EmptySlime

Cynically that means that the spoiler effect might actually work in our favor if he does go through with it. I'm not gonna hold my breath for it, but it would be so funny if Musk's ego actually leads to the Republican party splitting and losing because they can't decide how many poor people and minorities they want to throw into a wood chipper.

Huh, TIL there's a term for this. It took me until I was 26 to figure out I was nonbinary because I didn't know it was a thing you could be. I knew about trans people, but I only knew of the binary MtF or FtM. I knew being a boy felt wrong at like 8, but no matter how I thought about it I didn't feel like a girl either. So I just chalked it up to disliking the things I was expected to be as a guy and that was that. Until I was talking about that experience with my partner.

Oh yeah, for sure. Personally I see Carter as the "good version" if you can call it such a thing of the "Do-Nothing Democrat" if that makes sense. The thought that basically all Democrats have to do is be faithful stewards of the status quo and allow the arc of the universe to slowly bend towards justice. To tinker around the edges letting incrementalism and institutionalism carry them forward.

Then as time wore on more and more the Democrats would start saying "why shouldn't I enrich myself a little? After all, all we really have to do is keep the institutions going and they're doing that just fine on their own," until you get to the ghouls of today. Where they're there because they deserve to be there, and they deserve to be there because they're there. All the while lining their own pockets and saying "Fuck you, I got mine," to everybody else.

H-how dare you speak ill of the uwu smol bean that is Jimmy Carter?! Something something peanut farm something something.

Seriously though, yeah. Carter's historic unpopularity and unwillingness to step aside are a big part of why the loss to Reagan was so overwhelming and why Reagan was able to do so much lasting harm to the country.

Yep, they were so traumatized by losing to Reagan that they abandoned everything they ever stood for and started racing right trying to find the "center" and to this day think it's the only way to win.

Not only is it real, I saw a video that his team cut together of the moment like it was a damn Play of the Game highlight of him "owning" the Republicans. Words cannot express the depths of my hatred for Democratic leadership at this moment. This bill is going to be one of if not the most catastrophic pieces of legislation ever passed and THIS is all their so-called "resistance" amounts to?

I hate them and their strategy of "Do nothing, give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves, then make it the responsibility of the voters to get rid of them so they don't have to promise anything or stand for anything." They gave 'em though rope alright, except they're not hanging themselves, they're diving off a cliff and the rope is tied around our waists too.

1992 when he was an MP according to this article. He's been saying they're only X years/months/weeks away almost as long as I've been alive.

B-but, if we stop rewarding seniority and nothing else even if we run terrible losing campaigns... Multiple times in a row... Th-then it'll never be MY turn...

Didn't Pelosi say she wasn't going to run for reelection this time around? Or am I mistaking her for one of the other Do-Nothing Democrat Fossils?

At a minimum this guy won't have the same level of intuitional clout Pelosi used many many times to hinder progressive policies and engage in political horse trading. So even if this guy is literally a 1-for-1 Pelosi clone he'll be a much weaker hurdle to overcome than she was.

Just-killed Da-pope Vance what?

If I had to guess assuming that is the case, it's probably because those individuals have qualifications and clearances that would allow them to get a good job after discharge in other circumstances. Discharging them like this would bar them from any of those jobs outside of the military. Whereas for a random grunt all they can really do is kick them out and make them ineligible for benefits. So it's just the Trump Regime being as cruel as they think they can legally get away with.