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Bullneck

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  1. Well, then: it's settled! (This world is too complex for some)
  2. This. You play until there are 0:00 on the clock.
  3. Some of the Fulham players have the positive muscle arms.
  4. Allow me to distill your answers: OK, so the Bozo Casanova advice is "be empathetic and say whatever it takes to get elected and then figure things out later." BTW, I can't really figure out if you're talking exclusively local, state, or national elections or some combination. Mixing them would be like saying "football" and then discussing high school, college, and the NFL. I'm curious: can you name the names in the quote above? Who picked the bad strategy? Who didn't support the statewide ticket (who was that, BTW)? Who did the warning?
  5. You are great at diagnosing this stuff. So, what are the top three issues in your community? How would you address them? Like, pretend YOU were running for office. Show us how. You sure like saying that.
  6. @Bozo_Casanova “What should they say” is not the right question a better question is “who are they” and “what do they care about?” This is a non-answer. Reproductive rights alone should have led to a Democratic landslide. In the US if you had an election with a binary vote: Healthy Women or More Guns, which do you think would win? That's the answer: Americans are stupid. Somehow the majority of Americans missed that they were doing OK. Perhaps that’s begging the question. I'll put it another way: Americans have forgotten how bad it can get (but they will know soon). And yet, it was only 5 years ago. Americans are stupid. That’s incorrect They never recovered from a transformed economy and society, and the people a few rungs up did, and pulled the ladder up behind them. And of course those who were just about to enter the working world at that time had their ability to build any kind of real ownership equity in anything or own a home traded away before they had a chance. Incidentally, you can’t really understand the rise out bitcoin and its popularity with millennial and Gen Z men outside that context, but I digress. OK, so your assignment now is to explain that transformed economy and society to a bunch of idiots. Your bitcoin example is kind of a left-field distractor but I'll summarize it for you: bitcoin is the modern day penny stock. I’ll give you that they were better than Republicans, but they don’t deserve more credit than that. That's cute and it sounds intelligent in an Anastasis kind of way. I would like more explanation but I have feeling you'll either ignore it or throw a Guadaloopy "if you don't understand it, I don't know what to tell you" on it. But if you try to run from it, you're just doing more pseudointellectual posturing you complain about. Out national elections aren’t “rigged,” You left out the "electoral college" part. Don't be disingenuous. Democrats made explicitly and conscious strategic choices at the leadership level to make tactical retreats from places like Texas, betting that demographic change, supported by Republican policy failure would carry them back into power. Their strategic thesis was wrong. It speaks to their ignorance of the communities they counted on. They aren’t victims. The reasons you cited for your offered reasoning of abandoning Texas or letting macro/external factors do the work would seem to be based on sound reasoning, until it didn't. If you know why I would love to know more. 1) abandon all issue based litmus tests and racial or gender representation goals in favor of the single objective of winning races, recruit candidates who are the most credible and appealing person who lives in and is a product of the community on the 2-3 most tangible and immediate problems the community has. I interpret this as find likeable people ("knock on every door" types) who will win and then vote . . . their conscience? With what their voters want? Or along party lines? Isn't that last one the "litmus test" part? Did this work in the Montana senate race with Tester? Let me know if this is what you meant, I don't to put words in your mouth. 2) Contest every race in every place, with the strategic priority of winning county and state legislative elections. Sure, makes sense. Does this cost money? Because it seems like it would cost money. And after getting relentlessly hustled by Act Blue, I'm out.
  7. What should they say? The obvious problem is that Americans now are doing OK, but they know and feel things should be better for them. They haven't felt any serious pain socially or economically in a while (OK,15 years) so they focus on eggs. The Democrats have built and repaired the government infrastructure as best as can be expected, but don't control corporate policies and prices. Meanwhile our fellow Mericans have become stupider and stupider and our national elections are effectively rigged by the electoral college. Seriously, what do you offer as a solution? I'll start you off with with some options: Run only old or handsome white men for president. Someone voters expect or have been programmed to trust. Biden or Newsome. Dial up the fear. Welp, apparently Dems were the only people to read Project 2025. Make outlandish promises, then forget about them after the election. Two chickens in every pot. What say you?
  8. I'm fucking hammered so I called and left a message. If there was a problem, yo, they'd solve it.
  9. Shouldn't you be posting in the "US out of Greenland" thread? I get that you're an Esteemed Poster and all but sometimes your schtick is pretty tired.
  10. So, how's he doing? Sidenote: I see Musk is looking at NASA now.
  11. Who else likes a shower beer. After poop chardonnnay
  12. ^^^^ Yeah, you sure don't want Big Peanut influencing Department of Agriculture policy. Had he not done the trust some of us might have ended up wtih 51 or 52% peanuts. It's a slippery slope.
  13. I really hate that "Safelite repair, Safelite replace" wannbe jingle.
  14. Did someone say "traitor?" https://x.com/Mompreneur_of_3/status/1888985808834638035 (Yes it's twitter but it's worth it)
  15. Ha, this is cute. If I get a chance I'll post my Waze screen while driving through NYC. There's a camera every 100 yards. Philly isn't quite as bad, but they are in use.
  16. I guess I'm naive to think maybe if the Dems ever hold a majority there will be prosecutions of all this.
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