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  1. 4 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Carriers like directv could tell Fox News they’ll pay them .01 cent per subscriber. Fox News says we’re worth way more than that. Directv -  shrugs 

    Directv loses subscribers.  Because the biggest block of folks who still love their cable etc. is olds.  Drop Fox, and they'll drop Directv.  They can't afford to lose subscribers -- they're already dying as it is.

  2. 1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

     

    So....I mean....were these "terrorism classes" for college credit, or just kind of a continuing education sorta thing?  Details matter.

  3. 2 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Hahaha holy fucking shit, what??

    There must be a contest for "who can post the stupidest thing ever on Twitter."  Diamond and Silk moved on to the next round with this one, and that is STRONG work....but I've looked around Twitter....they're facing some stiff competition.

  4. There is an 80% chance Xenu will return before the election, we are fucked either way.
    It's like having Lupus, you don't take an aspirin and call it a day, you fucking call Tom Cruise or maybe John Travolta for an appointment with the e-meter to measure your Thetans. You get your ass to the Drag for that appointment and maybe head over to Waterloo for some CD's and try and pickup the cute strawberry blonde chick with an attitude working the register.
     
     
     

    See, this dude knows what’s up.

    Never closed the deal with that cute chick though. Goddammit.
  5. What an enormous coward.  You're either for it or against it--there is no centrist to racism.  To do nothing is the same as allowing it to happen.  How the hell has nobody called him out publicly--immediately after he says dumbshit like this?

    Rubio would need a year of intensive bravery therapy just to work his way up to being a complete pussy.
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  6. Sorry brisket but I respectfully disagree. He only wins if either (1) the dems don’’t turnout which is absolutely not going to happen in 2020, or (2) the republicans cheat their ass off which is certainly possible but won’t be as easy this time.

    Admit it, you were wrong about 2018, and at least admit that you certainly could be wrong about 2020. Your a lawyer right? You ain’t gonna tell your client they are 100 percent going to jail or 100 percent getting off, right? 

    Personally I put the odds that Trump and the trumpkins go down in 2020 at 70-30. Maybe that’s optimistic, but not unreasonable IMO. What do you think? 

     

    I agree that few things in this world are 100%. But flip your numbers. I say a better than 70% chance Trump wins. Because see all the ways that they can disenfranchise voters, hack machines, invite and cooperate with foreign interference, etc. On top of my turnout observations.

     

    But it doesn’t matter. We can MAYBE defeat Trump. But Trumpism isnt going anywhere. There’s no GOP without it.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    Trump is going to keep up his attacks on these women, keep saying outrageous things about them until most of his supporters, even Lindsay Graham, are going to have to abandon him.  He's going to keep testing and testing and testing and more and more people will be like the lady above who, after 30 years, is leaving the party. It's NOT a winning strategy.  It MIGHT be a winning strategy in a more cunning man than Trump, but he's got no internal governor and the strain is getting to him.  I think Lindsay Graham is being blackmailed, though, and will  defend Trump to the death because of it. That's the only reason I can see that would explain his complete 180-degree about face from the things he was saying about Trump in 2015-16 to the things he's saying now.  The Russians probably have sex tapes/conversations between Lindsay and his boyfriend.   Or it may end up with one of these women getting hurt. Again, I don't see it as a winning strategy. 

    It will be.

    Look at it this way: There was 58% voter turnout last election.  Let's presume that it was the same percentage for folks favoring each candidate.

    If Trump loses some of the folks who would have supported him....but gets 90% turnout among those who still support him, he will win.  Enthusiasm and turnout win, not preferences or polls.

    If 70% of the people who support the Dem candidate vote, and 90% of the people who support Trump vote, it won't matter that the "support" polls are 55-45 in favor of the Dem.  Those turnouts give us a margin in TRUMP'S FAVOR of 38.5% of voters for the Dem (70% of 55%) being beaten by 40.5% of voters for Trump (90% of 45%). 

    He's playing the enthusiasm and turnout game.  It's a good strategy -- look at and listen to these folks, they're willing to kill and die for him.  He will win.  Not because more people WANT him to win, but because the people who want him to win will ALL show up and vote.  With religious fervor. 

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  8. 4 minutes ago, retread said:

    Besides fear, the myth that everything is binary in DC is one of the great falsehoods that Rush has drilled into his listeners. 

    I've listened to his show.  This is a standard piece -- as in, I've never listened for more than 10 minutes and NOT heard something like it:

    1) "Here's a story of somebody who we can characterize as liberal doing/saying something that's easy to demonize."  (E.g., some 4th level teaching assistant at Southeast Dipshit State, in a seminar course on poetry, asks her students to use the term "womyn.")

    2) "See, folks, this is how they ALL think. If you vote for any Democrat, that's what you're voting for."

    Repeat....forever.

    Tactics tailor made for idiots, delivered to an audience of idiots, who lap it up.

  9. 9 minutes ago, retread said:

     

    And Rush is speaking....the absolute, 100% truth right there.  He didn't really mean to, but he's A HUNNERT PERCENT CORRECT.

    The Trump base "feels like THEIR country is being stolen."  Absolutely.  Because it is THEIR country (angry white folks).  And anyone who is NOT one of them, who DARES act as if they have standing to govern and/or bring about change in this country, well, by definition, they are STEALING the country, because it ain't theirs -- it's the Trumpkins' country, and those others best not forget it, or we'll just "send them back where they came from" (I mean, even if they were born here, they ain't REAL Americans, ya know?)

    This may be the most honest thing Rush has ever said.

  10. 1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

    Darby was Anglo Irish, but I am curious what link Hugo wants to draw to the civil war. . 

    The American movement lives and breathes because of the Scofield Reference Bible.  More a creature of the turn of the century.

  11. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    Yes.  There are aspects of dispensationalist eschatology, as well as other similar or related heresies, that completely control various groups perspective on American foreign policy posture. 

    FIF accuracy.  Also, you should add in:

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    such dispensationalist eschatology being ENTIRELY MADE UP BULLSHIT, fabricated by a few wackjobs in the USA only, just 150 years ago.

     

  12. 52 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    jesus christ, america is over

     

    46 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Pretty much.  Might as well, what's the phrase, lay back and enjoy it.

     

    43 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    Scotch scotch scotch.  Scotchy scotch scotch. 

    Good to have you here, fellas.

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  13. 5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    The reality is that our foreign policy circus has created a reality where if you don't have nukes and you threaten our geopolitical hegemony, we will drag you out of a hole in the ground and hang you.  And then we get really mad at the countries that pursue nukes to protect their sovereignty. 

    Well, we've made it crystal clear in both directions:

    Don't have nukes?  We'll execute your ass (Libya, Iraq).

    Be a rogue nation that we try to stop from getting nukes, but you eventually get them?  We'll give you all the respect and a seat at the big boys table like you've always wanted.  (DPRK).

    Based on the existing evidence, any country that might ever get crossways with our ambition would be nuts NOT to try to get nukes, and get them pronto.

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  14. 6 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    It's starting to sound like s Back Page forum in here.  So many strapping athletic guys posting their physical attributes.  If you are  guys are gonna start posting dic pics next, please use the spoiler function.

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  15. Just now, Fozzz said:

    Maybe Trump can have his goons beat the shit out of them on the steps of the Capitol like with what happened to the Bonus Army.  That would make for some good tv. 

    He'll just do what he did when a group of pastors tried to protest in Lafayette Park -- he'll get the feds to close the Capitol. Dotard can't handle up-close and personal criticism, so he'll just prevent it from happening in the first place.

    Remember, the most indisputable fact on the planet is that Dotard is a fucking gutless coward.

  16. 1 minute ago, Pancho said:

    Wow even the panelists on Fox Business (I’m at the gym) are saying trumps disavowing isnt enough  in  regards to those chants last night 

    Fuck those fucking fucks.  They happily rode the Trump train all the way to this waypoint.  They enabled it and created it.  They own it.  They can go to hell along with him....

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  17. 2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    You don't think that Rand offers a useful perspective in the political debates related to foreign policy, American military projection, civil liberties, the surveillance apparatus, federal spending, etc.?

    I mean ok.  You don't have to agree with his perspective to recognize that a diversity of thought in the Senate is a good thing.  And I mean, his hair is terrible, so maybe you are right.  

    When that diversity of thought is just self-serving bullshit from a hypocritical lying piece of shit, he can get fucked.

    But I don't know, maybe we really SHOULD give credibility to the king of deficit hawks who proudly voted to send the deficit into the stratosphere.  That sounds like a truly principled man!

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