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softlynow

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  1. A resounding military defeat in the lower 48 would qualify as the kind of event Dotard couldn’t survive.
  2. Y'all getting your hopes up. A cult leaders spell only lifts when they die, and only if they don't die a martyr. I know y'all have see posts about how evangelicals trap new followers by isolating them from the secular world. They get sent out to protletyze only to be told how silly their new belief is. That only steers them futher into the cult which doesn't think they're weird, instead is the community they've been seeking. This shit is just more of that. Making fun of Dotard changes nothing for the cult. His failures change nothing for the cult. The other reliable Pub voters won't change either because taxes, people of color, pronouns, and whatever else Fox News comes up with in the 60 days before elections. Holding their nose to vote for THEIR team has become a regular thing now. It's just how it is. No need to rally those troops, 'cause they'll always vote, and vote R. The people who can get fed up or are too embarrassed to stick with the party have already left. We're going to need an event to shake us out of it. COVID wasn't enough. Something far, far worse. Short of that, or the billionaire class suddenly deciding they actually do have too much money, this is the new normal.
  3. Why is that fair? The whole fucking point is if you're gonna be an asshat and blow past a loading or unloading school bus, you're acting recklessly and there's a good chance you commit a negligent homicide. Those tests show quite conclusively that FSD is nowhere near ready for public roads, except as a supplement to a non-asshat human driver. If it were ready, the dummy would've crossed safely because the Tesla had correctly identified the loading/unloading school bus as "loading/unloading school bus" and not as "truck," consequently applied the rules of the road and stopped 50 short of where the dummy crossed. HH succincly pointed out your idiocy, but I think it's readily apparent you needed it spelled out for you.
  4. Looking though the list of the scenarios the WOPR plays out in WarGames, I see one called “Israeli Discretionary.” I find comfort in knowing that the movies from my childhood weren’t just scaremongering, rather simply preparing me to accept the inevitable. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/yiCnG4YzGR
  5. I like your optimism.
  6. The Democratic Party will run the same plays they’ve been running since Clinton. Stop putting hope in those fuckers. Money has corrupted any of them that see the chance to keep their seat into retirement, with only a couple exceptions here and there. We are, and will remain, without effective representation in opposition to the formation of the world’s first kleptocratic clown car hyperpower.
  7. Down 13.65% now.
  8. Could be just another scheme to manipulate markets for insiders, but Elon truly getting sideways with trump and losing both a chunk of government cash and a number of cultists would be a very entertaining center ring leopard face eating.
  9. That's happening, but it has nothing to do with Biden and Harris being organically the face of the party. It has everything to do with our media, in varying degrees, being tools of the wealthy elite in preserving and growing their personal fortunes. Trumps' corruption and incompetence would push anything Biden or Harris to the back page and almost completely off air if journalistic credibility still existed and publishers and news directors weren't nearly as corrupted as our political class. Instead, Tapper et al. are manufacturing ongoing scandal to both make money for themselves, and fulfill their masters' wishes.
  10. Dems need to change the nominating rules. Have a closed convention in December '27 and nominate Donald J. Trump. The only way he doesn't get a third term is if Dems put him on their ticket.
  11. The Trump admin looking for criminals is like Robert Hanssen looking for a Russian mole.
  12. Not all that surprising, considering we eventually learn that most tech billionaires are assholes, but did no one think to point out that "Palantir" is a reference to a Tolkien magical artifact that was used by the most evil being in that world to corrupt the mind of a would-be adversary and to spy on the good guys? Just another case of evil always self-reports, I guess. Yeah, yeah, fuckin' nerd.
  13. They’re interested in making money. That’s all that can be said with any certainty. You and others above your post in this thread point out the total reversal of their policy positions. They know their audience. That’s all. Bulwark, Meidas, Bluesky/tiktok influencers, Lincoln Project hacks, none of these people likely believe much of anything they say. They’re just grifting on the right side for now. Fuck the lot of them.
  14. Not alone, but they give our native shitheels a big assist. The portion of the folks we take in fleeing pronouns and masks heavily outweighs the normie portion. Also, my state rep is from upstate New York. Having met almost every local GOP activist in Montgomery County, I learned first-hand that way too many Trumpkins hail from other states, and just couldn’t wait to get here and fuck shit up.
  15. Incorrect. The trouble with Texans is it’s full of all the non-Texans who came here and turned our libertarian-leaning conservative base into an authoritarian one. Danny Goeb is fucking exhibit A. The Texas I grew up in is gone. Carpetbaggers killed it and cosplay as us now.
  16. I'll grant the bolded does, possibly, point to a vastly different situation. But you're assuming we get fair elections. However, some of the GQP base leaves them if they don't immediately overturn abortion rights protections (they don't have to go as far as you say, just repeal the hypothetically passed abortion protection law). They know that. The new VRA, whatever it looked like, would probably just be gutted again by SCOTUS, so they'd wait on that first. Sure, the Equality Act would probably be safe for a long while, if not indefinitely (maybe not from SCOTUS, though).
  17. You're saying the Republican Party is too incompetent to enact their priorities? Is this a serious post? One of the laments above is about protecting abortion rights from GOP assaults, which is a very recent "undo[ing] of stuff." Their number 1 priority is, has and will always remain making their donors richer. They're about to pass a gigantic bill that does exactly that. Doing nothing? You say this on the day the One Big Dotard Bill is passed in the House? WTF are you talking about? 4 months in and they've done plenty, with a whole bunch more to come.
  18. Ok, so lets pretend for a moment that Dems did pass a bunch of cool an necessary shit. Why do we think they wouldn't simply be undone this year, if not already?
  19. No generation is immune to being duped by skilled and well-funded propagandists. As Americans age into the period of their lives where they consume TV news, they will fall into the Black Sleep of Kali Ma. Until something changes our course, we will only get more and more fucked. The oligarchs have seen to it and will perpetuate our spiral towards pre-New Deal government until the next cataclysm.
  20. No, of course not. I'm firmly in the "We're Fucked" camp.
  21. Dems are acting like a failing European General Staff: fighting the last war. Politics is firmly entrenched as a form of entertainment now and a line from Ocean's 13 comes to mind: you don't run the same gag twice, you do the next gag. Astroturfing a wildly sensational podcaster is a ridiculous notion. Astroturf the next thing. Besides, Dems need a comprehensive new and old media vision. They need to match or exceed Pubs sound bite for sound bite, tweet for tweet, reel for reel and on down the line. John Oliver was among those sounding the alarm about Sinclair poisoning the local news well. Great, the politically attentive know about it. What the fuck did anyone in the Dem orbit DO about it? Pubs have built a thoroughly modern propaganda behemoth. Dems are little more than a small town social club by comparison. They've relied on earnest hard journalism to do the heavy lifting of informing of and providing the motivation for organizing their base and swing voters. Hard journalism is just about dead. There is no Walter Cronkite making sure we all know about the most important issues and events of the day. Honest brokers are fewer and further between (aside: it really should have been the loudest of warnings that a comedian, Jon Stewart, became the most credible voice the left turned to in the 2000s). Dems need a propaganda machine, not a talking head or two. Even if there are fair-ish elections, Dems have little chance outside of a catastrophe overwhelming whatever GQP nonsense gets rolled out as a distraction. If not for Covid, we'd be in Dotard's third term already.
  22. We don't kink shame here.
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