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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Wordle 1,501 2/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. Why are you running from trans rights?
  3. Btw, @wildcat09 you’ve bought a new car before, right? Does it have features you either didn’t care about much or even thought you disliked but could live with? Did the marketing you saw and the salesperson you spoke with focus your attention on what you cared about, or did chant a litany of every feature and then demand that you actively embrace the auto-off switch and the heated seats? If they didn’t, were they running from those features?
  4. Wendy Davis literally ran a campaign for governor that mostly ignored daily life problems and almost exclusively focused on an abortion bill filibuster that ultimately failed. It wound up like the extension ND gave Charlie Weiss after his β€œsignature loss” to USC. And that’s the Dems *best* social issue. Tell you what. Let’s you and me walk a block for 3 hours, anywhere in Texas with a Democrat% lower than 60%. We have a maximum of five minutes with each person. You can say anything you want, but the first thing you must tell them is why they should support trans rights. I’ll exclusively talk about the economy and nothing else. I bet I can collect more D votes, deal?
  5. Maybe they should tell someone or talk about that shit sometimes.
  6. The β€œcompletely wrong” part was this: We don’t need them to *support* trans rights. They just have to be tolerant enough of trans rights to accept it as part of the payload that gets them what they want. Despite being far more homophobic as a group than secular professional class whites, evangelical blacks, Hispanic Catholics, and blue collar whites chose to make common cause with them for decades in order to advance their own interests. It wasn’t until the Democrats largely abandoned an agenda centered on things that break around class and made special interest social issues (or in your words, β€œtelling them to support trans rights”) the center of the agenda that Democrats lost a durable multiracial middle class+working class majority coalition.
  7. Yeah. I think the problem here is that you see the two sides as left and right. That’s just a show for the rubes, and frankly it’s the biggest problem we have. The parties somehow convinced people that these private organizations in which 99.99999999% of the population plays no consequential role was an identity. The only two sides are: what’s net better for the stuff you care about, and what’s worse?
  8. I'll tell you what legitimately works - start talking about how rural Texas is dying because of one-party rule. This is completely wrong. Democrats shouldn't stop working on or talking about social issues. But talking to the majority about things that have nothing to do with their daily struggles is bet best confusing, but mostly comes off as arrogant and elitist, which it usually is. It conveys that the people addressing them are immune or not impacted with those struggles, which in this case they often are. Here's how to talk about social issues in a way that works: Talk to the majority about how and why they are getting fucked over. And then when the brain washed Republicans start talking about drag queens, you get to say "what is your problem? Drag queens didn't close the hospital and drag queens didn't say no to giving you cheaper health insurance. You don't know a single drag queen, but I bet you could use lower property taxes. And unless you change the way you vote, you won't ever get them."
  9. Wordle 1,500 4/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  10. Wordle 1,499 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  11. Custer was killed by a woman war chief - Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who had been honored for her bravery in past battles with Custer and wanted revenge after Custer had killed her father and brother. She killed him with a war club, and when went down the women came and stuck needles in his ears so that he wouldn't hear their ancestors coming for him in the afterlife.
  12. I thought that was hilarious for a lot of reasons, the main one being that there were a lot of rumors that she and Chris Martin divorced because he kept cheating on her, including supposedly making out with Kate Bosworth out in the open at a U2 show in Vegas.
  13. True, but the elephant in the living room here is that within the structure of our economy, long term low interest rates have the effect of expanding and accelerating wealth inequality and compressing the middle class in myriad ways unless that effect is explicitly and directly contained by the tax code, which it is not. Populists are wrong in a lot of ways about a lot of things, but this is one of the really big ones.
  14. Wordle 1,498 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  15. Lyn is great. We run in some of the same circles and she’s very impressive.
  16. You’re not sure what the Uvalde County election results from November 2022 say about the premise that β€œdead kids tend to rile people up?”
  17. What a paragraph. Bravo, seriously.
  18. Better than Cornyn’s
  19. THAT WORD IS NOT REAL Wordle 1,497 X/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩
  20. Him and Jim Jordan should be Vincent Adultman for Halloween.
  21. Your hypothetical company is not the Fed.
  22. Im not sure that’s true. We are certainly in a big debt cycle, but a bunch of deflationary signs are beginning to appear that could be significant. And as long as the dollar is the world’s reserve currency we will have less inflation than the rest of the world, just like we did in the transitory spike period. in other words, we have real problems on the horizon. Inflation could be the least of them. We certainly agree on that at least, but the issue here is that the Fed knows that. The political actors who want to control the Fed don’t.
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