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softlynow

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  1. I'm not disagreeing with you when I say he did a stellar job relative to the landscape his presidency existed on, especially considering the makeup of Congress. Now, had he rolled in the WH with 57 Dem Senators to go along with the majority in the House? Yeah, not great Bob.
  2. As someone who has done quite a bit of court-appointed criminal defense, the way we treat, and the offerings we have, for mentally ill people is immoral. Often the only results are perpetuating a cycle of misery and endangering the public. Much of the mental health services that would be "available" to "crazy" people isn't just "available" to them, it's judicially ordered. For now we just offer them your local county jail, followed by prison. You won't solve all of the problem of homelessness in this country with CJ/MH reform, but it's where we should start.
  3. There is that lake of fire bit, for the liars.
  4. So is this the imminent eschatology thread? If God has a sense of humor, I could see this being the beginning of the end times.
  5. And we know it's a politically charged issue not because of laws, but because of races.
  6. The Problem isn't that the media continues to do what it does. That's never going to change, so identyfing it as The Problem is only useful insofar as it informs and urges party reform and (lol) unity of message. An underlying cause of that problem is that The Groups, it seems, tend to put the need to justfy the existence of or grow their organization first, and not the primary need of the party, which is to win fucking elections. Really this is just Exhibit eleventy-billion of this not being an organized political party.
  7. Lack of accountability is a symptom. FUPM is the disease.
  8. Someone can certainly correct me if I'm wrong, but when I see "the groups" I don't think folks like you, that is constituents that have certain lobbies out there advocating on your behalf. I think of the advocacy groups themselves. Folks that are largely justifying their existence by bending pols to their will in order to keep the donation cash flowing. IOW, the sometimes usefull assholes that usually just stand in the way of policy that could help all the people, not just their small or even tiny underrepresented minority. This is the United States of FUPM. In the end, that's why we're so very fucked.
  9. By the time the bolded period came around, establishment Dems had become circa 70s/80s Republicans. It isn't just messaging hurting the party. Too many older Dems lacking the willingness to make a dramatic left turn on economic policy still hanging around. Just another reason I don't see a course correction in our future absent a major shock to the system. Something bigger than Covid.
  10. Dotard is Count Dooku, except played by a fat terrible community theater regular instead of a total badass.
  11. Spoon. It’ll hurt more.
  12. I don’t think they had a lead, but otherwise, spot on.
  13. Its association with the Soviet Union is what really made the word toxic. That and the indestructible American idea that it's the socialists (among others) that are keeping you from a life of fame and luxury, not their own stupidity and laziness. I'm gonna just keep harping on it. Billionaires own the thing that binds our culture together. Until they totally fuck everything all the way up (and historically that always happens at some point), nothing changes.
  14. Motto worthy. It's Newsome way ahead of the pack at this point.
  15. Democrats and democracy are fucked anyway, so might as well not come down on the side of evil and agree with GOP hysterics meant to further marginalize minority groups. Just going to have to do right by our neighbors until the bloody end, if need be. The only way out of this is a near total collapse of the established order. The electorate is hopelessly addicted to an integrated social and legacy media monster fully weaponized by our tech oligarchs to ensure a government friendly to their every whim, and willing to shovel tax dollars into their pockets. And there's no allied western liberal army crossing an ocean to save us from ourselves.
  16. I think the obvious answers are that was Dave the body double, and of course no one was worried about a dead body. The plan was to shoot Dave up a little more, then roll out "intact" Dotard 3 days later as the second coming. Terrible shooter fucked it up, and they improvised. SS wasn't concerned over Dave getting killed, just nailing their roles.
  17. Stormtroopers that can't hit shit, now where have I seen that before?
  18. Are you sure it's not a bit?
  19. This cracks me up because I was literally lol when the notification popped up on screen. So if this is a bit, well done!
  20. Shouldn't a bit be even the tiniest bit entertaining? Sure seems more like a troll. Not saying he should be banned or get a TO. Futureman should be disturbed by the comparison.
  21. Yep. Being impressed at him winning re-election is akin to marveling at the Globetrotter's W/L record. Same goes for every statewide official in Texas, once they're past their first primary.
  22. Good to see Surly has its picking nits in midsession form before we even get to week 1. It’s an exaggeration, and you missed the point with this silly side argument. I’m sure the Epstein scandal will take down Dotard any day now.
  23. Yeah. We don’t get to a purge mentality without a Great Depression/civil War level event. If the GOP for some reason doesn’t understand they’ve jailbroken the system and actually allows for elections they end up losing, any Dem regime will just be more of the same delaying action we’ve seen since Reagan. Many comparisons to the rise of Hitler have been made, but it might be better to think that we’re in about 1857 of this particular disaster cycle. Maybe even 1853. It hasn’t gotten bad enough to believe we can heal anytime soon. Of course a broader view of history points to authoritarian and oligarchic control being the default in most countries. We’ve been spoiled by humanistic progress, and maybe we’re just reverting to the mean. It certainly doesn’t feel like a real resistance is forming. Just ticking boxes, as RomaVicta put it, along with influencer grifting.
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