Meathead
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Explains bigly.
like it was ever in doubt
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So you're calling the half of the country who voted for him because of the things he said on the campaign trail pieces of **** as well then?
of course not. many of them are ppl i love and talk to all the time
i tell them the truth. i tell them they were duped by a charlatan. i told them what i told them before the election, it was mostly horseshit dumb ideas that would never fly and he knows that. he appeared doomed to failure as an actual executive leader. his one trick pony methodology for making money by being a hatchet man doesnt work in gubmint. that was always the case and it no surprise its failed here so far
of course maybe i was wrong that he knew they were dumb idea campaign lies. maybe he really is dumber that i thought. but on their merit they were mostly dumb ideas that didnt pass the logic test, made by a man that has demonstrated very poor moral choices many times. a ѕhit individual delivers ѕhit results
still plenty of time to recover and become a good/decent/below average/not a freaking embarrassment president. i dont think he has it in him, but i still hope he finds a way to be truly productive. its a long bet
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its such a bold statement coming at this time so new into the breach of congressional investigation etiquette that nuner kicked off. its explosive if true. if true is key there
like does castro really believe that? or does he have a partisan motive for purely political gain? bc if it the latter that seems like a very precarious position to take
its an explosive accusation that would likely do damage to castros rep if nothing ends up happening, as expected. i certainly wouldnt listen to much of his views on legal investigative matters after that kind of crap
its like a pathetic movie plot that builds the tension but always ends up going nowhere. then he says that and all ears perk up again
what is castro, anyway? mexican? cuban? and why is the other guy also spanish or something? hispanics taking over!! at least there will lots of weed and daytime naps
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"You can keep your provider"
truly a horrible lie
i recall when he said it i was telling ppl how does he expect any of us to believe that? it was sort of an insulting lie, easily disproven by logic. he knew it was a lie and said it anyway
ok thats one. one to ... uh ... rough estimate ... thiry-ish boldly badly baldly unabashed lies of significance by don. and dons what, two months in. its a tidal wave of presidential lying. don has actually successfully redefined lying. what could possibly go wrong?
so yeah barry was just as bad
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lol. what he said on the campaign trail is exactly the pieces of ѕhit im talking about
i guess i really see where the disconnect is now
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Louis C.K.: Trump is 'a gross, crook, dirty, rotten, lying sack of s---'
Louis C.K. made headlines last year after he sent an email disparaging then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and calling him "Hitler."C.K. further explained that he didn't realize how many people would receive the email and was shocked at the media coverage of the email, concluding, "That's not what I do for a living. That's not what I'm trying to accomplish."The comedian then told Colbert how he thinks differently about Trump since that email last year."Right now, I guess he's not as profound as I thought he was," C.K. said. "I thought he was some new kind of evil, but he's just a lying sack of s---. It's just simple. It's simpler than I thought."C.K. broke down the type of "liar" he thinks Trump is."Like there's liars. Sometimes people lie. That guy lied. They found out that he lied. Then, there's someone who lies once in a while, can't quite stay in the boundaries of truth, somebody who lies sometimes. Then you have a liar, who somebody who's almost like it's a problem. They can't help it. They lie a lot. Then you have just a lying sack of s---. And that's just somebody who's just ughhhh... They just lie. They like it. He likes it. He goes, 'It wasn't even true. And then I said they were liars,'" the comedian said."It's just gross. He's just a gross, crook, dirty, rotten, lying sack of s---," he added, to thunderous applause from Colbert's audience.thats a good way to describe the trump presidency: gross -
i considered putting in another thread but the forum was a little dead and figured some new juice would liven it up
deal wid it
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It is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation.It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.Instead, seventy-some days in — and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed — it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced.In a matter of weeks, President Trump has taken dozens of real-life steps that, if they are not reversed, will rip families apart, foul rivers and pollute the air, intensify the calamitous effects of climate change and profoundly weaken the system of American public education for all.His attempt to de-insure millions of people who had finally received healthcare coverage and, along the way, enact a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich has been put on hold for the moment. But he is proceeding with his efforts to defang the government’s regulatory agencies and bloat the Pentagon’s budget even as he supposedly retreats from the global stage.These are immensely dangerous developments which threaten to weaken this country’s moral standing in the world, imperil the planet and reverse years of slow but steady gains by marginalized or impoverished Americans. But, chilling as they are, these radically wrongheaded policy choices are not, in fact, the most frightening aspect of the Trump presidency.What is most worrisome about Trump is Trump himself. He is a man so unpredictable, so reckless, so petulant, so full of blind self-regard, so untethered to reality that it is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation. His obsession with his own fame, wealth and success, his determination to vanquish enemies real and imagined, his craving for adulation — these traits were, of course, at the very heart of his scorched-earth outsider campaign; indeed, some of them helped get him elected. But in a real presidency in which he wields unimaginable power, they are nothing short of disastrous.
stop sugar coating it and let us know how you really feel, LA Times
it wasnt hard to predict that he would be a disaster. piece of ѕhit individual will get piece of ѕhit results
i was hopeful that his not actually being republican would have him enlisting democrats and breaking this horrible intractable partisan war we are stuck in, but those hopes are fading fast. and unless hes houdini and can some out of this whole russian thing unscathed he will be soon facing serious threats from his own party
ten months
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Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday that he wouldn't be surprised if the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election led to the imprisonment of multiple associates of President Donald Trump.
Castro made the stunning comment after Blitzer asked him whether he had seen any "hard evidence" that Trump associates had worked to collude with Russian government officials in any way.
Castro did not directly answer that question but offered his "impression."
"I guess I would say this — that my impression is ... I wouldn't be surprised after all of this is said and done that some people end up in jail," Castro said.
A somewhat surprised Blitzer asked, "Really?" He subsequently asked Castro how high his "suspicion" went.
"That is yet to be determined," Castro responded, adding he could not divulge any additional information at the time.
"If I was betting, I would say yes," he continued. "My impression is that people will probably be charged, and I think people will probably go to jail."
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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message boards like this are a dying breed. the explosion of popular social networks allows ppl to decided who and what they consume. we are creating millions of little echo chambers where we decide on the content and who gets to participate on a whim
frankly, i think its crippling us, in a way
the one great thing about traditional message boards is that everyone contributes and the discussions stay up for a long time, indefinitely if the site is stable and well maintained. that provides a very valuable growth tool for the poster and everyone else to review how they articulate things at a point in time, and how they change their views over timeour superficial transient popular social media communications generally dont have much of that if at all, and its a pretty big loss -
which captain does jerry hughes report to?
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I'm honestly starting to take it as a compliment that I think differently than a lot of the people on this site.
starting?
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The political parties ebb and shift and Flow based on the population at the time so that they have a roughly 50/50 split between the partisans. Ideological purity is mostly what is convenient at the time to win elections. So all this talk about progressivism leaving conservatism behind is really more wishful thinking on the part of progressives than anything else.
Following 9/11 it's been conservatism more than liberalism that has lost its mind so I've been waiting for a conservatism realignment for over a decade now and we've only seen small steps towards that. Conservatism is going to be more resistant to change because it is actually based to a great degree on things not changing, but still conservatism is going to evolve and adapt regardless. It's just that conservatism got a big boost after the sudden rise and prominence of extremism in everyday life comma which was also the major impetus towards it losing its mind
Furthermore, when we saw progressivism Advance too far it became what we have today, a kind of Nazi liberalism that rivals the fanaticism of the neocon movement following 9/11. So either party when it gets too full of itself will always shift towards the extreme, which inevitably screws everything up and opens the door for the other side to edd back into prominence
This is one of the big reasons why it's just wiser to remain in the middle, not as a milquetoast floater who simply sticks their finger in the wind to see which position to take, but more rather someone who recognizes that wisdom actually always has and always will reside in the middle - balancing perspectives brings a more reliable and accurate vision of Truth that one can contemplate and act upon
Bottom line: try to avoid partisanship, it's an inferior mode that causes more trouble than it's worth. Unfortunately I'm under No delusion the partisans are going to listen
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i bet he'd be a bflo guy now
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socialism isnt the problem. this country has always been socialist of a sort and has been the most successful country in human history
the problem is what it always is when it comes to these things: human failings. the quest for total control always corrupts any form of government
ppl can come in with the best of intentions, but if they are unchecked they will eventually start rigging the system in their favor. left unabated you end up with dictatorships
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So what's worse, saying something like this or calling someone an idiot or a dick?
you guys intentionally abuse ppl for making legitimate points, or god forbid posting in some inside joke game or something thread (oh god the humanity)
i call you guys dicks/bullies for said intentional abuse - bc thats what youre being
a bully is in the wrong. just giving a valid opinion and getting abused for it isnt morally equivalent
You're both idiots.
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how long has this bot meme been out anyway? ive only been here a few weeks and its already completely played out. time to let it go i think
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i so very much wanted oj to be innocent but after watching most of that trial live i have to admit i thought he did it. ironically, i agreed with the verdict to acquit bc the investigators blundered the blood evidence, among other fubars. once you remove most of the blood evidence then there becomes enough reasonable doubt to acquit imo
but considering the gravity of the crime and the miscarriage of justice that was the result, no i cant see any special acknowledgement for oj the player. he hasnt really even repented as far as i can tell. its a bridge too far
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cmon man
i dont think trying to encourage ppl not to be intentionally abusive dicks is the same as proselytizing them to convert or something
if you want to be intentionally abusive dicks thats your right but i see no reason not to try to exhibit common decency to each other either. which way works better in the long run do you think?
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Sign me up. When someone (anyone) resorts to name calling it means they have nothing worthwhile to say IMHO.
unfortunately in this forum its become the defacto standard due to the wonderful tom bots influence on lower life forms, aka being popular by being a jerk. its a frail ego that is stoked by that kind of adulation
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i really like obama. he was just way too green until well into his second term, and by then the damage had been done
of course we can also blame republicans for a lot if not most of that with their ridiculously overt sabotaging. but the presidency doesnt have the luxury of excuses. he got outplayed politically, it seriously affected his ability to govern, thus he gets a poor grade for it
overall obama probably eeks out a barely c minus final grade, but thats only bc he surged at the end. but he was well into the d minus category his first term so it could be lower if you put more emphasis there in your grading
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Obama got his dick sucked by the mass media for the entirety of his presidency.
yeah for the most part he really did. especially early
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well good, im glad someone else is interested in toning down the overt hostility
nothing productive happens when you start name calling. these discussions will become what we want them to become
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id like to start a coalition of posters that commit to NOT name calling
i break that pledge sometimes out of frustration but id like to see if we can at least slow down the epidemic of epic ass holery around here
step one is to ignore that stupid abusive bot shtick. it really just inflames the neanderthals
Following AHCA defeat, Trump signals new openness to Dems
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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yeah the update is that they went back to the tea party and the moderates and tried again. so far no dice with them and no movement on working with the dems. looks like don needs another push/defeat to consider working with the left. it should be coming shortly