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Valmy77

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  1. Maybe, I couldn't really name what it is beyond just general grab bag of ideas that I think work. I was just curious what you meant by that distinction.
  2. Ok. That...doesn't make much sense. Anyway "progressivism" is more a vague vibe than an ideology anyway. I have to say despite what @Chuckie Finster said everywhere I look on leftwing media is "See Pete OWN Maga fools on their own podcast" so the left, at least, seems happy with his performance.
  3. I am no legal scholar but I am having a hard time seeing anything referencing consecutive terms in there.
  4. I don't understand the distinction between ideas and objectives versus ideology. But in any case my point was really that somehow you had to be at the leftwing of the party to be unreasonable about things like this. Not that we all needed to be more or less ideological.
  5. Yep. Though there is a bad way of doing that. You can't go on there and be like "yeah the wokes in my party sure are nuts, you right wing guys sure are great!" No you go on their to challenge their bullshit. As respectfully as possible under the circumstances of course. But Pete has been doing this the right way for awhile. I trust he did us proud.
  6. How unreasonable you are really has nothing to do with how progressive you are. Nothing ideological about being unreasonable. Plenty of people lose their shit over stupid crap who are moderates.
  7. Oh well that's good. It's only bad if you go on their podcast and kiss their ass and be buddy buddy and shit. If you go on there and debate them and state your points you are doing good work.
  8. Damn that was a weird episode.
  9. What did Pete do?
  10. Is bribery illegal in this corrupt backwards kleptocracy we live in? I mean this has to be the most corrupt country in the entire world by a huge margin by this point.
  11. Yeah I spent the whole VY era wishing we had played Matt Nordgren more.
  12. Yeah Trump supporters on this site were trying to convince us all the first Trump term was a huge success despite it being a near catastrophe. I guess they can be happy that this term he has achieved his goal of having a full on catastrophe.
  13. Reality has no relevance to what the Trump regime claims.
  14. That would require way too much competence. And anyway Iran would be a fool to negotiate anything with the United States again, we don't honor our agreements.
  15. We can explain for days that a tariff is a tax on consumers and they won't believe us even when the fucking tax comes due. I know they are a cult, but it is still disheartening and depressing to see it play out.
  16. The SA white people are back in government for the first time since Apartheid now that the Democratic Alliance is in coalition with the ANC. So I guess the ones who remained behind have reconciled themselves to some extent. The one who left probably left for a reason.
  17. Win the SEC and no reason to worry about RPI.
  18. Right? Back in my day harvest was a family affair.
  19. The next person is always worse. It has been the rule of the Republican Party this century.
  20. The weirdest thing is him doing things like banning artificial dyes while also massively cutting food inspections and regulations. Like...what the hell is even the goal here? Our food can be toxic it just shouldn't be toxic because of artificial dyes? That very specific type of toxicity is a problem but other types is fine? Yep.
  21. At least she was a type of farmer who benefited from our international farm markets being destroyed. So she wasn't a total idiot like the soybeans guy. But man...she was relying on a Democratic law to harvest her cherries and she thought Trump was going to enforce it? After he just reneged on everything Obama did in his first term?
  22. What the hell is the point of any of this? We are going to reduce the tariffs to some unknown level for unknown reasons at some unknown time? We are going to be nice in our negotiations with China to achieve some unknown objective? I fail to see how we get a good deal for the US while being nice to China in negotiations. I fail to see how reducing the tariffs to some other random value does anything besides encourage everybody to just stop all economic activity and wait around to see what this new value is going to be. And why would we want that to happen? I mean I know everything is being run by idiots for nonsensical reasons but it still boggles the mind.
  23. Man is 80 years old and has been in Congress since 1983. I am glad it is finally time.
  24. Nah. An EU passport gets you into any EU country.
  25. As a Texan I am really jealous at how low those property taxes are. $6,500 a year on a 1.5 million dollar house? What?
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