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1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

C'mon, man. These things have never been a realistic possibility for a single second in this country, and it ain't because of Democrat failure.

Right, but the democrats aren’t even moving in that direction anymore and that’s the difference.  The Republicans actually have an agenda and they will lie and cheat their asses off to get it done.  It’s a horrible and harmful agenda but they are implementing project 2025.  

The leadership of the Democratic Party does not have a well articulated credible plan for the future of this country and they are doomed until they come up with one.  Their entire strategy was stopping Trump for the last 10 years and it went as bad as imaginable.  You can call it incompetence or complicity but it’s most likely some combination of both.

 

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Have the Democratic leadership been all the vocal this past week. I’ve seen some shots of a Jeffries PC that looked to be about that pardoned J6er arrested again. I see Bernie lamenting the state of things. I dont see anything about the party’s plans. Like what are Dem Senators doing to raise alarms about trump violating the law firing the generals inspector? Repubs would be screaming from the hilltops even if they were the minority party

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21 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Have the Democratic leadership been all the vocal this past week. I’ve seen some shots of a Jeffries PC that looked to be about that pardoned J6er arrested again. I see Bernie lamenting the state of things. I dont see anything about the party’s plans. Like what are Dem Senators doing to raise alarms about trump violating the law firing the generals inspector? Repubs would be screaming from the hilltops even if they were the minority party

I asked this same question to a friend.  She thinks/hopes the Dems are putting together an organized and major response for first part of next week.  

My mother wants to keep fighting and still thinks the good guys are destined to win somehow because "this is still a good country."

I think the fight ended in November and the bad guys won for the next generation.  I wonder if the Dem silence is an acceptance of that, at least for the short term.  Maybe the only thing left for them to do is watch it burn for a year or two, then try to win the mid-term in a huge way as people who voted for this shitstorm start to realize their mistake.  What else can they do in the next couple of years that will actually matter?

Hell, I really don't know anymore.  It all just looks bleak as fuck.

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I don’t know if it’s just that they are on their heels right now and are weathering the storm. Or if they are just allowing trump to keep going with his EOs knowing that he’ll push too far as usual giving them an opening. I fear it’s the former and they have no clue how to respond 

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12 hours ago, F250 said:

Eh. Between high school and college I had a lot of sexual encounters. A lot. But then I had a 20+ year span of monogamy then kinda went nuts after a divorce and surpassed my college numbers.

Just because you struggle to get laid doesn't make those that do sluts.

The very structure of college allows for lots of sexing.  Guys and gals all live together in tight spaces and then apply booze.

If you're a man over 40 and reasonably attractive with good people skills and a good job, it's easy.  If you gave me a head start and in a big city, I could easily pull five in a month.  Not sure I'd want to but I could.

These people prattling on about a dating/marriage/sex crisis are missing the point.  Women still want those things, just not with them.

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44 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

 

Just like Poland was so unfriendly to Germany in 1939.  They could have done a deal.  Easily.  But they wanted war instead.  Sad.

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6 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Oh yeah, thanks for the non-partisan infrastructure plan that should have been done decades ago.  You did the bare minimum to keep the economy going as we go head first into the abyss of fascism.  How about the minimum wage?  Or the promised public option?  

The point is the democrats have largely regressed on policy since Obamacare and opted to mostly play defense while also managing to lose the big elections (these things could be related!)

The idea of universal healthcare or tuition free college isn’t even in the realm of possibilities anymore for Democrats. That is a massive leadership failure. 

The free market has moved on past the federal minimum wage.
Colleges everywhere are adding free tuition for families making under specific thresholds. Online learning is much more beneficial for real, job preparation, rather than the bloviated course offering it is today.
 

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1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

The very structure of college allows for lots of sexing.  Guys and gals all live together in tight spaces and then apply booze.

If you're a man over 40 and reasonably attractive with good people skills and a good job, it's easy.  If you gave me a head start and in a big city, I could easily pull five in a month.  Not sure I'd want to but I could.

These people prattling on about a dating/marriage/sex crisis are missing the point.  Women still want those things, just not with them.

The user you were responding to was literally on seeking arrangements, a sugar baby site.

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1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

I asked this same question to a friend.  She thinks/hopes the Dems are putting together an organized and major response for first part of next week.  

My mother wants to keep fighting and still thinks the good guys are destined to win somehow because "this is still a good country."

I think the fight ended in November and the bad guys won for the next generation.  I wonder if the Dem silence is an acceptance of that, at least for the short term.  Maybe the only thing left for them to do is watch it burn for a year or two, then try to win the mid-term in a huge way as people who voted for this shitstorm start to realize their mistake.  What else can they do in the next couple of years that will actually matter?

Hell, I really don't know anymore.  It all just looks bleak as fuck.

I don't know if they have thought it through this much but the rope-a-dope strategy seems like the only one they can play at the moment.  A lot of words have come out of that side's mouth for going on a decade now that doesn't seem to be landing.  Shut that down for a bit, let your opponent do their thing, and see if we all can survive it while they punch themselves out.  

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1 hour ago, 27-25 said:

Just like Poland was so unfriendly to Germany in 1939.  They could have done a deal.  Easily.  But they wanted war instead.  Sad.

 

1) Denmark’s claim is actually quite weak, and amounts to possession being 9/10ths of the rule, except in reality we’ve “possessed” it to a greater extent than Denmark for much of the last 80 years.

2) it would be better for the security of the Western Hemisphere for it to be a territory or protectorate of the United States. 

3) it’s a mixed bag for the Greenlanders, all 60k of them, 90% of whom are indigenous, but one thing that is almost certain is that they would all become individually quite wealthy, overnight. 

The United States has been circling around Greenland for over a century, and the protection of Denmark, if you can even call it that, hasn’t done them any favors. I’m not in favor of taking it by force but just because Trump is stupid and bad doesn’t make this particular thing either. 

 

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46 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

 

1) Denmark’s claim is actually quite weak, and amounts to possession being 9/10ths of the rule, except in reality we’ve “possessed” it to a greater extent than Denmark for much of the last 80 years.

2) it would be better for the security of the Western Hemisphere for it to be a territory or protectorate of the United States. 

3) it’s a mixed bag for the Greenlanders, all 60k of them, 90% of whom are indigenous, but one thing that is almost certain is that they would all become individually quite wealthy, overnight. 

The United States has been circling around Greenland for over a century, and the protection of Denmark, if you can even call it that, hasn’t done them any favors. I’m not in favor of taking it by force but just because Trump is stupid and bad doesn’t make this particular thing either. 

 

Agree with all this. I think if we can broker a deal and do an Alaska 2.0 deal, the entire world would be better for it, but definitely Americans as Russia and China jockey for arctic sphere of influence. 

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Refuses to sign ethics pledge

Removes EO requiring ethics of government employees 

Fires independent staff to protect against fraud and abuse

 

It all tracks for the "Savior of America"

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3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Have the Democratic leadership been all the vocal this past week. I’ve seen some shots of a Jeffries PC that looked to be about that pardoned J6er arrested again. I see Bernie lamenting the state of things. I dont see anything about the party’s plans. Like what are Dem Senators doing to raise alarms about trump violating the law firing the generals inspector? Repubs would be screaming from the hilltops even if they were the minority party

Nobody gives a shit, in part because it's bleak af and easy to take the pessimistic view that whats going to happen is going to happen. I think I'm there. 

But also, because what hill are they supposed to stand on to get that message out, exactly? Tweet it? Appear on another political talk show? The media is done for, they're complicit, the strings for Dems to pull to utilize media are quickly disappearing. They're as divided as the people are, the message rings hollow because of it. 

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2 hours ago, 27-25 said:

Just like Poland was so unfriendly to Germany in 1939.  They could have done a deal.  Easily.  But they wanted war instead.  Sad.

Exactly. Poland was necessary for German defense against the Russian Bolsheviks.

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8 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

The idea of universal healthcare or tuition free college isn’t even in the realm of possibilities anymore for Democrats. That is a massive leadership failure. 

As long as the filibuster exists, those things aren't even remotely possible politically.

That doesn't mean Democrats can't run on and talk about them.

 

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I think the Dems biggest weak spot that theoretically could’ve been mitigated was border security. Throw some token resources at it. Make some PR arrests and deportations. Instead when there were reports of organized criminal activity, they poopooed it. Tried to move on.
 

Now in the first week Trump is getting served up the low hanging fruit of rounding up these people and sending them home. Easy, good publicity for him. The average American isn’t thinking wow, what a shame we’re kicking them out. They’re thinking why were they allowed to be here. This is difficult for Dems to counter. 

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1 minute ago, raw dog said:

I think the Dems biggest weak spot that theoretically could’ve been mitigated was border security. Throw some token resources at it. Make some PR arrests and deportations. Instead when there were reports of organized criminal activity, they poopooed it. Tried to move on.
 

Now in the first week Trump is getting served up the low hanging fruit of rounding up these people and sending them home. Easy, good publicity for him. The average American isn’t thinking wow, what a shame we’re kicking them out. They’re thinking why were they allowed to be here. This is difficult for Dems to counter. 

https://jabberwocking.com/next-weeks-ice-raid-is-just-theater/

 

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2 minutes ago, raw dog said:

Now in the first week Trump is getting served up the low hanging fruit of rounding up these people and sending them home. Easy, good publicity for him. The average American isn’t thinking wow, what a shame we’re kicking them out. They’re thinking why were they allowed to be here. This is difficult for Dems to counter. 

True.  I saw that something like 70% of Americans are in favor of deporting illegals with criminal records.

They're desensitizing us to these images by using a group that most people don't feel a lot of sympathy for.

The problem is that they will slowly start expanding this shit as soon as they realize we've lost interest.  Or they'll give us something else to be outraged about instead (Reichstag Fire in 3... 2... 1...).

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7 minutes ago, raw dog said:

I think the Dems biggest weak spot that theoretically could’ve been mitigated was border security. Throw some token resources at it. Make some PR arrests and deportations. Instead when there were reports of organized criminal activity, they poopooed it. Tried to move on.
 

Now in the first week Trump is getting served up the low hanging fruit of rounding up these people and sending them home. Easy, good publicity for him. The average American isn’t thinking wow, what a shame we’re kicking them out. They’re thinking why were they allowed to be here. This is difficult for Dems to counter. 

except this would be giving in to the lie. this is playing along with a border crisis that doesn't exist (or didn't before dotard took back over). what you're asking is for the dems to be complicit in the maga lies in order to win political favor. surely there is a better path

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1 minute ago, TexArcher said:

True.  I saw that something like 70% of Americans are in favor of deporting illegals with criminal records.

They're desensitizing us to these images by using a group that most people don't feel a lot of sympathy for.

The problem is that they will slowly start expanding this shit as soon as they realize we've lost interest.  Or they'll give us something else to be outraged about instead (Reichstag Fire in 3... 2... 1...).

Or they'll just do it for the cameras and that will be enough politically.

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1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

Or they'll just do it for the cameras and that will be enough politically.

This is what I'm hoping for.

But I'd have more hope if one of our new leader's closest advisors hadn't thrown out a pair of Nazi salutes on Inauguration Day.

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Just now, TexArcher said:

This is what I'm hoping for.

But I'd have more hope if one of our new leader's closest advisors hadn't thrown out a pair of Nazi salutes on Inauguration Day.

We'll see how long Elmo likes having to go through the White House Chief of Staff to get in Trump's ear.

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

3) it’s a mixed bag for the Greenlanders, all 60k of them, 90% of whom are indigenous, but one thing that is almost certain is that they would all become individually quite wealthy, overnight.

Can you explain this part?  

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18 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Biden did roughly the same number of ICE arrests. But when the gross amount coming in is much more, then there’s a delta there that is substantial over 4 years. That’s pretty straightforward. 
 

Then there’s also the optics of flying people in from everywhere. Everyone saw the migrants in gray sweats in airports. It put out a visual that we were going out of our way facilitate anybody coming. Again, the average American probably isn’t for that. It may not have changed things, but could’ve dialed that back some imo. 

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1 minute ago, raw dog said:

Biden did roughly the same number of ICE arrests. But when the gross amount coming in is much more, then there’s a delta there that is substantial over 4 years. That’s pretty straightforward. 
 

Then there’s also the optics of flying people in from everywhere. Everyone saw the migrants in gray sweats in airports. It put out a visual that we were going out of our way facilitate anybody coming. Again, the average American probably isn’t for that. It may not have changed things, but could’ve dialed that back some imo. 

There's also the problem of the average American not having the first clue as to how much the American economy depends on undocumented labor.

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44 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

...what you're asking is for the dems to be complicit in the maga lies in order to win political favor. surely there is a better path

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49 minutes ago, raw dog said:

I think the Dems biggest weak spot that theoretically could’ve been mitigated was border security. Throw some token resources at it. Make some PR arrests and deportations. Instead when there were reports of organized criminal activity, they poopooed it. Tried to move on.
 

Now in the first week Trump is getting served up the low hanging fruit of rounding up these people and sending them home. Easy, good publicity for him. The average American isn’t thinking wow, what a shame we’re kicking them out. They’re thinking why were they allowed to be here. This is difficult for Dems to counter. 

Yeah, this and the trans issue was where they made themselves really vulnerable.  I have no idea how to navigate the trans issue without throwing them to the wolves, but I think some lip service to strengthening the border could have been done without being inhumane.  Of course, the bipartisan immigration bill was a big step  . . . .  But no one really understood what was in it, or cared.

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Another dropped ball for Biden was the failure to hold that AI announcement that Trump had the other day. It’s already been set for a while but Trump walks in and spikes the football. Of course, I’m not sure Biden could have held a press conference about AI not to mention that he and his staff pretty much sulked the last 6 months.

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21 minutes ago, raw dog said:

Biden did roughly the same number of ICE arrests. But when the gross amount coming in is much more, then there’s a delta there that is substantial over 4 years. That’s pretty straightforward. 
 

Then there’s also the optics of flying people in from everywhere. Everyone saw the migrants in gray sweats in airports. It put out a visual that we were going out of our way facilitate anybody coming. Again, the average American probably isn’t for that. It may not have changed things, but could’ve dialed that back some imo. 

Yeah, the asylum issue is tough, which is where those came from.  It is how a lot of hostile Americans got here, like Cubans and any that fled Soviet or Chinese communism.  And I suspect a lot of Central Americans have more valid claims to asylum than past groups.  But there's a perception that most or a lot of asylum claims are bullshit.

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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Another dropped ball for Biden was the failure to hold that AI announcement that Trump had the other day. It’s already been set for a while but Trump walks in and spikes the football. Of course, I’m not sure Biden could have held a press conference about AI not to mention that he and his staff pretty much sulked the last 6 months.

Well, I think the Biden administration regards AI with a bit of caution, as it rightly should.  And AI computing centers are an environmental disaster.  Thinking people aren't really that excited by AI.

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7 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

This is the thing right here. Everything everyone says about this shit is completely uninformed. It's not like raw dog looked up what Dems spent on CBP and ICE before making that post, or bothered to remember that actually they made a huge fucking deal about negotiating a bipartisan reform package and specifically tried to promote the border security aspects of it. No, no matter what they do Dems are "weak on the border" and everyone just agrees that's the case. There's nothing they could possibly do to successfully buck that propaganda and we know that because they just fucking tried

If y'all haven't already noticed, Raw Dog is someone's latest account, one of them, at least.

I mean, his first post was in the Covid thread, after all.

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On 1/25/2025 at 3:20 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

I've noticed something on various Twitter and Reddit posts.  It's that Gen Z is now obsessed with "body count."  They think anything above 10 means you're whore or a porn star.  (This is even a plot line on the "Sex Lives of College Girl" on Max, which isn't a terrible show.)  Older people have pushed back saying numbers of 50-150 aren't terrible depending on age.  (It's fairly easy to average 5-10 per year and extrapolate that over time.)  I've trolled them and said if you're an adult man and are reasonably attractive and have decent people skills and at least an OK job, sex is easy to get.  They get visibly angry at this.  

On one thread, some dude weighed in and said he was an attractive 59 year old, attractive doctor and regularly has sex with 4-5 women every month.  (If he's in a big city, that is believable.)

I've also noticed that the young women seem to have higher numbers than men, which is backed up by this stat in that link.  A lot more young women are having sex than young men.  That tells me the young men that are having sex are having sex with lots of girls and the incels are at 0.

A whopping 24% of males 22-34 had not had sex in 2022-2023 — up from 9% in 2013-15. For females, the number was 13%, up from 8%.

Holy shit. LMAO at these mfers with zero game at all. I lost count of the 'bodies' way back when I was still delivering pizzas for the West Campus Domino's in the mid-80s.

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2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Except it is stupid and bad because Denmark is a treaty Ally, and a good one at that, and we could address nearly all of the legitimate security issues by talking to them instead of threatening them. All except making it “ours.” 
 

I am not sure at all where this messaging is coming from that Denmark is shitty and mistreats Greenlanders.  They have nearly full autonomy and get most of their budget paid for by Denmark.  They get to be EU citizens with full freedom of movement.  They are fine enough that they have the luxury to turn down major extractive projects over environmental concerns.

It’s not like it’s so awesome to be an American Samoan or Guamanian and we’re so much better.  This bit is a lot of posturing and just giving cash payments to Greenlanders raises the question of if PR and Samoans get one, too. 

Some good points here.  In response to some other good points.

This place can be the best, really.

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55 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Can you explain this part?  

Sure. Probably the best way to explain it is that Greenland isn’t Denmark’s to sell. Greenland can walk when they want to.  
 

It’s more that we would be purchasing Greenland’s acceptance as sovereign. Greenland would vote based on some combination of public and private investment, both one time and ongoing, and some component of that would necessarily include a large cash payment to the people there.  I also have to imagine that Greenland would set up some kind of bidding war between the US and Canada, and would want to retain at least the autonomy they have or greater. 

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7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Except it is stupid and bad because Denmark is a treaty Ally, and a good one at that, and we could address nearly all of the legitimate security issues by talking to them instead of threatening them. All except making it “ours.” 
 

I am not sure at all where this messaging is coming from that Denmark is shitty and mistreats Greenlanders.  They have nearly full autonomy and get most of their budget paid for by Denmark.  They get to be EU citizens with full freedom of movement.  They are fine enough that they have the luxury to turn down major extractive projects over environmental concerns.

It’s not like it’s so awesome to be an American Samoan or Guamanian and we’re so much better.  This bit is a lot of posturing and just giving cash payments to Greenlanders raises the question of if PR and Samoans get one, too. 

Alas, poor Greenland!  I knew it, 956: a country of infinite minerals, I have bored holes in it a thousand times.

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