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We had that nearly a century ago.

Meet grok circa 1920

Guess I'd be coming down with some sort of illness around August 24th if I were a Missouri worker affected by this law and its repeal.

If the last few months haven't made that clear to people, maybe the next few years will.

Obviously, they're nothing centrist about this guy (besides, perhaps, his perceived position in the universe). They are, in fact, reactionaries, so definitionally right wing. But they believe they are splitting the difference between the Stalinist left (exemplified by the NYT) and the fascist right (unbeknownst to them, them).

The Dems who, since the shock of the Reagan revolution, swore off having a political project beyond "don't make it worse" but accidentally foreclosed on making things better in the process. More recently, they've been heard saying things like "nothing will fundamentally change" in the face of a political situation that is very different from 40 years earlier.

Basically all the powerful Dems since Bill Clinton. Groups like the Democratic Leadership Council. They'll poo poo ideas that regularly poll at 80% support across all parties, then spend all their political capital barely carrying a compromise position with 48% support across the finish line.

I really hope that we're reaching a tipping point where people who believe in a better world and pursue policies to bring it about can have sustained political success

I'll gladly accept a reactionary centrist spoiler party into the mix. Especially if it coincides with the Clinton wing of the DNC losing its ability to maintain its grip on power.

What does he care about a tax break? He already doesn't pay his taxes. Is he just gonna not pay less?

Bribery is just argument by other means.

Clarence Thomas's concurrence on the case they take after this one.

Shit like this and the willingness of the news media to frame it like that is the reason people describe politics as kayfabe. And why they aren't exactly wrong to believe that.

The natural gas power plant would be producing the electricity that would go beyond the regular demand. And no, there aren't any reactors there. There's only about 50 nuclear plants in the country and Danville, VA didn't get one.

Natural gas makes the plurality of electricity produced in the US, and to get there, it murdered coal, not nuclear or renewables, so bad as it is, it does represent an improvement in the American energy mix.

Do we need to do Trianon again?

A welcome change from the vice signaling that's marked the last decade since his escalator speech.

I somehow doubt this indicates any sort of improvement in him as a person.

...to avoid fascists calling you a commie.

Which they will still do.

Were the LA protests not something? Was the Portland protest that breached a holding facility not something?

People are taking action against the Trump administration. Not enough people, and not enough action, but three weeks ago, immigration was his strongest polling policy issue, and now he's underwater in polling on it.

People who recognized the threat when the Trump Campaign handed out their 'Mass Deportations Now' signs at the RNC have forced the mushy middle to understand (in their bones, not just intellectually) what that meant all along.

He wants all holidays to be treated like National Cheesecake Day. Something that the radio DJ announces as the peons drive to work.

From bosses and business owners (i.e., the only kinds of people he talks to or recognizes as people)

How incomprehensibly long is this backlog of unaddressed matters going to be?

If we protest he'll send in the troops so that he can have his goons grab people off the streets.

If we don't protest, he'll have his goons grab people off the streets.

Seems like protesting puts an obstacle and the goons grabbing.

At least his grandfather only inflicted disastrously bad medical ideas on his own family.

Jon Stewart and getting fascists to change their neckwear. Is there a more iconic duo?