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Bateshorn

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  1. I was inexact. When I work with attorneys, they are internal or with clients. You zoom/phone to get on the same page, then start exchanging emails. You verbally have the conversation about me walking around with my dick out. THEN you have the email exchange. I represent a lot of clients as a lobbyist. We call first. Then maybe have a follow up with counsel. Then exchange emails about next steps. Do not fucking email me about how the government is fucking you. Call me, let’s dicuss, maybe point me at a few online sites that can be googled easily. Then you can send me an email to discuss your concerns about how draft policies could have unintended consequences affecting every day Americans. The whole point is discovery should a very boring, truthful, And anodyne record. Because that’s what happened.
  2. As somebody who works with a lot of attorneys, I remain shocked at what people still put anything important in email. The number of emails I get a day that are just "Hey, I need to bring you up to speed on something, can we do a call?" is somewher around 5-6. You should NEVER email anything vaguely important.
  3. I believe a shutdown should be a shutdown. All spice stops flowing. No bullets to troops. Bases go dark. Courts close. No employees of any kind are allowed to work except elected officials. The creeping expansion of "essential" employees and work is bullshit. If Congress and the President don't want to do their job, fine, but the country should feel the effects, full stop.
  4. As an aside, my son and I developed this theory that the Fantastic Four can never really make a good live action movie, because the dick jokes about Mr. Fantastic are so obvious and distracting that it overwhelms the story. It's why gender swapping Mr. Fantastic to Elastigirl in the Incredibles was so necessary to make a successful movie (plus Edna Mode is maybe the best animated character of all time. "NO CAPES").
  5. 👆 Calling this a victory isn't quite Mack Brown post OU blowout delusional.....but it's not great.
  6. I approve of this well curated Simpson's deep cut.
  7. I found this online from last April: https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement You know whose name is on there? Garry W. Jenkins, President, Bates College I'll let y'all figure out who is not.
  8. Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like a rent controlled apartment.
  9. Jesus Christ, if you are going to get an 8 ball, at least be a bro and cut your boys a few lines.
  10. Nothing says you won a political fight than a bunch of big brain think pieces about how you obviously won despite everyone saying you lost.
  11. Joe Biden didn't START descheduling marijuana until 2024.
  12. Definitely not on a work computer. Maybe also have Safe Search on if you are in public. Or don't, if you are a freak.
  13. This is the best reason for getting ride of it. It removes the "But, But... the other guys" arrow from your local lump of shit congress critter's quiver. It's a lot easier to say "Bullshit, we control the Senate, GTFO here with your "if only they didn't stop us" titty baby rhetoric."
  14. The talking filibuster is in some ways worse. It doesn't end the filibuster, it just means the senate literally can not do anything at all. RN, the minority objects to moving the previous question, and everyone agrees to set the issue aside and do something else. With a talking filibuster, you literally can not move on. It's not Jimmie Stewart talking for 30 hours, its that the senate stays stuck on one piece of business and until everyone agrees, no other issue can be brought up. Think about a committee meeting where you can't move on to the first order of business until you've approved the minutes. It's like that.
  15. My problem with the filibuster is it's all upside for the Republicans, all downside for the Democrats. 1. It functionally protects the American electorate from their terrible decision making. Elect a bunch of neo-fascists? Don't worry, the democrats will keep them from re-establishing segregation. Fuck that. Elections should have consequences in this country. And don't whinge to me about protecting the vulnerable. The Supreme Court has been hammering them with a lexington steele dildo for years. 2. The main exception to it allows for the cutting of taxes. Which benefits the Republicans. Think about it. Whenever they grabe the President, House, Senate trifecta, we all get a giant tax cut. Sure, I guess Biden passed an infrastructure bill, but it took so long, was so incompetent in it's PR, that his administration failed to implement the fucking thing and the progressive priorities in it have been repealed or suspended. But elect Republicans to Congress, and you will always get your taxes cut. Nothing in our government works because we are drifting in the fumes of the Great Society. Imagine if Congress could actually fucking fix shit instead of just cut taxes and nothing else? Might change the perception of Democrats as pathetic limp dicks? 3. It's and accident of history. Aaron Burr didn't understand Robert's Rules and eliminated the motion to move the previous question. The VP who eventually attempted to start another fucking country and killed Alexander Hamilton. Everything about that piece of shit anachronism is bad.
  16. No. It's a pinky promise to hold a vote. Without a commitment from Thune to guarantee it's part in a future mini or omnibus and to try and jam the House in a must pass bill, it's meaningless.
  17. As an aside, it's why I prefer calling the democrats pathetic ineffectual limp dicks who definitely do not fuck. Vaginas are actually strong AF. Even by aggressive internalize mysogyny standards, equating vaginas with the weak sauce that is the Democratic party is a low blow.
  18. If the house changes anything it goes back to the Senate for a revote. The Senate is, in beltway parlance, "jamming" the house, in that Thune will say if you change this deal, it won't pass the Senate, the shutdown will continue, so take it or leave it.
  19. Like a broken clock you are occasionally correct. The failure to deschedule was one of 1000 things the Biden administration fucked up through shear bureaucratic incompetence.
  20. The democrats were playing Holdem, pulled two kings. Then a third on the flop and a fourth on the River. There’s no chance of a flush. The GOP pushed all in after the election, and despite the fact the Dems knew they had the nuts, they folded.
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