American Politics VIII: Dancin' with Manchin

[San Lumen]

What are you going to do when the GOP has a 30 vote majority in the House in 2023 and won't raise the debt ceiling? Might want to start gaming this one out now

You don’t have to because it won’t happen.

I miss the Cold War. At least back then the end of the world scenarios were plausible.

If democrats don’t vote it’s quite possible

[Saiwania]

Off-brand anything is almost always worse than name brand. Source: am poor, have had both, I'd rather spend more on name brand.

I understand going for value but at the same time, I don't believe it usually pays off to buy the most expensive anything on the market. If you wait a year later, the same item will be half price if not less if something newer is taking its place, and you can usually get effectively the same thing for less if you know where to look. Name brand just isn't always better. Just that the cheapest option is usually inferior to be able to reach a lower price point.

The middle tier is perhaps the most important. Because that is where producers seem to compete the most over quality. Where as the high tier is mainly luxury.

Amazon gets nothing from paying more than they have to for payroll, if all they need are people who can package and ship products and their business model is to have the fastest delivery times; with good if not the best discounts to make people want to buy from them.

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To be fair, Sai did say that people would buy a more expensive product if it's better than the cheaper option, and lots of off-brand breakfast cereal is definitely an inferior product.

Off-brand anything is almost always worse than name brand.

Source: am poor, have had both, I'd rather spend more on name brand.

I agree with this for everything except ear buds.

People pay $200 for Air Pods that last 2 hours at best and will almost certainly get lost because they're in pieces. Meanwhile, I paid 30 bucks for Skullcandy bluetooth headphones connected by a band that I can wear around my neck, I can listen for six hours straight and they charge in 15 minutes and barely deplete my phone battery. But Apple in general is a grift, for the cost of a middle-class Mac, you could get a state of the art gaming PC instead and play Red Dead on maxed out graphics.

Also, never had an iPhone because it's a dealbreaker for me to not be able to put any music I want on my phone without any kind of an account and listen to it offline.

[Giovenith]

i dont play football also im not an npc im the main character and youre a tertiary antagonist at best

You have a sig that literally advocates mandatory boyfriends for femcels and opposes NASA. Yeah, you're not exactly avoiding the troll express here. I'm not a troll. I'm an honestly authoritarian militarist who wishes to embrace the Nietzschean ideal of transvaluating away from the existing social mores. Society is warped and it badly needs a new trajectory, one that is founded upon something more natural, less sentimental in nature.

i'm not saying youre a troll im saying youre a minor antagonist when i am a Main character and you are trying to do evil monologues way too much for a minor antagonist with no real relevance to the story

Okay, you're officially a dunce. Blocked. I don't have time for dunces. Put on your dunce cap for all to see.

*** Warning for Flaming and Trollnaming ***

[American Legionaries]

Off-brand anything is almost always worse than name brand.

Source: am poor, have had both, I'd rather spend more on name brand.

I agree with this for everything except ear buds.

People pay $200 for Air Pods that last 2 hours at best and will almost certainly get lost because they're in pieces. Meanwhile, I paid 30 bucks for Skullcandy bluetooth headphones connected by a band that I can wear around my neck, I can listen for six hours straight and they charge in 15 minutes and barely deplete my phone battery. But Apple in general is a grift, for the cost of a middle-class Mac, you could get a state of the art gaming PC instead and play Red Dead on maxed out graphics.

Also, never had an iPhone because it's a dealbreaker for me to not be able to put any music I want on my phone without any kind of an account and listen to it offline.

A lot of off-brand food is the same as name brand stuff. I worked for an ice cream factory, and it was exactly the same stuff going into differently labelled containers.

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I agree with this for everything except ear buds.

People pay $200 for Air Pods that last 2 hours at best and will almost certainly get lost because they're in pieces. Meanwhile, I paid 30 bucks for Skullcandy bluetooth headphones connected by a band that I can wear around my neck, I can listen for six hours straight and they charge in 15 minutes and barely deplete my phone battery. But Apple in general is a grift, for the cost of a middle-class Mac, you could get a state of the art gaming PC instead and play Red Dead on maxed out graphics.

Also, never had an iPhone because it's a dealbreaker for me to not be able to put any music I want on my phone without any kind of an account and listen to it offline.

A lot of off-brand food is the same as name brand stuff. I worked for an ice cream factory, and it was exactly the same stuff going into differently labelled containers.

Not the soda though. The Mountain Dew rip offs. *shudders*

[Vassenor]

A lot of off-brand food is the same as name brand stuff. I worked for an ice cream factory, and it was exactly the same stuff going into differently labelled containers.

Not the soda though. The Mountain Dew rip offs. *shudders*

Stick to Doctor Thunder.

[Senkaku]

You don’t have to because it won’t happen.

I miss the Cold War. At least back then the end of the world scenarios were plausible.

If democrats don’t vote it’s quite possible

If I wrote this as satire it would be criticized as a heavy-handed misrepresentation of Democrats’ actual beliefs

also aren’t you “done with politics”

[Maineiacs]

my guy losing either house is a game over scenario
What are you going to do when the GOP has a 30 vote majority in the House in 2023 and won't raise the debt ceiling? Might want to start gaming this one out now!

what was needed was an ahistoricity
dance through a 50/50 senate and 3-vote house and pass some meaningful stuff quickly, buck the trend, win the 2022 midterms and then fix the country with those expanded majorities

yeah this was never plausible and none of the characters involved were capable of the kind of legislative armtwisting needed

alternatively, EO your way to the moon and hope that substitutes (it wouldn't)

game over was cunningham and gideon

Republicans will get blamed for crashing the global economy.

Fat lot of good laying blame (even if deserved) will do at that point.

[Kerwa]

Not the soda though. The Mountain Dew rip offs. *shudders*

Soda is different though because it is bottled differently depending on where you are. For example where I live the Home Depots sell coke products imported from Mexico because the Mexican day laborers won’t drink US bottled soda.

[San Lumen]

If democrats don’t vote it’s quite possible

If I wrote this as satire it would be criticized as a heavy-handed misrepresentation of Democrats’ actual beliefs

also aren’t you “done with politics”

Done in the sense that I am no longer going to live and breathe it. I’m not checking political sites like Daily Kos and the Hill multiple times a day anymore. My news will be strictly limited to ABC at 11pm.

[Senkaku]

If I wrote this as satire it would be criticized as a heavy-handed misrepresentation of Democrats’ actual beliefs

also aren’t you “done with politics”

Done in the sense that I am no longer going to live and breathe it. I’m not checking political sites like Daily Kos and the Hill multiple times a day anymore. My news will be strictly limited to ABC at 11pm.

So your information diet is going from the equivalent of 50 McNuggets and 5 large sodas a day to half an order of small fries, I’m sure that’ll produce stellar results

[Saiwania]

I saw a lot of posters say that parents shouldn't decide the curriculum being taught in K-12. I'd say its pretty bad optics for Democratic candidates to say: "nah, it doesn't matter what's being injected into your kids' brains at school, you have nothing to do with it."

[Kanna Kamui]

A lot of off-brand food is the same as name brand stuff. I worked for an ice cream factory, and it was exactly the same stuff going into differently labelled containers.

Not the soda though. The Mountain Dew rip offs. *shudders*

Those things are made via the blood of some eldritch god. Don’t know which one, but it’s definitely one of them. Other knock-off soda at least can be good. But Mountain Dew knockoffs should be banned under the Geneva Convention or something.

[Kowani]

University of Florida Kent Fuchs asks the Conflict of Interest Office to reverse its decision to bar professors from testifying against the state in a voting rights case, also requests that the professors be allowed to receive compensation

[Corrian]

So interestingly, and its more local level shit but still, Democrats actually gained 41 seats through 21 counties in Georgia on Tuesday.

[Vassenor]

Take part in the Capitol Coup and brag about how you're not going to jail? Sixty days in prison. Suggest that the Capitol Coup means people need to be prepared to defend themselves? Forty-Four months in prison.

[Nora Xent]

Take part in the Capitol Coup and brag about how you're not going to jail? Sixty days in prison. Suggest that the Capitol Coup means people need to be prepared to defend themselves? Forty-Four months in prison.

Already posted before. I think by Kowani or similar entity.

[San Lumen]

So interestingly, and its more local level shit but still, Democrats actually gained 41 seats through 21 counties in Georgia on Tuesday.

Wow. That says something. Perhaps there is hope for 2022. Democrats also did very well in Westchester County and upstate New York.

[Corrian]

So interestingly, and its more local level shit but still, Democrats actually gained 41 seats through 21 counties in Georgia on Tuesday.

Wow. That says something. Perhaps there is hope for 2022. Democrats also did very well in Westchester County and upstate New York.

NY had low turnout though. Georgia probably did too but somehow it was beneficial.

[San Lumen]

Wow. That says something. Perhaps there is hope for 2022. Democrats also did very well in Westchester County and upstate New York.

NY had low turnout though. Georgia probably did too but somehow it was beneficial.

Unfortunately. If someone doesn’t vote they have no right to complain.

[Skelly Man Dan]

NY had low turnout though. Georgia probably did too but somehow it was beneficial.

Unfortunately. If someone doesn’t vote they have no right to complain.

Does that quote also apply to voters who are prevented or discouraged from voting?

[Dresderstan]

NY had low turnout though. Georgia probably did too but somehow it was beneficial.

Unfortunately. If someone doesn’t vote they have no right to complain.

Yes you do, it's called right to free speech.

[San Lumen]

Unfortunately. If someone doesn’t vote they have no right to complain.

Does that quote also apply to voters who are prevented or discouraged from voting?

No

[The Jamesian Republic]

So interestingly, and its more local level shit but still, Democrats actually gained 41 seats through 21 counties in Georgia on Tuesday.

Wow. That says something. Perhaps there is hope for 2022. Democrats also did very well in Westchester County and upstate New York.

You see, don’t get pessimistic yet. Hope is not yet lost.