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117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

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LynahFan said:
“Deserts” (duh-ZERTS). Same root as “deserve,” or if you’ve been around long enough, “[desevrings.” (I think)
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More than you want to know.

The most common noun form of desert (“arid land with usually sparse vegetation”) is pronounced the same way as the adjectival form of this word (“desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied”), but not the same way as the verb (“to withdraw from or leave usually without intent to return”), even though all three words come from the same source (the Latin deserere, “to desert”). The verb desert is pronounced the same way as the dessert you eat after dinner (which comes from the Latin servir, “to serve”). And, to make things even more interesting (by which we mean confusing), there is another noun form of desert, spelled the same as the “arid land” word, but pronounced like the thing one eats after dinner, and with a meaning that is similar to neither.

Just deserts uses this, relatively uncommon, noun form of desert, which may mean “deserved reward or punishment” (usually used in plural), “the quality or fact of meriting reward or punishment,” or “excellence, worth.”
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So if you're scoring at home:

deserere (Lat. "to abandon") --> desert (Eng. "to abandon")

deserere (Lat. "to abandon") --> desert (Eng. "arid land")

de- servir (Lat. "(of) to serve") --> dessert (Eng. "served after dinner")

de- servir (Lat. "(of) to serve") --> just deserts (Eng. "deserved punishment")
 
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https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1357697585381793792
 
Handyman said:
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https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1357697585381793792
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I have to admit, I’ve read this a few times and I’m still confused what’s being said.
As for something that’s been crystal clear to most of us since 1/6/2021, as Joe Manchin goes, so goes budget reconciliation. Looks like he’s A-okay with spending $1.9 trillion, just not the way Bernie Sanders, or even Joe Biden, want the spending to look like. Even with dropping the $15/hr., I still think this first one is going to look good, all things considered. Maybe Manchin moves more on the next reconciliation bill. I feel optimistic he does.
 
That was Swalwell confronting a colleague whose staff was spread the Chinese story that went viral.
 
Was so thrilled to see Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, and Rand Paul all sucking off Donald Dump this weekend. We've got a long way to go as a country.
 
cF[Authentic said:
;n3639615]I get that some lifelong Republican voters have certain issues that will keep them supporting and voting R, especially for non-presidential candidates. But, at what point do they draw the line? Do they continue to vote R because they're anti-abortion, or believe Jesus was against welfare, or because they get to keep more money since they've been successful with the last administration's policies.

But I hope they understand how looking out for their own interests, they're continually showing how they don't give a **** about other people even if they consider themselves good people.
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My experience with family/friends who've stayed republican is that they stay because they simply don't (or won't) believe the bad stuff. BLM/Antifa provoked the capitol attack. The election may not have been "stolen" but blah blah irregularities. Plus, socialism! Abortion! Guns!


"If we just ignore anything bad, the Republicans are totally decent, just like us!"
 
Swansong said:
My experience with family/friends who've stayed republican is that they stay because they simply don't (or won't) believe the bad stuff. BLM/Antifa provoked the capitol attack. The election may not have been "stolen" but blah blah irregularities. Plus, socialism! Abortion! Guns!
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Possibly, but for many they refuse to believe the bad stuff because they chose to stay some time ago. Confirmation bias.
 
cF[Authentic said:
;n3639615]I get that some lifelong Republican voters have certain issues that will keep them supporting and voting R, especially for non-presidential candidates. But, at what point do they draw the line? Do they continue to vote R because they're anti-abortion, or believe Jesus was against welfare, or because they get to keep more money since they've been successful with the last administration's policies.

But I hope they understand how looking out for their own interests, they're continually showing how they don't give a **** about other people even if they consider themselves good people.
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The real hard part is where these voters vote against their own interests. Happens a LOT. As if the racist party cares about the little guy-all they care about is power and money at the expense of all others.

It's especially amusing that they pin stuff on abortion- all they can do is present "laws" that are constantly being over turn, and cut off people- as opposed to implementing real, legal, policy to encourage people to carry. Let alone being duped by the gun corporations.
 
Swansong said:
My experience with family/friends who've stayed republican is that they stay because they simply don't (or won't) believe the bad stuff. BLM/Antifa provoked the capitol attack. The election may not have been "stolen" but blah blah irregularities. Plus, socialism! Abortion! Guns!


"If we just ignore anything bad, the Republicans are totally decent, just like us!"
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I assume work-a-day Third Reich Nazis were just like this.

The 9-to-5 supporters of the monsters of history weren't drooling psychopaths, they were people just like us who turned off their empathy and their humanity because of some ideological or tribal reason. Nazism isn't principles, it's behavior. Our contemporary Nazis, the conservatives, close their eyes to all the people they harm because of arbitrary reasons that have nothing to do with politics. Nazism isn't a political disorder, it is a mental disorder. It is not defined by political structure, it is defined as the act of being a moral person who justifies harming people because of (some nonsense "reason" which is irrelevant).

That's what we're fighting. People who burn the village to save it. People who justify auto de fe. People who lock kids in cages for any f-cking "reason."

American conservatism became Nazism when it unlinked from ethics and became self-propelled cruelty.
 
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Swansong said:
My experience with family/friends who've stayed republican is that they stay because they simply don't (or won't) believe the bad stuff. BLM/Antifa provoked the capitol attack. The election may not have been "stolen" but blah blah irregularities. Plus, socialism! Abortion! Guns!


"If we just ignore anything bad, the Republicans are totally decent, just like us!"
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"We're fine with authoritarian rule, as long as we get what we want and aren't inconvenienced in any way."

Good Germans.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
"We're fine with authoritarian rule, as long as we get what we want and aren't inconvenienced in any way."

Good Germans.
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First they came for the Muslims, and I said nothing, because I wasn't a Muslim. Then they came for the Meskins, and I said nothing, because I was not a Meskin.
 
https://twitter.com/USProgressives/status/1358871046095593473

BIG NEWS: the Progressive Caucus has secured the inclusion of a $15 minimum wage in the House's pandemic reconciliation package. This has been a leading priority for our caucus and would give 27 million (!) low-wage workers a raise.
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The CBOs "analysis" of the minimum wage portion shows that the expected "losses" arent that bad and the CBO is ignoring a lot of the factors. Considering Trump got his tax cuts through with Reconciliation I see no reason this can't either.
 
That is very good news and it should stop the Sunday Plute Shows from sowing the "Dems in disarray" propaganda for awhile.
 
Senator Shelby (Q-AL) has announced he's retiring, and TX Rep Ron Wright died shortly after having been diagnosed with COVID-19 (they're not saying it's the cause of death). I expected more chatter on this stuff.
 
Why Shelby will be replaced by another crackpot and I am not sure anyone has heard of the other guy.
 
Handyman said:
Why Shelby will be replaced by another crackpot and I am not sure anyone has heard of the other guy.
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Well, I'm thinking they could both be replaced with absolute crackpots, due to who they represent.

To me, it just speaks more than ever that the DNC needs to work exceptionally hard to make Manchin irrelevant this mid-term; get enough seats in the majority (3 more?) and they won't have to make him the linchpin that he's become today.
 
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