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SydneyCarton

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  1. Like a Frog in boiling water? Except what dies isn't the brand, it's just democracy. You know, the economic status quo has been getting worse in Russia/The USSR/Russian Federation for like...75 years. How's that working out for them and their brand? I also reject your list of 3 things that can damage brand loyalty out of hand. But I'll play along. We'll go ahead and assign, for the purposes of this conversation, that removing a bunch of poor people's health care in red states, people who often don't even have any concept that their health is coming from the ACA and government subsidies, as Injury. As you said, injury can damage a brand. And here I am, cheering for maximum Injury. You're choosing for less Injury in favor of...I guess we'll call laughing at Mike Johnson Incoherence, I guess?
  2. That's not how it works right now because no one, in great numbers, has truly had to face the reality of their decisions and see a real, hard impact on their day to day lives. It's all noise that they can choose to turn out and stay in their safe little tribal silos. A fractured party MIGHT struggle some with messaging, but messaging doesn't fucking matter nearly as much if the people can take the baseline and tune shit out, and if nothing really changes. You want to shake things up and make people question their brand loyalty? Well, for starters, you've got to really change their day to day status quo for the worse. That's usually the pocketbook.
  3. He have a dog? Framed Picture of Trump and Epstein? And whatever card you get should be a printout of Trump's birthday card to Epstein.
  4. That's a great post, but in no way responds to anything I said. Great, the Republican caucus continues to fracture. Oh no, Mike Johnson gets embarrassed. That in no way continues the discussion for the questions I posed you, which is a situation where many Americans are given license to stick their heads back into the ground and not look at how fucked things are currently, because they're given just enough to allow them not to face reality. In this instance, a fractured Republican helps people remain ignorant, and allows people to keep from having to challenge their own reality and thinking. Your end game may be to enjoy the lolz at Mike Johnson's expense, but that's sort of secondary to me after "preserving democracy." I'm pretty sure a gay male is unelectable, at least to the highest office.
  5. "Traditional European texts, like the New Testament." Who wants to tell him?
  6. In a sane world, sure. But these days, everything that isn't in my day to day sphere of influence should be considered political calculus, because we don't have the luxury to think otherwise. Because if we don't think that way, we won't have the ability to do any calculus.
  7. I assume this what you imagine is going to happen: Extension vote squeaks by, everyone put their name on their stance, maybe it dies in the senate. If it doesn't, president vetoes it. It goes back to the house where it won't gain any required super-majorities to bypass Trump, and it does with everyone's signatures on their positions. Because if this somehow becomes law, the only thing Jefferies has done is help Republicans get elected at the mid-terms.
  8. Well, I guess all these white people here, myself included, should be happy to pack up our shit and get sent back to Europe, huh?
  9. I realize this is a couple years old but...this chick thinks she's white?
  10. That man has worked on your vehicle at some point. You've put your life in his hands.
  11. What I don't get is why she's bothering. I get the grift, but Kirk was already wealthy. Now she's wealthy. She could very easily just sit in the background, claim to be the grieving mom, and have all the money in the world, and probably more coming as she just rents out the TPUSA infrastructure. Why do all this shit? It makes no fucking sense to me. It's like an NFL footballer's wife stepping in after her RB husband dies and going "Imma take up his mantle. Fuck the eagles this weekend, I'm running for 150."
  12. We’ve got an employee who’s from the valley. Everyone he knows is Trump. It’s unthinkable to be anyone else. Which is not how the valley was even 10 years ago. Machismo >> Everything
  13. Machismo > Anything Else.
  14. You'reASacrificeI'mWillingToMake.gif
  15. Jesus, how fucking old are you?
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