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softlynow

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  1. Considering the timeline we're on, we'll probably get Total Recall boobies.
  2. Relatedly, while I get that we will continue to start every sporting event all the way down to kids baseball games and swim meets with the SSB, why the fuck are we still having to endure the shittastic God Bless America during 7th inning stretches?
  3. Several of the above, plus The Great Escape.
  4. Same folks that are hurting you. And he's not wrong.
  5. Delaware and Massachusetts have their primaries on September 15, 2026. In 2012 the Texas primaries were moved from their normal early March date to May because of a challenge to the new map drawn after the '10 census. The SC, on 1/20/12, gave guidance to the District Court in S.A. on how to redraw the map. I can't find the date the D.C. released the map, but lets's say it took a month. That puts the release of the map about 3 months before the primary. Assuming for this discussion (because I don't want to go look up the applicable law, which I'm guessing I could've done for all of this rather than recapping 2012) that Sept. 15 is the latest a state can hold a primary, that would put a dealine for finalizing a map in early June. Dems are unlikely to hold out for that long, and Abbott is unlikely to let his authority be disrespected into next year.
  6. A They won’t. Pretty soon the consultants will start hammering the message that talking about Epstein only pushes the moderates away.
  7. If this should actually linger as a problem as we close in on the midterms, panic will set in and then the dismantling of our electoral process kicks into high gear. Federal takeover of urban elections offices, deployment of ICE agents to polling places, martial law, suspending the constitution, whatever it takes. It’s been noted many times already, but I’ll say it again: the GQP is governing like they know they don’t need to face the voters in a general election.
  8. He’s for kidnapping brown people, protecting child trafficking rapists and robbing the 99% to give to the 1%. Don’t ask him to explain why. He doesn’t know.
  9. I’m thinking about Tony Dogs in Casino.
  10. Think about the aggy tears when we smartly buy him off to their detriment.
  11. Can’t save a patient after it has died.
  12. Doubtful. He likely just repeats shit he heard somewhere.
  13. Yep. Fuck those guys.
  14. Nope. They’ll consult a new round of polling that tells them moving further right, yet again, is the answer. They’ll be Dems arguing for their own Camp X-rays, where they’ll facilitate a more humane kidnapping of brown people, even allowing for a few citizens caught in the net, because that’s where the persuadable voters are.
  15. Whose assumption?
  16. That happens when you stand for nothing people need to help them in their daily lives. GOP lite creeping towards GOP proper as a brand is showing itself as one of the worst ongoing product shifts ever. Think New Coke, but if they had just kept coming up with newer Cokes every couple years rather than getting back to what worked. Fuck centrist feelings. Embrace what Mamdani stands for, which is policy innovation and/or experimentation for the people. Suck it up and take the good with the bad. Lord knows Trumpers have learned to do it. We need a vibrant and organized opposition, not a Clinton/Obama wunderkind executing yet another delaying action against the slow march of the oligarchy as it pushes liberal democracy into the sea.
  17. It’s not deficit reduction, it’s tax cut budget space. Or something catchier. If we had a functioning opposition party they would flood the zone with sound bites about everything being geared for billionaire enrichment at the expense of the rest of us.
  18. They probably have 2 form opinions ready to go. Red state? Fill in the name of the state on the “map approved” form. Blue state? Grab the “map violates” form, fill in the name of the state and the “reason for denial” blank. Any reason will do. Swing state? That will require a clerk to show off a bit, and the 6 will build in some drama to maximize bribe payments and other benefits.
  19. Paramount is going to have to cancel South Park and the Daily Show to appease the king.
  20. I'm with you on almost everything posted on this page, save the bolded. For every person of interest from poor schlub to mildly famous all the way to household name, the standard for the feds isn't "convictable," it's "can't fucking miss." When you see shit cases like the Roger Clemens indictment, you know that the career prosecutors were overruled by politicians. I've been told this by several federal prosecutors and a couple of district judges (caveat on the judges: way back in law school before Obama broke people's brains). Even at the state level, "convictable" is a subjective term. Those things said, there could be pretty damning evidence in there. Evidence that might even convince a few Trumpers. But it wouldn't see the light of day under federal prosecutorial protocol if the case wasn't so airtight that no jury in any jurisdiction would find a former president, one of the most famous people in the world, and who has created a cult of personality so strong that he could actually shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose a vote, not guilty.
  21. Yep. Just buying time until the next distraction comes along.
  22. I was with you until "Dems get Congress." Then you brought me back at the finish.
  23. They probably think they do, but under Calvinball rules, Trump is eligible, Obama is not. 6-3.
  24. Southern District of Florida. Are you sure?
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