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  1. 9 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Oh to be clear- it’s not a proposal I’m stating the nature of the problem which is that the institution is currently constructed is built to lose.

    I didn't miss that thesis. But framing the problem the way you have, you're actually stating that it's an intractible one, that's it's one requiring enormous and unavailable resources to overcome. 

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    1) abandon all issue based litmus tests and racial or gender representation goals in favor of the single objective of winning races, recruit candidates who are the most credible and appealing person who lives in and is a product of the community on the 2-3 most tangible and immediate problems the community has. 

    2) Contest every race in every place, with the strategic priority of winning county and state legislative elections. 

    So you're telling people who want to win Dem primaries to eschew the power brokers and special interest groups and instead do something completely different than everyone who becomes a Dem nominee in every race in the country. Sure. Is the Dem party supposed to only run folks who are fabulously wealthy for county clerk on up?

    There is not near enough money to put up sacrificial lambs in 80/20 Pub counties and districts. You would need money to get folks to get their brains bashed in running those races. And that's just to get them to run. Dems don't contest a bunch of races because politically-minded folks in that area either just aren't Dems or don't have time and/or money to waste for absolutely no reason. It isn't a top down executive call to not have candidates.

    Let me risk being doxxed for a moment. I've run for office. I'm sure you know, but to win the primary, all that was required was winning over a majority of the 300 or so local party activists. This is true for both parties. Those activists are members of local PACs that put out mailers with recommended candidates. The 10s of 1000s of voters that show up can all be seen with these sheets, and the 1-2% that engage with campaign volunteers and candidates on their way in usually look to their sheet as the conversation unfolds. I had many say I'd won them over, but who knows. In campaigning for 9 months, I personally got the word out to maybe 1-2% of people who voted. Obviously this is not the kind of campaign for which anyone ran TV ads. Street signs, a couple billboards, and some internet ads. Beyond races where TV ads do run, the PACs basically choose the winner of the primary, and in tons or races, the primary winner of one particular party is the winner in the general. 

    With a shitload of money, you can overwhelm the local political "machine." That's it. I've said this before, but your proposal requires something like a 10-1 or better ratio of dollars raised and spent by Dems over Pubs.

    Your proposal is akin to fans calling for a coach to call the touchdown play.

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Sorry.  Best we can do is massive tax breaks for billionaires.  They say "thank you, suckers."

    It's amazing so many don't see that this was the endgame all along. Every "lean libertarian" dipshit always trying to convince us that we're the ones with the wool over our eyes who didn't abandon that ship in 2016 needs their face eaten repeatedly. Every "Christian" that excused the obvious depravity of the dishonorable conman from New York needs the rudest fucking awakening imaginable. Every country club Pub who didn't abandon ship and at least leave the President line blank in 2016 and on needs their trust fund or 401k cut down to "fuck I gotta actually work" levels. This country cannot be simply fixed. We know now it needs a hard reboot.

    In short:

    Nuke From Orbit GIFs | Tenor

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I recall a documentary about Ted Haggard, disgraced Christian preacher who eventually got caught with meth and male prostitutes. In the documentary, he was talking about sex with his wife to younger male churchgoers. Not from the pulpit but in casual conversation in front of the camera. It was so weird that anyone would do that with acquaintances or strangers especially in front of a camera.

    The fact that Mace made those comments tells me everything I need to know about her. She's some combination of damaged and has zero social/people skills

    Then there's no room for her at Initech.

  5. 13 minutes ago, TexPx said:


    I agree. But their constituents will only turn on him when they start feeling real pain from his actions. Unfortunately that means everyone else will have to endure the pain also.

     

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    Widespread pain is our only hope.
    Again, the only hope for the republic is for the whole of the republic to suffer at once. Helluva place to be.

    Meh. That will come too late. Once the Pentagon is completely loyal to him, he won't even need public opinion on his side. The 2nd Amendment as bulwark against tyranny may get tested, though probably not. But if it is, we'll see how silly that BS is.

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  6. 5 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

    Al Green of Houston has already filed impeachment proceedings for the Gaza plans.  I know it won't come to fruition, but I expect several other filings, and it won't take but a few non MAGA red people to depose him given the right articles of impeachment.

    Impeachment? Lol. 

    Al Green just made the forthcoming states enemies list. The better question is whether the folks on that list “mysteriously” fall out of windows in the next few years, or if Trump/Musk secret death squads feel the need to jazz things up a bit. 

  7. On 2/6/2025 at 11:42 PM, TwiceHorn said:

    Ackshually, I think what should happen is offending parties, like school districts in the case of Brown, are sued in the local district before a friendly or at least law-abiding judge and you get ongoing supervision from a Barefoot Sanders or Billy Wayne Justice and Texas prisons.  Or Janis Jack with the foster-care system.

    But, that assumes a non-feckless 5th Circuit.  Then again, if it is a Supreme Court order, the 5th can't really disobey it.

    Can't? What physically prevents them? Why can't they disobey but write that they are really obeying? Why can't they write an opinion that, because <insert whatever the fuck>, now the 5th is supreme over its territory. Why can't they put their fingers in their ears and yell "I don't hear you" while disobeying?

    "Can't" isn't a word (yes, one word, that's what a contraction is) I would use about a dictator and the cunts that bend the knee, except when talking about things he lacks resources to do physically do, like colonizing Pluto or making OU not suck.

  8. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, first we have to have SCOTUS rule that these things violate separation of powers, which is not a sure thing.

    But, I do rather doubt that SCOTUS will tolerate flaunting of its rulings, or even those of the lower courts.  That strikes directly at the power of the judiciary.  They've been happy to aggrandize the executive at the expense of the legislative, and to a certain extent, their power.  But this is direct.

    Neil Gorsuch titling a book "A Republic, If You Can Keep It" is the chef's kiss of the simulation. The most disappointing Episcopalian living today will absolutley vote in a way that will make clear to everyone but Trumpkins that the judiciary remains in place solely to keep up appearances.

    The cons on the court are either firmly team Dotard or fear losing status, comfort and wealth. There is a future as figureheads in the Trumpire. There is only uncertainty ahead in defying the enshittening machine.

    If the executive branch's unquestioned superiority results from less than a 6-3 vote, I'll be surprised. Court packing would follow a major loss, anyway.

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  9. 4 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    The woman singing America the Beautiful today was, in her words, “canceled” by the mayor of New Orleans for singing at an outdoor Christian gathering in 2020. They were told not to remove the masks in public because of the spread of COVID, but did that matter to this paragon of virtue? You know the answer. It was all God’s master plan to get her to perform at the Super Bowl. I get so bent out of shape at these frauds using Jesus like this.

    Yep. Jesus isn’t wasting his time and effort on the anthem. No glory in that anyway. He’s helping guys break tackles or catch passes. Maybe shed a block or two. Better ROI. 

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  10. 2 minutes ago, KeysPhoneWallet said:

    Ok. He used an alt account and said some trolling stuff that some find offensive. Ok. Internet trolling is a thing, it’s a problem not as big as the corruption and fraud from within our govt, but it is a problem.

    There will be no convincing anyone that already has their mind made up.

    Does it hurt being this stupid?

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  11. 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

    what's going to be the breaking point for congress to step up and do their job ?

     

    They might stop just “being concerned” as the cattle car doors close in their faces. 

  12. I'll grant him this: when you make a sequel, the #1 rule is you make the same damn movie. He's making the same movie, but bigger, more explosions, more amazing shit.

    I'm waiting for the re-cast of McCain, though. I fear they may fuck that up like when Maggie Gyllenhaal replaced Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes. Still, it seems we are in for some compelling theater the next 4-15 years.

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  13. 4 minutes ago, GSU&amp;UT said:

    I barely post on here anymore, but completely agree that posters need to be routinely called out over this shit. We're watching Nazis openly stage a coup.

    Yeah, but that’s irrelevant because an Obama appointee once misfiled a TPS report. Because of this we must cheer on the Einsatzgruppen. 

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  14. 16 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    OK. Setting aside what would actually happen because he's a multi-billionaire, what would happen from a legal standpoint if Elon Musk violated a court order? In other words, what happens when a party is held in contempt?

    That court’s impotence is laid bare for us all. Any order like you’re describing is vacated by SCOTUS and impeachment proceedings against that judge begin immediately. Any judge inclined to hold Elmo to account knows this, and every judicial dodge (justiciability , political question, wrong size font on the pleadings, etc.) would be employed to get out of it. 

  15. 4 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    You should have "accidentally" bladed a wedge from just off the green and into his nut sack the second time he tried baiting y'all. Or just gone with the obvious "I don't respect or trust anyone who cheats at golf the way that fat fuck does" and leave him be.

    With my short game, it’s likely to happen anyway. Maybe next time.

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  16. 11 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

     

    I think most of them will never, ever question it.  They will slowly become convinced that deporting all Muslims is necessary for national security, and so is leaving NATO, and so is expanding our territory, by force if necessary, and whatever else the Bannons and Millers come up with.  Fox News will help the average Trumpkin become the average German from circa 1938 and they won't even notice.

     

    The true Trumpers? Yep. The other 10% or so that just vote R because taxes and regulations, those will see their wallets empty and finally get angry. 

    I’m not sure it will matter, though, once the Musk administration has put their folks at the top of the military, they can simply ignore the constitution at will. Then hold a sham constitutional convention which completes the coup.

    My point above is a few tweets and man on the street quotes are mere trifles. Nothing has changed yet, and I agree it probably will not. 

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  17. 1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    The final goal is to leave and live on a private island with private military support etc.  For the billionaire class.  First, you have to ransack this country before you leave its bloated corpse behind.  Then the next step is to finish off the earth and head to space.  If you don't think that's the plan, you're not paying attention.  

    Whether it’s an island, orbit or another planet, absolutely this. See Elysium. Not a great movie, but, imo, fairly prescient. 

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