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    18 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Warren or Biden speak to the rust belt voters who turned to Trump in 16 - flips the Midwest back to D and win

    Harris speaks to the minority voters who didn’t show up in Detroit or Philly - flip those 2 and you only need higher minority turnout in NC, Wisconsin or Florida to win.

     

     

    16 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Look at were Obama’s inexperience got us.  

    Trumpistan 2017.

    Im just saying, another Obama could just repeat the cycle of hollow politics.

    The cycle of "hollow" politics is the new political reality.  I don't like it anymore than the next person, but we live in a different age.  Popular electoral voting mirrors the Voice than anything else.

    I have no problem with a Biden/Harris, Warren/Harris, Biden/Booker, Harris/Booker ticket.

    My fear is that 2020 will not an election based upon politics or policy platform.  Rather, it will be an election based upon popularity.  Trump didn't win simply because Hillary failed to run her campaign through Rust Belt.  She was immensely unlikable across a number of policy spectrums.  Trump won on a number of populist platforms that he never intended to implement, but nevertheless, sounded extremely appealing to a segment of the population that sees it's hopes of economic accomplishment disappearing and its way of life eroding.  I live among these people. I know.

    What we need is a younger version of either Roosevelt.  A ticket that people can recognize and and identify with across socio-economic, political, and racial divides.  I just don't see that  in the current crop of D candidates. 

    That's not to mean that they don't represent happy alternatives to our present condition.  I just feel like 2020 is a chance to remake the American political apparatus a greater reflection of the actual population.  I also want to see Texas play in the CFP, so my delusions may be vast.

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  2. 3 minutes ago, staboner said:

    and what is extreme here?

    Nothing.  She is old and has a vagina.  That's as extreme as it gets.

    To be frank, we're still looking for our next Obama.  The young-ish candidate that reflects a new set of socio-cultural values that can cross the political divide in both the policy and the ideological arenas.  

    We don't have one yet.

  3. 10 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    What makes Elizabeth Warren far left?

    She has a vagina.  And she once claimed to be a Cherokee, or some other random Native American tribe that are vulnerable to firewater and other assorted liquors. Everyone knows that's Native Americans are the root cause of communism.  Do you even Manifest Destiny bro?

    In all seriousness, Elizabeth Warren is not far left.  But she's not the 2020 candidate.  The 2020 election may be the defining election of the 21st century as far as American politics is concerned.  The Rs are running their own low-IQ Mussolini, hoping that the "common clay" turns out to vote against brown people.  We Ds are still looking for our candidate.  

    The midterms don't have to be policy driven.  Historically, they've always been a reflection of the popular will vis-a-vis the current administration.

    Give me a D that jumps out grabs you by the metaphorical balls for 2020.  Because that's what is needed.  We can argue policy all day long, but we need someone that can resonate.  Someone that can cover the various spectrums of the U.S. populace.  Warren isn't that person.

  4. 1 minute ago, Ag with kids said:

    Ok.

     

    Which "ultra-nationalist ethno-supremacists" did I vote for?

    May I assume that you voted for the ultra-totalitarian socialist candidates?  I mean, since we're throwing around stupid names and shit....

    I assume you voted for Trump, based solely on your "you people made me do it" defense.  The same Trump who is, by way of his entire campaign, an ultra-nationalist.  Unless you consider "Make America Great Again" to be an euphemism for the North American continent.  The same Trump who has repetitively attacked the media and decried them as an enemy of the people, which matches up nicely with your "ultra-totalitarian" description.  Who has the wherewithal for certain aspects of the Constitution in the days of Planned Parenthood, amirite?

    As for the socialist aspect, you got me.   I voted for the Democrat.  If that makes me a socialist, than so be it.  I doubt you could be bothered to define the differences between liberalism, neo-liberalism, socialism, democratic socialism, communism, etc. while you're being forced against your own will to vote for shitbags that don't represent your own views, but have an (R) in front of their name on the ballot.  It's totally not your fault.  You probably voted for Gary Johnson.

    Nevertheless, I'll cop to it.  I am Lenin. I am the Walrus.  

  5. 13 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

     

    Goddamn it Ted.  Why would you waste such a huge zinger on Twitter when you could have deftly employed it at a 5:30 Early Bird Special Buffet at your next rally at Luby's outisde of Lufkin?

     

  6. 2 minutes ago, Ag with kids said:

    I did?

     

    Ah.

    Yeah.  Ok.

     

    Like I said earlier.  Go fuck yourself.  And your holier than thou bullshit attitude.

     

    I couldn't give 2 shits if, in your delusions, you think that you've actually defined me. You're wrong.

     

    I WILL tell you though, that the way you're treating me (which is how I assume you treat the rest of anyone that's a Republican) is part of the reason that he was elected and why he has strong support (not necessarily from me).

     

    It's like I posted in my first post on this thread...you can't keep calling someone a racist (or all the other pejoratives) and hope they'll come over to your views.  I know numerous people that were VERY lukewarm in their Trump support that have basically become very supportive due to the attacks.  Basically, it's a fuck you to the attackers.

     

    But, keep it up.  It's not working now, but I'm sure it'll work in the future.

     

     

     

    What a fucking disgusting response.  You're not a racist?  Cool.  You still voted for an administration and a movement full of them.

    Is it your excuse,  or in your very thinly-veiled attempt to cast your own views on some "semi-Republican doppelganger", that your own luewarm Trump support is because people call you out for voting for a piece of shit?  

    Here's a pro-tip.  If you don't want to be associated with ultra-nationalist ethno-supremacists, than don't fucking vote for them and don't fucking make excuses as to why you voted for them.  Just fucking own it.

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  7. 8 minutes ago, NIUHuskies said:

    "The walls of a public bathroom somewhere outside of Shreveport" has to be written a country song.

    All we need is a catchy hook.

    How well can you play pedal steel?

  8. 3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    History will not be kind to those that stood on a fence and tacitly supported a very corrupt administration. 

    Here's hoping that there will be a history worth recording when all is said and done.

    At our current rate, history will be nothing more than the acronym "MAGA" smeared in dried feces on the walls of a public bathroom somewhere outside of Shreveport.

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  9. 35 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

    Bahhahaha, conservative protests are the best protests. In the span of a year they've destroyed their Keurig machines, YETI coolers, and now Nike grilling shorts.

     

     

    Cutting up my own clothes while I wear them.  Take that libtards!

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  10. 6 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    Oh I agree with you.  She's a complicit piece of shit.  Just arguing within the framework he presented. 

    Edit:  and if I misunderstood you, and you're arguing that she doesn't know she's lying, no fucking way.  

    No.  We're in agreement.  She knows she's lying, but she's doing it because she's a complicit piece of shit and believes that the Trumpian version of America is the way things should be.

    It's easy hyperbole to call people we disagree with Nazis or fascists or invoke Godwin's Law at the drop of a hat.  But this bitch appears to be a modern, American rendition of Goebbels. 

  11. 2 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    "Just following orders" has limits, and this kind of shit is beyond them. She should've fucking resigned instead of lying to this degree, which goes way beyond the political spin the job calls for.  Since she didn't, she deserves all the criticism she's getting. 

    This is certainly one possibility.  But is everyone thoroughly convinced that she's "just following orders"?  She strikes me as the true-believer type.  

  12. 2 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    News flash:  We aren't better than this.  There is a not insubstantial portion of our country that believes this its he way it SHOULD be.

    We have to outwork them.

    This is the unfortunate truth of the matter, and I'm not certain which is worse:  the sizable portion of the country that actually cheers this scumbag behavior or the sizable portion of the country that can't be bothered to give a fuck that we've become a nation of scumbags. 

  13. 1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

    This country doesn't need weaklings like Obama nor loose cannon blowhards like Trump.

    What this country needs is another Teddy Roosevelt.

    Never going to happen.  Conservatives lose their fucking minds at the very mention of progressive politics.  I can only imagine the hysteria that would ensue if progressives somehow managed to grab hold of substantial political power.  

    And even if we got beyond that hurdle, which probably only occurs in some sort of "reverse-Rapture", the entrenched money in politics isn't going to let some pinko-commie left-wing Maoist spouting socialist try and run them out of the legislation game.

    Unfortunately, we can't ctrl+alt+delete the dumbfuckery that pervades both the electorate and the elected. 

  14. 8 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    No mention of the 4-5,000 Puerto Ricans who died in the hurricane and the thousands STILL without power, I'm guessing?

     

    Unless that hurricane was named MS-13, I’m guessing no. 

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  15. 4 minutes ago, VRHorn said:

    That Trump didn’t show up for this event (again) automatically makes his minions look like fools. The entire point of this is to get roasted, and if you can’t stand up like a man you don’t get to bitch about the results.

    He's far too busy going after a senator from Montana from a bully's pulpit in Michigan to take criticism in Washington.

    And if that sentence appears to be confusing, then it is the perfect symbol for our political system and this insane McChucklefuck residing in the White House.

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