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Anastasis

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  1. It’s just a speech man. We’ve already gone on about it too much.
  2. If you insist. Walked into a room full of euros and laid out criticism of both European and American censorship, addressed religious liberty, mass migration, overturning a democratic election in Romania, challenged them to articulate exactly what it is they are defending in terms of our shared values, challenged their commitment to democracy, and told them that they need to embrace the will of their own people. Big GenX energy. Kamala walked into the same room in 2023 and just preached from the can.
  3. It's a good contrast of content and delivery. Thanks for posting.
  4. Close your eyes. Now imagine a 2024 Democratic Party primary. Now open your eyes. Trump's America. Now close your eyes.
  5. In all fairness, I think I was quite clear what the reference standard was in that post.
  6. Come on Twice. Let's be real. Imagine Kamala trying to deliver that message in Munich. We all saw Biden. We all know it was elder abuse. It was clear during the debate. Shit, 10 minutes into that one and I said that they were going to have to hot swap their candidate. Understand that we are going to disagree on policy. And personality. But I am not sure that the attack frame here should every in any way consider using the term "elder abuse" without expecting to get laughed out of the rhetorical room.
  7. Disagree or agree. We can certainly hash it out on some of the details. But tell me the prior admin and in particular the candidate the Democrats tried to hot swap from VP to POTUS is capable of this presentation. Just give it the whole watch.
  8. Now we are talked about elder abuse? Holy god. Nobody knows who was running the country for the last couple years.
  9. Send me the receipt with memo line in memory of YGIFS and I will match.
  10. Happy valentines day to dad.
  11. I am quite sure that you don’t track. How does a charity affiliated with the Catholic Church not have the budget resiliency to weather for at least a couple weeks a minor federal grant getting pulled? Thats crazy. I wasn’t joking about passing another tray. If they are running that fucking thin they have a real problem. That’s a pretty short leash to cut 120 jobs within a few weeks. I know that this board is uninterested in really thinking about these things critically. Just rhetoric after rhetoric.
  12. Sorry for pointing out the absurdity. I expect to never have to read anything again here about federal government subsidizing religious organizations and charities. If you are really worried about poor people starving, I will match your donation up to $1k to MLF today.
  13. Sorry for pointing out the delusional nature of quite common anti-christian/organized religion rhetoric on this board.
  14. Whine more.
  15. Damn, those Christian charities must be really essential to keeping society glued together. Kind of a weird position for this board to take given the historical levels of bullshit spewed here and the semi-regular calls to tax churches. The Catholic church has an enormous budget, hundreds of billions. Over 60MM members. They should pass another tray next Sunday to fund the roles that are being laid off.
  16. Form 4s apparently running 2 weeks now for a trust.
  17. If we don't will you? We'll of course have to define war, but I am open to the notion. And would be all over this action if we can scope out reasonable terms.
  18. Didn't think that RFK would make it across the block. I don't think that he will be in the position long. He will be fighting against like basically every well monied lobby interest in DC that isn't not related to the arms industry. Obviously, I am pleased that Tulsi is in. Surprised that not a single Democrat voted for her. Bernie is spineless and has zero loyalty. D's ran a tight ship though.
  19. You asked me a question. What alternative is there to the two party system. I gave you an answer, admittedly one that should have been pretty obvious to you. You asked how it would be better. I linked a piece from New American and Protect Democracy that goes into at least modest detail, and highlighted one particular relevant section. Sorry that disappoints you. Sounds like you just want something to whine about.
  20. At risk of doing a "well Ackshully", I don't believe that to be correct. It was from the old board IIRC. So pre-El Paso 2019. But you may be confusing that reference with the numerous other times that brisket has wished violence upon his political adversaries, not just in like conceptual terms, but directly towards other posters.
  21. We agree. Maybe an interesting paper on this for consideration. I think that the "dysfunction" section lays out pretty nicely the current situation: https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Case-for-Multiparty-Presidentialism.pdf It would not address nor solve all of our problems. But it is clear, at least from my perspective, that given the increasingly polarized and dysfunctional US political system since the 1970s that something needs to change.
  22. What would I prefer over the American two party system? Well, a multi party system. And yes, a comma would have been useful there.
  23. Oh and yes. Between the two of us you are the only one that has talked about wishing their political adversaries, their friends and family, death and suffering. Pools of blood and shit while the life leaves their eyes. You're broken brisket. Don't project your brokenness onto me.
  24. The first time that I posted "burn it all down" was in the days after the 2016 election. And that was mostly a reaction to the point that our broken American political system brought us to. The two party system has completely captured every aspect of the American political system and has been on a collision course with disaster and fiscal ruin for a long time. We have an long ineffective congress that has ceded its deliberative legislative process over decades completely to party leadership, allowed for the executive branch to consolidate power of all kinds, but especially notably wrt war making. We have an intelligence community that it totally off the rails and violating the constitutional rights of Americans as a matter of daily business. A entrenched foreign policy/military industry that has destabilized numerous regions throughout the world, directly resulting in blow back that undermines American credibility and costs American lives, while pilfering American taxpayers on the regular. There is no path forward where our dysfunctional two party system is going to do a nice clean but meaningful course correction at the federal level. And you think that this about road infrastructure, or the wastewater treatment system and making the poo poo go down the pipes.
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