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rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
The cum stain that saved the nation

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Rand alPaul posted:

There are millions of poor and elderly people alive today because of Monica Lewinsky.

Jog my memory?

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Lawman 0 posted:

Jog my memory?

bill was going to cut a deal to privatize social security and the lewinsky scandal stopped it

how Monica Lewinsky saved social security

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china
imagine 9/11 as a curtain call to willy tying social security's fate to the stock market

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Agean90 posted:

i dont think the whole "cali dnc fails to endorse feinstein" thing will come to anything but if it leads to more meltdowns im okay with it

https://twitter.com/Clarknt67/status/967861418371493889

and this is all the funnier bc CA state party delegates are made up of 2/3 elected officials/party officials and 1/3 elected by grassroot votes at dem clubs throughout the state. Like, they managed to block the berniecrat from getting state party chair with that lopsidedness but couldn't or wouldn't get Fino the Dino more than 37 percent backing to de Leon's 54 percent.

the vote shows that even stalwart party members & elected officials are jumping off her ship.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

I am actively lmaoing at those who oppose Bernie

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

Lawman 0 posted:

Dems are a waste

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Nonsense posted:

I am actively lmaoing at those who oppose Bernie

whereas im lmaoing at you for opposing the Monae/Case wave, scrubbernaut

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

paranoid randroid posted:

on the plus side ive started a new job at a place that is entirely, 100% millennial and so far my experience has shown that universal health care, racial reparations, and green energy are so uncontroversial that people can casually mention them in conversation and get nothing but agreement so maybe there remains a faint glimmer of hope

we just have to outlast the boomers and the gen x dead-enders
it's good that generational opinions are changing, but always remember that millennial capitalists are going to try to grind you under the heel of their boot just like boomer capitalists

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
“millennials will do socialism when the boomers die” is “demographics are destiny” for c-spam

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

GalacticAcid posted:

“millennials will do socialism when the boomers die” is “demographics are destiny” for c-spam

i fail to see how the death of the current political oligarchy is somehow a negative

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
you loving fools, you neoliberal apes, just bend the knee already to your electrosophistifunky masters

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
you, a failson chapoboi: "well i think that glenn greenwald had a good point when he said—"
me, a supporter of the android from the future and the redneck piece of poo poo: *annihilates you with a blast of pure logic*

Mister Fister
May 17, 2008

D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
KILL-GORE


I love the smell of dead Palestinians in the morning.
You know, one time we had Gaza bombed for 26 days
(and counting!)

GalacticAcid posted:

“millennials will do socialism when the boomers die” is “demographics are destiny” for c-spam

Millennials have no future without a seismic shift in how the government operates while boomers are keeping the status quo, hell maybe even making things worse. The democratic party will annihilate itself if they keep arguing for tax credits and consolidated data centers when all the boomers die. Hell, even oligarchs from silicon valley are arguing for universal basic income because they see the writing on the wall.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

I have never opposed Monae, these lies must end

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
death to those who suggest rich celebrity popstars for elected office

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007

Taintrunner posted:

death to those who suggest rich celebrity popstars for elected office

what about minority, marginal stars who work their asses off to make sure their collaborative artists get exposure while failing to crack the top 40??

welcum to da Monae Party

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
look im just saying Janelle Monae could slap the faces off whatever rando podcast trustfund failsons you care to mention and i dare you to prove me wrong

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
nobody cares about your posting gimmick

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
wow a gimmick in cspam, color me scandalized

paranoid randroid
Mar 4, 2007
[nasal haughty dipshit voice] im sorry could you rephrase your opinion in the form of decorum

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


more purity politics fanatics trying to destroy the dems from within

https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/967973490983948288

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyZKDmAuqcw

(He doesn't actually call her racist)

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

more purity politics fanatics trying to destroy the dems from within

https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/967973490983948288

typical leftists, trying to stop a woman from getting elected

readingatwork
Jan 8, 2009

Hello Fatty!


Fun Shoe

paranoid randroid posted:

i fail to see how the death of the current political oligarchy is somehow a negative

It's not. But it won't magically create progress either. Hell, for all we know gen z could go all-in for fascism if the next recession hits them particularly hard and the some charismatic right-wing psycho is smart enough to actually try to give them free stuff. Why wouldn't they when American democracy hasn't helped anyone but the rich for over three decades?

readingatwork has issued a correction as of 05:53 on Feb 26, 2018

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I just finished watching Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer, and I could have sworn that movie was tailor-made for Bad Dems and Donut Twitter:

A retired CIA operative (who is a black man!) now in a blue-collar job at a hardware store takes on Russian mobsters who have infiltrated Boston. He starts by knocking over a prostitution ring, then puts a stop to corrupt cops from extorting the neighborhood (including the little kitchen of a nice Latina lady), and goes all the way up to revealing a Russian's oligarchs bribes to Congress and sending the proof over to the FBI, and ends with assassinating the billionaire Russkie himself all the way in Moscow.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

a new generation will inherit the political oligarchy from their parents

this new generation will attempt to keep the undemocratic system to crush their generational peers just like their parents did

it is always important to understand that this political oligarchy exists based on human belief sustaining an undemocratic structure kept up by paper laws and institutions. it's the same flimsy structure that kept the kings and queens in power. the masses have the actual power. if the masses don't challenge the current institution, that institution will remain in power

just to make it clear, the institution I am talking about is the undemocratic dictatorships that rule the American economy

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

gradenko_2000 posted:

I just finished watching Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer, and I could have sworn that movie was tailor-made for Bad Dems and Donut Twitter:

A retired CIA operative (who is a black man!) now in a blue-collar job at a hardware store takes on Russian mobsters who have infiltrated Boston. He starts by knocking over a prostitution ring, then puts a stop to corrupt cops from extorting the neighborhood (including the little kitchen of a nice Latina lady), and goes all the way up to revealing a Russian's oligarchs bribes to Congress and sending the proof over to the FBI, and ends with assassinating the billionaire Russkie himself all the way in Moscow.
the xenophobia of the plot can be revealed by replacing the russian oligarch with an american oligarch and witnessing the shocks and gasps from the bad dem audience

Fleetwood
Mar 26, 2010


biggest hochul head in china

gradenko_2000 posted:

I just finished watching Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer, and I could have sworn that movie was tailor-made for Bad Dems and Donut Twitter:


His Magnificent Seven remake was ok. The seven go after a ruthless robber barron and his private militia, then just kinda wander off to chill in the hills

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.
Would privatized social security really go through if Bill Clinton pushed for it, assuming Lewinsky scandal never happened?

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

punk rebel ecks posted:

Would privatized social security really go through if Bill Clinton pushed for it, assuming Lewinsky scandal never happened?

yes. There wasn't yet a Freedom Caucus to blow it up at the last minute for not going far enough.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
remember A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future

lmao

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
even more amazing is how quickly they dropped it

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

paranoid randroid posted:

i fail to see how the death of the current political oligarchy is somehow a negative
it's not going to die when the boomers die and it's stupid to think otherwise. the most powerful millennials are rich kids who are mostly the children of the already well-off. GalacticAcid is completely right, though this belief predates C-SPAM

Office Pig posted:

i was wondering when 'moderate' was going to make a comeback, it's even more of a delicious bullshit phrase than 'centrist' to describe right-wingers
i kinda prefer "moderate" as a way to describe these shills, only because the word "centrist" makes me cringe every time i hear it and every time think it. it sounds like a word a reptilian would hiss as it slinks away to its underground lair

anime was right posted:

remember A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future

lmao
check my last post, it's not dead. indeed, it's very much alive and will be used at future events, on account of Joe Crowley basically being the campaign fundraiser for House dems. presumably he's doing it to raise his own standing in leadership but there's no indication that Pelosi and her crew want to even give up their positions, so in one sense, he's wasting his time

byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

paranoid randroid posted:

you, a failson chapoboi: "well i think that glenn greenwald had a good point when he said—"
me, a supporter of the android from the future and the redneck piece of poo poo: *annihilates you with a blast of pure logic*

 a p p r e c i a t e t h e c o n g r a t s

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


Better Bread, Better Subs—Cousins Subs

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
Better "pizza"

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

I see that paranoid randroid has been drinking & rage-posting at his mom again.

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
Power hierarchies sustain themselves regardless of the intentions of the people involved. Talking about how the answer to the world's problems, is getting the 'right' people in power, who are sufficiently virtuous, is reactionary, because that fundamental power structure dynamic is ignored. You may as well talk about how good a theocracy is, because clearly a pious leadership is more virtuous.

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DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

comedyblissoption posted:

the xenophobia of the plot can be revealed by replacing the russian oligarch with an american oligarch and witnessing the shocks and gasps from the bad dem audience

Self reflection is not a talent associated with the rabid so any lessons learned by this comparison would be lost.

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