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softlynow

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  1. It’s a statement that has failed to affect change. It didn’t spur discussion of its underlying ideas beyond the choir. The first step to progress is admitting failures.
  2. I know what it means. Bad politics is tying the albatross of “you must educate” yourself around the neck of potentially popular ideas. The electorate is stupid, always has been, always will be. Recalibrate your marketing efforts to that fact.
  3. I’ve stopped being amazed at their stupidity. How do they think this helps them, seeing as they never can prove voter fraud to begin with?
  4. The best thing would be for this stupid slogan to simply be forgotten as another example of how shitty progressive activists usually are at politics.
  5. I think he means the "conservative," afraid to be exposed as cult members posters on the board of that name, not the student paper, but your point does still remain.
  6. Maybe some day. The prerequisite to effective persuasion is knowing your audience. I've read the room.
  7. I'm pro-life, too. I just think the tack you're taking to support our shared belief is misguided. It's not particularly persuasive and quite obviously offensive. Also a bit tantrum-ish. But I'm entertained, so . . . proceed.
  8. Anastasis channeling his inner Escriva/Laphroaig/LonghornLaw the last couple pages. Good stuff.
  9. It's done wonders for my Crohn's. And I do love the bills I get for it. $1,500 per pen, which I take every 2 weeks. At least that's what my insurance says they're paying. I pay $5 per.
  10. You’d think so, but if it lowered life expectancy we wouldn’t be in this mess.
  11. Voter ID, no. Digital passport, maybe. Firearm ID and database along with criminal liability for the owner of a firearm who allows that gun to be used by another in the commission of a crime, yes.
  12. Why not solidify a newly captured state, and stay in the south? Plenty of room for development in Virginia. They could double down on the posturing and threaten to give DC it's third area hub by ditching ATL Hartsfield for BWI Thurgood Marshall.
  13. They need to be making those overtures simply quiet that idiotic talk of retributive taxes on their operations.
  14. Yes, but I doubt his issue is resonating largely enough to register to even the minority of tour players who lean center or left. The event is a money event on those tours, but Augusta National runs it, and funds the purse. Will viewership be down? Maybe, but not much. Then again non-golfing Trumpkins and "liberal tears" could mean higher viewership. But if you dig into the finances of the tournament, you'll realize it's actually pretty impervious to this kind of thing. Hell, if they lost all corporate sponsorship they could easily make up that lost revenue in a weekend of concessions, charging normal captive audience prices instead of the insanely low $1.50 for a pimento cheese sandwich, etc.
  15. This trend really just reinforces how out of the mainstream the current GOP is operating. I don't take this as an indictment of the state of our brand of capitalism. There are other really damning indicators, though.
  16. The PGA, European Tour and Japan Golf Tour could all pull out, and the tournament would go on as scheduled. IBM might pull its sponsorship, and we'd get to see TM commercial-free again. Augusta National and CBS aren't messing with that weekend anytime soon. If Delta and Coca-Cola had stones they'd float HQ relocation plans.
  17. The Federalists fucked around with the Alien and Sedition Acts and found out in 1800. A little bit of history rhyming, I hope.
  18. FDR did prolong the Great Depression . . . when he insisted on a balanced budget in 1937 and a mini-recession within the GD ensued.
  19. I’ve got a client who’s been waiting for 6 months in our jail. I suspect it’ll be another several months before he’s transferred. Republicans don’t care about working the problem. Just like immigration and abortion, they just want the issue to run on because it’s the easiest red meat for them to chop up.
  20. In my experience, the juveniles who actually are incarcerated, beyond local detention, have seriously injured people. The system is designed to skew towards rehabilitation, and all but one of my juvenile clients have spent only a brief period detained, and were released to their parents/guardians pretty quickly. The exception was horrific. I fought the transfer, and was able to delay it for almost a year. When his case was officially transferred he was 17, and he turned 18 before he pled (I didn't keep the case because he could afford me for the transfer, but became eligible for a court-appointed attorney once his case was transferred). I'm a big proponent of better facilities and more rehabilitation services for people that need to be incarcerated. But from what I've seen, it takes quite a lot for juveniles, even in the most conservative counties of this state, to reach the point where that need arises.
  21. You can’t transfer an under 15 y.o. in Texas except for capital murder. I’m not sure why the cutoff in the Texas juve system is 19, but it is. Seems like a much easier fix can be made than a wholesale re-imagining of the system.
  22. So you're in favor of a complete redesign of the juvenile justice system simply to match the criminal majority age with your preferred voting eligibility age? The flexibility and resources are there (to the extent they're going to be) - just transfer the kid to criminal court. 15 year olds sometimes need to go to prison or go on probation for 10 years.
  23. If you don't try him as an adult, that's what happens.
  24. So a 16 year old rapes and murders a couple girls and is released from TJJD on his 19th birthday with no criminal conviction on his record? Not sure you have the votes for that particular reform.
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