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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Wordle 1,595 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  2. You thought it was depressing? Interesting. Anyway if you liked City of God you’ll probably also like Amores Perros.
  3. They got pills for that. but seriously it’s a break barrel
  4. There’s no telling whether he rebuilt it, but I’m positive he tinkered with it as needed. It was old when he found it, so it’s probably closer to 95 years old than 75. He used it regularly from when he came back from Europe until he passed in 2022. It’s a single shot, so he told me the important thing is not to miss. Here he is at age 98, heading out to bag a squirrel for dinner:
  5. I don’t have that problem, the Diana my grandfather liberated from a house he cleared along the Moselle is a taxi driver and still in good working order.
  6. My daughter brought me these from the grocery store she visited in Latvia. Long Chips are kind of like Pringles, but long.
  7. Considering that most of my extremely limited exposure to the former comes through my experience with the latter, it doesn’t seem like much of a leap.
  8. Me too. My older daughter is the same way- we even do it on vacation.
  9. Yeah this is like some gamer nerd shit. I play sports and have sex.
  10. wtf is an asmongold
  11. Every map of the United States that shows the concentration of a bad thing is the same map. And look, I want the best for those people because they are my people. But they also keep voting for people who put them in harm’s way. It was always going to come to this. The sooner they understand that, the better. The Coal miners didn’t die at Matawan for their descendants to vote for scabs.
  12. Don’t export local issues
  13. I want to be clear up front that I don’t think ā€œgovernment shutdownsā€ should be a thing and that legislation should be passed to automatically continue funding. That said- for 30 years I have watched Republicans use the threat of shutdowns to bully Democrats into compliance, by holding a gun to the head of their own voters and forcing Democrats to be adults in the room. This is the first time the Democrats have said ā€œpull the trigger,ā€ and it has clearly unnerved the GOP caucus. I’m not sure where this ends, but as a matter of strategy they are in a far stronger position than they would have been had they rolled over again.
  14. The name was the best part. It was an instant hit and almost sunk Clinton in 2016, and a lot of otherwise apolitical working class people who wound up voting for Trump wanted it. anyway- a large majorities of independents and Democrats want everyone to have coverage, want their coverage to cost them less, and understand that the government will be involved. That’s all most people hear when they hear the words Medicare for All. Democrats, being morons, took that fact and decided to get wound around the axle about precisely what policy that meant annd fight amongst themselves instead of focusing on outcomes during campaigns. That’s a recipe for lost support. Incidentally that’s why I think Elizabeth Warren is so toxic - all her wonky, complicated ā€œI’ve got a plan for thatā€ specificity is the shit that kills democrats, not great brands like Medicare for All.
  15. He leads the league in being shot by invisible snipers, tho
  16. Well, these were Democrat political professionals. What were you expecting? It was, but the nice thing about reality is that you can think whatever you want and it will still be true. Frontline Narrator: But they had insulated themselves that completely. The follow up from the prospective candidate was predictably inane: ā€œso what’s the answer, guys? Do you think capitalism has let you down?ā€ Honestly not bad.
  17. I’m surprised a company that size didn’t have a diminimis reimbursable expense policy. When I worked for a huge global industrial company we didn’t need a receipt for anything under $75. And before you point out the obvious, I’m sure there was some light abuse, but when the company did the math, it wasn’t worth policing, because serious abusers operate on a different level.
  18. I was in a meeting a few weeks ago with a group of Democrats between 25 and 35, a person who’s thinking about running for office, and a couple of longtime Democratic consultants. The perspective candidate and the consultants were shocked that the young Democrats said that cost-of-living was their biggest issue and healthcare was their second biggest issue. They were also shocked that the group was unanimous that the Democratic party had allowed housing and healthcare costs to destroy their prospects of attaining the American dream. This thread is a beating because this party is feckless, toothless, spineless, out of touch and has institutionalized losing. The national party has followed the example of the Texas Democratic Party, and is achieving the same results.
  19. No, that’s false. It’s not just wrong on the merits of that, it’s also not aligned to the voting behavior of so-called centrists. Heterodox voters do not occupy some kind of very policy-oriented middle ground between small and big government or high and low taxes. Medicare for All is objectively and empirically great branding. It was great on style and great on substance. It’s clear, immediate, certain, and tangible. It combines a popular thing with a universal thing, for everyone it alienated it picked up two, and it worked across the map. It’s old news now and they need to move to something new, but it didn’t cost Democrats anything and they should t have squandered it. Stop thinking in GOP framing. But Lamb didn’t win. Fetterman won, he’s popular, he’s interesting, and he’s not MAGA. You don’t have the luxury of choosing alies until your party stops losing the races that count. Except the election that he won in a swing state, Jesus.
  20. No, I’ll give you Sinema because she stopped being a co-belligerent but Fetterman and Manchin are exactly what I’m talking about Democrats welcoming more of. And if they don’t want to do that they should try not losing so much. Sorry!
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