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softlynow

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  1. Is the primary election over? Did I miss the battle? "They?" He can run if he wants. Hopefully others get in there and send him home, not that I think anyone beats lazy eye.
  2. That skeet is pointing out that Teslas are depreciating faster than (as least a couple) other EVs. It's taking a mildly interesting fact and making into a "Elon is destroyed" internet moment.
  3. New name: Bill to Remedy the Distress of People and the Realm.
  4. We all know 90 seconds with Susanna Hoffs would do it. He woudn't even have to throw in Sela Ward.
  5. That may be how the infection spread to older losers, and it may be how many of us recognize this part of the disease, but the youngs don't care about the NYT. They doomscroll and listen to podcasts. If Me Too is really the watershed moment, and it may be, I would see it akin to Reagan bringing the fundagelicals in from the political cold and giving them a permanent seat in the GOP boardroom. Millions of folks who were itching to make their backwards views a part of public life and discourse weren't radicalzied by Reagan, they were already there. Social media and bro-casters and others gave losers community, Me Too might just have shone a light on it and helped shitgibbon and co. bring them into the fold.
  6. Me too was a factor, I'm sure. But I think 2 other developments fueled the feminist backlash. First, young misogynists got their Rush Limbaugh figures in Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Second, the ability of losers (what we used to call incels, and we really should insist on doing that again) to connect with each other in large groups and form a groupthink that led them to absurd conclusions. Corporate America was always going to be brake on feminist advances, but they couldn't put it in reverse without the help of masses of meatheads and gamers, not to mention the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies and dickheads.
  7. We focus on the racism bit, but young men (and some not so young) reacting to the attack on their god-given right to be superior to women is a major factor as well. Equality is triggering, in all its forms.
  8. If they disappear ZM and nothing significant happens to the administration, they will only be emboldened to start a wider purge of public officials pushing back. We're far too fat, happy and complacent to turn into the kind of mob y'all think is going to form. There might be marches, and maybe those marches get a little boisterous. Social Media will be replete with memes, selfies and 'OMG look at what the cops are doing' videos. That's about it.
  9. If he gets the Nobel Peace Prize I'm switching to team Burn it All Down. https://news.sky.com/story/israel-iran-live-us-base-targeted-by-iranian-missiles-but-sources-say-iran-may-have-given-warning-13382979
  10. When we were told the adults were in power, I didn't realize @realgreggym meant Iran's government.
  11. What difference does that make to the families of the formerly just sick but now dead people that were in those hospitals?
  12. A resounding military defeat in the lower 48 would qualify as the kind of event Dotard couldn’t survive.
  13. Y'all getting your hopes up. A cult leaders spell only lifts when they die, and only if they don't die a martyr. I know y'all have see posts about how evangelicals trap new followers by isolating them from the secular world. They get sent out to protletyze only to be told how silly their new belief is. That only steers them futher into the cult which doesn't think they're weird, instead is the community they've been seeking. This shit is just more of that. Making fun of Dotard changes nothing for the cult. His failures change nothing for the cult. The other reliable Pub voters won't change either because taxes, people of color, pronouns, and whatever else Fox News comes up with in the 60 days before elections. Holding their nose to vote for THEIR team has become a regular thing now. It's just how it is. No need to rally those troops, 'cause they'll always vote, and vote R. The people who can get fed up or are too embarrassed to stick with the party have already left. We're going to need an event to shake us out of it. COVID wasn't enough. Something far, far worse. Short of that, or the billionaire class suddenly deciding they actually do have too much money, this is the new normal.
  14. Why is that fair? The whole fucking point is if you're gonna be an asshat and blow past a loading or unloading school bus, you're acting recklessly and there's a good chance you commit a negligent homicide. Those tests show quite conclusively that FSD is nowhere near ready for public roads, except as a supplement to a non-asshat human driver. If it were ready, the dummy would've crossed safely because the Tesla had correctly identified the loading/unloading school bus as "loading/unloading school bus" and not as "truck," consequently applied the rules of the road and stopped 50 short of where the dummy crossed. HH succincly pointed out your idiocy, but I think it's readily apparent you needed it spelled out for you.
  15. Looking though the list of the scenarios the WOPR plays out in WarGames, I see one called “Israeli Discretionary.” I find comfort in knowing that the movies from my childhood weren’t just scaremongering, rather simply preparing me to accept the inevitable. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/yiCnG4YzGR
  16. I like your optimism.
  17. The Democratic Party will run the same plays they’ve been running since Clinton. Stop putting hope in those fuckers. Money has corrupted any of them that see the chance to keep their seat into retirement, with only a couple exceptions here and there. We are, and will remain, without effective representation in opposition to the formation of the world’s first kleptocratic clown car hyperpower.
  18. Down 13.65% now.
  19. Could be just another scheme to manipulate markets for insiders, but Elon truly getting sideways with trump and losing both a chunk of government cash and a number of cultists would be a very entertaining center ring leopard face eating.
  20. That's happening, but it has nothing to do with Biden and Harris being organically the face of the party. It has everything to do with our media, in varying degrees, being tools of the wealthy elite in preserving and growing their personal fortunes. Trumps' corruption and incompetence would push anything Biden or Harris to the back page and almost completely off air if journalistic credibility still existed and publishers and news directors weren't nearly as corrupted as our political class. Instead, Tapper et al. are manufacturing ongoing scandal to both make money for themselves, and fulfill their masters' wishes.
  21. Dems need to change the nominating rules. Have a closed convention in December '27 and nominate Donald J. Trump. The only way he doesn't get a third term is if Dems put him on their ticket.
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