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  1. Yeah, this is what it ultimately boils down to. But Congress should have exercised more power than it has, to serve a protective, checky-balancey role.
  2. His base, no. But, I think we have to admit that Ds lost a "convinceable middle" who aren't very engaged and D messaging didn't hit them right, plus incumbency.
  3. Ackshually, they kind of did. Remember, they didn't contemplate a pure popular election for President. One of the main reasons for the electoral college was to put a firewall of sanity between the office and the electorate. They didn't envision laws against faithless electors and direct election of electors by the electorate (instead of appointment by legislature). With those two things, the electoral college has become mostly useless except as a means of diluting the popular vote. And, that was a compromise with those who wanted Congress to appoint the President, which seemed anomalous when most of us studied it, but in restrospect more resembles the parliamentary system that is more resilient.
  4. Sure it will, and well-deserved. But as far as Ds starting up messaging for midterms and later, they're probably going to have a goldmine of shit to attack.
  5. Well there's some merit to this point. Congress has been pretty ineffectual as far as running the country for decades now. They rightly ceded a lot of authority to agencies, but have abdicated their role in overseeing agencies and their policy agenda. Had they done so, we might have avoided Loper Bright and similar decisions. To some extent that has opened up the "imperial executive" theory (all the executive orders the last four administrations or so), and some of the shit that's come down the pike from SCOTUS. So, yeah, Congress sucks.
  6. Possibly right. I think it might take some more time before the current bullshit really starts to hit people "where they live." One kind of interesting thing is that the "deport criminals" seems to resonate, but maybe not deport law-abiding workers. So that might be a fruitful line of attack. I think immigration and the economy were the big things Ds lost on.
  7. And, I think some of it is going to have to wait a few weeks or months until inflation is unimproved, or worse. A lot of people don't understand the Elmo problem, don't care, or actually think shredding government is good (it might actually be if everyone left wasn't a toady). But when all of Trump's campaign promises turn out to be bullshit, especially the economic ones, they can hammer him with: Trump promised you lower prices and no P2025. Well, you got higher prices and P2025. And a bunch of stupid shit like Greenland, Panama, etc.
  8. Stewart LaJunta Rio Vista Are probably the main boys camps in Kerrville, Hunt, Ingram area.
  9. Also, what's the deal with US v. Haniyeh? AFAIK, that's the case against Hamas leaders. Is there something I'm missing there?
  10. That's fucking disgusting. Those people performed investigative work that resulted in convictions.
  11. Clearance Thomas.
  12. That may not be isolated. My small IP firm was going to merge with a larger firm, but we represented a couple of ex-Lockheed employees being sued by Lockheed. Their local GC (GD/FW) said he would pull their work from the firm if they took us in (it was not IP-related work and it wasn't because of the potential conflict). The firm did not have the balls to tell him to fuck himself.
  13. Don't forget explosive diarrhea. Bloody flux.
  14. Well, if that were to have happened, it would have been before they took him in a sort of "full-disclosure" thing, if asked. But I suspect absent reliance from current UW coaching, Sarkisian would not undermine a player trying to make a fresh start somewhere.
  15. But they think this will somehow a) get them a pay raise and b) lower the cost of living. So fuck all that land of the free rule of law shit.
  16. I just have kind of a pet annoyance with government and IT systems. The Patent Office, of all places, user-funded, has had online filing for 20-plus years. Way ahead of the worlds other patent offices, courts and other quasi-judicial systems. It's a generalized complaint that includes underfunding of the IRS.
  17. Well, corporatism has been out of control for longer than disinformation. And it's a big enabler of disinformation and undermining the first amendment and its purposes through weakening of the media by profit motive. I would agree that disinformation and credulity toward it are a bigger current problem.
  18. And they tried to keep her name out of the press/public until that failed.
  19. Still, IRS should have done this a long time ago. But I see that propublica deal about Intuit. There seem to be other vendors, as well.
  20. FBI in revolt. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--what-s-going-on-at-the-fbi
  21. Hegseth will fix that. When he's sober and not fucking bitches.
  22. A lot of services offer free tax filing for simplest returns. How simple, I'm not sure. Probably incur a fee if you do something like try to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit. You would have to supply your own W2 and whatever other docs poors have. So, in some sense, IRS duplicates whatever else is out there. And, unfortunately, they probably spent a metric shit ton doing what should have been done a decade ago or more.
  23. Theoretically true. However, the next administration, if there is one, will have to purge the DOJ first, possibly even down to regional US Attorney's offices. And then they'll have a year to indict before limitations runs.
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