I’m not talking about policy, I’m talking about strategy to win elections. We both want the same outcome. I’m thinking pragmatically about how to achieve it.  But if you think you have a winning strategy, go for it.  It’s worked wonders so far...

I don’t disagree.  I’m just looking towards solutions to win elections.

Best of luck to you this November.  I’d love to be wrong about this.

This is not about what is ideologically right. This is about doing things that will strategically win elections. Some guy in Pennsyltuckey might not care about LGBTQ people. He might actively dislike them. But he almost certainly cares about the economy. Do you want his vote or not?

That’s fine but just to be clear: wishing something doesn’t make it so. I wish people weren’t jag-offs, but they are. The Left needs to figure out how to get the jag-offs to vote for them. They seem to be determined to try to change people’s horrid opinions and that’s not going to happen. Pick battles strategically.…

Hang in there.  This is as bad as I remember it (and I’m 58), but hopefully this will be the thing that gets people off their phones and into the streets.  If not, they deserve what they get.  With that, I need to get ready to head out to the Roe Rally at City Hall.

I didn’t say it one the same one issue for everyone. They just have to plant the seed “I like everything about [Candidate X] but they not as liberal as I want them to be on [Issue x],” and the Left will take care of the rest.

The left needs to do two things:

Great call.  Dilute the vote even more.  This is exactly the problem. All the right has to do is point out one issue that voters in the middle or on the left don’t like about a Dem, and the left will cannibalize itself.

This should be obvious, but people usually don’t just suddenly turn into assholes overnight. Be realistic about the situation before you get married and if your partner seems like they are going to be an asshole, or more frequently, simply incompatible with what you consider to be important, just don’t get married.

The Feds need to say “Okay everybody, you have 30 days to get the vaccine. After that, we’re sending all of our vaccines to third world countries where people need them and are willing to take them.*” Even if we are operating from a position of self interest, it will behoove us to fight this thing beyond our own…

Sister got bit by a copperhead snake in the woods behind the house

You most certainly can blame them. A grown ass adult who chooses to believe some bullshit on Facebook rather than a scientist who has been studying infections diseases for his entire decades long career?  That person needs own their decisions.  I live in one of the more vaccinated areas of the country and I’m still…

“ even when they fall, they do it with such a level of unmatched swag...” I love that. A bit off topic but my son started skating during the pandemic and is deep into it now. He shows me videos all the time and one of the things I find most amazing is how skaters learn to fall like they are stunt men or something.…

Weird, I can see responses to my posts in the Notifications but I can’s see them in the feed so I can’t read the entire comment.

They’re Pro Birth, not Pro Life.

“ DeSantis, who is younger and objectively better looking than Trump,”

On a highway between, say Omaha and Denver, sure?  On a city road that runs along side of a residential area? No fucking way.  And why are you passing people at 95+?

I suppose we could try to make all roads idiot proof. On the other hand, maybe we should reasonably expect people to only drive 2 or 3 times the speed limit in a residential/commercial neighborhood, instead of 10 times. Lots of people in the comments trying to figure out what happened. Somebody drove extremely…

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