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softlynow

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  1. What made Watergate work was 1. a Democratically controlled Congress 2. news media that didn't need to move on to something new to maintain ratings and drive clicks and 3. a SC that wasn't hopelessly partisan and corrupt. Trump could walk into a subcommittee meeting and shoot Jasmine Crockett in the back of the head and nothing would change. I get the sense that a cratering economy might be a real problem for Dotard, but only if it actually hurt the bottom line of our oligarchy.
  2. 1 of 2 things. Either we've already seen the last free election in our lifetimes or Dems will squeak back into power in a few years and we'll get the spiritual successor to Biden's term.
  3. Ah, so you want me to prove something that wasn't really my main point. Instead defend a well-known bit of conventional wisdom. OK. Sure. Let me google that for you: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/05/29/bluesky-has-caught-on-with-many-news-influencers-but-x-remains-popular/ From the link:
  4. If your point is posts on BS are evidence of a conversation outside of the Dem ecosystem, you have yet to support that point. Your second paragraph is an attack of my timeline, which is nonsensical. I'm in the Dem ecosystem. Of course I saw that, and knew it was coming. My experience online is irrelevant to the quesiton of whether normies and centrists are still fired up about #PedoPresident. So is yours.
  5. I'm not someone lacking wide-ranging sources of information. I check my BS feed every now and again to see who god "destroyed" today in some breathless post about something that would've ended a pols career just a few years ago, but barely lingers til the afternoon now. BS doesn't permeate our culture the way Twitter and Facebook do. It's mostly Dems talking to each other, with a heavy slant towards activist and progressive types. Folks who think the Epstein story is doing anything but fading fast are fooling themselves. This story came out today: Judge denies release of Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts. Lot of discussion about it, right?
  6. He's going to realize the electrified fence is turned off here pretty soon. I haven't figured out if he'll do the coronation in his new Gold House, or down at Mar-a-Lago.
  7. You mean the Dem echo chamber? meh.
  8. Troops marching down American city streets is enough for the media to fully move on. That's going to be great video for the networks.
  9. It's not like being good at public speaking matters anymore. As long as he gets 1 or 2 of the sound bites they want out of his mouth and into the echo chamber, it was a successful media appearance.
  10. For starters, tan suits, spicy mustard and too much melanin. You know, shit worse than child rape.
  11. The problem is too many people are squeemish about such tactics, and it's never going to happen. Even if it did, you'd probably end up with a third party and a GOP supermajority of . . . everything. On the other hand, they're basically governing like that already, so why not take that shot?
  12. I am as well, at least in urban areas. The GQP has been testing the electrified fence, and doesn't seem to realize SCOTUS has turned it off. If they were smart, and not just depraved, they would've rescinded early voting in the 10 largest counties, because reasons, and been prepared to fast track a challenge on that to 6 of 9. They'll eventually get there, or somewhere as nefariously effective. In that vein, I have no confidence that the 24th amendment would be enforced.
  13. Considering the timeline we're on, we'll probably get Total Recall boobies.
  14. Relatedly, while I get that we will continue to start every sporting event all the way down to kids baseball games and swim meets with the SSB, why the fuck are we still having to endure the shittastic God Bless America during 7th inning stretches?
  15. Several of the above, plus The Great Escape.
  16. Same folks that are hurting you. And he's not wrong.
  17. Delaware and Massachusetts have their primaries on September 15, 2026. In 2012 the Texas primaries were moved from their normal early March date to May because of a challenge to the new map drawn after the '10 census. The SC, on 1/20/12, gave guidance to the District Court in S.A. on how to redraw the map. I can't find the date the D.C. released the map, but lets's say it took a month. That puts the release of the map about 3 months before the primary. Assuming for this discussion (because I don't want to go look up the applicable law, which I'm guessing I could've done for all of this rather than recapping 2012) that Sept. 15 is the latest a state can hold a primary, that would put a dealine for finalizing a map in early June. Dems are unlikely to hold out for that long, and Abbott is unlikely to let his authority be disrespected into next year.
  18. A They won’t. Pretty soon the consultants will start hammering the message that talking about Epstein only pushes the moderates away.
  19. If this should actually linger as a problem as we close in on the midterms, panic will set in and then the dismantling of our electoral process kicks into high gear. Federal takeover of urban elections offices, deployment of ICE agents to polling places, martial law, suspending the constitution, whatever it takes. It’s been noted many times already, but I’ll say it again: the GQP is governing like they know they don’t need to face the voters in a general election.
  20. He’s for kidnapping brown people, protecting child trafficking rapists and robbing the 99% to give to the 1%. Don’t ask him to explain why. He doesn’t know.
  21. I’m thinking about Tony Dogs in Casino.
  22. Think about the aggy tears when we smartly buy him off to their detriment.
  23. Can’t save a patient after it has died.
  24. Doubtful. He likely just repeats shit he heard somewhere.
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