Tinidril

They are definitely the controlled opposition. In some cases it's the same sponsors and in other cases it's not. It's a slightly more benevolent but also more elitist bunch of oligarchs funding the Democrats. There is more overlap in corporate interests though.

The Republicans never seem so pathetic when they are out of power. Besides, they have been (intentionally) pathetic for decades, not six weeks. Do you remember Trump disappearing when he lost to Biden?

At least the midterms is right. This midterm should be an easy sweep for the Democrats, but they are already blowing it. Democratic strategists are already openly declaring their intention to double down yet again on strategies that always fail. No matter how many elections you bungle as a Democratic strategist, they will always take you back.

Bias always exists for any non-trivial topic, but there is also a gradient from less biased to more biased. Using "unbiased" is something some people do to mask our autism. Your point is correct but utterly worthless. It's also an excuse that many weak minded people use for failing to rise above our post-truth culture.

You are confusing "unbiased" and "neutral". If one party is telling nothing but lies and the other party is telling only the truth, a neutral news source will tell you all about the ensuring drama, what the polls say, and how it might impact the next election. What they won't tell you is who is lying and who is telling the truth. Most mainstream news coverage is neutral and that's a big part of how most Americans are ignorant and misinformed.

Unbiased reporting actually cares about the truth and will report it even if that means taking sides in the political debate. Unbiased reporting is very leftist friendly because most leftists care very much about representing reality in their opinions.

And yet, Republicans have been steadily making gains with the working class. With this past election they are now the dominant party for working class voters. It comes down to two things. American voters are deeply ignorant and the Democratic party is pathetically weak and out of touch.

For every dollar spent on IRS audits for middle America, they get about a dollar back in recovered revenue. For every dollar spent on auditing wealthy Americans, they get about twelve dollars back in recovered revenue. I don't think these cuts are intended to help balance the budget.

Maybe they could help clue the Democratic party into the seriousness of the situation.

Not for most of us. Auditing average Americans is damn close to 100% automated. It's the rich fuckers and corporations that take time and effort to audit.

$5000.00 will buy me a lot of ketchup...

...or a dozen eggs.

It always has been.

True, unless it comes to fighting progressives in their own party. Then they suddenly remember how to fight.

That's the only reason I've ever done much of anything in shell script. As a network administrator I've worked many network appliances running on some flavor of Unix and the one language I can count on to be always available is bash. It has been well worth knowing for just that reason.