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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. I like the first ho, now dead, but the second one seems nice, too.
  2. Not even close. I'd go with Born Yesterday and All the Kings Men as his best.
  3. Nosferatu (2024) Willem Dafoe always cracks me up. I keep wanting him to pause after saying something to someone and then adding: "Eh, sonny"? The Lighthouse is the only Eggers flick I didn't get a kick out of.
  4. This goes to the heart of what wildcat is arguing about accepting the framing of the GOP message. "Breaking from the party"? I think if a recipient of federal funds or an entity engaged in interstate commerce can show that a trans athlete has an unfair biological advantage in an athletic event then they can ban the trans athlete form competing against non-trans athletes. I'd even give them the relatively low "rational basis" test for their biological proof. Is that "breaking from the party"?
  5. I'll take my lumps for injecting the term.
  6. The strong bill was obviously too late in the game. And they didn't have someone who was doing the photo ops at the border that would have shown some vigor and reminded people that it was a priority.
  7. Do you think Biden and Kamala did a good job of communicating any successes on the border? Agree on the running from trans issues - they could have been more supportive while still providing a more directed message on the idiocy of the anti-trans morons.
  8. I'm not really sure what he's proposing. To me the lesson learned is that a very progressive approach to economic and welfare issues is a politically winnable strategy as long as you don't lead with certain identity issues that may not be as politically expedient. (Bernie instead of Hillary). If you're going to propose a new New Deal, you need to decide whether it makes sense to adda trans rights rider or couple it with affirmative action policies. You can remain radically progressive on identity and social issues, but perhaps the best approach is to support legal protections while not making them a cornerstone of the platform.
  9. I think we should hold Dems accountable for strategy and marketing. You can do that while still supporting Dem policies. I was in DC this weekend, and we were driving into a parking garage and there was a sign about going to a "Trans Visibility March". (The pasta station in Union Market at NoMa was pretty good.) Politically, sometimes it's good for the march, sometimes not. Politically, sometimes it is the hot issue of the day, and sometimes it's not.
  10. Just because there is a double standard doesn't mean that Dems haven't made big miscalculations on the timing and method of embracing "identity" issues.
  11. Counterpoint of order. We hate "ists" just as much as we hate "isms".
  12. A decade ago universities were vigorously expelling students from campus who sexually assaulted women on campus. In the book Missoula, Jon Krakauer chronicles how UM (in my opinion) erred on the side of victims on campus and kicked off assaulters with less due process and burden of proof than a criminal court would require. Which was fine by me. They eventually lost that battle. I think the underlying issue is similar in that schools could have taken an approach where they punished/expelled anyone who created a legitimately hostile environment towards other students. That's not to say that any of the recent protesters did that. But these schools would have been better served had they decided that they were going to go absolutely overboard in terms of time and place restrictions and if they made examples of any students who created hostile environment directed at specific students rather than at towards non-student entities. Caveat: Do I know whether there were any such directed hostile actions? No. But hard to imagine that there weren't any that went either way. The schools weren't afraid to err on the side of the victims in the sexual assault cases - they should have marketed the same attitude in regard to potential student victims. Republicans won the perception battle in that regard, and now they are attacking free speech. The schools were sloppy and didn't accurately forsee the danger.
  13. Imma Pascal man.
  14. That limerick was not worth it. I would have started: There one was a prick from the Transvaal...
  15. I want that deal. I'd buy every bag of Hi-Chews I could find if I were getting 75% off.
  16. We the People want Trump to fuck us. I hate it when that happens in democracies.
  17. EO 17849 says you can't bitch about "discrete subgroups" anymore. We're all in this together.
  18. Mexican tears flavored with tajin?
  19. I'm not sure what you are talking about. They clearly have made "diversity" and "equity" code words for discrimination, so you want those words out of your policies. The burdens on a discrimination claim remain the same. The EEOC is just going to be focusing on cases brought by white bitchy males in the next few years.
  20. I'm frankly surprised that PBS and NPR are still around.
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