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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy

Business Gorillas posted:

I appreciate these posts that have apparently wormholed from a d&d thread circa March 2016

actually they wormholed from march 2000, but hang on to them, they'll be fresh again in 2032 if america is still around by then

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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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welp, i guess i can now honestly say that trumpcare isn't all bad :)

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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got any sevens posted:

Dems should try doing things for leftists if they want their votes.

i get the frustration and anger but politics is hard, bro. the system makes it easier to stop changes than to push it through. gently caress, if you don't believe it for the dems, check the gop. you think paul ryan likes the dogshit healthcare plan they put out? he wants full repeal, and to get rid of medicare too. but he doesn't have the votes.

what i want to hear is, how do we do better? bc "blow up the system" isn't working. those red-stater assholes that were supposed to wake up and realize that free-market ideology is screwing them over? yea, they finally changed their minds. they want government benefits. but they aren't supporting the socialist, they're supporting the fascist, cuz they're still racist as gently caress. the left isn't some hidden supermajority. if you won't work with allies and make compromises how do you do better?

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hodgepodge posted:

i honestly think that a large portion of the "left" just likes affirmation of the idea that they are better than the right, and the awfulness of the right, democratic polticians, and human suffering all facilitate this and are therefore nothing but the desired result

eh, the firebagger portion of the left would be equally thrilled to turn on a president sanders the moment he needs to compromise with centrists to get anything done. the cspam thread would be something like "post sad bernie cucks realizing that their socialist messiah sold them out"

also, leftie activism in the primaries of senate and house races is also really important to give any future dem president the votes to get their domestic agenda through congress. if the green party (for example) was serious about moving an agenda instead of grandstanding, it could stay out of the presidential races for now and focus hard on getting some seats in congress in deep blue states. build up party infrastructure and some dem allies, be like a pseudo-parliamentary coalition. eventually it might become strong enough to force the dems to either move left or be supplanted as the second major national party. but right now they're just someone's vanity project every 4 years

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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e: ill stop now

Dixie Cretin Seaman has issued a correction as of 22:14 on Mar 12, 2017

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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pfizerman posted:

I voteds are your quintessential swing demographic - your bandwagon fan. Like the above they're too dumb to read policy, too angry to have consistent voting patterns, but they lack that chip in their brain that impels them to follow one team. They just hop on the hot ticket and complain when they are inevitably disappointed by a sport they are too ignorant to follow



theory checks out

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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also enjoyed this [fake] one:

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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i haven't seen any evidence, but i wouldn't put it past a deep-pocketed conservative group to convince someone to pass up the subsidy and pay them the difference under the table, just to have someone to trot out

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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My Linux Rig posted:

in a shocking twist, it turns out there are gonna be death camps, but for trump supporters????

nope, government camps would be a new entitlement. they'll get death gutters and like it

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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The Brown Menace posted:

"We did it, we destroyed all the boomers!"

Trump: "No, there's one more left."

*Trump gives thumbs up as he is submerged in a vat of boiling piss*

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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https://twitter.com/Juanita45187442/status/842054987614060544

https://twitter.com/ArmandUomoleale/status/841677120992661504

https://twitter.com/david_raygor/status/841666410472452098

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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lol this dude is now our national mascot for the next four years

today on talk radio a trump voter called in saying she was disappointed so far. she voted for him bc she thought he would make bipartisan deals and being the country together. how do these ppl exist?

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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uber_stoat posted:

yeah. I've heard all kinds of different reasons provided for why Trump got their vote and many of them bear no relation to anything Trump ever even said he was going to do. Trump's the avatar of these people's dreams and fantasies. how do people so stupid exist?

yeah, but otoh, his campaign was consistent on exactly three issues:

a) naked bigotry
b) russophilia
c) robust safety nets, including universal healthcare

he delivered on the first 2 in spades. it was obvious to ppl even vaguely familiar with GOP politics that he couldn't do the third even if he wanted to. but it wasn't completely crazy for low-info voters to believe him on that.

hell, if ryan manages to get his abomination to trump's desk in the midst of massive popular outrage, i wouldn't rule out trump pulling a veto at the last minute. he would get to pay back ryan for his tepid support during the election while grandstanding as the savior of the forgotten man. im sure bannon is whispering the idea into his ear right now

Lindsey O. Graham posted:

we are all losers in trump's america, unless you were already a winner beforehand


:cheers:

oh lindsey, everyone can see you're living a lie. isn't it time you formally announce that you're "playing for the other team"? lord knows they'd welcome you without judgement..
(obviously, i'm talking about the blue dog democrats)

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Lindsey O. Graham posted:

exactly

and my constituency is where?
south carolina
it's not happening; my sister likes nice things, and i like power; try again when i retire

but i was led to believe that you never refuse a dixie cretin seaman :mad:

s'all good, if u and mccain ever get serious about purging the ruskies from your party im sure we can lend a hand :tipshat:

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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lol, more dipshits

It works for 56-year-old Linda Preast, who signed up for the program two years ago after a stroke left her in a wheelchair. Meals on Wheels delivers to her every weekday. Like most residents in Jones County, she voted for Donald Trump.

“Are you surprised?” Miller asked.

“Yeah,” Preast said. “Because he was told- I was under the influence that he was going to help us.”

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Another trumpkin on npr this morning: lost his farm to the midwest wildfires and upset that he hasn't heard trump mention them even once. agrees the us needs to spend less bc of debt but upset that the trump budget cuts disaster aid. would appreciate if the federal government would help him back on his feet, but NOT looking for a handout

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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got any sevens posted:

Hm, article didnt say why he didnt have a green card.

it sounds like he did? there's more in this article

quote:

Beristain, 43, has a work permit, driver’s license and a legal Social Security number — thanks to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which has been aware of his deportation order dating back to 2000, said his immigration attorney, Jason Flora, of Indianapolis.

Beristain is being kept apart from his wife, Helen, a U.S. citizen who’d immigrated from Greece more than 30 years ago, along with three kids at home in Mishawaka’s Winding Brook subdivision — two daughters, ages 14 and 15, and an 8-year-old son.

i'd have thought he'd be eligible for citizenship by now given that he's married w/3 kids to a citizen, but they're trump supporters, so maybe they were too stupid to file paperwork

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

Weed was made illegal to deport Mexicans and open up jobs for "Americans" during the depression

i heard it was made illegal by ~Big Paper~ bc they were afraid of a superior hemp-based product :jerkbag:

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy

indigi posted:

remember when someone yesterday complained that politics was hard and you can't whip senators/representatives into voting the way you want

i said that, over a week ago, and its held up drat well. even i wasn't expecting the gop to just give up on repealing the aca two months in, after 7 years of promises.

now that universal healthcare is an accepted goal, and with republicans harping about insurers pulling out of unprofitable markets, medicare for all can be added next time dems have full control, and it will be very popular with blue collar white voters in middle america. if the trump presidency keeps going at this rate, that could happen as early as 2020.

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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lol all it took was a single toldyaso for her to go running back to her abuser

tangential,, but if the fbi had half a brain they'd push strongly against the rule letting isps sell browsing data. it's probably going to mainstream demand for privacy-protecting encryption and make their investigations even harder, lol

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy

HorseRenoir posted:

https://twitter.com/ChevreBoueri/status/846862126589362179

The one good thing about Ajit Pai is that he will let the pepe tears flow

lol someone should show 'em this gem

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/280812064539283457

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy
the problem with protecting innocent vulnerable ppl is that terrible ppl never get what's coming to them. best we can hope is a fiery left-wing populist manages to yell some truth at them and some of it sticks

also, this regretful trump voter is surprisingly (suspiciously?) coherent and engaged, all things considered:

quote:

I’m bitterly disappointed that they couldn’t come up with a better plan. But I’m very glad this particular plan didn’t pass. It fell far short of their promises. And the blame falls on both Republicans in Congress and Trump. They’ve been espousing for years that they’ve been ready to take this on, that they can solve this issue, and right out of the box, they present something that falls far short of the goal. I’m really glad it did not pass.

It has only reinforced my regretful decision to vote for Trump. It’s reduced any optimism I’ve had in going forward, and really undermines the credibility of Trump and the Republican Party.

They need to reach out to Democrats and work with them on revising and improving Obamacare. I would like to see them work on lowering prescription cost, increasing provider choice. This is all possible, but I’m skeptical they’ll do it because of party affiliation, egos, and special interest and lobbyists.

As we have come to find out in the last few months, there are congressional members who are playing the stock market and benefiting from pharmaceutical stocks. I don’t see how they can be objective in passing legislation with these special interests. I feel like there are conflicts of interest. I don’t see Congress passing laws to prevent themselves from doing this, unfortunately.

If they don’t work together to get at the crux of the issue of rising health care costs, I’m not sure that any plan that they put forth will be ideal. The pity of this is that it is possible, if they are willing to pick up their shovels dig through the muck and get to it.

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy

Epic High Five posted:

abertion

immergrants

don't forget obummer phones and welfare queens

Alienwarehouse posted:

I don't understand how any working class voter who pulled the lever for Trump could ever vote for a republican again after reading the contents of that absurd GOP healthcare bill that just got thrown out. Not only did it allow insurance companies to literally throw you on the street to rot; the bill also cut near $900,000,000,000 in funds annually from loving Medicaid. This single-handedly gave the blue wall/Rustbelt back to the democrats. The unparalleled greed of the Freedom Caucus and Koch bros are in part to thank here.

lol u think those voters will remember or care about it in 3 years?

dont get me wrong, i'm glad the republicans hosed up their repeal plans and embarrassed themselves. but the takeaway for the working class republican voters will not be that they dodged a bullet, but that they were right all along. they voted trump as a middle finger to the establishment and betting that republicans wouldn't really gently caress them over so blatantly, and now they won that bet. unless a democrat can make them believe that they will enact policies that directly benefit them, they might as well vote for the one that makes them feel better for being white

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Lamebot posted:

my moron boomer coworker defending the sacred job creators to the exasperation and somehow bitching his corporate masters are cheapskates in the same breath. he manages his diabetes (poorly, almost passing out daily)only thru eating and refuses to get a subsidized pancreatic pump for ideological reasons. hes slowly going blind.

sounds like a problem that's slowly correcting itself :kiddo:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/848534222470082560

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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meh, we can be charitable and assume he is talking about his sentimental attachment to his land and way of life, which won't factor into whatever price the government would pay him for it

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Volcott posted:

Obviously we can't build a wall on a river, so Mexico is going to have to cede some territory so we can build it on solid ground.

how much to just stock the river with man-eating piranhas and hippopotamuses and call it a day?

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Knight posted:

Crossposting
But maybe this is inappropriate since this Trump voter is realizing they're going to die in Mexico.

https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/849263706416525312

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy

Cobweb Heart posted:

Imagine posting an article about why woman bad these days, and then you loving die and your wife breaks the bad news to your followers. And then that's your life and death forever, all wrapped up in a neat little joke. Turned into a cartoon for liberals to snicker heartlessly at. Twitter your epitaph and eternal place of rest. Such a cruel, godless self-own I think I get what you mean, the poor little guy. This one should probably go in history books

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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if anyone wants it:

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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that guy being held by ICE whose wife voted trump? he got deported on Tuesday

also more deeply confused dipshits



Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Epic High Five posted:

The real reason they're turning on him that they won't say on social media tho is because he condemned Assad's gas attacks.

im not doubting that they hate that, but since when are deplorables afraid to yell their deplorable opinions on twitter?

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy
i have a feeling this thread is going to be blowing up over the next couple of days :allears:

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/850171163527581697

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Epic High Five posted:

He's done the neocon heel turn and there's no turning back.

dunno man, trump's not exactly a paradigm of principled commitment. syria is just a place he can bomb to look tough and try to prove he's not putin's beta cuck

at least this will teach the russians a lesson. don't install your mercurial puppet to a position of greater power than you can control

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Lindsey O. Graham posted:

:clint: this is where the party really starts gentlemen


lindsey, lindsey, lindsey. did you and mccain dig up that piss tape? or did you just manage to charm POTUS into seeing things your way?

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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lol relax, trump's handlers are not that crazy, reports say they warned the russians of the attack ahead of time

here, enjoy more meltdowns

https://twitter.com/bakedalaska/status/850125939002363904

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/850162140728008704

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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https://twitter.com/4realPolitic/status/850165059586314241

https://twitter.com/GunStar117/status/850198427191267328

https://twitter.com/EuroAmericans/status/850067290188111872

https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/850187638376202240

poor pepe :kiddo:

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy
lol he changed his little milk icon into a syrian flag icon

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Hot Rope Guy
https://mobile.twitter.com/undefined/status/850338108424015872

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Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

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Business Gorillas posted:

these were the guys that "doxxed" (aka reminded) everyone that milo was pro-diddling and torpedoed his meteoric rise

yup. never thought i'd be endorsing tweets by "the reagan battalion" or agreeing wholeheartedly with eric erickson and glenn beck, but things kinda took a turn for the surreal around the time pussy grabbing became presidential

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