03-27-2021, 12:45 AM
(03-26-2021, 09:43 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-26-2021, 07:17 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(03-25-2021, 11:20 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-22-2021, 04:20 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: So The Trump Republicans want to make it illegal to bring some water to grandma as she waits to vote in a line that THEY made so long!
What's up with the Democrats and their cheesy comedians these days? Gee, you'd think Biden won by 42,000,000 votes. I know that it's hard for a nimble minded comedian to comprehend that McConnell represents the interests of 76 million Americans who have no interest in him, his career or the future of his show or the network that he's associated with today either.
The ban on offering food or water to people in line to vote (so long as the activity is non-partisan) could be detrimental to diabetics. A Boy Scout or Girl Scout troop would be adequately non-partisan. So might a church group. Electioneering within range of the polling place is banned in many states.
Mitch McConnell is one of two Senators representing Kentucky in the US Senate. He does not represent people outside of Kentucky.
...As if it matters for precision, Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by 7.969,533 popular votes... but the States elect the President, and Joe Biden won the Electoral College 306-232, which is what counts. Maybe you don't get the point. Maybe you'd like to arrange things so that people must vote as their employers dictate. Maybe you'd like to see your favored President decide that he can repudiate any statewide election that he dislikes.
Of course that is consistent with dictatorship. Maybe you would like that so that your side never loses.
Mitch McConnell represents about half of the country right now.
I suppose so in that the Senate is split 50-50 so that the Vice President typically decides 50-50 votes. The part of America that voted for Trump in 2020 has no share of the Presidency... as if such were not so of the plurality of Americans who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Presidency is not a power-sharing arrangement between the two main Parties of the time, and never has been. It was not so designed and so it remains.
Suck it up, Classic X'er. Your side made much of the slogan "Own the libs". Well, we got a different candidate who appealed to more people than did Hillary Clinton and we got the Electoral Vote this time. Maybe if the President that your Party nominated had not acted so much like a despot who acted as if people who disagreed with him were no longer relevant to the political process and had no legitimate cause to expect anything good from the Trump Presidency, we might instead be in the second term of some other Republican.
Your Party chose badly because unlike ours, your Party has winner-take-all voting in caucuses and primaries, and in a six-way race the winner can theoretically get all the delegates from a state, including states that your Party has practically no chance of winning, with less than 20% of the primary or caucus vote. Your Party nominated someone devoid of character, political experience, and integrity. Your Party chose someone who trusts his gut feelings than rational science. You won one election, electing someone awful, and he failed as President. We won the Presidency back.
Quote:It's so funny, the Democratic party is currently functioning like a dictatorship, showing all the obvious signs of wanting to establish itself as a dictatorship but you're not seeing it for some reason.
Tell me about the suppression of dissent. Tell me about the shut-down of unsympathetic media. Tell me about the disappearance of people who think "wrong". Tell me about the mass incarceration of people for acting on their consciences.
The Putsch o January 6 is not an exercise of conscience.
Quote:They're doing it even though it only has the power of a slim majority that was basically given to them by a group of pissed off American voters who know the Democratic party changed the the rules who could care less if a (ugly and irrelevant stereotypes redacted) get elected and destroy whatever integrity that Washington DC has left at this point.
Government by a slim minority win in the previous election is always precarious. That's when the work is hardest, when there is little room for error and one must take chances to make things better.
I have seen overwhelming evidence that Americans hold the coup attempt of January 6 in thorough contempt. It is too early to say what will happen to politicians who didn't distance themselves quickly enough to ensure no ill consequences in the next election. That is in roughly eighteen months for the House and roughly a third of the Senate.
Quote:So, what do you think is going to happen to the value of the comedian when the comedian finds himself stuck between Liberal cancel culture and good old American cancel culture? Other than washing dishes, what has the comedian aka political spokesman done for a living? I don't think that you quite understand how much Democratic related wealth is on the verge of being wiped out by the culture war that's coming. I don't think you understand the impacts that the losses are going to have on you or the impacts that a Scorched Earth approach with Democrats is going to have on you either. Dude, the American right has already proven that it's much tougher and much braver and currently in a much stronger position than the Democratic side and could begin splitting the country and defunding DC and withdrawing funds and reestablishing the nation as fast as the Democratic government/party clings to power, loses control and implodes.
A huge chink of American prosperity is the result of the creation of and transactions in "intellectual property", heavily in entertainment. Much of it stretches the definition of "intellectual", as a well-made period piece with excellent writing, acting, and set design is genuinely intellectual and a cheaply-made porno flick both have asset value in the form of a copyright.
Part of valid courage is assessing the real dangers and risks of what one does. Failure to assess those risks is foolhardiness, and not courage.
You are welcome to consider me a coward for wearing a mask in public when COVID-19 has killed nearly 569 thousand people. Imagine a city the size of Albuquerque, New Mexico (America's 32nd-largest city) vanishing -- that is where the death toll now lies. New cases are slowing down, and so are deaths. But whether one dies in a large number of people in one day or a comparatively-small one it is still a tragedy for one's loved ones.
I'm not ready to throw away fifteen to twenty years of life expectancy without good cause. I'm not ready to even take on some organ disease that makes the rest of my life shorter and miserable. Pointless risk is for fools.
Quote:So far, Bumbling Biden has failed to show me that he actually cares about America or the future of America. All that he has shown me is that he's just a Democrat and only cares about what Democrats think of him and what the Democrats want/need to do to keep the coastal Democrats in power at this point.
Your idea of what constitutes America differs greatly from mine. My idea of what constitutes America is far more inclusive. It includes people who look very different from me, have very different ways of making a living, and hold very different beliefs.
Quote:I mean, his approval ratings are directly related to them because they're the only ones who (care). Here's what you are going to learn over the coarse of the next decade. You are going to learn that the old laurels associated with the Lost and GI's that Democratic side has been relying on, taking advantage of and exploiting for their own gains the last few decades no longer exist as you're dealing with the wrath of the coastal Democrats as we are busy winning the war with them. You won't know that we are winning because they control the coastal media as you should already know or at least should have figured out by now since you are old enough/wise enough to be able to do that on your own by now. If not, why are you still voting?
There is no impending civil war between what you consider America and the rest of America, people whom you consider unworthy of any self-description as "American". Trying to make such a distinction is pointless and futile.
Quote:Here's the reality, you are on the side that has millions of useless, worthless childults. I'm sorry dude but you are below me in maturity. You live here and your maturity level matches the level of those who spend the bulk of the time here.
You are the one exuding anger behind your surface at people who fail to recognize your alleged superiority but over what?
Quote:You are on the side that has millions of immature single moms with kids with immature dads to support. Immature ex wives who are unable to defend themselves. Immature single women who are stuck on themselves. Groups of minorities who are stuck on themselves. Groups of activists and political opportunists who are stuck on themselves. Quasi socialist groups who are stuck on themselves. So, other the money that the Democratic party has the power to create and use as needed or suit their needs/interests, what does the Democratic side have to offer real Americans who don't need it or not interested in paying for it?
You and many on your side fail to recognize how vulnerable you are to exploitation from people who sell you a packaged version of "American" identity. I wouldn't knock "activists" unduly, for activists got America to consider the validity of slavery, male-only voting, child labor, dehumanizing treatment of workers, McCarthyism, Jim Crow, and homophobia... among other things.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.