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I think our new collective mission should be to help @molarbear fix his broken penis

yo, we're supposed to be bonding over braces

this post brought to you in part by: procrastinating dinner for four hours because I am warded off by the extra steps to clean the retainer first and then my mouth after

so I'm probably between 3-4 months into a stint with invisalign retainers. never had braces as a kid because my teeth weren't that bad, but 25 extra years of the bottom teeth being crowded messed everything up and my teeth were grinding themselves down and my bite was out of alignment. sooooooooooo enter the amazing world of adult orthodontics. fancy 3D-printed retainers, move onto a tighter set every 12 days. every four retainers, gotta go in for a check-up and the dentist has to do 'reductions' on my bottom teeth (literally grinding the sides ughs) to make room while they shift around. one of the selling points is you can eat or drink anything as long as you take them out first, but really you need to brush and floss before you put them back in so nothing is trapped in there to fester. i haven't had an enamel-dissolving soda since august, which is probably for the better, and I can't really snack (or it's not really worth the cleaning effort at least). I have flossed more in the past 100 days than the rest of my life combined. as much as you eventually get used to the plastic retainers in your mouth, you'll suddenly have moments of hyper awareness over it. when mealtimes sneak up, my mouth will literally start rejecting them sometimes like how i imagine the sensation of a body rejecting a prosthetic. but eventually I'll supposedly have wonderful teeth, paid for by the COVID-19 student loan freeze. anyways, who wants to share and bond over orthodontics stories, the greatest thing to bond over?

unfortunately the laws of autocorrect prohibit you from pooping, ever again

probably selling off secret cheat codes too

how does one insider-trade in video games actually?

no you just use your browser like a normal functioning human

lol they literally posted that 15 minutes after the uemb twitter account replied to one of their posts, they are trolling us so y'all need to come back the team up

welcome to the next two years everyone!

Nancy Pelosi not running for leadership. Even though she promised after 2018 to only serve two more terms as leader, I bet what made her decision for her was the hammer attack on her husband and the Republican reaction to it.

for senate GOP leader

You criticize the investigations while hoping they effectively sideline Trump.

I don't even get what he means, is he alleging fraud or...?

The partisan answer would be that the most important vote any legislator makes is for leader to run the chamber and that everything else they do is secondary. Come 2024, Manchin, Tester, and Brown are all up for reelection in Trump-won states, and there are several in tossup states (NV, AZ, and through the rust belt). If Warnock wins in the Georgia run-off for 51 seats, they can only net-lose one Senate seat and retain the majority (assuming Biden wins too) after 2024. It's very possible that both chambers could flip in opposite directions.

Its probably a pressure thing for when the crazy wing tries to leverage concessions out of McCarthy, moreso than to be taken literally.

NY was a wombo-combo of court-ordered redistricting plus the state party just like sitting on its hands, which together cost the national Democrats control of the House. As much as partisans bitch about maps drawn by an out-of-state special master appointed by a Republican judge, all five of the competitive seats were at least slightly D-leaning. But the state party did nothing to earn any of those seats, just like last year when the redistricting, absentee, and early voting referenda all failed because the state party did nothing to promote them. It would have been six seats, but Pat Ryan (who won the special election in August) barely squeaked through a win in the "real" Maloney seat (that he abandoned out of self-preservation to push Mondaire Jones out of a slightly bluer seat, which he subsequently lost). All that being said, NY will be a major focus next cycle with at least half a dozen swing opportunities in a presidential year where there are slightly larger factors beyond how little the state party is contributing.