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softlynow

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  1. I think Barack could convince him.
  2. This pre-convention debate really seemed odd to me. If this really was the Dems doing, I'm now curious as to whether it was meant to give Joe a chance to stand aside for a new nominee at the convention, should he not be up to the task.
  3. While that is correct, she was not the person to break through that barrier. Jackie Robinson was a brilliant choice to break the baseball color barrier because, among other things, he was an all-timer. Kamala struggled in the early primary debates, and this is coming from someone who thought she might just be the candidate in Dec 2019/Jan 2020. The first black woman to be a presidential nominee of a major party will have to be a great candidate, not just one good enough to win a nomination were she a white male. Not a Dukakis or a Mondale or a Dole or a Biden or a GWB. Obama won because he was political Jackie Robinson. Kamala wasn't that. I guess she might grow and be that if she tries again, but in 2020, no. All that said only reinforces your point. Her candidacy was short-lived because she's a black woman.
  4. Rex apparently wouldn’t. That’s pretty telling.
  5. That’s pretty sad. About your daughters not being the types to be in a band, that is.
  6. You would never support your daughter?
  7. Nuremberg defense. Except for cops it’s a winner.
  8. Sure, if she makes a "threat of exposure." Nothing in the Independent article says she actually threatened him. She wrote,“Twenty-three years after you began destroying my life, I am still dealing with the pain and damage you caused. I want some type of restitution. Pray about it and call me." It seems pretty clear that he was simply trying to intimidate her.
  9. It seems that a lot of y'all are fucked. I will miss you bigly.
  10. Ra’s al Ghul was right.
  11. Why? It wouldn’t change a single vote.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. CNN: "Everyone got richer, healthier and laid today. How can Joe Biden's reelection bid possibly recover?"
  17. Has he redeemed himself somehow? He still seems like a dick to me
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. It'd probably take a bodycount in the range of the Vegas massacre to get guns back on the front page.
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