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You shouldn't be in any hurry to "get over" the attempt to overthrow a democratic election, or to stop fighting the GOP takeover by Trump's intellectually challenged sycophants and their dangerous agenda. It's the very core of What's The Future of the Republican Party. I've read your posts for years, including your mocking dismissal of Liz Cheney. If I were to sum up your positions, favoring strong conservative policies, rejecting personality politics, choosing articulate conservative candidates, and moving the party on from Donald Trump, Liz Cheney should have earned your support. But that wasn't you. I haven't forgotten Liz Cheney's voting record, or the larger Cheney legacy. As a liberal I can only say that when Liz Cheney is worried about right wing extremism, maybe we should all be worried.

The cost of healthcare was/is skyrocketing with or without the ACA. That they failed to address that most important aspect is my biggest disappointment. At least some people who couldn’t afford coverage can now. If the Rs wouldn’t have spent every waking hour fighting against it and the mandate, maybe it could’ve been better. So yeah, doing something is an improvement over obstructing everything. And btw, my perception of Desantis doesn’t have anything to do with national coverage. He’s a whiny little dicknosed b!^@h that is more interested in headlines than actual policy.

Believe what you want. I’ve heard him speak numerous times and am aware of his far right preferences regarding schools, books, wokeness etc. If you want to blame it on “the media” for showing him speak, I guess I can’t stop you. He’s just a guy I will never like even if he had policies I found attractive. Seems like he has little d!(k syndrome to me

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Perhaps this is why....

Tony White

https://www.police1.com/crime-reduction/it-is-historic-u-s-sees-dramatic-drop-in-homicides-violent-crime-in-2023 "The national homicide rate has fallen nearly 13% since 2022, and local law enforcement agencies are also reporting drops in violent crime, ABC News reported. The homicide drop is the most dramatic decrease on record with nearly 2,000 less people killed in homicide incidents than in 2022, according to a report by National Crime Analyst Jeff Asher, which was comprised of data from 180 different law enforcement agencies."

Keep up! He’s trying to show how everyone thought Romney was awful by (checks notes) showing quotes of people supporting Romney??? He stirs the pot and looks to frustrate people. That’s his thing. Took me a while to just ignore it, but my experience here since has been so much better.

That's the 2008 shift in a nutshell. Obama came in promising national healthcare. Instead of the hot potato of Single Payer socialism, he offered the ACA, written and endorsed by private healthcare insurers, approved by Republicans since the Nixon administration, and successfully implemented by their own Mitt Romney in Massachussets. Republicans could have taken credit for pushing Obama to the center, embraced the ACA as their own, and bought into it at the state level, where the ACA would have immediately enjoyed a better economy of scale to pass on to the public. IIRC, they came up with the name Obamacare and undermined it at every turn as the socialism it wasn't. That's when the burgeoning Tea Party started showing up at local political speeches and fundraisers, accusing everyone left and right of putting us on the slippery slope to socialism. I think the Tea Party was a fairly organic movement, but Republican Leadership were thrilled by the show of resistance and quickly co-opted the Tea Party for their purposes. They thought they could use and control this wing, but the Tea Party and subsequent rightwing subgroups turned out to be more independent minded, and started relieving the party traditionalists of their duties.

It looks like you know pretty much nothing about his policy objectives and what he has put in place for Florida. This confirms to me the national media narrative is what you are going by instead of his actions. That’s fine and all, we each have to base our decisions on something. I’m just making mine on accomplishments instead of false narrative.

I guess you just don’t know what you thought you knew. And that’s ok. the interesting thing we all noticed is If you wanted to, you could have refuted the article I posted with a different set of data to fact check it…..but you didn’t Instead you went with snark. Telling.

Sorry, best we can do is a free gun for your classroom. Deal?

Well...we could FINALLY get what I have been pushing for...A law that allows us to pick our age. Since "age is just a number" and "you are only as old as you feel" which does in fact push it to the soft sciences of a social construct. Get ready Little League World Series!!!! HERE I COME!

It's kinda funny how the economy thread has turned into gambling on stocks. Feels symbolic of post-capitalism.

I guess this may be why crime statistics may have been low in the face of what people seem to see/perceive. Nearly 40% of law enforcement agencies around the country did not submit any data in 2021 to a newly revised FBI crime statistics collection program, leaving a massive gap in information sure to be exploited by politicians in midterm election campaigns already dominated by public fear over a rise in violent crime. The gap includes the nation’s two largest cities by population, New York City and Los Angeles, as well as most agencies in five of the six most populous states: California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Florida. (See if your local police reported.)

This bulls#!t is exactly why Taylor and I broke up years ago. Things were pretty hot and heavy between us then she dropped the same rules on me. I told her what she could do with her clothing allowance (only $250k at that time). She begged me to reconsider but I dumped her a$$. I told her that she was being mean and that we were never getting back together.

Gross. Get it within 3 or 4 and here come the whistles

We have had more fouls called in each half than they have in the entire game.

Officiating is horrible, offense push offs & we get called for the foul

f#&%ing idiot. Learn another language yourself you xenophobic piece of s#!t. I started trying to learn Ukrainian last year as we have a lot of immigrants/refugees in the plants I go to. It's not easy, but just being able to say "hi", "yes", "no", "thank you" in someone's native tongue can mean a lot. Been working on Spanish slowly for years and talk a little to the Mexican people I work with. Also, I always try to learn some of a language if I travel there.

Mast is just awful on the road.

Hopefully that’s just a Nebraska football thing.

Huskers win 6-5! Gritty win! Offense whole game looks to be missing but shows up in the clutch.

Silva! hit for 2 RBI, 5-5 runners at corners, 1 out.

I have a few teaching friends that are leaving teaching if we start arming teachers.

DeSantis has given conservative citizens pretty much everything they could ask for and is the only one who follows through on the policies he advocates for. I assume you don’t care for his Disney stance (of which courts have sided with him), or the 6 week abortion law Florida has passed (I think that’s a bit extreme for an entire populace of a state with differing opinions). The law was passed by legislature though and he signed instead of veto’d. Beyoncé that, what policy things could you possibly have an issue with? DeSantis is not in the same universe as this I mentioned and as shown with Florida, he would make an exceptional President. Unfortunately you are allowing the national media narrative about him to color your perception instead of looking at the body of work Just getting “something done” is not a very good strategy for success. Getting the right things done are what we should be shooting for. The “getting something done” has skyrocketed the cost of healthcare for everyone.

Ahh yes, tried and true: ”Be afraid, very afraid! And also very angry!” Now where have I seen these type of tactics before. Hmmm… @Archy1221 I know you’re a HUGE Chomsky guy so I thought you’d appreciate this.

Or just Teach's life in general.

Honestly this is pretty hilarious. You have to admit, Republicans going from "Lock her up!" to "it's absolutely essential that the President be allowed to commit crimes" is quite amazing. Of course, Republican voters are immune from irony so this - like many things - is lost on them. Regarding SCOTUS, it's unfortunate that two of their members are openly compromised and obviously corrupt. Without a miracle, the court will be a Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society outpost for a generation. I'm not sure if or when liberal Justices will control the court again, but it's likely going to be decades.

I don't recognize these guys. Were they somehow associated with the program between 2004-2007 and 2015-2017 when Nebraska decided to suspend the program for short periods of time?

Or it opens up the door for Biden to play the same game - obstruct the election or don't vacate the WH if Trump wins. For the good of the country, he could say 'We cannot allow trump to be president again. It will destroy democracy'. So in in destroying democracy, he will save democracy. Do I think Biden would do such a thing - absolutely not. But the SC has opened the door to the possibility of a tyrant taking over if they rule in favor of Trump. And slow walking the decision until after the election would show (1) Cowardness on their part & (2) Give 'aid and comfort' to an enemy of the state - Trump the would be dictator. Now that the SC wants to weigh in on this, to elevate their status no doubt, they need to make it an emergency ruling. A judge in Illinois has ruled against Trump being on the ballot - so there are now several states who have ballot issues on hold pending the SC decisions. This is far worse that GWB vs Gore and the 2000 election stalemate.

Who could have possibly seen this coming? No one!

No. She was the mean one and then she stole my words and made millions off of it.

This is THE POST OF THE YEAR

So that's apparently a 'No' on the evidence. Got it. You take it as cynical because you disagree. And that's fine. But that doesn't make you right. Mainly because I like to follow the Huskers. But also because, you know, they don't allow all the crap that started this discussion. That's fine. But, again, that does nothing to argue against the fact that they let a lot of crap go that isn't "basketball". And which of those rules to they blatantly ignore all the time?

I think I’m with @commando here. I would hope there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell they actually rule in his favor. That would be a catastrophically awful ruling just facilitating our slide into fascism. I don’t trust SCOTUS at all but I don’t even think they’re that stupid. The logical consequences of that ruling would be that Biden could just order a government-sanctioned hit job on Trump (or SCOTUS for that matter) and claim presidential immunity. If you think that’s insane, that’s literally one of Team Trump’s arguments. Unfortunately I think they’re just stroking their own sense of self-importance on a ruling they didn’t even really need to make. They were asked to take up the case last fall and they passed, sending it through the typical channels. But now obviously they need to have their say. Coincidentally it aligns perfectly with everyone’s favorite crime lord’s strategy of delaying everything as long as possible so he can’t be held accountable. And you’ll still get people arguing how he’s just exercising his rights and SCOTUS isn’t just a partisan group of FedSoc lackeys. It’s really embarrassing how badly one can exploit our justice system if they have unlimited resources from their cronies and moronic following footing their bills.

We all know it's about money, TV ads, Execs getting paid. Who cares anymore.

5 losses by 3 points last year. Need to be better. Rhule explains it in he video.

It's amazing how math-challenged the decision makers are. Even proposing 14 instead of 16 is hilariously dumb.

I don't think it is too late but I grabbed CELH a few days ago and it is taking off now.

The reasons I brought that up are listed below and it’s not to belittle you or, stir the pot like some other poster has wrongfully claimed so he can confuse the situation again and try to get a reportable post. 1). You have on more than a few occasions accused me of not having consistent opinions. Specifically about Trump. You have actually tried belittling me about he many times claiming I was a stooge for him and constant defender of his when you clearly know my feelings towards him have changed since AFTER the 2020 election. Sounds like you now acknowledge feelings can change which is good. 2). You have accused me of not supporting rational Republicans like Romney when you yourself only voted for him, or maybe you didn’t, because there was no other option and you didn’t like one single thing about him. Romney is the same person who he was in 2012. Wishy washy, change with the wind, but he’s certainly Anti-Trump which is what attracts him to you. And that’s fine, but politically and policy (which is what matters) he’s the same guy. I haven’t really changed my tune on him. And yes, if Romney were the nominee THIS year, I would be like you and hold my nose while voting for him as he is better than JB. As I’ve stated, I won’t be doing the same for DJT. 3). The hatred towards DJT and some of the Republican crazies doesn’t make Obama’s terms any more successful than what you claimed at the time. I believe your thoughts were pretty respectful and spot on. There is a reason someone like DJT made it through to the end in 2016 and it’s because people were so unhappy with the direction of the country (and HRC) 4). I also believe that 80-90% of our national and world views are pretty much the same and the biggest difference is how we viewed the 2017-2020 years which probably lead to unnecessary digs towards each other on both our parts. I certainly own my part in that. 5). I don’t support the Republican Party lock stock and barrel. I support the ones I vote for or would vote for and would defend them from false/misleading accusations. The other Republicans I either don’t care about or wished they moved on (Gaetz, Boebart, MTG, Tuberville, McConnell). The ones I don’t care about are just a means to an end for policy advancement. If they enter crazy land, then I hope they get replaced with a better version with sound policy. I was wrong about the 2022 GA Senator race, and am glad Walker lost now. I own that. The Dem, while placing crappy votes, hasn’t been as insane as I assumed he would be, while the House has been able to keep the Senate from advancing some dumb votes. And it hopefully showed the GA Republicans to nominate better candidates (we shall see I guess).

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Are you drunk? Serious question because you are rambling on about nothing relevant.

Why are we humans so stupid in doing this to ourselves???

Yeah, I'm rooting for Ukraine and wanting to celebrate this, but just look at that landscape. War is f#&%ing awful.

And we still didn't know how big the fish really was. Look out. You may have swallowed "exonerated" without chewing.

You're describing politics as normal. It's stupid, but part of the game. What's not normal creating a fake elector scheme to undermine a fair election, inciting an insurrection, and using the propaganda straight from the Kremlin on your own constituency. The contempt Republican elected officials have for their own voters is funny. They repeatedly use and abuse them - literally to pay for the many criminal trials and judgements of their party leader. Such is the case when you create a horde of voters disconnected from reality. You people need to respect yourselves and vote better.

V. Draconian Abortion Access Crackdown 'Trump recently signaled his support for a national abortion ban. Feb. 16, 2024: Trump reportedly said in a private conversation that such a ban would prohibit abortions starting at 16 weeks, “Know what I like about 16? It’s even. It’s four months.” The Project 2025 agenda would roll back abortion access expansions under the Biden administration and go even further by restricting abortion medication. (Meds like the morning after pill do not terminate a fertilized egg, they stop or delay ovulation. Don't believe MAGA will distinguish between meds and mode of action including birth control) Project 2025 also proposes using the Comstock Act of 1873 to ban mail delivery of abortion pills. Project 2025 proposes holding doctors criminally liable for sending abortion pills and patients criminally liable for using the pills. Project 2025 proposes rolling back the expansion of HIPAA privacy rules to cover abortions. So much for the "it's a states rights" narrative but we knew that was just disinformation to cover for what's coming next.

It doesn't legalize anything, someone continues to twist facts to fit their agenda.