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You spent quite a bit of time a few weeks ago castigating the entire mainstream US political spectrum as underpinned by a common slavish adherence to...

Local politics (which state politics kind of is) seems to sometimes live in an alternate universe to national politics. I know for a fact there are...

Think the politics of governorship is weird and interesting. 538 did a piece on Baker a couple of years ago:...

Even when they lose, they win. Seems weird!

I guess that's a Massachusetts Democrat :downcast:

I reviewed his policy positions and his clearly a fiscal conservative/social liberal and is frequently described as such.

What makes him a "conservative" rather than "moderate" in your eyes?

hi5 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54592163

Teevee doesn't always suck. Giri / Haji is superb. A BBC production, aired on BBC and Netflix. Very solid production it is too, great...

Not entirely unexpected: 1318868129032904704

Schhh... schhhh... there's no talking permitted under shadowboxing matches. meanwhile, in less technical but more political news: ...

He literally is a conservative.

I guess if you think politics is just about being able competently implement policies on a technical level because the ideological, theoretical and...

Average auto insurance premiums are about 750 EUR/year here, I think. But I'm guessing that's only because half of the population consists of...

Man, car insurance is cheap in Deutschland. I pay north of €600 pa for mine. And I am the lowest risk and therefore lowest cost category too, at...

Remember, being a moderate makes him even worse than a conservative, to Steely.

I'm not sure you know who Charlie Baker is. Yes, he is technically a member of the Republican party. But he is also the governor of Massachusetts,...

Maybe Fox can go back to reporting about Benghazi.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-purported-hunter-biden-laptop-sources Fun times

Trump's political acumen in action: 1318712168519553031

What possible reason could there be to work bi-partisanly with a group which a) will likely have nothing to offer in return b) would not honour any...

Working bi-partisanly is not a failure. That Trump is the first President in decades not to do it is not something to be emulated or copied.

I say 'no discernible reason'... it's pretty damn obvious why they do it.

I think I made my position on the Democrat's tendency to cave to Republicans for no discernible reason abundantly clear in the Democrat nominations...

You're upset he might follow the precedence of Obama and Bill Clinton rather than the precedence of Trump?

Of course I do. The question, wig, is why you don't.

Do you honestly have a problem with, say, Charlie Baker serving in a technocratic position in the cabinet?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/20/biden-transition-republican-cabinet-429972 are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Blast from the past but GoG is giving EUII for free. https://www.gog.com/game/europa_universalis_ii

Right, so I think I know where the guy who wrote the comment I read got this from. ...