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  1. Mar-a-Lago Face. It's a thing. Her, Laura Loomer, Matt Gaetz, Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, etc. Definitely one of the weirder things to come out of MAGA and that's saying something.
  2. Mexico is a couple steps ahead of the US on the antidemocratic front (we are going to get there), but if we're all doomed to that you might as well get the best bang for your buck
  3. Most children aren't this consistently filled with grievance
  4. When they ignore Supreme Court rulings, the coup will be complete.
  5. The NIH funding rollbacks, beyond being another illegal breach of existing contract and Congressional appropriations, is going to be absolutely devastating. And it's going to be felt in plenty of red states - GA, NC, TX, OH, etc. Just phenomenally stupid and will kill.
  6. I agree. Kamala Harris would have won like 400 EVs if the election was held among women so let's blame them. They just didn't do enough to pull this country out of a nose dive piloted almost exclusively by men. It would be totally unreasonable to expect men to do anything about it. Great post. We should totally play this game.
  7. I'm pretty convinced that the majority of Americans are more concerned with inflicting pain on cruelty on those they perceive to be "other" - immigrants, minorities, women, the woke liberal cabal, whoever - that they'd accept a degradation in their own standard of living so long as they still get to throw those downward punches. Look at the California farmers or Johnny Sack. Trump is a symptom, not a disease. We are a disgusting society.
  8. He's apologized for that before
  9. I have been sick with respiratory illnesses twice in the past two months, once in December, getting over another now. That's never happened to me. My wife came down with something a couple weeks ago. Hit her pretty hard. She actually went to an urgent care and tested negative for both flu and COVID. All three instances we never passed anything to one another. Rough season for sure.
  10. There will be elections, but any state that goes GOP for governor, SOS, or on the Supreme Court is never going back at this point. Look at NC, the GOP retook the state Supreme Court and is now in the process of throwing out votes to give a Republican a seat they lost. This is why the Democratic holds in the 2022 midterms were so important. Hold key Governor, AG, SOS, and Supreme Court positions in WI, MI, PA, AZ, and NV in 2026 and you live to fight another day. The path to 270 at least exists in 2028. Lost them and it's over.
  11. Trump is a symptom, not a disease. Always has been. We voted for this. Beyond that most direct explanation, American Christianity and oligarchs have cooperated on the basis of their shared interest in subjugating the broader nation at multiple points throughout American history, we're just living in the modern adaptation of that.
  12. Are you under the impression Chinese intelligence is having a copy of the NYT delivered so they can get the scoop?
  13. I understand they lack political power right now but absolutely agree with you. They should be at the steps at not one but every federal agency getting cameras and smartphones focused on them, shouting about the security of Americans personal data and the unchecked actions of a man no one voted for. Fuck it, they should get out on TikTok and start accusing Elon of stealing people's tax refunds and having sex with his little college goons because it can't be proven wrong and will spread like wildfire. They should constantly be referring to Elon as President Musk to antagonize the child in office and drive a wedge between them. They should be flooding the White House every day with requests to schedule a meeting with President Musk. They should be going out all over the country and highlighting the sick kids and seniors who can no longer afford medication because of Trump's rollback of Medicare/Medicaid drug pricing caps. They should be highlighting important infrastructure projects, health initiatives, etc. that are now derailed due to federal reviews. Companies that stand to be devastated by tarrifs. They should be drawing attention to the shocking draining of a reservoir in CA that is going to turbofuck agriculture in the summer. All the things that touch people's lives. And they should be suing the everloving shit out of the Trump administration. I know this doesn't really matter because they're clearly not going to listen to the courts but it's important to fight on that front. Make them go through discovery and depositions and get everything on the record. Make GOP judges support this.
  14. If there was an unsecured email sent from the CIA to the White House, all of those parties read it before the NYT even knew about it.
  15. Assaults on abortion rights, trans rights, etc. have always been about subjugation of women. There is no other logical conclusion. To suggest otherwise is willful ignorance, outright bad faith, or alarming stupidity.
  16. Elon Musk is 100% having sex with at least one of these kids and that needs to go viral.
  17. The US taking over Gaza to turn it into a resort is the second thing from this admin I didn't have on my bingo card. Again, maybe that's on me. I don't think Gaza protest votes swung the election, but I do hope they are happy.
  18. Totally unrelated I'm sure, this is the median voter.
  19. Has anyone ever seen Anastasis and Nico Harrison in the same room?
  20. The DOGE stunt actually turning out to be Elon Musk just holing up with a squad of 19 year old college dudes and going on an agency-by-agency crime spree is pretty much the only thing I haven't completely expected out of this admin so far. Maybe that's on me. It's hilarious to me that our resident aggy posters love to throw around the phrase "unelected bureaucrat" as a boogeyman but are cool with all of this because orange man say so. We've crossed the Rubicon into full banana republic territory.
  21. Not mixing business and family relationships/friendships is a pretty good general rule.
  22. the best people It remains to be seen whether their incompetence will ultimately enhance or mitigate the disaster, but it is clear we're not dealing with a competent bunch (shocker)
  23. I really do hate the owner equivalent rent stat. It's been a pet wonky rant of mine for a while. CPI absolutely lags on rents. Private sector data shows rents have been more or less flat nationally (some markets up, some down, based mostly on how much of a supply surge has been experienced locally) for like 18 months. It's only now just starting to tick up meaningfully above 0.0 and probably won't really ramp up until we get toward the end of this year.
  24. Some of y'all have gotten used to playing a bunch of upperclassmen on the OL/DL and forgotten what the physical gap between 21 and 18 looks like on the lines. It wasn't that long ago we were on the wrong side of that. The Ohio State transfer has a good athletic profile, worked for years under a top tier DL coach, saw some limited depth snaps on a loaded defense, and was in the mix for more there next year. That's a take every time. You want to bring Terry & Co - if any of them demonstrate physical readiness to play - along like you could with Collin Simmons; who by the way, is an absolute freak and very much an exception to the rule. You don't want to be counting them as foundational pieces from the outset.
  25. Also worth noting that at least in WA, the I-5 corridor from Olympia to the Canadian border, including areas outside the Seattle MSA, is pretty blue; as is the Olympic peninsula (weighted toward the eastern portion but that's where people live). Bellingham, Kitsap County, Mt Vernon, Olympia, Port Angeles, etc. Tertiary cities that pad the margin. Seattle MSA sets the floor as the blue state even if everywhere else went red but it's the rest of Western WA that cancels out the rural areas and makes it really blue. Obviously micro level the trend is still cities = blue, rurals = red, and that's true in eastern WA too. South of Olympia on I-5 until Vancouver is basically the south with more white people in my limited experience lol
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