Polite Politics

[Iceresistance]

9 hours ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

"Waaaa! Soros!"

Cry some more. It is highly amusing.

I'm not crying, you crazy person! There are other Soros-backed DAs that are allowing criminals to walk free in the streets! Including one in Austin, TX!

[Andie]

15 hours ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

"Waaaa! Soros!"

Cry some more. It is highly amusing.

Many people are indifferent until it hits close to home.  Careful what you make fun of.  These are crazy times. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

7 hours ago, Iceresistance said:

I'm not crying, you crazy person! There are other Soros-backed DAs that are allowing criminals to walk free in the streets! Including one in Austin, TX!

Crime is always a problem when some other team does it.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

1 hour ago, Andie said:

Many people are indifferent until it hits close to home.  Careful what you make fun of.  These are crazy times. 

It is only a problem when someone else does it to me.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

My wife is pretty excited to vote for RFK Jr. in the primary. 

[SilverFallsAndrew]

On 4/27/2023 at 5:25 PM, Iceresistance said:

How are they going to enforce this without spying? I do understand the depression part, but that is a parent's thing.

 

And m-rated content targeting minors? I will report it instantly, even though I'm 19.

 

 

But don't worry, they can get on hormone blockers without their parents knowledge. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

On 4/29/2023 at 7:40 AM, Anti Marine Layer said:

I think Pence said some guy from the Lincoln Project gave Trump the idea of asking him to challenge the election results. 

Here it is

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-trump-lincoln-project-b2222436.html

[SnarkyGoblin]

1 hour ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Here it is

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-trump-lincoln-project-b2222436.html

I wouldn't really call that "gave trump the idea".  

I'd call that trump being a crybaby and sore loser incapable of just letting things go.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

20 minutes ago, SnarkyGoblin said:

I wouldn't really call that "gave trump the idea".  

I'd call that trump being a crybaby and sore loser incapable of just letting things go.

I’m not so sure, but it is irrelevant. Even if the LP’s ads did give Trump the idea, he still freely chose to act on the idea. Nobody held a loaded gun to his head and forced him to go into full election-denial mode.

Funny how the self-proclaimed party of personal responsibility suddenly starts saying it must be someone else’s fault the instant one of their own does something irresponsible.

A man that can be trolled so easily via targeted advertising is a man who is unfit to hold high office. (You think foreign adversaries wouldn’t try and take advantage of such character flaws?)

[Anti Marine Layer]

Greta should come to not so sunny Southern California to enjoy the May Gray and write essays on how it's an absolute proof of climate change as is any anomalous weather.

Celebrities in California who live near the ocean better pack up and move inland soon.

[roadtonowhere08]

12 hours ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Here it is

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-pence-trump-lincoln-project-b2222436.html

"Gave him the idea"/Trolled him hard.... same thing.

Man baby's gonna man baby.

[SnarkyGoblin]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3981622-desantis-florida-board-countersues-disney/

Yessss.  The hole desantis is digging for himself is getting deeper and deeper.

[Iceresistance]

I expected DeSantis to countersue Disney.

 

The first judge had to recuse himself from that case and transferred it to another judge. He apparently had a "Conflict of Interest". I lost the link since that happened last week.

[SnarkyGoblin]

Just now, Iceresistance said:

I expected DeSantis to countersue Disney.

 

The first judge had to recuse himself from that case and transferred it to another judge. He apparently had a "Conflict of Interest". I lost the link since that happened last week.

I'm not exactly sure that's the metric of a good idea.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Tal vez incluso más que en la Unión Soviética, la locura ha reemplazado a la razón. En Ontario, la provincia más poblada de Canadá, la agencia provincial a cargo de la educación ha anunciado que la noción de que solo hay una respuesta correcta en matemáticas es una expresión de la supremacía blanca. El Departamento de Educación de Oregón ha anunciado lo mismo. La Asociación Médica Estadounidense ha declarado que ningún certificado de nacimiento estadounidense debe enumerar el sexo / género de un niño; el niño lo decidirá más tarde.

[SnarkyGoblin]

2 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Tal vez incluso más que en la Unión Soviética, la locura ha reemplazado a la razón. En Ontario, la provincia más poblada de Canadá, la agencia provincial a cargo de la educación ha anunciado que la noción de que solo hay una respuesta correcta en matemáticas es una expresión de la supremacía blanca. El Departamento de Educación de Oregón ha anunciado lo mismo. La Asociación Médica Estadounidense ha declarado que ningún certificado de nacimiento estadounidense debe enumerar el sexo / género de un niño; el niño lo decidirá más tarde.

Have you been a bot this whole time?! The translation of this is bizarre, according to Google.

[Deweydog]

Bi Jay!!!

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/gov-inslee-says-he-wont-be-running-fourth-term/6XAHB45U5FCPDBUZA37QEKD7YM/?outputType=amp

[Anti Marine Layer]

18 minutes ago, SnarkyGoblin said:

Have you been a bot this whole time?! The translation of this is bizarre, according to Google.

Here's the original

Perhaps even more than in the Soviet Union, lunacy has replaced reason. In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, the provincial agency in charge of education has announced that the notion that there is only one correct answer in mathematics is an expression of white supremacy. The Oregon Education Department has announced the same thing. The American Medical Association has declared that no American birth certificates should list the sex/gender of a child — the child will decide that later.

[Anti Marine Layer]

[SilverFallsAndrew]

OMG!

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/texas-am-texarkana-baseball-player-shot-by-apparent-stray-bullet-during-home-game-011732523.html

[Iceresistance]

1 hour ago, SnarkyGoblin said:

Have you been a bot this whole time?! The translation of this is bizarre, according to Google.

Here is the translation
"Perhaps even more than in the Soviet Union, madness has replaced reason. In Ontario, Canada's most populous province, the provincial agency in charge of education has announced that the notion that there is only one correct answer in mathematics is an expression of white supremacy. The Oregon Department of Education has announced the same. The American Medical Association has stated that no American birth certificate should list the sex/gender of a child; the child will decide later."

[Anti Marine Layer]

Another interesting one (from Newsweek, not Prager)

https://www.newsweek.com/math-suffers-white-supremacy-according-bill-gates-funded-course-1571511

[Rubus Leucodermis]

22 hours ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Here's the original

Perhaps even more than in the Soviet Union, lunacy has replaced reason. In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, the provincial agency in charge of education has announced that the notion that there is only one correct answer in mathematics is an expression of white supremacy. The Oregon Education Department has announced the same thing. The American Medical Association has declared that no American birth certificates should list the sex/gender of a child — the child will decide that later.

Yes, right, Canada and the USA have more political madness than the USSR at its worst, (purges, gulag, deliberately engineered famines, and all).

Hyperbole much?

[Anti Marine Layer]

Guess the first sentence is hyperbole, but that Newsweek article seems to back up the "only one correct answer" thing.

 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

11 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Guess the first sentence is hyperbole, but that Newsweek article seems to back up the "only one correct answer" thing.

The actual story, as usual, is somewhat more nuanced.

https://www.the74million.org/article/can-right-answers-be-wrong-latest-clash-over-white-supremacy-culture-unfolds-in-unlikely-arena-math-class/

Nobody is saying that learning how to do arithmetic correctly does not count, is unimportant, or is fundamentally racist.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

If Trump wins the GOP primary he will lose the general election in a landslide... No way that loser is going to get over 45% of the popular vote. Would be amazing if Biden wins 40-45 states and just completely repudiates Trump. 

[Rubus Leucodermis]

38 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

If Trump wins the GOP primary he will lose the general election in a landslide... No way that loser is going to get over 45% of the popular vote. Would be amazing if Biden wins 40-45 states and just completely repudiates Trump. 

And he will probably win the primary.

As pundits have been saying for years: the GOP can’t win a primary without Trump, and can’t win a general with him.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

16 minutes ago, Rubus Leucodermis said:

And he will probably win the primary.

As pundits have been saying for years: the GOP can’t win a primary without Trump, and can’t win a general with him.

It's insane to me, as a long time Republican... I know so many people who are Republicans or lean that way, that will not vote for Trump in 2024, they will either vote for Biden or sit out.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

35 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

It's insane to me, as a long time Republican... I know so many people who are Republicans or lean that way, that will not vote for Trump in 2024, they will either vote for Biden or sit out.

And according to the Trump faithful, that merely proves said voters are a bunch of c*cks and libt@rds. It’s a political cult, and when cults collapse it’s typically not pretty.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

I commend Governor Kotek for making sure this happened. What Fagan did may end up technically legal, but it’s highly unethical. With this the biggest rising star in the Oregon Democratic Party is gone. 
 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/05/oregon-secretary-of-state-shemia-fagan-resigns.html

[Rubus Leucodermis]

4 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

I commend Governor Kotek for making sure this happened. What Fagan did may end up technically legal, but it’s highly unethical. With this the biggest rising star in the Oregon Democratic Party is gone. 
 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/05/oregon-secretary-of-state-shemia-fagan-resigns.html

Good riddance.

[roadtonowhere08]

9 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

It's insane to me, as a long time Republican... I know so many people who are Republicans or lean that way, that will not vote for Trump in 2024, they will either vote for Biden or sit out.

And that is the way it should be.  Voters should be able to send a message to their respective parties.  The DNC and RNC have incredible sway in who is the eventual nominee.  Just ask Bernie.

"Wanna have a psycho at the top of the ticket?  Take a 4 year time out and think about your stupidity!"

[roadtonowhere08]

And this is why I am pro death penalty:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/us/cleveland-texas-neighbor-shooting-fugitive-tuesday/index.html

Also:

"The arrest was made in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas"  Really, Texas?  FFS!

[SnarkyGoblin]

10 hours ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

It's insane to me, as a long time Republican... I know so many people who are Republicans or lean that way, that will not vote for Trump in 2024, they will either vote for Biden or sit out.

The only chance is if the never-trumpers immediately consolidate on a single candidate to remove any sort of momentum trump will get winning the first couple of states in the primary.  Having multiple candidates to choose from in the important early state primaries is only going to help Trump.  It's a big reason why he won the primary in 2015.

Even in these forums, there is a fair amount of support for him, albeit less than what it was during the dark days of his early presidency.  

[Deweydog]

https://www.king5.com/amp/article/news/local/ag-bob-ferguson-exploring-governors-job-washington-inslee/281-487a4772-e507-4355-86fd-d8ad985baa60
 

[Chewbacca Defense]

3 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

https://www.king5.com/amp/article/news/local/ag-bob-ferguson-exploring-governors-job-washington-inslee/281-487a4772-e507-4355-86fd-d8ad985baa60
 

aaahhhh ffffhhaaaaaakkkkkk!  I didn't think Washington could do worse for a governor, clearly 'ole Bobby F is saying "hold my beer."

I wonder if Culp will try again...if he does we will have governor's race that will be akin to the presumed Biden v Trump 2024 race.

I really hope we will hit bottom with regards to the depravity of our political system sooner rather than later.  I keep thinking we are there, but keep getting proven wrong.

[Anti Marine Layer]

12 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

https://www.king5.com/amp/article/news/local/ag-bob-ferguson-exploring-governors-job-washington-inslee/281-487a4772-e507-4355-86fd-d8ad985baa60
 

Trebek: BURT REYNOLDS! Where did you come from?

Burt: That's not my name. I'm Turd Ferguson.

[roadtonowhere08]

R.I.P. Norm

 

[Deweydog]

8 minutes ago, Chewbacca Defense said:

aaahhhh ffffhhaaaaaakkkkkk!  I didn't think Washington could do worse for a governor, clearly 'ole Bobby F is saying "hold my beer."

I wonder if Culp will try again...if he does we will have governor's race that will be akin to the presumed Biden v Trump 2024 race.

I really hope we will hit bottom with regards to the depravity of our political system sooner rather than later.  I keep thinking we are there, but keep getting proven wrong.

Politics is politics, but professionally Ferguson is a goober. I’ve worked with some folks over the years that have some very interesting stories.

[Rubus Leucodermis]

22 minutes ago, Deweydog said:

Politics is politics, but professionally Ferguson is a goober. I’ve worked with some folks over the years that have some very interesting stories.

Care to share any here?