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softlynow

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  1. TIL only "the left" wants to not be illegally deported. The more you know.
  2. You deal with it by sacking up and doing the opposite of Whitmer. Fuck your feelings has to be the attitude Dems take towards the mythical sensitive swing voter. Stop wringing your hands and ignore that shit. Stand your ground that GQP policies suck They do Never waver from that message. “Republicans are stealing from you and giving it to the wealthy,” is the refrain. Sing it until it’s burned in people’s minds like the Kars 4 Kids jingle. 459-2222, the Republicans are fucking you. Then, build a platform that will actually help people. Build it to attack the new protectionist agenda on the right by showing how much better you can make the lives of regular folks while the Pubs are out there giving more money to the wealthy. Do it without excessively making yourself the party of rapid social change, but if that shit comes up, pivot to pocketbook issues, don’t shrink from the moment, reframe and attack You’re never going to get more of the upper middle class. So fuck em. Taxes have to go up on the better off, and down on the poor and middle class. But give them more than tax cuts. They need a bigger safety net, and generally a path to a better life. Even If it’s never going to be effective, Dems need a rural America economic program. Ignore any warts and sell the shit out of it. When your defense is weak, attack. Attack by selling a dream, even if it’s little better than fantasy. People outside the metros only hear one message they could possibly accept. Give them something. Dems need to stop being Dems. They need to the fervor and self-assuredness of radical movements of 100 years ago. The era of triangulation is over. The grifting carnival barker out front shoulda told ya.
  3. People. Certain people.
  4. It’ll contain words that would punish. Judges without the Rule of Law are just novelists in silly dresses.
  5. Sure. But only after we build up an absurdly overwhelming force in and control all 4 territories of Australia. May take a while, but it will be worth it.
  6. Maybe after he's halfway through his second term in the Senate.
  7. Listening to consultants doling out the same "move to the middle" advice they've been giving since 1985.
  8. I thought he was doing the Goldman/Coleman bit from Birdcage. Be cooler if he was …
  9. Trolls get ignored.
  10. So you're not interested in discussion. Gotcha.
  11. Throwing out the "you're dumb" card every time someone pointedly disagrees with you isn't really the way to ingratiate yourself to a community.
  12. Fuck that. Go big or go home:
  13. If Russia gets caught moving nukes into Cuba, Trump would simply text Putin, “why the secret,” and then offer up CSG-12 as an escort. Everyone would go a little nuts for a day or so, then he’d do something dumber, and most would forget all about it.
  14. That’s just smart pivoting. Come at me with my own statement? Watch as I brush you off and get some good shit out there in my soundbite. Far from walking it back, that was a politico mini-clinic.
  15. Yep, on 1/20/29:
  16. We need some clarity on when ‘Murrica was great. If it’s 1956, the DJIA closed just under 500 that year. At the rate we’re going we’ll be “great aagain” right about the end of the year.
  17. Good chance that’s just the WWI equivalent of this epoch, not the reset we need, but the half-assed one we deserve to get, good and hard. Sometime after all that, the real fun begins.
  18. The last couple pages are symbolically on topic. In Trump’s America all conversations are dominated, in terms of volume, by the stupidest person in the room.
  19. You'll get a succession of Liz Trusses instead.
  20. I would be surprised you read it that way, but I’ve represented too many sick people to be shocked anymore.
  21. That's the facial hair of a combo bait shop and used tire store owner . . . Or of the kind of sex offender who tells their attorney "if I did it, it was so she'd know what boys her age are all trying to do to her," while maintaining his innocence after being shown extremely damning DNA test results of swabs from a rape kit and from multiple bedding articles found in the child's room as well as from a half dozen used condoms found in a corner of the garage. Said condoms he claims he only used to masturbate in because he has rough hands and needs to jerk it frequently because of how much the child arouses him in ways that clearly make it her fault, if he did it, but he definitely didn't.
  22. Michael Lewis did a chapter on Trump nominating Barry Myers, CEO of Accuweather to be the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere in The Fifth Risk. Good read, if you want to freak yourself out more about Trump 2.0. The potrait he painted of Trump 1.0 was bad enough.
  23. Recession: When Bad Times Prevail
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