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Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Stultus Maximus posted:

The joke is that if you're dressing as Michael Jackson, you don't need to put on blackface because from the "Bad" era onwards he had white skin.

Oh goddamn it

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Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Is this an AI video? It feels like an AI video.

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

It's AI, but from her book.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012




Ahahaha that's funny as poo poo

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
i like that hoover and george w are in frame also, completely unblemished

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


That teacher has already been fired

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
https://x.com/jeremynewberger/status/1841838748327170356?t=Rb7PEcqMhHWqetfnu69YIQ&s=19

E-
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1842197806477439379?t=Yhvg3hhBdlcA4jh-T2XAMw&s=19

Jesus.

CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Oct 4, 2024

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch
Republicans are fielding Black Hitlers in this year's election.

Yep. Plural.

https://x.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1842236662945890538

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB
The gently caress is going on good lord.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Yeah but how many of them are gay? :crossarms:

Fallom
Sep 6, 2008

That’s just pushing for a multi polar world and is considered very progressive

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1842343724828831988

I can't even :wtc:.

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

And I thought the Purple Heart was useless performance art before. drat.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Crab Dad posted:

The gently caress is going on good lord.

The serious answer: party primaries. Since the Republican party has lost its collective mind, they're nominating the hardest-right, most insane people.

And so, you get the Republican party nominating podcasters and Facebook posters.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003

gerrymandering has really done so much damage to this country

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Herstory Begins Now posted:

gerrymandering has really done so much damage to this country

absolutely, but in the cases of the Two Black Hitlers, they're statewide offices they're running for (governor and US senator)

would bet though that they originally came up from gerrymandered lower-level district races though!

side-note: it's all projection

https://x.com/Acosta/status/1842265406158811432

quote:

In 2019, the Trump administration, in the middle of hurricane season, told Congress that it was taking $271 million from DHS programs, including $155 million from the disaster fund, to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum seekers who had been forced to wait in Mexico. “The U.S. is facing a security and humanitarian crisis on the Southern border,” the administration said in its notice that it was redirecting the funds.

The monthly reports issued by the FEMA disaster fund show $38 million was plucked and given to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August that year — just before the prime storm period of September and October.

The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about Trump’s actions in 2019.

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

absolutely, but in the cases of the Two Black Hitlers, they're statewide offices they're running for (governor and US senator)

At least it seems like Black Hitler II is running a doomed race against a safe D seat, which is where you'd expect a wackadoo candidate like that.

psydude
Mar 31, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

would bet though that they originally came up from gerrymandered lower-level district races though!


Robinson never served in a lower office. He was working at a furniture factory before winning the lieutenant governor race in 2020.

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003

facialimpediment posted:

absolutely, but in the cases of the Two Black Hitlers, they're statewide offices they're running for (governor and US senator)


I'm referring to how it has pushed the gop to the fringes because the far greater electoral threat for many, many pols is losing a primary and that reality has been shaping the gop for ages now.

Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Oct 5, 2024

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.

Herstory Begins Now posted:

I'm referring to how it has pushed the gop to the fringes because the far greater electoral threat for many, many pols is losing a primary and that reality has been shaping the gop for ages now.

Yes, as compared to the dems who cut off the primary threat once AOC pulled it off. Its wild how hard the 'primary-from-the-left' strategy was strangled in the womb. The progressive 2016-19 alumni had a few winners and a lot of unviable losers. Its frustrating that the mechanisms for pulling leftwards nationally are a lot more feeble compared to the social forces giving us Two Black Hitlers.

Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Oct 5, 2024

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1842269434792349811

Joe is cooking with this October surprise.

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007
It's weird how dude looks like great grandpa shuffling down the hall at the nursing home on his way to get corn mush in the dining room, but then will drop perfect one liners.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

stealie72 posted:

It's weird how dude looks like great grandpa shuffling down the hall at the nursing home on his way to get corn mush in the dining room, but then will drop perfect one liners.

Until the sun goes down, anyway.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Ronwayne posted:

Yes, as compared to the dems who cut off the primary threat once AOC pulled it off. Its wild how hard the 'primary-from-the-left' strategy was strangled in the womb. The progressive 2016-19 alumni had a few winners and a lot of unviable losers. Its frustrating that the mechanisms for pulling leftwards nationally are a lot more feeble compared to the social forces giving us Two Black Hitlers.

psycho right wingers put in the boring work of capturing all the republican party institutions from the bottom up, same as the NRA coup that packed dozens of John Birchers onto the board of directors in the 70s. Go to your county democratic conventions, take all your friends, and start snowballing up the delegate ladder if you wanna change the party rules.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

shame on an IGA posted:

psycho right wingers put in the boring work of capturing all the republican party institutions from the bottom up, same as the NRA coup that packed dozens of John Birchers onto the board of directors in the 70s. Go to your county democratic conventions, take all your friends, and start snowballing up the delegate ladder if you wanna change the party rules.

Yeah I disagreed that there's still a "they" that can cut off an insurgent Democrat that wants to primary a moderate in a safe district like AOC did. There are books (lol I ain't reading) about how tenuous the democratic party's left alliance with the democratic party's center / center-left is holding up.

The motivating factor is still "just win baby" and if democratic primary voters think the candidate won't win the general, they'll back off. Republicans don't, they nominate their most extremes, leading to like ~10 democratic senate wins that they had no business winning in the last decade. Alabama sent a fuckin democratic senator to Congress for a while because the Republican was such a freak!

A good example is the Nebraska Senate race. The democrats in the state outright decided "eh, our candidate can't win here" so there isn't even a Democrat on the ballot for that seat. The result is a current 45%-45% tie where at a minimum, a Republican incumbent has to spend a shitload of money to defend against the independent running on a "gently caress you, politicians suck, and I'm a union leader vote for me" platform.

A bad example is the entire New York Democratic Party. gently caress them.

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007
So, I'm part of an insigent progressive group of about 20 precinct representatives in my red county's democratic party. This year we ran one of us who is on the executive commmittee for chair to replace the current chair who thinks that it's still 1985 and we should go knock on doors and get invited in for coffee to talk about candidates. We showed the chair how to segment a mailing list and she looked at it like sorcery and then decided that no, all mailers should go to everyone.

We have about 50 precincts, and of that group of 50, maybe 20 show up for the average meeting.

When it came time to vote for our progressive person for party chair, every loving boomer precinct person showed up to vote us down. People I've never seen before. One dude literally in a wheelchair with an oxygen bottle. We lost.

The "they" is the goddam boomers, and like most things in this country, I don't think anything will change till the reaper is done with them.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

stealie72 posted:

The "they" is the goddam boomers, and like most things in this country, I don't think anything will change till the reaper is done with them.

Yeah that's more of what I meant. There isn't a shadowy cabal of democratic bigwigs rigging rules or whatever when there's an AOC brewing, boomers just show up when it's time to put down the people demanding better than what they have.

Accordingly, there has been a shift in the subgroup demographics in polling, with Democrats starting to outperform Republicans for people older than 55 as aging Republican boomers die out.

Flikken
Oct 22, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

stealie72 posted:

So, I'm part of an insigent progressive group of about 20 precinct representatives in my red county's democratic party. This year we ran one of us who is on the executive commmittee for chair to replace the current chair who thinks that it's still 1985 and we should go knock on doors and get invited in for coffee to talk about candidates. We showed the chair how to segment a mailing list and she looked at it like sorcery and then decided that no, all mailers should go to everyone.

We have about 50 precincts, and of that group of 50, maybe 20 show up for the average meeting.

When it came time to vote for our progressive person for party chair, every loving boomer precinct person showed up to vote us down. People I've never seen before. One dude literally in a wheelchair with an oxygen bottle. We lost.

The "they" is the goddam boomers, and like most things in this country, I don't think anything will change till the reaper is done with them.

So that is more or less how my county democratic party is in my slightly red county.


Edit: my candidate had 2 fundraisers that were promoted on social media only. Those old fucks camp out on the local clubs Facebook pages so they were well aware of the fundraisers. BUT since we didn't send out mailers for those fundraisers they did not show up and then posted on Facebook that we were "lazy". Both of them had very low turnout.

Flikken fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Oct 5, 2024

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.

stealie72 posted:


When it came time to vote for our progressive person for party chair, every loving boomer precinct person showed up to vote us down. People I've never seen before. One dude literally in a wheelchair with an oxygen bottle. We lost.

The "they" is the goddam boomers, and like most things in this country, I don't think anything will change till the reaper is done with them.

Holden Bloodfeast in the (withered, leathery) flesh.

I wonder how much the anti-vaxxing and the resulting highly targeted covid deaths amount reactionary upper middle class older people affected demographics. From what I understand it was a decisive factor in why the 'red wave' of 2022 turned out to be a red puddle? The GOP voters weren't there any more.

Issue with our local dems is they cannot stop doing the most petty of loving crimes. I'm talking like running off with a few hundred dollars gotten during a minor political event. Literally robbing the donation box at a church levels of corruption.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

President
Matt Patricia Fan Club
Ann Arbor branch

Ronwayne posted:

I wonder how much the anti-vaxxing and the resulting highly targeted covid deaths amount reactionary upper middle class older people affected demographics. From what I understand it was a decisive factor in why the 'red wave' of 2022 turned out to be a red puddle? The GOP voters weren't there any more.

I haven't seen much analysis about it, but it's another datapoint to "the Republican base is out of its mind" thesis.

It's a bit like the analysis of Kamala doing rallies trumpeting former Donnie staffers and the Cheneys. That heavily annoys the lefties, that then say "wtf there are no never-Trump Republican voters anymore, who is this endorsement for?"

Said lefties are factually correct, as there are no never-Trump Republican voters up for grabs anymore. The problem is that they're spiritually incorrect - those never-Trump Republicans are just called Democrats (or independents) now. Probably saw too many of their friends fall victim to COVID conspiracies, scams, and Donnie Cats.

Now the Red Wave prediction stuff was just due to really bad partisan polling. Even now, there are supposedly Republican polling firms shoving out polls that cost a grand total of $475 to make, all to show false momentum, which leads to money going to the wrong places.

stealie72
Jan 10, 2007

Ronwayne posted:

Issue with our local dems is they cannot stop doing the most petty of loving crimes. I'm talking like running off with a few hundred dollars gotten during a minor political event. Literally robbing the donation box at a church levels of corruption.
Funny you mention, the finances for our local party appear to be intermingled with the chair's, and one of our people was elected treasurer and there was almost a year of excuses about why she couldn't get into quick books till she resigned because she didn't want to be involved in whatever bullshit was happening.

We pointed this out to the boomers. They didn't care.

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
The treasurer is usually the weakest link, sadly. Not that other positions don't have their own brands of corruption but the former has it the easiest. On a grand scale I'm wary of anyone that wants to be on top of the hierarchy, on a local level I'm wary of anyone that is excited about handling the cash box.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
BREAKING: immigrants plot to illegally rig U.S. presidential election

https://x.com/mayemusk/status/1842637728946544839

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB
More of some that projection I keep hearing about.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS
https://x.com/carpethefish/status/1842427317127418146

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
BREAKING - The supreme court has given guidance: It's not illegal when Moo Deng does it. Moo Deng is not a crook

ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Oct 6, 2024

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

BREAKING - The supreme court has given guidance: It's not illegal when Moo Deng does it. Moo Deng is not a crook

I think the law only applies to humans, not adorable minihippos(?)

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

Moo Deng is not a crook

https://twitter.com/felonyfuckbuddy/status/1841587490471518306?t=kpM4u9XXTlzE_JxU4tPm9w&s=19

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Leave
Feb 7, 2012

Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.

I've got my mail-in ballot to fill out tonight, glad I got this reminder

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