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When *checks notes* goes terribly wrong:

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
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Mar 5
The first question of Friday's White House press briefing is about why Biden hasn't had a solo press conference yet

video - https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1367 … 67107?s=20

I look forward to hearing the smug announcement from conservative friends and then asking them to explain the reasons behind it.

The American dream is no longer "Work hard and you'll be rich and have a great life." It's now "Work hard and pray you win the lottery, otherwise you're life will be mediocre at best"

But we have people on the path to trillionaire-hood.

Might as well start the 2024 Democrat primary

That proves it. The proud boys were right all along.

Biden is still one of the more mobile nearly 80-year-olds I've seen. Trump was shuffling down that slight ramp like he was counting inches with toes. Biden took his stumbles and trotted the rest of the way up the stairs. The man had what, like two brain surgeries 40 years ago?

Infrastructure makes more sense than firing cruise missiles.

Secret Service agents allegedly involved themselves in an incident in which Joe Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie threw a gun belonging to her husband Hunter Biden in the trash outside a grocery store, Politico reported Thursday.
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On October 23, 2018, Hallie Biden took a .38 revolver belonging to Hunter and placed it in the trash outside Janssen’s Market in Wilmington, Del. After informing Hunter the same day, he told her to go back and retrieve the gun, however the gun was missing from the trash can when Hallie returned to get it.

Hallie told the store manager, who passed the information along to Delaware police. According to the police report, which was obtained by Politico, the incident caused heightened concerns because the store was across the street from a high school, and officers worried the gun could be used in a crime. The FBI, which was investigating Hunter’s taxes at the time, also reportedly responded to the incident.

Hallie Biden, the dumpster diver, is the widow of Hunter's dead brother. Hunter left his wife for his brothers widow which is almost Biblical bad karma. Hunter Biden was also recently in the news since photos were leaked of him doing drugs and having sex with random women while married. Hunter Biden probably best represents the Americans id of all presidential children.

Try him and if found guilty of anything prosecute him. End of story.

Isn't how this is all supposed to work?

National Review article: Not Everyone Should Be Made to Vote
"There is nothing wrong with preferring that not everybody vote in every election, because voting is a responsibility that demands deliberation."

This article and some other things really drives home that Democrats I guess won everything in 2016-2020. Yes, the 2020 elections were tight and not nearly as a big win as democrats had expected. But in terms of the battle of ideas...Democrats totally won. I feel like if you are trying to shrink the pool of voters it is an admission that your ideas are unpopular and cannot inspire people to vote for you once potential voters are informed about their choices.  Sure, Republicans are still going to win national elections but they either won't be able to do anything with those wins or will provoke major backlashes if they try to genuinely enforce Christian conservativism and small government economic policy.

the new yorker did a piece on the future of the republican party that touches upon this stuff.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021 … epublicans

political parties adapt or die. the republicans are almost uniquely backwards looking at the moment. a party of dilberts.

Considering our system we will always have a competitive Republican party. But in terms of actually governing ability...I don't know how capable they will be. They are not going to be able to undo the advances of the welfare state unless there is a severe fiscal crisis. People are exhausted and bored of Reaganite economic policy.