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softlynow

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  1. It seems that a lot of y'all are fucked. I will miss you bigly.
  2. Ra’s al Ghul was right.
  3. Why? It wouldn’t change a single vote.
  4. No we need a Democratic Party which is savvy to the state of public discourse. Dems need deferential hacks like Schumer to step aside and let the AOCs and Newsoms take the lead. And those leaders need to direct their money men to utilize the never-Trumpers and fight to fucking win, rather than running plays from Tom Herman's Playbook for Winning is Hard with a 2 Point Lead. Flood social media and create soundbites that the networks can't resist running. Stop waiting for events to create favorable news cycles, and create them for themselves. In short, stop being everything we know Democrats to be since Reagan put them on the defensive. Also, the Fairness Doctrine would not apply to NewsMax, Fox News, OANN, etc., because they are not licensed by the government to use a certain frequency. Red Lion v. FCC cemented the FD's constitutionality* because of that distinction. Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo clearly ruled that the FD or any analogue could not be applied against the disinformation apparatus of the modern GQP. * Besides, you know the Roberts court would just overturn Red Lion, given the chance.
  5. softlynow

    The Border

    No one should be surprised. Humans are dumb, and this particular kind of dumb isn't new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
  6. You think that stops it? His death will no doubt be considered "suspicious" and probably Tom Hanks's fault. Catturd will tweet that his last words was the line Vigo the Carpathian uttered, "Death is but a door, time is but a window. I'll be back!" They'll repeat it, put it on shirts and bumperstickers and Tim Scott, Nimrata and Vance will all declare themselves the rightful earthly regent tasked as caretaker until his return alongside JFK, JFK Jr., Elvis and John Wayne as they vie for leadership of the party. CNN will call these views, "fascinating," and frame belief in the impending resurrection of the Dotard as an equivalent viewpoint to the minimum wage being too low.
  7. I like operation Let Him Speak. Run ads that look like a Trump ad. It's just him talking, but highlight / replay the truly unhinged bits and the parts where his dementia is on display. Then close the ad with Biden doing the Jim Halpert camera look.
  8. CNN: "Everyone got richer, healthier and laid today. How can Joe Biden's reelection bid possibly recover?"
  9. Has he redeemed himself somehow? He still seems like a dick to me
  10. This is why Dems fail. The GQP doesn’t bother with the appropriate way to do shit. They do it and make up a reason/mechanism later. Enumerated right, unenumerated right? Who gives a shit it’s gone.
  11. Disagree is you mean it doesn't jibe with Christ's words. Agree if you mean how his purported followers are always creating new nonsensical shibboleths that have very little to do with Christ's core message. Neonmoon's statment squares well with the summary of the law. I find that people that talk about the Bible as their sword tend to advocate for things that are quite incongruent with Jesus's most important innovation of Judaic teaching.
  12. The continued decentralization of Christianity is not a "good" thing from the perspective of the loony to non-loony ratio among believers. As the membership in mainline protestant churches decline, their power to prevent the proliferation of heresies such as Trump=messiah dissipates. It may not be long before even the social gospel churches have to turn to full-on fundamentalism to survive.
  13. It'd probably take a bodycount in the range of the Vegas massacre to get guns back on the front page.
  14. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/11/biden-trump-extend-tax-cuts-budget-deficit.html#:~:text=Trump wants to extend all,extensions for middle-class Americans. Both Biden and Trump's stated policy would be to extend the TCJA cuts to everyone earning under $400k. Above that threshold, there would be some differences. I'm guessing the WSJ is using some wild contortions to show how "61% of Americans" would be affected by tax increases on the folks in the top tax bracket. I saw some other hit pieces saying Biden is calling for the TCJA to sunset entirely. Of course they're lying, but we know that GQP shitheels don't care.
  15. Imagine how much better those numbers would be if our president wasn't really old.
  16. I saw that the man who punched Steve Buscemi was charged with felony assault. I'd say that's a positive development. What I know of Buscemi is he's not an asshole like a lot of our celebrities.
  17. On the one hand, being in a non-battleground state means I'm not inundated with campaign ads, and that is nice. On the other, I have no sense whether the Biden campaign is trying to put the positives in front of voters. It would be nice if he was actively messaging on the economy, bypassing the media who have seemingly no interest in doing anything other than covering everything Trump or occasionally saying Biden is old.
  18. Yes, but don't sweat the small stuff. He's going to move the seat of imperial government to Trump Tower and imprison or behead all of us writing ill of him on the internet.
  19. On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero, so one would think it would also go for GOP one-party rule. As for Dems ever winning statewide elections in Texas again:
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