We've said it many times over the years, and it predates Drumpf... When the notion of "shame" left the political arena (almost exclusively, but not entirely, on the right side of the aisle) this type of shit was the logical endpoint.
The tipping point was probably Palin, but the deeper roots were from the right wing media faction that really began picking up steam in the mid- to late-90s.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:57 pm
by The Sybian
Holy shit, the thread of sitcom names erases all the bad caused by the internet. That is amazing stuff. And referring to Boebert as "Granny GrabbinSchwantz" has me dying. Can't wait to tell my father that name.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:05 pm
by Nonlinear FC
OMG. I missed that thread.
The Inbredables.
Comedy gold in that thread.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:17 pm
by Johnnie
Yea, added the link after my initial post and it was simultaneously bottom paged.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:32 am
by Shirley
Strokey and the Bandit
That's brilliant.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:38 am
by Johnnie
I'm snickering.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:40 am
by Pruitt IV
Johnnie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:38 am
I'm snickering.
Of course, you know the spin - east coast Harvard elites (including a Jew!) yadda yadda.
There was the time he called school shooting survivors “media prosti-tots” for advocating for gun-control policies. The meme mocking a Harvey Weinstein accuser, and the other meme mocking actresses for wearing “whore dresses to protest sexual harassment.” The prediction that rising acceptance of homosexuality would lead to pedophilia and “the END of civilization as we know it”; the talk of arresting transgender people for their bathroom choice; the use of antisemitic tropes; the Facebook posts calling Hillary Clinton a “heifer” and Michelle Obama a man.
There was the time he called school shooting survivors “media prosti-tots” for advocating for gun-control policies. The meme mocking a Harvey Weinstein accuser, and the other meme mocking actresses for wearing “whore dresses to protest sexual harassment.” The prediction that rising acceptance of homosexuality would lead to pedophilia and “the END of civilization as we know it”; the talk of arresting transgender people for their bathroom choice; the use of antisemitic tropes; the Facebook posts calling Hillary Clinton a “heifer” and Michelle Obama a man.
Yeah, he's a real piece of work. Just crazy. And the GOP loves him because he's black, so he proves that they can't be racist.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:29 pm
by mister d
Sinema not running is probably a pretty huge deal for Gallego, right?
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:50 pm
by Johnnie
mister d wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:29 pm
Sinema not running is probably a pretty huge deal for Gallego, right?
Like.... WTF on that. He must be running a shit campaign.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:08 pm
by Nonlinear FC
What will happen is with her out of the race, name recognition for him will jump quite a bit. He's likely "losing" in polls right now simply due to this name rec issue. Lots and lots of folks aren't paying ANY attention to a Senate race in Jan-March. Really, the vast majority of voters won't tune in until the end of summer.
Like.... WTF on that. He must be running a shit campaign.
I think polls are worthless. Only people even older than me participate in them.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:33 pm
by L-Jam3
I genuinely hope that whenever Sinema is out in public someone yells at her that she could have protected the right to vote for Black Americans, yet chose not to. Fuck her straight to Hell.
Like.... WTF on that. He must be running a shit campaign.
Or a majority of the fine people of Arizona are paranoid angry white Christians. It's the Occam's Razor approach to political analysis. Remove the preconceptions of what you think people (even friends and neighbours) should be like and you will never be surprised when they act like Austrians in the late 30's.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:07 pm
by A_B
Polls are useless. Too much information available to people so ill let sancsrlos fill in the rest as that’s his twitter thing. Lo e when he goes on a tear.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:03 pm
by duff
sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:58 pm
I think polls are worthless. Only people even older than me participate in them.
Like.... WTF on that. He must be running a shit campaign.
Fuck Ruben Gallego for being polite to that piece of shit.
Borrowed/lifted from the comment section on a Defector article:
Senator Kyrsten Sinema of the Coruscant Delegation voted in favor of Emperor Palpatine.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:55 am
by DSafetyGuy
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:33 pm
I genuinely hope that whenever Sinema is out in public someone yells at her that she could have protected the right to vote for Black Americans, yet chose not to. Fuck her straight to Hell.
The link in his first tweet is 404'd, so Michael fixed it himself.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:05 pm
by sancarlos
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:09 pm
by mister d
Actually its racist to call a black guy antisemetic so really both sides are wrong here.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:33 pm
by sancarlos
Jeebus, North Carolina. This woman also won her primary.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:13 pm
by Johnnie
That Mark Robinson dude is like (Uncle Ruckus + Samuel L. Jackson's character from Django Unchained + Kanye West) x 1,000.
Holy shit, man.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:47 am
by Brontoburglar
sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:33 pm
Jeebus, North Carolina. This woman also won her primary.
this is a national trend at this point -- extreme candidates win GOP primaries more often than not because the base wants that extremism. it's been heading that way for years.
probably not the best general election strategy overall, but still incredibly scary
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:08 am
by L-Jam3
This would seem like the easiest winning strategy for Dems. Put screenshots of this guy’s FB posts denying the Holocaust on giant billboards with a red background and stick them around the Research Triangle. Then do the same with his anti-Black posts and put them in Black neighborhoods in Charlotte and Wilmington. And then end it by saying if you don’t vote then this guy will be in charge. It’s not that hard.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:19 am
by DSafetyGuy
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:08 am
This would seem like the easiest winning strategy for Dems. Put screenshots of this guy’s FB posts denying the Holocaust on giant billboards with a red background and stick them around the Research Triangle. Then do the same with his anti-Black posts and put them in Black neighborhoods in Charlotte and Wilmington. And then end it by saying if you don’t vote then this guy will be in charge. It’s not that hard.
Yet, it could end up being too difficult for them to do.
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:08 am
This would seem like the easiest winning strategy for Dems. Put screenshots of this guy’s FB posts denying the Holocaust on giant billboards with a red background and stick them around the Research Triangle. Then do the same with his anti-Black posts and put them in Black neighborhoods in Charlotte and Wilmington. And then end it by saying if you don’t vote then this guy will be in charge. It’s not that hard.
Yet, it could end up being too difficult for them to do.
FFS, there are cities in red states where people have to transfer buses to get to their polling station.
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:08 am
This would seem like the easiest winning strategy for Dems. Put screenshots of this guy’s FB posts denying the Holocaust on giant billboards with a red background and stick them around the Research Triangle. Then do the same with his anti-Black posts and put them in Black neighborhoods in Charlotte and Wilmington. And then end it by saying if you don’t vote then this guy will be in charge. It’s not that hard.
Yet, it could end up being too difficult for them to do.
FFS, there are cities in red states where people have to transfer buses to get to their polling station.
To be clear, I was talking about the strategists.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:26 am
by Johnnie
I don't know why Aaron Rupar splits this into 5 videos (there's a few more tweets in not linking), but what Nancy Mace did here is simply disgusting.
I would not have been able to do what George Stephanopoulos did in keeping his composure.
Watching that back and forth reminded me of this Bill Burr skit:
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:54 pm
by mister d
Where was Mayor Pete???
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:22 pm
by brian
You have a real hard-on for that guy.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:13 pm
by mister d
How can this be read any other way than a US Senator saying an ally will stop intentionally starving civilians if they get what they want?
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) called Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) decision to resign early “weak sauce” but said she would not be resigning to run in the special election to fill his seat.
Boebert represents the state’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes the Western Slope and much of southern Colorado. She announced late last year, however, that she would run for Buck’s seat, which is the 4th District in eastern Colorado, after Buck announced he would not seek reelection.
But Buck moved up his retirement, saying Tuesday he plans to leave Congress at the end of next week. The decision triggers a special election this summer to fill out the remainder of his term and threatens Boebert’s chances of being elected to his seat.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:07 pm
by L-Jam3
So they're going to have a special election in the summer AND the normally scheduled election in November?
And boo fucking hoo.
ETA: Just read the linked article. That's chef's kiss good.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:12 pm
by Johnnie
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:07 pm
So they're going to have a special election in the summer AND the normally scheduled election in November?
And boo fucking hoo.
I think so.
A similar thing happened to McCain's seat in AZ. Had he stepped down honorably once his cancer wasn't going away, it would've triggered a special election.
Instead, he stuck around, died after the cutoff date for a special election, allowed the Republican governor Doug Ducey to appoint John Kyl to serve out his term, and kept the Republicans from ceding control of the Senate.
I'd have to double check the timeline, but yea. He could've fucked Trump over and didn't. Maverick.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:51 pm
by DaveInSeattle
Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:12 pm
Instead, he stuck around, died after the cutoff date for a special election, allowed the Republican governor Doug Ducey to appoint John Kyl to serve out his term, and kept the Republicans from ceding control of the Senate.
And then when Kyl stepped aside, Ducey appointed Martha McSally, who had previously lost the OTHER senate seat to Sinema.
And then McSally lost to Mark Kelly.
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:20 pm
by sancarlos
So now we’re focused on the evils of Tik Tok? Fortunately, there are aren't any more important issues ongoing in our country, right? Right?
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:44 am
by Shirley
sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:20 pm
So now we’re focused on the evils of Tik Tok? Fortunately, there are aren't any more important issues ongoing in our country, right? Right?
I mean, the critiques are fair, but they were also equally fair 4 or 5 years ago. And back then, Tik Tok wasn't nearly the behemoth it is today.
sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:20 pm
So now we’re focused on the evils of Tik Tok? Fortunately, there are aren't any more important issues ongoing in our country, right? Right?
I mean, the critiques are fair, but they were also equally fair 4 or 5 years ago. And back then, Tik Tok wasn't nearly the behemoth it is today.
Seems similar to the attacks on Twitter before Musk destroyed it. Any large messaging platform that they can't buy or influence enough is a threat (which also relates to the importance of local media in another thread)
sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:20 pm
So now we’re focused on the evils of Tik Tok? Fortunately, there are aren't any more important issues ongoing in our country, right? Right?
I mean, the critiques are fair, but they were also equally fair 4 or 5 years ago. And back then, Tik Tok wasn't nearly the behemoth it is today.
Seems similar to the attacks on Twitter before Musk destroyed it. Any large messaging platform that they can't buy or influence enough is a threat (which also relates to the importance of local media in another thread)
That's a different conversation though. TikTok is run out of Singapore by a Chinese national.
The irony though is if they're so concerned about bad actors shaping public opinion, they need to look in the fuckin mirror.