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  1. 15 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    Could a gay dude actually be elected President? I think so. It just isn’t a big deal anymore. The voters that would vote against him probably are the ~35% that wouldn’t vote for a democrat anyway. He’s a Midwesterner that can talk to the Blue Wall and will also bring progressives into the fold. I’m intrigued 

    I think being a small town mayor would hurt him more than being gay. Once he gets elected to a higher office he will be a force in the future.

  2. 1 hour ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Damn... Always appreciated the fact that he told Perry where to stick it. Hook'em

    His stand against Perry was admirable at the time. Despite all of the political pressure coming down he stood up to the governor and defended the University. It also showed the rest of the world who the 500 pound gorilla is and no one fucks with Texas.

     

     

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  3. Allowing 16/17 year olds to vote would just grant an extra vote to people with kids and diminish the voting block of people without kids. The majority of teens with political views will just be a mirror of their parents. At least college age kids might have been exposed to different views from what they were raised on.

     

     

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Right, but absent social media and the platforms that enable the proliferation of this nonsense it would be nothing like it is today. 

    Is it really any different? Actually it seems more tame now than in the 90's when the milita movement was thriving off of U.N. Black Helicopter theories and having standoffs with the feds at compounds across the country while celebrating the OKC bombing.

     

  5. On 3/7/2019 at 8:19 AM, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The shocking part is not the theory but how wide spread and accepted it is. Thanks to clickbait grifters, it’s like there is a Bircher bookstore inside every Starbucks. 

    None of it is shocking, the Qanon audience is the same audience that has been consuming this type of material for years. This way of thinking isn't for everybody so I don't see it ever becoming widespread.

    These people are not dumb, even dumb people have a bullshit filter, these people likely have some kind of behavioral condition that compels them to seek out causation for even the most mundane events.

  6. 14 hours ago, Js1 said:

    This is the major problem I have with the "displaced Republicans" who hate Trump and what the GOP is now.  I'm sorry you don't have a home.  But don't walk into someone else's and tramp mud throughout and break the furniture and spill your beer and tell us our ideas are too extreme and you hate them and try to turn the Democrats into your old party.  

    The Democratic party is not anyone's home it's just a political tent made up of various coalitions with access to ballots in all 50 states plus the televised debates. The party itself isn't anything like it was 50 years ago back when all the Southern deplorables were Democrats before switching parties and chasing off the RINOs from the GOP. The party changes, considering how easy it is to switch political parties you would think party shifts would happen more often.

    Anyways, considering we exist in a Two Party system, it's part of the natural political process for the displaced Republicans to switch parties and change it's direction if they have the numbers.

     

  7. This Qanon thing isn't that shocking. One time in the 90's I stumbled into a Bircher bookstore and the shelves were stocked full of self-published conspiracy theory books. I flipped through a few of the books and they were pure bat shit crazy theories. These Qanon people are just an extension of Bitcher conspiracy nuts that have been obsessed for decades with secret satanic societies that control governments, media and banking.

     

     

  8. 59 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Also, I need to disagree with you here. Again, raised Southern Baptist.

    No, I was never taught that Christ and God were one and of the same. On the contrary, I was taught to believe that he was a man just like any other. I became, however, vaguely aware at some point in my teenage years that others believed differently.

    I'd guess that Southern Baptists make up well beyond 3 percent of Christianity (well, certainly in America).

    Southern Baptists are most definitely Trinitarian. Either you were not paying close attention growing up or were not attending an actual SBC church. Any church teaching anti-trinitarian doctrine would have been disassociated from the SBC with extreme prejudice.

    Southern Baptists may not be big on doctrine but the Trinity is one of the few pieces of orthodox Christianity they uphold.

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  9. 6 minutes ago, mdmost said:

     The Daily had a great show today on what happened to Lindsey Graham where he admits the reason he supports Trump wholeheartedly now is Trump gives him the attention and influence he's always craved. He wants relevancy and Trump gives him that. 

    So Graham is Stevie from Eastbound and Down after teaming up with Trump?

    ing+george+washington+how+stevie+from+ea

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  10. 15 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Reagan had some decent people working with him, and he wasn't openly trying to gut the country to line his own pockets. I'm no huge fan of Reagan, but I know he thought he was doing what was best for America. That should be a given for a President, but the current White House doesn't give a fuck about our country at all. 

    I think with only 4 years of Trump, we will be fine. But 8 years is a long time and a lot of the people who actually know what the fuck they are doing in our law enforcement and regulatory agencies will be out the door by 2024. In 2020, there will be enough of them left to right the ship. Needs to be 2020.

    True, I believe the Reagan administration was sincerely attempting to make America great while seeking and destroying the enemies of America, both real and imagined. Whether one agrees with their strategy is a separate conversation but the administration was sincere in it's attempt to make America kick ass.

    The Trump administration uses the Reagan era patriotism as a marketing ploy to grift. They are the Froot Loops of patriotism, it sounds kinda healthy but it lacks nutrition and is actually pretty bad for your health.

     

  11. 1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    Something that was touched upon several times in the recent Cohen hearings was that dotus does not speak directly: he speaks in code. I wonder who all has access to the decoder

    Narrator: But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang, and various grunts.

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  12. 1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

    Has anyone told him this is a great way to lose in 2020?

    Maybe for a normal politician but Donald is the Jason Voorhees of politics. He is incurable herpes and will not go away.

     

  13. My all time favorite comedic actor is John Candy and Uncle Buck being my favorite John Candy movie with PTA coming in 2nd but I celebrate all of his work. In college we used to constantly drop John Candy lines when we were high.

    Nothing but Trouble is amazing when you are high.

    john-candy-dressed-in-drag-and-overview-

  14. 6 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

    It may have been too much of a pretty little bow for a lot of people here, but some sort of jump forward postscript would've been cool. Maybe see Oleg reuniting with his family 5 years down the road or something.  

    Yeah, a time jump where we see Russia a few years after the fall of Communism would have been nice but a bit cheesy. Oleg being released would have been good. Henry contacting his family via the internet and seeing Paige working at some bar under an alias would have been good too. We never got to see Phillip meet his son which bummed me out but him moving in with Phillip's brother was a nice touch. For sure we needed to see Phillip line dancing in Russia.

    By the way, it's assumed Paige had to live on the run, correct?

     

  15. 8 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Damn I loved her back in the day...I actually went out with a girl that looked a lot like her for a while. I think I'm gonna look her up on FB and see how she's... oh my god, why did I do that! 

    I hadn't seen her in awhile until Stranger Things. Considering they made her look. really rough around the edges for her role, I think she looked pretty good.

     

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