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1 hour ago, romad1 said:

but we need that other site for the baseball coverage!!!!  **** off. 

I consider Elon Musk an invader. I'm sure he's eaten a few stray cats in Ohio during his time. He lied about his college intentions to obtain a visa. Take away his assets and deport his Nazi Ass 

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2 hours ago, romad1 said:

Clean this up 2027 US Congress

I'm afraid that particular Congress will be instead lining up at the trough. Of course, we may have different opinions what color that Congress will be.

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6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I'm afraid that particular Congress will be instead lining up at the trough. Of course, we may have different opinions what color that Congress will be.

I'm thinking it will change hands and that there will be at least noisy efforts to performatively and/or actually reform. 

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28 minutes ago, romad1 said:

I'm thinking it will change hands and that there will be at least noisy efforts to performatively and/or actually reform. 

I hope you're right, although all due respect to you, if you think Trump and the Republicans are going to sit back and simply allow a free and fair election to put them out of power, then you haven't been paying attention.

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5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I hope you're right, although all due respect to you, if you think Trump and the Republicans are going to sit back and simply allow a free and fair election to put them out of power, then you haven't been paying attention.

I'm thinking it will change hands.  That premise means that they will fail. 

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Yeah, this is why I finally stopped watching Maher within the past year. Not that he is trending toward MAGA, necessarily, but that he has evolved into exactly the kind of disingenuous asshole he used to rake on his show. Plus his hobby horses he rides into the ground are either secondary importance ("Can't stand college students who protest against Israel!") or are first world one percenter problems ("Can't get state permits for my house's solar panels quickly enough to suit me!"). As I've said elsewhere, people who are super motivated by issues of secondary importance and who hammer others over and over with them bore me to tears. That's Bill Maher right now.

And this from a guy who appeared on his show at least twice. 

 

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1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Yeah, this is why I finally stopped watching Maher within the past year. Not that he is trending toward MAGA, necessarily, but that he has evolved into exactly the kind of disingenuous asshole he used to rake on his show. Plus his hobby horses he rides into the ground are either secondary importance ("Can't stand college students who protest against Israel!") or are first world one percenter problems ("Can't get state permits for my house's solar panels quickly enough to suit me!"). As I've said elsewhere, people who are super motivated by issues of secondary importance and who hammer others over and over with them bore me to tears. That's Bill Maher right now.

And this from a guy who appeared on his show at least twice. 

 

Maybe Maher has enough money now that the pull of robber baron economic management has become irresistible for him? DSA is no more 'socialist' than your average mainstream Euro party. Their economic policy 'damage' potential is far less than another 4 years of the direction we are going. There are plenty of areas where I think the Democratic left is all wet, but economic reform policy is about the least of them.

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13 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

Anybody who would vote for Vance was probably not as against Trump as he said he was. Reminds me of the Bernie Bros.

Maher was against Trump only to the degree that Trump was suing him for $5 million and Maher could make fun of it.

He was right about one thing going al the way back to Trump I, though: their intention was always a slow-moving coup against the United State government.

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5 hours ago, chasfh said:

In her defense, she needs access to the administration to effectively do her job, so it’s a tightrope she has to walk.

Plus they pay her a lot for her skills: scruples are for chumps.

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13 hours ago, romad1 said:

Plus they pay her a lot for her skills: scruples are for chumps.

A major network can’t afford to alienate even an administration they don’t respect, and an on-air talent can’t afford to put her employer in the position of alienating even an administration they don’t respect. It’s a tightrope, all right.

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