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  1. 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.

  2. 9 minutes ago, immamac said:

    So what happens if this thing stalls and just never gets over the line? 

    Stop asking any question that amounts to "so what if the American people DON'T get totally assfucked?"  That's a hypothetical that will never happen.  "We get assfucked" is the always and only answer.

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  3. 12 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

     

    And I just got the name of a 20-inch metal-spiked dildo the circumference of a coke can changed from "The Rectum Wrecker" to "Little Love Lance."  I'm sure that will make it feel better when the GQP rams it up our collective ass repeatedly.

    Jesus fucking Christ, the Monster Raving Looney Party in the UK is more worthwhile than the utterly worthless pile of medium-wet shit that is the Democratic party in the US.

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  4. 39 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

    Are these assaults being determined as assaults after ICE has already assaulted the individuals?

    "Suspect repeatedly struck the brave ICE officer's fist with his face, causing bruising of the officer's knuckles.  Such acts of violent aggression by these criminal immigrant thugs are only increasing."

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  5. 46 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    it’s not like the DA has an unlimited amount of money to spend.   They have a budget, and spending it all on one case can wind up negatively affecting a larger number of cases that require expensive experts and testing.  

    This is a very, very good and important point.

    Gov't funded entities have limited resources (which are declining by the day -- DOGE, EVERYWHERE!).  Everyone wants the thing/project that touches on them done perfectly.  The street in front of MY house should be perfectly smooth!  Cool, the city has 1200 miles of streets to repair and maintain, and a budget to maintain.....50 linear miles a year.  So, each 50 miles can get touched - on average - once every 24 years.  Sure, some higher-traffic stretches will get more frequent work....meaning that lower traffic streets like residential streets get stretched out to a 30 year schedule.

    DA's budgets are similar.  We want them to take care of ALL cases, and get those thugs off our streets.  But then we demand that they blow 70% of their budget on two "high profile" cases, leaving few resources to deal with the other 5,000 cases on the docket.

    Decisions have to be made, resource allocation has to be considered.  Every public official I've ever talked to has said some version of "if you give me the money/budget, I will do exactly what you want - nothing would make me happier than repaving every street in town" (or words to that effect).

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    The irony of Rick Perry is that the two things that killed his career were the two best things he tried to get done. 

    Well, yeah....human decency and good public policy are political poison in this state.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Pancho said:

     

    Says a woman who was literally tricked into eating dog food on camera.

    Again...if you submitted a script/book idea with an exact, unembellished description of this timeline 20 years ago, you would have been ushered out of every possible room as being clearly insane and quite likely a danger to yourself or others.

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  8. 5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Was a bill really required to allow Texans to spend gold and silver? I'm assuming this doesn't require companies, stores, vendors, whatever accept gold. Hell, some places don't even accept cash these days.

    Greg Abbott has morphed from entertaining the ideas of the fringes to mainly focusing on the fringes. Crazy how he's surpassed Rick Perry.

    Was just having that conversation with someone who was much closer to Republican inside circles than I ever was.  Conversation ended with "When Abbott took over for Perry, did you ever imagine how badly you'd be longing for the return to the relatively decent and benign reign of Perry?"

    I'd kneecap any 10 Surly posters if it would get Rick Perry back in the governor's mansion.

    I mean, I'd also probably kneecap any 10 Surly posters just because we've all got it coming, but still....

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  9. 6 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Elon acting like MAGA actually cares about principles and policies and isn't just gobbling up whatever Trump tells to think is super adorable.

    Elon thinking that anyone believes that HE cares about principles and policies is rich.  He cares only about things that will personally enrich or glorify him (feeding his ego, and trying to fill that enormous void of needing validation and love...that will never, ever be filled by ANYTHING external).  He has no empathy or concern for any human being other than himself.  View everything he says through that accurate lens, and you'll understand all you need to understand about him.

    Fuck him.  I hope that he realizes, with increasing despair and desperation, that nothing he does - no amount of money, no amount of power - will ever fill the void he carries around.  He will die empty, alone, and desperate for the love and validation he could never obtain, because he doesn't have the first clue where genuine love and peace come from.

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  10. 5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    How would you like to be the person who got paid to lather sunscreen all over him

    Look, dude.....we all have our price.  There is absolutely 100% a number you could give to which I would say "yep, hand me that bucket of sunscreen, I'll get to rubbin' Elmo down."

    I have dignity and pride....but make no mistake, those principles ARE for sale.

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    Jesus fucking Christ. This country is using….Auburn athletics…as a pipeline for national leadership.
    There’s really no doubt that this country has long-since jumped the shark, and would be best off if it was consumed in the cleansing flames of a total apocalypse.
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  12. I think they are exactly the type of people who will turn in GOLL once Trump’s SS wants to know who’s loyal.
    They have no problems with pain happening to the others.   But once the others are gone, GOLL may become a target as ‘other-lite’.  Not brown-ish, but still an enemy of the people.
    Turning in friends and relatives might be the line in the sand for some folks, but with MAGA, banking on that would be a fool’s bet.

    This. It’s literally the way it ALWAYS goes with authoritarian regimes, which are almost always built on unifying and consolidating power on a foundation of demonizing the “other.”
    They purge the initial “other.” But they still need an enemy. So they expand the definition of “other.” Again, and again. Eventually including people in former in-groups, even former regime insiders.
    Idiots think the regime will never come for them. And time after time, they are wrong.
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  13. 1 hour ago, Hitch said:

    I hate war crimes and really want them to stop. There’s a really easy way to make sure they stop happening. It’s not overly complicated. 

    So, let me read that the way that a war crimes tribunal should read it:

    "So, your defense against the charge that you committed war crimes against civilian residents of Belligerent X is 'well, I wouldn't have war crimed all of those civilians if Belligerent X woulda just surrendered.'"

    Yeah, not only is that not a defense, it is actually an admission that you are 1) using war crimes and the threat of continuing to commit war crimes to 2) coerce Belligerent X into acceding to your demands.

    This is impressive.  You've actually managed to make yourself out to be MORE of a piece of shit scumbag who supports war crimes.  You are as awful a human being as can be imagined.  Hell is too good for people like you.

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  14. 1 hour ago, Hitch said:

    I’m not ok with it, that’s not the point here.

    straw man, moving the goalposts, tu quoque etc.  You are a fucking liar, and you deal only in logical fallacies.  The EXACT conversation is about the IDF targeting civilians at food distribution centers.  Not one fucking word about "weapon stockpiles" or any of that bullshit.

    You tirelessly look for justification for war crimes, when a human being of ANY moral character sees and condemns the war crime.

    And no, I'd say the group that hates Palestinians the most is the group that has openly stated that they intend to purge all of Gaza of them, completely and totally (the openly stated goal of the Israeli regime and its internal partners).  It's a stiff competition, as the gulf states and Palestinian leadership aren't helpful and are actually harmful, but that has nothing to do with the fact that the IDF is purposefully murdering civilians at food distribution points.

    THOSE civilian deaths aren't a "masturbatory release" -- they are instead the result of deliberate policy of extermination and ethnic cleansing.  That - as we decided in the wake of such actions with respect to jews 80+ years ago, is bad.

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  15. 57 minutes ago, Hitch said:

    Of course it does. Many, many civilians die in every war, which is why it’s a very bad idea to start them. They need to stop. 

    Jesus.

    Proposition 1: Civilians die in wars, because wars are messy.  TRUE.

    Proposition 2: Intentionally TARGETING civilians (as opposed to them being incidental casualties) is a war crime.  ALSO TRUE.

    The issue here is not Proposition 1 (sure, it merits its own discussion, the full scope of the war, etc., but that's not what is being raised re the food distribution point slaughters).  The issue is Proposition 2.  

    There is much reason to conclude/evidence demonstrating that the IDF is intentionally targeting and killing civilians at food aid distribution points.  If that is true, it is a war crime.  We should not support the commission of war crimes, we should demand accountability for such war crimes, particularly because they are using our weapons etc. to do so.

    Jesus fucking christ, the dismissal - FFS, the GLEE - reflected in posts that are okay with the intentional murder of civilians is fucking sick.  If you support the INTENTIONAL targeting of civilians in Gaza because Hamas is bad and started shit it shouldn't have, you are a genuinely evil piece of shit.

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    ICE is a military force. And by budget size, it’s something like the 5th largest in the world.
    It’s insane. We are a militarized police state, geared entirely at xenophobia.
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