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  1. Repped not necessarily because I agree with everything you said but because it's an insightful post and it captures a broader strategic misstep that Democrats continue to make. I can't quite give a name to this broader strategic misstep, but the gist of it is treating the electorate like better people than they truly are, accepting certain premises at their face value and placing a strong emphasis on appealing to those premises. A naïve belief that voters have some kind of deeper convictions that will get them to switch parties. In the W era, the Dems accepted the premise that the electorate just LOVES the troops, so we're gonna TOTALLY WIN OVER those troop-lovers by running a candidate WHO SERVED AND WAS WOUNDED IN VIETNAM instead of that effete Texas national guard and didn't see any action! How many Republicans switched party lines due to their affinity for "real" veterans? In 2024, Joe Biden's campaign accepted the premise that the electorate just LOVES tough border policies, so we're gonna TOTALLY WIN OVER those border-hawks by trying to pass a "tough" border bill and forcing Trump to accept political responsibility when republicans refuse to vote for it! Then Kamala Harris took over, and her team (which was just Biden's team) accepted the premise that the electorate just LOVES Liz Cheney, so we're gonna TOTALLY WIN OVER those "classic" conservatives who miss Dick Cheney. How did that work out for them? We've seen this tried here in Texas at the state level, too, with MJ Hegar (the "real deal" servicemember) and Colin Allred (the "real deal" Texas football player). How many "real deal" farmers and "real deal" cops do we need to churn through before party leadership finally gives up on this idiotic way of thinking? And that brings me to Talarico. I don't dispute his religious bona fides. He is a "real deal" pastor. And if that's gonna be the campaign strategy, then his donors might as well light their money on fire for all the good it'll do.
  2. this motherfucker is gonna frame Roger Rabbit
  3. Trump's economy is much worse off and had to resign after having embraced American Born Workers? Trump's Economy and American Born Workers have awful taste in music? American Born Workers weren't hired for their merit but because Trump's Economy wanted to fuck them? I give up. I have no idea what Disgraced Nancy Mace was trying to say.
  4. Talarico is a good guy, I just don't see the votes for him though
  5. Maybe some of the people who got exploded knew too much about something that a sheriff's department gang member didn't want them testifying about
  6. Big Noon wants its McAfee
  7. Had to miss this one, but yikes
  8. Does anyone actually believe Epstein got his money legitimately
  9. chainsaw

    Emmy 2025

    White Lotus is much funnier than The Bear
  10. that's only for poors
  11. It was the weakest season.
  12. I agree it was the weakest season. The doomsday clock felt very contrived, even more so than The Food Critic device of S3. Tina was completely sidelined by the "cook-a da pasta fasta" arc which is kind of an insulting thing to do to an Emmy winner, and it didn't even make any narrative sense. She was too slow until she wasn't. That's it? They don't show us how she got faster or why. Just, she talked to some foreign dude (working for no pay by the way) and it magically helped her get faster. Wow, what a story. Syd's arc about choosing where to go was not interesting at all, and if it hadn't been for the mini-arc surrounding her Dad's brush with death, I would even say her character was an overall liability to the show's quality. Just a complete waste of Ayo's talents. Every other minor character was either Flanderized or window dressing, a tell tale sign of a writer's room that has no idea what it wants to do anymore or how to do it. Carmy's relationship with his mom and revealing that he'd gone to the funeral, that was better storytelling and could not have been acted better but at the same time I don't feel like it had the impact on me that it was supposed to have. I think part of the reason why is that this was a ten episode season that really could have been done in six. Lots of filler scenes, lots of characters just sort of staring at each other, lots of lectures. So all that sizzle ended up diluting the steak, so to speak. It felt like they overdid those callbacks, fan services, and vamping tactics to the point where the tactics themselves stopped working as effectively and their overuse detracted from the parts of S4 that didn't need to be covered up with extra seasoning. In spite of all those criticisms, The Bear remains a very good show and I don't regret watching Season 4. I didn't hate the Syd episode as much as some other posters seemed to have hated it, but I agree that the Wedding episode was by far and away the best one, although getting JLC, Brie Larson, and Odenkirk on loan is a bit of a cheat code in an episode that already has Oliver Platt, Josh Hartnett (very underrated in this show), and John Mulaney. Also loved Rob Reiner and the franchising arc. Holds a lot of promise for S5.
  13. I think Minix is currently on a 2-Way
  14. Newsom should disregard these impostors
  15. Epstein needed these files to exist or the implied blackmail threat doesn't work. The files got seized during his first arrest, presumably, and Trump 45 could have destroyed or altered them. People have speculated that Epstein didn't commit suicide because powerful people had a compelling motivation to keep him from revealing who's in the files. Biden of course did nothing useful with the files. Trump 47 campaigned on full transparency, but now the files "don't exist."
  16. Elon already blabbed that Trump and Bannon are on the list
  17. Live look at their lawyer:
  18. This blogger is reaching. Calling Abbott and Dan Crenshaw threats is free speech, not "actions as a medical provider." Yeah, her facebook post was ill-advised and of course she got fired over it, but I'm not going to pretend I'm more outraged at her than I am at the people who actually got those innocents killed.
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