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softlynow

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  1. Depends on whether it’s seasoned on both sides.
  2. Dozens more Trump admin officials should go to prison before the Trumpening is over. They won’t, of course, but it’s worth noting what should happen again and again so the historians who study this period know that not all of us bent over willingly and let this country go to shit.
  3. Texas still locks folks up for pot, but, yeah, the laws that are actually important are just guidelines, really.
  4. Why do we want widgetsmegma gone? His threads are finally interesting.
  5. What’s wrong with that? You can do all things in His name. ALL things. Unspeakable things. You just need her consent, not His.
  6. At this point, why not? Every other story line is played out. Need something fresh for sweeps.
  7. Todd clearly failed to impart focusness. With that we can overcome all else. Do we even have a focusness QC coach?
  8. I now want to see Stephen Miller, Ivanka and Jared try to Weekend at Bernie’s Don-don before this chapter closes.
  9. Of course it makes sense. Tribalism is innate, rational decision-making is not. When your sense of self is shaken, instinctive drives take over. Many of those folks don’t feel they belong in a country where a black man can run things.
  10. Democracy is hard, and we’re just not up to the task.
  11. That does need to happen. That process begins by winning everywhere. Statehouses, governorships, both houses of Congress and the WH. And when you win, take note of how the GOP got us here. DO NOT handwring over the excesses over your base/fringe. Allow the radicals to flank the old center. After you win, then you can consider the excesses of radicals. Not until you win, though. The neoliberal order is being drowned by a populist wave. Ride that to victory.
  12. On immigration, his views should be the center. On taxes, no, the center should be on the side of at least trying to hold the deficit in check. His regime failed in that regard. On foreign adventures, fuck no. In short, I very much disagree.
  13. It's also yet another instance of the snowflake mentality of today's "conservatives." For a group that loves to thump the personal responsibility line, they sure do blame a bunch of things on others. What it really hammers home to me is that modern conservatism has been revealed to be nothing other than greed and naked self-interest dressed up to look like a high-minded ideology.
  14. I have heard of those sayings. Other groups are maligned as greedy, hence the way I phrased my post. To take her tweet as a slur is to say you can never claim that the motives of Jews may be economic self-interest. That’s absurd. Now, is she an anti-Semite? Maybe. I’m not well versed in her career. I’m only commenting on her tweet in isolation. I do so because, at the time it was a news story, it was complained of as anti-Semitic in and of itself, and not in the context of her previous utterances.
  15. The conservative bench on these boards was thinned considerably the last several years, as it became clear that the bases for their views were being totally betrayed by the pols who claimed that mantle. After Trump's nomination, really only Escriva and Tahoe remained. When brisket and GOLL stopped going to bat for GOP positions, it really weakened the discourse from the Right on here and Shaggy. Of course, that reflects our national dialogue as well. The Weekly Standard wouldn't convert to Trumpism, and folded. Those "conservative" outlets that remain hold nothing like the views of Buckley, Will, Friedman, Kirk, Noonan, etc. It makes sense that the Right complains of persecution, because we're here every day accusing them of having nothing of substance to say.
  16. I still don’t get that one. Greed isn’t a trait peculiar to a negative stereotype of Jews. I get that they’re associated with money-exchanging occupations, but it just seems too much of a stretch to say that tweet was a slur.
  17. Damn, the Metropolitan Correctional Center isn’t on 5th Ave. I was hoping for a prophesy come true.
  18. You actually think all those voting machines without paper backup will accurately reflect the votes cast? I don’t. We’re not even in Act II of this epic. We’ve a long way yet to go before this crisis ends. Trump will retain power and the republic may have run its course. I want to be wrong.
  19. To be fair, his life has been pretty well catalogued as well.
  20. Just wait til the primaries are over and Trump is trailing the Dem nominee by 7-9 pts in September. We’ll look back fondly to the time when each of these events made national news.
  21. While the above is true at times, it isn't here, and is irrelevant in a discussion of DOTUS crisis of the week episode 127.
  22. The “grass on the field” defense will keep the 40% like jhawk in line.
  23. President Harris should just issue an executive order in January ‘21 invalidating the ‘20 census and starting a new one. Then we will all agree this form of government is broken, and yell endlessly at each other with no effect while democracy dies.
  24. That busing answer sounds like something Striker from Airplane! would say. It’s also in Yogi Berra’s wheelhouse.
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