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Mojo Hand

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  1. From what I've seen, they've been angry at her ever since she started rising in the polls. Doesn't matter much, though, as they're locked onto Bernie and almost irrelevant to her path to the nomination. As long as she doesn't openly insult/alienate them, her time is better spent continuing to sell herself as the most progressive candidate who's pragmatic enough to accomplish major structural change, and being open to compromise on health care will help that narrative more than hurt it. And if she wins the nomination, Bernie's supporters will mostly support her versus Trump.
  2. What were they voting on? A bill to block no-deal Brexit?
  3. Yep. Even the marginal decrease in approval shows only that they're expressing some dissatisfaction in an anonymous poll. It doesn't mean they will actually vote for a Democrat. Both Hillary and Trump received many votes from people who didn't give them good favorability marks. All of the 71% of farmers who still vocally support Trump will vote for him, and a big chunk of those who don't will say "Well, I don't like the trade war, but he's better than Biden/Warren/whichever Dem, who is gonna turn America brown." The farmers should be marching in the streets against Trump. 71% approval after everything Trump has done is insane, even if it used to be a little higher.
  4. I read it. It made no points other than that farmers are hurting and that they will have the opportunity to vote out Trump and other Rs in 2020. There's nothing in it to indicate that they actually are or will be doing so. I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, all of the actual evidence — like Trump's current 71% approval rating among farmers — supports Brisket's position.
  5. To be fair, the game goes much faster when you leave your shanks in the trees and pull out a ball from your pocket to "find" on the green.
  6. I expressed a concern about a particular proposed method of conducting such a study, with the government (HHS) using artificial intelligence to listen in on people's Alexas and Echos and other smart devices. Anastasis is embarrassed by the position that he took in that discussion and is pretending that my concern was with researching gun violence in general, not that specific method of conducting the research. If you are interested in reading the discussion, it's here:
  7. Yeah, laws only change the behavior of those who follow the laws (or against whom the laws can easily be enforced). Like gun manufacturers, companies that import guns, the stores that sell most of the guns, and most gun owners (they claim, at least). That will greatly reduce the availability of guns for a huge number of potential mass killers, who don't have a black market network to easily fall back on, but rather arm themselves by walking into Wal-Mart or taking their parents' weapons. As for those who break the law, that's what the police are for.
  8. There have been killers as long as there have been people, but it's fairly recent that a single person with zero expertise can easily kill dozens of people in like 30 seconds. There are lots of things we should do to minimize the problem, but the first thing we absolutely need to do is roll back that recent development and make it exceedingly difficult for someone to acquire a high-capacity firearm.
  9. 15 years ago Trump was pals with the Clintons, but OMG Debra Messing called him "sir," what a hypocrite!
  10. Plus, how many Republicans are willing to legalize most drugs? At most, some are moving in favor of just the most harmless drug that is currently illegal, pot. Just like most on the gun control side are willing to allow certain arms, like shotguns. But hardly any Republicans think we should legalize crack and heroin and other serious shit on the basis that "drug laws don't work."
  11. "Laws won't stop anything!" cry the law-and-order, war-on-drugs Republicans as they continue their push to criminalize abortion.
  12. We may have cultural problems, but I don't think that necessarily means they are connected to mass shootings. The UK doesn't have the same kind of mass shooting problem, and they've basically done the equivalent of us electing Donald Trump to the presidency.
  13. The problem ain't our culture, unless you think we have the sickest culture of any peer country, by an exponential degree
  14. And yet, nobody has stopped him/them yet, apparently.
  15. They should require 4 new polls showing at least 2%. Ones from before the third debate shouldn't count.
  16. I liked the last two more, but this one had some great moments.
  17. Next episode already up for streaming? What sorcery is this?
  18. Yeah, no. They all buy trickle down economics lock stock and barrel.
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