Re: Random Politics
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:23 pm
At least he wasn’t a hypocrite. He kept marrying children too young to get pregnant so he wouldn’t have to abort pregnancies. Gotta respect him for being principled.
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:55 pm
Chicken. Shit. Coward. Just like the rest of them.
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:41 pm
Let's check in on Madison Cawthorne:
Now let's check in on his ex wife:
Now let's check in on his ex wife:
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:29 am
Legs like Ben Johnson's
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:13 am
Now let's check in on Jim Abbott's ex-wife
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Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:23 am
Tizzyent is so annoying.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:04 am
I feel so sorry for a very good friend of mine. We were college roommates and I was in his wedding. We still chat regularly as part of a text group of old friends.
The reason I feel for him is that his adult son and daughter (especially the son) have turned into rabid right-wingers, actively spouting the worst misinformation and distortions from Newsmax, OAN, and Fox news. It’s hard to believe educated people really accept that shit as fact, but they certainly do.
My friend and his wife are reasonable, thoughtful people. But they just have to deal with it, if they want to see their grandkids and have some family time. So frustrating.
The reason I feel for him is that his adult son and daughter (especially the son) have turned into rabid right-wingers, actively spouting the worst misinformation and distortions from Newsmax, OAN, and Fox news. It’s hard to believe educated people really accept that shit as fact, but they certainly do.
My friend and his wife are reasonable, thoughtful people. But they just have to deal with it, if they want to see their grandkids and have some family time. So frustrating.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:07 am
That’s a reversal. Where are they from?
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:16 am
Suburb of Denver. So, that ain’t the source. And, it certainly isn’t due to the parenting received.
My friend’s son is a dean of students at a public high school, and hates his job, given that he is a bigot, especially having to deal with LGBQT issues among the students.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:50 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:22 pm
The feeling must be like when a kid joins a cult or (as in the case of my nephew) becomes ultra-religious. His parents did the works to appease his "needs."
I like to think that I'd have done the same, but I'm not sure that I would have.
But when there's grandkids involved? That's a whole next level of stress.
I like to think that I'd have done the same, but I'm not sure that I would have.
But when there's grandkids involved? That's a whole next level of stress.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:23 pm
The easiest question to put those on the right on their heels is to ask them, in the year and a half that they’ve held Congress, what did they accomplish other than defections from the party and repeatedly getting their own Speakers fired?
And if they reply something along the lines of that they don’t want government to work, remind them that you know that, considering the Republican-led White House’s inaction caused an extra 200K dead Americans during Covid.
And if they reply something along the lines of that they don’t want government to work, remind them that you know that, considering the Republican-led White House’s inaction caused an extra 200K dead Americans during Covid.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:31 pm
These people deny that. They believe that Covid was just a bad flu, and they are also against vaccines. It’s hard to argue with people who believe bullshit is fact, and facts are bullshit.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:39 pm
Then tell them to go fuck themselves. I’m through dealing with these leaking colostomy-bags with kid gloves.
Seriously, though. They’re not going to debate in good faith, or consider our rightful position because that would mean they’d have to implicitly admit they may be wrong. They’ll never change. Fuck them.
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:04 pm
fuck yeah
lining up behind team L-Jam3 here
lining up behind team L-Jam3 here
L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:39 pmThen tell them to go fuck themselves. I’m through dealing with these leaking colostomy-bags with kid gloves.
Seriously, though. They’re not going to debate in good faith, or consider our rightful position because that would mean they’d have to implicitly admit they may be wrong. They’ll never change. Fuck them.
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:10 pm
I’m a little tied up until Wednesday. If anyone has a chance, can you email Senator Tom Cotton and tell him to go fuck himself? I will when I get back.
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Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:56 pm
Dark Brandon Strikes Again
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:12 pm
So, if I understand this correctly, the TikTok bill going through Congress right now is designed to force them to transfer ownership to an American entity. I understand that the Chinese say that is not going to happen. This issue scares the hell out of me, because if access to TikTok ends up getting denied, and the youth of America believes it is Biden‘s fault, I believe it could have negative implications on the election.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:20 pm
The bravest thing Biden has done is hire Lina Khan to head the FTC because I'm sure his donors hate him for it. Even better, she's an absolute superstar to much of the next generation of lawyers so a fuckton are going into anti-trust to fight the oligarchy because of her.
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:33 pm
Someone on here is actually praising Biden for something? Holy shit.
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:55 pm
While I'm feeling charitable, Mayor Pete did a good thing today too!
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:15 pm
I'm sure someone will find a deep cut tweet from a nobody illustrating why those are all failures of the party that isn't openly celebrating fascism.
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:49 pm
Interesting thought, but is TikTok’s demographic of voting age? My son will be 18, not sure if girls his age are on TikTok, but my 15 yo’s friends are obsessed.sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 5:12 pm So, if I understand this correctly, the TikTok bill going through Congress right now is designed to force them to transfer ownership to an American entity. I understand that the Chinese say that is not going to happen. This issue scares the hell out of me, because if access to TikTok ends up getting denied, and the youth of America believes it is Biden‘s fault, I believe it could have negative implications on the election.
Thoughts?
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:52 am
They gave TikTok 9 months instead of 6 to be transferred.
So surprise, surprise. It won't mess with the election.
But yes, the move is massively tone deaf and partially hypocritical since there's been outreach to influencers to get folks to vote.
So surprise, surprise. It won't mess with the election.
But yes, the move is massively tone deaf and partially hypocritical since there's been outreach to influencers to get folks to vote.
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:27 am
I think a potential side effect of the "delay" portion of this new policy (airlines have to compensate travelers for 3+ hour delays) is that airlines will shuffle their aircraft around when possible, creating situations where more travelers are delayed, just for less than three hours.Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:55 pmWhile I'm feeling charitable, Mayor Pete did a good thing today too!
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:35 am
Because of connecting flights most airlines won’t be able to screw with this too much. So if ultimately it results in a tiny increase in delays overall but fewer long delays I think that’s a net win for flyers.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:27 amI think a potential side effect of the "delay" portion of this new policy (airlines have to compensate travelers for 3+ hour delays) is that airlines will shuffle their aircraft around when possible, creating situations where more travelers are delayed, just for less than three hours.Jerloma wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:55 pmWhile I'm feeling charitable, Mayor Pete did a good thing today too!
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:16 am
Not to mention Biden recently created a TikTok account he uses.
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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:57 am
Gov Kristi Noem is a psychopath...and wrote about it in her new book...
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
The kicker?In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon famously stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift.
In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip.
But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.
What unfolds over the next few pages shows how that effort went very wrong indeed – and, remarkably, how Cricket was not the only domestic animal Noem chose to kill one day in hunting season.
She's really putting in the effort to be Trump's VP choice...In what may prove a contender for the greatest understatement of election year, Noem adds: “I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here.”
Re: Random Politics
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:06 am
Also the supreme court seems poised to end democracy.
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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:37 pm
This is one of those "worst person you know" situations, because here is a great article from the Bulwark of all places:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati ... the%20ages
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 8:12 am
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 8:46 am
Arrests at both UF and USF this week. The USF protest took place at MLK plaza on campus.
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 9:26 am
I'm curious about this. It's like...you know me. You guys all know that regardless of how I feel about Biden, that I would never in a million years vote for a party openly celebrating fascism (of which, I concur) and certainly not their sociopath leader.
So let's say that I criticize Biden for something like, I don't know...not opposing an ethnic cleansing campaign aggressively enough. Is the concern that my (et al) rhetoric is going to turn voters to Trump?
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 10:05 am
I'm not really staking out a position here, but it's not about one individual person complaining on social, it's the overall effect of many people going after Biden and creating a general atmosphere of negativity.
That overall effect *could* suppress the youth vote.
That overall effect *could* suppress the youth vote.
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 10:07 am
Biden's inactions, more than the effect of negativity, could suppress the youth vote.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 10:05 am I'm not really staking out a position here, but it's not about one individual person complaining on social, it's the overall effect of many people going after Biden and creating a general atmosphere of negativity.
That overall effect *could* suppress the youth vote.
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Posted: Wed May 01, 2024 10:08 am
Again, I'm not staking out a position, just putting out how political analysts would likely anwer.govmentchedda wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 10:07 amBiden's inactions, more than the effect of negativity, could suppress the youth vote.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 10:05 am I'm not really staking out a position here, but it's not about one individual person complaining on social, it's the overall effect of many people going after Biden and creating a general atmosphere of negativity.
That overall effect *could* suppress the youth vote.