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Once they're just part of the newly expanded federal and supreme judiciary it won't matter ever again.

Really fucking hope they go forward with breaking up a couple of states to further eliminate the influence of boomers and red state senators until they all fucking die and are forced to adopt sane policies or sit in the corner pouting and ranting about renaming america christland.

Hmmm, I wonder if there might be somebody more qualified to help us identify fascism than some dude who read some shit about or by mussolini or whatnot?

Let's ask Umberto Eco!

http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf <~ 1995 btw

A cult of tradition, syncretism encouraging followers to tolerate contradictions of absurd construction. The powerful but besieged leader, the formerly great but best nation needing another term by the weak mighty leader to finish making it great by making it worse so he can make it great again again!

Rejecting the modern world which we live in and the enlightenment we refer to as being responsible for it.

Scientists and experts know nothing, flimsy powerful leader knows more than they do!

Don't question him though, his word is law, even if he says it isn't law it is because he's always right even when he's wrong!

Frustrated and feeling forgotten by the elites? Think you've gotten a raw deal from life?

Know who screwed you over? Brown people! They come from overseas, they come across the border, they're everything bad and coming to screw you over and screw the girl you had your eyes on too, just like that last president guy!

These smart yet shifty immigrants are living high on the hog despite also being dumber than you, like everyone is, because you're so obviously brilliant, but you can't get too comfortable because those brown people are clever and always plotting to take your shit!

Join up with our helpless godlike leader and he'll fight for you and empower you to fight for you but also for him and we can fight all the time!

This is a limited time offer and also limited by skin tone so if you're lily white and feeling down, you should be feeling like the best because you are the best!

Naturally all of you can't take part in actual battles because getting shot sucks but you can take comfort in your manhood because you're gonna be allowed to mock and abuse anybody who isn't straight and white and male just like you! You can even keep your guns and walk around with them and threaten people if you want or just stay home and polish them!

"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
...
Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism." ~direct Eco quote

Newspeak? Pfft, fuck that shit, it has the word news in it and news is fake!

Then... fucking help us all, there is the batshittery of the Qultists that would normally be easily dismissed as whackjobs online but, oh look at that, the fat orange fucker seems down with the Qlown as do several morons in his circle serving official roles in government.

So yeah, you can take issue with people calling fascists doing fascist shit fascism if you want, but that's what the fuck it is, and it's what someone who knows a fuckload better than either of us would have called it so I'm leaning towards not hiding from the word just because it makes people uncomfortable.

It's an uncomfortable word, it's an uncomfortable thing to have to seriously consider the idea that there are fascists running around trying to seize as much power as they can and that they're all cheering and following the big orange demagogue who has only one redeeming quality: he's too fucking stupid and disgusting to achieve the sort of broad appeal which enables fascists to properly take over without any hope of stopping them.

Biden is a decent man, he gives a fuck about people suffering, he knows how to actually be presidential and work to make shit better.

Sure, he's done shitty things in the past as a politician, he's nowhere near progressive and left-wing enough for my tastes, BUT HE IS NOT A FUCKING FASCIST which means unless you're totally cool with fascist takeovers Biden is the right fucking choice.

If people supporting Trump don't like being called fascists, the onus is not on us to stop calling them fascists, they can just stop supporting his nationalist populist fascist bullshit and stop being fascists, we'll gladly stop calling them that afterwards.

So it begins, they decided to go ahead and pull the trigger on her which means McConnell figures Trump is fucked but dems won't retaliate by undoing his years of quiet court packing.

Also forced balanced budget? Federal budget?

Federal budget deficits means there is more money floating around in our pockets, unlike a local government running a budget deficit which means they're short on tax revenue which they need to collect to offset actual spending because they're funded that way.

Similarly the federal government running a debt bears no resemblance to even a state or municipal government debt, though at least those local debts are more similar to what a household budget carrying a debt implies.

Trying to make a sovereign government balance a budget is absurd, and doing it under the guise of austerity is monstrous. "We can't afford this..." uh, bitch, you can literally afford anything you're willing to spend money you issue on which whoever you are buying it from believes is viable as currency.

For those who said not to tolerate the intolerant: proud of you!

As for the idea that you can't motivate people with spite?

I'll show you, I'll show you all!

Trump winning a landslide would mean turnout was waaaaaaay below 2016 levels, for comparison there were 47 million early votes by mail and in person in 2016, we're currently over 53 million with two weeks to go and several states yet to begin early voting.

Them ain't the numbers dude was looking for, we're probably gonna pass 40% of the 2016 vote total just in early voting tonight/early tomorrow, and various projection ranges on total votes suggest 150 million isn't unlikely, while 2016 was around 128 million, and Trump and the gang were probably hoping for closer to 100 million with as many democrats as possible staying home.

Well, though I feel no real connection to the panhandle shitkickers, packing the Metroplex into a state with them would completely neutralize their ability to exert their stupid over the rest of us.

Give the eastern chunk to Houston, pack as many of the hill country redneck votes in with Austin as you can safely fit without them taking over, give the Rio Grande and San Antonio region a big chunk of the dried brain morons out the Llano Estacado, and leave El Paso a chunk to cancel out.

From one purple state at risk of getting bluer every day to 5 blue states with liberal modern cores and red fringes of loud impotent morons!

If you chop up Texas in any way which doesn't have all the backwoods redneck shitkicking morons packed in with the liberal regions it's gonna fuck over republicans in the area hard, hence why it doesn't get suggested much. We're aware of it, I think it could actually happen with dems holding the federal government and dems taking over the state government, but check out a map of shit like the districts around Austin to see why that is OUT THERE currently.

Why do Austin and San Antonio share a district?

Why is it shaped like a skinny impossible to read signature scribble?

Why are there big weird districts hanging off the other parts of Austin and San Antonio?

How did Dallas and Ft. Worth end up sharing a district that runs through Arlington I think?

Republifuckery!

Shit, this is pretty damn close actually, look at the way the districts that went blue are HARD blue and populous, and damn near all the other districts are big, red and EMPTY.

I should probably record myself doing the voice, it's been my default "unwanted phone call" voice since my voice changed. Just a throat full of gravel and lots of "huh, didn't catch that chief, hard to get my pants down with one hand" type of shit.

Weird dream where the missus answered the phone while we were out on the sidewalk checking the mail, she hands it to me, I do my usual gravel voice thing.
'Hullo? Who's dis?'
"Uh yeah, hello sir, we were calling about a gym opportunity due to xanax"
'Isn't dat does pills what makes ya brain less whacky?'
"Sir, I'm not sure?"
'How would you even do that, make tiny little weight racks, how would pills use them, how would that even work?'

Then I woke up because I had to whizz apparently but he was calling me Sir again and I was about to tell him:
'Enough with the Sir stuff, makes me sound like my father, call me Mr. Sir, Mr. Big Sir, Sir for short.'

So I was laughing and trying to keep from splashing anywhere.

I'm annoyed my comment on the KSBD site itself got cut off when it was supposed to be: hhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEERRRREEEEEEEEEEEE'SSSSSSSSS JJJJJAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!