Good job finding secure employment.

The prices won’t come down when the bubble bursts, you will just lose your job.

Worse economically. Mom had a union job into getting her associates into well paid career in healthcare. Parents bought a house, new cars, jet ski, went on vacations. I don’t have any of that. I’m working on a trailer and land to put it on. I made better romantic decisions, so better that way. Dad was drafted, so better that way.

I’m trans, so if I were born into their generation it would have been way worse for me.

Pretty sure they both had better sex lives than I have but that’s my own choices.

His religious argument for progressive values is what makes him a strong candidate for Texas.

Talerico is serving in the state house, Crocket in the national congressional delegation.

Talerico. Brings his sincerity, faith, and working class background in in one of the poorest school districts in the country. He has integrity and and a way of invoking Christianity that I think resonates in Texas. He appeals to a broad swath of voters without compromising his progressive ideals.

I would vote for Crocket if she wasn’t up against Talerico. But as is, I think he has a better shot at the general and I trust him more.

Holy shit, that’s not just putting your face in the leopards mouth that’s crawling into it’s stomach as hard as you can.

That’s true, Taiwan is armed to the teeth and our regional partners would not be partners if we actually went psychotic and tried to invade. Our supply lines are way longer than China and all the logistics in the world won’t help if we don’t have bases to operate from.

I meant we could occupy them like we occupied Iraq. We would win the military confrontation. The occupation would break us.

We could do it once, maybe twice or three times if the countries are small and weak, but it would break us. The rest of the world would adjust. We would all be poorer but the US would be fucked. Trump doesn’t understand that we built a military too expensive to actually use. It made sense if we wanted to avoid conflict, and casualties, while still being top dog and getting our way, but actually going in and occupying territory is medieval thinking.

He backed off Greenland. Taiwan would be an order of magnitude worse. The US could occupy any country on earth (maybe not China, without some Roman level war crimes) But it would be the end of us.

“Jesus was probably cool, but nobody gives a fuck about him.”

Around here, if I meet someone that talks about God, then maybe they are cool. Maybe not, but they are probably the normal amount of religious. If they talk about Jesus, they are hundred percent batshit. They think trans people and gay people are the same thing, and both are a threat to children, unlike their pastor, who is not allowed to let children sit on his lap anymore because he fell to temptation that one (4!) time(s!).

Perhaps we are operating on different definitions.

I would not disagree that America is a de facto oligarchy. It remains a de jure democracy.

Because the writers of the first law did not care about whether it made any difference.

Do you think the votes are rigged?

Do you think laws can’t be passed? Did the deep state create Obamacare and pretend it was Obama and the Democrats?

What about the chips act? The inflation reduction act? Are they pretending to pass laws?

Your optimism far exceeds mine.

The law says there needs to be an election so an election was held.

It’s not that all laws have to be constitutional amendments, but our constitution is so long and detailed and a lot of things were written into it to make them hard to change later, so way more laws have to be constitutional amendments than would be in other states.

Texas likes small government so much our state legislature is a part time job.

He was outspent 10 to 1 so if aipac is funding him they are doing a shit job of it.

Do you think we live in a democracy or a dictatorship?

Can the tories stop labor in great Britain?

Can the conservatives in Canada stop the liberals right now?

What do you expect from the party we DIDN’T VOTE FOR?