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  1. 9 hours ago, Bullneck said:

     

     

    8 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Yuuuup. 
     

     

     

     

     

     

    Also would. 

    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.

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  2. Just now, Da Fino said:

    As god is my witness, I thought that account was as made up as 5th year letterman. 

    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.

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  3. 26 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

     

     

    Read somewhere that many Texas Reps are actually not in favor of this, because there are grumblings that if Texas does this, then blue states will start pulling the same shit, and they have a lot more to work with. Take it for what it's worth, since that would require Dems taking the gloves off 

    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.

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  4. 4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Saw an article about Trump talking more shit on Putin than ever before.

    Trump thought he could do peace there, but he was wrong.  So his supporters saw things as more weapons to Ukraine or peace and because of Trump's fellatio of Putin that Zelensky was the obstacle there.

    Now that Trump can't do peace and Putin is being seen as the obstacle, I think Ukraine is gonna get popular again.

    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. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    We've already seen reports that FEMA personnel on the ground is ~ 25% of what it should be.  Well done, government.

    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.

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  6. 1 minute ago, bluto said:

    Ain’t an ounce of meaningful shit gonna result from all this in regards to the powers running the state. These same impacted rich folks also went a week without power and water in some cases with winter storm… not dick happened. 

    We did get the 10 Commandments in classrooms. Have you said “thank you?”

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  7. Who gives a shit about the right or the wrong of the story, whether it matters, affirmative action, the NYT's fascist platforming (it sucks, but this won't be the last time)?

    It the story hurting him? Does it look like it will linger and give Adams an opening to retain power? How is Mamdani handling it? Is he pivoting, ignoring, or (stupidly) taking the bait in every appearance?

    Politics isn't right or wrong, it's bloodsport. The conversation y'all are having is a nice one in a journalism ethics classroom, keeping in mind the lessons learned there will be chucked out the window for clicks and views at the first opportunity.

    I saw a story where David Patterson is comparing ZM to Trump in terms of enthusiasm and certain aspects of speaking style. In other words, this may be your new Dem model in the "circus is everything" style of campaigning. 

    There will be other little scandals (yes, this is a tiny one). Pols are humans whose every choice is put under a microscope. We generally fuck up now and then. The real story is whether this guy can show the way for progressives in terms of style and managing the media in the most intense local media market.

  8. 1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    What, exactly, are we supposed to be celebrating today?

     The fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes.
    - Ginny Stroud

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  9. 25 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I have my doubts about their decision when dotard inevitably runs for a third term. 

    I don't - political question doctrine. They'll demur to the states to say who is eligible to be on their ballots. In Red states, Trump will remain. If, for some reason Obama did try to run, those same states would remove him from the ballot, leaving no drama for election day.

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  10. 11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    False.  We need the temp on the stove to be turned up to max, so all who touch it suffer from undeniable and excruciating third degree burns.  There is no way out of this except the changing of minds that can only come from suffering unspeakable pain.  We're past the point of no return.  We're committed.  So let's do this.

    We're governed in a way that always leads to a crash. We don't have to hope for it (and we really shouldn't, because there will be horrors). It's coming.

  11. 9 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    This is where I am at.  It NEEDS to happen, unfortunately.  We have been on this path for decades...since at least Reagan.  Cultural wars, voodoo economics, and war on facts/logic/education.  There is no gentle landing option, we have tried that and it doesn't work.   We need a very very painful experience to hopefully snap a decent chunk of people out of this fever dream.  Alternative is complete societal collapse.  

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  12. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Nobody ever claimed the "left of center" voting block is homogeneous.  There are always outliers.  To imply that all liberals are scared of Muslims is fucking ridiculous, full stop.

    His comment was “Muslims scare liberals.” A true statement, IMO. If, elsewhere he broadened that to all liberals, that would be an untrue statement.

    There are more than outliers. Remember polling in the 60s that showed a rapid flip in the percentage of white folks who were wary of black families moving into their neighborhood? I know that polling has come up on this or predecessor boards. We know there’s a strong element of social pressure behind that polling. Suddenly admitting you’re a racist was uncouth.

    I think we’re still in that moment on most things LGBTQ+. It’s unfortunate, but many people in their 40s and 50s who grew up using homosexual epithets didn’t expel their bigotry becuase of social pressure. Sure, you can back them down if they drop a slur or tell a terrible joke, but there are liberals not repulsed by Dan Patrick’s bathroom fascination.

    Humanism moves ahead of the populace. Obergefell dropped and new battle lines were formed, seemingly the next day. That’s a good thing. We need to be pushed to treat more and more people as human. But for electoral politics, that tendency leaves left-leaning parties very vulnerable.

    W/r/t Muslims, I will say I have more limited anecdotal data. But, every one of the guys I’m talking about did openly say quite inappropriate things about Tlaib and Omar. Like I said, I don’t view them as particularly good people. But a big tent needs shitheels, too. 

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  13. 8 hours ago, Satchel said:

    What makes these people you know liberals since they don’t hold to much of a liberal worldview?

    They vote Dem, hate Trump, talk a good game about racism and many other liberal priorities, and call themselves liberal. When you see polling where 10% of registered Dems are for something that makes you scratch your head, it’s those people.i just happen to know several  

    Im not defending them or saying they’re good people. I’m just reminding y’all that there’s less homogeneity left of center than we’d like on even the issues we’d most like to prioritize. 

    Recall the controversy about Go Set a Watchman’s Atticus Finch vs. TKaMs AF. AF represents the kind of people I’m talking about. They look quite liberal when the fight is about broad strokes racism, but the script nearly flips when you dig deeper. 

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  14. 3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Here we go again.  Can explain this perverse falsehood you push every chance you get?

    I know more than just a few liberals who you could say are scared of muslims, who roll their eyes at non-white and/or female presidential candidates and are completely at odds with the general left sentiments for some or all things LGBTQ+. When the consultants trot out their failed strategies, I get it. There is a segment out there that hangs with Dems by a thread for wins, and sits out enough to be a major factor in many losses.

    Anyone who thinks they have a handle on what Dems should do going forward is probably wrong. Oue electorate is a fucking mess. It isn't just the morons on the right that don't understand the issues, hold strong prejudices against one or more out groups and are generally underinformed. There's quite a few left-leaning morons as well. The best play might just be to nominate a bunch of Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camachos up and down ballots. 

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  15. 4 minutes ago, Gooby said:

    I'd like to think that the majority of people are mortified by all of this

    There are some people. Nowhere near a majority. That's a lot of why we're at this point.

    I've greatly reduced my news intake for my own sanity. I allow myself 3-5 minutes to be angry about this, but that's all. At my previous consumption levels I would be angry half the day.

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  16. 14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

     

    See these together.  That's my entire point: quit running on ideas, and policies.  Run on the circus.  The circus is what wins.  It's the ONLY thing that wins.  And if you don't win, then nothing else matters.

    Dems need to start with the basics: win.  Then, and only then, can/should they work the rest of it.

    An all-female statewide slate liberally running Sarah Stogner's offense would at least be entertaining.

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  17. 2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    I can't believe they're gonna try Colin Allred again

    Is the primary election over? Did I miss the battle?

    "They?" He can run if he wants. Hopefully others get in there and send him home, not that I think anyone beats lazy eye.

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