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ndawg

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  1. I can't wait for Trump to be shitcanned and to go back to disagreeing with 100% of what Walsh says. In the mean time, I'll suppress my gag reflex and back him up.
  2. Yeah, this take I almost completely agree with. On the last part, regarding other politicians entertaining foreign governments, I can't firmly agree or disagree. If a foreign power tries to influence our campaigns in a direct and brazen manner, they *normally* have quite a bit to lose. With someone like Trump, though, their whole calculus is thrown off. But foreign powers don't actually concern me as much as our susceptibility to populist rhetoric. Cheers, sir...
  3. You agreed with a post that clearly did. And I did not.
  4. No, they fart in our living rooms. And you're equating that with shitting on the couch.
  5. "By no means am I minimizing how awful it was for Trump to take a shit on my living room couch. I'm just saying, all other politicians take a shit on my living room couch, too. Believe me, I'm not letting Trump off the hook for that massive dookie he left on my sofa. I'm just saying, it opened my eyes to just how often these politicians are just dropping their drawers and unloading their burrito remnants on living room couches. I've long been suspicious that they're doing it, and now that Trump has taken a shit on my couch, I have proof that they all do it, all the time."
  6. You were lulled into a line of reasoning that justified taking the focus off of the corruption of the Trump administration. Think about that for a second.
  7. Cynicism always feels intellectually sound, and the absence of cynicism often seems like naivety to the cynical. There are times, though, when cynicism is the intellectually weak position. If you don't understand how glaringly obvious that Trump is driving us straight into banana republic territory (and, in fact, we'd have to already *be* a banana republic for your assertion to hold), then it is I that pity you.
  8. I don't know, it doesn't seem fair to simply assume the Democrats are just as bad as the Trump arm of the GOP. If we can say that the portion of the GOP that isn't in bed with Trump is less corrupt than the portion that is, then we can also say that the Democrats are also less corrupt than the Trump GOP.
  9. That said, "I'm not Donald Trump" turned out to be a very sound reason for her have been president. Trump really is that bad.
  10. Right. I've just never seen the 2nd amendment hard liners really offer any kind of explanation for this.
  11. A question worth answering, IMO: is the frequency and severity of mass shootings in this country an aberration relative to other countries? If it is, then we can at least set out to uncover why we have a problem that other countries don't. I think the answer is very clearly "yes," but I'd rather hear from folks who think our mass shootings are more or less "normal."
  12. There's building a castle in the sky, and there's moving in. "Trumpkin" is a word that can be effectively used to mock a segment of the population that sees the world only through a primitive, tribal lens. They won't ever listen to reason, and there's no point in trying to bring a better argument to them. Pearls before swine, after all. We should never indulge it to the point where we become what it mocks.
  13. Oh look, TahoeHorn is comfortable using labels that refer to tribal identities, and allow us to overgeneralize groups of people by parroting intellectually lazy narratives. He must understand how this works. I wonder why he asked this question, then?
  14. So? You asked the definition, and then you also asked for an opinion on a laundry list of prominent politicians. I answered the former. As for the latter, the GOP leadership is obviously playing their cards close to their vest. I got no idea if they are personally aligned with Trump. They're certainly not on message boards making asses of themselves...
  15. It's a tribal identity. People who identify with Trump are Trumpkins. People who don't state their identity openly, but nonetheless derail discussions with non-sequiturs aimed at blurring the truth are also Trumpkins. Doesn't seem too complicated.
  16. I wonder what the odds are that all these idiotic Trumpkins waited until the OJ verdict to decide whether they thought he was guilty of killing Nicole.
  17. Sheeeit is such a terrible troll. Expecting that we all adopt an "innocent until proven guilty" mentality is straight out of the SEC fan playbook when deflecting accusations of cheating.
  18. I think you mistook what he said "wrong" to. You said "we can't see shit from our vantage point." We can tell a ton of shit from our vantage point.
  19. That's possible. Another possibility is that he'll find a way to spin a resignation as an "eff you" to the "deep state." For instance, "I resign in protest. And I'll be fine, because there was NO COLLUSION. It's the American people that will suffer, believe me, because I've done more for them than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT. Sad!"
  20. Just because they lack the basic competence necessary to orchestrate a vast international conspiracy doesn't mean they aren't the centerpiece of one. I wouldn't be surprised to find Putin pulling the strings of some very dimwitted puppets.
  21. Your inference that affirmative action and entitlements betray a belief that they are incapable of thriving is a tremendously dim-witted mental leap. It's a stupid, sophomoric rhetoric tactic. It belongs in a high school debate club.
  22. I think he's trying to accuse the liberal perspective of paternalism, which is almost certainly just his own projection. The liberal perspective is driven by the leadership of the African American community. His perspective is driven by the delusions of his brain, and it's imaginary idea of what's really best with people he has absolutely no clue about.
  23. So much horse shit in this thread. Racism isn't the mere assertion that Black Americans could do more to improve their situation. In fact, in a vacuum, that is unquestionably true, but only because it's a tautology. Everyone could always do more to improve their situation. Your racism is revealed by the unwavering, unquestioned confidence some of y'all have that your understanding of their situation is automatically more accurate and valid than theirs. The assumption that if they lived their lives more like your idealistic vision of what a family is supposed to be, they'd suffer from less violence, or be better off. The presumption that, since you're not part of a community being torn apart by violence, you must know better. Since you're better off, it must be because you've figured out how to pull them bootstraps hard enough to improve your lot. The pedestal you're standing on that provides such a vantage point has a name, and it's not "meritocracy." It's called "privilege." As much as many liberals have gotten carried away with it and used it to fuel their drug known as outrage, you should actually check yours. Sure, you don't hold the belief that they are genetically inferior, or that they should use a different water fountain, or be forced to live in different neighborhoods. But your belief structure is compromised by racism nonetheless. Your stupid arguments about how librulism is actually racist are nonsense to anyone with half a brain.
  24. You have it wrong. The fact that words have meaning is exactly why we have wars over semantics. If you can't see the benefits, then you just aren't looking.
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