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The Oldest Man posted:Why settle for a cop-adjacent enabler from solid blue California when you could have an actual cop from a swing state? I think for all the reasons listed previously and the fact that Harris is photogenic and well known is why she's the pick. quote:Making fun of Trump's walk, shape, hair, etc isn't body shaming because the joke isn't his physical form, it's about the lies he embraces about it. Him being obese isn't funny- him being obese while claiming to weigh 220 and having his sycophants draw him like John Hamm IS funny. Yeah it's this. Trump tries to sell the idea he's Strong Daddy Alpha Male Successful Businessman. But whines constantly, almost everyday about unfavorable coverage and so on. So I think if you're a public figure trying to literally sell yourself on the idea you're hypermasculine healthy in mind and body you're fair game to criticism and mockery on that front when you're clearly not.
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Jul 29, 2020 14:16
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I like how this is all a cynical ploy to scare suburban white voters who Trump lost last election into the idea the country is falling apart and it needs Big Strong Daddy to protect them from Those People.
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Jul 29, 2020 16:37
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/trump-housing-policy-low-income-suburbs-386414 Speaking of trump trying to use racism to spook suburban voters Going all in on it clearly. You know, this would be really easy for Joe Biden to call out with his bully pulpit and force Trump on the defensive. Because he'd punch back, too hard. And just talk about it nonstop on how he's not a racist not a racist but we gotta keep Those People Out.
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Jul 29, 2020 19:54
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DaveWoo posted:He called for a whole lot more than just that: So did I. And I agree with all of it. All of it would mean the end of the modern republican party and I am all for it.
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Jul 30, 2020 19:47
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PeterCat posted:It amazes me that people are still falling for Obama's schtick of saying something hopeful and progressive when he has no ability to implement it. Where was this Obama when he was in office? Because Obama is a statesman and I've been dying of thirst for positive messaging for over 4 years now. Honestly it's good criticism, but it's still nice to see Obama is using his power to push the party to adopt these viewpoints.
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Jul 30, 2020 19:55
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Rockit posted:True but then i remembered that BP, the DHS, and the police exist. Those together plus militia does an army make even if it's not one that will win. If we want to see 1000 years of progressive darkness we can only hope Trump tries some shady poo poo after losing, because it would damage the republican brand beyond repair. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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Jul 31, 2020 00:34
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I'm gonna keep repeating this until I'm blue in the face because people SEEM to keep wanting this to be true, Trump is not going to try a coup or stay in office after losing. He can't even come up with a reason why he should have a second term. It will have to be an ambiguous electoral victory for him to have the balls to do anything and we're probably in for another 5 to 4 decision from the Supreme Court again in that case. This was a A. Primarily a distraction effort from the bad economic numbers today and it was completely successful. He literally made that post minutes after the news came out. This was pre-planned B. Testing the waters to see if any republicans would potentially go along with it. Congressmen and women and senators shut him down, hard. Election day is happening on schedule just like it has for 200 years.
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Jul 31, 2020 00:43
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Fame Douglas posted:Ah yes, more 5D chess from grand master Trump. Distracting from the bad economic numbers by making it seem like he's trying to destroy US democracy. What an amazing strategy! That's going to win the election so hard. I have never suggested Trump was guilty of being intelligent. In a democracy you don't suggest canceling elections when you're in a position of strength. He's telegraphing his weakness and anxiety. It was a mistake to make that tweet and do a loyalty test.
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Jul 31, 2020 00:50
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shirunei posted:Do you have an actual source on that? I looked which is the only reason I made that statement as I couldn't find jack. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/...mes-poll-shows/ You have to understand too that this focuses on career military, which is typically a very different mindset than people who join for financial reasons or as a stepping stone to future careers. That and post bible PR interviews the top brass of the military admitted they made a major mistake and were going to be more careful about stuff like that in the future. Basically, Trump does not have the loyalty of the military.
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Jul 31, 2020 01:09
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sexpig by night posted:https://twitter.com/BernieWatchdog/status/1288614348148092929 Uh, so after listening to the clip I don't think Michelle said anything incorrect there actually. She's right when she says that government is very poor at marketing itself and we take things for granted. That's why you have all these rear end in a top hat idiots decrying how BIG GUBMIT DONT WORK. When it totally does work. But it also fails at some things too. It's a process that takes time to improve and is only hurt by people believing it doesn't work. quote:This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.
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Jul 31, 2020 17:50
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World War Mammories posted:no, we're being very specific about this: this is infuriating because of who's saying it. barack and michelle obama were the president and first lady of the united states of america for eight long years. barack in particular was literally the single person on earth most able to approach these problems he's decrying. yet he didn't. rather, he made them worse: the abject failure in flint thrown into stark relief by that goddamn sip of water; the dismantling of OFA, ACORN, the Sanders movement, and a plethora of other ways that "young people" were doing exactly what he asks for; installing perez over ellison; letting the GOP write a Heritage Foundation bill in the ACA and getting zero votes for it; all the other seven million times he offered the world to the GOP and got nothing for it; the list goes on. and yet here they are, acting as if they have no blood on their hands, because they couldn't possibly have done something so insane as "have a marketing budget." I like how you're putting words and thoughts into my mouth. I can agree and hold most of those same criticisms of Barack Obama's administration while agreeing with the message Michelle had there there as well. It's not mutually exclusive. But I gotta push back against the idea Obama stands by and does nothing. Young people aren't consistently showing up to vote, and he's right about that. And hey what do you know, he suggested making voting day a national holiday and has been actively working towards removing voting restrictions. So far his post presidency agenda has seemingly been focused on that when not getting paid massive amounts of money to give speeches.
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Jul 31, 2020 18:06
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Blurred posted:The fact that Barack Obama failed to solve all of the world's problems during his 8 years as president doesn't disqualify him from holding legitimate opinions about what can be done to improve the nation. I'm not sure exactly what he said, but the idea that young people on the whole should be more politically engaged is absolutely right in principle. There's no reason for any young people who are already politically engaged to take personal offence at that idea. Thank you, this is kinda what I've been going with and said much much more succiently. Even if I have a lot of criticisms of Obama's tenure, I'm glad he's talking about this now and pushing this as a standard the democratic party should adopt.
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Aug 1, 2020 15:27
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nine-gear crow posted:Anyone he picks then is DOA in ‘24 anyway because America will never vote for a woman for president. Sneaking one in past the goal lines as VP is the best you’ll ever do. A female won the popular vote in 2016 though. By millions of votes.
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Aug 1, 2020 20:03
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Kraftwerk posted:Rashida Tlaib officially wins her primary. Yeah if you read politico or anything about Ilhan Omar's race it tries to sell the idea it's a horse race. That her opponent is so we'll funded is all it talks about. Gives idea she's is a position of weakness. She's up 37 points.
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Aug 6, 2020 00:03
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NVM. Was posting about posting. It was a mistake.
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Aug 6, 2020 18:26
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Jewel Repetition posted:Or if the president is mentally incompetent, like Reagan, or Dubya, or Biden. I don't think it's fair to call Dubya mentally incompetent. Just incompetent. Edit: I have long curly hair, and women come up and touch me all the time. It can be an invasion of privacy depending on the circumstances but I don't really mind it either. I'm also like Biden in that my standards for personal space can clash with other folks.
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Aug 11, 2020 22:24
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Sodomy Hussein posted:Biden has never once really entertained shoring up the extreme left wing of the party except to do one better than Hillary and have an actual amicable relationship with Bernie. Trump is just going to run on Biden being the socialist antichrist and running that against Kamala makes as little sense as possible. Everyone's moderate (D) parents love Kamala. From a strategic standpoint it's a good pick. If you were hoping for an interesting pick, not really. Yeah this is exactly right. Trump trying to go on and on and on about how Biden is a literal communist takeover of America just falls flat. Especially with Harris on the ticket. It's kinda like when throughout his entire presidency the republican party kept going on and on and on about how Obama was a socialist who wants to destroy America and I feel like that backfired. If Obama was a socialist antichrist then when things didn't significantly change it kinda becomes to boy who cried wolf scenario. With Hillary, there was enough hysteria and history there where these accusations can land, especially when she did a terrible job of campaigning. I think Kamala is a terrible campaigner and her past stuff is pretty shady, but as 538 points out most politicians actually do try to keep campaign promises. I'm disappointed by another 4 to 8 years of moderate democratic presidencies but eh. Could be worse. Here is hoping we eventually can get rid of "first past the post" voting.
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Aug 11, 2020 22:37
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Djarum posted:It's a bad choice but I still contend that Lieberman was worse for Gore. Republicans go on and on about RINOS but Lieberman pretty much was just a republican who is pro-choice.
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Aug 11, 2020 22:49
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SalTheBard posted:He is slurring so bad. Yeah what's up with this? I'd say he's drunk but apparently he doesn't drink. Hamburglers are his drug of choice.
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Aug 11, 2020 22:52
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Captain Stalin posted:It cannot be the Biden campaign's actual strategy to have the Trump attacks sell Harris to the left. I don't think it will make people love Harris but Trump is gonna be Trump and be a racist and misogynist towards Harris and that probably isn't going to go over well. You can dominate a news cycle that way if you're smart about it.
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Aug 12, 2020 01:42
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Fallom posted:how do people come up with this poo poo Yeah like. It's possible she tries to run for president but uh. This very election she did a piss-poor job and clearly was not ready for prime time. If they win and she gets VP and matures as a national politician, maybe? But that bridge is far into the future.
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Aug 12, 2020 01:56
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I'd suggest she should get some pizza to celebrate but you can't really know if it's one of those pizza chains that has the rape dungeon that services the shadowy pedophile cabal that runs the world.
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Aug 12, 2020 02:06
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It's too bad that Biden isn't a better campaigner because you could run that quote into the ground until November. Seriously though. loving shameful and disgusting racism.
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Aug 13, 2020 11:37
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1296191661597433862 Yeah the tweet storm is going to be delicious. I basically agree with everything Obama is saying here, and honestly he's right. And it's funny. Had Trump actually tried, actually cared, and actually thought of the presidency as a calling rather than a device to self-enrich and air out his lifetime of insecurities. Had he actually put in the work the american people need and been the swamp drainer he claimed to be, he would be getting the adulation and attention from everyone he's craved all his life. In his words, one term presidents are seen in history as losers. He's going to have a special place in that ironic hell now.
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Aug 19, 2020 23:14
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Half of me thinks it's hilarious that this idiot is giving money away to a really dumb racist idea and got conned by obvious swindlers. The other half feels really sad they are never going to see that money back that they desperately need and I have sympathy for their disillusionment.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:24
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cr0y posted:Here's a fun thought experiment. Would you be willing to trade an effective covid vaccine that arrives in October but the cost is Trump getting re-elected. I would say the thought experiment is flawed because a vaccine doesn't solve the crisis and as much as Trump inevitably touts it as a victory it's not really. But yes. I would prefer actual lives being saved who otherwise didn't have to die rather than bullshit partisan squabbles.
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Aug 22, 2020 04:21
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Martian posted:This is a pretty good video. https://twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/1296924935386882049?s=19 I can't wait for all these heroes to come out one by one if Trump loses and talk about how they alone held back his worst impulses, that they were the adults in the room. Heroes, all of them.
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Aug 23, 2020 00:11
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Eminai posted:If we're counting people who didn't believe but still went through the motions because it was politically/socially convenient he's not in the first dozen. If I recall correctly, Jefferson has an entry in his diary about how George Washington basically dealt with the more entrenched religious folks up this way, he never would talk about what he really believed in, but would kinda go along with whatever religious faction he was dealing with, and give the impression he's "one of them" and just play dumb. And jefferson commented how George was being a "old cunning fox." Edit: This is not to say GW was atheist. He did practice religion, but he was quiet about it and just knew how to play up to peoples expectations. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Aug 23, 2020 |
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Aug 23, 2020 19:20
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Willo567 posted:So what happens if Trump actually loses on election night, and claim the results are illegitimate? It'll cause a swell of problems if he loses by margins that are pretty narrow you'll probably see the republican party nervously pitch in with him and hope for the best out of the chaos that will ensue. The riots for George Floyd were/are bad but then the riots will really begin. But he doesn't have intelligence community, he doesn't have the military, he has 30% of the country that is (currently) loyal to him and the rest either hate or don't care about him. I think Biden will survive and we will have a peaceful transition of power but it'll be a nightmare. If Biden wins big enough where no amount of needling election interference could possibly justify him losing, then no matter what Trump says the institutions will quickly rally behind Biden and Trump will just sit in his room and spend the next few months bitching on twitter until he's escorted from the building on Wednesday, January 20th. For me, Donald Trump is the Sarah Palin that ran for president and won. He's an incompetent self-absorbed buffoon and the republican party was absolutely in love with Sarah Palin for a time. But when she lost and went away, she was quickly forgotten. And he will be too. Especially if Biden's administration takes any question of "Donald Trump says..." with "We don't care what Donald Trump thinks and refuse to engage. Next question."
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Aug 24, 2020 19:36
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I like how the chickenshits on the board basically tried to do a "he resigned" without his input in the hopes he'd go along with it. Which, is pretty pathetic honestly. You know I honestly don't really give much of a poo poo about Jerry Falwell Jr's sex life and I'd rather have never learned. But it's a shame hypocrites like him have so much influence over others and this is the reason stories like this break out.
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Aug 25, 2020 01:41
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Mat Cauthon posted:Why are all these rich conservative men into being cucked? That it happens so often within the same demographic is just the weirdest loving thing, feels like it should barely even be a news story at this point. Projection. All liberals are cucks. You tend to hate qualities you see in yourself. Etc.
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Aug 25, 2020 03:53
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Munkeymon posted:Nope, confirmation right here: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1298018272005128194 I understand the players and the events and the jokes, but I'm having trouble understanding why this is a "time is a flat circle" moment?
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Aug 25, 2020 21:59
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filthy regex posted:I think it's just that Sarah Jeong spent a large chunk of her life reporting from the courtroom for the Silk Road case, and never expected to see that judge again. Oh that's pretty good.
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Aug 25, 2020 22:19
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Unhinged lady says thing that never happened, happened.
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Aug 26, 2020 04:17
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Neo Rasa posted:It would energize a lot of on the fence people to vote for him even more like how his numbers went up a month after the pussy tape. I would argue there were a lot of other factors, like the debates. And Comey. And Hillary being a weak campaigner. It is not 2016. Trump caught on tape saying the N word sinks his campaign.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:34
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motoh posted:I disagree. His rally audiences have been egging him on to say more and more terrible things and he smiles, pretending to play by the rules. When he finally crosses that threshold, it won't be a setback, it will be a declaration that that last barrier no longer exists. Trump's audience is a minority (but significant 30%) percentage of voters in this country. He's actually fairly unpopular with the rest of the electorate, and the people who don't vote and is only president because of the electoral college. What I'm saying is the idea that just because 1/3 Americans are racist idiots doesn't mean the other percentage wants what they want.
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Aug 26, 2020 22:42
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Meow Tse-tung posted:I don't even want the debates to be a thing at this point. I feel like trump will just lie fast enough that no one can factcheck him, the next day there will be the usual "389 factual errors in trumps claims" news blurb, and it'll just be a bunch of lovely talking point zingers. Demagoguery is Trump's strong point. I don't trust anyone who might be swung by a debate to watch the debates, basically. It's also the place for Biden to make the case against Trump to his face. But I agree they shouldn't do many debates. Trump doesn't change strategy or tactics at all. He's literally been running as if it's still 2016. He'll attempt to counterpunch every insult or slight. Being this predictable makes it easier to make winning strategies. Hell this took me to think in the span of typing this out. All Biden has to say when say, the topic of criminal justice comes up is something close to "How is it that Trump calls himself a Law and Order President when he breaks the law and there is no law and no order in every city in America?"
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Aug 26, 2020 23:08
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Yeah this is big. Wildcat strike crossing all sports leagues. The RNC just lost the news cycle.
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quote:I think Biden is ineffective and, a mistake, and the Centrists will be ok losing because their main fear is the left and yhe point was to stop that Centrism losing to Trump, one of the weakest and most ineffectual presidents in recent history who basically has passed one big law and the rest is just about owning the libs....twice, is an incredible indictment of centrism. I'm not going to tolerate the idea the democratic party isn't actually going left either. The fact that an actual self-described socialist can not only come close to winning nomination twice, but is seen as a leader of a powerful faction of the democratic party that must be appeased and popular to the general electorate shows that it is getting better. It's just too slow and there is so much work to get people to compromise and break our way. If Trump wasn't such a genuine loving threat to our republic it probably would actually be in our best interests that he did win. But right now Biden getting in is in all American's best interests. And it sucks. I'm not enthusiastic about voting for him either. But this is one of the problems of a "First past the post" voting system.
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