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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1225481009480839175 as a reminder trump has admitted before if he died his wife would be entirely unmoved
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:09 |
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Ignoranus posted:Is anyone else watching Trump's [strike]pep rally[/strike] address this afternoon? I keep having to pause to get some work done. I don't know why I'm sitting through this awful thing. Trump is being oddly magnanimous. Don't get me wrong, he's still being lovely, but he is giving a lot of people praise. Terrible people, but people who aren't him.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:10 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1225481009480839175 When Trump says Boom Boom Boom you say Bam Bam Bam no pause in between c'mon let's jam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8UoZtwuMc
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:11 |
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1glitch0 posted:Trump is being oddly magnanimous. Don't get me wrong, he's still being lovely, but he is giving a lot of people praise. Terrible people, but people who aren't him. Yeah, there are compliments for the people who supported him mixed in among the admitting to obstructing Comey, bragging about packing the courts and lying about the "transcript" of the call.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:13 |
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Ignoranus posted:Yeah, there are compliments for the people who supported him mixed in among the admitting to obstructing Comey, bragging about packing the courts and lying about the "transcript" of the call. And standing ovations for fellow treasonous pricks like Devin Nunes.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:13 |
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Well, we knew getting acquitted would embolden him and lead to more crimes, but did anyone expect it would happen in less than 24 hours?
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:19 |
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Ignoranus posted:Is anyone else watching Trump's [strike]pep rally[/strike] address this afternoon? I keep having to pause to get some work done. I don't know why I'm sitting through this awful thing. He said Mitt doesn't believe in God He said Nancy lies about praying And then said the plural of apprentice is "apprenti" That's about as far as I could get before turning it off
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:22 |
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haveblue posted:Well, we knew getting acquitted would embolden him and lead to more crimes, but did anyone expect it would happen in less than 24 hours? It happened once already after the Muller report was scotched? No surprises here. I mean it was one of the articles of impeachment.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:23 |
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lol CNN saying the speech was disturbing and was more like something someone would tell their therapist in private and I really agree.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:34 |
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1glitch0 posted:lol CNN saying the speech was disturbing and was more like something someone would tell their therapist in private and I really agree. yeah, cnn has been pretty decent with calling the insanity out of late.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:35 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah, cnn has been pretty decent with calling the insanity out of late. Unsure if this is because CNN actually realizes Trump is an existential threat to all of humanity, or if because everything has slid so far rightward that saying "this is messed up" is the center now.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:36 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah, cnn has been pretty decent with calling the insanity out of late. Good input, let's get Rick Santorum's take on that... I hate CNN
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:37 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah, cnn has been pretty decent with calling the insanity out of late. This comes to mind from the night they voted for no witnesses. https://youtu.be/BOooUVVh1K8
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:37 |
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Angry_Ed posted:Unsure if this is because CNN actually realizes Trump is an existential threat to all of humanity, or if because everything has slid so far rightward that saying "this is messed up" is the center now. its probably both mixed with he has attacked CNN reporters directly.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:37 |
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haveblue posted:Well, we knew getting acquitted would embolden him and lead to more crimes, but did anyone expect it would happen in less than 24 hours? Yes.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:41 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah, cnn has been pretty decent with calling the insanity out of late. That's almost scarier.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:48 |
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1glitch0 posted:That's almost scarier. probably. i am ok with it.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:49 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:probably. i am ok with it. I'm ok with it if it leads to a permanent change...I sorta doubt it will.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 19:54 |
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Framboise posted:This comes to mind from the night they voted for no witnesses. I like Chris Cuomo, I like him better than Tapper but I guess I only get him in bite sized chunks like this. He might actually be bad.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 20:38 |
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COOL CORN posted:He said Mitt doesn't believe in God Doesn't this crowd (D&D, that is) usually makes lots of fun of Mormans in general, and Mitt specifically? Seems odd that he, and his (weird) religious beliefs would all of a sudden be in favor with the left. I'm so old that I remember when Mitt was double Hitler and gonna put y'all back in chains
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:19 |
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youre dick posted:Doesn't this crowd (D&D, that is) usually makes lots of fun of Mormans in general, and Mitt specifically? Seems odd that he, and his (weird) religious beliefs would all of a sudden be in favor with the left. I'm so old that I remember when Mitt was double Hitler and gonna put y'all back in chains *posting from servitude in the magic underwear sweatshop factory
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:22 |
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youre dick posted:Doesn't this crowd (D&D, that is) usually makes lots of fun of Mormans in general, and Mitt specifically? Seems odd that he, and his (weird) religious beliefs would all of a sudden be in favor with the left. I'm so old that I remember when Mitt was double Hitler and gonna put y'all back in chains You can acknowledge someone for being the only one of their kind to do the right thing without agreeing with their policies or even liking them as a person but that requires the ability to not be stuck in binary thinking mindsets where you are only ever either in or mode and nowhere in between. Obviously Mitt is still GOP and a filthy venture capitalist and that shouldn't be ignored and says a lot about him, but he also got up in front of his peers and the entire nation and said that the president of his party is not only a liar and a criminal, but guilty of one of the most flagrant abuses of power that a president could commit. That is not an insignificant thing and to ignore that as well that would be disingenuous, in my opinion. A person can be lovely and still do the right thing without it being an instant redemption.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:38 |
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Framboise posted:You can acknowledge someone for being the only one of their kind to do the right thing without agreeing with their policies or even liking them as a person but that requires the ability to not be stuck in binary thinking mindsets where you are only ever either in or mode and nowhere in between. yeah. this. romney sucks and has done bad ghoulish things(vilerat smirk, lovely ghoul policies and etc) i just weirdly feel bad for him. i think he honestly does believe in all the "party of morality/doing the right thing/personal responsibility" so he loving did the right thing and now all these ghouls show there true colors or are moral cowards. like gently caress him and etc but id be loving heartbroken if that happened to me.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:48 |
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Framboise posted:You can acknowledge someone for being the only one of their kind to do the right thing without agreeing with their policies or even liking them as a person but that requires the ability to not be stuck in binary thinking mindsets where you are only ever either in or mode and nowhere in between. Nah, it was just a bunch of high minded rhetoric to hide the fact that he's still butthurt at getting trolled by Trump over the SoS job. You get that, right?
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:52 |
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DandyLion posted:*posting from servitude in the magic underwear sweatshop factory i wish!
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:53 |
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Is there video of Trump's admission that firing Comey led to him surviving impeachment?
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:53 |
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This has been fun, can't wait to see you guys in the 2nd impeachment thread
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:54 |
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The Bible posted:Is there video of Trump's admission that firing Comey led to him surviving impeachment? yeah. its been on cnn and such all day.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 21:54 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah. this. romney sucks and has done bad ghoulish things(vilerat smirk, lovely ghoul policies and etc) i just weirdly feel bad for him. i think he honestly does believe in all the "party of morality/doing the right thing/personal responsibility" so he loving did the right thing and now all these ghouls show there true colors or are moral cowards. like gently caress him and etc but id be loving heartbroken if that happened to me. Romney is like a much dumber, Mormon version of Sir Thomas More and I respect him for showing that he does have some kind of conscience. I would also also feel bad if he met the same end, with his head being separated from the rest of his body.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 22:04 |
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youre dick posted:Doesn't this crowd (D&D, that is) usually makes lots of fun of Mormans in general, and Mitt specifically? Seems odd that he, and his (weird) religious beliefs would all of a sudden be in favor with the left. I'm so old that I remember when Mitt was double Hitler and gonna put y'all back in chains I mean, a few things. Romney is still the same right-wing vulture capitalist that grinned at the news of the Benghazi deaths, but that still compares favorably with the people who were just as bad as him in 2012 but today are openly embracing lawless authoritarianism and open white nationalism at Trump's feet. So it's one of those "don't punish the behaviors you want to see" things. Mormons as a whole are still religious right and have a lot of problems, but they haven't so uniformly followed Evangelical Catholics and Protestants into christian dominionism or nativism, even if it's just because they remember they're also on the list if it goes that way. They've even rolled back some of their anti-gay policies while other churches are cracking down. It's not that they're loved allies now, but they're just no longer "the main Christian sect lefties love to gripe about" like they were ten years ago. For that matter, the left and the fedora-tippers largely parting ways means "hurrr religious clothing" doesn't get the laughs it used to.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 22:26 |
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Killer robot posted:I mean, a few things. Romney is still the same right-wing vulture capitalist that grinned at the news of the Benghazi deaths, but that still compares favorably with the people who were just as bad as him in 2012 but today are openly embracing lawless authoritarianism and open white nationalism at Trump's feet. So it's one of those "don't punish the behaviors you want to see" things. pretty much. the LPOTL episode was facinating on them and i agree with their point that they will eventually drop the anti gay poo poo because they have always done that kinda poo poo to survive. I find religion fascinating and LDS has always interested me in a cultural/historic sense. also i agree. its less that Romney changed but more the party has openly accepted insanity and horrible poo poo with no masks or euphemisms. basically romney gets to be like his dad. Ollu posted:Romney is like a much dumber, Mormon version of Sir Thomas More and I respect him for showing that he does have some kind of conscience. yeah. he will probably be remembered in history as in one of those profiles in courage type deals where he is flawed man who did the right thing when it mattered and will now be hosed over for it because the people he trusted are either moral cowards or gross parasites. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Feb 6, 2020 |
# ? Feb 6, 2020 22:33 |
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I have lived nearly my entire life in the Mormon Corridor. They are a very closed group of people that would prefer to never interact with anyone outside their church and they will do things like straight-up ask you if you go to church or find out eventually in things like job interviews. They're a god damned mafia.
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# ? Feb 6, 2020 22:41 |
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That speech today was...uh... That sure was something. I got caught listening to what little I could stomach and I just...ugh. Who LIKES this poo poo? I swear to god I tried. I REALLY tried. I was stuck between commercials on a few radio stations and said "OK. Let's listen to this. then" 40% of this country hears that and goes "yep, this is what a REAL president sounds like, god dammit!" and all I heard was meandering gibberish. Even by Trump standards this thing made no sense. I honestly feel like I have no place in this society and don't know where to start with this. Living in NE Florida isn't helping me any since I'm largely in CHUD country but loving my god.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 00:18 |
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A good portion of this country is really that dumb. They don’t and will never understand politics and only understand the world around them in their literal bubble - and surprise, surprise, they’re surrounded by even more idiots. Present them with anything even resembling a complex situation with nuance and they have a “my brain hurts!” moment, tune it out and move on with their mundane lives. Or they just instantly distrust anyone that comes off as more educated than they are and write them off. Take your pick. Majin fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Feb 7, 2020 |
# ? Feb 7, 2020 01:24 |
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BiggerBoat posted:That speech today was...uh... Half the country has convinced themselves that every time Trump opens his mouth, he owns the libs, and that's all they really care about.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 01:37 |
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BiggerBoat posted:That speech today was...uh... i have no loving clue. i do believe alot of moderates wont vote or will not vote for him though.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 01:37 |
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The trick is his solid base of sycophantic cultists weren't actually listening to his brainworm oral diarrhea. They'll let right wing media pre-digest that diarrhea for them then let Fox hork it into their mouths baby bird style once it's cleaned up and he no longer sounds like the syphilitic dementia patient he is.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 01:43 |
BigBallChunkyTime posted:Half the country has convinced themselves that every time Trump opens his mouth, he owns the libs, and that's all they really care about. It's also that when he speaks, he speaks with an air of complete, unassailable confidence. People respond to the tone more than they respond to the meaning. If they don't know what esoteric little jibes he's referring to, whether it's a policy maneuver or a bit of celebrity dishing, what people hear is "I'm in control, laugh along with my mean jokes because my opponents are worthy of ridicule". If someone speaks with confidence, their audience instinctively responds on a visceral level, whereas if they speak in uncertainties and try to argue issues on a mental level, it has the opposite effect on a listener who just wants to be given reason to feel secure. His languid, pseudo-comedian delivery is a soothing balm to people in the same way that a mother's voice is to a baby who does not understand words.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 01:52 |
Majin posted:A good portion of this country is really that dumb. They don’t and will never understand politics and only understand the world around them in their literal bubble - and surprise, surprise, they’re surrounded by even more idiots. I just saw a Facebook post from an old high school classmate that said "Why can't Trump fire Pelosi? If any of us acted like she did to her boss we'd lose our jobs!", all the comments were in agreement with her. So yeah, that's the kind of dumb we are dealing with in the electorate.
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Popete posted:I just saw a Facebook post from an old high school classmate that said "Why can't Trump fire Pelosi? If any of us acted like she did to her boss we'd lose our jobs!", all the comments were in agreement with her. Leave Facebook and never go back, it's irredeemable.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 07:15 |