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Bull Shannon said:
Panel says:

www.newsweek.com

Republicans pull trigger on plan to remove Joe Biden from ballots

Republicans push to get Joe Biden off swing-state ballots after Donald Trump was banned from the Colorado ballot.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

Spite. They're doing it out of spite. What happened in Colorado was such a twisting of the 14th Amendment, they can twist it too!
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Huh, it’s actually just
Hemotep said:
There's precident in the case of I'm rubber and you're glue.
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I almost admire the transparency here.
 
Bull Shannon said:
Panel says:

www.newsweek.com

Republicans pull trigger on plan to remove Joe Biden from ballots

Republicans push to get Joe Biden off swing-state ballots after Donald Trump was banned from the Colorado ballot.
www.newsweek.com www.newsweek.com

Spite. They're doing it out of spite. What happened in Colorado was such a twisting of the 14th Amendment, they can twist it too!
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So how long into the general election campaigns before we break out in civil war again? I'll probably die early on in that so if it's soon it's been great hanging with y'all on here the last couple years while we had a pandemic, the world kept burning, and fascists came back into power.
 
Hemotep said:
So how long into the general election campaigns before we break out in civil war again? I'll probably die early on in that so if it's soon it's been great hanging with y'all on here the last couple years while we had a pandemic, the world kept burning, and fascists came back into power.
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Looking forward to trading POGs and Pokemon cards as a means of currency. Records will become weapons a la Shaun of the Dead.
 
When the time comes, if any of y'all are able to get out before flights are all shut down (or find your way by land) between my folks up-island and my wife and me, we could probably shelter two or three couples/small families for a time. I could probably press gang my dad into doings the same for one or two in central Alberta. Willing to try and match folks up with others wherever I can as well.

#notajoke
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I was at a fast food place for lunch the other day with my kid and there were two blue collar guys at the next table talking about how true patriots need to be arming themselves because “this just proves that it’s up to us to force the government to take their boot off of Trump’s throat.”

They were drinking milkshakes.

Combat planning got put on hold when their boss called them and told them to get their asses back out to the job site. I know that’s what happened because when the guy who took the call hung up he told the other one, “He said we better get our asses back to work.”

I know it’s a threat that ultimately needs to be taken seriously, but it was all just so absurd to watch in that context.
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These aren't our best and brightest. And the audacity to just have that discussion over a milkshake in public (while hilarious in it's absurdity) also shows just how dangerous a moment we're living in.
 
I was just reading an opinion piece about one of the more powerful campaign messages that the Republicans have and use.

And they have been consistently using it since Ronald Reagan used it against Jimmy Carter. It was a hammering blow then against Jimmy Carter turning the tides of voters, and today is still one of the strongest and essential campaign pieces that have in their books.

And that question is, "Think back to the end of the last presidency, were you better of then or are you better off now. Almost everyone will answer they were better off "then". This is because in 4 or 8 years time, things are more expensive, people have more debt and less savings.

Even today, asking people this question about how their perspective was 3 years ago at the end of Trump's presidency, most people will slay they were better off then. Despite Covid-19, the state of the economy and our country being better now. Most people are feeling more pain today because of inflation. Some economics consider us to be be in a silent depression right now. Despite the economy being strong and people out and about spending money, people are hurting and have more debt than ever before.

For example, this Christmas the economy was booming and people were spending records amount of money. All painting a good picture of a strong economy. But if you look deeper at what's going on, and only reported by a few media outlets, a record number of money was financed / charged on credit cards this holiday season. People were spending money, but at the cost of debt. The vast majority of people were not spending cash / savings.
 
Other than The Big Picture, this is the best Ringer Podcast. It’s also a great listen that touches upon some of the convos that have taken place here.

Side note, I unfollowed the Daily in December after the episode that's referenced. It was the second of two episodes within a week that was aimed at gaslighting listeners. First by arguing that social media is the reason people are pessimistic about the economy and saying that young people just need to get used to the increased cost of living as the “new norm”.

Then when they got called out, they responded with an episode that spent 30 minutes talking about why its actually better to be a renter- without once mentioning the astronomical increases in rent, the constant moving, the complete lack of control over anything if you aren’t in a rent controlled city.

My landlord let me know on Christmas that my rent is going up 125$ in April. Which would mark a 14% increase in rent in my two years in Chicago… during which my paycheck has gone up 8% and the cost to buy has gone up 40%. And this is after I moved cross country because Colorado and California had doubled in price in less than 10 years and Chicago is a historically stable market.

I'll take a shotgun to my head before I live in the burbs so new years resolution is finding a new job even if it requires hopping fields for a 3rd time. Because my field is barren atm and has been since interest rates went up.

And considering my ex-gf and my brother just found jobs after 6+ months of searching and my close friend has struck out repeatedly since September despite having a resume full of work for major corporations, I’m wondering what the hell the jobs reports are on about. 3 seperate cities btw.

 
In MA we saw a record number of people exiting the state last year. Of people who moved last year, 57% of them moved out of state. Massachusetts had the 7th largest population decline last year of all states.

The record lose of population is attributed to higher living and housing costs according to a survey.

What I don't understand is, with our population declining and people moving out of state, why are we facing a larger housing crisis each year. You would think more housing would be on the market. I get the low income housing for sure is a problem. But all the property management companies keep raising prices due to supply and demand, and bidding wars are still happening on house sales. Massachusetts was one of the few states that never saw a decline in property values when interest rates went up. Prices continued to increase because demand still exceeds inventory.
 
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