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hpslugga

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  1. All fair points.
  2. “The report was biased because Hunter Biden, COVID-19 lab origins, the homeless in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi, Vince Foster, and John Kerry hates the troops.”
  3. At least post the one with the right commentary…
  4. Again, I don’t know why you guys even bother with pig-ignorant little shittrolls like this one. There’s a difference between someone who don’t know and someone who won’t know.
  5. That's the very essence of right wing America: all of the rights, none of the responsibilities. Of course they have their own share of apologists, which is just another word for "professional liars who lie in defense of an indefensible position," and of course they have to make it seem like their positions are rooted in this deep, ideological and intellectual thought process. Here's all it really amounts to: magic thinking on the order of...
  6. They would except for one small problem: If you took all of their testicles and rolled them into the tip of a drinking straw, it’d look like kernels of corn rolling around in a storm drain.
  7. Ok so three things about that: 1. bullshit 2. bullshit 3. bullshit I would believe that Trump “got punked” or “trolled” if someone like Lee Merritt or Norman Finkelstein or Amy Goodman showed up. Fuentes is the exact kind of person you’d expect to meet with him.
  8. Yeah, we’re past the point of no return on that one
  9. Won’t need to. We already saw that Kemp had 200k more votes than Walker (basically the same number of people who voted for Loeffler in the 2021 runoff), which means that 200k people aren’t even going to bother showing up to vote for him…but that number will be even bigger because a lot of people who pulled the lever for Walker did so because “I’m really just here for Kemp, but while I’m at it…” The people who did that aren’t going to show up either, and this revelation about the primary residence being in Texas will turn off a lot of them. There’s also the fact that the D’s already captured the senate, so a lot of those “I voted for Walker because I want the senate majority” types won’t bother either because “what’s the point, we already lost.” Multiple reasons to expect a depressed Walker turnout, and little if any reason to suspect Warnock suffers those kinds of setbacks.
  10. Exactly. Of the 6 pivotal states that he lost, in what fucking universe does one have to live to think he's going to carry even one of them this time around?
  11. "Learn" ain't in their DNA. There's a reason that there's a solid correlation between education levels and voting tendencies, much as it bothers GQP voters to hear/read that.
  12. I was gonna say, the hanging chads thing was a real issue that really did happen. It's like the dude you're quoting is only remembering the phrase "hanging chad" without anything backstory or context to it.
  13. Go back and look where they were the day before Trump announced his candidacy in 2015 and tell me that lot qualified as "sane." Trump was an outlier, but only slightly and only in style. In terms of substance, there's very little that separates him from even a John Kasich. The GQP is still, as Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein put it back in 2012: "an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges. “Both sides do it” or “There is plenty of blame to go around” are the traditional refuges for an American news media intent on proving its lack of bias, while political scientists prefer generality and neutrality when discussing partisan polarization. Many self-styled bipartisan groups, in their search for common ground, propose solutions that move both sides to the center, a strategy that is simply untenable when one side is so far out of reach. It is clear that the center of gravity in the Republican Party has shifted sharply to the right. Its once-legendary moderate and center-right legislators in the House and the Senate — think Bob Michel, Mickey Edwards, John Danforth, Chuck Hagel — are virtually extinct." And bear in mind, they wrote that article in April of 2012, when hardly anyone noticed the one-issue clown car of a campaign the Orange Douchebag briefly ran. The insanity of the GQP pre-dates Trump and Trumpism. These are not your pre-Nixon's-2nd-term republicans. Now, if you want to say that the R's who did well in the midterms are "more sane" than the Trumpists, that's fine. Just understand that's like arguing who the nicest guy in prison is. It's like...it's like...Ted Bundy meeting with Jeff Dahmer and Bundy says "wait, you rape them and eat them after they're dead? YOU'RE SICK!!!"
  14. I would love to see MTG get up close to that dude and start pointing the finger a la Jan Brewer.
  15. Just put the little fucker on ignore.
  16. Honestly I'm surprised he's still alive after learning that DeSantis lost his senatorial race in Minnesota.
  17. And that was what I and many others were saying the instant the sneak preview of Dobbs came out: this was the R's "dog caught the car" moment. Yeah they caught the car, and they didn't know the first fucking thing to do with it. But of course, mental defectives like Cement and others will never understand that, which is why they post such pig-ignorant nonsense like the oft-quoted passage above.
  18. No, not the dyed in the wool types. I get that. They’re incurable. But there’s a very large segment of people who are called swing voters who, in this case, allowed their priorities to be massively shifted towards misguided economic considerations and blaming Biden for same, which is just insane on so many levels. But the Democrats never even attempted to lure them out of that, and that also has the effect of inspiring insufficient turnout. Just wait and see what turnout happens to be at the end of all this, and consider what’s really at stake here. The issue really was 2020 denialism and all it implies, yet turnout will tell the sorry tale about how this was “just another election year” where the President’s party lost because of misconceptions about the economy.
  19. They really do. They had the perfect opportunity to spend the last two years explaining to the American public how all this economic downturn really is on Trump’s policies. They could have spent the better part of the last two years explaining how the yield curve inverted in 2019 (ie pre-pandemic) due to Trump’s trade war and tariffs and all that goofy shit that was known at the time to court a recession (as yield curve inversions always do) in 2-3 years time. They knew all of this and didn’t even bother explaining to potential voters that “no, this pre-dates Biden’s presidency, it pre-dates his announced candidacy and it in fact pre-dates the entire pandemic.” It’s really breathtaking how horribly they fucked this up and put everything on Dobbs and January 6th to carry them through today. They had so many more bullets in that gun and figured firing two would suffice. EDIT: and even if the mother of all miracles does happen and the Democrats manage to hold both chambers, two things: 1. it should never have been that close 2. they do not have the sense to put it to use. If they do retain both and somehow grow their senate lead by two, the first order of business on day damn one must be to kill the filibuster and convince Biden to unpack the court. Even if the mother of all miracles happens, I seriously doubt that will happen.
  20. https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-midterms-could-determine-whether-us-joins-ominous-global-fascist-wave/?amp
  21. That’s like asking Siskel and Ebert to explain why a given defensive coordinator should go with the 3-4 instead of the 4-3. Seriously, you’re asking for takes on politics from two posters who demonstrate consistently that they do not follow it.
  22. Can’t put a price on life except when you can put a price on life.
  23. Right it’s not about conservatism any more. It’s about nationalism with these dunces.
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