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Tuco

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  1. Self-delete: OU Sucks bet me to the punchline.
  2. They thought they could reduce the black vote for Kamala by telling black people she wasn't black. They though this, because they are a bunch of white people living in their white people echo chamber. They just proved why having diversity on the team would be helpful.
  3. GenX also was the first to have political talk radio from early adulthood on. I remember listening to Rush Limbaugh when I was in college because my roommate thought it was awesome. It was different than any other mass media out there. There was no natural resistance, other than education and basic common sense. My roommate was all in. (Same roommate ended up calling the cops on me later, but that's a different story.)
  4. Walz summarized the sentiment saying something like "If this was a TV show, it would be cancelled. People are just tired of it."
  5. I just realized he made the motion like someone was throwing a bucket of water. Gaslighting fuck was implying that the victim was throwing water at the cop.
  6. "You're talking the one with the water?" Dude really does his homework.
  7. But he did actually confirm that he would pardon the people who injured cops on J6.
  8. Not sure the shooter was a supporter at the time.
  9. Um, I don't think she is going to withdraw from the race before anyone votes. I think that will be the major difference. She withdrew from the race on Dec 3, 2019. The Iowa Caucus didn't occur until two months later. So, yeah, I think that is just another bullshit Republican talking point. I think it is also worth noting that she came out of the 2020 election as the Vice President of the United States of America. I think most of us would love to fail so badly.
  10. Just so we are clear, what percentage do you consider the "fringe"? 25% of Democrats? Am I getting that right?
  11. I agree with pretty much all of that. This discussion started as whether a Kamala immigration commercial should be on-line or broadcast. I said on-line, because I think it's a message that should be targeted, rather than a central theme, because it is divisive within the Democratic Party. I think Biden's approach was too Republican and I am sure more labor-oriented Dems would say it didn't go far enough. I think Harris has to address it, but she needs to be extremely cautious.
  12. Obviously, it's still art. It may be art you don't like. It may be art that is terrible. For the sake of argument, it could even be obscene and profane, and still be art. If it's not art, then what is it? Pornography, maybe? Do you think anyone is jerking off to a (possible) blurry nutsack in the background?
  13. In case you are wondering, I think the last few pages have proved why I think it's a good ad for a targeted audience, but probably shouldn't be a centerpiece of her campaign. Actually, there were a lot of people pissed about it, including the ACLU and most immigrant advocacy groups. Let me repeat: groups whose entire charter is to help immigrants were pissed about Biden's jump to the right on the issue. Obviously, it's not a big issue to you, but it is to them. It would have continued to build the wall, beefed up the deeply flawed Border Patrol, loosened the hiring standards for BP, increased the burden of proof for asylum seekers, and allowed rejection of asylum seekers without a day in court. It had some good stuff too, but it didn't have a path to citizenship for Dreamers, which was always a major negotiation point, even during Trump's presidency. I'm going to vote for Kamala barring some insane shift in her position, or a serious mental health issue on my part. I assume chainsaw will as well. The people on this board are not the concern. But if this compromise made so much sense, the Dems would have offered up years ago. They only did so now because they were getting hammered on the border politically and Biden tied it in with support for Ukraine. Trump has changed how the Democrats approach immigration policy, and that pisses me off. I think Harris's position makes sense to politically to blunt Trump's attack, but she needs to be careful on it. Also, a few pages back there was some shit how we should "just let it go" when disaffected Republicans talk about their Republican beliefs on Twitter, because they might vote for Harris. Ok. But in the interest of coalition building, perhaps that should also be applied to the actual Democrats expressing Democratic beliefs.
  14. I think it's a good ad for targeting certain voters (like "Republicans against Trump"). I would be concerned about making it look like a centerpiece of the campaign. For the voters who list immigration as their number one issue, I think Harris has little opportunity for improvement. For lefites (like me), the pandering could be a major turnoff. I don't mind the ad, but it does set her campaign promise at what had previously been seen as a moderate compromise. It's a shift to the right on an issue that is driven largely by xenophobia. Like I said, I don't mind it, but I can see the campaign treading lightly here. Edit to clarify: I think the issue is driven by xenophobia, but the ad isn't.
  15. I don't know. I bet she knows a thing or two about forcing enthusiasm.
  16. I don't know where the venue is and I don't know Atlanta well, but I do wonder how many Trumpsters will hear "Downtown Atlanta" and assume it's too dangerous to go.
  17. Suddenly they realized how poorly they were dressed.
  18. You know, instead of the 800 texts from different versions of Dem campaigns, all pretty much saying the same shit, I'd love to see Harris have a daily informative text that provides one of the proposals from Project 2025, with a link to that portion of the document, and then a brief "please consider donating at this link". Educate your troops in how to talk about this.
  19. To me, "weird" isn't the kid who got ignored and ate lunch alone. I have sympathy for that kid. Shit, I was that kid a few times in my life. And yes, I am weird. To me, it's more like the Aggie: there are bunch of them who have their own weird ass shit that is pretty gross to anyone looking in from the outside.
  20. 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.
  21. "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large and contain multitudes."
  22. I think we should start a conspiracy theory that JD Vance is still a never-Trumper and this is all just a deep state plot to derail a second Trump presidency. Trumpsters and Trump have believed dumber shit.
  23. I think most people are cool with changing the system. But fuck sticking to rules that don't exist. Losing this election won't do shit to reduce the power of the churches in elections.
  24. If you are going to kick a man in the vagina, you better have a video of it.
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