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McAuliffe won moderates by like 20 points lmao. Youngkin won mostly because blacks don't vote in off years.

I have no idea why you keep shoehorning your family into literally half of your posts in frankly bizarre ways. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean or how it’s related to anything, nor do I really want to. Can you understand what he’s talking about with that?

Are Manchin and Sinema the guys fighting to cut anything in that Infrastructure or spending bill that might actually help the middle class by reducing eligibility for child tax credits for instance, while keeping all the graft?

I think this is kinda true and kinda cope. Like, on some level, this is looking at a situation where the Right has by and large suffered defeats on almost every issue and going "well yeah... but trust me if we were actually trying it'd be different." IMO there's also an expectation on our side...

I've never found Crowder particularly convincing or interesting. If you link a clip I might try watching it, but I'm pretty sure my reaction will be that he's wrong. What do you actually like about Powell in terms of actual actions taken post-Vietnam? I can understand respecting... basically...

See, this is the problem with "conservativism." Complete failure to recognize people and things for what they actually are, so the analysis ends up being something like "wow everything was going great and then it started going to hell and I don't know why." Almost everything post-Vietnam about...

Imagine being less mad about a secretary of state lying in order to sell a war that cost thousands of American lives in blood and trillions in treasure for a disastrous war that directly resulted in the creation of ISIS and even if successful would inherently move Iraq closer to Iran than about...

Trump's administration, 2020 campaign, and post-steal action was all characterized by failing to play for keeps and at times even understand that the enemy was hostile. A new app / social network doesn't get around the attack vector that was used on Gab or Telegram - google and apple app stores...

President -> Governor is tbh a pretty hard sell (there's a reason nobody does it). Also, what's your issue with DeSantis? MTG and Boebert are first term representatives, they have literally zero chance of winning the nomination.

I'd just got the numbers from a vague recollection from the distance of the US to afghanistan and a vague recollection of the width of the pacific ocean. At least per a quick search, the flight distance US to afghanistan is 7,300ish miles, to Taiwan is 7,600 miles. My number for Taiwan was a...

Yes. We had no business setting up a government what, 8,000 miles away but every business possible setting up on 10,000 miles away.

The point is that you can trade with a country without being allies with one. If a country has "must defend me militarily" as a precondition for trade, then they're not an ally, they're a parasite.

So you're saying that literally the only country that will trade with the US in the absence of a notion that the US would defend them militarily is the US adversary, China.

Really. My normal everyday life would change drastically if China controlled Taiwan? How, exactly.

Why should I care whether or not the DC government has any allies (for the most part, read: proxies and subjects)?

Aren't you in intel or something? Anyway, why the hell should the American nation's blood and treasure be spent on a tiny island like 10,000 miles away? There's a world of difference between our nation being free and Taiwan being free.

I'll worry about China occupying America after they occupy Vietnam or Korea. And, like I said in the other thread, it ain't Xi who's got a table tracking the replacement of my people in our own homeland on his wall.

2024

Entirely believable and I would actually be shocked if this wasn't the case. Upper level of the military is mostly Obama appointees IIRC.

There was definitely some fraud - there's always some fraud, and there have been confirmed cases of fraud in 2020, IIRC there was at least one person who got caught for it in 2020. Was the fraud enough to make a difference? I don't know, and I don't really think we can know. In 2020 there was an...