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wildcat09

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  1. It's really not complicated. Bush/Cheney and the neocons were way too far left/"globalist" for the paleoconservative right, which Jones has always been a part of.
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    This was about a different topic, but it's basically the same explanation:
  3. America is just too stupid for a democracy. I guess we gotta make me dictator.
  4. The resident libertarian would love it.
  5. Alex Jones was far right by the time he was 12. His dad is a lifelong Bircher.
  6. Whole lotta talk about a shadowy (((they))) from people on this. I wonder why.
  7. Like the dipshit who didn't recognize fucking Orion?
  8. This is like the people who say "well sure maybe Joe Rogan and his antivax guests are a little kooky, but there ARE problems with big pharma so we should listen to their insane conspiracy theories about how Fauci worked with China to create covid to pave the way for the new world order."
  9. You're supposed to blame the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.
  10. I don't think this judge is MAGA. I think he wants Trump to give him a sweet lifetime job so did his boy a solid.
  11. “I like keeping the system structured in a way that personally benefits me but I’m going to pretend it’s for other reasons.”
  12. The funniest thing about it is just how empty it is. “I want a return to Bush” doesn’t mean he wants a return to like, bungling Iraq, Katrina, and causing the greatest economic calamity since the depression. It’s just “I would like to go back to a time where I didn’t worry about things because I was young and I think the fact that’s changed is Democrats’ fault.”
  13. Pronghorn sure posts a lot in the middle of the night.
  14. Bankruptcy judges serve for set terms. This was this judge’s audition for a lifetime appointment.
  15. And there are at least 3 SCOTUS justices (and many lower court judges) who would rule that children of illegal immigrants are excepted from that due to the "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" language and will soon have a case to review. The bigger concern, though, is that we already deport citizens "by mistake." Scaling up deportations will scale up wrongful deportations as well, and they'll likely become a larger percentage of total deportations when ICE officials are implicitly told that they won't be reprimanded for doing so.
  16. Agree on dismissing it, not on the how (bolded). That's basically what they've done the past several years. It makes them look weak. They need to counterattack on it. Say it's not a real issue and that Republicans are either trying to use it as a distraction or to justify policies that will allow them to sexually harass and assault more children than they already do (or both). Attack at all times, do not let the GOP establish the boundaries of the debate.
  17. What is that from?
  18. The latest If Books Could Kill pod (on What's the Matter With Kansas?) has some good discussion about how voters don't really care about policy. They decide which politicians they like then decide to like the policies that politician supports and oppose those he/she opposes. It's obviously a bit simplistic and doesn't describe every voter, but I think it's definitely directionally correct (hell, look how quickly the GOP swung on trade and from anti- to pro-Russia), especially for swing voters. Dems need to promote policies that materially support workers, but more than that they need to make it clear that they actually care. No triangulated "tax credits for people making under $30k a year" type nonsense. Just say "we're going to cut down on your health care costs," or "we're going to get rents down." The messaging needs to be simple and the messengers need to sound like they mean it.
  19. Probably should’ve realized before now there was a decent chance the shooter would be an IDW fan.
  20. Y'all, don't make me tap my "there isn't a center" sign again.
  21. The people thinking that the American public will learn anything when things get bad enough are somehow still too optimistic about the state of things.
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