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Only after finding structural faults which knock the fair market value down by 99%. He's made enough from the Treasury.

I thought you only tried to hit players on the other team.

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.

. . . or anytime at all, really.

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.

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.

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.

Makes sense. History is littered with people killing in the name of a deity. Some of that is because of wealth and power, sure, but zeolatry abounds as well. And let's face it, at a base primal level, it can be satisfying to fantasize about righteously killing the wicked. Fantasies about enforcing the right not have troops live with you are pretty meh by comparison.

If Trump wins, or stays via extralegal means, yep. I have one, but I think I'll need a couple more.

The bolded would make sense if the estate tax ever was 100%, or was being proposed at 100%. The average rate paid by estates hit by the tax is around 15-20% even when the marginal rate was 40%. It shouldn't be a major part of tax reform, in any event. It doesn't raise the kinds of funds needed, nor is it a major way to keep inequality in check. First, the corporate tax needs to return to the point it raises as much or close as the individual income tax. Second, the capital gains tax needs to be treated the same as ordinary income. Third, marginal rates need to go down to zero at the poverty line (with the refundable EITC only applying to half the FICA collected up to the poverty line, leave some "skin in the game"), up a bit above the poverty line, and a new higher rate needs to be introduced at double the top current rate (say 46% on $1,036,802+ single, and on $1,244,102 married filing jointly). Finally I would raise standard deduction 5-10% over its current level, and jettison every other deduction except those dealing with catastrophes.

He's in a tight spot only because we all know he has no integrity and will not play by the rules himself laid out in 2016. Anyway, the court's institutional integrity, and maybe the political alignment for the next couple decades may ride on whether RBG can make it to January 20 (assuming a Biden victory, for arguments sake only). If she dies, and the Court ends up quickly taking an abortion case and overturning Roe/Casey, things should get interesting. First, there will be a real push to increase the size of the Court, and the politics of the Court will only get more divisive. Second, a not insignificant number of reliable Republican votes will shift on that issue alone. I say all this to wonder whether McConnell would balk because winning on this issue, like immigration, isn't really in the GOPs interest. Campaigning on abortion, passing half measures on abortion, sure that works great. But making it a rallying cry for women in purple states?

Not sure if serious. You're asking why people would be disingenuous in a political campaign? Really? The wealthy taking this stance are looking to help elect the person likely to make them wealthier. Scare tactics are used without reserve by most if not all in politics. Here, they could be scaring the stupid into voting against their economic interest, because, well, they do that often. They also could be scaring other wealthy people, maybe those who don't give to candidates at all or often, to open up their pocketbooks for Republican candidates.

And it'll be poorer children doing the bulk of the initial dying, and probably all of the dying. We should have been having the reopening schools discussion in March, with rotations and "quaranteaming" and other ideas heavily considered. Telelearning isn't optimal, but a mix of in-person instruction with at-home parent chaperone video conferencing could very well have allowed us to muddle through to the other side. As it is now, poors will die and get left behind.

Fourth Turnings have resulted from tremendous (the best, you wouldn't believe the) stupidity before, why should this one be any different?

So, Dershowitz.

On a long enough timeline, nothing is solved, because nothing matters.

Wat?

Nah. But thanks for the hot take.

Hate the sin, not the sinner, the sin being practicing Evangelical Christianity.

Abortion is the dumbest wedge issue ever, because it's improperly framed. The number of abortion will never significantly approach zero no matter what the law is. The actual policy fight is about whether poor people will have safe access to that decision. Rich and even middle class folks will always find a way to get one using modern medical techniques. In states where it would become illegal if Roe/Casey are overturned, poor folks will find an internet video or a shady, unsanitary locale in significant numbers, and groups will arrange for travel across state lines.

I know you're not a mind-reader, otherwise you would have far fewer questions about what others think, so this statement is complete bullshit (and possibly projection). Your posting style is idiotic. Your stated intention is often one of dialogue, but your conclusions and assertions all make it seem like you'd be better off in conservative circle-jerk threads. If you're just a troll, congrats. You're successful at engaging in the lowest form of internet interaction, though you need to bush up on the stylings of FCHorn and the like, who do as good a job as you with far less effort. If you're not trolling, then you're failing at whatever it is you think you're doing.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2020/07/08/open-for-business-montgomery-county-judge-invites-texas-gop-to-hold-in-person-convention-after-houston-cancels/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=kprc2 Keough is a complete moron, so this was expected.

It’s a political philosophy calling for governments to regulate nothing but the uterus.

Fair enough. I'm lucky that I have a mother-in-law recently retired as a children's librarian that can easily manage homeschooling and facilitating remote classes for my two girls (4, and 7 y.o., no pics pedos). I'm very aware that's a rare situation. I'd also love for school to be in session, because I'm sure the guilt trips from my mother-in-law will come if this shit isn't sorted out. That said, we can't do this without a solid plan, which we obviously do not have. I think in the Minneapolis thread there was a discussion of BLM's ideas on the nuclear family. If schools cannot open fully, I would hope that this would be an impetus for this to happen. I truly believe a lot of what ails us as a nation stems from insulation and isolation on multiple levels. One way to combat that would be a cultural shift towards community and neighborhood togetherness. If children have to rotate the days they can be in class, stay-at-home parents (teleworking or simply homemaking) should take up the slack for more than just their own children. I would hope that social media like nextdoor could be useful and not the joke it mostly is. There's solutions out there, and I'm just touching briefly on one. Of course, you know the problem. We're not having discussions about solutions because the very fact that there is a problem is so highly politicized. The body politic is broken, and the guy in charge only knows how break it more.