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  1. The border is such a brutal war zone that they have time to baptize white girls
  2. The headline/summary would be, in no particular order: COVID Vaccine Rollout - varied by state and to be fair you have to give the Trump admin credit for development and plans being laid out; but available to anyone who wanted one, on demand, for free, by mid-2021. ARPA - $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus/domestic investment (local governments, housing, transportation, education, etc) package. Probably juiced inflation to a degree but we would be in a much worse longer term economic situation. CHIPS Act - $280 billion investment in onshoring semiconductor R&D and manufacturing. Huge returns so far in producing business investments that will translate to quality jobs, strengthen supply chains, and materially improve national security. Infrastructure Bill - $550 billion of investment over a decade, largest infrastructure investment in generations. IRA - $900 billion; at the end of the day the name is pandering and this is primarily an energy/climate law. It has spurred unprecedented investment in the energy transition. This could end up being by far the most impactful product of this administration but also the hardest to evaluate in the moment. Impact on inflation is likely negligible but it is projected to reduce the deficit, potentially by a significant amount. PACT Act - $800 billion investment in healthcare and services for veterans exposed to toxic materials. This was the bill the Senate GOP had to be shamed to pass, think the Jon Stewart campaign around burn pits and all that. Ukraine - Uniting NATO, adding Finland and now Sweden; and weakening and embarrassing Russia with zero involvement from American personnel. And most recently came to the table on a border compromise, which frankly I as a progressive think is a bad deal, but exposed the Republicans for the sick, cynical fucks they are.
  3. I actually don't. I acknowledge that what @Js1 said about Democrats' track record there is true to a degree but it's less extreme than NV. Cal Cunningham is a Senator right now if he doesn't have an extramarital affair. They have a popular, two-term Democratic governor who will be actively campaigning for his replacement. The state has been a consistent national leader in terms of in-migration, much of it from the NE and its growth industries are bringing in highly educated workers. I don't think it's a sure thing to flip by any means but it's on the table and it's very important to the GOP in a close election. If Democrats win NC they are also winning GA, if that happens the GOP could feasibly win WI-MI-PA and still lose the election if Democrats hold NV and AZ in the southwest. There just aren't a lot of reasonable GOP paths to victory without NC. For that reason alone you make the investment.
  4. And for Florida, that's a plus for opponents.
  5. Like the context of a kicker setting up a tee at the goal line? Everyone in the video is screwing around, relax.
  6. Abbott has been directing this theater production while on a business development trip in India. That shows you what he thinks of this "crisis" and the intelligence of the people that bite on his manufactured drama.
  7. I remember my first time reading a fatty post. I'll say this, he is without a doubt the most intellectually consistent and honest Republican on this board. Most of them try to justify the same sentiments with softer language under various performative guises. Fatty gets to the point; I may find said point illogical or morally lacking a lot of the time but I respect the candidness to a degree.
  8. You weren't asked who you'll vote for. You're happily out here parroting that Haley is worst of the three and there's no chance you'll even have the option to vote for her. You were asked, along the same line, who the best of the three is. That's a question squarely within the box you established on your own. If you don't want to answer or don't know just say so. As it stands you just look like you're not smart enough to comprehend a very simple question.
  9. I mean I'm not going to sit here and pretend I don't find this as funny as anyone else; but man, what a sad, dysfunctional society we are.
  10. It'll be slightly more dysfunctional and 2023 will go from the warmest year on record to the third or fourth.
  11. I mean I can kind of buy that most Republican men struggle with pleasing a woman.
  12. Well no, I do not hate myself and Twitter is even less representative of reality than surly.
  13. I'm sure Trump's campaign will be setting a purely coincidental $84MM fundraising target any day now.
  14. Eh. Most people looking at that pic for 1-2 seconds probably don't even catch the hat thing. He's just looking for a rise.
  15. Well the trolls like @Hal Finney think this is a slam dunk but in reality plenty of construction/trade workers wear hard hats backward at times, and the Biden team probably just wants to show the union stickers.
  16. Yep. In this hypothetical, Texas is absolutely not worth fighting over. I want to move every summer anyway. I'd be nope-ing the fuck outta here.
  17. As a Native, lifelong Texan, let the place go ahead and secede for all I care. I'll take my US passport to my country of origin - which will never again elect a Republican President without Texas - and go on with my life while Texas becomes a third world backwater in short order.
  18. gmr548

    Measles

    I love it. I don't say this lightly, he is on the Mt. Rushmore of dumbest surly posters. That takes effort and dedication, and I applaud him.
  19. gmr548

    Measles

    It's roughly 95% so Texas has declined right to the threshold. Stupid selfish assholes doing stupid selfish asshole things, news at 11. Wife is in public health and previously worked in a non-profit focused on immunizations. She said, paraphrasing, Austin is pretty bad because opposition to vaccines is one of those rabbit holes where the crunchy granola hippie variety nutjobs and christofascist evangelical nutjobs end up together at the bottom. Austin being Austin it has plenty of the former, and being Texas/the South, the latter exist too.
  20. The only surprise there is that there might have been one who had a moment of humanity.
  21. My favorite part of this chart is the spikes and dives before inauguration, as if the election of Trump or Biden changed the economy on E Day +1. Negative partisanship is wild.
  22. Yeah, if Abbott wants to take a shot at federal agents he can go ahead and do that. I'm sure that'd go real well. In the meantime, CPB has a job to do and Abbott's goons can stand their and watch with their dicks in their hands.
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