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1 minute ago, Ghost of LL said:

"Weird, creepy, and cringe."

We could just repeat those three words from now until November 5, and it would basically summarize everything that comes out of a Republican candidate's mouth.

I've said this in other posts but they're not wrong.  We all have THAT person on our social media if not our own families.  They're a little off.

20% of Republicans thought Taylor Swift was a CIA plant.  That's like 40-45% of the country.  They're insane.

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14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Oh….its real.

A gift from my half brother, a Minnesota native:

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Dare one of yall to make this gem:

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Yknow, if somehow Mexico had hung onto the land up to the Canadian border, they would have needed people to settle it. And hungry Germans and Scandinavians still would have shown up, just like Mormons and Mennonites did in this timeline's Mexico. In such a world, this would have been Northern Mexican cuisine, ooo siiii.

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1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

So after all the time and effort to convict DT the galaxy brain strategy is to pivot from "criminal" to "weird".

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This is weird 

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4 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

So after all the time and effort to convict DT the galaxy brain strategy is to pivot from "criminal" to "weird".

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Oh there's plenty of room for both. Also "rapist", "fraud", "conman", and "insurrectionist", if they get bored with criminal and weird. I'd be fine with a steady rotation of all of them.

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4 hours ago, Pancho said:

My sisters church in Dallas lol

 

 

He basically said y’all done messed with the wrong mofos

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As much as I may prefer that message, it has no place in the pulpit.  Pay fuckin taxes.

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Not directed at you but...
  • Equal rights
  • Fair pay and worker conditions
  • Economic security
  • Healthcare affordability
  • Improved education
  • Decreased gun violence
  • Improved environmental quality
  • Improved civic involvement
Only in America is that a liberal left agenda.
In every other civilized country, those are the goals for everyone.  It's the details on how to achieve it where the differences are found.  What a fucking country.
 

I’m not arguing it’s right or wrong. I’m just arguing that it’s a fact there are a bunch of people that believe that way (probably due to years of Fox brainwashing) and they could really help her win.

The opening is there because of Trump and all his bs and she should figure out a way to get their vote. Pounding the same message probably doesn’t win them very easily.

Personally IDGAF who’s right. I just want the orange cunt to stay out of the White House. So I hope she is smart about how she plays the game.
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8 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

So after all the time and effort to convict DT the galaxy brain strategy is to pivot from "criminal" to "weird".

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we sort of thought the guy being a criminal and a rapist would actually be a negative to people like you but it turns out all we had to do was call y'all weird and you flip the fuck out.

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10 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

So after all the time and effort to convict DT the galaxy brain strategy is to pivot from "criminal" to "weird".

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Everyone here is still all for convicting him some more. 

 

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1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

we sort of thought the guy being a criminal and a rapist would actually be a negative to people like you but it turns out all we had to do was call y'all weird and you flip the fuck out.

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It never ceases to amaze me someone who replies in gifs 75% of the time has the weakest gif game ever.

He will insert a gif in response to this now. 

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4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Too many repeats, not enough fresh material.  

I'd be happy if they were just relevant. They are like visual non sequitors

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3 hours ago, royiv said:

Not a fan of preaching politics from the pulpit. We criticize it when guys like Jeffress and Young do it so we should hold the other side to the same standard. Keep politics out of religion and keep religion out of politics.

Kind of feel the same but I also see @Pancho‘s perspective below as well.

 

3 hours ago, Pancho said:

Sorry but Blacks are tired of listening to what trunp and the radical right keep saying about Black people. It’s demeaning, anti American, and we’re tired of always having to be the nice ones when we’re being attacked. 
 

Calling us DEI hires? Yeah I’m fine with a Black preacher fighting back in this case.

See note above.

 

3 hours ago, South Austin said:

You misheard that.  It's Gary Peterson.  And talk about a home run.  Do it, Kamala.

TBH, that’s the name that immediately came to mind when she said it.

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34 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

As much as I may prefer that message, it has no place in the pulpit.  Pay fuckin taxes.

I mean, I agree, but the right has been campaigning from the pulpit for 50 fucking years without repercussion, so why the fuck not do it for the other side too? Otherwise, you're just ceding an entire avenue of outreach to only one side. 

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56 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This is an excellent post.  Yeah, some folks below disagree with you.  And sure, it's about MESSAGING, not reality (Fox news and Rush and all that shit broke a lotta people's brains).  But you know that I am with you on the "the individual is god, the common good is the enemy" ethos being a poison that we've ingested a ton of these past 30 years or so.

My hypothesis is that, as you see things going to shit for you (as they have for the rurals), you naturally begin to think "fuck it, I'll handle everything myself, I'm the only person I can rely on to help me."  I buy that, because I've felt that way at times in my own life.  It's human nature.  So, it's you against the world.  And fuck the world.

The counter-message to that ethos is "man...that sucks.  But we're all in this together.  We HAVE to all be in this together.  What if we worked -- together -- to build something that helped all of us?  You, me, your neighbors?"  Offer that POSITIVE counter-narrative....and KEEP offering it.  It's going to take DECADES to de-program people.  So, let's get to work on that.  Shit like "I'm not running for president of blue states, or red states.  I'm running for president of these UNITED states.  All of us.  Working together for the common purposes that have made this country great, and can make it even better."

I’m not convinced they’ve ever come to the conclusion that they can only rely on themselves. They got told that their steel mills and manufacturing got shipped overseas by big city globalist democrats. They got told that the environmentalists are shutting down the coal mines. They got told that it was Obama’s fault that the post recession recovery skipped their communities. They got told that Biden was going to shut down fracking and turn off their gas wells. They got told that the Muslims were coming to destroy their way of life. They got told that millions of brown people are streaming across the border to come take what little they have. 

They’ve been eating nothing but lies for decades and have absolutely no connection to reality. No ability to connect with what’s really happening. Because they actively seek out an echo chamber that is happy to feed them the lies that they desperately want to hear. 

They are told that the shining city on the hill is being torn down by everything different than rural white Christians. They are told that there’s no possible way that the party that represents minorities or gays or trans or cities could possibly be good for them. 

And in what is probably the greatest con of all time, Donald fucking Trump convinced them that he was the only one that could save them. By speaking in simple words and making fun of all of the things that they weren’t, they bought it. They swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. 

He perfectly fed them the lie that they wanted to hear. That the cause of their situation was a grand conspiracy against them and only he could set things right. A brilliant, white, man of god was going to lead the charge to bring back a time where Christian whites were superior to everyone else, men worked, women cooked and everyone else knew their place. 

They aren’t looking for bootstraps to pull themselves up by. They are looking for a party that will knock down anyone different than them so that they can climb over them. 

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11 minutes ago, 'stache said:

I mean, I agree, but the right has been campaigning from the pulpit for 50 fucking years without repercussion, so why the fuck not do it for the other side too? Otherwise, you're just ceding an entire avenue of outreach to only one side. 

I'm pretty sure all sides having been doing it forever.  "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" was delivered at a church.  Martin Luther King, Jr. was a pastor and churches were frequently used for meetings.  I remember nuns getting arrested for anti-nuke protests when I was a kid.  

I don't feel any great need to dictate that church leaders need to steer clear of politics.  They are people, and theoretically have values and goals that overlap with politics. But, yeah, they should pay taxes.  

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1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

So after all the time and effort to convict DT the galaxy brain strategy is to pivot from "criminal" to "weird".

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And after all the time and effort pretending to investigate Joe and convicting Hunter for tax problems, the pivot is to "women without children are psychopaths and can't be leaders and all minorities in high positions are DEI."

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1 minute ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I don't know if Lancaster, PA is south Pennsylvania but I got a vibe from that place that was sort of "Kentucky meets White Jesus meets In Cold Blood".

Good furniture and pretzels though, English. 

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1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

So one way to challenge Trumpers peacefully is to ask them to clearly articulate the “radical far left agenda” they are so afraid of and how exactly the democrats have shown any real policy success in achieving that agenda.  Or how do they imagine the democrats would go about achieving it when they can’t even get $15 minimum wage to pass with a majority in both houses and the presidency?

Then try to thoughtfully articulate the far right agenda and point to all the success they’ve had in the recent past… stripping women’s rights and major tax cuts for the ultra wealthy at the expense of the middle class and the deficit.  Those are their two MAJOR victories over the past 10 years. 

I know this is a lost cause but focusing on the policy stuff gets you in more thought provoking conversations than Trump bad vs Dems more or less bad. 

Nah, I'm just going to keep calling them weird.  It's working unlike all that other bullshit.

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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

That's fucking horrible.

Oh....so were you not familiar with the place called "Florida?"

11 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

9 of the 10 poorest states are Republican. Who looks around and says yeah, sign me up for what Mississippi is doing? Republicans are doing things right with the economy.

 

10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Texas

I hate you for this so, so, much.  And I hate that you are right even more than I hate you.  Sigh.

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