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  1. 12 minutes ago, elfenix said:

     

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    what's juvenile is trump voters refusing to own their own fucking choices.  OH THE LIBURULS! (which, of course, conservatives turned into an epithet) ON THE INTARTRONS CALLED SOMEONE A RACIST WELL I WON"T VOTE FOR NO LIBURURLS

     

    if you voted for trump fucking own your own goddamn decision instead of pussying out and blaming everyone else.  you know, personal fucking responsibility (as if conservatives actually gave a shit about that). you can't even take responsibility for bringing trump into this conversation, trying to gaslight us all when we've got the motherfucking receipts.

    Seriously this is like if someone attended a seminar about particle physics, stood up and babbled about botany, someone else pointed out that his botanical comments were utter nonsense, and then the guy snipes back “this forum is about particle physics!!!”

  2. I have read it. If you didn’t want the discussion to devolve into something about racists and Donald Trump, perhaps you shouldn’t have made the comment, which was pure horseshit to begin with and that’s all we were pointing out. The fact that you’re butthurt about it has nothing to do with me or anyone else you’re mad at. The rest of your post is just fabricated projectionism, and you know it.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    The topic was AOC’s bad ideas and there was no reference to Trump whatsoever, so your juvenile response is another example of how you hurt your own cause. 

    “But making those reckless charges over and over are one of the reasons we are stuck with Trump in the White House. People don’t like being wrongly called a racist any more than you would like being called a name”

    You're literally trying to rubber stamp a retort to three different posts that addressed this exact comment. It’s not helping, and you’re wasting your time with these feeble attempts at being clever.

  4. And I should have added, this seems too similar to people who pretended to sound smart by claiming “PC liberals and their condescending attitudes pushed people to vote for Trump.”

    This is just a silly and ridiculous canard that’s offered by intellectual inferiors in order to conceal the fact that they’re incapable of forming a coherent thought.

    Now, here’s the deal: if you just read that bolded sentence and got so mad that you said “well I was going to vote for Biden or Bernie, but now that you said that, I choose Trump,” quite frankly you deserve to be mocked in that exact fashion.
     

    Seriously, that has to be the absolute worst non sequitur of all time, ranking right up there with “I hate Tide, therefore I’m going to wash my laundry in Coca Cola.” 

    There’s no logic in that. It’s pure, psychotic emotionalism in its absolute worst form. You gain absolutely nothing by voting against your interest just to piss off somebody else. That picture of the two knuckledraggers with the “I’d rather be a Russian than a Democrat” t-shirts is a perfect emblem of what they and freaking men and women like them are: a pathetic, wreck of a person who’d sell what’s left of their dignity for a handful of pocket change.

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  5. 3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Nothing against her personally, but from now on, qualifications don't mean shit.  They should, in earnest.  But the electorate decided in 2016 to put that to bed forever.

    'Course, that doesn't mean a thing someday when the remnants of the GOP bitch and moan about the lack of qualifications that Dem Candidate Whoever is lacking.

    Seriously,

    Donald

    John

    Trump

    Is

    President

  6. 10 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    i'm not a racist and i'm going to prove it by voting for a guy who gives cover to racists!

    -totally not racist person, probably

    I was gonna say, voting for Donald Trump is probably the very worst way to communicate to “liberals,” even the ones who have a tendency to overplay the race card, that said liberals are wrong and that they’re indeed not racist. 

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  7. 23 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    There was a time not too long ago when Republicans tried to do the right thing. Those days are gone.

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    If he were to magically appear before us today and run for a presidential term, his own party would brand him a CentristLiberalSocialistCommunist.

  8. 1 hour ago, Fozzz said:

    I could see Baldwin as VP.  Abrams is garbage and will never get a look for anything in his administration.  Warren could have been his VP but, true to her spectacularly abysmal political instincts, she has decided to self-immolate instead.  

    At this point, the only reason he'd pick Warren is just so that the world can watch her emasculate Pence at the VP debate. That would be brutal.

  9. 8 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    It sounds like a ghastly trip to the Soviet Union literally when it was crumbling.

    Oh it was well past crumbling by 1988, but even more important is the context of the historic moment in which he made these comments. This was at a time when the American society had been beaten over the head for the last 4-5 decades of round-the-clock propaganda about how the Soviet Union was an absolute dungeon, utterly totalitarian, the worst horror spectacle on planet earth, etc. And I don't think you'll find Bernie heaping praises on every single aspect of the USSR, even at its height, which is why he (and Jane) was so selectively picking things out here. Hell, even Chomsky was saying at that time that the Soviet Union was "a dungeon with a floor on human suffering," and Bernie here was just talking about some aspects of that floor.

    8 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    How dare he help Ronald Reagan extend an olive branch to a defeated enemy. And the program he established while he was there - Pure Commie Funny Business:

    "The Burlington Yaroslavl Sister Cities Program is a non-profit group promoting the exchange of people and ideas between Burlington, Vermont and Yaroslavl, Russia.

    Burlington, Vermont established its sister city relationship with Yaroslavl, Russia, in 1988. Since then, exchanges between the two cities have involved mayors, business people, firefighters, jazz musicians, youth orchestras, mural painters, high school students, medical students, nurses, librarians and the Yaroslavl Torpedoes (currently Lokomotive) ice-hockey team. In 1993, Champlain and Trinity Colleges in Burlington sponsored six students from Yaroslavl; since then, dozens of Yaroslavl students have attended Champlain College. Yaroslavl State University and the University of Vermont have sponsored programs for graduate and undergraduate students going both ways. 20 students from YSU have earned MBA degrees at UVM. In 1997, Burlington Sister City Committee members donated children’s books by Vermont authors and illustrators toward the creation of an English-speaking room at the Yaroslavl Children’s Library.

    Right, that's hardly a pitch for the worst aspects of the USSR, but that's never going to stop idiots like GRHorn foaming at the mouth about stuff like this. In their minds, if you say anything less than hyper-critical of Soviet Russia, you may as well move there!

    8 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    Those Commies are Evil, I tell you. That goodness those Commies are in the dustbin of history. By the way, what is the difference between communism and FDR/JFK/LBJ democracy? Just wondering. Was FDR a Commie?  And what is the difference between Communism and Socialism? Thank you!

    I mean I've been asking the board(s) questions like that for years and no one wants to try it. Hell, I even offered a cousin of mine $500 if he could name me the first socialist literature in recorded history and what it actually said. He wouldn't take it. My suspicion is that he and people like GRHorn want to believe that it all goes back to Karl Marx. They'd be wrong, but here's the thing: even if it was Marx, Marx himself would have vomited at an idea like the USSR. That shit had absolutely nothing to do with even Marxism, which historically has been viewed as a right wing deviation of the socialist movement. In fact, the USSR had a lot more in common with the tsarist system than many would care to admit. The Cheka and KGB? Those were just enhanced instruments of tsarist tyranny...which is why Vladimir Putin acts the way he does even though he's identified himself as an "Independent" since 1995, just 4 years after the USSR dissolved.

    This video may play well for Trump via the rubes, but the thing is that the further in history we go, it's less effective even to rubes because that kind of thing only appeals to old rubes. That shit was 32 years ago, and this is the best propaganda that they can create from it? 

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  10. 37 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    he's our political version of 13-0 branding iron from texags. he really is about as texags a poster as we have here.

    We seem to have a few here that gleefully compete for that spot. It’s quite embarrassing to observe it. The only thing they’ve stopped short of is referring to the republicans as “daddy GOP.”

  11. On 2/7/2020 at 12:35 PM, ChickenSandwich said:

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5383/text

    New way forward act.....nope, nothing to see here folks

    legislation would use “taxpayer money to bring deported criminals back into America.” Calling it the “right to come home,” the New Way Forward Act would order the government to create a “pathway for those previously deported to apply to return home to their homes and families in the United States,” at taxpayer expense.

    LOUD NOISES!!!

  12. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    That came up in response to a post mentioning Herman Cain and I mistakenly took the reply to be about Cain and not McCain. I was wrong about that. There certainly was no birther campaign against Herman Cain. 

    There wasn't against John McCain either. I remember some talk about that but it was never a big deal. Obama was born in Hawaii and the birther campaign, with Donald Trump as its chief promoter, falsely alleged that he was born in Kenya. John McCain really was born in Panama so there was a legitimate legal question there. The Democrats defended him as pointed out in that WaPo article. The two situations really aren't similar at all. 

    Trump essentially ran as a one issue candidate in both elections, but in 2012, it was “my investigators are in Hawaii finding amazing things about Barack Obama.”

    McCain’s birthplace was loosely discussed at the fringes, and it’s just fantasy to equate that with a presidential candidate running on an imaginary birth certificate “scam” and convincing half of the entire party’s voter base that it was all a real thing. This is all projection via false equivocation.

  13. Just now, Rip76 said:

    That I can’t answer for sure.  I believe McCain’s birthplace was an issue if I can remember that far back.

    You’re evading the bigger issue. Either that or you’re just flat out missing it.

    Again, nearly half of admitted republicans stated in various polls that they definitely believed Obama wasn’t born in the US.

    To quote Bill Maher, “I once joked that Trump was the son of an orangutan and he sued me for it…but it didn’t become a foundational belief of the Democratic party

    The same applied to McCain. That never became a bedrock issue in the way that Orly Taitz’ nonsense did throughout Obama’s presidency. 

    The idea that the same would happen to a Herman Cain or a Ben Carson is a rectally derived one borne entirely out of political whataboutism and bothsiderism.

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  14. Just now, Rip76 said:

    I'm just curious, was it because he was black?

    If say a conservative black man won the 2008 election, would that also be true?

    Would half of democratic voters believe a Herman Cain or a Ben Carson was born in a foreign country? Would another quarter of them "not be sure" about that? 

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