Pay as you go is good fiscal responsibility and frankly I’m a little shocked to see it coming from Democrats. Trillion dollar deficits are not infinitely sustainable, and all the things people think they want government to do have to be paid for somehow. This necessitates either raising taxes or cutting from other…

I will die before I kowtow my posting style just to get out of the grays. If the authors post some trite drivel, they deserve to be challenged on it.

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That’s... shit. Wow, yeah. If TomatoFace isn’t a staff member, clearly whomever it is knows someone at Splinter who likes their schtick. 

I get what you’re saying, but counterpoint: https://reason.com/blog/2018/12/31/louis-ck-comedy-leaked-footage-parkland

Honestly, if TomatoFace was HamNo, that would explain A LOT. Namely how the Greyening didn’t seem to faze his trolling in the slightest.

So they’ll do that great trick all businessmen love: They’ll rebrand it and call it something else. Trump will love it!

If he’d lost to a progressive candidate in his primary, I might agree with you. But, he didn’t. Voters in Indiana turned out for his Republican opponent. I’m not sure exactly where you think this hidden swath of unmotivated progressive voters exists in Indiana, but if they couldn’t even be bothered to vote for a more…

What bill are you talking about? The House advanced a bill to the Senate, which contained money for the border wall by the way, and they never voted to approve it. So it never even made it to Trump’s desk to veto. I don’t expect the situation to improve much once Democrats take control of the House next week unless…

Yes but Q taught Picard a valuable lesson: That a life without risk is not a life worth living. Though taking on a 7 foot Nausicaan in hand to hand combat over a dom-jot game may have cost him his human heart and resulted in his mechanical one causing him issues on more than one occasion, the alternative would have…

Because in every deal he either gets what he wants, or he’s able to wait out his intransigence and ultimately fuck over the other party worse than anything that might happen to him. He’s never been in a position where his failures personally affect him or his future endeavors. That’s why he thinks this is a winning…

They don’t have the votes to overturn a veto, that’s the whole problem. If they did, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

Hu-mon play dom-jot?!

So instead of spending $25 billion a year ago to save DACA, now Democrats can get it for the low, low bargain of roughly $5 billion now that Trump has backed himself into a corner. What a steal! The government has certainly blown more money on worse things.

Man, god forbid someone rear the ugly specter of pragmatism on their way out. You don’t beat Trump by stalemating him. For him that is a feature, not a bug. No, you beat him by making him a deal that is impossible for him to turn down and save face, and THEN fuck him over and renegotiate after the fact. Trump’s a…

I firmly believe the best way to beat Trump is to play his game better than him. Promise him whatever and then stiff him when the time actually comes. It worked for all his business endeavors, so why shouldn’t the same strategy work for Congress?

The best part is, they could do that and then very easily tie up any actual wall construction in studies and other bureaucratic red tape for so long that no meaningful construction nor money spent actually happens. Literally put whatever you really want in a bill, like go nuts, AND put $5B for the wall in there and…

Hopefully, but we won’t see much in the way of that until after 2019, because recreational dispensaries can’t even open until they finalize the licensing requirements, and they have until end of next year to do that. Not to mention all the municipalities scrambling to opt out of allowing recreational marijuana shops.…

Snyder’s not great in the eyes of progressives, and the Flint water crisis will forever taint his administration, but fiscally he’s leaving the state in a much better place than when he found it 8 years ago. The prior Granholm administration was not exactly great for Michiganders. I only hope that in Whitmer’s fervor…

I’m all for them investigating and exposing the shit Trump’s been up to, but unless there’s something absolutely amazing they find that we didn’t already know or logically assume, throwing around an impeachment threat is a paper tiger. Without something egregiously, feloniously criminal on Trump’s part, you’re not…