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  1. Beto might have been enough had he not uttered the words about the guns.

    I want a dem candidate who says “fuck it, the gun horse has left the barn. So here’s my position: all of y’all should arm yourself and right soon. The billionaires and their private police are coming for you , and they’re armed. You should be too. Fuck letting the terrorist Gestapo have a free hand - shoot em.”
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  2. I had a long discussion with my son about the Air Force. He seemed genuinely intrigued. I’d be beyond happy if he actually went through with it. I think it would do him very very well. I will wish I had joined until the day I die. 

    I won’t go CR, but these days, I’d want my kids as far away from the US military as possible.
  3. 42 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    And.....this.  More than anything else, this.

    We have blown it all up, pissed it all away.  EIGHTY FUCKING YEARS of post-war leadership and the prosperity that comes with it, poof, gone.  AND FOR NO FUCKING REASON.

    A perfect summary from that piece:

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    We have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state, from the freelancing billionaire dilettante who is gutting American soft power to the vaccine-denying health secretary who is firing as much talent as he can. From the senior economics advisor who thinks comic books are good investments, to the senators who voted to confirm this cabinet of hacks, to the representatives who stumble over themselves justifying each new inane MAGA pronouncement.

    But also, we have the government we deserve.

    The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.

     

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  4. 26 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    this seems legit, on the up and up ....

    Control and management of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been turned over by the DOE to a company with virtually no history: Strategic Storage Partners, LLC, with the U.S. Government paying $1.4 billion or $280 million every year to have it managed. 

    Huh.  My old man was offered the job (heading up the SPR) like 25 years ago.  He'd have been quite good at it.  On a gov't salary.  But, I mean, that's STUPID....where's the grift in that?

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  5. 13 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Aw come on. As if you could do anything with a British pound. What ya gonna do, put on your Peeky Blinders flat cap, slide in all subtle into The Crown and Anchor, say "Ey oop Govnah" and give em the knowing wink that means you'll have a pint of the old Minkspunk Royal Stout? As if they have time for your play-acting? How do you even think up these bizarre scenarios, you twisted freak?

    GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

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  6. 1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

    Bluster more brisket. Marks shit the bed and shit on the process on far more than the COVID vax (the process for which he did fuck up as well). Marks was at the top of the chain for the aduhelm and elevidys fiascos. There is a longish thread discussing the former on this board. There were ample reasons to turn him over with new FDA leadership.  

    Cool.  Do you think the new FDA leadership won't be as or more "politicized," as that is the exact term you used to convey the reason for your dislike of Marks?

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  7. Just now, Gatorubet said:

    and if they retaliate with their own raised tariffs, is there any chance that the US will back down to avert a global recession?

    See the Economist piece I clipped on the CR thread -- the best strategy for the rest of the world is to 1) accelerate disengagement from trade with the US to the largest extent possible, and 2) seek new, rational trading partners/relationships to fill the gap.  The US economy is big, but on the actual global scale, not so big that it can't be somewhat isolated, with engagement reduced to the bare minimum.

    A trade war is not the best play for the rest of the world.  Slowly walking away is a much better play.

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  8. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    The remedy isn't progressive policies, because the remedy isn't a policy question. The remedy is making people hate Republicans. 

    I feel seen. 

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  9. Just now, LCHorn said:

     

    I'm looking at Colin Allred's platform (link here) and it's all pretty standard stuff that most voters would identify as leftist. 

    I would agree that there's pretty fertile soil for economic populism, particularly five months after the election. 

     

     

    It's because I'm skeptical and I want to see a more developed response (which you gave a couple of days ago, but I also want to know what other people are thinking).  At least locally, I don't believe in a big D silent majority just waiting for their hearts to be stirred by Beto, Lina Hidalgo in 10 years or the or someone channeling the ghost of Ann Richards.  I just don't think there's enough of us, despite the more progressive members of Surly trying to shout down anyone espousing that the middle should be targeted. 

    If that's correct, then it means the party has to change.  People like @Bozo_Casanova think it's largely self-inflicted, and maybe he's right, but if the remedy is "Texans really are more amenable to classical leftist programs than their own votes are telling us" then I'd like to know which programs.  Texans are voting for abortion restrictions, transgender health restrictions, school vouchers for religious schools, etc., maybe not directly but in their choice of representation.  Maybe you might counter that it's not the policy, it's the politician, but I'm skeptical about that, too, when their standard bearers are Patrick, Abbot, crazy eyes and Ted Cruz.  Is there a single person in that group you'd want to have a beer with?

    Texans are like the majority of votes in every other jurisdiction in that they are voting for one thing, and one thing only: inflicting pain.  They don't vote for policies, or ideas.  They vote for the promise of hurting other people.  The entire creed of the GQP is "we will hurt the 'other'....for YOU!"  That's it.  Every single thing they market themselves with comes down to that end point.  

    Promise to hurt people.

    Keep your promise, and hurt people.

     

    Those are the keys to victory.  Take them, start the car, jam down on the gas pedal, and start fucking inflicting pain.  That's how you win.

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  10. 21 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

    You ever wonder how much better a place the U.S. would be if the News Corp Building (and Rupert and Roger) had been blown up on 9/11 instead of the WTC? 

    Wonder.  Imagine.  Fervently wish.  Let's not get persnickity over word choice here.

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  11. 7 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Except Swanson is a magat.

    Yes, the actress is.  But not the character of Simone.  Simone is pure, she is the perfect well-meaning vacuous 80s bimbo.  I believe in characters, man.  Envelope yourself in the mystery of movie magic, amigos.  Next thing you know, you're gonna tell me that Matthew Broderick isn't REALLY as cool as Ferris.  Fucking buzzkills, all of ya!

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  12. 1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    If only Trump had seen Ferris Bueller this whole thing could have been avoided!

     

     

     

    I'd give my left nut for national leadership as wise and measured as Simone:

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  13. 5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    This.  Also, if you’re old enough to recognize Daddy Bush’s voodoo economics quote - and remember that Reagan was all about supply side economics - you are older than a shit-ton of people who pushed the election lever for Trump and have no fucking idea what we are talking about.

    Yep.  And man, I've confessed my youthful stupidity -- "trickle down economics" as a hypothesis appealed to my younger, not fully informed brain.  BUT....I then got the experience of watching us try it in multiple iterations over the past decades.  And like someone observing attempt after attempt at making a working flapping flying machine.....

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    I keenly spotted the results and concluded "well, guess I was wrong.  That doesn't work."  I'm sure I was dumb for buying into the hypothesis.  But once the experiment was run....repeatedly....demonstrating that the hypothesis is incorrect...I'd have to be dumber than dumb AND a psychopath for thinking it still should work.

    Yet, instead of reaching that conclusion.....we're deciding "hey, the reason our flapping flying machine didn't work is because we started off too low to the ground.  Let's climb up that 1,000 foot cliff, and jump off from there!"  The fucking impact with the ground is gonna be brutal.

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  14. 26 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

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    Voodoo Economics worked so well the last time Reagan tried it without tariffs…

    Yeah.....we're going to try the absolute WORST version of trickle down, because all of the last failures were because....we didn't fuck up hard enough.  Goddammit we are so fucking stupid.

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  15. Just now, wildcat09 said:

    They've been running the unblocked Greg Davis WR screen that has worked two times out of two thousand (and when it worked it only worked because DBs ran into each other and fell down) since 1992. Meanwhile, every election some Republicans go "oh if only they'd run that unblocked Greg Davis WR screen more often they'd start winning." And, somehow, millions of dipshits believe the Republicans are being honest and are not just trying to convince Democrats to keep running the same shitty fucking play that they've easily stopped 1,998 out of 2,000 times. 

    Dude.....too soon....in EVERY possible way/context.

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  16. 1 minute ago, Nivek said:

    And when we get a Teddy Roosevelt type back in office there will be a reckoning on these large investment banking firms who have participated, caused, and encouraged worldwide financial disasters.  

    And a whole lot of this.

    Look, the American voter responds to promises of punishment and vengeance.  Cool.  We need an opposition party to run on that.  Win.  And then fucking DELIVER.  The rules of the game are now "use the full power of the office/the government to inflict maximum pain on everyone you disfavor."  So, let's fucking PLAY BALL.

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  17. 1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    So he was DOGEing before DOGE was even a thing?

    No, see, when people are responding to the first ongoing, novel global pandemic in over a century, any after-the-fact criticism should subject them to the death penalty.

    But when they are under minimal pressure, and are simply choosing to cripple all vaccinations, vaccination programs, etc.....well, that's not politicization at all, that's just good stuff.

    Did you not get the memo?  If RFK Jr. does it, it's good.  Period.

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