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softlynow

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  1. Yep. Fuck those guys.
  2. Nope. They’ll consult a new round of polling that tells them moving further right, yet again, is the answer. They’ll be Dems arguing for their own Camp X-rays, where they’ll facilitate a more humane kidnapping of brown people, even allowing for a few citizens caught in the net, because that’s where the persuadable voters are.
  3. Whose assumption?
  4. That happens when you stand for nothing people need to help them in their daily lives. GOP lite creeping towards GOP proper as a brand is showing itself as one of the worst ongoing product shifts ever. Think New Coke, but if they had just kept coming up with newer Cokes every couple years rather than getting back to what worked. Fuck centrist feelings. Embrace what Mamdani stands for, which is policy innovation and/or experimentation for the people. Suck it up and take the good with the bad. Lord knows Trumpers have learned to do it. We need a vibrant and organized opposition, not a Clinton/Obama wunderkind executing yet another delaying action against the slow march of the oligarchy as it pushes liberal democracy into the sea.
  5. It’s not deficit reduction, it’s tax cut budget space. Or something catchier. If we had a functioning opposition party they would flood the zone with sound bites about everything being geared for billionaire enrichment at the expense of the rest of us.
  6. They probably have 2 form opinions ready to go. Red state? Fill in the name of the state on the “map approved” form. Blue state? Grab the “map violates” form, fill in the name of the state and the “reason for denial” blank. Any reason will do. Swing state? That will require a clerk to show off a bit, and the 6 will build in some drama to maximize bribe payments and other benefits.
  7. Paramount is going to have to cancel South Park and the Daily Show to appease the king.
  8. I'm with you on almost everything posted on this page, save the bolded. For every person of interest from poor schlub to mildly famous all the way to household name, the standard for the feds isn't "convictable," it's "can't fucking miss." When you see shit cases like the Roger Clemens indictment, you know that the career prosecutors were overruled by politicians. I've been told this by several federal prosecutors and a couple of district judges (caveat on the judges: way back in law school before Obama broke people's brains). Even at the state level, "convictable" is a subjective term. Those things said, there could be pretty damning evidence in there. Evidence that might even convince a few Trumpers. But it wouldn't see the light of day under federal prosecutorial protocol if the case wasn't so airtight that no jury in any jurisdiction would find a former president, one of the most famous people in the world, and who has created a cult of personality so strong that he could actually shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a vote, not guilty.
  9. Yep. Just buying time until the next distraction comes along.
  10. I was with you until "Dems get Congress." Then you brought me back at the finish.
  11. They probably think they do, but under Calvinball rules, Trump is eligible, Obama is not. 6-3.
  12. Southern District of Florida. Are you sure?
  13. I agree with this, but Trump delaying/avoiding/running out the clock on this won't lead them to better inform themselves. They won't question the same process flaw that led them here. They'll just run back to the same sources/media outlets that hollowed out their brains, and those folks will find a shiny new distraction for them.
  14. Just one of the many paths to where I know we're headed. 2024 was the last actual election that mattered. 2026 will be pre-determined. At some point, we all should get our disloyal comments scrubbed from this site, and hope we can from others. There's no stopping this train.
  15. No. Local Republican club meetings. I was compelled to attend one.
  16. We are destined to nuke ourselves from this planet, and his incredible success is proof of that.
  17. I've had the displeasure of seeing him speak in person. I thought I knew before that day how far gone the republican activist class was. To see them lap up the most inane and obvious line of complete BS was both amazing and completely demoralizing. There is absolutely no grift too outrageous that they won't fall for it.
  18. Even if Dems went for it, their blue state maps would be struck down once the checks clear to 6 of the 9 SCJs. Do not get your hopes up that institutions or process will save us. Shit has to burn, and we're nowhere near that point yet. Maybe during Barron I's reign.
  19. FIFY, but white knighting noted.
  20. Trump finally untethered himself from Putin financially with the crypto payoff coin. Only money matters to dotard. Putin trying to exert leverage he no longer has hopefully means he just made the shit list. But usually dotard fucks shit up somehow. He’ll probably TACO this, too.
  21. https://randazza.com/third-amendment-lawyers-association/ https://thirdamendmentlawyers.weebly.com/ There's either something very wrong or very right about this guy.
  22. Like Chip Roy said, clearly we need to cut government spending. Get that number down to zero then the power of all those prayers can actually kick in.
  23. We did get the 10 Commandments in classrooms. Have you said “thank you?”
  24. The Houston area had 3 500 year floods in 2015-2017. The grownups stopped being in charge in this state a long fucking time ago.
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