Miami Herald: I’m done trying to understand Trump supporters. Why don’t they try to understand me?

[Larry]

7 minutes ago, mistertim said:

 

Gotta love the idea of Republicans holding hearings in order to **** about free market capitalism.

 

Republicans have done such a 180 in the past 10-15 years. Now they're anti-military, anti-police (when the police don't do what they want), and anti-free market capitalism.

 

Pretty much all they have left is naked authoritarianism.

They're wrong on literally everything. But their response to being wrong is to double down and be more belligerent about it. 

[Larry]

Think we can convince Republicans that if they really want to punish AT&T, they should pass some consumer protection laws?  

[Llevron]

Crazy that they actually feel for the root bear thing lmao 

[Cooked Crack]

3 minutes ago, Llevron said:

Crazy that they actually feel for the root bear thing lmao 

 

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

 

[Captain Wiggles]

[China]

2 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

That won't be a problem in North Dakota, where they are introducing a bill that nobody can attend schools that identifies as a non-human animal:

 

Don't identify as human? North Dakota schools don't want you

[balki1867]

It's weird-- I've heard half a dozen stories from people I know around the country about "a kid in my school district who identifies as a dog.  In fact, he/she sued the district to allow him to eat lunch out of a dog bowl.  It was in the news locally," 

 

Yet it's always, "a kid in my district," and never a kid at their child's school, or a kid they or their child has witnessed eating out of a dog bowl.

 

Where is this propaganda originating from?

[Larry]

15 minutes ago, balki1867 said:

Where is this propaganda originating from?

Supposedly, in a lot of cases, Russian bots. 
 

Not that your friends are necessarily getting their info from Russian bots. Not directly. 
 

Russia might send messages to 100 people. But if 10% of those people, repeat it, and they repeat it to 30 people each .....

[youngestson]

Wrong thread.

Edited January 26, 2023 by youngestson

[TradeTheBeal!]

[Simmsy]

On 1/25/2023 at 7:53 AM, Larry said:

I question the intelligence of anybody who says the political games begin now. 

 

Da politikal exorcize starts promptlee!

Edited January 27, 2023 by Simmsy

[LD0506]

[Cooked Crack]

https://www.mms.com/en-us/ma-ya-chocolate-candies/p/ma-ya-chocolate-candies

 

 

Tucker bout to bust a vein

[China]

 

[skinsmarydu]

^^^ Whoever thought that fool was a "billionaire genius" should be shot into outer space. 

He couldn't have named the three branches of government.  He tricked a ****load of people.  And those people need to be shot into space, in nothing but their drawers. 

[LD0506]

Think catapult

[skinsmarydu]

10 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

Think catapult

We think alike. 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 28, 2023 by skinsmarydu

[Captain Wiggles]

Nah shooting them into space isn't fair to space. Send all the MAGA CHUDS to the sun. It'll know what to do with them. 🌞

 

 

 

[skinsmarydu]

Just now, Captain Wiggles said:

Nah shooting them into space isn't fair to space. Send all the MAGA CHUDS to the sun. It'll know what to do with them. 🌞

 

 

 

I used to have a genius in the house, or I woulda thoughta dat. 

[LD0506]

1 minute ago, skinsmarydu said:

We think alike. 

 

 

 

 

 

Well that's a scary thought

[skinsmarydu]

Just now, LD0506 said:

 

Well that's a scary thought

Indeed.

[skinsfan4128]

1 hour ago, China said:

 

****ing idiot only posts when he believes it'll benefit him with his band of merrymen.

 

God help us if he reclaims the white house again. 

 

HTTR!

[China]

From the National Review (not exactly a liberal rag):

 

Trump Has Completely Lost His Grip on Reality

 

Let’s check in on the shadow primary for the 2024 Republican nomination. Nikki Haley is putting together a finance committee, and suggested last week that she’s “leaning in” to a run. Mike Pompeo has just published a book called Never Give an Inch, and told CBS yesterday that he’ll decide whether to enter the fray over the “next handful of months.” Governor Ron DeSantis has continued to pick winning fights in Florida since being reelected in a November landslide, and has stayed assiduously quiet about his future.

And then there’s Donald Trump, who, despite being the only candidate who has officially announced his bid, is . . . well, ranting like a deranged hobo in a dilapidated public park. No, don’t look at him — he might come over here with his sign.

 

There was a point in time at which Trump’s unusual verbal affect and singular nose for underutilized wedge issues gave him a competitive edge. Now? Now, he’s morphing into one of the three witches from Macbeth. To peruse Trump’s account on Truth Social is to meet a cast of characters about whom nobody who lives beyond the Trump Extended Universe could possibly care one whit. Here in the real world, the border is a catastrophe, inflation is as bad as it’s been in four decades, interest rates have risen to their highest level in 15 years, crime is on the up, and the debt continues to mushroom. And yet, safely ensconced within his own macrocosm, Trump is busy mainlining Edward Lear. Day in, day out, he rambles about the adventures of Coco Chow and the Old Broken Crow; the dastardly Unselect Committee; the (presumably tasty) Stollen Presidential Election; the travails of that famous law-enforcement agency, the Gestopo; Joe Scarborough’s wife “Mike”; and other unusual characters from Coromandel. “Where the early pumpkins blow / In the middle of the woods / Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò / Who STOLLE THE ELECTION / Don’t you know?”

 

These characters come and go as the world passes indifferently by. But Trump’s heroism remains the one constant. It is the dream of any artist to play both performer and critic, and, on Truth Social, Trump is living the dream. At times, his penchant for self-elevation makes God’s declaration in Genesis “that it was good” look positively bashful. Apropos of nothing, he will declare to himself: “‘TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING’ One of [sic] most often used current phrases or statements. Wow, such a magnificent compliment. Thank you!” Other evaluations are equally gushing. His appraisal of the social-media company of which he is the sole potentate: “TRUTH SOCIAL IS SOOO GREAT!” His review of his golfing abilities in a competition that, astonishingly enough, he managed to win despite missing its first day: “Competed against many fine golfers, and was hitting the ball long and straight,” which “in a very real way . . . serves as a physical exam, only MUCH tougher.” His assessment of his presidency, and of the 2020 election that he lost by millions of votes: “I did a GREAT job as President, maybe the best.” And then: “I Ran twice, did much better the second time (Rigged Election!)” I tell ya, Charley, I coulda been a contender.

 

Throughout his public career, Trump has resembled nothing so much as a drunken talk-radio caller from Queens, and, on Truth Social, readers get the treat of watching him at the zenith of his rhetorical powers. Nobody — and I mean nobody — can shift gears as fast as Donald J. Trump. One moment he’s proposing that the solution to the Supreme Court leak is to “arrest the reporter, publisher, editor—you’ll get your answer fast,” or, if that fails, “put whoever in jail.” The next, he’s describing the prosecution of his business associate, Allen Weisselberg, as “the greatest Witch Hunt of all time.” His repertoire is unmatched — and unmatchable. He can do edgy insult comedy for the people listening in at the bar: “The reporter was a shaky & unattractive wack job, known as ‘tough’ but dumb as a rock.” He can make numbers up off the top of his head: “The change in the Election was Complete & Total, with Millions of votes switched, at least 17%.” He can use hyperbolic analogies: “Our Country is SICK inside, very much like a person dying of Cancer.” He can even do angry: “May he Rot In Hell!” He can do anything.

 

Click on the link for the rest

 

[LD0506]