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That's a world with hope.

We'll just get an infectious form of super-cancer that's spread by mutant mosquitoes.

Watergate is as far as you can draw a direct line.

I'd say Nixon administration as a whole. They picked up the dixiecrats post Civil Rights movement. Look up Nixon's political Strategist Kevin Phillips and his discussion on the Southern Strategy where it was specifically targeting the racist whites to bring them into the Republican party.

But then that's the part where I can say goes all the way back to slavery, but hey, if you grew up in the South the Civil War was never quite over even to modern era. But I'd definitely say the Southern Strategy the Republicans put into place would be where I'd say the beginning of drawing a direct line to where we're at now.

Could've probably limped my furnace and water heater on a few more years.

However thought "Dunno how long that's gonna take and if they shit the bed during I'm proper fucked." and replaced them.

Missouri here... if you're worried about your congressman hearing from you daily after the cuts, you're already on the game too late. If you're concerned you need to be doing it before

Y'know what, I'll bite. It's been long enough I can't definitively say whether it came up before or not.

But that's a point though, she did move her policy to that of the ones that the Bernie supporters and they still snubbed her and we got Trump.

So in that we made sure the Left didn't have a seat at the table because they didn't bother to show up right after showing they had the numbers and ability to do so, and we got a billionaire man-baby who sucks up to other billionaires and fascist regimes. Good trade.

I say this as a Bernie voter, but my national vote was still for Hillary. Citizens United and the Supreme Court were on the line, I told other leftists it was on the line, I was told I was overreacting... so call me fucking Cassandra.

Pretty much. I just always like to point these things out as there's a nice bit of revisionism amongst the left on "We want this, why didn't the dems give it to us" while people don't show up and vote for them, then cry they didn't show up because "Dems are as bad as republicans." Which frankly is as bad as the right on their revisionism.

The 16 election was an attempt to take down Citizens United as well as bring up the Trans Pacific Partnership. The TPP was specifically trying to get the other Asian countries to lock out China in trade to reduce its power. But the right wingers thought "No we want to be hard on China" pulled out of it, and basically left China to look at all the other Asian countries who didn't have a partnership with the US and bring them to heel.

Citizens United came about in 2010, during the Obama administration, and specifically that same year Republicans had gained majority in the House, creating a divided congress that meant no laws could get through, especially an anti-Citizens United bill. An executive order isn't going to fix this one.

The Left falls into the same fallacy as the Right, they want a strong leader who can "solve all the problems." Problem is the Right is really good at it because it's really their authoritarian style. The part that pisses me off is the Right is also really good at showing up at the polls when they matter even if they hate the candidate, as long as it moves the needle one step over to their side while the Left keeps having a lot of voters be all or nothing.

I mean... that was literally one of the things that Hillary ran on. So... your timeline checks out.

Robert F Kennedy Jr. - Brain aneurysm live on TV

This is absolutely a terrible one.

He should go by polio.

Okay, I had trouble getting off of sodas, and everyone suggested fizzy water instead, and they all tasted nasty, like maybe the water sat in the room with the fruit maybe.

But this is the only time I'll ever say good about Walmart, their walmart branded carbonated waters are 99 cents a liter and taste amazing. The Fuji Apple one is the one I usually get and it tastes like a fizzy apple soda but doesn't have sugar.

Since I avoid walmart like the plague, I've learned to just drink water now. Tap water is my go to. But these things are like my guilty pleasure, which is a far cry better than the sugar drinks imo.

That's fair. I'm less interested in the swasticar and more I find it's the only thing out right now that I can't find an appreciable workaround.

It's why I like hybrids. I have a tendency to sometimes end up at least an hour away from an electric plug for a few days or so.

It's why I was checking!