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Trump needs to be incapacitated, but survive, permanently diminished by his brush with death. He needs to be a persistent divisive thorn in the side of the GOP while unable to rally strong enough to win it so his brand of politics becomes a permanent laughingstock without the risk of regaining power. People seeing him brought low might convince a few more people to take this virus seriously until there's a vaccine. On a more selfish note, I want him to be alive and suffer as he is jailed and imprisoned, his company destroyed, he is publicly humiliated, and his family arrested for being part of his crimes, and utterly incapable of doing anything to stop it. I doubt his NPD will allow him to feel anything besides persecution, but that will be enough. I hate that Trump has turned me into a vindictive person and that he is the one to do it, but I'm past caring and I want him gone and I want him to suffer.
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Youth Decay posted:Medical/sci twitter has been in a state of nonstop "WTF are you doing?!!!" since Friday. poo poo I just work in pharma and I feel like banging my head against the wall. I don't care if Trump dies, but he's just exposing so many innocent people in the process (not the GOPers, but the household staff, journalists, family members of the ill, etc) Despite the idiocy of his own health he's also modeling exactly what you should not do that a good 30% of the population will gleefully follow A whole bunch of Americans are following trump off this particular bridge
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Oct 5, 2020 20:05
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It gives them a chance for fear, uncertainty, and doubt about mail in voting, and the more they can muddy the waters the more cover they can give themselves for election fuckery Thankfully it looks like it will be a blowout and I agree that either they find a few cases like this one and prosecute them (good) or don't find anything and prove they were lying the whole time (better) but I'm not without my reservations. Bill Barr has shown he doesn't give a poo poo about the truth and will facilitate trump power grabs wherever possible. That said, messing with the mail has never been taken lightly, even though there's always a postal employee that thinks of this brilliant way to get off work early and gets nailed over it, despite it being a token warning to every new employee
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Oct 7, 2020 22:23
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ImpAtom posted:Pence was fishing for a soundbite. No matter what she answered he was going to twist it into "you're lying." She refused to give him that soundbite and pointed out that Trump's administration was packing the courts with inept and unqualified judges. It was about the best answer you can give because nothing can be taken out of it to slap on an ad, and that was the entire point of the question in the first place. Yup, denying sound bites is a huge part of the debate. It's why bush did his famous "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... don't... don't get fooled again." It wasn't because he doesn't know the saying, it's because halfway through he realized he was about to give them a clip of him saying "shame on me" and couldn't think of a dodge out beside what he said. I think Kamala won this one. Pence kept stealing time, talking over the moderator, ignoring the questions and jumping back to things Harris said that he apparently thought landed and needed a response. His answers were targeted to people who already Trump supporters, not to "undecideds". She was measured, in control, and seemed human and expressive, and generally answered the questions.
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Oct 8, 2020 04:26
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:What’s with that weird accordion gesture he’s always doing with his hands? Did people do that in the 80s or something? Someone pieced together that he does it any time he's rationalizing something I have no idea where it comes from. Most natural gestures have some relevance to what you're tryin to convey but Trump is an alien buffoon
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Oct 8, 2020 14:10
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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008?s=20 So it turns out he wasn't going with the polisci 102 "we're not a democracy!" take and instead going with "we shouldn't be a democracy! (because then the wrong people win)"
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Oct 8, 2020 14:28
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Quorum posted:I for one am thankful for the invisible virus shield erected by Northam and Bashear along the 36th parallel Don't forget DeWine blocking it through Ohio It's really amazing how easily this could have been a victory layup for Trump and Republicans, and Ohio's R governor proves it
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Oct 9, 2020 14:17
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Bellmaker posted:Big donors might be turning off the taps seeing the outcome looks bleak? Most of Trumps money difficulties are due to this but I think they're shifting funding to downballot races
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Oct 9, 2020 14:44
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(Sung to the tune of "The Colonel Bogey March") Mike Pence has only got one ball! Bill Barr has two, but very small! Miller has something sim'lar and Donald has got no balls at all!
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Oct 10, 2020 19:37
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ewiley posted:Please look at my parents dog, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and we had to put her down today. Please let this loving year loving end already. I'm real sorry for your loss, she looks like a real good girl I love brindles  Slow mode edit: Is this the group that's doing the WalkAway hashtag? I've seen several billboards for it around here DarkHorse fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Oct 11, 2020 00:19
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The Artificial Kid posted:“Also we hate identity politics” See also "virtue signaling" Here's a fun article AP News - A senior warning sign for Trump - 'Go Biden!' cry at The Villages
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Oct 11, 2020 03:15
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Harold Fjord posted:This law only takes the same majority to unpass as to pass. Democratic party has no will to power, agreed. Because they aren't for (in many senses of the word) anything except managing opposition to capital. True, but judges are seated until impeached or die, so if it's returned to 9 justices they'll still get to remain on the bench unless the Republicans can get the 2/3 (or 3/5? I forget if that changed too) in which case it's moot anyway. More likely they pass a law expanding it too, so the SCOTUS becomes nakedly partisan instead of just implicitly so
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Oct 11, 2020 16:12
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Oxyclean posted:The on air version seemed like a huge plea for compassion, comparing the situation to "like if your friend got lung cancer after smoking for years despite the warnings." Which completely downplays just how much of the covid situation rests on Trump and the admiration. Better analogy would be getting hit by a drink driver after calling for everyone to go to bars and drive home Rocko Bonaparte posted:I thought y'all calling ACB "handmaid" were joking and didn't realize she literally held that title in her church. They also scrubbed all mention of her from their sites, including her signing onto a letter calling for the abolition of abortion But really guys we've got to give her the benefit of the doubt because she hasn't ruled on any such cases and We Just Don't Know what she thinks!
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Oct 11, 2020 18:22
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haveblue posted:You said the original accurate pledge, the god part was inserted in the 50s to stick it to the commies Same time it was added to currency too
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Oct 12, 2020 16:02
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SneezeOfTheDecade posted:My favorite part of this is that he didn't use line breaks, and instead just jammed spaces in until he got to the next apparent line. It's not obvious unless you're on mobile, but: Lmao do spaces count as full characters too? Reducing my number of tweet characters to own the libs
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Oct 12, 2020 18:08
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pacerhimself posted:I live in Canada and I was getting Daily Wire ads on YouTube. Get the gently caress out of here, Benny boy. I do sometimes watch Forgotten Weapons, which is maybe the most dispassionate analysis possible of different firearms from history. Abner Assington posted:Because the Constitution is the greatest living* document!!! Those founders
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Oct 13, 2020 19:01
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The SituAsian posted:The very aptly named 666 Fifth Avenue but they were able to (effectively, it's a 99 year whole building lease) offload it onto Brookfield Properties Between this and a bunch of other stuff, it's legit amazing how many boxes Trump checks for the Antichrist https://www.harvestbiblechapel.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/10-Characteristics-of-the-AntiChrist.pdf
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Oct 16, 2020 21:45
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Sexual Aluminum posted:Found out my in-laws are voting Trump. The bitch of it is they are immigrants from Peru who are really blue collar, and only speak Spanish mostly, and my Spanish never got past high school level. Ugh that sucks, hopefully someone has something that can persuade them
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Oct 17, 2020 14:42
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Data Graham posted:Meanwhile The "X00% match!" is a proven psychological thing, people go nuts when they think they're getting double or triple their donation. In reality the honest campaigns just take some mega-donation and act like it's that "match" even though they get the same amount regardless But I wonder who actually believes this ridiculous 900% craziness - no surprise if it's the dumbest of Trump supporters
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Oct 17, 2020 17:22
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Haystack posted:At this point, they may just be measuring who the biggest marks are for later scams. This makes so much sense and I feel dumb for not realizing it. It's always grift with these clowns
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Oct 17, 2020 17:32
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Sir Lemming posted:Not traditionally one of the things attributed to the Antichrist, but it checks out I struggle to imagine anyone who epitomizes a photo negative of everything Christ would represent more than Donnie does
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Oct 18, 2020 14:18
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Endorph posted:helpful tip: they literally expressed opinions that run counter to the things theyve said now that fox news has its hooks in them. Even people who are actively mentally fighting against Fox News programming have reported that it altered their thinking in really negative ways. Catching themselves looking suspiciously at others, vague feelings of unease of being under attack, etc Fox News is brain poison
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Oct 21, 2020 13:06
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DynamicSloth posted:Whether or not she gets on the court won't be determined by an opinion poll. If her installation was massively unpopular among Democrats McConnell would still be happily ramming the confirmation through. Now also isn't the time for building the case for court packing, that will come a week or so after the election when the court cancels millions of people's health insurance. Roberts was smart enough to punt on the Pennsylvania election vote, think he can convince Barrett not to piss off the (hopefully) fully Democratic legislative and executive branches? https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/opinions/john-roberts-country-before-politics-pildes/index.html
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Endorph posted:about 2.2k just going off googling everything and seeing how much it costs on amazon. probably down to 2k/1.9k if you get decent deals. I took Carter's comment as a joke, considering how good both ilhan Omar and he are on economics and policy. It would be like ribbing someone for getting a new Toyota Camry or Honda Civic - you bourgeois traitor to the working classes!
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Oct 21, 2020 15:02
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Vichan posted:Seriously though, what the gently caress is going on there? Fritz Coldcockin posted:He cannot appoint Devin Nunes to the FBI directorship; I believe that you need to be Senate-confirmed for another job first to become Acting-anything, yes? Jesus Christ, can you imagine a Russian asset like nunes being in charge of an intelligence agency?
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Oct 22, 2020 15:54
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KillHour posted:They probably can't. Turns out trailer parks are a trap for poor people (because of course they are). See, they usually own the structure itself, but they don't own the land it sits on. So if they left, they'd be abandoning the physical structure they paid for and potentially still owe money on. "Well, it's a trailer. Just move it." Nope. "Trailer" parks are full of modular homes these days, not trailers. Moving one isn't as easy as packing up and hitching it to a dually and would be very expensive, if not practically impossible. Even the ones that are actual trailers usually can't be moved. Those trailers have been sitting for decades, there are a ton of inspections necessary to make them road legal again to be sure they don't disintegrate into a pile of rust when you try to move them, and that's assuming all the hardware like wheels, axles, and hitches are still present and accessible
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dwarf74 posted:There is a skill that Cohen has that I don't have, and that's a full willingness to be foolish and make fools of people, and it's just... I don't know if there is a name for it. Each of them individually are rare, both together are vanishingly rare to possibly being near unique in a generation. Andy Kaufman comes to mind as the last guy to do it as reliably, though SBCs protege in the film probably will be the next. Nessus posted:Put https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_ebQSY8eI on the Diamond Joe Camaro stereo Look at this fool that doesn't know Diamond Joe drives a Pontiac Firebird with t-tops and a thunder chicken on the hood  (I wish diamond joe was the real one  )
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pthighs posted:While I completely understand this, there are times you need to refer to "the people that were here before whitey showed up" as a whole, and I literally don't know the correct way to do that. While you should always use the terms the people themselves prefer, "indigenous/native people" is a good starting point that avoids the "America" problem Wilbur Swain posted:I call them "the people that were here before whitey showed up". This works too
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FizFashizzle posted:Some more of Trump having to campaign in places he won with 60% of the vote. I'm going to laugh that his rallies become super spreader events and a bunch of Election Day voters for Trump can't get their ballot in because they're too sick to go to the polls And then I remember a bunch of innocent people will get infected and die because of these selfish fucksticks and I get mad again
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Rip Testes posted:Trump has been hosting rallies in swing states while Biden seems to hanging back and off the campaign trail this home stretch. How much of a 2016 vibe should I be experiencing here? Trump is also campaigning in what used to be solid red states like Nebraska, Texas, and Georgia, and visiting places like The Villages retirement community in Florida Whether he's doing it to get his dose of adulation or his campaign sees them as in danger of flipping and needing support is an open question. They've also been pulling advertising funding from almost everywhere, while the Biden team is doing the opposite and trying to expand the map In short: don't take anything for granted, but it doesn't look good for Donny dipshit
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Space Gopher posted:First of all: as others have mentioned, this is peak doomposting and it's not actually worth spending time thinking about it. To say nothing of people like Vasily Arkhipov or Stanislav Petrov, who kept us a hairs breadth from nuclear war. Or the bombs that crashed in I think South Carolina and partially detonated. Or the nuclear-powered airplanes that were being designed Edit: or how someone saw Doctor Strangelove and asked "could that really happen?" and after they came back they said "it is so so much worse than that" DarkHorse fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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Nazzadan posted:They didn't, but one of them was 1 trigger mechinism away from detonating. Hiro Protagonist posted:I wonder if trump getting voted out will super charge the Zoomers to become significantly more politically active than Gen X or Millennials. They'd get the feeling that voting actually tangibly changed something bad, and at that could really cause a shift in support of voting. I'm hoping this is a reverse Reagan moment, where there's such a blue wave it builds momentum for decades to come, and Republicans have to "triangulate" to even get into office again I'm not holding my breath though (the cop kneeling on my neck will do that for me)
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I'm loving this breakdown of the Hunter Biden "scandal" from reddit. It's like a Cohen brothers movie: Don't forget Rudy's constantly changing story of how he got the laptop that regardless of interpretation implicates him in cyber crimes
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Propaganda Hour posted:If Trump wins, y'all have to suck down a McRib Crini posted:Yes, but they wait until the price of ground pig assholes is under $0.50 a pound. The Free Market at work!
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Solaris 2.0 posted:God loving drat I want this dumb piece of poo poo out of power so bad. “Basic human decency is politically correct” now. He will simultaneously be anti-vax, claim credit for the vaccine and that it being the best ever, that he single-handedly developed it himself, that many doctors have come up to him with tears in their eyes saying the vaccine wouldn't work, and deny the concept of the germ theory of disease
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Grayly Squirrel posted:This is fun. Lets game this out. If there was, just follow Trump's Razor. Melania renegotiated her prenup in the run up to 2016 which allowed her the use of a stand in if he became President. Because he's mr deals and didn't expect to win he signed. Because he's stupid he doesn't actually notice except she's strangely nicer to him (and why he's sometimes surprised she won't touch him)
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1glitch0 posted:When I moved to Texas many years ago I had very stereotypical ideas about Texas. After getting over how unfathomable large it is, I went to the local HEB and saw a man wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat. In a major metropolitan city. In a supermarket. I was just like is this a bit? Am I being punk'd?? Nope. It's just Texas. Definition of all hat no cattle Cowboy boots are good if you're getting in and out of stirrups and so your feet don't catch and break your leg if you fall off or the horse spooks. The hat is good for shedding rain and sun if you have to be out in the elements away from shelter. A bunch of performative idiots decided they wanted to be like the hard, grizzled (predominantly indigenous and Mexican) outdoorsmen that needed such things and so play dress up as them
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Nov 1, 2020 03:42
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Deteriorata posted:You know, at first I was really annoyed that Nintendo said Pokemon evolve when actually they undergo metamorphasis but I got over it. Also like the right haven't poisoned the well with socialism to the point that even reclaiming the term with technically-not-scocialism-but-merely-democratically-allocated-distribution-of-resources is itself a huge win. The right has called even common sense spending on social goods "socialism" for so long to try and scare people that it's how most people engage with the term. The fact that people are saying "hey this socialism thing sounds kind of good" is itself a win and opens up the possibility of acceptance of "actual" socialism
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What to expect when you're electing https://cumberlink.com/news/local/g...5161e84175.html quote:Security info request from Trump campaign perturbs Cumberland County officials ahead of election
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