Standard Measure posted:

That dancing video is the whitest thing i've ever seen

Biplane posted:

AOC isn't a malevolent lich, and at least in my book that's a big plus.

zakharov posted:

Harry Truman?

wizzardstaff posted:

Eh, I'd say the Daily Caller tweet more has a problem with "she's a socialist and will drive our nation into the ground" than "she danced on the roof as a silly teen". I think they're just using a new popular meme to say an old thing.

E: Daily Caller: "The Media, Without Evidence, Claims Conservatives Furious Over Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Video"

zoux posted:

Sounds reasonable to me.

Not from social media but this is by one of its foremost idiots

https://twitter.com/jgrantaddison/status/1082327092321312769

graventy posted:

Not only is he explaining what the moon is, he's doing a poor job of it. What good does radius do for anyone? It's like the least useful measurement to describe the moon.

quote:

As a part-time member of the fellowship of political commentators, I am always drawn into whatever the latest cycle of opinion frenzy dictates. These past few days, the topic that none of us seems able to stop talking about is the coarse language used by freshman U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich).

Tlaib was at a MoveOn.org rally in Washington on Thursday when she was recorded saying, “When your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma, look you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t.’ Because we’re going to go in there and impeach the motherf---er.”

Well, I’m shocked. Actually, that isn’t true. I am not at all shocked. I am not even offended, not when considering the source. There is nothing about Tlaib’s remark that struck me as being out of the ordinary. In fact, in some ways it seemed fairly mainstream and a bit restrained, given what I am accustomed to hearing.

That isn’t because I spend all my time reading graphic novels about longshoremen. It’s because, unlike almost of my team-right colleagues, I spend my time on and around U.S. college campuses supporting the efforts of my organization, Turning Point USA.

Sometimes we can be tricked by the size of something as a result of its actual proximity to us. Distance and depth perception create mistakes. If you glance up at the moon, an astronomical body in Earth’s orbit with a radius of 1,079 miles, and then hold a U.S. quarter in front of your eye, you can make the moon disappear.

People who are talking about Tlaib’s use of the “MF” word need to move away the quarter and stare directly at the full, much larger image it is obfuscating.

Consider some of these other statements made by politicians, about politicians:

“Some people talk of impeaching [the President], but I am for softer measures. I would keep him to make fun of him.”

“...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.”

“A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.”

“The Constitution provides for every contingency in the Executive, except a vacancy in the mind of the President.”

This sampling was contributed by Messrs. Thomas Paine, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and John Sherman, about Messrs. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan.

The language aspect of Rep. Tlaib’s comment isn’t new, and it isn’t relevant. Permit me to pull the small object out of your near sightline and reveal the larger image hiding behind it, because that is where my life in the world of college campuses comes into play.

While hateful political language always has been around, what generally was simultaneously present was the willingness for the same people who used such language about one another to sit down together, sometimes hidden from public view, and find a way to discuss issues, work together and get something done. The hatred and vitriol were a linguistic maneuver. The actions taken often were in contrast.

But now, hatred is the actual work product intended to be delivered by people such as Tlaib. Her mission, like that of so many other increasingly younger, militant politicians, is to get Americans to hate. She and they want conflict, turmoil and civil unrest. They are united in their mission to completely turn over the great American toy box and dump everything in it all over the floor.

They want to kill freedom and break traditional things, and they are being taught to do this on college campuses all across the United States. That is the world in which I live, and that is why there is very little left that can surprise me.

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) says she wants to push for a 70 percent marginal tax rate on the rich in order to help pay for her “Green New Deal,” she isn’t suggesting doing this because she wants to save the environment or help the less fortunate. She just plain hates the rich. She hates the rich, in part, because she was taught to hate the rich as part of her experience in “higher learning.”

While the average age of this new 116th Congress did not change after this election (58.5 years according to Politico), the average age of the new members is 49 years. Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest member, at age 29. This means the average incoming member has completed his or her college education after 1990 and into the 2000s, when the radicalization of college campuses hit an inflection point.

Don’t misunderstand: This incoming class of Democrats with Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib up front, carrying their banners, represents the new face of their party. They are filled with rage, spite and anger, all of which has been ginned-up on college campuses and in classrooms.

There are more of them coming. This will not get better.

In our personal lives, we all understand the difference between someone in a fit of pique saying “I hate you” versus someone launching an organized social media campaign to destroy you. What the Democratic Party is now fully embracing is the actions of the latter.

The emergence of Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez is not awakened sleeper cells; these politicians are deliberate, and they were produced right under our noses. They were the moon hiding behind the coin.

Clear your field of vision. Take a good look. Here they come.

graventy posted:

Not only is he explaining what the moon is, he's doing a poor job of it. What good does radius do for anyone? It's like the least useful measurement to describe the moon.

Data Graham posted:

Uh, he’s mentioning the moon’s size/radius because he’s trying to make a point about how it’s really big and yet you can block it out with a coin, so as to illustrate that proximity influences our perspective on things.

Am I taking crazy pills or is everyone else

Data Graham posted:

Uh, he’s mentioning the moon’s size/radius because he’s trying to make a point about how it’s really big and yet you can block it out with a coin, so as to illustrate that proximity influences our perspective on things.

Am I taking crazy pills or is everyone else

CommonShore posted:

This is like the least dumb thing Charlie Kirk has ever done and you guys are obviously thinking more about what he wrote than literally anyone else in the world, Charlie Kirk included.

TinTower posted:

Standard Measure posted:

That dancing video is the whitest thing i've ever seen

luxury handset posted:

wow that op ed is really lovely. like just badly and confusingly written. this guy is a thought leader on the right? i can see why he hates college lmao


these loving metaphors, drat. and odd injections of numbers and cliche phrases that scream this is how smart people write, i am a smart person writing a smart essay "america is a great mess of toys strewn across the floor. hold a quarter betwixt thine eye and the moon and it resembles the obfuscatory shadowplay inherent in the wicked trickery of these hateful demonrats of whom 63.27% have completed their collegeiate studiation since 1990, the year in which college campuses became permanently corrupted by politics and that is a fact"

Standard Measure posted:

That dancing video is the whitest thing i've ever seen

Besesoth posted:

"People who go to college think they're better than us, but we're above that."

chitoryu12 posted:

Eric Trump tweeted that Ellen DeGeneres is part of the Deep State because she was a recommended account to follow on Twitter.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Don Jr. did the same thing last year

chitoryu12 posted:

Eric Trump tweeted that Ellen DeGeneres is part of the Deep State because she was a recommended account to follow on Twitter.

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/1082341141482299392

See to me this is just like shipping culture where someone decides they're gonna be the "so-and-so/so-and-so" guy and then builds a whole online identity around it

TinTower posted:

Screaming Idiot posted:

It's like spending Humanity or Insight in Dark Souls/Bloodborne. Once a woman spends all her Femininity points she can't summon a man to open her jars or beat the Gaping Dragon.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

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Scathach posted:

I'm morbidly curious where you find these things