This is starting to turn into Donnie Dumb Dumb’s stupid “health care plan coming in two weeks” BS. Just fucking do it Chucky.
Reconciliation bills take awhile. Which is why I liked the clean bill of shots and checks first. Get the vaccine money and checks out asap.and if republicans turn it down put it in reconciliation but that will take a least a month from what I’ve read. Probably more
I dont need then to pass the thong tomorrow but saying “we’re gonna do something REALLY REALLY BIG I promise!” without any concrete policy proposals Imis stupid. Just say Democrats are for A and B and C and start whipping up public opinion for those things.
so yeah, we laugh at this, but honestly, this is exactly what needs to happen for us to win going forward. Get dems out of the coasts and into the flyover states. Maybe not Ohio, if there was a big influx of people to Wyoming or Montana, the population is so low there that there is a serious shot at flipping them.
I think the pandemic could actually help that. Now that companies have seen that WFH can work, maybe we can start encouraging people to live in places with lower CoL and still maintain their jobs.
So we laugh, but the electoral college and senate structure basically force us to change the system, or change where we live to work within the system.
Smart people moving out of Ohio just makes the game easier for the rest of us.
This needs to be a Federal government initiative though, Ohio spends 50 million on ads ain’t gonna do it. Now the Federal government spending a trillion to move large Federal government agencies will good jobs, or to create a few more, and HQ them in Denver, Cleveland, etc., that would do it.
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i’ve had this pipe dream of buying a little cabin in WY.
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Lol could you imagine if Google built a corporate building in like Fargo ND and 50K blue voters moved there and flipped the state?
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that’s exactly what I’m talking about. and 50k is probably all you’d need for a place like that.
But I don’t think ND is realistic. At least Wyoming or Montana or Idaho have some outdoorsy, natural charms 
Techbros love hiking
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Hell, do it on the border of MT and WY. Flip 2 states LOL.
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We moved from MA to OH in 2015. I don’t know what this says about us
To be fair we rarely venture outside the i-270 loop of Columbus. So it doesn’t really feel like OH and isn’t tooooo much different than Boston.
Columbus is fine, borderline good. The University attracts tens of thousands of smart, tolerant people from other places to work there. The student body is reasonably liberal and many stay. There are some great, walkable neighborhoods. The suburbs are full of racist shitheads because of course they are, but Clintonville, Grandview, German Village, Short North, Italian Village and Brewery District are all better than any place anywhere else in the state.
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Cincinnati is definitely trending blue, but there’s a lot of pro-life Catholicism to overcome there.
Seriously, I’ve never heard of another city that has enough catholic high schools to have their own division 1 sports conference. Of both genders!
I mean, maybe huge cities like New York…but Cincinnati is not huge.
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We have been to enough other cities and lived in Somerville-Boston for 15 years. It was easy to identify the right places. We rented in Short North, the bought in Clintonville for what seemed like a steal after what we sold our <900 sq ft Condo for in Somerville…
Going out to parks and shit like pumpkin patches you quickly start to see the crazies though. Or the state fair. Many a “Hillary for prison” last election and crazy signs this one.
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As I pointed out earlier in some thread, Biden won 57% of Hamilton County, but gerrymandering prevents a Democrat from representing the area in Congress. I think the Charter Party makes it a bit hard to understand local politics.
I had to look it up and I apparently the GGCL is down to five schools and there’s now a GCL co-ed division. I guess it’s all one league now.
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It was weird then, weird now. Also, for many sports, those leagues produced a disproportionate number of state champs. This leads me to believe that segregating the catholic high schools gave them a bit of an advantage somehow.
Disclaimer: I attended one of said high schools and was eve on one of the state championship teams
Certain schools may have had the advantage of drawing upon a wider geographic area in winning those championships.
Need more than double that.
That’s definitely true. We had girls from all over. Mostly from Hamilton county, but a decent number from Butler, Warren, and Clermont, too. Many of whom came for the specific reason that they were outstanding in their sports and we had a reputation.
The GCL/GGCL were the SEC of Cincinnati ;)
I hate violence and have never so much as thrown a punch in my life but this fucking guy just needs an ass beating.
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