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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. Thread title was dramatic, especially for the many of us who said this demise has been happening for quite some time while given recency appears to be accelerating. The Dems are going to lose the house it appears. The "hooray we didn't lose as bad as we normally would" thoughts don't really bring comfort to me. Not that Dems ever brought complete comfort, but that's another thread. At minimum they aren't trying to openly kill us and take away rights. I know the evil the R's bring, that the SC is bringing to us, and if you don't think 'doomed' then perhaps you're just a more positive person than I when it comes to politics. Edit: Or you inhabit that vague comfortable centrist attitude that only comes from being comfortably above it all.
  2. Eh. Its not ending. Youtube seems to be thriving. Instagram still popular. Kids all over TikTok. It just morphs and the author should know better.
  3. I'm so glad he got booted off twitter only for so many twitter folks to post his truth social missives.
  4. In very local news, I'm happy with these results: Everyone knows the local is where you make the most impact. And the R's were gunning hard for the Mayor and City Council. But espcially the Mayor position. Got sponsored by a PAC led by a giant home developer and the writing on the wall was pretty bad if dude won. Whole council went a bit more progressive and Melanie is a smart good person so yay.
  5. Did my bit and I'm glad she won. Fuck Phil Knight.
  6. So, uh, can they go ahead and indict him now? Not that I'm holding my breath, just wondering what the next excuse is.
  7. I personally have no problem with coming for the AR-15s. But that's one of many reasons I'm happy to be out of Texas. And you made a reasonable post that seems fair. I think after 49 years of living in Texas I just don't see the State ever coming back to a reasonable level. Certainly a bias of mine, but things like Abbot, Cruz, Cornyn, Abortion, e.t.c. reinforce it. It feels to me like decades of being reasonable haven't done much. But again, its my personal opinion and I'm not saying you are wrong. Again, meanwhile in Oregon: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/11/oregon-measure-114-one-of-strictest-gun-control-measures-in-us-too-close-to-call.html Many folks say this one of the most flawed gun control law out there. It puts the onus of decision making on the police. There is a decent chance it gets overturned in a court. But there is a significant percentage of the population willing to try anything to curb gun violence. It is actually still very close so the article title may be premature. But the fact that it is this close is telling. We all know the bill wouldn't get off the ground in Texas.
  8. Meanwhile, in Oregon That amount of people saying 'nah, need to keep slavery' is disturbing.
  9. I'm not saying I disagree with you. But Texans valuing guns more than children's lives or frankly anything else is part of the insanity that we all view as normal. The concept that you can't say anything negative about guns because it will rally the R's causes me to think the populace gets what it deserves.
  10. Yeah. So thanks to another poster I did a quick refresher on Citizens United vs. FEC. Looking at now its pretty easy to see why McConnell gets everything he wants. Corporate rule.
  11. I'm sure I'm helping derail the thread a bit, but plenty of time for doom. I have heard good things about minpins and briefly knew one via a neighbor. I have also heard some people swear that they had great chihhuahas. But I feel like Jimmy and my family's experience with the breed/mix isn't all that rare. Also, I'm biased towards larger breeds but lost the vote on this one.
  12. I am the unlucky owner of a chihuahua/rat terrier mix that has two different vets and even the place we adopted it from suggest behavioral euthanasia as a possibility. Not sure one can be overly critical.
  13. https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/yplvus/15_hour_wait_time_to_vote_just_west_of/ Man am I glad to be in a State that does mail in voting, and has for a pretty long time. Automatically registered when I got my driver's license. Easy to use website that lets me know when my ballot was sent out and when it was received. Of course, that same State is in danger of going Maga from the top, so who knows how long I get to enjoy it.
  14. If Neon is a troll my meter is way off. Pretty sure I agree with most of their posts and in the times I've disagreed it has been civil.
  15. Yeah: https://truthout.org/articles/georgias-governor-deputized-gop-vigilantes-to-challenge-149000-voters/
  16. I have to admit, you got me on this one. Unless you meant January 21, 2010. Which I agree was a major accelerator. But I always personally trace the decay to Nixon. And then on some pessimistic days I trace it to the very roots of who we are as a country. Listening to Ron Chernow's "Washington" doesn't help.
  17. we have ever present optimists even as things go further and further into the dead zone of non-recovery. some of those optimists assured me he'd be facing jail by now, completely broke and desittute.
  18. Well, now I feel duped. I do still like the handle name.
  19. i was trying to be polite, not obtuse. you're the one who dismissed it as garbage and gave one economist who said so then claimed 'most' do the same. it seems to me that there is actually disagreement out there: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/business/economy/price-gouging-inflation.html
  20. do you have more on that?
  21. sorry, thought I pasted it but didn't. https://www.omfif.org/2022/06/corporate-us-making-consumers-pay-for-inflation/
  22. I don't think all economists agree with that one though. Dismissing it as garbage seems reductive.
  23. I'll read that one, thanks.
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