Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
"Might makes right" is an old maxim just like "Fuck them if they don't like it". Life goes on, the world turns and, once again the Democrats will prove they are no better than the Republicans.
51st state - Washington DC
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**DC IS ALREADY GENTRIFIED**.
And there aren't enough rich Republicans in the country to tip those scales.
So you actually have this backwards...because what happened was that the rich people left DC for the VA and MD suburbs, and that's why VA in particular is a Blue State and has been since 2008.
You're completely wrong on this and it's really fun to watch.
I don't believe you when you say you go to DC annually because if you did, you'd know enough about DC to know that it already is pretty much gentrified and has actually moved past that gentrification to relocating to the suburbs.
Why do you think Virginia has been Blue since 2008? THEY GENTRIFIED THE SUBURBS.
Now you would have us believe that there are going to be all these rich Republicans moving to DC because...it's a state? Huh? If they didn't move to DC before, they're not moving there now.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Translation: The Democrats will print money and throw it at their voters to buy their way into power.
Good luck, but that attitude never seems to last for long.
On 8 November 2020 Puerto Ricans voted on a referendum in which a majority favored statehood for the island.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnew...otes-favor-statehood-island/story?id=74055630
Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens for a century, and have fought and died in all of America's wars of the last 100 years.
There really is not any excuses to deny PR statehood.
Maybe you should read the thread before posting stupid shit.
DC statehood requires 51 votes.
Carving DC into VA requires 2/3rds of both chambers.
Shut up, stupid.
Because of your ego.
Sure it does! You get tired of being dragged, so you just pretend to be someone else.
Is it? Because you're not the only one who switches between IDs and likes your own posts (IBDaMann/GFM does the same thing)
Ah...yes...the anonymity. It's a shield you hide behind when you make wild claims about yourself because you know there's no way to verify whether or not these claims are true. And you refuse to verify any of the things you say about yourself, demanding I accommodate you so that you will be honest with me.
PASS.
This response makes me think that the credibility question is your motivation.
You defend yourself here by calling me an anonymous nobody, but I'm not the one spinning tall tales about my personal given circumstances and how they relate to the topic being discussed.
That's all you, pal.
It's not a conspiracy theory if it's true...and this one certainly is true. You are a compulsive liar.
Nah, I've been around the block on enough message boards to know a fraud when I see one.
I believe the phrase is "fuck your feelings."
And I didn't come up with that phrase.
Well, lazy bOtHsIdErIsTs will inevitably try to bOtHsIdEs everything because they're naturally and habitually incapable of anything more than pure binary thinking.
The thing with you is that everyone has to lower their collective expectations of you because you've made it clear to everyone you're too lazy to make distinctions and differences.
That's a you problem.
And that correlation is now higher income = Democrats.
The GOP has captured the uneducated, white rubes who believe in fairy tales and fake q-anon theories.
Keep up.
I mean, Trump spent $30B trying to buy the votes of farmer trash...
Historical context? Put your money where your mouth is. You keep ambiguously alluding to these things, but you stop short on explaining them. Why is that?
Are you even REMOTELY fucking aware of what the Republicans did to the deficit over the past 4 years before the pandemic, you hypocritical asshole? A $1.5 trillion handout to rich people.
True af.
Even all of these enraged Trumplicans who want to overthrow the government will suddenly be distracted by their jobs, their vacations, and their hunting seasons.
He's aware, he's just being a contrarian troll because he needs the attention and accommodation to make him feel better for being called out as a lazy asshole.
Because nonsensical, pithy bullshit -- followed by a retreat -- is all he's capable of.
If Bernie gets his wish and Medicare is expanded to everyone who doesn't have insurance for the duration of the pandemic, it's never going to be reversed.
We'll have M4A sooner rather than later.
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
LV426 advocates corrupting voters with money. Buying voters has always been all the rage in Washington DC just as this power play for two extra Senators is continuing business as usual in the Swamp. While there's an appeal to fill the Swamp with two more Senators then seeing what happens, it's just one bad decision following another from the Capital of the United States of America.
I'm not concerned about any particular party's dominance since all such groups are impermanent. Dominance leads to excess which leads to failure so another takes over and is dominant. Rinse, Repeat. The Story of Mankind. I find it very funny and so can others if they choose to do so.
When I was about 7 years old I made a parachute out of a bed sheet, tied four corners and leapt off my dependent's family housing duplex roof with complete faith it would work. Sure, I chose to do it from the corner of the roof over the yard rather than the driveway, but I had such faith in my parachute, I leapt as high as I could off the roof to make sure there was enough air under it to make it float like my toy soldier parachutes. About two seconds later I felt the pain of utter failure.
My knees jammed hard into my chest from the impact and that hurt, but what hurt more was the realization that it didn't work despite all my belief it would do so. Of course, if my dad or grandpa had been around to advise me, you know they would have said, "Kid, that ain't gonna work."
What I did learn, besides a very important lesson about gravity, was to be careful about having complete faith in a plan. Do your homework first. Ask for advice. The choice remains yours, but definitely get the opinions of solid, factual, reasonable people before putting your health or life on the line.
Dovetailing the two, the DC Senator Stacking Plan ain't gonna work. Probably not in the short term and, I have complete faith it won't work in the long term. I'd bet money on it.
That's a great idea. Let's trade DC for Hawai`i since Americans have no legal right to the Hawaiian islands anyway.
COVID relief is corruption? Huh?
Should be noted that Dutch Uncle here didn't vote for Biden or Clinton.
This is passed off as sage wisdom but is really empty contrarianism from someone who, by his own admission, is disconnected from the political process.
Sounds like you had pretty shitty parents. Maybe that explains why you're a shitty adult.
Comparing adult legislators to yourself as a 5-year old is more of that undemocratic bullshit BoThSiDeRiStS spout off for purely superficial and egotistical reasons.
Of course our legislators are not 5-year old children, and of course most of them don't believe in stupid fairy tales and bullshit.
But you sure seem to.
By all means, please explain how Washington DC will be Red by 2028.