Posts posted by WhatTheBuck
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9 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
The president just got his ass handed to him politically.
Expect more of the same in 2020.
Of course. You're more easily simulated in a computer program than Kirk Herbstreit in the old NCAA Football by EA Sports. I don't really need to read what you have to say because I already know what you're going to say.
It's like if every time I'm dealt pocket aces in hold'em you assure me I'm going to win. Predictable, often true, not meaningful or helpful at all.
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8 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
They do not control the levers of power. They control some levers of power. And their numbers are shrinking. We are just going to disagree on that.
Yeah, I wasn't really paying attention when I replied. We've long ago established that your outlook and every prediction is pie-in-the-sky best case scenario for the Democrats. It's totally predictable, perfectly consistent, and not particularly enlightening. Of course that's your position. What else could it be?
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34 minutes ago, David Dennison said:You're talking about white people. White people are becoming a smaller percentage of the population every day. That's a fact.
It's all good.
Their numbers are still growing and their fear of losing majority status appears to be making a lot of them more racist. They still control the levers of power and now have a white supremacist in the Oval Office who's making a concerted effort to keep non-whites out.
You're engaging in some flimsy reasoning there.
Edit: Okay, Jack Straw pretty much covered it already.
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18 minutes ago, Jack Straw said:
The face of the Republican Party, folks. This is what you love and wholeheartedly support when you pull the lever for the (R).
Professional wrestling is fake too. It was reality tv before reality tv was a thing. The kind of people who believe it's real are exactly the kind of people who would fall for Trump's bullshit.
I still wonder how many of his followers never heard of him before The Apprentice and truly believe he's the character presented on that show. I'll bet the percentage is significant.
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Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and the Clinton Foundation all make their tax returns public. Donald Trump refuses to.
If you conclude that Trump is clean but the Clintons are dirty then you are seriously one dumb motherfucker.
They'll never investigate the Clinton Foundation because they know there's nothing there. If they did investigate, they'd come up empty, and it would remove the power of the threat of an investigation as a means to rile up their base of ignorant rubes. They know that. If you don't then you're a sucker.
You probably also thought N. Korea would denuclearize or that there was ever a chance we'd go to war. Try to recognize political theater when you see it.
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40 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
This. Trump is just a wrestling heel. His aura is born of interpersonal drama and rivalry. He needs an enemy that is viewed as his equal, a counterpart for an eternal struggle. If Trump isn’t fighting the other team’s champion, he’s not interesting and he’s not a hero (or antihero). He’s just a loudmouth yelling at air.
It's a reality tv show presidency. Recall that he reportedly told his staff to treat his presidency as a reality show where every day he "vanquishes his rivals." He's just approaching the presidency the same way he approaches his personal business -- with fakery and bullshit.
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1 minute ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:
Not only is TRump not that smart he is a micro manager and nothing happens without his okay.
Did he attend the Trump Tower meeting? No. Who did? Manafort and a pair of capos. Yeah, he knew about it and it had his okay. But he kept his distance so he could deny knowledge of it. What will tie him to it are the phone calls from Don Jr. immediately before and after.
Trump doesn't use email. He tweets but I've never heard of him texting anyone. My money's on Kushner.
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1 hour ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:
Individual 1 is far more likely to think he could communicate privately.
You think waaay too highly of Kushner. And Manafort wasn't a made man in the Trump family. He's not dealing directly with the boss on most matters. He's dealing with a capo so the boss has plausible deniability.
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1 hour ago, burntorangebongos said:
He is reacting to Tillersons interview with Bob Schieffer from CBS on Thursday night. I can't link the tweet but he calls him undisplined and that he wouldn't read any briefs. It was pretty damning. He also mentioned that many times he had to explain that he can't do this a certain way because it would be illegal. Somebody google CBS this morning to see it if you haven't yet. That's what set Trump off.
Yep. I caught some of that this morning. I guess we can conclude that, when Trump proposes something that's illegal or in violation of treaty, Mike Pompeo doesn't raise the same objections.
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29 minutes ago, 'stache said:
Horseshit. The GOP has run a successful 30 year campaign to make Democrats not just wrong, but literally evil. Like preachers saying or implying that voting dem is a sin. Like catholic churches threatening to withhold communion from democrat politicians. When you consider the opposition literally evil and sinful it's justifiable to "cheat" and to rig the system against them. Not justifiable, but morally imperative. Because they are up against actual immorality, actual evil.
The result is that a compulsive liar who doesn't care about church and who has had several marital affairs is a fucking hero to evangelical christians. These people vote in droves. There aren't any swath of dem or even moderate voters who are going to fix this. Dems should have won the Senate and taken a larger majority in the House. There should be several more dem governors. But that didn't happen. Because white christans came out in droves to vote against actual evil. The dems don't have that type of emotional plea and is why we are heading towards theocracy, which will apply to libruls, but with lots of wiggle room for "true conservatives," because their moral flaws aren't real or can be ignored, cause "conservative."
Thanks, Reagan.
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Holy Shit. I remember when Santa showed up at my house when I was five. I knew it was somebody in a Santa suit, I never knew who. I think it was my uncle. I sat on the laps of a few Santas in shopping malls when I was a kid. I knew they weren't Santa either. I was making out a gift list for my parents. I knew who was buying them. I knew Santa wasn't real before I was ever told. That happened probably when I was six.
Eleven or twelve? Man, I'd be concerned.
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2018-19 NCAA Basketball Season
in Basketball
Bush league foul by Seton Hall. Looked intentional. So stupid.