Random Politics Thread

[Jaguar]

McSally tells supporters to 'fast a meal' and donate to her campaign | TheHill

 

[ceecee]

Jerry Falwell Jr. doesn’t want brown people in America but he does want them inside his wife.

Business partner of Falwells says he had affair with the power couple

This in no way shames the possible kink afoot. None, I don't judge people on that.

Just the moral hypocrisy of the right/conservatives/Republicans/evangelicals.

 

[Tellenbach]

She's just a useful pawn serving as the GOP's token black friend, that way they can point at her and be like "see, we're not racist!"

She seems fiercely independent, certainly not pawn-like. It takes great courage for a black woman to come out of the GOP closet. I get zero sense that she's only doing this because she's being manipulated or controlled. She arrived at her current perspective through life experiences and rational thinking. It's always been my belief that leftism attracts the more irrational members of society.

 

[Jaguar]

Some people actually take a wedding vow: Forsake all others. That doesn't include watching a 20-something fuck your wife.

 

[The Cat]

Some people actually take a wedding vow: Forsake all others. That doesn't include watching a 20-something fuck your wife.

have you heard how theyre trying to spin it?

 

[Jaguar]

have you heard how theyre trying to spin it?

No.

 

[Stigmata]

Yeesh. Saw these pop up on my feed on YouTube -- the RNC looks like a late night infomercial. I'm just waiting for a 1-800 number to scroll across the bottom of the screen while letting me know that if I call now, they'll throw in a second of whatever item they're peddling for free.

 

[Jaguar]

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Is this an SNL skit? SHOUT LOUDER YOU CRAZY BITCH.

 

[Mind Maverick]

Yeesh. Saw these pop up on my feed on YouTube -- the RNC looks like a late night infomercial. I'm just waiting for a 1-800 number to scroll across the bottom of the screen while letting me know that if I call now, they'll throw in a second of whatever item they're peddling for free.

That video is sickening. Do they think we're dumb enough to fall for this? Oh wait...*checks Trumps poll numbers...*

 

[Coriolis]

That video is sickening. Do they think we're dumb enough to fall for this? Oh wait...*checks Trumps poll numbers...*

I think politicians in general rely on the collective ignorance and intellectual flabbiness of the American people; same with corporations. Small wonder that our education system stays broken.

 

[Totenkindly]

Jerry Falwell Jr. doesn’t want brown people in America but he does want them inside his wife.

Business partner of Falwells says he had affair with the power couple

This in no way shames the possible kink afoot. None, I don't judge people on that.

Just the moral hypocrisy of the right/conservatives/Republicans/evangelicals.

That is what pisses me off. Watching these losers build their religious dynasties and becoming rich families, policing their schools (it's easy to find ways that Liberty U has cracked down on the smallest student violation of their codes), attacking and vilifying American culture for not "sharing" their values... and then in private they're doing the same things they vilify in others and doing it with impunity because they never get held accountable. I'm honestly shocked he actually is leaving his position (and maybe the last 2-3 years we've been seeing some fruit of judgment finally shaking down within their culture, although not enough), normally they just choose to be hypocrites and do nothing about it. But to think about their stances on immigrants, on LGBT people, on culture in general, I could go on and on... and meanwhile it's all just a veneer for many in power.

I think another thing that galled me (Might have mentioned it elsewhere) was that he dumped it all on his wife. He tried to do damage control and claimed he "didn't know about any of it." Maybe this was him being a craven coward, maybe this was their strategy as a couple since she was going to look bad either way but could try to take all the blame so that he could retain privilege... but it's pretty horrible to throw your wife under the bus like that. Again... NOTHING like the religious values they pretend to practice. What a coward.

 

[Mind Maverick]

I think politicians in general rely on the collective ignorance and intellectual flabbiness of the American people; same with corporations. Small wonder that our education system stays broken.

Sad but true. It's really kind of a vicious cycle.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Jaguar]

Which nut is going to be on TV tonight? Can they shout louder than last night?

 

[Jaguar]

I can take off the mute button now.

 

[Lark]

I think politicians in general rely on the collective ignorance and intellectual flabbiness of the American people; same with corporations. Small wonder that our education system stays broken.

I dont think its restricted to the US, that type of practice, its typical of both limited politics and limited democracy as described by Schumpeter in his Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Its also how the privileged, both politicians themselves and others, have adapted to universal enfranchisement in order to maintain small government, low taxes etc.

The alternative is participatory democracy, which I honestly think was the intention of most republicans, democrats, architects of popular sovereignty in the US and French revolutions.

I know some good arguments for limited politics and even more limited versions of democracy but they always work on the assumption that the elites will out class the general population and not simply act like a bunch of crooks which hasnt ever really been the case either.

Its disappointing as neither limited democracy nor participatory democracy are that utopian, they are pretty practical ideas which fall far short of any sort of perfectionism, yet the combined deterioration trajectories have made either a totally faulty paradigm for the time being.

 

[Virtual ghost]

It looks that Laura as cat 4 hurricane will hit directly a number of large oil installations that are on the coast of the gulf.

 

[Coriolis]

Here's what happens when Republicans behave responsibly in office, doing their best to serve all their constituents in a reasonable fashion:

Some Ohio Republicans are trying to impeach the state's GOP governor over coronavirus

In the first months of the nation's ongoing fight against the coronavirus, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine emerged as one of the politicians who actually got it. As in: Understood the threat and took clear and decisive actions -- including being the first governor to close a state's schools to deal with the spread of the virus.

The praise those moves won DeWine nationally was reflected in his standing in the state, too. In a late June Quinnipiac University poll, 75% of Ohioans approved of how DeWine was handling his job -- including 81%(!) of Democrats, 76% of independents and 74% of Republicans.

In short: if there was a governor you would think would be immune from an impeachment attempt, it would be DeWine.

Or not.

 

[Virtual ghost]

It looks that Laura as cat 4 hurricane will hit directly a number of large oil installations that are on the coast of the gulf.

Perhaps it will even make it to category 5.
Large structural damage is basically certain at this point.

 

[Jaguar]