Politics

[IRISHDODGER]

It's that way with 95% of their platform: it's demagoguery and emotion-driven instead of rational and fact-driven. It's almost always scare tactics, emotional manipulation, and how it makes their target audience feel instead of think.

Exactly. And as long as the sheep respond to it in kind, they’ll keep doing it. The goal is to keep votes thinking it’s the “other sides’” fault and keep driving that division.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

The WSJ's Barton Swaim neatly summarizes why American "conservatism" is mostly just a giant grift:

American conservatism exists, if I could put it in my own words, to clean up the messes created by the country’s dominant class of liberal elites. The Reagan Revolution wasn’t a proper “revolution” at all but a series of conservative repairs, chief among them reforming a crippling tax code and revivifying the American economy. The great triumph of neoconservatism in the 1970s and ’80s was not the formulation of some original philosophy but the demonstration that liberal policies had ruined our cities. Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968 and again in 1972 not by vowing to remake the world but by vowing to clean up the havoc created by Lyndon Johnson when he tried to remake Southeast Asia. George W. Bush would draw on a form of liberal idealism when he incorporated the democracy agenda into an otherwise defensible foreign policy—a rare instance of conservatives experimenting with big ideas, and look where it got them.

 

[TorontoGold]

The WSJ's Barton Swaim neatly summarizes why American "conservatism" is mostly just a giant grift:

 

[NorthDakota]

I dont think it's a giant grift. But there are many grifters. And I do not care for those folks. To me the difference between grifters on right and left is that "liberal" grifters have jobs at NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR instead of websites your aunt reads on Facebook.

Regardless of grift however, it is looking to be a blowout in the November elections unless something big changes.

 

[Blazers46]

The WSJ's Barton Swaim neatly summarizes why American "conservatism" is mostly just a giant grift:

Shouldn’t you be celebrating? We have the first SCOTUS ever nominated and confirmed based on skin color and this the post you come to troll with?

 

[ACamp1900]

To me the difference between grifters on right and left is that "liberal" grifters have jobs at NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR instead of websites your aunt reads on Facebook.

Agreed and this is worth repeating. Even outside ‘the news’ the right wing equal to say a Joy Behar has never had a voice within our traditional media. Yet there she is spewing absolute insanity everyday with a vented audience that knows exactly when to clap and when not to. I’ll give the left one thing, they know how to coordinate and control

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I dont think it's a giant grift. But there are many grifters. And I do not care for those folks. To me the difference between grifters on right and left is that "liberal" grifters have jobs at NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR instead of websites your aunt reads on Facebook.

Regardless of grift however, it is looking to be a blowout in the November elections unless something big changes.

Who cares? What has the GOP succeeded in "conserving" since WWII? The party has no positive ideological content to offer in opposite to the DNC; just a superficial promise to "own the libs" while making as much money in the process as possible. And watch, they end describing whatever fresh madness the revolutionaries are currently demanding as a "blessing of liberty" within a decade. Worse than useless.

Shouldn’t you be celebrating? We have the first SCOTUS ever nominated and confirmed based on skin color and this the post you come to troll with?

What about my political posts makes you think I'd be celebrating KBJ's appointment?

 

[TorontoGold]

Disney + The View - the most dangerous duo in media today. We're like two years from freaking about The Weather Network being cancelled for pushing the woke lefty narrative of climate change.

 

[Blazers46]

Who cares? What has the GOP succeeded in "conserving" since WWII? The party has no positive ideological content to offer in opposite to the DNC; just a superficial promise to "own the libs" while making as much money in the process as possible. And watch, they end describing whatever fresh madness the revolutionaries are currently demanding as a "blessing of liberty" within a decade. Worse than useless.

What about my political posts makes you think I'd be celebrating KBJ's appointment?

Toronto liking them is a start….

 

[Blazers46]

Disney + The View - the most dangerous duo in media today. We're like two years from freaking about The Weather Network being cancelled for pushing the woke lefty narrative of climate change.

People still watch The View?

The only way the weather channel gets canceled is talking about how dangerous black ice is.

Black Ice Matters… could probably buy a few mansions with that cause.

 

[TorontoGold]

People still watch The View?

The only way the weather channel gets canceled is talking about how dangerous black ice is.

Black Ice Matters… could probably buy a few mansions with that cause.

Apparently, that coveted 11AM time slot to showcase radical thoughts by elderly ladies lmao.

 

[Irish#1]

Who cares? What has the GOP succeeded in "conserving" since WWII? The party has no positive ideological content to offer in opposite to the DNC; just a superficial promise to "own the libs" while making as much money in the process as possible. And watch, they end describing whatever fresh madness the revolutionaries are currently demanding as a "blessing of liberty" within a decade. Worse than useless.

What about my political posts makes you think I'd be celebrating KBJ's appointment?

I'm not sure what's worse, a party with one oar, or a party with an "agenda" agenda?

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Critical race theory being pushed in schools K-12. Gender/ sexuality lessons for first graders on the ballot. What's missing in all this is American kids (PISA scores) rank 11th in science and 30th in math in the world. Maybe we throw more time and resources at those two areas and let the parents be parents at home.

 

[drayer54]

Not one conviction.

 

[Irish#1]

Apparently some FBI informants might have stretched the truth which was the basis for the arrests.

 

[GowerND11]

Shouldn’t you be celebrating? We have the first SCOTUS ever nominated and confirmed based on skin color and this the post you come to troll with?

It's clear you don't understand Whiskey's political stances and this post shows. I'd argue he is a beacon of Catholic political views on this board.

 

[Blazers46]

It's clear you don't understand Whiskey's political stances and this post shows. I'd argue he is a beacon of Catholic political views on this board.

Apparently. My bad. I am sorry. You are right. I am wrong. I will do better at taking inventory of Whiskey's and everyone else's political stances. Thank you 4 days later for showing me this massive oversight on my part.

 

[NEIIrish]

Apparently some FBI informants might have stretched the truth which was the basis for the arrests.

Stretchin Gretchen.

 

[Blazers46]

Not one conviction.

I will be that guy and point out if the party lines were opposite this would be a bigger story. This was a pretty big story hogging headlines. Would be interesting to see the texts and communication within the FBI and informants.

 

[GowerND11]

Apparently. My bad. I am sorry. You are right. I am wrong. I will do better at taking inventory of Whiskey's and everyone else's political stances. Thank you 4 days later for showing me this massive oversight on my part.

So sorry I couldn't reply sooner as I had LASIK done, but thank you for doing better. I appreciate the thoughtful response. Growth is imperative for all of us, and your humble reply shows it.

See, I can do sarcasm too.

 

[drayer54]

I will be that guy and point out if the party lines were opposite this would be a bigger story. This was a pretty big story hogging headlines. Would be interesting to see the texts and communication within the FBI and informants.

It all goes back to the reality that the DOJ is serving a party, not the country. Our DOJ is currently going after gerrymandering in states not won by Biden but blissfully ignoring it in others. The agency that served Hillary is still at it.

 

[Blazers46]

So sorry I couldn't reply sooner as I had LASIK done, but thank you for doing better. I appreciate the thoughtful response. Growth is imperative for all of us, and your humble reply shows it.

See, I can do sarcasm too.

I know you are but what am I....

 

[ab2cmiller]

One of you just needs to go nuclear. Something about rubber and glue.

 

[Blazers46]

One of you just needs to go nuclear. Something about rubber and glue.

I will take it easy on him, the man just has surgery. The drugs may cause troll-ish behavior.

 

[GowerND11]

I will take it easy on him, the man just has surgery. The drugs may cause troll-ish behavior.

Please. It was lasik. No drugs needed. To be a troll would be not recognizing Whiskey’s stances on many nuanced topics. But please. PLEASE, keep doing your act.

 

[Irish#1]

You kids stop before I send you to your rooms without supper.

 

[Blazers46]

Please. It was lasik. No drugs needed. To be a troll would be not recognizing Whiskey’s stances on many nuanced topics. But please. PLEASE, keep doing your act.

Relax dude, the sarcasm went way over your head. I am sure Whiskey has access to internet and WIFI and is fully capable of defending himself. Its like you are trying to just find or create an argument just to win one. The conversation started Thursday, it ended Thursday. Get over yourself.

 

[Rogue219]

Herschel Walker is flat out making shit up about everything. It's crazy.

He never graduated college but claims he was first in his class, he claims he was his HS valedictorian but his HS doesn't have valedictorians, he claims he owns a company but it doesn't actually exist. Evidently, he doesn't even live in Georgia either.

And he's probably going to be a US Senator in January.

Bloody hell.

 

[drayer54]

Herschel Walker is flat out making shit up about everything. It's crazy.

He never graduated college but claims he was first in his class, he claims he was his HS valedictorian but his HS doesn't have valedictorians, he claims he owns a company but it doesn't actually exist. Evidently, he doesn't even live in Georgia either.

And he's probably going to be a US Senator in January.

Bloody hell.

Since when is making shit up disqualifying for government work?

 

[NorthDakota]

Herschel Walker is flat out making shit up about everything. It's crazy.

He never graduated college but claims he was first in his class, he claims he was his HS valedictorian but his HS doesn't have valedictorians, he claims he owns a company but it doesn't actually exist. Evidently, he doesn't even live in Georgia either.

And he's probably going to be a US Senator in January.

Bloody hell.

Our current President claimed several times to spend time in jail trying to visit Nelson Mandela.

Seems par for the course. Disappointed a state like Georgia can't find more qualified candidates than Walker and Warnock, but it is what it is.