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hpslugga

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  1. Conspiracy theorists couldn’t in their wettest dreams come up with this falderal
  2. Depends on the district. Some are W2, others are IC’s. It’s my understanding that FWISD fits the former description.
  3. Which is precisely why Ogles drafted it in such a way that would preclude Obama from running: they all know that he would fucking steamroll Trump
  4. Every logical fallacy that can be used in defense of that EO will be used, and every argument that will be used in defense of that EO will be logically fallacious.
  5. How you think that came off: How that actually came off:
  6. Too lofty of a concept for you to know even the first thing about it. If brains were fuel, you’d need to apply for a loan to power a flea’s motorcycle around a drop of rain.
  7. Can't calculate that a center would lose his head on two consecutive plays, especially since it really hadn't been a problem until that exact play.
  8. Sudden implosion by the OL on those last three plays. Just fucking awful
  9. This is the correct answer.
  10. By not playing those 14 games against either the Rams or the Lions
  11. Because that would make Supply Side Jesus feel sad.
  12. You misspelled “Preamble.”
  13. DISD has a very limited, qualified conception of open enrollment that makes it nearly impossible to forge a football factory without engaging in a lot of under-the-table shit. Why else do you think it took 70 years for one of their teams to claim a state title? It’s not like they’re what WFISD used to be.
  14. That team is a football factory that has the benefit of being a suburb of Denver, who has open enrollment. Imagine DISD having open enrollment and every badass football player in the city going to SOC
  15. With a back-up kicker. Fantastic game
  16. Hell his leading spokesman in the media was literally saying that his network will consider anyone who protests the war “an enemy of the state.” That’s about as faschy as it gets
  17. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-homeless-trump-b2662999.html This motherfucker is insane
  18. Wow, didn’t even see that Bush comment earlier. Yes, Bush was a war criminal who courted a financial catastrophe with his slavish devotion to Reaganomics. I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would want to return to that shit.
  19. It sounds like a nice idea for there to be a center. In the real world, it's just a ridiculous compromise between ideological positions. I believe Phil Ochs wrote a song about it.
  20. They already tried that and lost because of it. I mean I get that you didn’t read but like 5 words of what I said earlier, but a considerable part of their pitch in ‘24 was aimed at republicans abandoning Trump and switching over to them. They failed because they didn’t harvest nearly as many voters on that message that they needed, and they alienated the typical 1/3rd of the adult population that is registered to vote and chooses not to. They alienated them by flat out ignoring them and not addressing those core issues I previously mentioned.
  21. And it’s hard to counter that perception when the following sentence is 100% accurate: Any typical, establishment Democratic presidential candidate would rather lose to Trump in a general election than get primaried by a Bernie/AOC type.
  22. Couldn’t have said it better. A leftist is someone who favors the dismantlement (or at a bare-assed minimum, the severe overhaul) of capitalism. Kamala Harris and the mainstream of the Democratic Party are precisely neither of those things. Yes, Fox News refers to the Democrats as “the left.” They refer to anyone to the left of Attila the Hun as “the left.” Like I say, that lot does not understand the political compass, much less how and where to plot anyone on it. Again, couldn’t have said it better.
  23. That certainly was a concern but not nearly as widespread. The issue this go-around, to repeat, was incumbency. How else would you explain the Tories getting fucking trounced by Labour? How else would you explain Iceland? How else would you explain Modi’s party underperforming against that big tent INDIA coalition? The New Popular Front in France? There are a lot of other examples of this, and while it certainly is not to suggest that it was uniformly to the left, it certainly suffices to reject any notions of uniformity in either direction. So yes, there have been rightward lurches…in some places. Others? Not so much. And that’s the point. The most common of threads this year was incumbency regardless of ideology. well they resorted to the culture war crap when the Soviet Union was still alive, but they kinda had to in order to maintain their positions of power. Their economic policies do not enjoy a strong following, so they have to throw in that red meat to keep people voting against their interests. And that’s why neither party really talks about that because there’s no way to sell it. It’s funny that we’re talking about this on a Bill Maher thread because he of all people once explained the difference in domestic/economic policies between the two parties in this way: Republicans: “we’re pissing on you.” Democrats: “the Republicans are gonna piss on you, here’s an umbrella.”
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