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  1. Thanks for this. It's like the old "the winning move is to not play at all", which I guess makes sense. I know it doesn't feel like it right now but you have to think AT SOME POINT in a shut down there will be pain from not having a government installed and working. And when that comes, it's 100% on the R's. That's the plan. I like it, if it works out that way.
  2. Okay Bolverk, then let's scrap that political gambit. In your mind, genuinely curious, let's pretend you are the leader here-- how do you get us out of this shutdown? What has to happen in you opinion? Or maybe you don't have one and that's okay too as there doesn't seem, as of today, to be any good (and realistic, politically speaking) options (which was the impetus of my OP today).
  3. Agree with you on all except 11 and 13 which are a yes.
  4. Okay I'll bite. Who is this Donkey Cigar character and why do you think we are related?
  5. That's right and I'm being told that universal healthcare is essentially too sacred of a cow in politics and can't be used to counterpunch the R's with because, and this is true, some of the D voters will be hurt in the fall out (the vast majority would be their own base, again). So we are waiting on a utopian ideal solution it seems to get the government back up and running. What does that look like now that we've essentially boiled the shut down to an ACA issue?
  6. I'm not cool with it AT ALL, but last I checked, the government doesn't give a crap with what I'm cool with or not. As someone said, I'm just a guy on Surly Horns which is an internet messageboard. But that doesn't change the fact that it was reported in the news today as something Trump is going to do (or at least thinking about doing): https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/19/trump-struggles-to-crack-his-tariffs-piggy-bank-00612284
  7. Exactly my point. And when they fail. Because they will fail. The blame is squarely on Rs.
  8. Ignoring the barb about who or what a Donkey Ciagr is, you are agreeing in premise with me that R voters need to feel the pain of their choices. What does that look like in your mind as it pertains to the government shutdown and how to get out of this jackpot? (Also I read Trump is going to take billions from tariff slush funds and pay the military, so pretend that an upset military is off the table)? What levers can be pulled? I'll hang up and listen since I'm a bit unpopular right now.
  9. What does the data say? What do the numbers say? I feel like the last page here is the problem. We complain we don't have the stomach for the fight with the MAGATs and then show that we actually don't have the stomach to fight the MAGATs in what politics in 2025 demand. So what's the answer? Just let the government shutdown continue until what? Planes wreck during busy holiday travel season?
  10. Whatever happened to the "You voted for this, so GOOD!" leopard eating faces energy? Was that just our Brat Summer? Time to get all sentimental with the leaves changing colors?
  11. To channel my inner Brisket here, but uh, the R's have made it this way and the only way to fight back is with pain. I didn't realize the ledge philosophy was still in the margins and not mainstream here. We are in a dog fight.
  12. ACA is something the R's want to scrape. The ACA disproportionately helps the R's voter base. It's actually politically reisky to scrape it at this point for the R's, so why not let them screw up. The saving grace for the D's I could see is allowing for them to expire due to government shutting down and sticker shocking the R base into putting pressure. Regardless it looks like this whole fight and shut down has settled fully into ACA vs No-ACA.
  13. “The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a ‘shouting match,’ with Trump ‘cursing all the time,’ people familiar with the matter said,” according to the report. Trump, in addition, reportedly insisted that Zelensky surrender the entire Donbas region to Russia, a point pushed by Putin during a White House call the day before. Putin reportedly told Trump on Thursday that he would forfeit “some small areas of the two southern frontline regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia” in exchange for it. “During Friday’s meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia’s weaknesses
  14. Read this today and it got me thinking-- why are the D's willing to die on the hill of ACA when ACA (enchanced subsidies) disproportionately benefit red states? Get rid of the ACA, you are hurting the red states (whom it seems WANT to be hurt) and you save $350bn. Government shutdown over? https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-shutdown-healthcare-aca-funding-fight-d45b2365
  15. I bought my son a truck and was going to put as much on my CC as I could for the airline points, but the fee made it not worth it. Sucks, I thought I was going to get a couple free round trips. I pay for my grandsons preschool. Because it's an old baptist church run school in an older community, the options are electronic payment with a fee or write a check. So I write a check every month. I actually kind of like doing so, it feels quaint and anachronistic, as if I was typing this post on a typewriter.
  16. That's nice-- that's like over $75
  17. It's interesting. It was giving mid-career Kanye vibes.
  18. Is there anyone still in denial that we are in an economic war with China?
  19. Know how I know you are from Dallas? Jeff Ruby’s is the mid restaurant chain in places like Nashville, Cincinnati and Louisville. Jack Ruby is associated with Oswald.
  20. I've had a similiar experience and until you have that experience, well let's just say it's pretty humbling.
  21. In the olden days, you'd watch the game and begrudingly think or say under your breath "dang, wish we would have recruited that guy" to more than a few OU players. This last game the only guy who was a dog that I liked and thought would start was Taylor Wein. Everywhere else was pretty unimpressed.
  22. Vegas64

    Golden Hat

    MM's backwards "horns up" hand has infiltrated to the highest levels.
  23. We always suspected Celina wasn't right. Besides Prosper #4 in state right now. Let's go PHS!
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