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  1. To your first point, you are absolutely correct. It doesn't at all resemble fascism, merely regressivism. To your second point, you can console yourself that you are technically correct at best. But that assessment comes with either gross incompetence on the part of the Democratic Party or wilful conspiracy. Possibly a mixture of both. There is no scenario where either the leaders of the party were unaware of Biden's health condition or knew and didn't care because they thought they had an Ace in their pocket. To act like party leaders have no power to influence things, or at least offer up an alternative during elections is about as intelligent as the postings of fattyflattie on this thread.
  2. I read the context of the comment you quoted as saying nobody has the money to afford childcare. Did you read it differently? Because in my experience just being able to find any kind of daycare that has openings is almost next to impossible, and of course the prices reflect the scarcity. I seem to recall that there was some sort of change with the ACA that increased insurance requirements or something along those lines for providers to the point that a lot of churches that offered childcare services had to get out of the business. Whether it was a real or percieved change in policy, there was a definite exit of churches and other religious institutions from the childcare marketplace, which has left us with a demand rich and supply poor marketplace to the detriment of young parents.
  3. Our oldest is nine, and our youngest is four, and childcare for all of them was hard enough and expensive enough to come by that it initially made more sense for one parent to just stay home.
  4. I started it a couple of nights ago and enjoyed the first half or so before I turned it off to go to bed. I'll probably get around to finishing it eventually, but when I tried to restart it the next night I just wasn't feeling it anymore.
  5. Meh, it's a legitimate criticism. Progressives spent about 100 years trying to force the parties to allow popular representation of some sort on who their nominee would be, only for the Democrats to basically lie about their preferred candidate's (real or percieved) fitness for office and then turn around and nominate the candidate who basically came in at last place during the previous election. They basically told the average electorate that they believe in democracy until they don't. That is a huge betrayal of trust for the party and was likely a significant driver to get us to the place we are at now. You can cry (and probably rightfully) that voters should have known what the alternative was and should have voted democratic anyways because of the stakes, but that very attitude is counterproductive itself. You create an us vs them dichotomy and tell people that there are only two choices and they for the most part believe you after a while. And then when you make them feel like you betrayed their trust, well you've pretty much unintentionally written your own tragedy.
  6. The ATF, FBI, and TSA can all EABOD. I the less info government agencies share with each other, the safer Americans are from blatant civil rights abuses. They've shown what colors they fly, and they aren't red white and blue.
  7. That's literally the story of America for the last four hundred years, you idiot. America was built by those people you despise. You were built by them. If you want to see the best argument about how it doesn't work, go wander off into your bathroom and take a good long look in the mirror.
  8. My inlaws came from Mexico in the late 70's or so. Early enough to be granted amnesty under Reagan. All three of their kids graduated from college and have normal everyday careers. Our kids go to private school with kids who's family names every Texan on this board would immediately recognize. Your grandkids will be hanging out with the kids and grandkids of many of these people, regardless of the contempt you display towards them.
  9. Maybe, we could get a Venezuelan gal to stick said sharpie up her but before drawing said map. The subsequent OF video could revitalize their economy.
  10. Let's be clear on what is currently happening right now with regards to ICE detentions and deportations. We were told by multiple levels of executive agencies from the Supreme executive all the way down to local law enforcement that there would be a focus on deporting criminals. I don't think that is something most people have a problem with. If you come here illegally and then go on to commit a bunch of crimes, then that probably wears on the patience of even the more liberal bent Americans. But that is not what is happening. I know from personal experience that the local law enforcement is just looking for any reason to pull over any vehicle they can find that looks like it may have illegal immigrants in it and then handing them over to ICE. My father in law has a landscape business. His workers got stopped for some made up reason in Smith County, and despite not being criminals, ended up with an express paid trip back to Mexico. These were otherwise law abiding guys just trying to make a better life for themselves in a place with actual opportunity for future generations. One, who had worked faithfully for him for like fifteen years, left behind a pregnant wife and an infant. All of my father in law's clients acted shocked that that had happened (not sure why they were shocked, the writing was on the wall when they voted for it). I had to spend my week off last month help out to keep him afloat instead of hunting the rut. The economic fallout from policies like this is going to be catastrophic. Landscape, construction, and restaurant businesses are all going to go under because they cannot get workers to come to work when they are under the threat of having the life they have built up imploded. There is nobody reliable to fill the void. So we are going to be left with massive small business closure and a huge increase in the cost of living due to the related inflation. All due to the idea of brown people = bad. And that doesn't even get into the increase in crime you foster when a whole group of your population is afraid to call the police to report any crime that has been commited on them. We've essentially declared open season on brown people to the more criminal elements of our society. Again, most people probably don't have an issue sending the actual criminals back, but when you start indiscriminately sending the hard working people just trying to make a new life for themselves and their family back for "reasons" then you are going to end up with some serious economic problems that are going to negatively affect everyone.
  11. Thanks. Was partly throwing that out there to see if my phone is just getting too old to work well.
  12. For the past several weeks, anytime there is anything embedded in a thread, whether it be a tweet, a bluesky post, an instragram, or whatever, my screen just freezes on it (doesn't always matter if the embed is loaded or not) for like ten to fifteen seconds. If you keep trying to scroll, the screen still logs the scrolling, and when it unfreezes you end up scrolled down to wherever you scrolled to. I'm on a Galaxy S22 Ultra using Chrome.
  13. Can't eat a Scooby Doo van when you get to the front.
  14. On the second to last episode...is Samuel L Jackson trying to be the new face of Kendra Scott? I guess that’s an entirely untapped market for them to exploit.
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