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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. It'll be slightly more dysfunctional and 2023 will go from the warmest year on record to the third or fourth.
  6. I mean I can kind of buy that most Republican men struggle with pleasing a woman.
  7. Well no, I do not hate myself and Twitter is even less representative of reality than surly.
  8. I'm sure Trump's campaign will be setting a purely coincidental $84MM fundraising target any day now.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. The only surprise there is that there might have been one who had a moment of humanity.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. It's funny, I had a conversation with my brother last year, who I would say is probably slightly to my left, and I was saying I'd give Biden like a B-. Adequate overall but failed to make enough progress on the two biggest issues in my mind: democratic integrity and climate (with the caveat that Biden's climate impact will really have to be evaluated a decade from now when the impact of the IRA can really be assessed). And my brother just asked me, what else was he supposed to do with the situation in Congress? And it was a fair point. Now we can say that Democrats botched the elections in 2020 to a degree and should have had better margins with which to work, but the fundamental reality is that a very narrow Senate majority was always going to limit Biden to legislation that could be passed via reconciliation and bipartisan deals. Really all I could say was lean on the Senate to kill the fillibuster to get more significant legislation passed, which was probably a pipe dream. Before Israel I'd pretty much come around that Biden was the best POTUS in my lifetime (born early 90s) by a decent margin. I don't like our approach there; though I acknowledge it's basically a poison pill I can't abide allowing Israel to do what they've done. However, I don't understand the progressives entertaining not voting for Biden over this. Do you wan to be in the tent and influencing policy decisions or do you want to watch Trump encouraging his buddy Bibi to level Gaza?
  19. It's also just stupid as hell from a purely self-centered standpoint. A double whammy.
  20. This theory has some backing from the midterms in that a driver of the Democrats' relative success was keeping "Somewhat Disapprove" in the fold. That's not historically normal but neither was the MAGA, election denying alternative. Most incumbents also see their approval ratings rise in the run up to the end of their term as the alternative becomes a specific individual instead of a hypothetical. I expect the same to happen in 24, especially because we know how America feels about the other person, but this timeline is already strange.
  21. Inflation/cost of living, border, 112 years old, GOP propaganda machine. All of the above; much of it may not necessarily be rational but we're talking about a polity of humans here. Don't expect rational.
  22. I mean I agree it's good for POTUS to maybe sneak in a working vacation for mental health's sake but otherwise there's zero reason for that
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