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softlynow

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  1. 9 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    So, the GOP has had to kowtow to Trump to win elections.  One way or another, Trump is not going to stand for an election again.

    He's also going to go out sooner rather than later and I think we agree his unique brand of populism is irreplaceable.

    How much does the GOP continue to kowtow to him?

    What world are you living in? You keep acting like rules and norms mean something anymore. 

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  2. 5 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    About the only choice I have is to gtfo of Texas.  I'll probably move to New Mexico or Colorado.

    They’ll be safe for a while. Western Europe needs to ramp up their militaries if there’s to be any liberal democracies left. 

  3. 2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    That's the other shocking thing, people's memories of how things were under Trump, and Trump himself, are so bad.  I really thought more people were sick of his shit than this.

    How much contact do you have with lower and middle income folks? I see a steady parade of Trump and Let’s Go Brandon shit, so I wasn’t totally surprised. My hope was that it was different outside Montgomery County, Texas. Now I know it’s not so different elsewhere. We are a loathsome people.

    We are on a course more towards Elysium than Star Trek. I think civilization and humanitarian progress peaked in the Obama years. . 

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  4. 9 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    Just how stupid are these stupid people….?

    I knew this country was fucked the first day of my law practice. The client I was helping that day told me her fear in the upcoming (2010) mid-terms was that Dems were set to end Medicare and Social Security. That day I learned I could change the subject with the best of them, and that I had to stop talking politics so much.

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  5. 1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    Your last president's son was a fucking pedophile crack fiend. 

    Was that the other choice on the ballot? No? Then what the fuck does that matter?

    As framed above, this choice was rapist vs. non-rapist. That you chose to re-frame the choice rather than accept what you've done means you're uncomfortable having promoted rape. You should be. That's a solid reaction. But by re-framing, you've failed at a chance for deep introspection. Only you can unfuck yourself, but you have to want to do it first.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Spankytoes said:

    Yup. Now what? You think I’m a moron? You can’t imagine how much that hurts me to read.
     

    Send a decent candidate out there and you wouldn’t have this problem. The fact that it’s even close should tell you everything that you need to know. She’s shit, more so than Trump. Guess it’s 4 years in Canada for you. Best book your flight now.

    It isn't about the candidate, and you know it. We get it, you get off on being called a moron. Well, I don't think you're a moron. I think other things that you don't get the pleasure of seeing typed.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Skipper said:

    Best hope it's just old and lazy and spends all his time watching TV and bitching on twitter about poor coverage.   He may just be too lazy and incompetent at this point to do the work needed to push through much.

    He has lieutenants that actually want to fuck shit up. That's the concern. If it was truly just him and his whims, we'd be fine. He knows less shit about fuck than we do.

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  8. 1 minute ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Decades of Dems allowing Republicans to claim they're the economy party.

    Decades of Pubs promising a free lunch by running up deficits that Dems have to control. They need to stop pretending that fiscal prudence ever wins. Promise more free shit than the other guy.

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  9. 19 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Harris County seems to have gotten more R which I did not expect and makes me sad.

    @Js1 never answered me about Colorado job openings.

    It's only early voting reported so far, right? Dem margins should widen as ED comes in. Right now several Dem judges would lose. I'm not sure that holds.

  10. 15 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    I’m not freaking arguing Trump isn’t an extremist at all.  Just the fact that both parties have gone more away from center, that’s it.  Which with polls of democrats since Clinton have proved. The other side I don’t even need to quote articles to prove obviously. I don’t understand why wanting both parties to be more center is a bad thing. The fact you have people like @Dahobbs and @Brisketexan negging anything they don’t agree with kinda proves my point.  

    Which Dem policy positions are far left?

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  11. 2 minutes ago, Ellellelle said:
    36 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:
    seems to be low yute participation compared to 2020 so far.  expected, imo.  but do we want the kids to vote, given that the olds seem to be sliding left and the trump campaign strategy is basically to get rogan bros?

    I spent two weeks practically begging a 25 year old college educated white male to vote. He insisted he couldn't choose between the two. Best I could get was him promising to vote down ballot. He's not a Rogan bro from what I can tell, some of the youth are just baffling.

    Considering how fucked our culture has become, it's not that baffling. Among many other terrible turns we have taken, the normalization of Trumps antics, the tolerance of the emergence of head-shaking groups like incels and the prevalence of "making libs cry" as a theory of governance has to be quite confusing for young people.

  12. 13 minutes ago, Sheep Have Wool said:

    The same way that you become the richest person in the world: it's never enough. He's pretty clearly another insecure person trying to make themselves feel whole.

    Also, I suspect you're greatly overestimating Elon's smarts - he's got a lot of intellectual peers there. Did you miss Habba's walk up song?

    Musk is a moron born with money. Here’s an item you need:

     

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