mood: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETYQR0pX0AA0M2h?format=jpg&name=large

I guess it was the year of the soldier, because all my fav clips (blaze poison and paddie) were soldier clips and the demo clips were all just gimmicks

Joe Biden telling his elderly supporters to throw themselves at this pandemic in a human wave attack just to ensure he doesn't lose to the only person who might actually give us hope of addressing this crisis/preventing things like it in the future

What a dark timeline

I'm more saying that our national priorities are way out of whack and that we should expect much more relief from Congress (and many more strings attached when they bail out insolvent financial institutions).

I'm not an economist, and you'd probably run circles around me with jargon if we keep talking about this, but suffice it to say that I'm not gonna see eye to eye with someone who sees Paul Volcker's actions as necessary and proportionate, rather than as one of the worst financial policy decisions ever made in this country, whose ramifications have arguably never been fully recovered from on a literal global scale.

It may not be true that the 1.5 trillion from the fed is a pure stimulus and not a low-interest loan but this context is important to show just HOW low-interest we're talking:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/federal-reserve-cuts-rates-to-zero-and-launches-massive-700-billion-quantitative-easing-program.html

EDIT: also, even if you acknowledge that the Fed is doing its job and there's nothing inherently wrong with their monetary policies, it still shows an extreme lack of priorities in our country when a federal agency can throw trillions around with no legislative oversight to help out the financial sector but random individual people have to settle for high-interest credit card or payday loans (and we sure as shit never get a bailout!)

I thought this piece was a good summary
https://theweek.com/articles/901853/feds-15-trillion-intervention-explained

https://pics.me.me/by-mat-life-in-hell-wisdom-of-the-ages-1970s-13941184.png

Also Bill Clinton very likely only won in 1992 because of Ross Perot anyways!

Speaking of historical stuff, it's important to note that anyone who thinks the 1972 election is somehow more relevant to 2020 than the 2016 election is a moron

The amount that has changed in terms of the racial demographics of this country, the extreme increase in wealth inequality after the past 50 years of neoliberal consensus, the fact that Nixon was actually a POPULAR incumbent, the fact that Nixon won over 50% of under-30 voters, the Thomas Eagleton debacle, the way the Democrats and the labor movement basically fucked McGovern over in order to win down-ballot, etc.

Which is to say, boomers are just taking the experiences of their youth and universalizing it, and the media is egging them on in order to push this bullshit 'electability' canard

will there ever be another good arena shooter or class-based shooter or are we doomed to suffer more games that try to appeal to fans of mobas and fpses at the same time and fail to capture what's good about either? (this may be a teensy bit of a leading question)

have you talked to tenaciousg recently? did he ever get that tryout?

did you vote in the democratic primary/are you voting in the general election and if so for whom?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERgtcbdXsAA1JBy?format=jpg&name=medium

my thoughts on the rgl point system: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERbVNTDXUAEHnJG?format=jpg&name=small

I’m still younger than b4nny! And basically as successful!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQV_eVUWsAAxwV4.jpg

trump has like 90% approval rating among republicans and a bunch of centrist morons might be fooled into thinking romney would be better than bernie or whoever else wins

realistically I don't think he'd get more than like 5% of the vote anyways so im not super worried but I also think resistance libs are extremely stupid so who knows

or he swoops in as an independent and ends up helping trump win re-election in 2020