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9 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Playing not to lose instead of playing to win

He spits out the typical political answers like he's a bot. "What we need is a candidate who can bring everyone together. Republicans, and democrats." Hey thanks generic politician from 1997. Maybe take a look outside. 

Unless Andy, Newsom, Shapiro, etc. just don't want to get sent to a camp. Which is a definite possibility. 

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14 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Anyone hear Andy Bashear on Pod Save America? It's like everyone who will be running for potus in 2028 is fighting to see who can do the most normalizing. 

"Well, I just don't think that Trump's policies will be good for the people of Kentucky....."

Like he's trying to politely criticize a President Romney administration or something. I just don't get it. Five alarm fire here guys.

I haven’t listened to it (I’m kind of checked on an Obama-esque interpretation of the world), but whoever the Dems run needs to be capable of pulling in the Biden voters who switched to Trump.  
 

I’m not sure that portraying oneself as a firebrand revolutionary 3 years early is strategically sound.  

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8 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

I haven’t listened to it (I’m kind of checked on an Obama-esque interpretation of the world), but whoever the Dems run needs to be capable of pulling in the Biden voters who switched to Trump.  
 

I’m not sure that portraying oneself as a firebrand revolutionary 3 years early is strategically sound.  

You really think these voters will vote Democrat in 2028 after switching from Biden to Trump in the last election? 

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Still would hate bang.

 

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

Ok what the fuck. 

 

22 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

 got you bro!

 

eiffel-tower-at-the-eiffel-tower

Not even with your dicks.

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1 minute ago, MrBig said:

You really think these voters will vote Democrat in 2028 after switching from Biden to Trump in the last election? 

I know it’s somewhat mystifying to anyone posting here and who consumes a lot of political news, but there’s some good 2024 election autopsy work (for example, David Shor on Ezra Klein’s podcast last week) that an astute candidate would be wise to begin with.  

In short, if the Dems are smart, they’ll want a candidate that best positions himself as appealing to voters who switched.  They didn’t switch because they are MAGA, they switched because Biden/Harris* either failed to deliver on improving their lives or couldn’t sell it.  

*To Harris’ credit, I think she knew this but couldn’t escape the Biden undertow and also, like everyone in DC, underestimated Trump‘s appeal to the poorly informed.  

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1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

What a fucking psychopath. 

 

 

I don't even have the words to describe how this makes me feel. Dude was included on the text chain, for some reason, and then removed himself. Then wrote an article just describing what happened. 

"Fuck that guy and his cunt wife! Go get 'em maga soldiers!"

Btw, if the worst were to happen, any doubt that pardons would follow? 

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28 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

I know it’s somewhat mystifying to anyone posting here and who consumes a lot of political news, but there’s some good 2024 election autopsy work (for example, David Shor on Ezra Klein’s podcast last week) that an astute candidate would be wise to begin with.  

In short, if the Dems are smart, they’ll want a candidate that best positions himself as appealing to voters who switched.  They didn’t switch because they are MAGA, they switched because Biden/Harris* either failed to deliver on improving their lives or couldn’t sell it.  

*To Harris’ credit, I think she knew this but couldn’t escape the Biden undertow and also, like everyone in DC, underestimated Trump‘s appeal to the poorly informed.  

I hate to break it to you but the Dems are fucked. It doesn’t matter how bad Trump messes things up, as long as the central messaging is that Dems are responsible for your suffering, Dems won’t win. People are fucking stupid. Dems need to tap into how Trump fucked people and make that into a genuine movement. Dems in Texas can’t even tap into the disgust conservatives have for school vouchers to start a real movement. The division is real and misinformation has changed the way the political game should be played. 

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Posted
8 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Those voters are largely Hispanic men and white women. 

That’s a part of it, but Harris lost Biden voters in pretty much all categories beside highly educated urbanites.  
 

5 minutes ago, MrBig said:

Dems in Texas can’t even tap into the disgust conservatives have for school vouchers to start a real movement.

I wouldn’t use the total impotence of the Texas Dems as emblematic of the national party.  That said, there’s a sincere concern that the brand is so bad in places like Tyler or Midland that you’re going to lose even if you turn out any voters remotely willing to vote D.  
 

Anyway, back to hopium, the upside of the Biden-Trump swing voters is they already like a lot of what the Dems stand for, they just trust them to fix anything.  

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1 hour ago, MrBig said:

I hate to break it to you but the Dems are fucked. It doesn’t matter how bad Trump messes things up, as long as the central messaging is that Dems are responsible for your suffering, Dems won’t win. People are fucking stupid. Dems need to tap into how Trump fucked people and make that into a genuine movement. Dems in Texas can’t even tap into the disgust conservatives have for school vouchers to start a real movement. The division is real and misinformation has changed the way the political game should be played. 

This post is more depressing when read in Hank Hill’s voice.

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Posted (edited)

This is fine.  This is normal.  

(This is unconstitutional usurping of Congress's power of the purse).

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.8DlP.3SMGAtp_N68-&smid=url-share

(Free gift link)

A few highlights:

The discontinued grants include about $11.4 billion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as around $1 billion from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, known as S.A.M.H.S.A.

On Tuesday, Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the federal Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement: “The Covid-19 pandemic is over, and H.H.S. will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a nonexistent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.”

The Trump administration’s cancellations of grants and contracts throughout the government has led to numerous lawsuits from states and nonprofit groups, which are still in their early stages. The health grants in question were authorized and appropriated by Congress, and their termination may lead to new lawsuits. Several states said they were exploring legal options.

The funds from S.A.M.H.S.A. were not earmarked for Covid programs, and they were intended to address mental health and substance use issues.

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You know when you sit back and think about it we have sort of dodged a bullet.  If not for the massive level of incompetence, we were very, very, very lucky some dumbass add Jeffrey Goldberg to the INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID group chat.

If not, the only folks that would know what a fucking security risks these dumbasses are, would be Russia and China.

A billion dollars says our Russian Agent DNI appointee, was on her private fucking phone.  Anybody want to bet otherwise.

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Posted
44 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Hey, tarriffs are back.  Maybe for a day or two.

 

 

 

Reminds me of that old Gillette razor commercial. “Parts made around the world, proudly assembled in the USA” or something like that. 

Posted
7 minutes ago, horn4life said:

You know when you sit back and think about it we have sort of dodged a bullet.  If not for the massive level of incompetence, we were very, very, very lucky some dumbass add Jeffrey Goldberg to the INCREDIBLY FUCKING STUPID group chat.

If not, the only folks that would know what a fucking security risks these dumbasses are, would be Russia and China.

A billion dollars says our Russian Agent DNI appointee, was on her private fucking phone.  Anybody want to bet otherwise.

No thanks, I'll keep my money.  

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Posted
2 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

Not like anyone is going to buy one, anyway.

I would do it just to antagonize Trump and Elon. This administration has done more to galvanize Europe in two months than since the end of WW2. Antagonizing the adults in charge on this side of the pond has only served to make Europe stronger.

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They’re re-engineering the meaning of words to facilitate their long game. It is now a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to consider discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Interested parties are being encouraged to consider if promotions given to traditionally protected classes were tainted by DEI bias, and to seek redress if they suspect such bias:

  • EEOC Guidance on DEI-Related Discrimination:
    The EEOC, in collaboration with the Department of Justice, has issued guidance clarifying that employment actions motivated by an employee's race, sex, or other protected characteristic, even if part of a DEI program, can be unlawful discrimination. 
     
  • What to Do If You Experience Discrimination Related to DEI at Work:
    This joint guidance document, issued by the EEOC and DOJ, provides information on how to file a complaint and outlines examples of how DEI policies, programs, or practices may be unlawful if motivated by protected characteristics. 
Posted
5 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Yeah, people need to start assuming that any graphic that looks like something from Facebook is fake until further notice. 

 

Does this mean the Elon pegging post is fake as well? 

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Posted
42 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:

"Preserve credibility?" Let me tell you something, Don, there's absolutely no reason to worry about that.

In any normal admin, NSA or SecDef or both would already have been forced to commit seppuku so this would go away. That isn’t happening here because the admin assembled a cabinet of imbeciles for the express purpose of making the Congressional GOP eat shit and roll over. 
 

It is axiomatic that there will be more and worse fuckups than this.  That’s the price of building the League of Extraordinary Halfwits.  They can’t give up a scalp this early. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

This is fine.  This is normal.  

(This is unconstitutional usurping of Congress's power of the purse).

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/health/trump-state-health-grants-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.8DlP.3SMGAtp_N68-&smid=url-share

(Free gift link)

A few highlights:

The discontinued grants include about $11.4 billion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as around $1 billion from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, known as S.A.M.H.S.A.

On Tuesday, Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the federal Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement: “The Covid-19 pandemic is over, and H.H.S. will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a nonexistent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.”

The Trump administration’s cancellations of grants and contracts throughout the government has led to numerous lawsuits from states and nonprofit groups, which are still in their early stages. The health grants in question were authorized and appropriated by Congress, and their termination may lead to new lawsuits. Several states said they were exploring legal options.

The funds from S.A.M.H.S.A. were not earmarked for Covid programs, and they were intended to address mental health and substance use issues.

Respiratory virus desson going to be lit next winter!

Posted (edited)
15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

food was loaded and ready for delivery. pure evil ...

 

Trump cancels 20 semi-truck loads of food deliveries en route to Ohio food bank.

Each truck holds 100,000 lbs—so that’s $2 million worth of food—about a week’s worth for Northeast Ohi

"This food is just going to sit and spoil... And that would be the loss of 2 million, 3 million pounds of food," explained Food Bank CEO Kristin Warzocha.

point of order:  most trucks can only handle about 50,000 lbs of cargo.  Max weight overall is 80,000 and you've got to account for the weight of the tractor and the trailer.

 

@drifter379 please correct me if I'm wrong

 

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Posted
Pete Hegseth: “That pole came out of nowhere. I had to swerve several times before I hit it.”
"Pole? I coulda swore I saw 3 poles. I'm just glad I only hit one of them."
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20 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

food was loaded and ready for delivery. pure evil ...

 

Trump cancels 20 semi-truck loads of food deliveries en route to Ohio food bank.

Each truck holds 100,000 lbs—so that’s $2 million worth of food—about a week’s worth for Northeast Ohio.

"This food is just going to sit and spoil... And that would be the loss of 2 million, 3 million pounds of food," explained Food Bank CEO Kristin Warzocha.

some private prison will gladly take that off their hands.  



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