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  1. softlynow
    Dems aren't going to take the Senate only to hand it back by giving a Republican governor a chance to appoint Warren's interim successor. Wait, it's the Dems. Yeah, that's totally happening.
  2. softlynow
    This is you to us now: SardonicFlickeringEasteuropeanshepherd-mobile.mp4 Hopefully this isn't you later:
  3. softlynow
    So, shall I mark you down as a Kanye vote?
  4. softlynow
    Transfer all law enforcement officers employed by DHS to the Post Office as mail sorters.
  5. softlynow
    I'm also in Montgomery County. I'm dismayed by the fact that there actually more Trump signs and gigantic flags flying from Jeep Wranglers in my subdivision than in '16.
  6. softlynow
    Yeah, that'll be a thing, though maybe not on Fox. They'll move right on to whatever helps the GOP at that time. OANN will ride that grift for all it's worth. Whatever the new mainstream GOP looks like, they'll have to deal with these guys in a way they couldn't with Birchers and the open racists in the '70s through '90s. But Pubs have talking out both sides of their mouths down cold, so I expect it'll be done quite shamelessly.
  7. softlynow
    RIght. Because Republicans are always stuck apologizing for their mistakes, owning their actions and rarely act hypocritically because of optics, decorum and their strong moral compass.
  8. softlynow
    Step one: put down the shovel.
  9. softlynow
    This is all the ASL the interpreter need know for those briefings:
  10. softlynow
    Y’all can have Monetary Misanthropes. I’ll take Exogenous Shocks.
  11. softlynow
    Oh it’s believable. In fact it’s predictable.
  12. softlynow
    Well shit. Is there a fuck me button?
  13. softlynow
    Odd interpretation of what I said. They have no money because their wages are undercut. If you choose the free trade route (as I would), you aren’t fixing that part of it. So you’d need to fix the other end, which starts with tax policy that rewards companies that build middle class purchasing power and punishes (at least a bit) those who automate and outsource. We have made the worst choice. Arguably worse even than autarky. Even a true laissez faire economy would be better at this point (though it would inevitably evolve back where we are).
  14. softlynow
    National socialism.
  15. softlynow
    We should be disincentivizing work that pays less than $600 a week right now anyway. Restaurants, water parks, concert halls, arenas, bars, all non-essential office buildings, etc. should be closed right now. And it’s not that big a disincentive anyway. A couple of my staff could see it that way, but don’t. Of course, unlike a lot of small businesses we provide health insurance. It’s been obvious for over a decade that we couldn’t create significant inflation if we tried ... because we’ve tried. That’s because all economic gains continue to go to the wealthy and higher earners, and foreign slave labor keeps shit we buy cheap. Have to change one of those factors before this ship gets righted. Well, that and a vaccine for SARS-Dotus-2.
  16. softlynow
    I get this sentiment, but these hearings are pointless. The best thing you can do is not score an own goal. No law or policy change is coming. Make a solid point or two, but nothing that comes close to giving them a soundbite for a campaign ad. When your opponent is making an ass of himself, the best thing you can do is keep him talking.
  17. softlynow
    Does this mean that President Hatch is not coming?
  18. softlynow
    Are we sure we want bad things to happen to this guy? If the fine folks in the Texas 1st congressional get a fresh crack at choosing a rep, there's a near 100% chance that they choose someone just as insane, maybe more so, and a very high chance that someone would be a more effective agent of insanity. I get that he's an embarrassment to the state, but we have an embarrassment of those particular riches.
  19. softlynow
    Only after finding structural faults which knock the fair market value down by 99%. He's made enough from the Treasury.
  20. softlynow
    I thought you only tried to hit players on the other team.
  21. softlynow
    How does the funding reduction vote, which has no chance at becoming law, tied around the necks of members running every two years in purple or light blue districts help to actually achieve any progressive goal. I take no issue with your overall point, but this doesn’t really support it. The next time Trump isn’t on the ballot you can bet Lincoln Project types will attack vulnerable reps for being “reckless with American lives,” “hating the troops,” and so on, and it would work.
  22. softlynow
    . . . or anytime at all, really.
  23. softlynow
    Probably not. But almost nothing talked about on this thread will happen. This thread, the news coverage of Dotus, Twitter, etc. are boring at this point. It’s all monotonous and repetitive. The memes are ok, but getting pretty stale. There are political junkies on here, so I ask a simple question that maybe one of them know. How are either of your responses helpful? I get it. This is the fuck you website, so I should’ve expected it. Well fuck you back.
  24. softlynow
    I know very well how things are. But I've lived through caring for family members who showed cognitive decline in their last years. This is quite possibly picking up momentum to the point the 25th would be inarguably necessary. Spare me the hyperbolics about Moscow Mitch. Yes, I know he's an evil, incomparably corrupt and spineless POS. But if, for example, Trump's laughably tiny vocabulary is reduced, as it was for my grandmother, to a single word or none at all, he's got no choice.
  25. softlynow
    What's the drop dead date for the GOP to replace him as the nominee? It seems like the unravelling of what little mind he had to begin with is accelerating. A functional GOP would've booted him long ago, but even the shell that remains should be working on it right now.

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