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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
“Trump indicated that tonight’s speech will run to one-and-a-half hours, and he planned to mention but spend little time talking about the ongoing impeachment proceedings. That, he said, will be reserved for the barn-burner he plans to deliver on Wednesday after the Senate acquits him.”
Really looking forward to this one.
Ugh, keeping us in suspense. If he’s taking an extra day for a Victory Lap, better make it a good one!
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Yup, Robby Mook, the super-genius campaign director for Hillary 2016, keeps on-keeping on.
Deporable, I tell you. Deplorable
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
They’ve never seen anything like it. And I’m not just talking Donald snubbing Pelosi’s handshake. Dems look small, bitter, petty and weak. Nancy ripped up the speech. They’ve lost the plot.
They look like they prefer playing student politics to governing, and stamp their feet like spoil kids whose parent have said "no".
I'm the last person to like Trump, but jeez, the Democrats are in real bad way, aren't they?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I'm the last person to like Trump, but jeez, the Democrats are in real bad way, aren't they?
The past twelve months has been frankly a bizzare showing from the left. The Australian and UK Labor parties staring down the barrel of their third and fourth terms in opposition respectively turning out inept campaigns and now the Democrats kneecapping themselves.
I can understand why the conservative side of politics is generally more pragmatic, but in many cases it doesn't even seem like they are trying to win at all.
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@rotated said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I'm the last person to like Trump, but jeez, the Democrats are in real bad way, aren't they?
The past twelve months has been frankly a bizzare showing from the left. The Australian and UK Labor parties staring down the barrel of their third and fourth terms in opposition respectively turning out inept campaigns and now the Democrats kneecapping themselves.
I can understand why the conservative side of politics is generally more pragmatic, but in many cases it doesn't even seem like they are trying to win at all.
As Orwell - Left-leaning but also deeply patriotic and pragmatic - observed of the Left:
“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which 'we', the clever ones, are going to impose upon 'them'”
The Left ain't as clever as they think, nor are the masses stupid.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
I'm the last person to like Trump, but jeez, the Democrats are in real bad way, aren't they?
I’ve never been a fan of arch-conservative commentator (and an original Never-Trumper, who has since softened his disdain) Erik Erickson, but I did like his comment that Trump’s real super-power is his ability to make his enemies behave in all the awful ways that they are forever accusing him. He’s right. It’s been a three-year exercise in projection.
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@Tim Carville has been going apeshit this week, justifiably.
“We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party
Why the longtime Democratic strategist is “scared to death” of the 2020 election.
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We have candidates on the debate stage talking about open borders and decriminalizing illegal immigration. They’re talking about doing away with nuclear energy and fracking. You’ve got Bernie Sanders talking about letting criminals and terrorists vote from jail cells. It doesn’t matter what you think about any of that, or if there are good arguments — talking about that is not how you win a national election. It’s not how you become a majoritarian party.
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We have candidates on the debate stage talking about open borders and decriminalizing illegal immigration. They’re talking about doing away with nuclear energy and fracking. You’ve got Bernie Sanders talking about letting criminals and terrorists vote from jail cells. It doesn’t matter what you think about any of that, or if there are good arguments — talking about that is not how you win a national election. It’s not how you become a majoritarian party.
Sounds like the Labour Party in the UK - just more bonkers and weirder.
Don't the Left want to win elections anymore?
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Must be extra-exasperating for activist news media who’ve used the Kitchen Sink strategy, and then see this:
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@Salacious-Crumb as someone who was no fan of Obama's presidency, I have to ask how that's possible.
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Echo Chamber. All the negative media stuff is directed at people that already don't like him, and hasn't changed anybody's mind.
And the Democrats haven't tried to get the undecideds or people in the centre and called everybody that disagrees with them deplorable or racist.
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"Facebook and Twitter have rejected a request by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove a video posted by President Trump that was edited to make it appear as though she were ripping a copy of his State of the Union address as he honored a Tuskegee airman and other guests."
No doubt Nancy Pelosi felt a frission of virtue when she ripped up Trump's SOTU speech on camera - the thought that it might be a bad look on national TV or become a viral video obviously didn't figure.
How inept are these people?
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@antipodean said in US Politics:
@Salacious-Crumb as someone who was no fan of Obama's presidency, I have to ask how that's possible.
Economy was on a similar upward trajectory for both.
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@Kirwan said in US Politics:
Echo Chamber. All the negative media stuff is directed at people that already don't like him, and hasn't changed anybody's mind.
And the Democrats haven't tried to get the undecideds or people in the centre and called everybody that disagrees with them deplorable or racist.
“Lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”
Crickets from the news media.
If it had’ve been a GOP candidate calling a female voter that to her face, my guess is the media would be hyperventilating it into a 24-hour news cycle. But it’s Joe, so nothing to report.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
@Kirwan said in US Politics:
Echo Chamber. All the negative media stuff is directed at people that already don't like him, and hasn't changed anybody's mind.
And the Democrats haven't tried to get the undecideds or people in the centre and called everybody that disagrees with them deplorable or racist.
“Lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”
Crickets from the news media.
If it had’ve been a GOP candidate calling a female voter that to her face, my guess is the media would be hyperventilating it into a 24-hour news cycle. But it’s Joe, so nothing to report.
I’m not sure about the pony soldier bit but @Smudge will agree the dog faced bit rings a bell . I wonder if Joe has a relative living in Turkey that used to post here?
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
@Kirwan said in US Politics:
Echo Chamber. All the negative media stuff is directed at people that already don't like him, and hasn't changed anybody's mind.
And the Democrats haven't tried to get the undecideds or people in the centre and called everybody that disagrees with them deplorable or racist.
“Lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”
Crickets from the news media.
If it had’ve been a GOP candidate calling a female voter that to her face, my guess is the media would be hyperventilating it into a 24-hour news cycle. But it’s Joe, so nothing to report.
NBC's hypocrisy is well established. Surely no one is surprised?
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Trump just RTed a Larry David/Curb Your Enthusiasm clip that features almost a dozen uncensored f-bombs, including one MFer and a couple shits. It’ll give some people fainting spells. Deplorable and hilarious.
Edit: He didn’t retweet it. He actually tweeted it, as the source. It’s funny to imagine him grabbing an AVI rip and throwing it into Premiere and cutting it himself, but somebody had to get that onto his account. It’s beautiful. Makes it even funnier.
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