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softlynow

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  1. To put it in Tom Nichols construction, do you support preserving a constitution? If so, there’s a vote for that. In a two party system your “not supporting rape” choice (neither Dem nor Pub) is nothing more than declaring a tie. Declaring a tie between preservation of the constitution and destruction of it is a fine choice, if you’re ambivalent about the USC.
  2. Tom is right to see past Trump as the only problem in the party. Grifter Conservatives aren’t a new thing. Romney leading the Senate side of things would be a good start, but it’ll take more than one election to clear out the rot. As someone who is not a Never Trumper, just an admirer, I hope Tom and his buddies see this project through for the next decade or so. In every election my number or issue is corruption. It would be nice to have the chance vote out corrupt Dems. Right now the other evil is almost always greater.
  3. Or you don't like losing elections and letting the brutality enablers write the next sad chapter. Street activists aren't above or incapable of taking advice.
  4. Quoting you as a jumping off point, but rambling to follow. I disagree that the phrasing of BLM was intended to seek that response. I do agree that provokes that response, but unintentionally. I think that's the same thing with DTP. It's an inartfully-coined rallying cry. And it's the kind of shit that detracts from the message to the point that a winning issue with the public magically becomes a loser with the electorate in the hands of the talented marketers aligned with the Republican Party. When pressed on issues I'm more aligned, these days, with radicals. But unlike the radicals, I know a losing ad campaign when I see it. You don't win elections by getting the discussion going. Do that shit in off years. Work on changing attitudes in the arts, entertainment, scholarship, etc. You win elections by making people afraid of things and telling them who's to blame for it. "Defund the police" does the opposite of that. Suddenly the police and "law and order" Republicans aren't the bad actors, a potentially lawless future is. It takes a winning issue in police brutality, and makes your party an easy mark for criticism. The people not already voting Dem see police as necessary, maybe even necessary evils, but necessary. You don't agree? Fine, but you aren't picking the next government all of us are. If you don't win elections you don't get your reforms. You want ANY of the DTP policies to have half a chance? WIN. Welcome the Lincoln Projects guys onto the team and fucking WIN. Then go get your reforms passed. Never Trumpers are not going for DTP. Time to regroup and rebrand this reform policy. Biden has signaled he's going to do exactly that.
  5. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself.
  6. The film star didn't mention the NDA allegation, Perez Hilton did.
  7. I thought maybe he'd finally started down the actual fascist path when it appeared paramilitary forces had arrived in D.C. Then it was revealed they were simply deputized B.O.P. guards. There's a next move, but it won't be effective enough to make me shiver. These idiots are incompetent wannabe fascists, not the real thing. They lack the will or simply the understanding of the necessity to organize the necessary tools to save their asses and end the republic. They seem to think the white supremacists among the cops, the bikers, the 2nd amendment folks, and whomever (his "tough people"), will spontaneously organize to save their asses. There will be violence, but it won't be enough. I think that was made plain by Mattis and Milley. He will not have military backing for his upcoming coup attempt. Now, are we in the clear once it is put down? Of course not. This is a major fissure in the body politic. It will be there for a competent would be autocrat, from the left or the right, to exploit.
  8. Where is this all leading? The republic's festering wound is now obvious to all, and dramatic law enforcement reform that can only occur through federal action is undeniably necessary. Of course it will not happen under Trump, and is probably a long shot under Biden (though minor reform is likely). But where do y'all see this heading in the short-term? Will people tire of this in days or a couple weeks, like we tire with most things, and demonstrations dwindle to back page level news? Will the consistent escalation from law enforcement keep the energy going into the fall? Til the election? Until we go from crisis to damn near revolution?
  9. His base.
  10. Does this mean that Ann-Margret's not coming?
  11. In The Woodlands and Conroe the mask wearing rate is about 15-20%.
  12. It might work . . . unless, of course, someone comes up with six-minute abs.
  13. I didn’t know the guy, but I had a damned good view of Randy Kinder’s demise.
  14. Hell, it was their plan. But Twice is right about the obstructionist right being the only right. Unless the policy goal is enrich the wealthy and the grifters, “no” is their only answer.
  15. His reelection will only happen through massive suppression or outright election fraud. Still very possible, but we're not really on the hook for that.
  16. He's gonna say "final solution" at some point. Should be good for a few laughs as we continue to confirm the lack of a bottom. [cue sad Pence pic]
  17. I think y'all should keep him occupied on this thread. I'm uninterested in his arguments and his motivations. If he's going to blanket this board with his idiocy, at least try to isolate him to problem threads. I'm done thinking about Tara Reade. She's probably lying about the assault, but even if she's not Biden will get my vote. Fuck all the nihilists, Trumpkins and pathetically short-sighted socialists who don't see the simple problems with her story, and that Biden is miles ahead as the lesser evil in any rational breakdown of the two.
  18. If he wanted to do something positive for a number of red state economies he could talk to his buddies in SA and Russia about their little price war. Well, he could if he was their peer rather than their fluffer.
  19. Nope. But now that you mention him, it seems odd he hasn’t snuck back in here. Escriva/Laphroig/LL too. They didn’t seem to care if they ever had allies.
  20. That’s true both of the government and the GOP. Trumpkin grifters have gone from a significant segment of the pastry to its main cogs. And that makes it all the more imperative that a liberal-progressive-Never Trumper coalition stick it out for a few cycles to put the republic back together.
  21. We’re seeing the consequences of societal liberality and run amok humanism breaking down the old order of things. Stupid people always existed in the same numbers. But they weren’t empowered the way pop culture does now. What was considered crude and undesirable has often become points of cultural pride. We stopped shaming morons. It should come as no surprise to us that they act and think shamelessly. Was the old way of creating social outcasts problematic? Absolutely. We just haven’t figured out a way to keep the benefits while fixing things for he less fortunate and those who make an occasional mistake.
  22. You can say that about many types of economic activity these days. A completely unforeseeable result of the age of deregulation.
  23. I'm totally against this. These guys comprise at least a third of my criminal defense clientele, and they're such pussies, as you say, that they always plead. Easy money. Shoot to maim, not kill, please.
  24. Yes, yes, I remember. I had lasagna.
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