be considerable heat and GOP reps and senators are going to wind up with the hot potato when the president throws it in their direction if the Dems don’t fold.
  4. AH YES! CHICKEN P!
  5. Wrong again, libtard
  6. What does the bot say? This feels like long par 4 Wordle 1,560 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  7. Considering your sub-@Helobious performance on this thread, I now have a reason to think he may go down.
  8. FT: Accenture to ‘exit’ staff that cannot be retrained for age of AI
  9. The dream of the 90s is alive in Palm Beach: IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME
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  11. What bible is this dude reading it sounds wild as fuck!
  12. We had that at my school in ‘92. The Sophomore girl who bought me, a very talented dancer who ended up on Broadway, absolutely loathed the senior girl I had been dating on and off. I have to say it was a good day.
  13. Until I read Karen Armstrong’s History of God I never fully understood how much foundational Roman Catholic theology and Christology was shaped by the effort to conform their understanding of God with the pagan Greek philosophical tradition. Which is … very strange and produces some very weird and frankly pointless debates.
  14. That song is such a banger. Ironically, Joni Mitchell was not at Woodstock, because her manager thought it would be better for her career to go on Dick Cavett that day.
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  16. 2024 was going to be a long shot due to Biden’s insistence on seeking a second term no matter how it went. However, I’ll always believe that once Biden withdrew, the spectacle, narrative drama and attention of a contested convention (even kayfabe!) would have presented whoever secured the nomination with the best opportunity to win the general election.
  17. quite right.
  18. If you’re arguing for the attitudinal model or the strategic model that’s one thing, but I don’t believe history supports the idea that Supreme Court justices or Federal bench were always mostly partisan actors or mostly advocates for particular interests, prior to the dominance of the Federalist Society. I’m not going to argue with you about matters of law, but in terms of history this is a recent phenomenon. That’s why I was ringing the fire alarm about Leegin two decades back when @washparkhorn was still caping for citizens united. If you knew anything about how the commercial economy operated, Leegin was a holy shit moment.
  19. Like I was saying about Wesley Hunt- he’s going to get in, he will almost certainly be the nominee, and he’s even worse than Paxton because he doesn’t have Paxton’s baggage.
  20. No samosa for them. What a fucking asshole.
  21. My second attempt, in blackjack terms, was to hit soft 18 with the house showing 6 because I thought I felt 3 in the shoe and ended up having to grind out a push Wordle 1,557 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  22. Look, institutions come and go but a robust and equitable legal system is the only one we absolutely have to have in a constitutional Republic, and it seems to be failing. There are four basic historical paths from this point, listed below. Two are violent, two are not, and it’s likely we won’t know which one we are on for 10-15 more years. 1) The Republic Holds: slow but successful return to norms via the institutions and the ballot box. Precedent- Italy, but they weren’t nearly as far down the path. 2) Chaos: some flavor of civil war (cold or hot) or armed domestic conflict(s) eventually leading to a new order. Precedent- lots 3) America, Humbled: lose a war with an ascendant power. Precedent- Germany 4) SQPR: terminal but mostly peaceful decline and eventual collapse. Precedent - Rome The first path would be the most likely but requires the American elite to awaken from our hubris and recognize where we are. The second and third path strip us of it at a devastating human cost. The fourth lets us keep our hubris but we lose the Republic, even if we retain its costume.
  23. The first term was our Berlusconi era. This is our Mugabe era.
  24. Pretty sure he drowned staring into the rain, like a guinea hen. Mind his little fontanelle!
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