And how’s saving the courts going for them right now? This is loser talk. Stop it. The time for focusing on defense is past. The Dems are losing, badly. The only possible hope for the future is for the Dems to go on the offensive.

That’s how the Dems see it. McConnell doesn’t see it as a game. If it was just a friendly game to him he wouldn’t cheat so eagerly and viciously. We need to dispense with the notion that the Republicans are a normal political party. They are not, their goals are incompatible with pluralistic democracy, and they do not…

“It appears to me that the lie that none of the Democratic Party platform (Biden agenda) passed depresses way more potential Dem votes than the inclusion of dissenting voices in their fragile majority.”

He does seem like an alright guy, but he’s just an awful, awful filmmaker. Like, he’s objectively bad at both writing and directing movies. Just bad, bad. Bad.

Exactly. The senate is still doing exactly what McConnell wants/allows and nothing more. Chuck Schumer is not the actual, effective leader of the senate. McConnell is.

Do we at least both agree that the Dems need to elect enough senators to pass legislation, and that they currently do not have that? I think that’s a fair enough statement, right?

I’m not a child, and I understand how the senate works.

The current far-right, ultra-conservative, fundamentalist Christian faction controlling the country is incompatible with a free society. I’m begging Americans to wake up and not allow the paradox of tolerance to destroy their country. It’s time to fight them in all the ways you can, but most importantly, it needs to…

Please explain to me how Mitch McConnell does not already control the senate?

I agree, even though I am somewhat sympathetic to the view that kicking Manchin out only gives Republicans more power. At this point he’s hurting the party more than he’s helping. Kicking him out and galvanizing the caucus (and support in other regions) is worth more than that one West Virginia senate seat.

Also, it’s not like there’s nothing they can do about Manchin. There are carrots and sticks, and they don’t appear to have tried using either. From the outside looking in, it looks like they just preemptively gave him everything he wanted to pass BIF without getting any concessions back from him at all on BBB. They…

Snowpiercer. He’s a star but not a super-huge star, and his voice is actually probably less recognizable than Allen’s, who is well known to younger audiences for his roles in Toy Story and the Santa Clause (even if they don’t know his name).

Chris Evans is an outspoken progressive, so if it was politics in the sense that they didn’t want to alienate half the audience, they wouldn’t have chosen him. If it’s just that they won’t hire outspoken conservatives, well, that’s called a conspiracy theory - and one that’s pretty hard to disprove since there are at…

No, it’s The Santa Clause. It means that by dressing up in the Santa suit, Allen’s character is bound by a clause in the contract he unwittingly agreed to, specifying that he is now Santa.

The problem with yelling at people to vote is that people do vote. The last midterms saw the highest turnout for a midterm in over a century, and the last presidential election saw one of the highest turnout rates ever.

Right? How many different ways does he need to fuck you over before you finally realize he’s not your opposition, he’s your enemy? Mitch McConnell will go down as the most destructive political figure in American history. He is directly responsible for the current profoundly imbalanced Supreme Court which is dutifully …

So, instead of reflecting on that criticism, and vowing to do better and be better, and taking concrete steps to shore up the base and try to drive voter turnout for the upcoming midterms, these dumb fucks are actually blaming their own base for wanting them to do things?

And it’s not just this issue, it’s every issue. The playbook for Republicans to say something outrageous, then wait for Democrats to defend them or downplay the severity of the outrageous thing they said, and then point to that and say, “See, even the DEMONcrats think that what I said was fine!”

How, though? They are all in the Constitution, which cannot be amended without reaching a level of consensus that is literally impossible in the US for anything other than increasing military spending.

That’s the thing though - there are literally 100s of millions of people who play games. “Gamer” is a meaningless term, because most people under 40 play video games near daily, even if only on mobile, and if you describe yourself as a gamer you’re basically attaching yourself to a particular subset of those video…