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  1. softlynow
    Yes. And so will his replacement in the House.
  2. softlynow
    If we're going the serious route, I took classes from 2 of them. After hours, they reach for the bottle as much as any of us.
  3. softlynow
    There was one?
  4. softlynow
    We never feel good about anything. Most of what we do, we either immediately or eventually regret. The group you're looking for is elderly nightly news watchers. Also high school government teachers.
  5. softlynow
    Agree with all of this, but you're speaking to middle class culture and culture is a force that policy usually cannot redirect. Policy-wise, we're here because round after round of GOP tax cuts directed primarily at the wealthy fueled dramatic asset price increases that, of course, are the real pocket-book problem for the folks who just voted for the chaos agent.
  6. softlynow
    You will not believe the economic catastrophe. The best economic catastrophe. A big, long, beautiful economic catastrophe. People are saying its the finest and best economic catastrophe ever.
  7. softlynow
    They’ll all bend the knee. They’re not journalists, leaders or intellectuals, they’re millionaire entertainers.
  8. softlynow
    They know where this is headed. Kiss the ring now, maybe you keep your living/freedom/life. Cowardly and disgusting, but prudent if that’s who you are. Gonna see a lot more of that.
  9. softlynow
    Neither is the about to be moot Constitution. Power and the will to use it make everything but sufficient power and will to resist irrelevant. The only group situated to resist are Dems. Keep pretending we aren’t completely fucked if it makes you feel better.
  10. softlynow
    It’s still sending poor non-violent offenders to prison for long stretches, and doing nothing* to set them on a better path after release so it’s still working as intended. *Well, they do wring as much money out of they families through privatized phone services and commissary sales of luxuries like soap and toothbrushes, so they are learning that corporations are their masters and that trying to better themselves is likely futile, so they do get a better real world education than their crumbling public school could manage.
  11. softlynow
    Yeah, NIMBY is usually just bad policy. Nearby, in the reddest part of ultra-red Montgomery county, NIMBY means roads and schools. It’s amazing watching Magnolia ISD get flooded with students while they vote down bonds to give them a place to be during the day. Fortunately I’m in CISD, and we just elected board members committed to banning books. Stupid, but I’ll know which books to get my girls. I never get to “both sides” things, so there it is.
  12. softlynow
    If it comes to armed resistance, as you imply, and I’m somehow a combatant, we’re looking at a Man in the High Castle type scenario. Sure, if it comes to a real civil war / rebellion, I guess it’s possible I’m in the shit. But there will be no real rebellion. We are not those people anymore. We are fat, lazy, entitled, and awash in distraction. Maybe there will be the odd freedom fighter cells, and IRA type bombings here and there. So, no, I’m not dying along with just a few dozen others in a futile attempt to otherthrow the Trump Dynasty.
  13. softlynow
    This is on point. Ridiculous frat house worthy hijinks from the Dems may be the only thing that can save us. Yeah, we’re doomed.
  14. softlynow
    Correct. I keep seeing future elections, the press and "political fallout" as actual saviors from all this shit. Nope. Too many are too apathetic that even cancelling elections, or gaming them to return the results the GQP desires, is simply going to be a 2-3 day news story before the next Hawk Tuah distracts us.
  15. softlynow
    I'm not a coffee drinker, and I should eat less chocolate. But shortages and/or significant price increases on both are not gonna go over well.
  16. softlynow
    Meh. Just folks pre-reserving spots at a re-education camp.
  17. softlynow
    How much criminal defense have you done? Did you ever ask a murderer or a kiddie rapist why he did it? Did you quickly regret doing so? I never asked, but have had a few offer their reasoning. In my experience, the answers to your questions are not going to be enlightening or helpful.
  18. softlynow
    You negged my post pointing out the soon to be accelerating genocide. You quoted my response to your reaction. I guess my question to you remains. For my part, I’m coping OK. Could be better, I suppose. Apparently better than brisket, though. 24/7 rage will not brighten the coming darkness. Best to keep one’s sanity to better ride out the storm. It is hard, though, to be constantly reminded that my government will intentionally inflict so much pain on so many in coming years.
  19. softlynow
    Quite a while. “No bishop, no king.”
  20. softlynow
    That's all you have. Torch shit because something happened that you don't like. Stop being a pussy.
  21. softlynow
    It's not a proper rise and fall story without a disgusting statue for the resistance to topple in 25-30 years.
  22. softlynow
    I'm think on the world stage. In the 1860's you had to be pretty close to another army to attack it, and even then, the damage was limited. With a compliant DoD, Dotard will be able to push a button and incinerate Belgium.
  23. softlynow
    And? California and New York gonna secede? lol, no. Today’s Democrats are gonna “work shop it,” or “look inward for new ideas.” The military will answer the call of their CiC if the issue is extralegal, which secession is. Total non-starter.
  24. softlynow
    We would be lucky. He would be ineffective at making the military loyal to Trump.
  25. softlynow
    There are probably more Flynn’s than we’d like to believe, but I do think the DoD will be the slowest institution to be Trumpified.

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