softlynow

The budget deficit is around -$1.8 T. Discretionary spending is about -$1.6T with just under half being military. I know Elon is generally full of shit, but you’d have to make serious Social Security and/or Medicare. So, yeah, we’re all gonna feel it.

It my experience. Driven people are still driven. I see lots of clients and hear lots of stories. Purpose = you’re all right. None? 4chan for thee!

The stories are great, but the segment of white young men that are not doing well is not children of the surly 1%ers. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s the middle class guys with middling or worse grades and zero drive to do anything that doesn’t involve being alone on a screen. In the past, the workforce just needed lots of bodies and the good ole boy network would take care of you, to a certain extent. Women taking so many office jobs that aren’t clerical means fewer of those guys just are needed. Add in that they’re a special snowflake, and lack of talent, smarts or motivation doesn’t = loser it means conspiracy(!), so they act accordingly. A sad truth of humanity is there will always be marginalized groups. You can’t demarginalize loser young men without returning to the repression of other groups. If the world was truly out to get them, I’d feel sorry for them. It isn’t, they just don’t look in the mirror when assessing their shitty situations. DEI is to blame, not those Cs and Ds they got in high school. I’m sure some upper middle class boys are seduced by being alone in their room, too. But there have always been black sheep. The numbers come from the paycheck-to-paycheck households.

You mean the folks who had smaller loans from before “deregulation?” Yeah, fuck them. I will get no relief and still owe $80k+ after starting to repay in 2010, but I had hoped some folks with less ability to pay would get relief to put them closer to par with the cost of a pre-2000 education. Just more shifting the costs of life onto the lower classes so billionaires can get another mansion, fleet of yachts, sports franchise, whatever.

Yep. Fire with fire. Should’ve flooded the zone with scary shit. Probably still would not have worked, though.

And no one likes it more than general contractors, small manufacturers, and agribusinesses.

Good Lord, we have learned nothing. The Constitution will be meaningless when it suits the people with enough power to make it so. The idea that he will EVER give up power willingly is absurd. He didn’t last time, and he won’t do it this time. Who is going to stop him from fashioning a crown? The New York Times? Congress? The Army?

Trump-lite doesn’t beat Trump. Stop beating up the non-deplorables.

Trump will live long enough to end the Republic. Puppet Empereor Vance.

It won’t matter. These are despicable people. They’ve been telling you this for years. Start believing them.

What world are you living in? You keep acting like rules and norms mean something anymore.

They’ll be safe for a while. Western Europe needs to ramp up their militaries if there’s to be any liberal democracies left.

How much contact do you have with lower and middle income folks? I see a steady parade of Trump and Let’s Go Brandon shit, so I wasn’t totally surprised. My hope was that it was different outside Montgomery County, Texas. Now I know it’s not so different elsewhere. We are a loathsome people. We are on a course more towards Elysium than Star Trek. I think civilization and humanitarian progress peaked in the Obama years. .

I knew this country was fucked the first day of my law practice. The client I was helping that day told me her fear in the upcoming (2010) mid-terms was that Dems were set to end Medicare and Social Security. That day I learned I could change the subject with the best of them, and that I had to stop talking politics so much.

Was that the other choice on the ballot? No? Then what the fuck does that matter? As framed above, this choice was rapist vs. non-rapist. That you chose to re-frame the choice rather than accept what you've done means you're uncomfortable having promoted rape. You should be. That's a solid reaction. But by re-framing, you've failed at a chance for deep introspection. Only you can unfuck yourself, but you have to want to do it first.

It isn't about the candidate, and you know it. We get it, you get off on being called a moron. Well, I don't think you're a moron. I think other things that you don't get the pleasure of seeing typed.

He has lieutenants that actually want to fuck shit up. That's the concern. If it was truly just him and his whims, we'd be fine. He knows less shit about fuck than we do.

Seems like he understands now is a good chance to build a following. Many will stick around even when he's wrong.

You talking about their heads? 4 years to the first purge sounds about right.

Decades of Pubs promising a free lunch by running up deficits that Dems have to control. They need to stop pretending that fiscal prudence ever wins. Promise more free shit than the other guy.

Yep. Needed to run further right. Somewhere between Mussolini and Franco.

It's only early voting reported so far, right? Dem margins should widen as ED comes in. Right now several Dem judges would lose. I'm not sure that holds.

Props need 60%. Last I saw it was at 57%.

In any post saying Dems have gone "far left" you must state at least 3 examples, or we will dismiss your opinion as regarded.

Isn't KY something like R+20-25? If that happens I think PR and DC get statehood and we might get a 15-person SCOTUS, assuming Dems have grown a set.