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  1. 21 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

    Before 2026 is over I guarantee many of them will be negatively affected. However most of them won't change their votes because they are fucking idiots. 

    This.  Between 1) being happy because other people are suffering, and that's the most important thing to them -- hurting other people, and 2) finding a way to blame Biden and Obama for whatever ill befalls them, they'll lose not .00000000001% of their enthusiasm for Trump and Trumpism.

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    If Star Trek is any guide, it'll take a nuclear war for people to back off that bugaboo

    We'll get there.  Faster than you think.

    We've already gone from "we need leadership that won't get us into any wars" to "fuck yeah, bomb em all, America fuck yeah!"  We're only accelerating towards the inevitable outcome.

    2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Hell, we aren’t even practicing our core values anymore in government policy, ie the importance of education, ensuring a fair opportunity for all, honesty and integrity in actions, etc. 

    Practicing those?  FFS, we have declared every one of those the enemy of all that is right and good, and downright un-American.

  3. 2 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Oil tankers worth of ink has been spilled about how what you are describing as the idlyc middle class golden era was an artificially created construct from WWII and America not being a theatre of war and losing a generation of young men and with an unscathed manufacturing base, that was always a temporary state and was never going to be sustainable, so I won't do it again here except to call it out and say:

    If your ideal is hinged upon a mirage, it's going to hard to ever really be happy in the messiness of reality. You are chasing the dragon.

    Well, we were actually pulling off -- with middling success, but some success nonetheless -- a transition to a next phase of a functioning economy.  Yes, leaning on white collar employment.

    Now?  We're being pitched one of two options: 1) eliminate most white collar jobs with AI, and/or 2) return to a mostly low-end manufacturing society (we're gonna bring back Nike factories so we can all stitch shoes for a living).  

    I'm not chasing a dragon.  I'm suggesting that perhaps we shouldn't pursue a dystopian vision with such enthusiasm and fervor.

  4. 25 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    "Vietnam will pay."

    Is he that stupid or just lying at this point?

    The answer to your question is "yes."  We live in a timeline where our POTUS is a perfect singularity of idiocy and lies.  He has achieved a density of stupidity and lying so intense that not even light can escape it.

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  5. Got dragged to ZTejas plenty back in the day.  Eventually, discovered the navajo taco on the menu.  It was pretty good, and was my go-to order every time after that. 

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    Wasn't anything I was dying for and demanding to go to ZTejas to get, but I was always perfectly happy eating one.  That said....can't remember the last time I went to a ZTejas, and haven't missed it.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    What we got ain't nothing new. Industrial Revolutions have always been hard on people. It ain't all waiting on white collar work to find a soft landing to keep up the creature comforts white collar workers have come to expect the last 50 years. That's vanity.

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    Counterpoint: a strong middle class is exactly the thing that "made America great" that so many folks want to "make great again."

    Post-war to the 1970s, that middle class was built on the back of America being a manufacturing powerhouse (auto industry etc.).  As that dwindled, we ALREADY created a massive and unhappy "working class," as they were getting disproportionately left behind.  Now, we're working on doing that with the next layer as well.  Following a path that will take the country to a two class country of oligarchs and serfs (with a handful of remaining necessary functionaries who work to funnel all remaining dollars from the serfs to the oligarchs)....well, that won't turn out well.

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  7. 39 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Regardless if AI takes away or evolves current job roles, that ship has sailed. Society has never rejected technology improvements due to increased productivity gains/job losses. Sure, a populist president/governor can stand tall to keep US jobs but that would only be a PR campaign. enough with CR.

     

     

    The policy challenge isn't "stop some innovation from costing job categories X and Y."  The policy challenge is the pivot - fine, jobs X and Y are going away.  How are we going to equip our society, education systems, etc. to replace them . . . and if need be, during the transition period, soften the blow?

    There's functionally zero interest or momentum for that.  We are all-in on enthusiastically fucking over society, and zero-in on doing anything that will actually help human society.  These are dark times.

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  8. 5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Who will he get as his candidate? Who would want to work with him? 

    For $1 billion, I will 100% volunteer to be the presidential nominee of the Musk Party, and will take whatever positions he wants me to.  Because -- and let's be clear -- I have principles, and a deep sense of morality.  BUT....I can definitely be bought.

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  9. He should get into AC sales in Europe

    Those little portable small room units are selling like hotcakes. My daughter invested the £175 in one early in her stay in London, to make her room tolerable when they have a heat wave.
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  10. 31 minutes ago, bolverk said:

     

    I'd never heard of this guy before. He was fucking psychotic fraud.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade

    I mean....let's not be so quick to judge here....

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    and alleged his proclivity for ritual territory marking by urination, once relieving himself on a Winnie the Pooh figure at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim while saying, "This one's for you, Walt."

    ....

    In 2006, John Dandois, Media Arts Group executive, recounted a story that on one occasion six years previously, Kinkade became drunk at a Siegfried & Roy magic show in Las Vegas and began shouting "Codpiece! Codpiece!" at the performers. 

    Sounds like a man with a soul most of us would recognize.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    You expect these people to understand Big Data? 

    Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), 80

    Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), 79

    Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 79

    Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), 78

    Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), 77

    Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), 77

    Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), 77

    Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), 74

    Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.): 86 years old

    Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.): 85 years old

    Rep. Nancy Pelosi: (D-Calif.) 85 years old

    Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.): 84 years old

    Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.): 83 years old

    Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.): 82 years old

    Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.): 82 years old

    Yes.  Yes I do.  Because big keys let you enter big data.

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    although honestly I am not convinced if second-runs have any better success than virgins.  

    In Texas, it don't make a shit.  The Dems don't have a chance unless they run somebody who's good at the circus.  So, a movie star or somesuch.  That's it.

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  13. 7 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    Is this an actual quote?

    “We are at the cutting edge of AI,” Kennedy said. “We’re implementing it in all of our departments. At FDA, we’re accelerating drug approvals so that you don’t need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI.”

    What could go wrong?

    "Hey Grok, is Elon's TeslaXSuperBrainJuiceCancerCureAndFlavorPacket safe for all desired uses, and will totally cure all cancers, baldness, and even mild cases of the dropsy?  What's that you say, "enthusiastic YES?  Well then....APPROVED!"

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  14. All in all, we've had worse Junes.  Hell, we had a little shower at our house yesterday and it turned it downright pleasant in the evening.

    Whereas the boy is in central Germany....where it's 95 degrees, and NOBODY has AC.  He draws his curtains all day, opens his window and cranks up a portable fan at night, and sleeps on top of the sheets.  And is still hot.  Man....god bless AC.

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  15. 31 minutes ago, Burt said:

    Not that you wrote this, but as a former baseball coach and a current softball coach, I have to say it - unless Parker's run counted as two, this is not possible. 

    "With two outs, in the bottom of the 9th, the Pirates still down by a run with the winning run Parker, on third base."

    Parker would have been the tying run in this scenario.

    Oh, fellas, we got us a fucking MATH WHIZ over here!

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  16. 2 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

    I saw some guy talking on TV about how there was a blue collar uprising that ushered in the Trump era. He then went on to say that because of AI, the next uprising will be white collar due to AI job displacement.  

    I wouldn't worry.  We'll just find a way to blame mexicans for AI, too.

  17. 3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Already got one

    Yep.  "Delete and block contact."

    You fucking asshole, all you did was hoover up money that COULD have been used to support candidates in other races who actually campaigned and had a shot at winning.  Allred is a net negative in Dem politics.  Fuck him in the goat ass.

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  18. 3 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    Yeah, but in a less jaded way, the argument is that you should run on personality - a personality that reflects a willingness to act but also the fact that you're not a complete slimeball. 

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    That leaves the party as a big tent party, with all the risks that entails, but fuck it, we just need good people to replace the shitty ones. 

    That's the full platform:  Replace shitty people.

    I still disagree.  We the people WANT shitty.  It's just all about who you are shitty TO.  Give us a candidate who is a celebrity and promises to hunt down and imprison every Republican who voted to take away your medicare, or some shit like that. You have to promise pain and retribution.  It's the only language America speaks now.

  19. 20 minutes ago, tchookem said:

    You know what else people love?

    Doom and Gloom.

    Sounds like a certain poster I know. As for celebrities, we'll get Susanna Hoffs to endorse you since y'all go way back.

     

    11 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    You should listen to Ezra Klein’s podcast (I think released today) with Chris Hayes as they dig into the NYC mayor campaign.  
     

    The comments on Spotify are hating on them for not talking policy, but they are geeking out about Mamdani’s mastery of social media in a way that’s a far more useful appraisal of campaign strategy in 2025 than another analysis on policy preferences.  
     

    In other words, doom and gloom don’t sell, the circus is what sells.  Dems can win with that approach, Mamdani is exhibit one and it’s not taking his platform, it’s taking his media approach and communication strategy.  

    See these together.  That's my entire point: quit running on ideas, and policies.  Run on the circus.  The circus is what wins.  It's the ONLY thing that wins.  And if you don't win, then nothing else matters.

    Dems need to start with the basics: win.  Then, and only then, can/should they work the rest of it.

  20. 3 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    This is how I feel.  Beto, the San Antonio twins, Talarico, whoever.  If they aren't going to announce now for something perhaps more attainable, more the merrier.  

    I wouldn't call it a hail mary, but I think one tactic that might work in Texas is to throw in as much talent as possible into one race and use that to help get attention down ballot.  

    Smart, thoughtful candidates with great policy ideas that will actually help the people.  In other words, LOSERS.

    The Dems cannot win with that shit.  Pay attention to the voters, and what they want.  They want performative bullshit.  The Dems need to find a celebrity, stoke and feed his ego, and get him to run.  Yeah, like a McConaughey type.  That's it.  That's the only prayer the Dems have in a statewide race for the next generation.  

    Hate it if you you want, but it's true.

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