pithy
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You'd think that possibility might have started making itself apparent with the advent of telegraphy. Some, oh, 150 years ago?
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Regarding the vote thus far, it doesn't help that 25% of the country is made up of evangelicals not so very different from the woman above. Coupled with the education system's rah-rah jingoism and revisionism, maybe we shouldn't be surprised that a potential Biden victory won't be by a bigger margin.
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10 minutes ago, MadFan said:
In keeping with the theme? Bless! It's very Iggy Azalea after being bonked on the head with a Bible. I guess it's nice that there's an open-door policy for angels from sundry places outside of the US, even if there's not one for human beings.
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Surely he has no case. And the Republicans have won enough battles (the Senate, the Supreme Court), so they're sorted for the foreseeable anyway. If Trump loses, he'll be a liability. The GOP can and will turn its back. No need to run their party's reputation further into the ground to humour the lunacy of a megalomaniac; he'd be dispensable at that point.
Just concerned what the rabid St. Bernards (minus the decorum) we call his base might do.
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5 hours ago, LSD said:
A lot of them received citizenship under Reagan so now they're full "fuck you, got mine".
2 hours ago, xtaticboy82 said:Same thing with some of the Filipinos, I myself is one. Have that elitist view of getting the citizenship and now wanting it to becto granted to only the few.
That general lack of empathy and "I've got mine" attitude is often the most egregious offense in a lot of these situations. What it says about people's self-congratulatory beliefs that they were and are inherently deserving of special privileges, having been afforded opportunities they'd now prefer to see others denied, is so ugly. Its prevalence really chills.
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And thus it begins. The stale carcass of a rotted peach would let the country implode if it meant he could put an asterisk next to his opponent's (possible) victory. These people have been being galvanized into eventual action for months now.
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21 minutes ago, Nonoka said:
That is really my main takeaway from these elections too. Even if Biden (now likely) wins, personally I wouldn't have much reason to celebrate if I was a Democrat in the US. Trump has not lost popularity since 2016, in fact, given the 2+ million extra votes he received in total (and still counting), you could argue he even grew in popularity, and that is despite COVID-19 and all the other stuff.
I'll be very very curious to see how Biden will be able to deal with over one third of America's population still clearly disapproving of Democrat policies. It could turn out to be a pyrrhic victory to some extent I'm afraid.
I agree. There are simply too many to write them off as "deplorables," even if there's little reason to believe they're anything else. I think Biden will have to immediately begin trying to ameliorate concerns around that chasm. There won't be gloating. And it's such a burden because it seems like such a futile effort, and it probably is, but how can that house divided against itself stand?
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1 hour ago, IsaacHarris said:
Cuz (at least) half the country IS racist
This is the grim reality that's under the hood of it all, isn't it? If people want to give him the benefit of the doubt regarding the coronavirus, whether that's because they prefer to go on questioning its gravity themselves or because they incorrectly view it as an insurmountable curveball for which he couldn't have been more prepared, that's one thing, I guess. I disagree, but with a scintilla of patience.
But for his blatant fanning of racial hatred to be a "blind spot" for this many? Grim.
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Trump's speech could've been triumphal rabble-rousing or it could've been because he knows it's not a foregone conclusion he's got it, and I think it's the latter. Call me a deluded optimist, but I think he's scared. Good.
However, it's appalling that it's this tight despite his catastrophic failure in handling COVID. Without a pandemic, would the GOP have walked this? Unnerving to think of the sheer magnitude of the movement. A shame we haven't transcended this, as a species.
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Despite having expected it to happen, the despair and disgust is still gut-deep and emphatic. What an absolute shame.
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Woodrow Wilson remained in office after suffering a stroke halfway through his second term. His wife did everything, better than he would've at his healthiest, and she should probably be recognized as a de facto first female president, but that's another issue.
The point is that presidents can just be envoys. They don't do it all. I don't think Biden was ever particularly brilliant, nor ever much more than serviceable, but neither were plenty of others in that political lineage. But it doesn't always matter how brilliant you are anyway; you have to pander to constituents who wouldn't know greatness if it threw Hard Candy CDs in their faces. Biden doesn't rouse a thing in me, but what's important is that he's willing to work alongside the right people, including the seemingly promising Kamala Harris, for (more of) the right things. He could be sworn in and fuck off to bed for the next four years and the United States would still be in much better hands than it is with disgraceful Trump.
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Al Gore won the popular vote back in 2000 as well. It's surreal to think of how different the entire world may be if the very antiquated electoral college system had long ago ceased to exist in the United States. It thwarts progress, giving disproportionate power to red states with smaller populations.
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Mrs. Higgins (and his wife, too) should get into creative writing.
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Can't stand her angle. Have heard relatives espouse the same nonsensical idea that his being an interloper who's basically crashed the White House somehow makes him more trustworthy than your garden-variety politician. Get real. Come off it. Do they not realize his entire career has been predicated on lies? The past four years alone have been a sideshow of deceit. Think it's time to retire that ridiculous logical fallacy, which basically translates to thinking experience and knowledge are bad.
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Catching up on the hearing held regarding that tragic Amy Coney Barrett. Not for the first time, I found myself admiring Senator Blumenthal so much. His line of questioning was thorough, smart, considered, and constructive. The votes all follow party lines, so it's ultimately exhausting, but there is something life-affirming in being reminded, no matter how effective they are at ramming the will of the few over that of the many, that there are always great hearts and minds working toward what's right.
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Well, the tide has to turn eventually, and Romney wants to ensure the continuation of his career after the borrowed time on which Trump's been living has finally lapsed, hence this distancing of himself. It's not winning many points with me, but fingers crossed it'll get through to some historically red voters who haven't been totally indoctrinated by Trump's spin on the party.
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I hardly think this is the thread but I love Amanda Lear as well.
Human expression possibly hit its peak when she chained the legend of Faust to a disco context on her Sweet Revenge album.
I'm sure Jessica's doctors know all about how truly sweet revenge can be!
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They're dense enough to like Trump, so I guess such things as basic subtext and innuendo are beyond them.
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It's not nice to say it but I love checking out the reactions of the random passersby in all of her paparazzi pics, which tend to run the whole gamut of human emotion (if that gamut were comprised exclusively of abject terror and dazed confusion).
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Oh, the humanity of these photo ops, their obvious implication being that not even the coronavirus could keep him from his "work."
He wants to have it both ways. He wants to attempt to downplay its seriousness and, in the very same breath, trot it out as something with which to generate sympathy. Because his supporters only have scruples when it suits them, I'm sure some will play along.
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If he pulled out of the race now, he would have plausible deniability should anyone dare suggest he would've lost anyway. The ultimate way to save face. Maybe he feels the writing is on the wall and this can be an exit that will spare him the humiliation of failing? Probably unlikely, since I think it would behoove his criminal self, legally, to stay in power, but I'd take it.
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10 minutes ago, Cyber-Raga said:
I would not put it passed him that he is only pretending to have COVID so that he can later claim “it’s not that bad, the liberal media is lying, go back to work and school, ...”. However, on the other hand if he has it ...
If Trump and then at some point Pence are knocked out (I don’t wish for anyone to die, even these assholes), and they can’t attend to their jobs, Americans will have President Nancy Pelosi until January 2021.The thought did cross my mind that it could be a ruse to achieve what you've listed, as well as to galvanize his supporters, especially whatever more casual ones remain, into even greater devotion by eliciting the country's sympathy. Ultimately, I don't think he could get away with such a tactic, but it says a lot that we have reason to believe he'd think nothing of stooping so low.
At 74 and in the obese range, his odds aren't great. I don't wish him a COVID death, not least of all because it'd make him a martyr, but he surely deserves to suffer. It feels like no outcome is of benefit.
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3 minutes ago, elijah said:
Will there be debates, cause I ve read somewhere that Biden advisers tell him NOT to debate Dumb?
A vice presidential debate is set to take place at the beginning of October. It might be too much for Pence's delicate sensibilities, though, as we know his wife is usually the only woman with whom he can engage.
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Could we be looking at the eventual first female president? If their ticket wins the presidency, I can't see Biden having two full terms in him. Kamala would take the reins. If nothing else, watching her annihilate Pence during their debate in a couple of months promises to be a sight to behold.
2020 U.S. Election: Congratulations Biden and Harris!
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All I want is to revel in his unraveling without having to fearfully wonder if we're getting ahead of ourselves in any way whatever. He deserves his misery. He deserves his shame.