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softlynow

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  1. Do some criminal defense. You'll stop asking that question in about 6 months. The answer is: a lot.
  2. And by Troll you mean Trumpist Intellectual. It was said in another thread that the GOP should replace the elephant for the troll face as it’s logo. It’s all they even pretend to offer as cover for all the gritting and the rape of our political traditions and norms.
  3. I agree. I didn't post it before, but if you cut an post the quote above into google, it shows up a total of 1 time. How many times do things show up in a google search with one hit? It was The Christian Post. Not sure there's anything special about that, just the lack of other coverage. It seems that Redfield acknowledged what anyone would in his shoes, that money is a possible motivator for fraud. Not that he thought it was happening to any significant degree.
  4. That quote is in the second video below:
  5. How are they going to do this? I get that they might want to. But what you're talking about takes competence. Trump ain't no Cheney. Let's assume, arguendo, that Biden takes the EC. What does the GOP coup look like? I'll grant that they will try to rig the election. Gym laid out one plan for us today (again, I think a fascistic takeover is beyond the grasp for these D-teamers). But humor me and consider that they just can't quite get that done.
  6. The problem is Arthur Brooks is looking at Trumpism as if it was an isolated bad presidency that led to the upheaval. Trumpism is more akin to the cataclysmic events in our history. After the Civil War the GOP won 9 of the next 11 presidential elections. After the onset of the Great Depression Dems won 7 of 9. Following the fracture of what historians call the Democratic-Republican Party in 1924 (marking the beginning of the robust two-party system Brooks looks to for solace) the Dems won 6 of 8. It's foolish to look at the 1970s, when liberalism was losing intellectual momentum and conservatism was stretching its legs as a data point for the resilience of today's GOP. If anything those roles are reversed. Progressive ideas abound, and are, for the first time in a while, a decent threat to take control of the Democratic Party. I would argue, that, If your looking for parallels, Biden is the Dems Nixon, who with conservative support, though wasn't conservative. Conservative activists saw the disaster in '64 as reason enough to get in line with the GOP in '68 and hope to continue to work within the party apparatus to capture it ideologically. One could easily see that dynamic play out over the next decade or so as boomers give way to millennials as the dominant electoral block. In short, I agree. If GOP activists want to prevent long-term electoral carnage, they need to work with their donors to isolate Trump as a political force. There's no guarantee that any strategy along those lines would be successful, but if there is any path to parity with Dems in the near-term it includes total disavowal of Trumpism.
  7. Low blow bringing this shit up right as football anticipation is usually at its highest, but isn't because the season will undoubtedly be cancelled.
  8. Meh. Fox would just give a Colmes-like “liberal” 3 hours from 2-5 am to offset Hannity, Ingraham and Tucker. Or trot out morons paid to put a face to conservative straw men easy to knock down. Librrals need to study and use the conservative playbook. They need to convince rich liberals to open up their checkbooks to fund liberal media. Trying to force fairness on a blood sport is a fool’s errand.
  9. Fortunately for DOTUS the next distraction is about to hit, since his executive order on the matter only tells others to "consider" the issue. Dirty libs will be wailing about a few million newly homeless. Sad.
  10. It's the first half of Jaws in a loop. At no point does anyone make the mayor hire Quint. At no point do we do what's really necessary at this point - shut everything down again, pay people who are unemployed or work in jobs that will die because they can't work, stop evictions again, etc., etc. Instead we keep looking at the water and all the money it can make us, and jump right back in. Will schools opening and then closing be our "my kids were on that beach, too" moment. Nah.
  11. He keeps this in the bag for that very reason:
  12. Add DC and PR statehood and Trump in Sing Sing til he croaks and we can move on. Anything short of that and the damage he’s done to our traditions means the next GOP potus has a blueprint to a dictatorship.
  13. If we get a Biden administration, he better not pull a Ford, and issue pardons and so on. Heads need to fucking roll. We should need a new supermax or ten just for all these people. Otherwise, the republic is done with the next GOP victory.
  14. 12 more weeks of this weak shit. Actually that kind of hammers home brisket's fears. If this is what they've got the chances they'll direct most of their efforts towards suppression and theft are 100%. We need to pretend these attacks are devastating. Gin up some polls showing Trump gaining ground all over the place so maybe they get complacent. That and figuring out safe ways to drive massive numbers of people to early voting locations.
  15. Dems aren't going to take the Senate only to hand it back by giving a Republican governor a chance to appoint Warren's interim successor. Wait, it's the Dems. Yeah, that's totally happening.
  16. This is you to us now: SardonicFlickeringEasteuropeanshepherd-mobile.mp4 Hopefully this isn't you later:
  17. So, shall I mark you down as a Kanye vote?
  18. Transfer all law enforcement officers employed by DHS to the Post Office as mail sorters.
  19. I'm also in Montgomery County. I'm dismayed by the fact that there actually more Trump signs and gigantic flags flying from Jeep Wranglers in my subdivision than in '16.
  20. Yeah, that'll be a thing, though maybe not on Fox. They'll move right on to whatever helps the GOP at that time. OANN will ride that grift for all it's worth. Whatever the new mainstream GOP looks like, they'll have to deal with these guys in a way they couldn't with Birchers and the open racists in the '70s through '90s. But Pubs have talking out both sides of their mouths down cold, so I expect it'll be done quite shamelessly.
  21. RIght. Because Republicans are always stuck apologizing for their mistakes, owning their actions and rarely act hypocritically because of optics, decorum and their strong moral compass.
  22. This is all the ASL the interpreter need know for those briefings:
  23. Y’all can have Monetary Misanthropes. I’ll take Exogenous Shocks.
  24. Oh it’s believable. In fact it’s predictable.
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