Republicans are statists, no matter how you cut it. They’ve been statists at least since Nixon. If you prefer the things they want to force on society, fine. Just be honest about it.

If only some thoughtful economist had proposed saving money during booms so there would be money to spend during a recession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It’s too bad we elected Hillary. She squandered a booming economy with burdensome tariffs, gave a giant tax cut to bankers, and ballooned the deficit right before a national emergency. Damn those tax-and-spend Democrats.

I’m glad she gutted the pandemic response team, though. Preparedness costs money in the short term, and never saves money down the road. I mean, it might, but we’d need to do math more complicated than counting to find out, and we all know that counting is all that counts. Extrapolation is for communists.

Yeah, liberals are so litigious, and a huge burden on the court system...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"An analysis by USA Today published in June 2016 found that over the previous three decades, Donald Trump and his businesses have been involved in 3,500 legal cases in U.S. federal courts and state court"

GeForce Now is better. $5/month (for the next year - they plan the jack it up), buy games on Steam and play them in the cloud. It's basically just simplified rental and configuration of a VM. I'm surprised they bothered to comply when Bethesda and Rockstar bitched out and asked for their games to be "removed".

BTW, fuck Bethesda and Rockstar. I paid for the games, and I'm loading them through my personal Steam account. You want to double-dip because the computer I'm playing on is a few miles away?

Yes, due to the overwhelming scientific consensus.

1. #metoo has been an enormous boon to society.
2. You are not anti-whining. Based on your comment, you are strongly pro-whining, as long as it's for your own benefit.
3. Don't let the door hit you.

The president of the united states mocks over half of US citizens ever day in official Whitehouse communications.

If you think a butt-mad sense of victimhood is the best way to build a coalition, you should probably tell him to stop building it on the wrong side.

Oh, no! They're the guys? Now I'm so scared of another Trump term that I'm going to write a blog post about how they don't speak for the left, and we should all be less critical of Trump and the fascist arm of the Republican party for fear of triggering a bunch of snowflakes whose sense of victimhood, based on cherry-picked reporting, has already proven impervious to the fact that they control all three branches of government. You really judo-flipped me with your brilliant political insight.

We're still waiting for actual evidence.

"Is it the low unemployment? The strong economy?"
Started under Obama. Goosed by tax cuts that ballooned the deficit he promised to eliminate. It's very possible the bottomless corruption and wholesale giveaway of our shared natural resources is also good for the bottom line on a temporary basis. His own government says the tariffs cost the US economy enormous amounts of money. He's engaged in one of the most socialist programs imaginable - destroying the market for a crop with tariffs, and giving taxpayer money to the davastated farmers to "protect them" fro the consequences of stupid financial policy. You know, the "free stuff" vote-buying Democrats are constantly accused of.

"The terrible shortage of wars?"
1. What shortage? We're still in all of them.
2. ISIS still exists. To the degree that they're weakened, congratulate the people who did the work. All Trump did is pass the buck entirely to the military, which he explicitly promised was not his plan during the debate in the below transcript:
https://time.com/4483355/comma...

To answer your question:
The time he said Nazis were fine people. The time his campaign accepted - documented in an email - an offer of election help from the Russian government. The time he requested election help from the Ukrainian government. The time the Whitehouse used a classified DNI server to hide evidence of his criminality. The time he implied that whistleblowers are committing treason and should be executed. The ten documented instances in which he obstructed an intelligence investigation into an attack on the US electoral system because it hurt his feelings. The time he invented a 10% middle-class tax cut right before the midterms (You know, the "free stuff" vote-buying Democrats are constantly accused of.).

The shutdown. Do you not remember when he shutdown the entire US government over a petty vanity project?

The time he said the USSR was right to invade Afghanistan. The time he gave away state secrets to the Russians. The times he had secret meetings with Putin, and confiscated the translator's notes. The time he tried to abuse National Emergency processes over a petty vanity project. The time he illegally appointed an acting AG. The time he asked that AG to interfere in a lawful SDNY investigation. The time he explicitly told government employees to break the law for a petty vanity project. The time he lied about Chinese interest in trade talks to boost the economy.

Abandoning the Kurds to die and ceding US military bases to the Russians.

The time he selected his own golf resort as the location for the G7. The time he canceled a trip to Denmark because it hurt his feelings when they said he couldn't buy Greenland.

And these are just the things that hurt the US. There are plenty of addition crimes, mini-strokes, mental problems, overt lies, and insane beliefs that would be disqualifying even if he were a competent president.

Pravda and Breitbart are the same people, now.

The majority of Americans disagree.

They tried and failed to help Haiti. Trump called it a "shithole" and cut aid to it by 25%. I prefer the former.

It worked out spectacularly for his ratings, and he seems like a much happier human being than Trump.

"the Des Moines Register found a "problem" with one of their most recent polls because Bernie won that one"

The results weren't released, so your sole factual example that polls are rigged is either mistaken, or a deliberate lie.

It was canceled because of evidence that Buttigieg's name was left out of a single phone call. They were trying to AVOID the possibility of minimizing support for a niche candidate.

Polling is difficult under the best circumstances, and 2016 was weird. To accuse all major polling operations of conspiring to suppress turnout is not only silly, it misunderstands how they make their money and how all respectable news outlets operate.

If you're looking for the shit-cannon, you're looking in the wrong backyard.

You seem to be calling the Trump administration (which is running this FCC program) socialist. You're correct, of course. His farm bill is exactly the kind of socialist giveaway they do in incompetently run South American dictatorships.

Government exists to provide services when market-based incentives don't exist. Telcos don't build rural areas because it's unprofitable, but telco service is essential to modern life.

Here are your options:
1. Tell everyone in a sparsely populated red states that they do not get phones and internet access.
2. Build a government telco network.
3. Let the government assist telcos in expanding their networks.

Option 2 is where we got the Post Office. It works well.
Options 3 is the program we're discussing. It works less well than the Post Office. Telcos squander a lot of taxpayer money and underdeliver.
Option 1 is... well, I mean if that's what red states want, I don't mind keeping the $5 I donate to their well-being every month. It seems like a shitty thing to do though, since a lot of them are kids, and most of them didn't choose to be born in unprofitable service areas.