“Every Democrat rejected Blanche’s nomination as the Republican-led Senate voted 50-49.”

My ex girlfriend tried to stab me in my sleep. But I guess I should feel lucky since it’s so statistically unlikely.

Most consumer toilets are attached to concrete or cinder block walls but home walls are usually wood and drywall.

I see them both as representative of faces of capitalism. Mitchell is a leech. His father created the business and did useful work but all Mitchell just consumes. Rex and Musictown represent the corporatization of music. Rex isn’t an artist, he is a product being sold.

Recognize these micro nations built on oil platforms or artificial reefs out in the middle of the ocean, like the Principality of Sealand.

It would basically be nonstop entertainment with all the stories of libertarian nutbars fucking each other over.

Empire Records. The directors cut tries to make Rex Manning a more sympathetic character but it just works better with him as a villain.

He’s getting blamed for high gas prices and he’s passing the blame as usual.

Democrats really need to just lean into the Right’s socialism accusations. Yes, Social Security and Medicare are socialism. So are fire departments and libraries. Normalize it.

Yeah, Marx would quibble that it’s supposed to describe the economy as a who but who gives a fuck.

I agree it’s a shit situation but the only solution is changing the first past the post voting system. That is slowly happening at the state level but only when Democrats get a significant enough majority to overcome both the centrists and Republicans.

The idea that there is another option besides the Democrat and the Republican candidates is an illusion in all but the smallest races (I.e. water reclamation district boar seats). Splitting the Dem vote is functionally exactly the same as a vote for the Republican candidate.

I always do BLT sandwiches with avocado and leave off the lettuce. They are great any time of the day.

There isn’t a sea of progressives who usually never vote waiting for just the right candidate. Most progressives vote Democrat just to keep the Republicans out of office as the least worst option. All you will be doing is splitting the vote. This happens again and again, but every time someone thinks “my candidate is different” and makes the same mistake again.

This splits the vote and guarantees the Republican candidate wins.

It was after the railroads had mostly been finished, so the racism took precedence. White conservatives got really scared that the Chinese would have enough population to gain significant political power. Sounds familiar?

Recipe please!

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson.

The story follows Hiro Protagonist—a pizza delivery driver in a fractured, hyper-capitalized future reality and an elite hacker/swordfighter in the virtual “Metaverse”.

If you like that, his other books are fantastic, especially Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and Diamond Age.

Immigration law in the US is and has always has been racist. The first federal immigration law was called the Chinese Exclusion act for fucks sake.

Gerrymandering maybe?

Or that the “death threats” are as imaginary as antifa terrorists.

If they actually enforced the Constitution and defended the laws as they swore to, they wouldn’t need security. Traitors to the people should fear the people.