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I can't answer this with anything except pure speculation, which I'm not going to do. Guessing is absolutely pointless. If the chat messages are fake, they could have been faked at any point, either before Discord turned them over (as I mentioned, they weren't publicly released with any kind of timestamp to show when they had been sent) or after, but before being turned over to the defense.

And the inconsistencies I pointed out are more than just "writing weird". It's more like they seem to have been written by multiple people with their own writing style, or trying to emulate what they think somebody would write like in that situation.

Johnson was kinda pushed into a corner. The Arizona AG had filed a lawsuit because by refusing to swear Grijalva in he was denying the people in her district representation in Congress.

Do the unredacted files even exist anymore? I feel like any evidence that would incriminate Trump was probably sent to the paper shredder a long time ago.

Not just possible...think about it this way....the Republicans care more about not releasing the Epstein files than they do about defunding social services, and they really care about defunding social services.

The dems do deserve to be bashed for this. Even LightSnake has said that it's understandable for people to be mad at the dems for this.

My initial post came off stronger than I intended because I was sad and venting and I explained what I mean. That's it.

No, Trump was abusing kids too.

You're out of your mind if you think the Republicans wouldnt have caved within the next few weeks, let alone held strong all the way to the fucking 2026 midterms lmao

What

Okay then, why fight the Republicans at all if you're just going to unilaterally accept that there's no way to save the Obamacare subsidies? Go lay down in chalk outline of yourself.

His chat messages read like the most obviously written-to-be-evidence things in history. They don't read like how anyone actually writes a text message, especially in the heat of the moment like that, and to the best of my knowledge they were never released with timestamps to prove when they were sent. There's also not a lot of consistency in how they were written on either side of the exchange in terms of things like capitalization, apostrophe/ellipsis use, punctuation, length, and basically grammar overall. If they were sent in text messages, then the autocorrect would either correct every use of "Im" to "I'm" or it wouldn't correct any of them, and it would either capitalize the beginning of every text/sentence or it wouldn't. And the fact that the word "I" is always capitalized in every text tells me that the autocorrect was on to catch mistakes like that, but both these things are very inconsistent and change from text to text.

tl'dr: I can't believe the texts are real, because they don't look or sound real.

EDIT: Also it felt way too convenient that the shooter's roommate was also trans and his lover during a time when the cult started really ramping up their anti-trans hate campaign.

i'm not saying it happened i'm just saying that i'd believe it. like its not out of the realm of possibility, unlike him being alive. i'd want to see evidence of course

Great episodes with some banger esque songs (the only weak one was Husks, imo) but I think having an 8 episode format is not going to be doing much justice to the story they're trying to tell here. I feel that there's going to be too much that they will have to wrap up in 2 episodes, which will lead to the exact problem I had with the first season.

With that said, I'm glad that there's an answer to why Vox's plans seem to be going way too perfectly. It's clear Alastar is going to try to get the other V's to rebel against him since Alastar is really using Vox's ego/narcissism against himself. I can't help but feel that episode 6 could've easily been settled if the Heaven people just showed Pentious being in Heaven, it wouldn't get everyone from Hell but I think it would've put a massive damper to the rebellion/war that is about to happen. Also glad to see Vaggie put Charlie in her place and see them both grow. This show is definitely pushing HuskxAngel Dust together (I'm all for it) and apparently Niffty with that other scientist guy together as well.

I can literally never take somebody that says "Charlie Kirk is alive, they faked his death for a false flag" seriously ever again.

yeah this. Dude's dead 100%, but i'd believe he was assassinated as a strategic political move

more likely it was just an opportunity to do false flag rather than a planned moment

I don't know anything about the Tupac situation, but I've seen too many things about the Charlie Kirk situation that lead me to believe the whole thing was faked.

I'm not blaming the GOP being evil on the Democrats, I'm criticizing Democrats for ceding ground to the Republicans (which enables them to do more evil) and being horrific opposition to them, which is their default state.

At this point I'm thinking it was just to energize the base going into the election.

You and Panda Master are the only people I've ever heard of that come to CE or gamefaqs in general just to talk to themselves.

If you want more people to criticize republicans then why don't you make more topics about them? Instead of this one where we (attempt) to talk about Dem strategy we can talk about Republicans instead. If you make the topic I'll try to be the 1st to reply.

I genuinely do not know what to say to you aside of "the highest order of contempt for the GOP is implied".

If the Democrats fail to adequately fight back against an administration that wants to usher an era of unparalleled suffering into the world, they deserve to be criticized for it. I'm not some unwitting tool of propagandists and it's frankly insulting that you think I have no agency in what I do. If you have a problem with what I'm saying beyond "you're attacking Democrats too much", then say it.

Christ, what do you want from me? Do you want me to preface every single thing I say with "the Republicans are evil and they hate life and they want you dead" just so you know that I know that? How many times have I said this to you? If I had a pro-GOP agenda, do you think I would be criticizing the Democrats like this? What kind of master plan do you think I have to make the Democrats unpopular? They're already as unpopular as they could possibly be!

I had my doubts going in, but Schumer managed to drag this out to 40 days and that's pretty commendable. But that just exposes a glaring flaw when Dems choose to engage in this sort of strategy. They actually give a shit, so when people start going unpaid and get hungry they're more than likely going to fold. So all Republicans have to do is just wait out the first missed check and they'll extract whatever concessions they need out of Democrats.

Why do the shutdown at all then?

They had the advantage and the momentum and squandered it all for nothing.

It's one thing to lose.

It's another to choose to lose when you could have won.

Which makes it weird that they try to fight in the first place, I guess.

Kind of works, except Naruto also had the power and ability to beat down his opponent if talking didn't work. The old guard Dems don't have that.

Which progressive sources?

You misunderstand. The Republicans are the ones doing the murdering. But due to this the dems have optically taken ownership of all the suffering during the shutdown and the results. How much you think that will affect them or the midterms is up to you, but they basically made themselves look pathetic at a time when they really need to not look pathetic.

Who's this referring to?

Incalculably less, yes. I don't think you fully grasp how fucked a whole tenth of the population is now.

I do not have the answer to these questions.

I do not have any proof, nor any way of saying with certainty what would have happened had the dems not caved.

But at this point all the suffering was for nothing. And hundreds of thousands will die. And I just can't bring myself to accept that.

Honestly, I am just unable to imagine the shut down lasting until the new year. If the dems held firm, I don't see it when it would destroy the biggest money making time of the year.

Courts and/or corporate donors.

I do not entirely agree. While Trump is a wild card, he is not the master of the Republican party. And while there are now way more ideological nazis, white nationalists, and other fascist demons than there were back in the neocon days, they all get their money from the same corporate donors and their ideology is accepted by the ruling class so long as it is profitable.

I simply do not believe that the Republicans would have just never backed down, and the damage that will be done as the result of this caving will be far worse than the damage that would have happened even if the shut down lasted into the new year.

So what I mean specifically is that democrats won't be seen as accountable for the suffering of the shutdown as they try to ensure that the ACA subsidies go through. Republicans are immune to the consequences of their action, so them being blamed unfortunately does not mean much outside of maybe turning a few of their voters against them, but it means the dems are able to continue the shutdown without the bad optics.

I don't think the GOP would willingly cave on the ACA subsidies. But in the face of a united Dem front, I do feel that the GOP's masters would push them to cave eventually because this shutdown going into the Thanksgiving/Holiday season would cost them a lot of money.

It means that they would have to answer for any consequences. More important, the dems were not being blamed, which means they would not have to answer for them, which is good because the dems have been in an optics black hole and need every win they can, or, to avoid every loss they can.

I feel for everyone suffering, my parents would have been in trouble had my state not stepped in with snap and I was prepared to have to financially support them (more than I do now), and I know this sounds callus and I don't want it to be but: sometimes you need to suffer a little in the short term to avoid massive suffering in the long term.

The SNAP recipients and federal workers were unfairly having to suffer for the Republicans and that is terrible, but now some 50K per year will be dying because the dems caved. By helping these people in the short term they have sentenced countless more to death.

And at the day the ddemocrats will be blamed for it. Which means they will suffer the consequences. Will this tank the midterms in 2 years? It's way too early to say that, but this is going to depress the hell out of Dem voters and potential dem voters and embolden Rep voters, as well as teach Senate Repubs that all they need to do is wait the dems out and they will cave, giving them less incentive to work with the dems.

It means the dems have no reason to back off. The Republicans would be the ones having to answer for the pain and suffering that THEY are causing. The dems had no hand in any of the consequences.