The hive mind / group think stuff on Reddit is strong. I had a friend doing a section of the PCT and he was saying literally everyone had the same setups from socks to water filters.

That kind of uniformity isn’t good for anyone.

It’s not about good will from Republicans it’s about them falling over each other trying to find a way to stay relevant / in power while attacking each other.

Honestly I’d give it (Vetrans Affairs) to Crenshaw if they could vet him. MAGA is already calling him a RINO. IMO it’s a bigger bomb in the midst of the Republican party.

Give Kinzinger Homeland Security, keep a tight leash (he supported DACA). Two Republicans. OMG I’m such a centrist.

Really I want to see the Republican party tear itself apart. I think it is ripe for it.

Honest question, without judgement. What would a Republican secretary of Veterans Affairs do that you would find so objectionable?

Would it change you mind if I made the (admittedly, hopefully not so) wild claim that by giving that person some power, you could destroy the Republican party forever. They would be put in history books next to the Whigs.

Seriously. It’s like people don’t get politics. Get some milqtoast Republican put them in a cabinet position that doesn’t have any pull, and milk the stories about unity. You would rip the Republican party apart. The MAGA base are already calling everyone RINOs, the more divided they are the less powerful.

Do I think she is going to buck her corporate sponsors? Not unless their alternative is chaos (where she needs to drive the Republican party). The one thing corpos love more than raw power is predictablity/stability. Some short term messiness is fine ,good even if they can make money off it, but they die is true chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-vFtiDYiIw&t=1

Come on man. Goblins are people too, and nobody deserves to be compared to Ann Coulter

Was he from the Navy or from the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps? We have had a couple of FDA auditors from the USHSCC and they were former Naval officers working on a second retirement. They were nice enough when you prove you are open but they absolutely will not accept anything but water. Maybe coffee.

Well if you crush the Republican party midterms become a free for all and real progressives can be elected?

They used to have a reputation for employing smart people… Dumbass middle managers took over a while back and started making the stupidest decisions.

It really looks like we are going the other direction though… Like we are going to have a corporate Congress a la “Space Merchants”. I mean kickbacks were just legalized by the supreme court ffs.

What makes you think we are going to get rid of regulatory capture?

It’s harder to get people in favor of something than it is to point to something/someone and convince them they are an enemy.

This is a truth known for a long time. I think it is linked to our tendency to lose aversion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

Both parties are speaking to us about what we are going to loose it the other side wins. For Biden he is claiming (probably rightly based on the recent Trump supreme court decisions) we are going to loose democracy if Trump wins. Trump is claiming we are going to loose America, the real America, if Biden wins. What real America is depends on who he is talking to.

Bernie was kinda torpedo’d by Hillary.

I voted for Bernie in the primaries, but I came out and held my nose for Hilldog, bestie of Wall Street, in the general.

Remember when pundits used to talk about Donnie was ‘playing 3d chess’. They were trying to project he was this super smart negotiator, etc.

Funny how we don’t hear those claims anymore, dontcha think?

They clearly weren’t marketing to existing smokers to move away from a harmful product, to something slightly less harmful.

Honestly if they jailed Pelosi I wouldn’t cry. As long as it’s true, don’t pick and choose, throw em all in jail. I’m rooting for Menendez to wear some orange. Still want Trump to see time.

I admonished someone else for using tankie too loosely earlier, so I feel I should do so again.

Calling them an apologist is maybe more appropriate in this context. They are not actually making a tankie argument (one involving force), just spouting low level propaganda (I do not know or care how accurate).

I can’t find evidence of this but I swear the first time I heard of Dennis Prager he was selling himself as a ‘centrist’.

The election? How does this stance differentiate him from his opponent?