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softlynow

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  1. That's the facial hair of a combo bait shop and used tire store owner . . . Or of the kind of sex offender who tells their attorney "if I did it, it was so she'd know what boys her age are all trying to do to her," while maintaining his innocence after being shown extremely damning DNA test results of swabs from a rape kit and from multiple bedding articles found in the child's room as well as from a half dozen used condoms found in a corner of the garage. Said condoms he claims he only used to masturbate in because he has rough hands and needs to jerk it frequently because of how much the child arouses him in ways that clearly make it her fault, if he did it, but he definitely didn't.
  2. Michael Lewis did a chapter on Trump nominating Barry Myers, CEO of Accuweather to be the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in The Fifth Risk. Good read, if you want to freak yourself out more about Trump 2.0. The potrait he painted of Trump 1.0 was bad enough.
  3. Recession: When Bad Times Prevail
  4. Now they just grift, like Rick Wilson in that video above, or most of the posters touting the newest worst thing evar! on Twitter/BlueSky.
  5. They need Crockett on TV, FB, Tiktok, etc. every day doing her thing.
  6. Way to go out in a limb.
  7. Has anyone ever seen him and bad teammate in a room together?
  8. No, it's realized that for them, every accusation is a confession. You really think the piece of shit who tried a coup on 1/6/21 (and all this other shit) is going to go quietly this time? But go ahead, ana2, both sides this.
  9. It means there are a number of scenarios where, if we actually do have elections, the result will be predetermined or won’t actually matter.
  10. We won’t have real ones. As someone way down the potential state’s enemies list, I should be more sanguine about my personal situation. I just can’t be. My hope is I slowly get numb to it all. My children are still young and I need to keep myself going for them. Kudos to you for keeping your chin up.
  11. Don’t do that to yourself. They’re “concerned.” Nothing more. Hope is gonna drive you crazy. All that’s left to do is watch the train wreck and figure out how to make it through to the other side a couple decades from now.
  12. Law schools are behind the times, still teaching that the rule of law, precedence, and stare decisis matter. I bet they still cling to the antiquated idea that no one is above the law.
  13. Not yet. But they will very soon.
  14. I will never lose all hope that some things are immutable. I didn't lose that hope when Charlie botched a coin toss, when Arky held us to one Watson in Houston, when our HFC cried on the sidelines and when aggy landed the "best recruiting class EVARRR," and certainly won't now. Now, democracy? That's done. Every other decent thing about this country? Yeah, America is shit just like all the other countries to exist. The very idea that we'll go down swinging before handing almost literally everything of value over to New York and South African conmen and a Russian autocrat? No, looks like we'll just type out our grievance then trudge willingly into proverbial boxcars. But, my good man, aggy will always be aggy. See, box score aggy at Texas, 1/25/2025.
  15. Except 1939, if you're aggy.
  16. I may re-read of The Guns of August instead of doomscrolling for the next couple weeks.
  17. You're simply being obtuse at this point. They aren't going to run without some support. You know better, but your framing of this holds out the Demcratic Party as a corporation with agents in every county and district. They're simply choosing not to run people in Montgomery County, for example. It isn't that there are plenty Dems there who would think about running for something, but understand the futility of it. Instead its DemCo simply choosing to sit it out. "Contest every race." Requires candidates, right? Where there is local support they do run. Where there isn't, they'll need outside money if you're going to run the touchdown play. Contest every race either requires money that isn't there or a shift in ideology that shifts the entire landscape. It requires an entirely different big tent. Running better national and statewide candidates out there, ones who seem genuine, but are simply warmed over centrists, will also do nothing in giving it a run in 3144 counties. Your point that the party as constructed is spinning its wheels is sound. The bullet point "contest every race" is not. A better party might get there organically.
  18. It is for the specific thing you were talking about.
  19. What you're quoting is focused on your "contest every race" comment. That only happens organically, absent gobs of money. I think it only happens organically with a dramatic idealogical shift in the party. Until then, you're relying on what you abhor - the savior candidate that connects despite the party still only offering something incrementally better, or at least less bad, than the other guys.
  20. I agree that this is the area Dems need to examine and shift. However, questions abound. Coming off as genuine on those 3 will require a dramatic shift in party messaging. A candidate here and there who "feels your pain" won't cut it anymore. Is the electorate ready for what will be derided as a return to mid-20th c. liberalism or an even further left shit to social democracy? Pubs only need to dust off "tax and spend" and the "nine most terrifying words" pablum. So, do you keep enough of the current base in the fold as you, hopefully, pick up non-voters looking for real expansion of the safety net? Can you peel away folks from the GOP with an economic focus? How do you peel them away when they're disinclined to side with people they see as satanists and n-/gay lovers? Considering their performance in 2024, we've probably entered "worth a shot" territory. Obama was wrong. It was not he but Trump that ended the Reagan era. That era was marked by 2 major parties much closer in ideology than either would want to admit. I think the usefullness of the Third Way has passed. The problem remains, though, in getting Dem-aligned special interest groups to see it that way, too.
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