(11-24-2020, 01:18 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(11-24-2020, 01:09 PM)TJBender Wrote: 1. I mock anyone who I feel deserves mockery. Frequently, that's myself. If you think anything I said applies to you or triggers you in any way, I do not apologize and do not regret any butthurt I may have caused you.

2. Funny. I've seen the refusal to pass a stimulus bill tied to just about everyone. The Democrats want a "we print all teh moneys!" package that will turn into an even bigger inflation bomb than the first bill did. McConnell didn't want anything passed before the election because he wanted to make sure Democrats were seen as unreasonable in hopes of killing their election chances. After the election, Trump [BLEEP] off to the golf course and has only shown up occasionally to remind us all of how great he is, and he's shown zero interest in actually governing or getting anything done since.

To be clear, I think this election went perfectly. Democrats removed a man who wants to be America's first true dictator, not a dictator-lite light FDR aspired to be, from the White House, but they failed to take the Senate (Loeffler might fall, Perdue's going nowhere), and Republicans gained in the House without taking it. It's a balanced government at its best. Nobody's going to get everything they want, and everybody's going to have to compromise to get some of what they want. This wasn't a broad condemnation of the GOP. It was a strong, loud and clear rebuke of Donald Trump and nothing else.

Nothing triggers me.

You seem pretty confident about the Senate runoffs. Governor Abrams has already sent out 750K ballot requests for the runoff and we are only in November. When the Democrats use the same tactics you have turned a blind eye to, to steal the Senate election, you will realize your mistake even if that is just looking in the mirror telling the person looking back "I [BLEEP] up".

There's nothing illegal about anything Stacey Abrams is doing. If it's going to be such a devastating handicap for Republicans, why aren't they doing they same thing? That's what I don't get. The ballots being sent out have both parties on them. Why wouldn't Republicans encourage their constituents to choose Loeffler and Perdue, then mail that back instead of hoping that everyone has a chance to get to a polling place on the 5th? Mail-in ballots broke well over 70% for Democrats, but they weren't only mailed to Democrats. Why on Earth weren't local and state Republican leaders telling people to fill out and return those ballots, even if national leadership was sticking their heads in the sand?

Loeffler might be boned. Lots of Georgians genuinely despise her for the trading she did after the Senate COVID-19 briefing that she was a part of, and the rest genuinely despise her because of what she did afterwards by continuing to tell Georgians that COVID was nothing to worry about. Plus she's running against by far the stronger of the two Democratic candidates. I still think she wins, because Democrats talk a good game, but they never show up for runoffs up here.

Perdue is in much better shape. He was a few third-party votes away from beating Ossoff outright. He was every bit as complicit in the lie-and-trade scheme that Loeffler took part in, but he's done a great job of making sure that stays stuck to Loeffler and doesn't land on him.

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