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I was just thinking about how things that made sense a decade or two ago, and still do in my mind, are now wildly out of sync with Trump era bloodthirsty partisanship. Schwarzenegger championed the jungle primary.  And it won on the ballot in 2010 with 53 % of the vote.  Both political parties opposed it.  The idea made sense if you view politics the way leaders like Arnie - who I deeply admire - did.  Moderation is good.  Compromise is good.  Bipartisanship is good.  So I think the idea was that instead of having highly partisan primaries where the most extreme elements of both parties nominate very partisan people, the jungle primary elects people who move to the middle. This all belongs in a world where we don't have partisan gerrymandering.  It belongs in a world where Maine elects liberal Republicans, and North Dakota elects moderate Democrats.  There was just an article in Politico about how Mitt Romney hosted a political fundraiser in Utah for Susan Collins.  And how they are part of a dying breed of Senators of both parties who tend to want to meet in the middle.  The article pointed out how most of these Senators retired or were voted out.  Republican Cassidy is a doomed man, probably.   So is Susan Collins, maybe.  All those Indiana Republicans who pushed back against Trump on gerrymandering just lost.  Times have changed. What is clearly very popular today is balls to the wall partisanship.  And I'm there.  I was part of the 53 % that was for "meet in the middle" primaries in 2010.  And this year I was part of the much bigger majority that basically said, "Fuck that shit.  Trump is an animal.  And we'll fight the son of a bitch every way we can." Barely related thought.  At some point I decided it may have been better for America and the world if Mitt Romney won in 2012.  It would have been sad at the time.  Particularly because Obama was our first African American leader.  Several Black intellectuals wrote at the time that America was less racist for not only having elected Obama, but also for having re-elected him - warts and all.  That said, we paid a price, as we always we do in politics when we get what we want.  The GOP clearly said "fuck that shit" about Romney-style bipartisanship.  No more Mr. Nice Guy.  They found the most partisan asshole they could find:  Donald Trump, aka King Graft.   I think the better angels lost.  I was most active in politics in my 20's and 30's.  And despite being a liberal Democrat who worked on and won some very progressive things that no one thought we could win, it worked precisely because there were Republicans who would compromise.   I miss that world.

I guess you really liked my song. Wanna hear it again?     JD Vance JD Vance Every morning you greet me Sycophant Yes man brand I don't want you to lead me. Hillbilly lies told so he can rise He thinks he's so clever. JD Vance JD Vance Hope you will lead me never.   Problem is if we could get rid of Trump, we'd have the hillbilly sycophant instead. I suppose if there were some barbarian country that had a policy of assassinating all the leaders of another country, that would solve the problem.  And maybe kill some women and children, too. Anyone close to The Genocide Jew?  Even Gay hating Iranian theocrats won't pull that kind of shit.  But The Genocide Jew will.

When Trump is done RE-MAKING Washington DC, it will be renamed and known as Washington DJT.  😡

If he refuses to leave, we should BULLDOZE the building on top of him so he can rot under there for eternity.  😡😡

He keeps saying this but I've been a VERY regular visitor of sauna Macho for many years now and I have NEVER met an actively working guy there. I HAVE met escorts by coincidence in the sauna but they were there for their own private enjoyment and not doing paid encounters. The really hot guys (the ones you'd expect to potentially maybe be accepting paid encounters) usually either just mostly parade around or only hookup with other guys with similar looks.  I truly do not know where BoyGeorgeandMarilyn gets this information from. I'm open to hearing other accounts of course of people meeting paid guys there.