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Posts posted by Gap03
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23 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
I think we can all agree that if more of the Trumpkins had been aborted, America would have been a shit ton better for kids today.
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10 minutes ago, Lobo said:
So many of the hand-wringing about this upcoming election rigging could so easily be solved if some patriotic American would just understand that the food suppliers at Mar-a-Lago don't undergo any extra scrutiny. Just what the local health dept. inspects. It's not like the White House food supply which undergoes amazing security protocol. And typically when traveling, a sitting POTUS' food is hard to tamper with simply because details aren't revealed until the last minute rending any efforts futile. But when a guy eats at the same fucking resort in Florida 127 times during his presidency...it's not Rocket Surgery. That Ben E. Keith truck ain't hard to break into. Sure, several innocent resort guests may suffer as a result...but what's the old saying, "You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs." I'm not saying to fuck with the omelette station, that's too cliche. Plus, nobody dreams of being the omelette chef, you wanna be the chef-chef. Now instead of giving the orders, he's taking the orders from your stupid wife and your ugly kids.
What's the average age of folks that eat at Mar-a-Lago? Most of them are going to die soon anyway ...
Is that how that's done?
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14 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:
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Koch Brothers
Robert and Rebekah Mercer
Sheldon Adelson
Rush Limbaugh
Newt Gingrich
Chief Justice John Roberts
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15 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
The fight continues.
Get 'em!
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4 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:
She tried to make this a thing 2 months ago and it didn’t catch on then either. Hate pouring cold water
Agreed - she's been playing this war hero thing for a long time, and is still polling well behind Biden in Texas. She needs to do some attack ads that strap Cornyn to Trump (which shouldn't be hard) and hope that she and Biden can ride the wave of new D voter registrations to victory.
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4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Collins will be given permission to speak out against the SCOTUS nominee and support any vote to allow the next President to decide. Her vote isn't needed and Mitch will agree it is better to let her disagree with the party line.
McConnell and Collins have played this card one too many times - I don't think anyone believes her, given she only goes against Mitch when it doesn't matter. Hopefully Gideon has saved some money for ads to hammer her on this.
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15 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:
This will cause a mood, no doubt.
It dawned on me watching that video why Trump hates wearing masks so much - they really emphasize his vagina neck.
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Sorry if I missed it, but did we ever get a straight answer for why there was no body camera footage of this? I had seen that at least one of the officers involved actually had a body cam on his vest, but apparently there was no video?
Given recent history, it feels like the absence of video should cut against the police in instances where there is an expectation of potential escalation. Cops forgot to start their body cams? We should be starting with the presumption that the victim's account of what happened is accurate and needs to be overcome by third party testimony / evidence. Fuck this whole "You forgot to start your cam but say that you announced yourself? Oh, okay, fire away" bullshit. You have the camera to support your version of what happened; if cops hadn't proven themselves so untrustworthy, we wouldn't be here.
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31 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Yes, the country took a sharp turn to the right after 1980; and yes, certain non-truths were advanced then that from time to time one sensed a Weimaresque odor in the air: ketchup was a vegetable; trees caused pollution; Saddam Hussein was a good guy. But most of the time, Reagan accepted facts, such as that Social Security was in trouble in 1983, which is why he agreed to tax increases. George H.W. Bush did, too.
The effort to obliterate truth, and to elevate ideology and culture higher than factual truth, really began with Newt Gingrich. He was our first proto-fascist politician. He just said things, vicious things, out of thin air, complete inventions (one-quarter of Clinton White House staffers were taking illegal drugs), and he said them with intent—as a political weapon, to heighten the tension, divide us into camps.
This man is dangerous, some said. Oh, yes, he’s over the top sometimes. But you gotta admit he’s interesting.
Then came Rush Limbaugh. The entire purpose of his show from the beginning was to destroy truth and any sense of common, shared reality. And to get conservatives to leap from disagreeing with liberals to despising them. This, too, is a necessary ingredient of authoritarian power: domestic foes are evil. Subhuman.
This guy is way over the line, many said. Well, yes, in some ways; but look, bottom line, he’s an entertainer. People don’t really take him that seriously.
Then came Tom DeLay. Often overlooked these days, DeLay was a crucial soldier in this march to bury truth. He really started the aggressive gerrymandering and enforced the Hastert Rule—in other words, he made the first serious moves toward the anti-democratic stacking of the electoral deck to rig the game, which is the kind of thing you get away with, as DeLay knew, by accusing the other side of doing it. Then of course he was a key player in the Terri Schiavo madness, using that poor woman (in a vegetative state with no hope of recovery, her doctors said) as a bullet in the culture war.
And of course there was Karl Rove back in those days, too. John Kerry was a war hero, an upper-class Yale graduate who could easily have skipped the army but who volunteered anyway; who killed how many men for his country, risked his life how many times, we still don’t know. But Rove knew that he had to obliterate those truths in 2004, and the way to do that was to tell a morally sick anti-truth: to turn Kerry into a coward and a traitor.
DeLay and Rove, many of us were writing and saying, are taking this country to dark, unprecedented places. Oh, yes, some of this is pretty shocking, more hardball than usual. But creeping fascism? Don’t be silly.
On and on it went, too many steps to name here, each one taking us that much closer to the rendezvous with destiny that awaits us after Nov. 3. Barack Obama was a Kenyan, a Muslim. The antichrist, even. Subhuman, in other words. This was where Donald Trump started joining in, and from there, it made sense that each of those desecrations of truth led to Trump. I feel like an idiot today for thinking in the summer of 2015 that he’d fade in a few months. I didn’t understand how many millions of people had been persuaded to embrace unreality.
Now, it turns out the most important anti-truth of recent vintage was the one about voter fraud. This is what Trump will use to steal the election if he can.
If current polls hold, Joe Biden will win by maybe 6.5 or 7 points nationally, which could be as many as 10 million votes, and The Economist as I write these words predicts a 333-205 Electoral College majority for Biden. Trump and Bill Barr and Fox News and all the rest of them will call even this illegitimate—10 million votes, and 128 electoral votes. And they’ll pull every trick they can, from Nov. 4 to Jan. 20. That Barton Gellman piece The Atlantic posted Wednesday covered much of the grim territory.
They’ll say then the most outlandish things they’ve ever said, things that will shock us (even though we think we’re beyond shocking), because fascists know: The clearer the factual truth, the louder and more outrageous must be the anti-truth.
I can’t believe I’m writing this way about the United States. But then again, I’ve seen this coming for a long time. I just never really thought we would end up all the way here. But it’s where Donald Trump has brought us.
That is fucking terrifying - mostly because it's become clear that this is where we're heading ...
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5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
This would be incredibly weak shit. It might be worth doing on its own merits, but hardly addresses the problem of conservative judges overturning democratically enacted policies.
And wouldn't this leave decisions to lower federal courts, which have also been jam-packed with Republican crazy / stupid over the McConnell reign? I agree with Wildcat. I don't think that's going to have any deterrent effect for the Rs, who have long demonstrated their willingness to act in bad faith.
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6 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
This is a microcosm of the world we live in, and a byproduct of the internet. One person googles a bunch of articles and studies that fit their predetermined narrative, cherry picking the data and numbers they want, while the other party had studied the subject for 50 years and has to explain to the first person why they have no fucking clue what they are talking about.
The problem is unlike 50 years ago, the internet guy still thinks he’s right after the conversationI posted this video not long ago, but I was having flashbacks watching Rand so I feel compelled to share it one more time:
Rand with another "global wobbling" / "CO2 toxicity" / "ice cube displacement" moment, brought to you once again by the Republican Party ...
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This guy is always worth a listen, if for no other reason than him coining phrases such as "greasy Kentucky fuck turtle" and "pant-shitting combination of The Handmaid's Tale and the Book of Fucking Revelations" ...
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Just now, sachick said:
Do these middle of the night, barging in warrants happen in Texas? Can’t imagine that a Texan wouldn’t start firing on anyone coming in all crazy in the middle of the night.
You'd think that this fact pattern would resonate with the castle doctrine / "If someone steps into mah house at night, Ima fill 'em full of lead" types. I mean, if you don't hear the police announcing themselves (or the police just lie about it), you're dead and your family is shit outta luck. You'd think they'd be crying about "her FreEdUmS!", wouldn't ya? I guess as long as the no-knock warrants are only granted in low-income, minority areas, nothing to worry about ...
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18 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:
Here’s the video. Good for Fauci.
Pissed off Fauci is definitely the best Fauci for 2020 ...
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1 minute ago, TexasMan said:
They do know their demo, don't they?
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Hopefully they picked a particular Trumpy batch of voters, but goddamn FL and AZ ... BTW, this is supposed to be one of the most reliable pollsters in FL and AZ.
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11 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
It's a good question. He will downplay it. Shit, he may honestly not want to, but I think the Ds will sway him in the end.
I don't think he really has to answer definitively. I would anticipate something like: "I never would have considered it in the past, but when the dust settles, we'll have to evaluate whether the conduct of the Republican Party over the past X years (especially with respect to consideration of nominees to the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary more broadly), when coupled with abuse of the federal courts by Trump, Barr and his administration) necessitates a rethinking of that position."
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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
While we're fixing things, let's take another look at the Fairness Doctrine and Citizens United. You know, if we're making a list and all.
It's gonna take a packed USSC to unwind Citizens United, so just another reason to get on that right away. I'm totally on board with a reinstituted Fairness Doctrine to rein in the neverending onslaught of stupid from Fox News, OAN and their successors.
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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Yeah, not Facebook. They're evil at this point until proven otherwise.
Think that's what he's saying - SNAP and their nudes (Allies) vs. Facebook (Germany) / Twitter (Italy).
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22 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:
Soon the Supreme Court will barely fit into JerryWorld. The Dems didn’t start it but they should end it by going batshit crazy in the other direction and put MoscowMitch 6 feet under.
Until the Rs prove that they can behave like grown-ups, I'm fine with going scorched earth. Maybe there is a fallback to a Buttigieg-style reform (5 Ds, 5 Rs, 5 appointed by sitting members) in an effort to unify the country at some point, but a point needs to be made now. The Rs have been fucking around for far too long, and now it's time for them to find out.
#FAFO2021
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2 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:
That and there's always the chance that someone Pelican Briefs Trump's 3 justices after the election.
The constant stoking of violence is not going to end well I fear.
If I were a SC justice, I'd be asking for a bit of extra security these days. Shit is crazy right now, and while the Dems don't have the sheer number of loons that the Rs have, it doesn't take an army. Shit, I wouldn't put it past Putin to put a false flag "Dem assassination attempt" in place to dial the madness up to 13. Can you imagine the Fox / OAN coverage?
/Tin foil hat off/
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5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
fuck
Romney was never going to give up the chance to try to cement the corporate personhood caselaw. He and his PE buddies need to be able to buy political influence for all time.
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