Random political thought thread.

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Do you jerk off to his image on your bedroom wall, or what? The boy is obsessed . . .

What was it contributing to the discussion to go there?

 

[Jaguar]

What was it contributing to the discussion to go there?

What was my voting record contributing to any discussion? Not a fucking thing. Clean up your act.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

What was my voting record contributing to any discussion? Not a fucking thing. Clean up your act.

I think people have a right to know that you're not a leftist hero just because you voted for Biden.

 

[Jaguar]

I think people have a right to know that you're not a leftist hero just because you voted for Biden.

NPA is accurate. It's on my voter registration. Anything else is bullshit.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

NPA is accurate. It's on my voter registration. Anything else is bullshit.

Oh, so out of the two of us, only one is a registered Democrat? Got it.

 

[Jaguar]

Oh, so out of the two of us, only one is a registered Democrat? Got it.

I have no idea how your voter reg reads. Nor do I care.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

I have no idea how your voter reg reads. Nor do I care.

I'm a registered Democrat. That's how it reads.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Most Americans are disenfranchised, whether they know it or not. And you have people that are in those same circumstances, standing up to cheerlead for the politics and policies that caused it, both parties that caused it and, my favorite part, become apologists for the motherfucking tiny amount of people who aren't. That pay to make sure they never become disenfranchised, because it can happen easily. But, yanno, Bernie is crazy and radical. lol

Pretty much this. The Venn diagram seems to be pretty accurate from my observation. I fully expect Biden to embrace the anti-vaping stuff I don't care about. The fact that Mitt Romney supports it is even better because it can be a beautiful example of bipartisanship that Biden loves so much, because he still thinks it's 1992.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

If you are fine with modern liberalism basically now meaning that you are essentially a Bush era-Republican (except for the LGBT stuff), more power to you. Personally, I can't stomach the thought. To me that's a pretty weird way to react to Donald Trump, and probably a really great way to lose politically (even the Republicans were done with being Bush era Republicans, which was why they didn't pick Jeb).

 

[Jaguar]

A day after forcing marathon bill reading, Johnson says 'preference' to leave Senate

How about right now? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> there's the door.

 

[Jaguar]

Biden helps broker Senate deal on unemployment benefits | TheHill

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

This article from The New Republic is pretty good:

The John Birch Society Never Left:
Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe

This is why Trumpism is not a reversion to an older, more gothic form of conservatism but an apotheosis decades in the making. Trump may have been our country’s first post-truth president. But the post-truth environment of conspiracy we are living in today has been a long time coming. We owe it in part to the truth-optional habits on the right that Robert Welch and the Birch Society exemplified—and in part to the same Republican elites who were complicit every step of the way.

 

[Jaguar]

(in Idaho, the governor and lieutenant governor run on separate tickets)

Well, that certainly cleared things up.

 

[Lark]

Happy International Woman's day everyone

 

[Jaguar]

Some guy burned down his neighbor's house. He wanted deep change.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

People have a lot of weird ideas about what I believe that don't even reflect things I've actually written, which is ironically what they accuse me of.

Like, I don't think I've once used the word "woke" to describe myself. The time period for when that label could have actually applied to me was before that term was even in widespread usage.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

I AIN’T AFRAID OF NO ROLLEY COASTER

 

[Jaguar]

This is America. Act like it. If you want an elected official to leave, you vote them out. Otherwise, shut the hell up.

 

[Jaguar]

Republican-led states sue President Joe Biden over climate change order

And so it begins. I'm glad my state isn't part of that BS lawsuit.

 

[Stigmata]

Most Americans are disenfranchised, whether they know it or not. And you have people that are in those same circumstances, standing up to cheerlead for the politics and policies that caused it, both parties that caused it and, my favorite part, become apologists for the motherfucking tiny amount of people who aren't. That pay to make sure they never become disenfranchised, because it can happen easily. But, yanno, Bernie is crazy and radical. lol

Sadly, this seems seems to be the feature instead of a bug. Our political climate is little more than combating sports teams, with people often lacking the critical thinking capacity to do their own due diligence and instead just parrot the talking points of their respective media propaganda source. As long as the poor people are too involved with their petty squabbles over minor issues, nobody notices that both parties are being funded largely the same sources to serve the same ultimate agenda of stimeing progress.