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softlynow

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  1. He might've broken records for the number of concurrences, in part.
  2. You should learn the editor’s concept “kill your darlings.” When your writing doesn’t really convey the thought in your head (here apparently the exact opposite, you say) you really should let it go.
  3. Don’t get pissy ‘cause you suck at expressing yourself.
  4. Doubling down on the boot licking, I see. There’s zero chance that the flexibility here is anything other than the flexibility to pay workers less.
  5. Your take is idiotic. The “flexibility” in those proposals are just tools for fucking over workers. The whining about how hard it is and the cool shit companies would do if the hard shit didn’t exist is pure nonsense. You’re going to bat for fascists and it’s just sad to see.
  6. You didn't see posts #254, 255 and 258 on this page?
  7. The Holocaust needed to happen to teach people a lesson is certainly a position.
  8. Not a weird conundrum considering that's very much on brand for the GQP. Also, feature, not bug, librul tears etc.
  9. Donald Trump raped a 13 year old. That needs to be everywhere. It needs to be the first autocomplete in Google, on billboards in every city, in tv ads on every channel, in ads on every social, mentioned by every surrogate at the top of their tv appearance “Thank you for having me, remember Donald Trump raped a 13 year old, now it is very interesting you would say that about excise taxes …” Yes, to independents, this one matters. Donald Trump raped a 13 year old. Also, just go for fucking broke on Project 2025, “Donald Trump wants to end Social Security and Medicare. He wants your taxes to go up. He wants your meds to cost more. He wants to ignore the 3rd Amendment and put troops in your house. and bring back Prima Nocta.” Make them play defense you dumb fuck pussies. Stop whinging and make them afraid of that con man. Make it so the Dem nominee, whether it’s Biden, Harris or Carrot Top, is better for them financially.
  10. Donald Trump is just the man to lead us through the debate over whether we call it the Semiquincentennial, the Bisesquincentennial, the Sestercentennial or the Quarter Millennial. There's nothing he does better than labels and precisely pronouncing complicated words.
  11. That's a glass half-empty (and understandable) take on this tweet. The half-full take is Kamala may be president. Take a moment from doomscrolling and allow yourself to believe, even just to calm the nerves.
  12. Hell, with her you can run Operation Let Trump Speak, just about hide her in Nixon's bowling alley and you've got a shot. Just make sure the public only hears "what can be, unburdened by what has been" a few times. And maybe get Sorkin to write her a half dozen new catch phrases. If she becomes the nominee, what are the odds Drumpf throws out the n-word, maybe just once to test the waters?
  13. There’s only one splash nominee out there, though. Urban Meyer or bust.
  14. Why would that hurt the GQP this time, asks Merrick Garland.
  15. Time to fake invade Albania. Willie's already written a song about it.
  16. The same phenomenon showed up this year when season 4 of The Boys came out. MAGAts suddenly realized they were being skewered. For 3 seasons of relentless lampooning of the right, our lemming neighbors somehow loved the show. Unfortunately, I doubt there will be a politics equivalent to the season 4 Trumpkin entertainment awakening.
  17. If he's not running, it means he knows he's lost the confidence of the people, and that they're right to have lost it. If he's not running, he should resign. On top of that, all the media will talk about for a couple weeks will be Kamala. She will have the stage almost entirely to herself, even putting Trump on the sidelines for a bit (unless that two weeks includes his sentencing, I forgot that date right now). If he's not running, it's the best shot at averting this catasrophe. If he doesn't resign, the convention will be a shitshow. Think 1968, but in the building, not out front. And the result in November will be the same.
  18. The ones who don't have private sector options are probably already in full CYA mode. The best we can hope is that a good portion the military brass and the folks in charge of anything nuclear-related are putting collective interests above their own.
  19. Look at this thread as to why Biden stepping aside would be fun for all, but dangerous for Dems/Democracy. A contested convention would be a live action version of a football game thread with the volume turned up to 11 and the stakes for fucking real. No telling how that shit would go. Contested conventions could be be unpredictable in the era when mass media was the evening newspaper, and now the news is old in 15 minutes, with the added bonus that anyone with a phone could be "reporting" news or simply trying to mislead. You might end up with someone way, way, way off the radar swooping in to take the nomination. It could be Stacey Abrams, Sherrod Brown, AOC, John Cena, Al Franken, or Jimmy Smits. Folks who assume Gavin just strolls in and takes it are delusional. It might be the best cable news TV week of all time. If this is the year we lose democracy, we might as well be entertained. What do you say, Joe?
  20. He ran against a guy vowing to raise taxes (and right when the most self-centered generation was looking to get paid), an economy on the rebound from a quite dismal period, and his party lockstep behind him. Biden does have the opponent whose ceiling does seem to be ~42%, which is nice. But he's facing a press that will not allow people to think this economy is even OK, and is a Democrat, for whom being in lockstep is a rarity, and certainly a longshot this go 'round. We need to accept that we're off the map here. That doesn't mean either course is preferable, it just means, to me, that the predictive value of any previous election is rather thin. About the only thing I agree with, in that regard, is the power of incumbency. I think if Joe wasn't going to seek reelection, he would've said so long before now.
  21. If by "not many" you mean 50-60 million, then you nailed it!
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