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Hieronymous Alloy posted:There were hundreds of articles over the past few years trying to figure out what the gently caress was up with Sinema because her decisions made no sense. I read a lot of them because I also found her behavior inexplicable. What finally convinced me she was just a moron was a series of interviews with former close friends of hers and trusted advisers who all talked about trying to intervene and get her to wake up to what she was doing to her own career and she blew them all off because she thought she was going to be the next MAVERICKtm, when she clearly wasn't because she clearly did not understand how McCain had managed to walk that line or why, or why her electorate was changing under her, or why Americans increasingly don't want "moderate" candidates, or anything else about modern politics, and was just torching her own career out of misguided belief in her own genius My own magical sinema journey was pretty much the same process. the more firsthand accounts we got, especially detailing how she responded to pushback and doubled down on asinine bullshit no matter what internal counsel was against it, the more it eliminated the plausibility of any answer that wasn't "she is a giant moron" sinecure is her runner-up fallback trophy that's all she's got left to take to the bank. it's what she can get after loving up every advancement or political furtherance, it wasn't a preplanned choice or a master strategy, it's the political class consolation prize, and its weird that people still think that this was all an initial goal outcome of hers the one question I don't think has been answered to a satisfactory degree is what the process was that eroded her down to "just a moron" like was it some m night shyamalan thing where you had an ego feedback loop combined with growing too prominent and powerful to have to debase yourself to expert counsel and advice by your campaign staff and you start doing it "ur own way" with "ur uncorrupted vision" and it turns out to be ugly bad and erases your whole viable legacy
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Bar Ran Dun posted:You seen the new Quinnipiac poll "Biden Opens Up Lead Over Trump In Head-To-Head, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Haley Leads Biden 1 On 1, But Trails When Third Party Candidates Are Added" Every piece of that poll ecosystem makes sense on its own because of course haley would be vote-split from the right
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i have a better idea: what if voting was just one day, regardless of weather or other conditions, and we kept most efforts to expand accessibility for more affluent areas and economic classes? i'm also thinking maybe we should let state legislators and governors be able to work together to decide where you can close a whole bunch of the places you can vote. to save money! this definitely should be on a regular workday too, during people's work hours, and um, you gotta have specific types of identification on you, and .. i'm pretty sure the rest of my flash cards were ruled unconstitutional but i'd still like to try them. what if there was a voting eligibility test, or even a tax?
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Feb 5, 2024 07:48
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KKKLIP ART posted:I know the answer is “they’re dumb” but how can you try to entrap someone in a pedo ring if all of your bait is clearly above age and seemingly the guy was told she was 36 and looked age appropriate? This is the dumbest honeypot I think I’ve ever read about. Jacob Wohl is incredibly dumb even by the standards you habituate yourself to when discussing the far right griftosphere. No matter how dumb you think you can get, Wohl and Burkman have plumbed new depths
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Feb 7, 2024 13:00
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Tatsuta Age posted:Boy I wish I was half as confident as posters in this thread that this election was in the bag, and not for Trump. The Dems hold every popular policy advantage and got the ephemeral Soft Landing that not a lot of people expected was possible, and their opponents are in catastrophic disarray that's so bad it's making a lot of them just quit and go home to not have to deal with their political peers, and their dysfunction increases on a monthly level. Which means it's the Dems' election to lose, but they are all time world champions at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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spiro fuckin agnew is just a hilarious story-within-a-story of the nixon era crimetimes its amazing to listen to the guy just pop off about poo poo, the "effete corps of impudent snobs" and see in it the DNA of the modern moral superiority doublethink of the conservative everything's there, if you read into his tirades against the national moratorium day. here was the country straight up turning against the vietnam war for being a horrifying inexcusable thing, and he pulled all the cards that seem super familiar by now, from blaming radicals for the unpopularity of his ideals which were actually secretly supported by the ~silent majority~, to blustering about wokeism in education and the whole time he and his were out claiming his was the moral bulwark the country's youtes would have to return to, guy was neck deep in corruption, gets ousted as VP, gets disbarred, has to take a loan from frank sinatra to get by, and transitions to doing shady international consultancy business deals with saddam hussein and nicolae ceausescu like you do
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Feb 10, 2024 09:04
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tucker: why did you decide to invade ukraine putin: the Ethereal Divide had always existed before the creation of the Sixteen Realms. The seven Source Dragons come into being, or have always existed. Through the Source Dragons, the Elemental Powers were formed. The First Realm (the Realm of Oni and Dragons) came into being, or simply had always existed. Ninjago, the Underworld, the Realm of Madness, the Cursed Realm, the Cloud Kingdom, the Realm of the Wyldness, Djinjago, the Departed Realm, the Never-Realm, the Imperium, the Realm of Lee, and five other unknown realms eventually manifest. The Cursed Realm and Djinjago then become sister realms. The monks of Cloud Kingdom then take a role in several of the realms' events, helping guide, though not necessarily controlling, their destiny. At some point in time, the Oni and dragons fight in the first realm, centuries later,[5] the First Spinjitzu Master, a hybrid between dragons and Oni, was born. The First Spinjitzu Master, together with the Firstbourne, the mother of all dragons who can blast all elements from its mouth, create the Dragon Armor and the Dragonbone Blade to end the war between the dragons and the Oni. Legends told that tucker: [continues staring in childlike bafflement for 46 solid minutes]
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Meanwhile trump doesn't even know what day it is and rambles about magnets, gotta love America stuff
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Feb 10, 2024 19:52
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Kith posted:it would be nice if biden did anything to earn my vote outside of "not being trump" he weirdly enough actually managed to accomplish this for my family in a way i am forced to legitimately recognize, but i have nearly no qualms about this not being a universally applicable, recognized or even visible thing to most americans
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Feb 11, 2024 13:40
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BougieBitch posted:Literally every time someone posts the bait of "Voting Joe makes you culpable" we get pages and pages of this poo poo, we've already covered this ground and mods have already requested electoralism chat go to another thread, I would like to read about current events in the current events thread, not take a 15 person poll of SA posters about voting intention. Yeah you basically have to nuke all the electoralism chat because it has for years degenerated to a nojoe safari, and it's not going to be any different anytime soon, so it gets to be an ex-conversation
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Feb 11, 2024 17:03
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Madkal posted:I'm kind of surprised some Republican adjacent operatives haven't gotten the idea of going into leftist online spaces and just done a bunch of posts going "if you vote for Biden you are pro-Genocide" and similar kind of posting just to stir poo poo up before the election. This is done a lot verifiably, and also specifically targeting black communities to try to convince them for whatever reason of the day that voting Democratic is specifically morally unallowable The goal is always to get these groups to own themselves and elect conservatives
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Feb 11, 2024 18:49
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Shrecknet posted:this is a good-faith question from a concerned anti-genocide but still Biden voter: It depends on what state you're in and if there's any worthwhile third parties to promote for that particular goal. The US has a handful of "perennial candidature" parties which became a waste of even a protest vote long ago. Best examples include green party and psl on the left, libertarian and any "constitutional" party on the right. So it's not a great field for moral pressure for change in the major parties. Usually the best options for inspiring change begin at the local level, with any sort of action that can push established candidates out in favor of change candidates, or keep establishment centrists from bullying their way in. like we had to do with a literal Kennedy over here
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Feb 11, 2024 19:18
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FistEnergy posted:Nope, for the record I think Trump will be just as awful on Gaza. But Trump being president again will free Democrats up to rediscover their consciences again and speak out or act against American complicity. That's why posters keep saying Trump is the harm reduction candidate when it comes to Gaza; it's not a flippant statement. Right now there is no genocide opposition party. With Trump back, that number is free to increase to one. pushing trump back into office won't help gazans, and it won't push the democratic party to do anything else but decide they have to accede ground to rightward policy in order to survive electorally in future elections, but beyind that, a lot of people in this thread have to willingly ignore that it'll help bring genocide policy domestic for folks like me in order to seriously, mindbreakingly claim trump's the "harm reduction candidate" it's the one belief that's come in here that goes beyond just 'regrettable but understandable' because it's wrong for just all of the worst reasons
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Feb 11, 2024 22:17
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Baronash posted:We absolutely don’t need another “does voting matter?” retread in the current events thread, especially while the Super Bowl is in OT. Make a thread if you desperately want to continue it. At last ... the age of peace ...
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Feb 12, 2024 04:42
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He took an old 1960 JFK campaign ad and photoshopped his head over JFK's body, but kept everything else and implied the entire Kennedy family was behind him. i fuckin love this guy
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Bet rfk wants to be a perennial candidate
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zoux posted:The fact that approximately 25% of all sports related content is now gambling related, while a lesser concern than gambling pathologies, loving sucks. it wormed its way in and it was half blatant half subtle, half insidious and half just kind of blundering its way in openly, and there were weird little flashpoints where it burrowed into the whole "eh i guess this is just legal now lol" status, like when there were outcome bets on elections that didn't get sufficiently pushed back on i was working in back bay and one day before the pandemic all the sudden a 100k square foot floor in the tower got taken up by Draft Kings and hundreds and hundreds of employees were getting onboarded and i realized looking at it that this was already pretty much a done deal that i had completely missed. internet gambling was absolutely a go and this was a forever thing already. it just pushed in through cultural inertia and lack of any political will to maintain against lobby
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Kith posted:rip to honk honk guy, he never scored Honk honk
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donald trump was simultaneously convicted of 1,000 crimes and caught on fire before being devoured by velociraptors. here's why this is bad news for biden
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haveblue posted:Well, for one thing, that won’t cost Trump any votes is biden's age worse than chief velociraptor's pledge to withdraw from nato and designate humans as food? tune in for our daily dems in disarray special
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Gyges posted:Actually that probably is bad news for Biden. A large part of his appeal is not being Trump when the only other option is Trump. you're hired. welcome to the opinion desk
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Shut up and JAM! posted:I'm appalled anyone could willingly be part of a fascist machine that denies some of the most vulnerable parts of society their unalienable human rights to healthcare and try to justify it by casually condemning it as "poo poo sucks" all while drawing a paycheck while people are, by their own words, 100% dying. Now if only someone would do something that actually helps these people, like sit on the internet and attack people involved in attempting stopgap aid in a wildly imperfect present day scenario.
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Sir Kodiak posted:How does that poll support that idea? I think that idea is likely true, but I don't see how that poll is evidence for it. it's pretty likely that any candidate that the dems can muster in a forced replacement or emergency will not be able to garner the same voter enthusiasm that biden is likely to carry into a general election that's not an endorsement of biden as much as it is a recognition of what the dnc does not offer, but it helps paint a clearer picture of why a whole "biden stands down" scenario is really unlikely
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Feb 16, 2024 21:44
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Killer robot posted:All the same it hurts the idea that the low enthusiasm on Biden's right flank can be easily fixed by replacing him with some younger, more vital Democrat. yeah i think for that they need replacements which don't powerfully stretch the applicability of the title "more vital" once upon a time it feels obvious that they were setting up kamala to be that More Vital inheritor but everything between then and now showed that she was never gonna have that juice
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Byzantine posted:She had to drop out of the primary before any votes were cast because nobody liked her; she doesn't even have anti-juice because a juice/anti-juice reaction would generate energy Lol yes Its weird because she's not the "charisma void" template of the right, she goes about being thoroughly Ain't Got It in different ways
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Feb 16, 2024 22:16
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She emerged fully formed, ready made for anti drug PSA's, programmed to promise that events shall be Looked Into, from behind a podium. The Galaborn was here, a decade too late for DARE
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"We getting outraised!" They cry So i put a donation in the box They take it out of the election fund and hand it to trump's court debts "Won't someone help us, the Democrats are getting more money" they continue
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Feb 22, 2024 01:58
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Jaxyon posted:Though apparently they died from magical nonbinary reasons and definitely not the vicious beating. intracranial hematoma can stealth buildup for weeks after head trauma and this family needs to trust the podunk-rear end oklahoma medical examiner exactly 0% on a determination supposedly excluding trauma, and get some additional opinion on this
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Young Freud posted:The doctors probably recommended them to sleep it off, the absolutely worst thing you can say to someone with a head injury. Where she is in OK is a place perfectly representative of how much more degenerated the rest of our medical system might be in a handful of years so i am NOT going to be surprised if between a ER visit and some kind of clinic or UC visit the victim never received diagnostic imaging that should be mandatory when you get your head bashed
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I need for trump to keep losing his filters and talking about black people and immigrants out loud as i give my most soul-dead gaze over the tops of my glasses to the people trying to tell me he's the harm reduction candidate Bonus points if we get him blabbering about anyone who ain't straight
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C. Everett Koop posted:skin was becoming black, making him an active threat to the officers Tiny Timbs posted:The cops drew guns on him while on fire lmao FlamingLiberal posted:I’m not going to post the link for obvious reasons, but a US servicemember in uniform set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in DC wet_goods posted:Username post combo very well done people much like aaron
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Ms Adequate posted:This one made me puff out my cheeks and exhale, drat. Like it's good, but holy poo poo yeah i saw the video and a lifetime of gallows humor as compensation for horrible realities was right there for me if he has not died yet, he will soon, unless there's some kind of unearthly new technology in burn care i know gently caress all about
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Eric Cantonese posted:The divide over Israel/Palestine is going to be the big media narrative now. The only winning move is to dissemble and draw attention away from it. A curious game indeed
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the thing i guess i really dont understand about trump's finances is that he's admitting he doesn't have the cash on hand to pay the ruling against him and would have to dissolve property but it is also my understanding at the present bonkers rear end time that trump had been in circling cycles of debt catchup for many many years where he would leverage the poo poo out of his properties to take on debt to get money to buy new assets that also started losing money then he would leverage those properties for more cash which i guess now he definitely doesn't have so if he doesn't have the money, and all the properties are leveraged to the tits ... what is exactly happening, like what can he do, what goes down
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Google Jeb Bush posted:it'll eat everything in his estate (and any attempts to evade same) until his creditors are made whole. a regular person with 400k in debt doesn't drive their kids into penury can the legal system take property that was collateral to previous loans trump has and if so what does that DO to those loans, do they immediately become due and it becomes an asset dissolving piranha orgy between the state creditors and the private creditors what's the tipping off point for this house of cards poo poo
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I think we've had enough "who should you vote for" chat here for today. I vote for this guy
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sinema's decisionmaking was so recklessly bad and eventually so blindly self absorbed that even the people who were like "i guess she doing this for the sinecure" had to watch her really limit how much she could cash out for when all was said and done i finally settled on "dumb and so goddamned crazy" as an explanation because she wore through all the potential other defenses or secret battlemind strategies that would have validated any of the constant dumbshit she did
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quote:won't endorse Trump yet ah yes the standard operating procedure we remember from the conservatism in denial phase
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Google Jeb Bush posted:here's another program that the Biden admin is pretty proud of: a parole program where people from an evolving list of countries in the Americas that particularly suck to be stuck in, up to 360k a year currently, can receive a special work visa we immediately used it to drag over multiple family members and prevent them from dying at home. it is an amazing program, full stop If trump wins and kills it off with all the prejudice they can muster (which is a lot) then these family members will be returned to die in a warzone failed country which is currently being taken over by a guy named Barbeque
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