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BiggerBoat posted:WEll I'll be damned. There's Michael Moore! Moore was banging the drum that Trump was going to win in 2016. He said he knew this then because he spends his time talking to people across the Midwest. Which is way more than anyone at 538 does to interact with actual people. Call it informal polling but in this area he’s got a pretty good track record.
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Murgos posted:Moore was banging the drum that Trump was going to win in 2016. He said he knew this then because he spends his time talking to people across the Midwest. Which is way more than anyone at 538 does to interact with actual people. And the exact response here on SA was also "lol michael more  " followed by a concerto of jaws hitting floors as the words "PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD J. TRUMP" flashed across everyone's TV screens. Polls are flat out useless magic nerd numbers now anyway, so no one's going to know what's real and what isn't until the votes are actually cast. There's a fuckton of people across the US who are going to decide whether or not to end democracy based on what the price of gas is on Nov. 8th, your country is THAT loving stupid.
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/TerriGreenUSA/status/1583627220425187328?t=EK9ZtWzUqscTNDN6f4qaiQ&s=19 wtf is an "honorary blue angel". Got to sit in the cockpit at an airshow?
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Xakura posted:wtf is an "honorary blue angel". Got to sit in the cockpit at an airshow? They give you a coloring book and a wing pin!
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I remember telling my parents that are both Hillary Clinton supporters that Trump is probably going to win. They couldn't grasp that RWM has created this monster. They believed that reason would prevail but it just isn't that way anymore. It is true. People are going to destroy democracy because of gas prices or stupid cultural issues. The talk about banning books that rightwing parents find offensive reminds me of the fact that a lot of rightwing think tanks have been pushing their own textbooks into schools. Here is an example from a while ago https://truthout.org/articles/koch-network-pushes-deceitful-textbook-on-cash-strapped-schools/
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https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1584552900793028608?s=46&t=assftr2_aTUyRWIR_dMrZg I’ve never paid a ton of attention to the show, outside of hearing that they liked to drag people out to get publicly shamed, making their problem worse.
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1584552900793028608?s=46&t=assftr2_aTUyRWIR_dMrZg I tried to get my parents to listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on Phil Mcgraw because they tend to watch his show pretty religiously. This show is basically a way to get middle aged people to start believing the wrong things about a wide range of issues
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My hometown was Amarillo, Texas. When someone made a thread titled “worst town you’ve ever been to” I did a Ctrl-f for Amarillo and knew I would find it in there (I did.) It’s a lovely meth town full of backwards, dumbass conservatives that couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag. Its a brown semi-desert with dust and not much else because it swings from 110 degrees to ten below zero like nothing. It’s super high crime and ignorant but because it’s conservative (and largely segregated by race!) right-wingers constantly tout it as a great place to raise a family. It’s one of the shittiest places that exist. In 1998 Amarillo got a bit of fame when a local cattle rancher sued Oprah Winfrey for saying mad cow disease scared her off of beef and connecting mad cow disease transmission in cows to cannibalism. Oprah filmed there for some time while in town for the trial. This was a stupid lawsuit. Oprah met and hired Dr goddamn Phil to consult and advise on jury selection. Oprah easily won the suit. That’s how Dr Phil came to be invited onto her show and eventually get his own show. It’s Amarillo’s fault.
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See over here in Europe it's mostly known for the song written by two natives but made famous by an English pop singer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqLLDZvbG-U
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freeedr posted:It’s a lovely meth town full of backwards, dumbass conservatives that couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag. But enough about the Western world
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Dr. Phil hates the Cart Narcs. If I were on the fence (I wasn't) that would be all I needed to hear to determine he is a bad egg.
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how can you not love the Cart Narcs. The fact that people get so bent out of shape is so entertaining. They literally get pissed off at being called out for being lazy pieces of poo poo. I also find it incredibly amusing that Ben Shapiro has to thread the needle between Trumps antisematism not being bad and Kanye Wests antisemitism being bad. I often wonder how he rectifies working with Candace Owens after she basically stated that Hitler pretty much did nothing wrong when he attacked the "Globalists" in his country. ManBoyChef fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Oct 24, 2022 |
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freeedr posted:My hometown was Amarillo, Texas. When someone made a thread titled “worst town you’ve ever been to” I did a Ctrl-f for Amarillo and knew I would find it in there (I did.) It’s a lovely meth town full of backwards, dumbass conservatives that couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag. Its a brown semi-desert with dust and not much else because it swings from 110 degrees to ten below zero like nothing. It’s super high crime and ignorant but because it’s conservative (and largely segregated by race!) right-wingers constantly tout it as a great place to raise a family. It’s one of the shittiest places that exist. My dad's side of the family is from Amarillo so I can confirm this. There used to be exactly zero black people living there so every time we visited, every single family member was casually throwing around the n-word like it was nothing. Most of them had never even met a black person. My cousins finally lost their racism when they were zoned into a high school in an area where black people actually lived. They discovered that black people are no different from white people and plenty are super cool, actually. They're now very ashamed of their childhood racism. My uncles/aunts are completely hopeless though. Amarillo might be the actual worst place in a state that's already extremely terrible.
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The only good thing about Amarillo is a song by George Strait
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FFT posted:The only good thing about Amarillo is a song by George Strait Also, it sounds like "armadillo", both of which are fun to say.
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It does have the Cadillac Ranch just west of town. And Palo Duro canyon is pretty cool.
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...! posted:Amarillo might be the actual worst place in a state that's already extremely terrible.
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I lived in lubbock for a few years and I was grateful at least it wasn't amarillo. When lubbock is better than you then you done messed up.
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MrUnderbridge posted:And Palo Duro canyon is pretty cool. I won’t perpetuate this derail any more except to say: this is correct. If anyone gets the chance and it isn’t hot or rainy, go there. Cheap and wonderful. Take a shitload of water. Just about the only good thing anywhere near Amarillo imo
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The new right-wing pundit take on Twitter this morning: John Fetterman and Joe Biden are just helpless old men with scrambled brains, being used by those vile, conniving, power-hungry succubi they have for wives: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1585095585551773700 Beantown fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 26, 2022 |
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Beantown posted:The new right-wing pundit take on Twitter this morning: John Fetterman and Joe Biden are just helpless old men with scrambled brains, being used by those vile, conniving, power-hungry women in their lives: Wonder if Benny plagiarized his opinion 
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Angry_Ed posted:Wonder if Benny plagiarized his opinion Is it plagiarism if they received the talking point from their handlers?
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Beantown posted:The new right-wing pundit take on Twitter this morning: John Fetterman and Joe Biden are just helpless old men with scrambled brains, being used by those vile, conniving, power-hungry succubi they have for wives: Yeah, 30 seconds of Hannity today informed me that all the Republicans absolutely crushed their debates the last couple of nights and made mince meat of the inflation commies. Man, you'd think that every once in a while, one of these motherfuckers would try for a "the socialist dem actually brought up some good points" and tie it into a "we'll play the clips RIght After this (My Pillow) Commerical Break" to bait listeners with a WHAT? and keep them tuned in before pivoting to why that democrat was actually full of poo poo but it's just a constant "everything wrong with anything is liberals and democrats and socialism so buy a gun and worship christ" So totally not a commercial for theocratic fascism disguised as news or anything like that. Since anyone can call and chime in because freedom. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Oct 27, 2022 |
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ManBoyChef posted:The big problem is that the Democrats really aren't willing to change any of the systemic problems that are hurting people in their pocketbooks. The leadership obviously does not care or there would be a lot more talk of the economy. It might be that they are taking money from the people that benefit from the status quo as it is and changing it would effect them negatively. All of these issues stem from the fact we are in late stage capitalism and without making massive systemic change these problems will not be helped. Incremental change just isn't enough for the people that make median income and below. Secondly, we have a farther rightwing party that is hellbent on destroying any of the gains that have been made such as public education, USPS, ACA (which I know isn't really that big a gain) and using their media to convince the very people these programs help that they are somehow hurt by them. Even if they were, they don't have the votes to pass more than one law a year.
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I have seen some discussion that the Dems as a whole are not even bothering to attack the greedy companies that have raised prices to take advantage of people, because a lot of them are DNC donors. The messaging has been primarily on abortion, which while I think that is important, is apparently not what voters are primarily concerned about according to polling. The economy/inflation issues are rating #1 by far. They are afraid to even say anything about the economy, even though the issues are not being caused by anything Dems have done. I think it's a problem that they are just letting the GOP blame the Dems for the economy and not really fighting back. We saw this in 2010 with Dems running away scared from any discussion of Obamacare.
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freeedr posted:In 1998 Amarillo got a bit of fame when a local cattle rancher sued Oprah Winfrey for saying mad cow disease scared her off of beef and connecting mad cow disease transmission in cows to cannibalism. Oprah filmed there for some time while in town for the trial. This was a stupid lawsuit. Oprah met and hired Dr goddamn Phil to consult and advise on jury selection. Oprah easily won the suit. That’s how Dr Phil came to be invited onto her show and eventually get his own show. It’s Amarillo’s fault. I liked David Letterman's summary. hee HEEEE, Paul do we have a little posting music? quote:I've been keeping my eye on this guy, he's a magician or a psychiatrist or something. I think Oprah was married to Dr. Phil, and Dr. Phil helped Oprah when she was going to prison. The guy's a goofball. He's just a big dopey guy."
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nine-gear crow posted:And the exact response here on SA was also "lol michael more This. I think Moore is right to the extent that the Dems will probably do better than expected(keep house and probably staunch some of the chud win of the house. But gently caress if I know.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:This. I think Moore is right to the extent that the Dems will probably do better than expected(keep house and probably staunch some of the chud win of the house. But gently caress if I know. I hope so! I'm not sure I can stomach the increasing damage done over the next two years if the GOP sweeps. It's going to make 2016-2020 look like a warm up.
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Levantine posted:I hope so! I'm not sure I can stomach the increasing damage done over the next two years if the GOP sweeps. It's going to make 2016-2020 look like a warm up. I don’t think it’s a sweep. If it was a sweep, it wouldn’t be close at all right now.
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Seems the NYPost had a little trouble with an irate employee creating headlines that they really want to post These are probably a bit NWS for racism and other bad things   https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1585622075602923521 https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1585622079612850176 The employee has now been fired https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1585678488283107328 OgNar fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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OgNar posted:Seems the NYPost had a little trouble with an irate employee creating headlines that they really want to post And these are different from normal New York Post headlines... how?
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nine-gear crow posted:And these are different from normal New York Post headlines... how? We are still in those times where its sometimes wrong to say what they are really thinking.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The messaging has been primarily on abortion, which while I think that is important, is apparently not what voters are primarily concerned about according to polling. The economy/inflation issues are rating #1 by far. They are afraid to even say anything about the economy, even though the issues are not being caused by anything Dems have done. I think it's a problem that they are just letting the GOP blame the Dems for the economy and not really fighting back. We saw this in 2010 with Dems running away scared from any discussion of Obamacare. The smarter ones are framing it that abortion IS an economic issue, since that's true of course, but you're correct and your overall point is on the mark. Fact is, it's basically impossible for the dems to run on the economy because regardless of what GDP and UE numbers look like, people believe their lying eyes and realize poo poo's in big touble
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