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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Ok, so the rational political play here is that Schumer uses the recent blue wave to put pressure on the GOP: give up on the ACA attacks for a year and we will re-open the government. The GOP are now put into a position where they cave to the Dems or they are directly responsible for prolonging the shutdown, undercutting the GOP narrative for who to blame for the shutdown.

    The gamble, the risk, is that the GOP accepts the offer and the Dems look like they cave. It sucks but that was the risk for this bold fucking gamble by Schumer. I hate him and wish he would lose his job but this was a smart play. There is no history of the GOP working with the Dems in recent history so they wouldn’t be inclined to start now.













  • Nationalism hasn’t solved their age gap crisis and done nothing to support or encourage new parents. All countries which support business over people are fascist. Fascism, even when managed like a controlled burn, still destroys the country that embraces it. There is no country on Earth that will survive in the long term siding with moneyed interests over the people because the focus isn’t on improving the people. And the People make the state.

    Japan thinks it can build or manage or inspire some kind of change with a new type of leader, a woman. It’s such an archaic and dated idea to celebrate, like it’s been 50 years (almost a whole generation) since many other western countries elected a woman to lead - this isn’t progressing its desperation.

    Hard right politics for a hundred years has hollowed out Japan and it will collapse in on itself in the next hundred.