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Ojo Rojo

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  1. This is a bit. You seriously could not TRY to make worse cabinet picks than these. Bravo. I've got my popcorn. This is going to be comedic gold.
  2. Stupid and mean is a very, very bad combination.
  3. This is an intellectual integrity test: 1. Do you think that prosecuting people for political reasons is acceptable? 2. Do you think political actors should be prosecuted when they have committed a crime?
  4. There are benevolent and liberal rich, like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Buffett has been saying to tax the rich more for years. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have been pumping this message forever. It's not taking for some reason. My guess is that the political right and right wing media have done a better job of inciting people with immigration, abortion and guns. And demonizing liberals in general. Someone upthread, or maybe a different thread, talked about division in country music between the hippies and the rednecks and how Willie bridged that gap. Maybe a folk hero who appeals to both the rednecks and the hippies would be able to get the message out in a way that would be heard. I vote McConaughey.
  5. https://www.facebook.com/reel/912970430750927
  6. No, I mean that it's actually being discussed.
  7. Yeah, this is normal. Very, very normal.
  8. Sorry, but this is way wrong. Most of the Republican base is not rich; they are pissed off that they are not rich, in fact. The rich, by and large, are Republicans for selfish financial reasons. Demonizing the rich is a tried and true message to get masses of working class people under your tent.
  9. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/30/texas-abortion-ban-josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage/ https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/abortion-ballot-measures-reports-miscarriage-deaths-rcna178660 Not only have at least two women died directly because of the abortion ban, but maternal mortality is way up. It's not as simple as allowing ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage abortion; there are far-reaching consequences. *Edit - And oh by the way, if you go looking for truth in Congressional hearings....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. There is no greater bullshit dog and pony show on planet earth. Democrat or Republican driven.
  10. This is pretty disingenuous. NBC, WaPo and CNN paid a settlement, the terms of which were confidential. Could have been millions; could have been nuisance value. The remaining 5 cases were later dismissed, which was upheld on appeal and then not taken up by SCOTUS. To compare this little shit to the Fox settlement is absurd.
  11. Fuck yes. You can have integrity and tell the truth or you can win elections. In American politics, you can't do both. At least underlying our lies would be a genuine desire to work for the greater good, the downtrodden and the future of the country.
  12. I proposed demonizing the rich and corporations. Uneducated white middle class people can easily hate them and believe they are causing all of their problems. We can also go all in on immigrants because they don't vote.
  13. The difference is that those media outlets report fact-based news tinged with bias. On the other hand, conservative outlets, like Fox, report things that actually didn't happen. There is no tinge of bias; a huge percentage of it is just outright lies. It's not a matter of both groups believing bullshit. It's a matter of one group is mostly tethered to the truth and the other isn't restrained from any farfetched lie.
  14. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
  15. Putting this here to be quoted a million times in this thread.
  16. Is that Roger Staubach in the background?
  17. I don't know, I don't go for all of the Chicken Little bullshit. I don't want to be the frog in the boiling water, but I also don't want to be a panicking alarmist responding to hyperbole and talk without action. He tried to leverage aid to Ukraine for an investigation into Biden - failed. He said he was going to build a wall at the southern border and have Mexico pay for it - failed. He incited an insurrection in an attempt to prevent certification of the 2020 election - failed. Tried to repeal Obamacare - failed. We can parse the record to determine what he did do and whether it was good or bad, but most of those things fall into policy differences, not objectively bad, evil or illegal. I'm not saying I'm hopeful he does good things - I'm not. I'm not saying he won't try to do bad, evil and illegal things, let alone immoral and unethical. I'm saying that all or almost all of the worst things he said he's going to do, based on history, will probably fail.
  18. Summed: Demonize the fuck out of the rich and corporations. Go HARD on immigration. Raise taxes on capital gains (the rich) and the estate tax (the dead rich). Lower taxes on middle class and poor. Go HARD on the deficit.
  19. No comments on the proposed new platform? The guy in the video is not entirely wrong - we can either be right or we can win elections. We need to win elections then we can act on what we know is right. To do that we've got to bring more people under the tent. So what big issue can we give on? I chose immigration. Illegal immigrants don't vote so we can fuck them over with no political cost. Plus, it looks like doing the border will actually gain favor with the very important Latino voting bloc. We don't have to be inhumane to carry out the policy. Hell, we don't even have to carry out the policy at all. It was the No. 2 issue for Trump voters. So we go further on it than the Republicans have even tried.
  20. Oh, yeah. Right. Momentary lapse.
  21. You know that you don't actually have to do any of this stuff, right? You just have to say it a bunch of times to get elected, then do whatever you want and blame the other side when people say you didn't do what you said.
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