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Randolph Carter's avatar

There's a lot of money in psychic hotlines if you are that good at mind reading, good job seeing through my calculated nonsense observation about human nature

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Greg Chavez's avatar

I was about to say that you misread me... but you didn't... so I apologize for the way I worded that, although you might be annoyed anyway**. I meant something more like, "What you're spewing is the calculated nonsense meant to normalize... etc." Not much better, but I *had* intended to indicate that I couldn't say that YOU yourself were thinking that since, as you noted, such a determination would require mind-reading.

You're right about the general state of what's normal, but it's not normal now, not in any meaningful way. My city's budget, assembled by thew vanishingly few people for whom I'm allowed to cast votes, just got axed to the tune of 1 Billion. GOP didn't blink and Shumer & Co. didn't use that as the reason to vote NO.

In short:

* The GOP is dysfunctionally unifed over matters that should not be rubber stamped *ever*

* The Dems are dysfunctionally divided over matters that ought to broker uncommon unity.

(**) Kinda hard to put "spewing" into play w/o sounding accusatory.

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