I can’t say that was the right decision, but I can’t say it was the wrong one either

I don't even consider this a deep cut because I often forget they don't have Olga's everywhere (I was never a huge fan of Olga's, just not my thing).

Wanting people to have access to Healthcare, food, and the basics makes you, you know, correct, but it's harder than just saying 'no,' and I don't think there's a fix for that.

The reality is that the tools are not balanced because politics is currently asymmetrical. Nobody play-testred 21st Century America for balance issues, one side has a lot of advantages the other lacks.

I have this sense that people want Dems to shut things down because Republicans do it and it gives them a lot of leverage. It feels like, if Rs have such a powerful threat, Dems must be able to do something similar.

This is the deepest cut of Michigan lore I've ever seen you deploy.

Finger in the page while you check the table of contents is opening the menu.

Bookmark is clearly a hard save. Quicksave is a random object nearby or putting the book face down pages open (though the latter only if you're an absolute heathen).

I used Mapquest as a verb once and she has (correctly) not let me live this down.

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Food banks+soup kitchens. I think they were seeing an uptick in use before the shutdown.

Notably, even among the haters, I haven't seen anyone argue that Dems shouldn't have extended SNAP because it reduces their leverage in the next negotiation.

The theory is that enough political damage leads to policy concessions. Ex ante it's maybe a reasonable theory, but once it fails and you don't get the concessions, you need a backup plan or you're just starving people for no reason.

I cannot express how much less alone in the world I feel upon reading this.

I don't love some of the specifics of how the shutdown ended, but I'm genuinely glad that federal employees are going to get paid again.

I'm very willing to acknowledge this. A shutdown is a situation where Dems have very little leverage. It's almost impossible to negotiate with a hostage-taker who actively wants to kill the hostages.

I was actually thinking about this earlier and appreciate I'm not the only one that remembers it!

If you think you can do better (I'm followed by like ten people, most of you can!) Here's the link.

There's a post out there saying if you're pissed, run. And there are genuinely a lot of Dems that just suck and should be upgraded.

But I see a lot of people complaining who make six figures, and they should try being the ones who have to answer to the people who couldn't buy groceries this week.