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Shammypants
May 25, 2004

Let me tell you about true luxury.

It's pretty loving obvious at this point that Trump support is pure tribalism. People want the 'R' to win and they don't care who it is or what he says. If 'R' is losing then gently caress those oval office rear end motherfucking traitor bitch shitbird motherfcukers!!!!

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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

Corny posted:

It was worse in 2008.

edit: actually no it wasn't, the alt-right wasnt as prominent then :smith:

this level of vitriol didn't really spin up until the tea party found its voice during the obamacare fight

(clinton was always the recipient of a high level of this kind of abuse tho, even before then)

Corny
Feb 18, 2006

i am scared
also, here is a pro-read about Obama and what he views as the 5 days that shaped his presidency: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/barack-obama-on-5-days-that-shaped-his-presidency.html

quote:



The dynamic you’re describing sounds like what we saw played out in the 2016 Republican primaries. Do you see a straight line between what you saw at the beginning of 2009 and—


Absolutely. I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump, the emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in the center of gravity for the Republican Party. Whether that changes, I think, will depend in part on the outcome of this election, but it’s also going to depend on the degree of self-reflection inside the Republican Party. There have been at least a couple of other times that I’ve said confidently that the fever is going to have to break, but it just seems to get worse.

Sorry if its been posted before!!! but you know

showbiz_liz
Jun 2, 2008

Nichael posted:

I can't wait for mass produced lab grown meat so I can eat it without being morally reprehensible. But you're absolutely right. The biggest hurdle won't be technology. It will be ignorant luddites (ironically, they'll likely be mostly on the left) who stand in the way of synthetic meat because of misplaced fears of "science gone bad!!!" Anti-science positions upset me more than just about anything in politics because it's not even politics. It's just idiots politicizing reality.

GMOs mostly just bother me because of the related loss of genetic diversity in our food crops, because that makes our whole food system more vulnerable to sudden collapses (see Gros Michel bananas) and also because cultivars which took thousands of years to develop are going extinct on the daily, but I understand that 1. this is not exactly a common complaint and 2. those problems also exist with regular factory farming to a different degree

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

paranoid randroid posted:

yeah hi its me, the guy who paid actual money to see Martin Shkrelli speak

sorry you're bad with money

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
speaking of shkrelli he bailed out failing message board 4chan

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug

Bravo.

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy

Lastgirl posted:

Has there been such vitriol before or is this a whole new level here?

Like I'm still actually concerned someone is gonna get shot on November 8th

Imagine if 1968 had the internet.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/emmaroller/status/783378987833761792

Dalaram
Jun 6, 2002

Marshall/Kirtaner 8/24 nevar forget! (omg pedo)

If anyone has a grenade, nows the time...

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:

this level of vitriol didn't really spin up until the tea party found its voice during the obamacare fight

(clinton was always the recipient of a high level of this kind of abuse tho, even before then)

yea thats kinda why I'm asking because of the alt-righters and you know, like 2 decades worth of republican hate ontop of that

it just seems pretty excessive and the vitriol at Obama was bad too but I don't think I've ever quite seen such an alarming precedent

since Trump is like actively and openly encouraging it, like dog whistling for clinton to be assassinated (twice) and basks in the lock her up chants.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011



I still think tonight'll be entertaining. I want to watch Pence (the "respectable" part of the Trump Pence ticket) squirm.

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!

So if we reverse project this, he's in deep, deep poo poo at home.

Good.

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!
Well that was interesting.

Oh also
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/783432102771437570

Corny
Feb 18, 2006

i am scared

man the response to this is literally so easy, all clinton has to do is talk about republican obstructionism and how they were determined to do nothing. this is such a good opportunity not only to tar trump, but the rest of the republican leadership as well

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



Lastgirl posted:

Has there been such vitriol before or is this a whole new level here?

Like I'm still actually concerned someone is gonna get shot on November 8th

yeah as much as i am enjoying the lead up to the elections, i am real worried that bad poo poo is gonna go down on election day with the kind of rhetoric trump is talking. hopefully this fear is as dumb and baseless as when people were all worried trump was gonna win before his catastrophic week of dipshittery made everyone remember how awful he was at basically everything.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
trump is really good a this 11th dimension chess stuff i swear

Leviathan
Oct 8, 2001

I hear the jury's
still out.. on science.
Fun Shoe

woulda been a pro tweet if pence was miracle whip. because miracle whip is the mf'ing ebolaids of sandwich spreads

Tatsuta Age
Apr 21, 2005

so good at being in trouble


anime was right posted:

trump is really good a this 11th dimension chess stuff i swear

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

paranoid randroid posted:

yeah hi its me, the guy who paid actual money to see Martin Shkrelli speak

thank you for your service

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice
so trump is gonna livetweet this poo poo yeah?

Twinty Zuleps
May 10, 2008

by R. Guyovich
Lipstick Apathy

showbiz_liz posted:

GMOs mostly just bother me because of the related loss of genetic diversity in our food crops, because that makes our whole food system more vulnerable to sudden collapses (see Gros Michel bananas) and also because cultivars which took thousands of years to develop are going extinct on the daily, but I understand that 1. this is not exactly a common complaint and 2. those problems also exist with regular factory farming to a different degree

You should know that bananas are a weird case for all that. The cultivars are completely infertile and have to be propagated by grafting. They're even closer than clones; they're literally pieces of the same plant. All the banana plants we harvest from are like a swarm of human-transmitted parasites growing on the commandeered corpses of other trees that all split off from the same original organism. That's why a banana disease can annihilate a cultivar that's weak to it. The fields of Gros Michel or Cavendish are genetically and literally the same, original plant.

They also only occur like they do because of triploidy which is kind of a plant birth defect like chromosomal trisomy in humans but I don't remember the details for that quite so well.

Leviathan
Oct 8, 2001

I hear the jury's
still out.. on science.
Fun Shoe

Corny posted:

man the response to this is literally so easy, all clinton has to do is talk about republican obstructionism and how they were determined to do nothing. this is such a good opportunity not only to tar trump, but the rest of the republican leadership as well

sounds good in theory, but are there any specific examples of sponsored legislation that was blocked?

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:

so trump is gonna livetweet this poo poo yeah?

Yup!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/783391423663964160

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Not a single fucking olive in sight

Nichael posted:

I still think tonight'll be entertaining. I want to watch Pence (the "respectable" part of the Trump Pence ticket) squirm.

They are both at less than 30% name ID because this country is full of idiots. The goal will be to make him defend Trump statements and then point out his record of being a social conservative shithead on gays, women in the military, gays in the military, abortion, marriage equality, etc.

Kaine wins if he can paint Pence as an extreme social conservative, a record that he is extremely proud of and will have trouble running away from. It's all about keeping educated voters from fining Pence sympathetic.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
Ed Balls

Explosive Hobo Piss

Creased Apricots

Trump Doctor Sex Cake

Tim Kaine Chocolate Harmonica

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
Was gonna livepost this quote but sincerely thought I'd misheard it:
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/783437387565142016

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Leviathan posted:

woulda been a pro tweet if pence was miracle whip. because miracle whip is the mf'ing ebolaids of sandwich spreads

Media false equivalency.

McGlockenshire
Dec 16, 2005

GOLLOCKS!
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/783438048008601601

breaklaw
May 12, 2008

This is unironically a fair question.

Corny posted:

man the response to this is literally so easy, all clinton has to do is talk about republican obstructionism and how they were determined to do nothing. this is such a good opportunity not only to tar trump, but the rest of the republican leadership as well

And this is a horseshit excuse. Clinton was in the Senate during the Bush presidency, including the last two years where the Dems controlled both houses of Congress.

The actual answer is that she would never, and will never do anything to stop the wealthy from scheming the tax system, and she is only talking about it now because it will help her campaign with no real cost to her politically.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

There's a Washington Post writer named Dan Balz who was on MSNBC earlier today.:allears:

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/koolkaryn/status/783438860671938560

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Lastgirl posted:

Ed Balls

Explosive Hobo Piss

Creased Apricots

Trump Doctor Sex Cake

Tim Kaine Chocolate Harmonica

epic mra president bernie porn

TwinsensRevenge
Aug 13, 2013


oh, good to know he's leaning into the RACE WAR NOW narrative

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Wulfolme posted:

You should know that bananas are a weird case for all that. The cultivars are completely infertile and have to be propagated by grafting. They're even closer than clones; they're literally pieces of the same plant. All the banana plants we harvest from are like a swarm of human-transmitted parasites growing on the commandeered corpses of other trees that all split off from the same original organism. That's why a banana disease can annihilate a cultivar that's weak to it. The fields of Gros Michel or Cavendish are genetically and literally the same, original plant.

They also only occur like they do because of triploidy which is kind of a plant birth defect like chromosomal trisomy in humans but I don't remember the details for that quite so well.

I'm so glad I don't like bananas, this poo poo's too complicated.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

also Chocolate Harmonica sounds like an especially filthy sex act

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
Crooked Hillary's stooges thought they could stop me with a faulty write-in pen, HAH!



Jeb!

Also LOL @ Jill Stein having the wrong VP

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
Also I took a picture of the ballot in view of the election judges and I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do that, but I'm that dedicated to Jeb!

Tatsuta Age
Apr 21, 2005

so good at being in trouble


Lastgirl posted:

Ed Balls

Explosive Hobo Piss

Creased Apricots

Trump Doctor Sex Cake

Tim Kaine Chocolate Harmonica

ahaha I legit thought the chocolate harmonica was from my dreams, life is grand

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Phyresis
Nov 2, 2004

I can't sleep, I hope I stay awake

Cause I've been running, running, running all day

Long nights, no peace

I feel like everybody's eyes on me

Corny posted:

also, here is a pro-read about Obama and what he views as the 5 days that shaped his presidency: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/barack-obama-on-5-days-that-shaped-his-presidency.html


Sorry if its been posted before!!! but you know

He's wrong, though. Palin and Trump are just symptoms of a disease that started with right-wing AM talk radio, namely, Rush Limbaugh.

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