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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. So as an old dude, I take solace in bombarding my knee jerk Trumpy federal congressional reps with emails/calls on vm about every other day.  Going to try to join the next protest (blue and yellow flags on overpasses type stuff) next chance I get. 

    Any recommended charities that any of you recommend?

    This is game of thrones type treachery.  Sickening.

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  2. Imagine how much more legit this whole fiasco would have been if they made this global offer all over the federal workforce in the first couple of months, and then started actually providing at least some kind of justification for cuts thereafter.  Legit justification, like "national parks are woke". 

    Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees

    I realize that would be less cruelty which is the point, but still a better long-term ploy.

     

  3. Certainly focusing on the wrong shit.  If you don't like it, Hakeem, give them the stink eye on the way out of the speech and then it's time to focus on actual, real strategy.

  4. 14 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    I'm torn. Because ancient wisdom says don't interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake, but perhaps the assumption that this is all a mistake is the flaw here. The two sides aren't even fighting the same war. Dems need to, unfortunately, give a lot fewer fucks about decorum and appearance and do what is actually necessary to stop our freefall into fascism. So while I agree you shouldn't stop someone from showing their ass who deserves it, I'm not sure that strategy is going to work here. It assumes everyone is playing by the same rules and clearly there are no rules.

    The problem is that the Dems are campaigning as the party of the rule of law and traditional norms of civility.  The Republicans aren't.  Therefore when Dems dive into that particular cesspool, they look weaker -- they can't keep their shit together and they simply aren't as good at being assholes.  

    The Dems have to act twice as civil to look half as civil in the eyes of people who have double standards.  I think Dems gain by playing nice in places and at ceremonies that some peope hold sacred.  Go to town elsewhere.  Be bold at your own rally, or when protesting.

    But don't shit in places that in normal times you would hold sacred.  Shit on places they hold sacred but you don't. 

  5. So netted out, are the dems better off at not trying to disrupt Trump speeches?  Hearing some interesting viewpoitns today.  I didn't watch last night, but what I'm hearing is that the Dems just aren't good enough at trolling the master troller, and since there is a double standard in terms of awfulness, the dems can't win these head to heads.

    On the flip side, I just may be out of touch with what the younger dems want.    

     

  6. 1 minute ago, DixonHur said:

    Not sure you're comprehending "future" in this context.  What Trump is doing to the country will last a hell of a lot longer than 4 years.

    Okay, as long as we ban people with cancer and heart disease I'm fine with your approach.

  7. 1 minute ago, DixonHur said:

    My point is that voting is about the future and, let's be honest, at 99 you don't have a future.

    Not a great point.  Most people he would vote for would be in office for less than four years.  Life expectancy for a healthy 99-year old is 4-5 years.

     

  8. Just now, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    Most of the survivors of that generation probably voted for The DOtarD

     

    Yeah, I posted a while back about my 99 year-old uncle who was preparing for the Japan landing (he landed on Saipan).   Lived in Scottsdale.  Didn't talk politics but pretty sure knee jerk Republican.

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