the dems are gonna get the house but the rs will hold the senate, im not sure itll be enough for meltdowns, but expect a lot of unironic "republicans gerrymandered the senate" which was a popular thing to say in r politics in 2014
i always find it silly that red states are obsessed with them-there freeloaders when their white poverty societies exist only because of wealth redistrubuted from rich blue state hippies.
literal peasent scum that can replaced by machines. Maybe if you stopped fucking your sisters and prazn' jayzs's you'd amount to something other than literal IQ 70 mud animals.
The argument I've heard was that "The Dems lost so many times due to unfair gerrymandering that people who vote Dem gets discouraged and enough of them stay home to swing the election"
I mean it's possible that it happens but unless you conduct a big poll of the residents of those states you can't know for sure.
If that were true, all those NEETS in California wouldn't have turned out to try to 'landslide' Hillary in an election where it doesn't matter how many people vote.
nuh uh those votes don't count because they're from a state that has different political opinions than I do so that makes them literally not human beings
Only one state made the difference between Hillary winning or losing the popular vote! And that's one more state that contributed to her popular vote win than Trump had.
each state is split into districts where the house members are elected. those ones can be gerrymandered. senators represent the state as a whole and don't have districts, so can't be elected due to gerrymandering (unless they think the shape of the state itself is gerrymandered)
Irrelevant flyover hicks are given free votes for doing nothing, and torture the rest of the nation eternally out of resent while abusing their disproportionate power
Yeah anyone that believes that has more than a touch of the tism. The Dems will gain quite a few seats in the house but the senate will probably stay the same. They might pick up a seat in Nevada but Heitkamp is going to lose in NODAK.
Nobody is retarded to think the Dems could pick up a supermajority. The best they are hoping for is a simple majority, but even that probably won't happen due to the seats that are up.
Normal Democrats sure. But the megaretards on r/politics think that it will be easy to pack the court and change the voting system as long as Bernie wins.
The people who think Dems will get enough seats in the next few elections to get rid of the Electoral College are so out to pasture that it's not even worth talking about them.
The court packers need to shut the fuck up and pick up a history book. FDR was majorly fucked over for his attempt to pack the courts and it'll be no different if the progressives if they try it again. People don't take kindly to blatant attempts to mess with the SC.
And changing the electoral system requires a Constitutional amendment.
Nah not really. The Constitution leaves it up to each state. It's why some Maine and Nebraska give two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each Congressional district (2 in Maine, 3 in Nebraska).
Yeah there is only 6 seats (Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, and Nebraska) that the democrats can pick up in the senate and of those 6 seats Iâd say only 2 are really competitive (Nevada and Arizona). Plus the Dems will probably lose one in NODAK where Heitkamp is currently trailing so yes since a super majority is 60 seats therefore it is mathematically impossible.
Iâm from Tennessee and I can tell you most people would say theyâre gonna vote for Diane but itâs pretty clear that even among our republicans thereâs a lot of love for Bredesen
i like how dems legit think they can pack the court if they control the government
1-fdr tried and failed
2-the last time dems controlled the government they spent all their political capital on a bill that basically just shoved money into health insurance and pharmaceuticals companies pockets because they needed their support to pass
3-the last time rs controlled the governmnet (read now) they did literally nothing
Requiring photo ID to prove who you are isn't suppression.
Also, anyone who is too dumb/lazy to google "X County Polling Locations" is clearly not capable of making in informed decision about governing the country
When they make it hard to get photo ID by closing down DMV or making there be a lot of hoops to jumps through or selectively choosing which IDs are acceptable that more conservatives don't happen to have then yes it is. The number of eligible voters who don't have ID FAR outweighs the case of in person voter fraud.
No retard, it's not voter suppression, it's a poll tax. Also retarded- Implying not being able to get to a polling place while Republicans close them in poor neighborhoods across the red states disqualifies one from being capable of making informed decisions, and actually thinking someone that vocalizes that he thinks "the clintons are out to get him" and lies under oath about what "boofing" is so he doesn't look like a frat boy moron belongs on the Supreme Court.
Personally, I think this is all awesome, Kavanaugh is polling pretty low with independents, if you stand outside both echo chambers and talk to real people they're mostly pretty shocked at both parties over this circus, but only the Republicans are going to have a 30 year reminder that they stacked the court with a total ideologue liar.
Nobody gives a shit about requiring an ID to vote dude. The problems are as follows:
The voter ID laws always come with other things like "we're reducing early voting hours or closing polling stations in certain areas."
Voter fraud is basically non-existent in this country so they're coming up with solutions for problems that don't exist, and the downsides these "solutions" have always just so happen to suppress tons of poor/black voters, what a coincidence.
I don't even care if you want to die on this hill - but this is voter suppression, they aren't efforts to combat voter fraud. That's just the facade the GOP came up with so twits like you will defend them until the very end, ignoring all proof that says you're wrong.
Tell me how you detect it. Because I've actually read the small number of "studies" on the subject, have you?
The most common type of voter fraud isn't in person, it's absentee. We have almost no way to detect either though. If you'd also like to ban absentee voting for anyone who isn't elderly, disabled, or a service member I totally agree though.
Did you literally forget my previous posts where I explained why it's almost impossible to detect given our current rules? You ignored that part because unlike me you haven't actually read the "studies" and investigations you're talking about. Like most people that discuss politics, you shouldn't be.
If you say so. Either way, increasing voter ID requirements, limiting absentee voting, and other measures which prevent voter fraud are happening. And they are giving us a more holy and prosperous America.
Americans constantly reee online about how "dRiViNg A cAr Is AbSoLuTeLy NeCeSsArY fOr EvErYbOdY" so presumably everyone already has a driving license anyway??
Do you think poor people in the ghetto deserve to vote if they can't be fucked going to the DMV to get a fucking ID?
It's ironic because in other countries you often need multiple forms of identification to vote (like here in Europe) yet 95% of people manage to do it and vote.
"Who cares if they outright admitted to illegal racial voter suppression, who cares if it's painfully obvious they only do this to reduce voter turnout, if you can't get an ID then you shouldn't be allowed to vote!"
I've said it before and I'll say it again: American conservatives are a lost cause.
They're proto-fascist mongoloids with no concern for reality.
It's not very loosely defined, fascism in general is only "loosely defined" because it's a set of emotional traits more so than a doctrine and the "truth" is whatever helps them win.
Proto-fascism is different, though. Proto-fascism is always the same. A good example of proto-fascism would be conservatives in Weimar Germany:
After 1918, women were enfranchised and able to vote and stand for election at every level from local councils up to the Reichstag. They were formally given the right to enter the major professions, and the part they played in public life was far more prominent than it had been before the war. Correspondingly, the hostility of those male supremacists who believed that womenâs place was in the home now won a much wider hearing. Their disapproval was reinforced by the far more open display of sexuality than before the war in the liberated atmosphere of the big cities. Even more shocking to conservatives was the public campaigning for gay rights by individuals such as Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the harmless-sounding Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, in 1897. In fact, Hirschfeld was openly homosexual, and in numerous publications propagated the controversial idea that homosexuals were a âthird sexâ whose orientation was the product of congenital rather than environmental factors. His Committee was dedicated to the abolition of Paragraph 175 of the Reich Criminal Code, which outlawed âindecent activityâ between adult males. What aroused the wrath of conservatives was the fact that in 1919 the Social Democratic state government of Prussia gave Hirschfeld a large grant to convert his informal Committee into a state-funded Institute for Sexual Science, with its premises in the grand Tiergarten district in the centre of the capital city. The Institute offered sex counselling, held popular question-and-answer sessions on topics like âwhat is the best way to have sex without making a baby?â and campaigned for the reform of all the laws regulating sexual behaviour. Hirschfeld quickly built up a wide range of international contacts, organized in the World League for Sexual Reform, of which his Institute was the effective headquarters in the 1920s. He was the. driving force behind the spread of public and private birth control and sex counselling clinics in the Weimar Republic. Not surprisingly, he was repeatedly vilified by the Nationalists and the Nazis, whose attempt to tighten up the law still further, with the support of the Centre Party, was narrowly defeated by the votes of the Communists, Social Democrats and Democrats on the Criminal Law Reform Committee of the Reichstag in 1929.
Nationalist hostility was driven by more than crude moral conservatism. Germany had lost 2 million men in the war, and yet the birth rate was still in rapid decline. Between 1900 and 1925, live births per thousand married women under the age of 45 fell very sharply indeed, from 280 to 146. Laws restricting the sale of condoms were eased in 1927, and by the early 1930s there were more than 1,600 vending machines in public places, with one Berlin firm alone producing 25 million condoms a year. Sex counselling centres were opened, offering contraceptive advice, and many of these, like Hirschfeldâs Institute, were funded or in some cases actually operated by the Prussian and other regional governments, to the outrage of moral conservatives. Abortion was far more controversial, not least because of the serious medical risks it entailed, but here, too, the law was relaxed, and the offence reduced in 1927 from a felony to a misdemeanour. The thundering denunciation of birth control by the Papal Encyclical Casti Connubii in December 1930 added fuel to the flames of debate, and in 1931 some 1,500 rallies and demonstrations were held in a massive Communist campaign against the evils of backstreet abortions.
Thing is we have Republicans across half the country closing DMVs in poor neighborhoods, in some cases it's been reported that now these "poor people in the ghetto" have to somehow drive 2-3 hours to get to one, and that those ones are only open during normal business hours, which again, means that the middle class white Republicans can take a day off to go handle it, but the working poor might not be able to afford to just not work for a day without drastic consequences, such as not being able to feed their family.
Irony: You not being able to think abstractly like this but calling those who can retards.
Actually retarded: See you and my above statement on irony.
The problem comes in when they make the DMV in poor neighborhoods have terrible hours to make it hard for the people there to get an ID. If there wasn't blatant discrimination in the process of getting a ID to vote, requiring them would be a lot less controversial.
Making drivers licenses mandatory would be a terrible idea. Imagine how much worse the roads would get if the states had to hand them out to everyone. After all I'm sure someone would sue and argue that because they are necessary for voting having any test to obtain it (aka a driving test) would be discriminatory.
If there is going to be mandatory voter photo ID it has to be a separate ID that's free and easy to get.
US laws and history are different. Here there's a history of discriminatory poll taxes and poll tests so having an expensive ID or one that requires a test would quickly cause problems.
Because 17% of the country can elect a senate majority. The house was meant to offset the senate by giving large states power, but we capped the house in the early 1900s and it's been spiraling out of control since then.
Am not American (but am radical centrist), so I'm not familiar with your politics (although it is fun to watch the drama). Why can't senate be gerrymandered?
Fuck rural people, I roll my eyes every time I hear some idiot talking about how unfair it is that they be counted proportional to their number. Why don't we do the senate on race instead? Like blacks get 1/5, Asians 1/5, Hispanics 1/5, Other 1/5, and Whites 1/5? Not really fair that whites get all the say just because there are so many of them is it?
This. And if they do, it wonât be by the huge margins they want. Iâve been watching the polls and shit has started to stink since the dems started in with their #reeeetoo shit. For the NPCs, Kavanaugh is guilty, but for anyone with any critical thinking skills, we all saw it as a political move and made the Dems look shitty. Not to mention motivating the republics base. Good job, DNC opposition tactics.
The Republican party has been bleeding women's votes ever since Trump and they really need the mayo woman turnout to win. I wouldn't be so confident that the #meetoo thing has been backfiring as hard as you think.
history says every time the white house changes hands and the winning party controls the house they lose the house in midterms. its mostly due to enthusiasm gaps
Technically the concentration camps were for children, which i agree dont count because they were under 18.
Besides, you cant count on your average fat fucking retard American to appreciate the collapse of the post war order, so Orange Dementia will probably win even harder next time around.
They did technically do that by creating too different dakotas. But that wasnât exactly 4D chess, it was more luck it ended up working in their favor
I honestly think there's going to be a ton of drama if the blue wave fails or succeeds.
If it happens you'll have the DDF who've just spent the last 3 months pretending to be moderates or Democrats "Walking Away from the Left" (tm) going nuts that that didn't work (or if they believed it was real going nuts that the Dems won out anyway).
Plus if the blue wave is bad enough Trump will start throwing out accusations of voter fraud and even if they're just random rage tweets that don't go anywhere his base will eat it up and rage more.
And if it fails then the other crowd will be literally reeeing in the streets. Remember big-no guy from the presidential election? I hope there's a repeat performance, maybe even better this time!
LOL you Republicans genuinely believe this is going to matter in the long run. That's cute. You will die in a socialist, majority nonwhite America and I will be smiling.
What exactly can they do in West Vrigina? Primary him and thus lose a seat in the senate? He's the true radical centrist, hated by Republicans for being a Democrat and hated by Democrats for not following the party line
This assumes that the Dems don't constantly shoot themselves in the foot. The progressives will hate him for confirming Kav and abandon him, allowing the Republicans to pick up a Senate seat.
There probably aren't that many progressives actually in WV to affect the vote in that way, but there are other ways they can hurt him. Donations can dry up, overall D turnout might be depressed, etc.
The party most likely decided that the best way forward is to let Manchin vote this way though, keeping a D seat for very red WV is important compared to some party line vote that Pence will break anyway and even the Ds would have seen that.
Fucking right and donât understand why the poors want jobs in places like coal mines when they can just go to college and get a job at Starbucks until a man who makes more money can rescue them.
Nah Sanders won because Hillary would have slit coal's, and therefore WV's, throat rather than letting us bleed out in peace. She also would have hurt fracking, our only other job source. Sanders probably would have done the same, but it wasn't as assured as with Clinton.
That would require incredibly ahistorical behavior by the Turks since their entire empire pretty much only existed because Europoors were too tired of the Middle East after the crusades and couldn't band together to curb Turkish interests.
The minute European powers started treating the Ottomans as the greater evil and banded together they started chopping off bits of that empire for about 50 years and taunted them as the Sick Man of Europe.
Maybe, but I don't know. No one really expected Trump to win (outside of his supporters anyway). I think the midterms this year are probably going to go as expected: Democrats win a majority in the House, but not the Senate.
If the economy stays this good and the male femists don't male feminists as much then I have a feeling the salt from 2020 will turn the Pacific into the black sea.
Sure, at least until they give up Identity Politics and find some ideology a bit less contemptible than judging people based on their gender, sexuality, and skin color. Oh who am I kidding? They would probably rather go down still clinging to that giant toxic ship rather than renounce the privilege of talking shit about "cis white men."
I don't believe Trump is actually sympathetic to Neo Nazis. That statement and subsequent non-apology was just an unfortunate nexus of him being too retarded to plan out his own words more than half a second ahead of time and too much of a narcissist to admit it despite how obvious it has been to everyone for years now.
"That was the biggest fucking mistake I've made," the President told Porter. "You never make those concessions. You never apologize. I didn't do anything wrong in the first place. Why look weak?"
No shit, Trump isn't complex. He'll suck your dick if you tell him you like him and consider you lower than pond scum if you don't. Just look at his bipolar back and forth with Kim Jong Un over the past year.
I think itâs more the idea that he canât bear to condemn any supporter, no matter how terrible they are, because he realizes he has very few friends right now.
Not at all, man. Anyone normal human person watching and listening to what he said could easily understand what he said and what it meant.
The problem happens when retards believe the fake news headlines and then repeat them and repeat them and repeat them until they start foaming at the mouth and buying pussy hats.
You say ""he's not a nazi, just a retard" shouldn't be something I find myself having to say about a US President", but the only reason you have to say it is because of how many retards believe he's a Nazi to begin with.
Nah, you can disagree on anything except for loving America and loving Americans. That's why we're winning all the time - we all love America, while the Democrats seem to want nothing but hate and division. We should all be working together and loving each other, but unfortunately all they seem to want to do is #Resist and to hate. Sad!
But he never said that. He said there were some âvery fine peopleâ at the Charlottesville protest. The entire rally was called âunite the rightâ, so itâs not a surprise that a spectrum of right wingers ranging from âeh, letâs not tear down the statuesâ to âsieg heilâ showed up.
Yeah Trump watched Neo Nazis murder a woman and then decided to jump in. It was widely known Neo Nazis were going to be there before the event. If you chose to go, it was with the knowledge that these were some serious Nazis there.
Again, this seems to be based on your own assumption based on what you see online. "Fucking White MaleTM" is a bogeyman that only the most extreme use. Please don't assume most democrats believe that shit because all you see is those who shout the loudest in their toxic little subgroups. Its the same as conflating a regular conservative person with the consensus of some ridiculous women hating subreddit.
Not sure what exactly is wrong with suggesting Ford is brave for what she did though...
This is neither. This is tribalistic defensiveness.
There's no logic in that argument at all. Like, lay out the actual chain of logic that person used. They made a lot of blind, unproven assertions, but they didn't even attempt logic.
The pretty basic logic of the comment is that most people are normal. People are guilty of looking at a loud minority and assume that's what most people believe. It's a fundamental part of humans being humans. We fear "the other side".
I directly say that most people are not like the bogeyman presented online and in the media, and use a similar example of a subset of left wing extremism with a subset of right wing extremism as a comparison. Your critique on the comment has almost zero relevance to the comment itself.
Nah it's based on that ridiculous verbal fellatio Democrat senators gave Ford during their last-ditch (and ultimately futile) attempt to stall this nomination to last beyond the midterms because they've bought into their own hype.
And Ford has made something like $1 million off this sideshow, spare me essays on her bravery.
Could you describe some of the verbal fellatio? I'd like to compare to the verbal fellatio given to kavanaugh during the hearing. She risked her own career to speak out against a guy who sexually assaulted her and has had multiple credible witnesses corroborate her story. Good for her for making some cash on it (not heard of that, not saying I don't believe it but do you have a link for that?).
It was a "futile" attempt because Republicans control all branches of government and are pushing this dumpster fire of a human through. Still very curious as to why they're so dead set on him, considering the amount of bullshit that's come out about his character. He is just objectively not fit for a supreme court nomination.
He favors some of trumps most extreme policies. this particular man will certainly tilt the court towards Trump's 'brand' of politics. And they need him in there now, not next year, because of all the shit trump is doing.
Futile to try and reason with these kids man. If they are posting on r/drama and in favor of this far right batshit admin they are prob just 4chan tards that they let out of the cage.
I had hoped re-posting the bit about not needing essays on Ford's Stunningness and Bravery would get you to realize what a git you were for typing one out anyways, but that's apparently too difficult.
So you're just going to attack my grammar and not address any basic point I made?
essays
No. Proof. Actual substantial proof to the things you say. I'm sorry if those are too boring for you. Perhaps you lack the reading comprehension to take in such large amounts of words.
Oh and I'm from the UK, as in English is my first language, so I find your suggestion of English lessons to be quite silly. Thanks though (though is how we spell tho in the UK).
lol your government is seriously discussing banning Linux and in the middle of a leadership crisis because literally none of your elected officials have any intent of following through on Brexit but you presume to criticize Americans.
Have a good tea and crumpet on me while you fantasize about the last century your country had any mainstream relevance.
Again, just deflecting and stereotypes. No substance.
I'm actually in Scotland, we're trying to get away from the disaster of UK Government but it's not going too well. I'll happily chat to you about all the problems of Scotland and the UK. Does it make any of what I said any less true? Honestly I'd love to hear why.
Scots are maybe the one thing worse than Angles, you need to go back. Even joining the EU independently would result in you somehow managing to impoverish yourselves, I think your average countryman vastly overestimates how much the EU cares about fish and crude oil.
Even joining the EU independently would result in you somehow managing to impoverish yourselves
Really big statement. Please explain why you believe this. Otherwise me saying "Even joining the EU independently would result in you somehow managing to bring wealth and prosperity to yourselves" is equally valid as to what you just said.
I think your average countryman vastly overestimates how much the EU cares about fish and crude oil.
Dude you have Google. Search "Scotland exports" and you'll see how blatantly untrue that is.l
These people used to do the same thing about feminism. It's a lie, and they know it, but they want to snow people.
Claim that somehow, you only hear about the bad parts of their ideology, while the good parts (which they claim to be much larger) somehow remain completely invisible.
And if you point out that the leadership seems to be comprised of the only the crazy types, they either make more excuses, or drop the act and go full crazy themselves.
And if you point out that the leadership seems to be comprised of the only the crazy types, they either make more excuses, or drop the act and go full crazy themselves.
I'm honestly a tad confused by this. How many democratic politicians would people consider "the crazy types"?
Here's some more specific examples (again just being lazy and pasting, though I checked a few myself and they're all accurate. If you see any that aren't please let me know and I'll edit).
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trumpâs presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican Congressman Donald âBuzâ Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. âRepublican Martyâ), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl âButchâ Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a âgood military manâ and âchurch goer,â was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican director of the âYoung Republican Federationâ Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
God you're an idiot... Stop confusing the fucking dem party with tumblrina leg beards... I'm left of Trump and don't think there's 75 genders! Fuck off fag!
Well to be fair, the ones who aren't ultra left weirdos really aren't making it easy to distinguish themselves from that. All the fake news media being so super fake is helping to sink the Democrat battleship too.
If you lack the ability to see the difference between a stereotypical tumblr/twitter "FEMINAZI!!11" and an ordinary person who just wants people to not potentially face bankruptcy over a medical issue, that's on you bro.
Hah, it's funny considering how far right the US democratic party is compared to the rest of the developed world. I'm not American, just a fascinated foreigner looking in at a crumbling, broken country.
Dude I just directly quoted you proof that close to a million people a dear go bankrupt due to not being able to afford medical care and your first thought is "fuck em. they're either too stupid to play the game or it's just opportunistic bankruptcy".
How fucking broken are you mate? Not even considering the basic lack of empathy, the basic fact is that if it happens to nearly a million people in your country every year, it means it can easily happen to you or someone close to you. That's the point. The system is fucked and so many people suffer because of it.
But again, the fact that you didn't even know this stupidly fucking basic fact makes me think you might just be a teenager who doesn't actually pay any bills yourself. Just an assumption though.
nah unlike all those chumps I have a career and health insurance. actual poor people would be covered as well under Medicaid. so who does that leave? idiots and opportunists. also, don't proselytize healthcare at me "mate", it's funny how it's always non Americans bitching about American healthcare... wonder why that is? fucking muppet
it's always non Americans bitching about American healthcare... wonder why that is?
Because your healthcare is horrific! How can that not be so fucking obvious to you!? We literally cannot fathom it. I go to the hospital and payments/insurance/security of a career isn't even considered. It's fucking horrendous.
Serious question - what would happen to you if you were gravely injured? As in to the point where you couldn't work for an extended period of time, what would happen to you?
First of all, quit screeching about shit that doesn't affect you. Americans are doing just fine without the sympathies of indoctrinated europoors.
To your question, i would be covered under FMLA unless I ended up on permanent disability. then I would collect disability and apply for early social security.
also I grew up poor. can't pay the power bill poor. food bank and free lunch poor. drop out of school at 15 to get a job poor. nigga got shot on my front yard poor. I know all about poor people and the vast fucking majority are poor because they ain't worth shit to begin with. I'm shopping for a new front door today because I want a prettier one than the one that came with my 2700 sqft house. yeah I got mine and those poor trash I've left behind aren't getting ANY of it.
Screeching? No, they're not fine, as demonstrated by the fact based sources above. People are suffering. A lot of people. Not you obviously, and that's what's important.
I'm glad you're covered under FMLA, quite a lot of people aren't.
Everything you say after that is just the same disgusting I Got Mine rhetoric. I grew up poor in a shitty area as well. I'm doing ok now as well. I guess the difference between us is that you grew up in a society that's based around not giving a single fuck about anyone around you. No safety net, nothing. Crawl my way up the ladder and hold on for dear life, other people further down? They can climb up like I did, if not fuck em. Lovely.
Maybe one day you guys will learn that's not really a good way to live.
I mean, as long as trump doesnât get into some war w/ Iran and the economy continues to do as well as it is doing, and the republican do hold congress, I dont see how the democrats can gain power without major reforms.
To your point, the Democratic Party is nearly 200 years old. I dont imagine they would literally cease to exist, but it would have to go though some serious changes and probably return to itâs more moderate roots (which I actually supported).
Tons of lil boys associate with Republicans on here because they are losers trying to identify with winning so they treat it like the NFL or something.
Really? I think the left already won the culture war and Trump is the result of a dying party that lost its identity after a black guy was in charge for 8 years.. The white man's last angry scream into the abyss for 4 years.
Yeah, a centrist party led by progressives such as
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tulsi Gabbard, Kristen Gillibrand, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, Andrew Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi... the list goes on.
Obama was a moderate. Biden was a moderate. B. Clinton was a moderate. Youâd have to be incredibly ignorant of politics to call them centrists though. Do you really think the Democratic Party, a party that brands themselves as progressive and left leaning, is a centrist party? Do you know what a centrist is? Times are changing and you havenât caught on.
With all due respect, the Republican Partyâs image has shifted quite a bit in the last 10 years. Compare McCaine or even the Bushes to Trump.
Also, you arent accounting for the fact that while Obama was president, republicans were able to take back control of congress (as the democrats did when GDB was president). As I have stated, there is a major âifâ, but if the democrats cant retake congress, they wont be able to without reforming their image and platform.
First off, I don't deserve any respect. Let's not dance around that question.
Second, ten years ago McCain was campaigning with Palin for president. This is the same Palin who endorsed literal hardcore antisemite white nationalist Paul Nehlen in Wisconsin a couple years ago. Aside from that the GOP was rabidly anti-Obama for eight years. They've been pretty nuts for a while, from the Tea Party and birtherism and on. It was just somewhat ignored because they didn't hold the presidency. They also got super lucky with Ted Kennedy dying and Scott Brown filling his seat. That really fucked over Obama for his first administration.
Also, I think this is a bad election to hold the dem's feet to the fire on, given the seats up for grabs. If they lose you're gonna have people saying they didn't move left enough (Bernie would have won!) or didn't move right enough (stealing Trump voters). And then you're going to have the democrat equivalent of the Tea Party marching around setting shit on fire. Seems pretty normal to me. I think they are positioned at a reasonable middle ground to win national elections in the US.
Sorry for the scattershot thinking. My point is, in short, that the GOP went totally insane when Obama was president, and now the Dems are totally insane now that Trump is president. Dems were pretty insane while W was in office as well. Seems pretty standard to me. It's just more amplified with social media now. You used to have to watch TV and listen to the radio to hear it.
First off, I don't deserve any respect. Let's not dance around that question.
Is there a reason I should treat you without respect? :)
Second, ten years ago McCain was campaigning with Palin for president. This is the same Palin who endorsed literal hardcore antisemite white nationalist Paul Nehlen in Wisconsin a couple years ago.
No more extreme than Mike âElectric Fenceâ Pence? But even so, why should the value of VP outweigh the actual presidential candidates? Surely you must see a change from McCaine and Romney to Trump?
If they lose you're gonna have people saying they didn't move left enough.
I mean, they have already moved substantially more left than in 2016. I donât think anyone is going to be saying they should move even more left.
And then you're going to have the democrat equivalent of the Tea Party marching around setting shit on fire. I think they are positioned at a reasonable middle ground to win national elections in the US.
Iâm not arguing that they dont have a good shot at winning the elections. I would actually argue that it is more likely for democrats to regain control in November. But the Democratic Party is moving more and more left, away form moderates (who make up a substantially larger population than those who are setting shit on fire). Keep in mind that Bernie lost the primaries to Hillary.
Sorry for the scattershot thinking. My point is, in short, that the GOP went totally insane when Obama was president, and now the Dems are totally insane now that Trump is president. Dems were pretty insane while W was in office as well. Seems pretty standard to me. It's just more amplified with social media now. You used to have to watch TV and listen to the radio to hear it.
You bring up a good point, but why is it relevant to the Dem Partyâs doctrine? Also, I wouldnt say the current insanity is standard. Perhaps it is brewed up by social media, but the anger in politics today isnt just an amplified perception from social media. Just look at Charlottesville, or the riots after election night.
Oh come on. Youâre just one of those people who takes every chance they get to be âedgyâ, but just comes across as annoying cus thatâs all theyâre good at. How about you come up with some actual insults instead of those piece of shit excuses, and fix your wreath-shaped family tree while youâre at it.
Imagine how much time they'll waste if the Democrats get a majority in the election. They're going to get nothing done until 2020 except for impeaching people.
Honestly I'm not even being unironic right now, how hard would it be to overturn a ruling like that? Some old college friends are up in arms about this exact thing and I just don't think it's very likely although I have no idea honestly.
You want to see a real meltdown? Imagine finally getting an abortion case to SCOTUS in 2021 ... only to have Kav himself literally uphold RoeVWade. After all of this.
Kav will vote in whatever way he thinks will benefit the republicans electorally. Heâs not going to have a judicial philosophy other than looking at 538
There's a bunch more opposition to Lab than abortion. Like to position of the NSA, his constant perjury, calling himself a "constitutional literalist" but says Obama care is unconstitutional.
The ruling is essentially a woman can have an abortion because if she cannot the law is infringing on her liberties.
As far as overturning, fine overturn it then introduce real fucking legislation and a new amendment guarenteeing abortion is a right, rather than a flimsy liberty defense
Have states introduce abortion laws that go against scotus precedent, their laws get ruled unconstitutional, they argue it all the way to scotus. Scotus agrees and overturns Row/Casey
They try to do that monthly it seems; now the SCOTUS Will take it and it will be overturned. So many unwanted children and so many new meth heads to feed Floridaman drama jokes. It will be glorious..
The big problem with Roe v. Wade is, under it's logic, how the fuck is the FDA allowed to exist? If the government isn't allowed to ban medical procedures without infringing on people's right to choose medical care and privacy concerns with their doctor, how does the government have the right to regulate or ban every other medican procedure in existence.
Roe v. Wade was poorly decided based on the law. It was an ideological ruling, one in a long series of mostly ideological rulings beginning in the 30s that basically convinced conservatives that liberals had already stacked the court and had to be made a priority going forward.
The question was how hard it would be to find 5 justices who care so little about precedent. Sure precedent isn't binding, but justices tend to stick to it as close as possible to ensure stability.
How you can say that Roberts is a no? Has there been any abortion restriction case where he's even dissented in?
Tbf we've been here before, people were pretty sure that the Casey vs. Planned Parenthood case was going to overturn Roe. But two of Reagan's appointees voted to largely preserve abortion rights. Abortion restrictions can quickly become creepy from a rights perspetive for obvious reasons, and there are really numerous constitutional points of attack on the restrictions.
And in the legal community the people against Roe v. Wade are definitely in a small minority. So it actually tends to be hard to find someone qualified who's 100% against it, and not on the edge or something. Republicans have been digging and digging but missing a lot, because there's is the constitutionally creepy position.
Precedent doesn't really mean much anymore. It'd just take the votes. Punished Kav probably isn't enough to get it done though because Roberts is a pussy.
If Republicans maintain control of the Senate and RBG dies, it's possible that the Republicans could put an end to baby killing.
cells have souls and we absolutely cant remove them ignoring the fact that it makes 0 sense because for it to be true would require god to be murdering babies like a japanese man in china
Actually it likely has to do with women in the work force as stress in the mother leads to make children with lower testosterone. Lack of sunlight and fat people also have an impact.
Abortion does cause autism and a breakdown of traditional families though, which is one of the reasons for the lost millenials than fill Reddit and still live at home.
Literally the most successful and prosperous society in all of human history exists right now. If God is trying to punish us for abortion he's not doing a very good job.
You'll be punished after death just as we all have been in life.
How can something that doesn't even have a functional neural system have a soul? How stupid do you have to believe to believe that? If they don't have a fucking brain what is the soul even doing? Is it like blank or something? What is the person? Can you tell me any individual distinguishing fact about a "person" that's never even had a single thought, and is in fact incapable of having them? Thoughts and memories are what people are. Things that don't possess them are not people.
You're retarded and your retardation is quickly going to become obvious once idiots like you are put in power and start doing shit like forcing a girl who gets cancer during a pregnancy to go off of chemo because it might hurt the baby and then eventually killing them both. Nobody is going to trust you with control over women's bodies. Having sex is not a crime so there is nothing the state can legally hold them responsible for, so how can it prevent a perfectly legitimate medical procedure from a due process standpoint? The woman has not committed a crime, but you are denying her medical treatment? When did she lose her rights as a human being? When did she become an object that the constitution doesn't apply to?
We are going to keep killing babies until the end of time and there's nothing you can do to stop it. :)
Nah, society is pretty demonstrably socially, culturally, and governmentally cyclical. Sometime soon we'll be treating women like objects again. Sometime after that we'll be reexamine nt our cultural biases again. Sometime after that a couple of guys like you and I will be having a conversation a lot like this.
Technology may eventually break the cycle, if we don't kill ourselves first, but neither you or I will live to see that.
Nah, if they get the opportunity, they have to act, or they risk having happen to them, what happened to the Democrats with the white working class after the Obama+60 dems period. Where the Dems did nothing to help working people during a recession, and basically demolished their support there.
You can play games when you don't have the numbers. But this isn't Britain or Canada. The politicians can't abandon their promises and then drag their feet on holding elections until people have forgotten. We designed our system so that can't easily happen.
Not going to happen. They might gut some protections but say they can't totally overturn it to hold is over the religious plebs heads. They are easy to fool for some reason.
I'm pretty sure they were just going to leave it alone like usual (after all, why would the right do that to themselves) but since Kav is getting raked over the coals with all this false accusation bullshit, I could actually see him overturning it now.
They probably won't directly overturn it, but some state will find a loophole where it's technically still legal but there are so many barriers it's impossible in practice, and the Supreme Court will uphold it.
Sorta like Texas tried a few years ago and the Supreme Court struck it down in a 5-4. Now there are two more conservative judges, that would have gone 6-3 the other direction.
Nothing passes the âstrict scrutinyâ test anymore except national security and cop safety, so itâs pretty unlikely that itâll ever get overturned, not to mention conservative justices appointed by Nixon ruled in favor of roe v wade in the first place. A liberal voted against it.
No I got it. Punished "Venom" Snake, the fake Big Boss who controlled Outer Heaven until Solid Snake killed him (I think in Zanzibarland). It's the other part that's dumb as dogshit.
To be fair the justification is that unions are democratic unlike corporations that are controlled by a few ultra rich fucks. Having said that the excuse it still retarded given that at the end of the day unions don't represent the majority therefore at best we're looking at a broader oligarchy. Also representatives deciding which representatives should be elected isn't very democratic.
Since when is donating to an opposing candidate's campaign because of how a candidate votes "blackmail?" Also I wouldn't call the democratic party the "get money out of politics" crowd...
I think that opposing abortion is the pro-mayocide position
Think about it, blacks rape white women at huge levels. If we force them to give birth to all those children, we've poisoned like tens of thousands of bloodlines a year. Plus those black children will be genetically predisposed to rape, we will effectively be rewarding rape as an evolutionary strategy, so they'll go on and rape more white girls themselves, and the more rapey ones will be the more genetically successful. Give it a century or so imo and eventually no white girl will be able to walk outside without our genetically bred super-rapist nonwhites immediately jumping on her. The white race will not be able to stand a chance.
I mean the "get money out of politics" crowd in general has a problem with the billions of dollars of dark money that comes from ultra wealthy mystery donors and has reshaped our entire electoral system since the Citizens United ruling. They didn't have a problem with campaigns like Obama's or Sanders' who raised tens of millions from mostly small donations.
Is this a surprise to anyone? I mean Repubs literally admitted they didn't actually care whether the assault allegations were true or not. There was 0% Kavanaugh wasn't getting appointed.
I used to like Booker when he was just a goofy mayor shoveling driveways for old ladies, but since he made the leap to higher office I literally can't stand him.
It's a shame too because at the time I really felt like he was a good role model in an urban black community, when historically local black politicians have been more corrupt than a bunch of catholic priests at a boy scout convention.
Booker using Newark as a springboard for the obvious mayor-senator-president pipeline that he's trying to pull off just cemented what a plastic careerist he is, and that's a bad image to have amongst Dem activists right now, at the moment when they're feeling their anti-establishment oats. I hope he gets like 7% in the Iowa caucus and drops out after New Hampshire.
Pretty much this. The more fascinating part is how this circus has been a shit show every step of the way. Easily one of the demâs biggest blunders since Daddy.
Nah. I mean the point was to fire up your base and try and make confirming Kavanaugh as damaging as possible. There wasn't any way to stop him becoming a Supreme Court judge.
I mean the narrative has now become 'Republicans are so desperate to help Trump escape justice that they nominated a sexual predator because he said you shouldn't be allowed criminally investigate the president.'
Plus if you delegitimise the Supreme Court enough you can justify packing it.
I think you have to understand that Collins believes that by putting a former Kennedy clerk on the bench instead of spiking him and getting Barrett she is saving abortion rights.
Nah, sheâs got low key dementia at this point. She forgot the fourteenth amendment the other day. Itâs literally her job to known this shit and she forgot about it.
That + RGB means Trump could easily have 4 supreme court seats. If one more justice gets hit by a car, Trump could personally appoint the court majority for the next 30 years.
Tbh that would move beyond drama and just be objectively terrible for the country. No president (of either party) should be able to appoint 4+ justices that's just way too much power.
I am a libtard on many topics, but I am a radical centrist on the SC. The partisan judges suck (what's the fun if their votes can almost always be predicted in advance to fall on party lines) and I refuse to swallow the Dem "let's pack the courts" pill.
The thought of all the drama that could cause makes me shiver with delight. Fuck thots whispering into plastic ears on twitch, reading that is my ASMR.
Kennedy was a solid conservative vote. He was socially liberal on a few things but for workers rights or money is speech was just as right wing as everyone else.
Kavenaugh respects precedent, I don't think he's going to take away abortion rights. I mean, I think there's a difference between being conservative and wanting to live in the horse & buggy era.
You know, I get that the whole situation seems more divided than ever, but neither Ford nor Kavanaugh would be this angry if they didn't care. I'm thinking if we all butt out and they find a way to get some alone time, then the sparks will just fly naturally,
She voted to keep the ACA despite that being a central Repub campaign point ever since the ACA started. What was more telling than the R next to her name is that she has always voted yes on SC justices no matter the path of the pres who nominated them.
What was more telling than the R next to her name is that she has always voted yes on SC justices no matter the party of the pres who nominated them.
Pragmatically, this is what should happen with all senators. Once a nominee gets cloture and passes to the floor, the votes are locked in anyway. No votes should be reserved for legitimate protest, but usually they are just used to signify partisanship these days.
Roe is fucked. Liberals, it is time for you to go to the masses and develop a correct mass line, start setting up bases, so that, sooner rather than latter, you can wage a protracted people's war against the fascists.
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Am I to understand that the civil war begins at 3pm today? EDIT: There are many ways to wage a war. Attacks are waged almost everyday on the unsuspecting citizen.
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Hope this will radicalize all you Libs. You wasted time trying to reason with, or rationalize, the actions of the GOP. They are a hostile fascist entity who hold the power of the country. This is a Constitutional Crisis and most likely have started the route to the 3rd American Revolution...which will be the second Civil War.
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A confirmed serial rapist in the supreme court. This is the world we live in people. Be afraid.
EDIT: Also an alcoholic and a liar.
EDIT 2: The bots are out in full effect spouting their narrative. Isn't it bed time in Russia?
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I legitimately think a country-wide (among most women) refusal to sleep with men wouldâve done the trick.
tbf, although it's been many years since I've read it I do remember the women being very sexually frustrated and nearly caving in themselves towards the end.
That's what's scary here. Not that anything particularly scandalous has happened here, but that people are completely flipping their shit over routine political wins and losses.
We are going to pack the courts. We will restore balance. There is no legitimacy in a court packed by unelected presidents. We have no responsibility to respect its rulings. The people have no responsibility to a tyrannical government
The cutest thing by far is Democrats discussing how they don't need to play fair and various ways they can play unfair to win forever while Republicans are in power and are in a better position to do all those things too. And here I was, thinking that cartoon villains explaining their plans were unrealistic đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Ł
Could have stopped there. Why do the American people have any responsibility to obey the commands of nine unelected tyrants appointed by an unelected president? This government is wholly made up without the people's consent. And the people have responsibility to a government that governs without their consent. Fuck citizen Trump and citizen Kavanaugh. They will make revolution to restore the rule of the people over themselves inevitable.
Lol holy fucking shit, the histrionics are unreal. These ppl need mental health treatment ASAP.
I legitimately think a country-wide (among most women) refusal to sleep with men wouldâve done the trick.
Too bad almost half of US women lean conservative/Republican. This strategy, if properly executed, would simply send millions of chads into the arms of conservathots, thus perpetuating the genetic advancement of fascism. đŻđŻđŻ
gun control is one of the major causes of struggle sessions across leftreddit tbf, i would say the tendency is usually more pro-gun than anti- (at least outside radlib-infested cth) but there are always people willing to throw down over it on both sides.
Itâs funny. I voted for Clinton and campaigned for her precisely because Supreme court picks were at stake. Meanwhile half these /r/politics losers stayed home or voted third party because âClinton is yucky corporate democrat.â And âsheâs going to win so why bother.â Now they are throwing a fit because it turns out the election had consequences. Pathetic.
Hope this will radicalize all you Libs. You wasted time trying to reason with, or rationalize, the actions of the GOP. They are a hostile fascist entity who hold the power of the country. This is a Constitutional Crisis and most likely have started the route to the 3rd American Revolution...which will be the second Civil War.
Holy fuck these people need to be sent out of helicopters already.
guh. A democratic republic is a type of democracy, though, innit?
A true democracy is rare, and I'm not sure anyone actually thinks of true democracy when they mention 'democracy' but rather just having a representitive vote. You know, the ole " Federal Republic and Constitutional Representative Democracy".
Yeah of course it's a republic you fucking tard, is there a monarch anywhere? What the fuck does that mean? How is that mutually exclusive with free and fair elections and one man one vote? The unequal nature of the constitution was a stopgap measure, the ideal is equality. Fuck everything else. Fuck rightists who believe in that stupidity purely because they want power. I can't wait until that blows up in your face, and you trigger a revolution by forcing your will on an unwilling populace and you lose everything.
A common definition of ârepublicâ is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, âA political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to themâ
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means: "a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen".
A common definition of âdemocracyâ is, âGovernment by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representativesâ
I gotta say though, I'm not surprised. The US education system is shit, so naturally most of the bullshit you're spewing comes from alex jones substituting primary school.
You're spot on, but the drawback to that much cynicism is that you would be so sad that not even all the platyposts or tayposts or even plaTAYposts (yes, I've given you that bad idea, god help us all) would help with your inevitable depression. Might be wiser to vary your news diet a bit.
This place is literally nothing but a left-wing circle jerk at this point. Of course everyone not a left-winger is getting downvoted.
You've all made it very obvious. There is indeed space between TD (Which I don't think I've ever even posted on) and SRD, which this place has become. Sort by controversial. Any post picking on women or the left, is controversial. Most posts picking on men and the right, are not.
It's not like you guys are even trying to hide it. You've been posting BRDs for days. Sharia Blue has a heavy presence here, including among the mods, and BRD posts are the mods signalling that this sub is now fallen to the fempire. Hence why any post mocking a woman is suddenly downvoted, and a ton of weird SRD leftist shit is getting upvoted.
Bird=BRD=Bring Reddit Down; a SRS meme. Try to deny it by calling it out in plain sight, but it is what it is.
It's time for anyone else just plain leave this sub, block its regulars and go hang out in bigger, better subs, because if every place is a partisan circlejerk (and this place definitely has been for the last few months), we're better off in our own circlejerk subs, like CringeAnarchy, which is a lot bigger than place, and no more or less full of retards. /r/drama is just SRS/CB2 circlejerking at this point. Literally nothing they say makes sense, but they all frantically upvote each other and downvote anyone else.
I won't be interacting with any of you further on this post. You know what's happening here. It's very obvious.
Russians interfered with our election and even gained access to voter registries and the GOP shot down a bill that would've beefed up election security and refuse to condemn Putin for basically anything.
Ugh. That bill was just more funding and was shot down because states still hadn't spent the money from the last bill. They literally said theyll approve another round of funding when the states actually spend what was already allocated to them.
Oh no they said a mean thing about Republicans how horrible :(
As a Democrat that's a totally alien experience Republicans are always so nice to me and treat me as a legitimate member of society and not something to be purged so that nothing stands in the way of their fascist dictatorship "republic"
Bart didn't willfully tell us boofing is a fart, he simply couldn't help himself!
Bart shouldn't be confirmed for the simple fact that he denied us the ultimate drama of having to explain to the US public that a future Supreme Court Justice was talking to his friends about shoving alcohol up his ass to get drunk. That's to say nothing of "the Clintons did this to me!" I mean holy shit that's somewhere between "Rush Limbaugh" and "Alex Jones" levels of crazy, and he's going to determine the future direction of our nations' laws.
Literally anyone that thinks this guy is fit to be a USSC Judge isn't mentally equipped to have say in that decision.
I'm have drama blue balls from not seeing Fox and CNN have to explain what broofing and the devil' triangle really are on primetime TV. Being too much of a coward to admit to your hilarious high school degeneracy should be instantly disqualifying.
Any refreshing ideas for a candidate this time around? If it's another slap fight between the old (((guy))) and her turn I'm gonna lol. I want to vote Democratic again but they make it so hars
no its gonna be kamala harris if the dems are (politically) smart and want to double down on identity politics, itll be warren if theyre retarded policy wise and go for socialism.
Well, it's a party that pretends to want to help people but is completely and utterly in the pockets of the banking and entertainment industry. The second is just full of asshole, but the first literally won't allow anything that will improve the lives of most people as a strong middle-class has the power to lobby against their interests.
So they have to wage idiot battles like this, because they can't actually push policies that will do anything to noticeably help people. Ever notice how every Democratic activist goes into a frothy rage when you say the Democrats don't do anything, and then makes a huge list of pathetic programs that helped like five people each? As if we wouldn't notice something that actually helped us?
They know they're full of shit, and they hate themselves for it, and then they project that hatred onto everyone else.
There's also a lot of false equivalence of Democrats and Republicans here ("but both sides!" and Democrats "do whatever their corporate owners tell them to do" are tactics Republicans use successfully) even though their voting records are not equivalent at all:
House Vote for Net Neutrality
For Against
Rep 2 234
Dem 177 6
Senate Vote for Net Neutrality
For Against
Rep 0 46
Dem 52 0
Money in Elections and Voting
Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements
For Against
Rep 0 39
Dem 59 0
DISCLOSE Act
For Against
Rep 0 45
Dem 53 0
Backup Paper Ballots - Voting Record
For Against
Rep 20 170
Dem 228 0
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
For Against
Rep 8 38
Dem 51 3
Sets reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by electoral candidates to influence elections (Reverse Citizens United)
For Against
Rep 0 42
Dem 54 0
The Economy/Jobs
Limits Interest Rates for Certain Federal Student Loans
For Against
Rep 0 46
Dem 46 6
Student Loan Affordability Act
For Against
Rep 0 51
Dem 45 1
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Funding Amendment
For Against
Rep 1 41
Dem 54 0
End the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
For Against
Rep 39 1
Dem 1 54
Kill Credit Default Swap Regulations
For Against
Rep 38 2
Dem 18 36
Revokes tax credits for businesses that move jobs overseas
For Against
Rep 10 32
Dem 53 1
Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
For Against
Rep 233 1
Dem 6 175
Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
For Against
Rep 42 1
Dem 2 51
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
For Against
Rep 3 173
Dem 247 4
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
For Against
Rep 4 36
Dem 57 0
Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Bureau Act
For Against
Rep 4 39
Dem 55 2
American Jobs Act of 2011 - $50 billion for infrastructure projects
For Against
Rep 0 48
Dem 50 2
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension
For Against
Rep 1 44
Dem 54 1
Reduces Funding for Food Stamps
For Against
Rep 33 13
Dem 0 52
Minimum Wage Fairness Act
For Against
Rep 1 41
Dem 53 1
Paycheck Fairness Act
For Against
Rep 0 40
Dem 58 1
"War on Terror"
Time Between Troop Deployments
For Against
Rep 6 43
Dem 50 1
Habeas Corpus for Detainees of the United States
For Against
Rep 5 42
Dem 50 0
Habeas Review Amendment
For Against
Rep 3 50
Dem 45 1
Prohibits Detention of U.S. Citizens Without Trial
For Against
Rep 5 42
Dem 39 12
Authorizes Further Detention After Trial During Wartime
For Against
Rep 38 2
Dem 9 49
Prohibits Prosecution of Enemy Combatants in Civilian Courts
For Against
Rep 46 2
Dem 1 49
Repeal Indefinite Military Detention
For Against
Rep 15 214
Dem 176 16
Oversight of CIA Interrogation and Detention Amendment
For Against
Rep 1 52
Dem 45 1
Patriot Act Reauthorization
For Against
Rep 196 31
Dem 54 122
FISA Act Reauthorization of 2008
For Against
Rep 188 1
Dem 105 128
FISA Reauthorization of 2012
For Against
Rep 227 7
Dem 74 111
House Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
For Against
Rep 2 228
Dem 172 21
Senate Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
For Against
Rep 3 32
Dem 52 3
Prohibits the Use of Funds for the Transfer or Release of Individuals Detained at Guantanamo
For Against
Rep 44 0
Dem 9 41
Oversight of CIA Interrogation and Detention
For Against
Rep 1 52
Dem 45 1
Civil Rights
Same Sex Marriage Resolution 2006
For Against
Rep 6 47
Dem 42 2
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
For Against
Rep 1 41
Dem 54 0
Exempts Religiously Affiliated Employers from the Prohibition on Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
For Against
Rep 41 3
Dem 2 52
Family Planning
Teen Pregnancy Education Amendment
For Against
Rep 4 50
Dem 44 1
Family Planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention
For Against
Rep 3 51
Dem 44 1
Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act The 'anti-Hobby Lobby' bill.
For Against
Rep 3 42
Dem 53 1
Environment
Stop "the War on Coal" Act of 2012
For Against
Rep 214 13
Dem 19 162
EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2013
For Against
Rep 225 1
Dem 4 190
Prohibit the Social Cost of Carbon in Agency Determinations
For Against
Rep 218 2
Dem 4 186
Misc
Prohibit the Use of Funds to Carry Out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
For Against
Rep 45 0
Dem 0 52
Prohibiting Federal Funding of National Public Radio
For Against
Rep 228 7
Dem 0 185
Allow employers to penalize employees that don't submit genetic testing for health insurance (Committee vote)
There's also a lot of false equivalence of Democrats and Republicans here ("but both sides!" and Democrats "do whatever their corporate owners tell them to do" are tactics Republicans use successfully) even though their voting records are not equivalent at all:
The study reveals that the development of political attitudes depends, on average, about 60 percent on the environment in which we grow up and live and 40 percent on our genes.
Like make them put their money where their mouth is and that is going to evaporate pretty fucking quick
Look at how quickly support for abortion evaporated in Ireland over just a decade or so. Literally the Labor party was once leading in the polls a decade ago, then they announced support for abortion, and lost about 2/3 of their vote over the next few weeks. While last year voters approved abortion by like a 75% majority.
he thinks a small group of crazy feminists who convinced themselves that they were raped because that one time someone tapped their shoulders actually represent all women
There were spergouts from republicans and conservatives just before and during Obama's tenure in office but nothing like these routine meltdowns from the left.
We are blessed by this level of drama and by all accounts it's only going to get juicier in November.
Remember when some dudes in the UK made a giant balloon to make fun of Obama?
Remember when Hollywood made movies making fun of Obama?
Remember when Obama supporters were called literally Nazis?
Me neither.
I remember when Obama was called a Kenyan Muslim. I remember when after first arriving at the White House Fox News called his and Michelle Obama's fist pound a "terrorist fist bump." I remember when after Obama had already been president for four years our current fucking President of the United States claimed he was on the case of Barack Obama's birth certificate and had private investigators in Hawaii who were "uncovering big things" and then nothing ever came of it.
Do you have the memory of a goldfish or just selective blinders?
So you posted facebook gossip that literally all politicians deals in. You are showing your bias if you think old republican moms were even half as dedicated as the current libs.
No? Everything I posted was covered on Fox News at least, which is literally the most watched news source in the US, even more so at the time of the events I detailed. It's not my fault the right has a long history of gobbling up Facebook tier memes.
I'm not even arguing that the left (of which I am a part) has lost its shit since Trump's election. But the right lost its shit long, long ago, thus why we were gifted with our reality television host president
It's the internet, massively amplifies things. Or more specifically the internet going from something that required you to sit down with a expensive computer and dedicate a bit of time to being online, to something that people are connected to constantly in a passive background way.
The Tea Party under Obama was one giant sperg out. All because a black guy became President. Dems should take hope from the GOP. They showed it's possible from losing complete control of the Federal government to having complete control.
Tea party lost all it's oomph after the first midterm election. Maybe the dems will settle down as well after this one, but I don't think so. Something really makes me feel like they are losing their minds.
I'm a registered democrat, but I live outside of the US, so maybe I'm too far away to get effected or something, but from my perspective the reaction to Trump seems literally insane. Just focus on winning an election and telling people what you are going to do instead of sperging out about Russian trolls 24/7.
but from my perspective the reaction to Trump seems literally insane
Keep in mind, everyone thought that Trump was going to lose and possibly cause the extinction of the GOP, Democrats and Republicans included. So when Trump won, it upset this massive narrative about demographics being destiny and "angry white men" losing their power and what not. Once Trump won, it seems that everyone woke up to the fact that the Democrats had essentially lost almost all practical power in Washington. That, and Trump's a fucking doofus so it's extra scary that the Dems lost.
So imo it's as much the shock of losing the election as actually losing it.
I think it's because they found a strategy of stoking the moral panic to the highest degree possible, in an as isolated echochamber as possible, in order to find unity and get everyone to vote and win. However when that last part fails, you are left with a lot of people who were absolutely convinced that X was a rapist and everyone who was not a rapist was in absolute agreement to vote against him yet here we are.
Like, these people are so fucking stupid. Either that or they are 17. How can you be of voting age and not know that America has been fucked for so long. The modern GOP hasnt change their tone or methods since 94 and the elected dems chase money from just slightly less people. Buts its the russians yaasss kweeen literally listening to kesha and trembling.
the result ultimately does not matter, the GOP would otherwise vote for and confirm Barett who is just a conservative activist who would be voted in because the GOP would love to say "gussy power" even though she has next to no judicial experience (trust me, the conservative media and their talking heads would LOVE to have their token on supreme court)
the only outcome of this was always if either r/t_d or r/politics would be on suicide watch
Are you kidding? T_D is the king of spinning their failures into victories. They waste no time. Had he not won they would have just jumped right to the next battle full force.
the conservative media and their talking heads would LOVE to have their token on supreme court to show that they don't hate women because nobody plays the identity politics game as much as them
It's hard to take you seriously after that. Everyone does IDpol, but it's hard to claim Republicans go harder on it at this point.
Most economic âexpertsâ never ran a business in their life, and analyze economics with a view to maximizing total GLOBAL production. They donât care whether some policy makes your life better or more risky, they only care about increasing global GDP. You are just a number in an equation and they donât bother to quantify all the things you value.
âExpertsâ agree on stuff like âending borders would increase global gdp by 1%!!!â And it very well might be true, but economists donât concern themselves as to whether that net 1% arises by impoverishing America while enriching China. They donât care if it destroys your culture or gets you raped and murdered. They donât bother to try and predict whether no borders would lead to more conflict and crime, that just isnât their interest.
Meanwhile Trump protects borders, issues tariffs, erases âsacrosanctâ regulations, and still raises GDP.
What people need to understand is that for decades American wealth and technology has subsidized the development of billions of people in foreign countries. This has let the elite become ridiculously wealthy, stashing dozens of trillions in capital in fund and secret accounts all over the world, but has empowered and modernized foreign nations with ideologies opposed to our own who will take any opportunity to backstab us.
We can produce an absurd amount of stuff. All that restrains us is ridiculous regulations designed to make us uncompetitive with the global market and policies that drain the rest of our productivity to subsidize foreign countries while enriching the elite.
The extent to which we as a people have been robbed is absolutely staggering. Robbed in ways many canât even imagine. We even end up having ridiculously stupid debates that wouldnât cross our minds if we had the wealth and freedom that was leeched from us.
Like, we should never have to debate whether a service worker should earn a living wage in 2018, and this has nothing to do with socialism or right and left theories. The simple facts are that we are productive enough in the first place that we can have a service economy at all.
50% of workers are service industry BECAUSE farming and factories are productive enough that we can make enough stuff for everyone even if half the workers do service work.
But instead of ensuring that every worker has a decent life, which we can easily do just by virtue of the fact that it is possible for us to have a service economy in the first place - we instead have these absurd debates about whether a service worker deserves a decent life we can easily give them! If we werenât sending trillions of dollars to China, India, and Swiss bank accounts, wtf would be the debate?!?
"If this doesn't motivate a massive blue wave and cause Dems to take not only the house, but the Senate as well, my faith in our country to participate in democracy will be pretty much shot."
Well what goes around comes around. Brett'll rally the redhats and start hunting down the witchhunters now I recon. Talk about a bunch of dark state delusionalist.
It's salty over there lads. I had to leave because my shadenboner could only get so hard. Keep your wits about you IRL those shitheads are bike lock swinging butthurt.
There's been nothing. No one can corroborate Ford's initial testimony, the second testimony about him flashing his dick in someone's face, had one person corroborate it-by saying he heard it from someone else. They contacted that someone else who said he had no idea what they were talking about. The gang rape accusation is a hysterical farce that featured the accuser walking back her signed statement on national tv.
Hey, I remember you from /r/Monstercat a few years ago. I also distinctly remember never seeing your name here so it's interesting that you're commenting on the state of the sub. Stay mad, faggot.
And thanks for confirming that this is one of your only visits to this sub. There's a huge variety of opinion here that shares an interest in retards of all alignments melting down. The only people who aren't here are far, far leftists because they're little bitches that can't handle any differing thoughts and fuck off of their own accord when they realise the mods won't ban whoever they want.
The only people who aren't here are far, far leftists because they're little bitches that can't handle any differing thoughts and fuck off of their own accord when they realise the mods won't ban whoever they want.
LMAO you have no idea how much this sub laughs at QAnon 'tards, and spergs from CA, KiA, and MDE. Difference is, those spergs can take a joke. All the leftist lolcows leave.
Democracy is dead, it's fucking dead. It may be fun to watch people's reactions but honestly I'm so goddamn depressed at what's happening to our government.
They are ignoring everyone telling them that Kav is not the choice for the court. They are also ignoring the ABAâs calls to stop his confirmation. They are ignoring everyone.
You mean the investigation where they didnât even interview Brettâs roommate? Or even Brett himself? Because trump didnât let the FBI interview them?
That was not an investigation. Youâre absolutely kidding yourself if that was a good investigation.
So if heâs lying then it will be on the FBIâs record. But the fact that the FBI wasnât allowed to interview Brettâs roommate should raise some red flags that this wasnât a full investigation. How will you use mental gymnastics to defend that?
Assuming this doesnât denigrate into an autist slap fight hereâs an informative NYTimes article on the Kavanaugh hearing and goes into some detail about how the FBI investigation was decided. But to be succinct the 4 swing senators decided who should be interviewed. Take it up with Flake, Collins, Murkowski, and Manchin but the investigation seemed good for at least 3 of them.
So youâre ok with a not complete investigation than a complete investigation in the first place? If you think this guy is innocent then you should welcome an investigation, not be against it. Not wanting an investigation (unless the situation was already investigated) just means you dont think the guy is innocent.
This sets a horrible precedent and is the same argument the NSA used to defend the prism program âif you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry aboutâ are you kidding me? What kinda Orwellian horseshit is this? Itâs innocent until proven guilty not guilty until proven innocent by an investigation. Would republicans have been justifying demanding Hillary ask the FBI to investigate her during the Benghazi hearing? The fact is Ford didnât provide any credible evidence besides a convincing testimony. None of her named witnesses corroborated the account, polygraph is junk science, and she didnât turn her therapist notes over to the Senate judiciary committee. Ask yourself, if she was telling the truth and had nothing to hide then why didnât she turn over her therapistâs notes? If none of the people she named corroborated the sexual assault then I really doubt that Brettâs freshman roommate could corroborate him whipping his dick out at a party. That accusation is a wholly different, and much less serious, one as well. What was her name, Ramirez? She âconsulted her memoryâ for 6 days before deciding it was Kavanaugh. Is this the Satanic Panic all over again? Should we start using regressive hypnosis therapy to get to the truth? And then once again the New Yorker tried to find someone, anyone to say this happened but all they could find was one person who said he heard it from another guy and that guy denied anything happened. I wonât even touch the farce that was the Avenatti accusations. But given all these unsubstantiated claims, that again and again failed to find corroboration I thought that an FBI investigation would do nothing but delay the process until the midterms which is what the democrats wanted. I was right they didnât find anything, and it didnât matter how many people they interviewed they wouldnât have found anything.
so what you're saying is you have no idea what an investigation is supposed to do and you dont question anything the republicans do? sounds about right for a T_D user like you.
Lmao you post in r/politicalhumor? Kavanaugh is one the SCOTUS for life baby, no amount of impotent rage spewed into the digital ether can stop it lmaoooo
Yeah, your party confirmed a literal political hack in the SCOTUS, didnât you hate it when Clinton was exactly that? Or do you only care when itâs not your side?
No, Iâm really mad that heâs not representing the majority of Americans. And Iâm mad that Trump is calling Assult victims âElevator screamersâ. He and all the other republicans are fucking assholes and Itâs amazing how you people are ok with it.
That place is a fucking shit show. Do they seriously not see they are just the left version of The_Donald? There is no place that people can debate politics in a neutral zone anymore. At least The_Donald doesn't stand on a soup box pretending they are angels in disguise.
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-10-05
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1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Update, Manchin (D-WV) is also a yes. Kavanaugh confirmed, this'll be like election night 2016 all over again folks
1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-10-05
No. Not yet.
The Blue Wave failing would be 2018 redux.
This is foreplay.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Stop I can only get so erect
1 SJCards 2018-10-05
No, keep going.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
We are going to pack your precious supreme court
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
We won't stop until the throbbing shaft of this subreddit is engorged with every drop of hot gossip we can lay our sweaty hands on.
1 ThinAlbatross 2018-10-05
The true redux would be the complacent party which poles say is unlikely to lose losing to the more energized party
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
the dems are gonna get the house but the rs will hold the senate, im not sure itll be enough for meltdowns, but expect a lot of unironic "republicans gerrymandered the senate" which was a popular thing to say in r politics in 2014
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
I don't want to believe people can be this stupid
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
welcome to reddit
1 MildlyCat 2018-10-05
Allow me to reintroduce myself
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Fresh out r/politics into the fire
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Whiter than a piece of paper bearing my name
Got the wokest black man in the game; wearing my chain, that's right
1 mmzznnxx 2018-10-05
Umm, are you actually implying that California's borders shouldn't extend along Mexico to Louisiana? I literally can't even.
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
California should be broken up into 100 states each being the exact size of a single city block in San Francisco.
1 keepittropical 2018-10-05
Do they come with all the human shit and dirty needles that currently occupy most of the blocks or sf?
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
Of course: diversity is our greatest strength.
1 keepittropical 2018-10-05
I too like to diversify my chances of contracting HIV
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
haha nonwhites r bad
hope u like the upvote bro for ur freeminded trendy racism XD
1 Yiin 2018-10-05
This schtick isn't going to work out. Write what you know.
1 djlewt 2018-10-05
Nah, just all the GDP that keeps the rest of the nation out of poverty.
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-05
And all the autism right?
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
California is somehow a basket case failing nation basically while also having a GDP per capita greater than 95% of red states
Weird how that works
1 arobkinca 2018-10-05
7 states with a higher GDP per capita. 34 states with a lower poverty rate. What's wrong with this picture?
1 spine99m1 2018-10-05
the FUCKING REPUBLICANS that run California don't understand how detrimental income inequality is!
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
i always find it silly that red states are obsessed with them-there freeloaders when their white poverty societies exist only because of wealth redistrubuted from rich blue state hippies.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
You get that they feed you, and that you'd starve without the people living in those states, right?
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
who is you?
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
literal peasent scum that can replaced by machines. Maybe if you stopped fucking your sisters and prazn' jayzs's you'd amount to something other than literal IQ 70 mud animals.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
It's because you occupy the entire coast, and monopolize almost all of the shipping ports, dumb ass.
If we combined the entire eastern seaboard into one state, it would curbstomp California in GDP.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
IMO we should break San Fransisco and LA into 100 states each, with two senators each, and then just have one giant state for the irrelevant flyovers.
1 rockidol 2018-10-05
The argument I've heard was that "The Dems lost so many times due to unfair gerrymandering that people who vote Dem gets discouraged and enough of them stay home to swing the election"
I mean it's possible that it happens but unless you conduct a big poll of the residents of those states you can't know for sure.
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
If that were true, all those NEETS in California wouldn't have turned out to try to 'landslide' Hillary in an election where it doesn't matter how many people vote.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
nuh uh those votes don't count because they're from a state that has different political opinions than I do so that makes them literally not human beings
Only one state made the difference between Hillary winning or losing the popular vote! And that's one more state that contributed to her popular vote win than Trump had.
1 TheColdTurtle 2018-10-05
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1 IllustriousQuail 2018-10-05
Agreed. He's trying to be the new pizzashill, but it's not working for me.
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
There is no such thing as a popular vote
1 ____________13 2018-10-05
Hillary won the popular vote, and Trump won by technical knockout.
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
There is no such thing as a popular vote in the Presidential election.
Pointing to something that doesn't exist and using it as justification for your salt is SRDine level neckbeardedness
1 Kilo_G_looked_up 2018-10-05
Im not American, how does senate votes work there?
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
Every state gets 2 senators
Both senators are elected by the whole state (No congessional districts like in the House)
Senators serve terms of 6 years. Elections are held every 2 years so senators are only up for re-election every 3 election days
1 nomad1c 2018-10-05
each state is split into districts where the house members are elected. those ones can be gerrymandered. senators represent the state as a whole and don't have districts, so can't be elected due to gerrymandering (unless they think the shape of the state itself is gerrymandered)
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Irrelevant flyover hicks are given free votes for doing nothing, and torture the rest of the nation eternally out of resent while abusing their disproportionate power
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
It's the house of lords
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
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1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
Man every local sub is filled with morons who think gerrymandering affects the gubernatorial. It's honestly pathetic.
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-10-05
Whatâs stupid about that?
1 shallowm 2018-10-05
looks like someone has never heard of state senate districts
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
I don't know anything about American politics (other than it being very dramatic) so I don't know why this is stupid.
1 Strictlybutters 2018-10-05
This is the correct take
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
i think they will meltdown becasue they are deluding themselves into thinking the dems will pick up supermajorities in both houses
1 Strictlybutters 2018-10-05
Yeah anyone that believes that has more than a touch of the tism. The Dems will gain quite a few seats in the house but the senate will probably stay the same. They might pick up a seat in Nevada but Heitkamp is going to lose in NODAK.
1 uniqueguy263 2018-10-05
It isnât mathematically possible for the Dems to get a Senate supermajority lol
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Nobody is retarded to think the Dems could pick up a supermajority. The best they are hoping for is a simple majority, but even that probably won't happen due to the seats that are up.
1 preserved_fish 2018-10-05
Normal Democrats sure. But the megaretards on r/politics think that it will be easy to pack the court and change the voting system as long as Bernie wins.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
That's a different brand of retards. A supermajority wouldn't be necessary for their retarded court packing scheme.
1 preserved_fish 2018-10-05
It doesn't, but not even FDR could pull it off at his peak. And changing the electoral system requires a Constitutional amendment.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
The people who think Dems will get enough seats in the next few elections to get rid of the Electoral College are so out to pasture that it's not even worth talking about them.
The court packers need to shut the fuck up and pick up a history book. FDR was majorly fucked over for his attempt to pack the courts and it'll be no different if the progressives if they try it again. People don't take kindly to blatant attempts to mess with the SC.
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
Nah not really. The Constitution leaves it up to each state. It's why some Maine and Nebraska give two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each Congressional district (2 in Maine, 3 in Nebraska).
1 preserved_fish 2018-10-05
But forcing all 50 to do it would require a federal mandate.
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
Also, shitlibs have been out of power for two years so there hasn't been much to get outraged about. Until someone tried to Hem and Haw the Kavanaugh.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Nobody made Kavanaugh rape that girl
1 Strictlybutters 2018-10-05
Yeah there is only 6 seats (Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, and Nebraska) that the democrats can pick up in the senate and of those 6 seats Iâd say only 2 are really competitive (Nevada and Arizona). Plus the Dems will probably lose one in NODAK where Heitkamp is currently trailing so yes since a super majority is 60 seats therefore it is mathematically impossible.
1 preserved_fish 2018-10-05
TN is a tossup as well.
1 alphetasauce 2018-10-05
TN has a hated Republican and an old beloved governor/mayor running. I actually think Bredesen has a good shot.
1 Dogcheese- 2018-10-05
Iâm from Tennessee and I can tell you most people would say theyâre gonna vote for Diane but itâs pretty clear that even among our republicans thereâs a lot of love for Bredesen
1 alphetasauce 2018-10-05
He's against Asian carp. This man truly loves TN. Blackburn just seems like the cranky kindergarten teacher who hates children
1 Dogcheese- 2018-10-05
He also quite literally won every county in Tennessee when he ran for governor in 2006
1 uniqueguy263 2018-10-05
Polls look about even there
1 alphetasauce 2018-10-05
That's the sad part. Outside the cities the state is so red it looks like an albino in Mexico
1 nomad1c 2018-10-05
of course. everyone they talk to hates Trump, so they're gonna get like 90% of the vote in every district
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
i mean i dont like trump but im still gonna vote republican. i hate the dems even more.
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
im too commited to bussy and smokin dope to choose that lifestyle.
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1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
Have you considered: voting for someone you do like?
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
>implying there are likeable politicians
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1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Pack pack pack
All it takes is a majority in both houses and your precious supreme court evaporates before your eyes
Great magic trick
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
i like how dems legit think they can pack the court if they control the government
1-fdr tried and failed
2-the last time dems controlled the government they spent all their political capital on a bill that basically just shoved money into health insurance and pharmaceuticals companies pockets because they needed their support to pass
3-the last time rs controlled the governmnet (read now) they did literally nothing
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Gonna need some citation, because I've never seen anyone on /r/politics outright claim the senate was "gerrymandered."
the Senate is undemocratic and a farce at this point, but gerrymandered it isn't.
Voter suppression is a problem though.
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Voter Suppression Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk To The Library Like Nigga Get An Absentee Ballot Haha
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
It's a bit odd seeing the same retards make the same arguments they've been making since like the 1950s.
Like, they're literally making it as hard as possible to vote because they know poor people often won't vote if it's too inconvenient.
They've literally admitted to what they're doing in court:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/the-smoking-gun-proving-north-carolina-republicans-tried-to-disenfranchise-black-voters/?noredirect=on
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
Requiring photo ID to prove who you are isn't suppression.
Also, anyone who is too dumb/lazy to google "X County Polling Locations" is clearly not capable of making in informed decision about governing the country
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Read that article and tell me it's not voter suppression.
1 michgot 2018-10-05
IMO voters should be suppressed considering how all these votes are turning out
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Old white voters maybe.
1 rockidol 2018-10-05
When they make it hard to get photo ID by closing down DMV or making there be a lot of hoops to jumps through or selectively choosing which IDs are acceptable that more conservatives don't happen to have then yes it is. The number of eligible voters who don't have ID FAR outweighs the case of in person voter fraud.
1 LieutenantTim 2018-10-05
You ever meet anyone who didn't have an ID?
1 djlewt 2018-10-05
No retard, it's not voter suppression, it's a poll tax. Also retarded- Implying not being able to get to a polling place while Republicans close them in poor neighborhoods across the red states disqualifies one from being capable of making informed decisions, and actually thinking someone that vocalizes that he thinks "the clintons are out to get him" and lies under oath about what "boofing" is so he doesn't look like a frat boy moron belongs on the Supreme Court.
Personally, I think this is all awesome, Kavanaugh is polling pretty low with independents, if you stand outside both echo chambers and talk to real people they're mostly pretty shocked at both parties over this circus, but only the Republicans are going to have a 30 year reminder that they stacked the court with a total ideologue liar.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
If you don't need an ID to vote, I shouldn't need an ID to buy a gun. The gun is a fundamental right after all.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Nobody gives a shit about requiring an ID to vote dude. The problems are as follows:
The voter ID laws always come with other things like "we're reducing early voting hours or closing polling stations in certain areas."
Voter fraud is basically non-existent in this country so they're coming up with solutions for problems that don't exist, and the downsides these "solutions" have always just so happen to suppress tons of poor/black voters, what a coincidence.
I don't even care if you want to die on this hill - but this is voter suppression, they aren't efforts to combat voter fraud. That's just the facade the GOP came up with so twits like you will defend them until the very end, ignoring all proof that says you're wrong.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
You mean we have pretty much no way to track voter fraud
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
That's not how this works dude. You can still detect voter fraud, there just isn't any going on really.
The most common type of voter fraud isn't even in person voter fraud.
I really wish I understood the conservative mindset.
Deny literally all expertise on any given subject, keep doubling down after you're refuted and proven wrong over and over again.
How does this even work?
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Tell me how you detect it. Because I've actually read the small number of "studies" on the subject, have you?
The most common type of voter fraud isn't in person, it's absentee. We have almost no way to detect either though. If you'd also like to ban absentee voting for anyone who isn't elderly, disabled, or a service member I totally agree though.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Did you just forget about the voter fraud council Bush himself set up that managed to find like 80 cases in the years it was active?
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Did you literally forget my previous posts where I explained why it's almost impossible to detect given our current rules? You ignored that part because unlike me you haven't actually read the "studies" and investigations you're talking about. Like most people that discuss politics, you shouldn't be.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Almost impossible to detect says the uneducated internet conservative for the 50th time.
1 Zozbot 2018-10-05
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1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
I'm a centrist buddy, I'm just more informed than you
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
You're 0% informed, which is why you keep pretending voter fraud is a real thing.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
If you say so. Either way, increasing voter ID requirements, limiting absentee voting, and other measures which prevent voter fraud are happening. And they are giving us a more holy and prosperous America.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
"prevent voter fraud" also known as "suppressing voters."
Just a little advice friend, you're gonna run out of old white people one day. Demographics will erase you and your kind.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Lol I'm not white, but I can tell you're pure mayo
1 MildlyCat 2018-10-05
That's what you sound like.
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
Americans constantly reee online about how "dRiViNg A cAr Is AbSoLuTeLy NeCeSsArY fOr EvErYbOdY" so presumably everyone already has a driving license anyway??
1 snowkarl 2018-10-05
Are you some sort of retard?
Do you think poor people in the ghetto deserve to vote if they can't be fucked going to the DMV to get a fucking ID?
It's ironic because in other countries you often need multiple forms of identification to vote (like here in Europe) yet 95% of people manage to do it and vote.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
I want you to read the first article I linked and tell me in what universe that was not voter suppression.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
I want you to read the first article I linked and tell me in what universe that was not voter suppression.
1 snowkarl 2018-10-05
The only part of that which I would consider voter suppression is the restriction of early voting.
I don't think voter registration and voter ID are suppression.
If you don't register beforehand and bring ID you are not fit to vote lol
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
And here we see 1950s era argument #2.
"Who cares if they outright admitted to illegal racial voter suppression, who cares if it's painfully obvious they only do this to reduce voter turnout, if you can't get an ID then you shouldn't be allowed to vote!"
I've said it before and I'll say it again: American conservatives are a lost cause.
They're proto-fascist mongoloids with no concern for reality.
1 snowkarl 2018-10-05
using this term unronically
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
What else are they?
Every trait of proto-fascism is found in the Trump base. What's missing?
1 snowkarl 2018-10-05
Proto-facism is a super obscure term only used by reddit democrats who post on politics.
It's even more loosely defined than fascism itself.
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
It's not very loosely defined, fascism in general is only "loosely defined" because it's a set of emotional traits more so than a doctrine and the "truth" is whatever helps them win.
Proto-fascism is different, though. Proto-fascism is always the same. A good example of proto-fascism would be conservatives in Weimar Germany:
Sound familiar?
1 djlewt 2018-10-05
Thing is we have Republicans across half the country closing DMVs in poor neighborhoods, in some cases it's been reported that now these "poor people in the ghetto" have to somehow drive 2-3 hours to get to one, and that those ones are only open during normal business hours, which again, means that the middle class white Republicans can take a day off to go handle it, but the working poor might not be able to afford to just not work for a day without drastic consequences, such as not being able to feed their family.
Irony: You not being able to think abstractly like this but calling those who can retards.
Actually retarded: See you and my above statement on irony.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
The problem comes in when they make the DMV in poor neighborhoods have terrible hours to make it hard for the people there to get an ID. If there wasn't blatant discrimination in the process of getting a ID to vote, requiring them would be a lot less controversial.
1 snowkarl 2018-10-05
I agree but I don't know why photo id drivers' licences aren't mandatory and at the same time acceptable as id for voting.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Making drivers licenses mandatory would be a terrible idea. Imagine how much worse the roads would get if the states had to hand them out to everyone. After all I'm sure someone would sue and argue that because they are necessary for voting having any test to obtain it (aka a driving test) would be discriminatory.
If there is going to be mandatory voter photo ID it has to be a separate ID that's free and easy to get.
1 snowkarl 2018-10-05
Why? In Sweden it's 30ÂŁ minimum for ID and we have 95% voter turnout.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
US laws and history are different. Here there's a history of discriminatory poll taxes and poll tests so having an expensive ID or one that requires a test would quickly cause problems.
1 Mother_Jabubu 2018-10-05
Why is it undemocratic and a farce
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Because 17% of the country can elect a senate majority. The house was meant to offset the senate by giving large states power, but we capped the house in the early 1900s and it's been spiraling out of control since then.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
The number of representatives in the house does not change how much power the house has, it only changes the nature of the electoral college
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
Except if the house is capped at a size, smaller states end up getting disproportionate power in both the house and the Senate.
And it changes the electoral college, again, tilting it towards small states.
The argument is both the house and senate are tilted towards small states currently.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/02/22/misrepresentation-in-the-house/
The solution is debatable - but the entire system is set up to favor rural/small states at the expense of everyone else, and this was by intent:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/upshot/as-american-as-apple-pie-the-rural-votes-disproportionate-slice-of-power.html
who tilted this yearâs election.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
My apologies, I misconstrued your original sentence. No need to go all pizzashill
1 UpvoteIfYouDare 2018-10-05
He may be a serial srsposter, but he's a lot smarter than Pizzashill.
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9e6wdv/forget_the_house_its_the_battle_for_the_senate/e5o7fzw/
1 IDFSHILL 2018-10-05
He isn't saying it's literally gerrymandered.. The context is very clear here, I don't know if english is your first language or what.
He's calling the senate undemocratic and tilted towards the GOP. And it is.
1 Prysorra2 2018-10-05
I've been here 11+ years. I've seen it countless times. Remember that /r/politics is literally almost always wrong.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
Holy shit you triggered a bunch of burgerstanis defending the single most retarded political system in the world since roman horse Councillors
1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-10-05
I saw a couple gerrymandered the senate comments in politics a while back.
I look forward to the full blown meme
1 thisguy60 2018-10-05
Am not American (but am radical centrist), so I'm not familiar with your politics (although it is fun to watch the drama). Why can't senate be gerrymandered?
1 FedoraWearingNegus 2018-10-05
it's a statewide vote
1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-10-05
The whole state gets a vote. Two senators per state.
Short of redrawing state lines (not happening), you can't gerrymander.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
haha libtards r dumb
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
It'll mostly be "abolish the senate, rurals are bad"
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-10-05
I mean rural states do have a disproportionate amount of power. A Wyoming vote matters 3.6 times as much as a California one.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
In terms of the senate it's much greater than that
Ironically though the house is so gerrymandered that the senate is the more liberal chamber
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-10-05
Itâs an outrage to me that there hasnât been a rep reapportionment for the house in decades.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Fuck rural people, I roll my eyes every time I hear some idiot talking about how unfair it is that they be counted proportional to their number. Why don't we do the senate on race instead? Like blacks get 1/5, Asians 1/5, Hispanics 1/5, Other 1/5, and Whites 1/5? Not really fair that whites get all the say just because there are so many of them is it?
1 DiscombobulatedAnus 2018-10-05
I thought blacks were 3/5ths? Damn, now I have to adjust my whole bet.
1 MG87 2018-10-05
Still enough to Anally Cuck Daddy for the last two years of his presidency
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
>implying the republicans weren't already cucking him
1 MG87 2018-10-05
Not anally
1 kermit_was_right 2018-10-05
Only vaginally?
1 MG87 2018-10-05
They're just kinda rubbing their dicks in-between his fat folds
1 tripplethrendo 2018-10-05
I wouldn't be so sure that the dems will take the house...
1 RevLoki 2018-10-05
This. And if they do, it wonât be by the huge margins they want. Iâve been watching the polls and shit has started to stink since the dems started in with their #reeeetoo shit. For the NPCs, Kavanaugh is guilty, but for anyone with any critical thinking skills, we all saw it as a political move and made the Dems look shitty. Not to mention motivating the republics base. Good job, DNC opposition tactics.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
imagine thinking a old mayo ultra conservative isnt guilty of at least 3 sex crimes
1 michgot 2018-10-05
Yeah but actually bringing them up is totes a political move
1 GunOfSod 2018-10-05
I doubt he identifies as a feminist.
1 kermit_was_right 2018-10-05
Good one fam
1 RevLoki 2018-10-05
Ho ho hooo
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
The Republican party has been bleeding women's votes ever since Trump and they really need the mayo woman turnout to win. I wouldn't be so confident that the #meetoo thing has been backfiring as hard as you think.
1 TareTiri 2018-10-05
Polls always get closer as election day approaches.
1 RevLoki 2018-10-05
Your salt sustains me. I canât wait for the kegger in his office at the Supreme Court offices.
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
you typed that in your underwear on drugs.
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
its the midterms after the white house changed hands, the house is nearly guaranteed to change hands
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
its the midterms after the white house changed hands, the house is nearly guaranteed to change hands
1 drtoszi 2018-10-05
Your take is so logical and realistic but boring :/
1 CountyMcCounterson 2018-10-05
Why would anyone vote for the dems? Everything is going great and the concentration camps never happened.
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
history says every time the white house changes hands and the winning party controls the house they lose the house in midterms. its mostly due to enthusiasm gaps
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
Technically the concentration camps were for children, which i agree dont count because they were under 18.
Besides, you cant count on your average fat fucking retard American to appreciate the collapse of the post war order, so Orange Dementia will probably win even harder next time around.
1 woeskies 2018-10-05
They did technically do that by creating too different dakotas. But that wasnât exactly 4D chess, it was more luck it ended up working in their favor
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
BLUE WAVE VERSUS RED TIDE
1 rationalhuckleberry 2018-10-05
PURPLE RAIIIIINNN
1 michgot 2018-10-05
Radical centrists unite, we must confirm nor deny Kavamaybe.
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
legally execute both Kavajava and his accusers.
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
Now that's radical centrism.
1 MG87 2018-10-05
I'm pretty sure it only only be a half failure.
Either way Remind Me! November 7th
1 rockidol 2018-10-05
I honestly think there's going to be a ton of drama if the blue wave fails or succeeds.
If it happens you'll have the DDF who've just spent the last 3 months pretending to be moderates or Democrats "Walking Away from the Left" (tm) going nuts that that didn't work (or if they believed it was real going nuts that the Dems won out anyway).
Plus if the blue wave is bad enough Trump will start throwing out accusations of voter fraud and even if they're just random rage tweets that don't go anywhere his base will eat it up and rage more.
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
And if it fails then the other crowd will be literally reeeing in the streets. Remember big-no guy from the presidential election? I hope there's a repeat performance, maybe even better this time!
It's win-win!
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
LOL you Republicans genuinely believe this is going to matter in the long run. That's cute. You will die in a socialist, majority nonwhite America and I will be smiling.
1 CountyMcCounterson 2018-10-05
The day of the rope is coming brother
1 NAGOLACOLA 2018-10-05
The best part is that thereâs bi partisan support for both yes and no votes and that thereâs still a chance that Pence is the tie breaker.
And this is all because the democrats broke the senate vote tradition. And this caused republicans to gain 14 points in the polls for the midterms.
1 YouGuysAreNazisMan 2018-10-05
Manchin just confirmed his yes vote.
I have this feeling that 2018 is going to be juicier, saltier and more buttery than 2016.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
The left wing of the party is going to lynch him lol
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
What exactly can they do in West Vrigina? Primary him and thus lose a seat in the senate? He's the true radical centrist, hated by Republicans for being a Democrat and hated by Democrats for not following the party line
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
This assumes that the Dems don't constantly shoot themselves in the foot. The progressives will hate him for confirming Kav and abandon him, allowing the Republicans to pick up a Senate seat.
1 Sir_Green_Britches 2018-10-05
But how many Fem-Prog-Theory Phds exist in West Virginia? If they don't dominate the primary, he'll be fine.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
There probably aren't that many progressives actually in WV to affect the vote in that way, but there are other ways they can hurt him. Donations can dry up, overall D turnout might be depressed, etc.
1 SecretSnack 2018-10-05
WV was blue not long ago. First went red in 2000.
1 seenten 2018-10-05
Must be when the meth finally started kicking in
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Anyone smart from WV moves at least to Virginia lol
1 michgot 2018-10-05
The party most likely decided that the best way forward is to let Manchin vote this way though, keeping a D seat for very red WV is important compared to some party line vote that Pence will break anyway and even the Ds would have seen that.
1 ErictheRedding 2018-10-05
All the progs in WVa are old school labor democrats, my favorite kind. Sanders won the WVa dem primary because of it.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Tbh those are the best kind of Dems. The ones obsessed with idpol are impossible to deal with.
1 ErictheRedding 2018-10-05
Fucking right and donât understand why the poors want jobs in places like coal mines when they can just go to college and get a job at Starbucks until a man who makes more money can rescue them.
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-05
They only care about the urban poor who vote for them.
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-05
Nah Sanders won because Hillary would have slit coal's, and therefore WV's, throat rather than letting us bleed out in peace. She also would have hurt fracking, our only other job source. Sanders probably would have done the same, but it wasn't as assured as with Clinton.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Lol WV dems are just Republicans that believe in unions because their retarded coal people.
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-05
My sister is one. Maybe 3 more.
1 Sir_Green_Britches 2018-10-05
Tops. Maybe that mothman thing they've got flying around, as well.
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-05
Nah he just hates bridges.
1 Nom_Chompy 2018-10-05
c h a p s t i c k
1 LightUmbra 2018-10-05
Hmmm
1 bigTstyle 2018-10-05
Cenk urgar or whatever his name is tried to find a primary challenger manchin blew him the fuck out by like 40 points he doesnât give a shit
1 michgot 2018-10-05
Chunky Urgay
1 ginger_baker 2018-10-05
Chunk Yogurt
1 Sea_Safe 2018-10-05
cenk ugyur
1 ironicshitpostr 2018-10-05
Good old Cenk "The Kurds deserved it" Uygur
1 FieldMarshalHaig 2018-10-05
Cenk "The Armenians deserved it " Ugyhur.
1 ironicshitpostr 2018-10-05
But he's right about that one tho
1 FieldMarshalHaig 2018-10-05
I agree it's complicated.
1 Cajoal 2018-10-05
I donât know dude have you seen Armenian woman?
1 the_blur 2018-10-05
Finest moustache I ever did see.
1 _Suprememe_ 2018-10-05
Plebbit was the brainchild of an Armenian. Imagine how much better the internet could have been if Turkroaches were competent at anything.
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
That would require incredibly ahistorical behavior by the Turks since their entire empire pretty much only existed because Europoors were too tired of the Middle East after the crusades and couldn't band together to curb Turkish interests.
The minute European powers started treating the Ottomans as the greater evil and banded together they started chopping off bits of that empire for about 50 years and taunted them as the Sick Man of Europe.
1 nomad1c 2018-10-05
i hope they run a non-passing trans woman in the primary against him
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Pretty sure the primary already happened
1 nomad1c 2018-10-05
oh yeah
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Democrats would be retarded to primary Manchin
He is needed in the senate to prevent the supreme court going like 7-2 possibly
1 Kreenish 2018-10-05
There's a lot of democrats in WV, but not many progressives. He'll be fine.
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
Sounds like my kind of politician. What a chad.
1 nithingpole 2018-10-05
The left wing of the party can't do anything but b whine on Twitter
1 BearThatStares 2018-10-05
Hope he avoids the elevator
1 ghostchamber 2018-10-05
Maybe, but I don't know. No one really expected Trump to win (outside of his supporters anyway). I think the midterms this year are probably going to go as expected: Democrats win a majority in the House, but not the Senate.
1 MacAndShits 2018-10-05
Not yet
1 ErictheRedding 2018-10-05
Trump supporters were absolutely surprised he won no matter what bullshit they said.
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
There was some speculation he may have been surprised and afraid himself. Never expected people to actually go for it.
1 ironicshitpostr 2018-10-05
Has he never seen The Producers
Sad
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
Yeah, but everyone expects a sitting President with a good economy to get reelected. Everyone but redditors, that is.
1 ghostchamber 2018-10-05
I am talking about midterms.
1 mrv3 2018-10-05
If the economy stays this good and the male femists don't male feminists as much then I have a feeling the salt from 2020 will turn the Pacific into the black sea.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
What is the topside of the business cycle
1 cimarafa 2018-10-05
Would be the longest business cycle in the developed world in the last 100 years at least if that happened.
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
*red sea
1 AySurge 2018-10-05
Holy shit if the republicans win in november we may literally run out of popcorn
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
haha libtards rekt XD
1 LemonScore_ 2018-10-05
They sure are being haha
1 wwaalleess 2018-10-05
This.... but entirely unironically
1 valemanya08 2018-10-05
tbh they are gettin rekted pretty bad
1 Sea_Safe 2018-10-05
this but unironically
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
I think if the republicans win in November (no matter how unlikely that is), that might genuinely be the end of the Democratic Party.
1 Baconlightning 2018-10-05
Lolbertarians rise up
1 wolfdreams01 2018-10-05
Sure, at least until they give up Identity Politics and find some ideology a bit less contemptible than judging people based on their gender, sexuality, and skin color. Oh who am I kidding? They would probably rather go down still clinging to that giant toxic ship rather than renounce the privilege of talking shit about "cis white men."
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
Yes let's vote for the man who thinks Neo Nazis are very fine people. He does not love identity politics or dividing people. He is for all Americans.
1 _Suprememe_ 2018-10-05
I don't believe Trump is actually sympathetic to Neo Nazis. That statement and subsequent non-apology was just an unfortunate nexus of him being too retarded to plan out his own words more than half a second ahead of time and too much of a narcissist to admit it despite how obvious it has been to everyone for years now.
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
They like Trump and that's the sole thing he cares about.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/woodward-book-trump-charlottesville/index.html
1 _Suprememe_ 2018-10-05
No shit, Trump isn't complex. He'll suck your dick if you tell him you like him and consider you lower than pond scum if you don't. Just look at his bipolar back and forth with Kim Jong Un over the past year.
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-10-05
I think itâs more the idea that he canât bear to condemn any supporter, no matter how terrible they are, because he realizes he has very few friends right now.
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
Nah, the left is constantly making sure he's got more and more friends every day!
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
friendship with Trump ended. Stalin is my new best friend
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
Not at all, man. Anyone normal human person watching and listening to what he said could easily understand what he said and what it meant.
The problem happens when retards believe the fake news headlines and then repeat them and repeat them and repeat them until they start foaming at the mouth and buying pussy hats.
You say ""he's not a nazi, just a retard" shouldn't be something I find myself having to say about a US President", but the only reason you have to say it is because of how many retards believe he's a Nazi to begin with.
1 TRUMP_DERANGEMENT 2018-10-05
...kind of like T_D to be honest
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
Yeah, I like it too.
1 TRUMP_DERANGEMENT 2018-10-05
and it will like you only so far as you agree with it. Not a good friend.
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
Nah, you can disagree on anything except for loving America and loving Americans. That's why we're winning all the time - we all love America, while the Democrats seem to want nothing but hate and division. We should all be working together and loving each other, but unfortunately all they seem to want to do is #Resist and to hate. Sad!
1 TRUMP_DERANGEMENT 2018-10-05
Replace the word "America" with "Trump", and then your post makes some sense.
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
You really need to let go of your hatred of America, man.
1 TRUMP_DERANGEMENT 2018-10-05
.sigh
Here let me switch the words for you:
There. Now your post makes some sense.
1 globalism_sucks 2018-10-05
There are no nazis you silly bitch.
1 Raptoroniandcheese 2018-10-05
Lol a meta Canada poster. Iâm sure you know all the goingâs on!
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-10-05
But he never said that. He said there were some âvery fine peopleâ at the Charlottesville protest. The entire rally was called âunite the rightâ, so itâs not a surprise that a spectrum of right wingers ranging from âeh, letâs not tear down the statuesâ to âsieg heilâ showed up.
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
Yeah Trump watched Neo Nazis murder a woman and then decided to jump in. It was widely known Neo Nazis were going to be there before the event. If you chose to go, it was with the knowledge that these were some serious Nazis there.
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-10-05
*A neo Nazi
Iâm not defending their actions, but I think people need to get their facts right.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
You seem to be confusing the democratic party to a handful of ultra left weirdos on tumblr.
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
to be frank, so is the party leadership at the moment.
It wasn't just on Tumblr where Ford was Stunning and Brave and anyone doubting her accusations was a Fucking White MaleTM
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Again, this seems to be based on your own assumption based on what you see online. "Fucking White MaleTM" is a bogeyman that only the most extreme use. Please don't assume most democrats believe that shit because all you see is those who shout the loudest in their toxic little subgroups. Its the same as conflating a regular conservative person with the consensus of some ridiculous women hating subreddit.
Not sure what exactly is wrong with suggesting Ford is brave for what she did though...
1 GayLordMcMuffins 2018-10-05
Logic and Rationalism in *MY* subreddit!?
***UNACCEPTABLE***
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
This is neither. This is tribalistic defensiveness.
There's no logic in that argument at all. Like, lay out the actual chain of logic that person used. They made a lot of blind, unproven assertions, but they didn't even attempt logic.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
The pretty basic logic of the comment is that most people are normal. People are guilty of looking at a loud minority and assume that's what most people believe. It's a fundamental part of humans being humans. We fear "the other side".
I directly say that most people are not like the bogeyman presented online and in the media, and use a similar example of a subset of left wing extremism with a subset of right wing extremism as a comparison. Your critique on the comment has almost zero relevance to the comment itself.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
I can see your fedora from here
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
Nah it's based on that ridiculous verbal fellatio Democrat senators gave Ford during their last-ditch (and ultimately futile) attempt to stall this nomination to last beyond the midterms because they've bought into their own hype.
And Ford has made something like $1 million off this sideshow, spare me essays on her bravery.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Good job on ignoring the majority of my comment.
Could you describe some of the verbal fellatio? I'd like to compare to the verbal fellatio given to kavanaugh during the hearing. She risked her own career to speak out against a guy who sexually assaulted her and has had multiple credible witnesses corroborate her story. Good for her for making some cash on it (not heard of that, not saying I don't believe it but do you have a link for that?).
It was a "futile" attempt because Republicans control all branches of government and are pushing this dumpster fire of a human through. Still very curious as to why they're so dead set on him, considering the amount of bullshit that's come out about his character. He is just objectively not fit for a supreme court nomination.
1 sentrybot619 2018-10-05
He favors some of trumps most extreme policies. this particular man will certainly tilt the court towards Trump's 'brand' of politics. And they need him in there now, not next year, because of all the shit trump is doing.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Futile to try and reason with these kids man. If they are posting on r/drama and in favor of this far right batshit admin they are prob just 4chan tards that they let out of the cage.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Hah, yeah I know you're right, just can't help it sometimes.
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
Is English not your native tongue or something?
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Did you mean to quote yourself?
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
I had hoped re-posting the bit about not needing essays on Ford's Stunningness and Bravery would get you to realize what a git you were for typing one out anyways, but that's apparently too difficult.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
So you're just going to attack my grammar and not address any basic point I made?
No. Proof. Actual substantial proof to the things you say. I'm sorry if those are too boring for you. Perhaps you lack the reading comprehension to take in such large amounts of words.
Oh and I'm from the UK, as in English is my first language, so I find your suggestion of English lessons to be quite silly. Thanks though (though is how we spell tho in the UK).
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
lol your government is seriously discussing banning Linux and in the middle of a leadership crisis because literally none of your elected officials have any intent of following through on Brexit but you presume to criticize Americans.
Have a good tea and crumpet on me while you fantasize about the last century your country had any mainstream relevance.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Again, just deflecting and stereotypes. No substance.
I'm actually in Scotland, we're trying to get away from the disaster of UK Government but it's not going too well. I'll happily chat to you about all the problems of Scotland and the UK. Does it make any of what I said any less true? Honestly I'd love to hear why.
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
Scots are maybe the one thing worse than Angles, you need to go back. Even joining the EU independently would result in you somehow managing to impoverish yourselves, I think your average countryman vastly overestimates how much the EU cares about fish and crude oil.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Does that count as racism? Or just being a cunt?
Really big statement. Please explain why you believe this. Otherwise me saying "Even joining the EU independently would result in you somehow managing to bring wealth and prosperity to yourselves" is equally valid as to what you just said.
Dude you have Google. Search "Scotland exports" and you'll see how blatantly untrue that is.l
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
It counts as me shitposting about mayocide on a subreddit known for that in joke.
Seriously go back to Chapo you Europoor autist your nonstop seriousposting is giving me internet cancer.
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1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Yeah fair point. Think I was just looking to argue with some, eh...ya know.
Kind of hypocritical though given that you indulged in the seriousposting for a while with me.
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
it's pretty brave to lie under oath, I'll give her that
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
Bullshit. Spend five minutes watching MSNBC, you fucking tard.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Ok, I did. Didn't see anything too crazy. Do you have any clips I could watch?
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
No? Ok then, you fucking tard.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Oh God is this retard pretending msnbc is a left wing fox News equivalent? Haha lol at this guy.
1 WyrmSaint 2018-10-05
It's so limited that the white male senators questioning Ford had to get a female surrogate.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
These people used to do the same thing about feminism. It's a lie, and they know it, but they want to snow people.
Claim that somehow, you only hear about the bad parts of their ideology, while the good parts (which they claim to be much larger) somehow remain completely invisible.
And if you point out that the leadership seems to be comprised of the only the crazy types, they either make more excuses, or drop the act and go full crazy themselves.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
I'm honestly a tad confused by this. How many democratic politicians would people consider "the crazy types"?
Here, I'll start with a few examples:
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
I'm honestly a tad confused by your last sentence about the crazy types in the democratic party. Could you provide a few examples?
I'll start.
Data taken from Kevin G. Shinnick's Research:
People want more sources:
Daily Kiosk Summary.
Wikipedia (check the sources at the bottom).
All indictments, convictions, and prison sentences related to executive branch criminal activity is public information.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Here's some more specific examples (again just being lazy and pasting, though I checked a few myself and they're all accurate. If you see any that aren't please let me know and I'll edit).
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trumpâs presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
Republican Congressman Donald âBuzâ Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. âRepublican Martyâ), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
Republican anti-gay activist Earl âButchâ Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was charged with sexual misconduct involving a 15-year old girl.
Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.
Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a âgood military manâ and âchurch goer,â was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
Republican director of the âYoung Republican Federationâ Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
1 Nom_Chompy 2018-10-05
Amen.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
yeah that's fair, sorry.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
God you're an idiot... Stop confusing the fucking dem party with tumblrina leg beards... I'm left of Trump and don't think there's 75 genders! Fuck off fag!
1 globalism_sucks 2018-10-05
The anti-white male shit is pretty mainstream for the donkeys.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
No, it's not.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
My, what a logical argument.
You are, but what am I?
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Could you describe the logic of the comment I replied to?
"X is this" "No, it's not" "HAH GREAT ARGUMENT DUMBASS" "ok....Y is this" "woah".
Give me something to actually reply to and I'll put more effort into it.
1 5e84d5539181a3fd3287 2018-10-05
They're on Twitter now
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
Well to be fair, the ones who aren't ultra left weirdos really aren't making it easy to distinguish themselves from that. All the fake news media being so super fake is helping to sink the Democrat battleship too.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
If you lack the ability to see the difference between a stereotypical tumblr/twitter "FEMINAZI!!11" and an ordinary person who just wants people to not potentially face bankruptcy over a medical issue, that's on you bro.
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
When they all wear pussy hats it's not like they're making it easy.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
This person thinks the far left IS the center, likely because of too much exposure to reddit.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Hah, it's funny considering how far right the US democratic party is compared to the rest of the developed world. I'm not American, just a fascinated foreigner looking in at a crumbling, broken country.
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
ftfy
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
:D
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
We're not all old these "winning" autists btw lol. Virgins in America love to treat their R party like its their favorite football team :p
1 MostRadicalCentrist 2018-10-05
Developed countries like Saudi Arabia? People just say "Developed" to pussyfoot around what they really mean.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
You think America has a far left ahahahahahhahahaha
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
I don't even know what that means.
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
It's hard, I know.
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
nobody is going bankrupt over medical issues bud. that's just you and all those other retards not understanding how medical billing works.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
770,846 people a year go bankrupt over medical issues bud. Medical bills account for 63% of bankrupties in the US
I guess that's a lot of retards, and I'm sure they deserve it for their own stupidity.
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
fuck em. they're either too stupid to play the game or it's just opportunistic bankruptcy. either way it doesn't work how you fucktards think it works
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Dude I just directly quoted you proof that close to a million people a dear go bankrupt due to not being able to afford medical care and your first thought is "fuck em. they're either too stupid to play the game or it's just opportunistic bankruptcy".
How fucking broken are you mate? Not even considering the basic lack of empathy, the basic fact is that if it happens to nearly a million people in your country every year, it means it can easily happen to you or someone close to you. That's the point. The system is fucked and so many people suffer because of it.
But again, the fact that you didn't even know this stupidly fucking basic fact makes me think you might just be a teenager who doesn't actually pay any bills yourself. Just an assumption though.
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
nah unlike all those chumps I have a career and health insurance. actual poor people would be covered as well under Medicaid. so who does that leave? idiots and opportunists. also, don't proselytize healthcare at me "mate", it's funny how it's always non Americans bitching about American healthcare... wonder why that is? fucking muppet
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Because your healthcare is horrific! How can that not be so fucking obvious to you!? We literally cannot fathom it. I go to the hospital and payments/insurance/security of a career isn't even considered. It's fucking horrendous.
And it works perfectly for people like you because you vilify anyone without the things you have. You've fallen so tragically for the "fuck em I got mine" fallacy. Poor people are just every so slightly covered under Medicaid, but it's hardly fitting for a country like Russia, much less a country as rich as the US. It's a joke.
Serious question - what would happen to you if you were gravely injured? As in to the point where you couldn't work for an extended period of time, what would happen to you?
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
First of all, quit screeching about shit that doesn't affect you. Americans are doing just fine without the sympathies of indoctrinated europoors.
To your question, i would be covered under FMLA unless I ended up on permanent disability. then I would collect disability and apply for early social security.
also I grew up poor. can't pay the power bill poor. food bank and free lunch poor. drop out of school at 15 to get a job poor. nigga got shot on my front yard poor. I know all about poor people and the vast fucking majority are poor because they ain't worth shit to begin with. I'm shopping for a new front door today because I want a prettier one than the one that came with my 2700 sqft house. yeah I got mine and those poor trash I've left behind aren't getting ANY of it.
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Screeching? No, they're not fine, as demonstrated by the fact based sources above. People are suffering. A lot of people. Not you obviously, and that's what's important.
I'm glad you're covered under FMLA, quite a lot of people aren't.
Everything you say after that is just the same disgusting I Got Mine rhetoric. I grew up poor in a shitty area as well. I'm doing ok now as well. I guess the difference between us is that you grew up in a society that's based around not giving a single fuck about anyone around you. No safety net, nothing. Crawl my way up the ladder and hold on for dear life, other people further down? They can climb up like I did, if not fuck em. Lovely.
Maybe one day you guys will learn that's not really a good way to live.
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
poops I ur mouth
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
Seriously though how the fuck could you not know something like that?
1 Loicensed_Comment 2018-10-05
Maybe if they triple down on those positions this time it will work!
1 DoctorMort 2018-10-05
That only happens if Trump gets reelected in 2020.
1 Pro_Extent 2018-10-05
99% chance he wins at this point
1 DoctorMort 2018-10-05
Not if the economy takes a downturn.
1 KarstaaMauka 2018-10-05
But who will the Democrats offer this time? Have they even decided?
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
HIGH
ENERGY
1 brewtown138 2018-10-05
HAHAHAHAHA! Our stable genius who hires the best people?
As a independent, he isn't getting my vote again. And this dumb fuck isn't attracting new voters... so where does that leave him? Not winning again
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Yikes dude... Yikes.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
I don't think so. They will likely be forced to course correct.
And sitting Presidents are virtual shoe-ins for reelection barring an ongoing recession.
1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
This will surely be the end of those I disagree with
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
I mean, as long as trump doesnât get into some war w/ Iran and the economy continues to do as well as it is doing, and the republican do hold congress, I dont see how the democrats can gain power without major reforms.
To your point, the Democratic Party is nearly 200 years old. I dont imagine they would literally cease to exist, but it would have to go though some serious changes and probably return to itâs more moderate roots (which I actually supported).
1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
No I mean they are antiquated and that the conservatives have clearly won at this point
1 Jazzeki 2018-10-05
won what?
the war on the founding fathers ideals?
the war on democracy?
the war on common sense?
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i really don't get this mentality. you do not "win" in politics unless you are refering to winning an election and thus a single term.
1 michgot 2018-10-05
winning an SC nomination means winning for 30+ years tho
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Tons of lil boys associate with Republicans on here because they are losers trying to identify with winning so they treat it like the NFL or something.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Really? I think the left already won the culture war and Trump is the result of a dying party that lost its identity after a black guy was in charge for 8 years.. The white man's last angry scream into the abyss for 4 years.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Lol dems are a centrist party... God you Americans are so retarded with your idea of what a moderate is...
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
Yeah, a centrist party led by progressives such as
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tulsi Gabbard, Kristen Gillibrand, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, Andrew Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi... the list goes on.
Obama was a moderate. Biden was a moderate. B. Clinton was a moderate. Youâd have to be incredibly ignorant of politics to call them centrists though. Do you really think the Democratic Party, a party that brands themselves as progressive and left leaning, is a centrist party? Do you know what a centrist is? Times are changing and you havenât caught on.
Not that you arent an American yourself.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Sooo you said like 3 people that would be left of center globally. So yes. You fuggin goon
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
Nowhere ever did I imply that I was speaking about any country other than the United States. That was your imagination.
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
Goodness mate, cant you stay on topic in the least? Weâre arguing wether sheâs a centrist or not.
1 EviscerateTheProles 2018-10-05
In 2008 people were unironically predicting the end of the GOP. Calm down.
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
With all due respect, the Republican Partyâs image has shifted quite a bit in the last 10 years. Compare McCaine or even the Bushes to Trump.
Also, you arent accounting for the fact that while Obama was president, republicans were able to take back control of congress (as the democrats did when GDB was president). As I have stated, there is a major âifâ, but if the democrats cant retake congress, they wont be able to without reforming their image and platform.
1 EviscerateTheProles 2018-10-05
First off, I don't deserve any respect. Let's not dance around that question.
Second, ten years ago McCain was campaigning with Palin for president. This is the same Palin who endorsed literal hardcore antisemite white nationalist Paul Nehlen in Wisconsin a couple years ago. Aside from that the GOP was rabidly anti-Obama for eight years. They've been pretty nuts for a while, from the Tea Party and birtherism and on. It was just somewhat ignored because they didn't hold the presidency. They also got super lucky with Ted Kennedy dying and Scott Brown filling his seat. That really fucked over Obama for his first administration.
Also, I think this is a bad election to hold the dem's feet to the fire on, given the seats up for grabs. If they lose you're gonna have people saying they didn't move left enough (Bernie would have won!) or didn't move right enough (stealing Trump voters). And then you're going to have the democrat equivalent of the Tea Party marching around setting shit on fire. Seems pretty normal to me. I think they are positioned at a reasonable middle ground to win national elections in the US.
Sorry for the scattershot thinking. My point is, in short, that the GOP went totally insane when Obama was president, and now the Dems are totally insane now that Trump is president. Dems were pretty insane while W was in office as well. Seems pretty standard to me. It's just more amplified with social media now. You used to have to watch TV and listen to the radio to hear it.
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
Is there a reason I should treat you without respect? :)
No more extreme than Mike âElectric Fenceâ Pence? But even so, why should the value of VP outweigh the actual presidential candidates? Surely you must see a change from McCaine and Romney to Trump?
I mean, they have already moved substantially more left than in 2016. I donât think anyone is going to be saying they should move even more left.
Iâm not arguing that they dont have a good shot at winning the elections. I would actually argue that it is more likely for democrats to regain control in November. But the Democratic Party is moving more and more left, away form moderates (who make up a substantially larger population than those who are setting shit on fire). Keep in mind that Bernie lost the primaries to Hillary.
You bring up a good point, but why is it relevant to the Dem Partyâs doctrine? Also, I wouldnt say the current insanity is standard. Perhaps it is brewed up by social media, but the anger in politics today isnt just an amplified perception from social media. Just look at Charlottesville, or the riots after election night.
1 michgot 2018-10-05
u fucking retard, u absolute moron
ur new here aren't u
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
Oh come on. Youâre just one of those people who takes every chance they get to be âedgyâ, but just comes across as annoying cus thatâs all theyâre good at. How about you come up with some actual insults instead of those piece of shit excuses, and fix your wreath-shaped family tree while youâre at it.
1 michgot 2018-10-05
the absolute state of polposters
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
You cant possibly be tapping out already, putting this all on âit was just a memeâ. Is that all you are?
Yeah, and Iâm the polposter lol.
1 JustLions 2018-10-05
Didn't we all?
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
Would be a bit ironic after the amount of effort they've invested in it being ALL OVER FOR BRONALD BRUMPF
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
I ainât even gonna lie fam, are you tryna make it look Putin has an army of paid trolls?
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
All I'm trying to do is IMPEACH ORANGE MAN. CANCEL ORANGE MAN.
1 Iron-Fist 2018-10-05
I mean, they will almost certainly lose seats, it's just whether or not they retain a majority in the house
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
I'm stockpiling the stuff now in case there's a run on the shops
1 serial_crusher 2018-10-05
Imagine how much time they'll waste if the Democrats get a majority in the election. They're going to get nothing done until 2020 except for impeaching people.
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
1 The_Reason_Trump_Won 2018-10-05
This but unironically
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Hamilton unironically wanted the president and senators to serve for life. The founders didn't actually want the US to highly democratic at all.
1 The_Reason_Trump_Won 2018-10-05
I was referring to the "get nothing done" part which some of them certainly approved of
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
I was agreeing. They didn't want the government to get a lot of stuff done because that might give the masses some actual power.
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-10-05
They weren't wrong. Just think of how stupid people are today. Then remember the Flynn effect.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Fam I never said they were wrong
1 GadolBoobies 2018-10-05
The guy who supported the banks wanted lifetime rulers?
You don't say.
1 Cajoal 2018-10-05
(((Banks)))
1 Yiin 2018-10-05
Imagine thinking that Hamilton wasnt the the oddball of the group.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Imagine not knowing that his proposal received enthusiastic applause
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Hamilton was an oddball but he was right about everything
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Yeah getting nothing done is a vast improvement over whatever Trump is doing right now
1 eDgEIN708 2018-10-05
lol
1 cimarafa 2018-10-05
They can rule by EO like Obama for the last 3/4 of his presidency.
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-10-05
The future of American politics
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
Here I was thinking trump was joking when he said weâre gonna get tired of winning
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
Well, well, well.
1 marsianer 2018-10-05
Users like you will be the first to be disposed- me included. Keep laughing. But, there is a fucking problem.
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
There's only three months of the year left, things need to step up if I'm to reach my masturbation quota for the year.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
woman who voted yes every time on supreme court appointments is voting yes again, more news at 11
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
Yeah but muh abortion
(even though kav was going to hold roe v wade as status quo)
1 t3hryan 2018-10-05
Honestly I'm not even being unironic right now, how hard would it be to overturn a ruling like that? Some old college friends are up in arms about this exact thing and I just don't think it's very likely although I have no idea honestly.
1 Prysorra2 2018-10-05
You want to see a real meltdown? Imagine finally getting an abortion case to SCOTUS in 2021 ... only to have Kav himself literally uphold RoeVWade. After all of this.
1 t3hryan 2018-10-05
I mean I'm all for the drama so this has been amazing. I thought the past election couldn't be topped but damn this is getting juicy.
1 ironicshitpostr 2018-10-05
well now I'm getting hard
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-10-05
Kav will hands down be the most conservative justice on the court. There is almost no chance this happens.
1 cimarafa 2018-10-05
Kav is way less conservative than Thomas. The only thing he might be truly right wing on is affirmative action.
1 DoctorMort 2018-10-05
Less conservative than Thomas or Gorsuch. He's only marginally more conservative than Kennedy, who was a moderate.
1 woeskies 2018-10-05
Kennedy was not a moderate. He was a conservative that voted liberal on gay rights and similar issues
1 woeskies 2018-10-05
Kav will vote in whatever way he thinks will benefit the republicans electorally. Heâs not going to have a judicial philosophy other than looking at 538
1 cimarafa 2018-10-05
I donât know why you think heâs going to sacrifice all of his principles and values just because the Dems tried to screw him.
1 woeskies 2018-10-05
Heâs been a republican hack since he got into politics
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-10-05
SC is arguably the most powerful entity of all. No real way to truly know til they're in
1 Ridicatlthrowaway 2018-10-05
I was thinking he was going to be pretty conservative about false accusations...
1 ScaryLapis 2018-10-05
There's a bunch more opposition to Lab than abortion. Like to position of the NSA, his constant perjury, calling himself a "constitutional literalist" but says Obama care is unconstitutional.
1 transoceanicdeath 2018-10-05
many people would know what it is to have egg on their faces that day, i can tell you, my friend
1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
Omg daddy please tell me more đđđ
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
Don't stop, I'm about to cum!
1 FearlessFlash 2018-10-05
that probably wouldn't happen. instead Kav would get to appear on every talk show and get free pussy from every bitch from Charmed.
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
The ruling is essentially a woman can have an abortion because if she cannot the law is infringing on her liberties.
As far as overturning, fine overturn it then introduce real fucking legislation and a new amendment guarenteeing abortion is a right, rather than a flimsy liberty defense
1 t3hryan 2018-10-05
Nah I understand what it is about. But as far as overruling a Supreme Court decision, how would you go about that and it doesn't seem easy.
1 rockidol 2018-10-05
Have states introduce abortion laws that go against scotus precedent, their laws get ruled unconstitutional, they argue it all the way to scotus. Scotus agrees and overturns Row/Casey
1 SonyXboxNintendo11 2018-10-05
In other words, the Republicans will try it as soon Kavanaugh is on that chair. In all states they control, at the same time.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
They already have cases lined up
1 TruthPains 2018-10-05
They try to do that monthly it seems; now the SCOTUS Will take it and it will be overturned. So many unwanted children and so many new meth heads to feed Floridaman drama jokes. It will be glorious..
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
I think there's been a failure of public education here...
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
Roe vs. Wade isn't even relevant. Casey vs. Planned Parenthood is the abortion one.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Roe vs. Wade is the defining precedent. Casey vs. Planned Parenthood just made some clarifications and moderation in scope.
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
This guy gets it.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
The big problem with Roe v. Wade is, under it's logic, how the fuck is the FDA allowed to exist? If the government isn't allowed to ban medical procedures without infringing on people's right to choose medical care and privacy concerns with their doctor, how does the government have the right to regulate or ban every other medican procedure in existence.
Roe v. Wade was poorly decided based on the law. It was an ideological ruling, one in a long series of mostly ideological rulings beginning in the 30s that basically convinced conservatives that liberals had already stacked the court and had to be made a priority going forward.
1 IllustriousQuail 2018-10-05
You'd need five out of the nine justices to vote to do it. There's no such thing as binding precedent at the Supreme Court level.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
The question was how hard it would be to find 5 justices who care so little about precedent. Sure precedent isn't binding, but justices tend to stick to it as close as possible to ensure stability.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
Very difficult, as Roberts is a no and Kavanuagh is a likely no
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
I agree that it's highly unlikely with the current court. This is more of a future hypothetical.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
How you can say that Roberts is a no? Has there been any abortion restriction case where he's even dissented in?
Tbf we've been here before, people were pretty sure that the Casey vs. Planned Parenthood case was going to overturn Roe. But two of Reagan's appointees voted to largely preserve abortion rights. Abortion restrictions can quickly become creepy from a rights perspetive for obvious reasons, and there are really numerous constitutional points of attack on the restrictions.
And in the legal community the people against Roe v. Wade are definitely in a small minority. So it actually tends to be hard to find someone qualified who's 100% against it, and not on the edge or something. Republicans have been digging and digging but missing a lot, because there's is the constitutionally creepy position.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Precedent doesn't really mean much anymore. It'd just take the votes. Punished Kav probably isn't enough to get it done though because Roberts is a pussy.
If Republicans maintain control of the Senate and RBG dies, it's possible that the Republicans could put an end to baby killing.
1 rockidol 2018-10-05
A zygote is not a baby.
1 SonyXboxNintendo11 2018-10-05
Who said it wasn't? You determine that?
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
God says otherwise
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
in that case god is a monster because the average women flushes out plenty of zygotes during a period or otherwise.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Just because people die doesn't mean murdering them is OK
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Your sinful behavior has resulted in the degeneration if society. You'll be punished after death just as we all have been in life.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
then explain how every single measurable crime has been on a downward trend since global liberalization?
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
American hegemony and the fact that testosterone levels have dropped 50% in the west over the past 50 years.
People are also far less happy, especially women ironically.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
oh so you are an agrarian communist, get out chapotard.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Nope, radical centrist baby. Also I don't like farming cause you get dirty and I think communism makes you gay.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
you can only pick one
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
The Golden Mean is determined by the pope my dude.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
the pope is from south america who arent sending their best to the papacy, they are sending bad hombres.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Delete this
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
i refuse to, people need to know the truth about the jesuits.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Crime has also dropped dramatically, damn those globalist water additives did a good one.
Somehow half the people in the world live perfectly happy lives without any testosterone at all. Wonder how that is?
Science has to look into why testosterone levels are being altered. I guarantee you that it isn't due to abortion lol.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Actually it likely has to do with women in the work force as stress in the mother leads to make children with lower testosterone. Lack of sunlight and fat people also have an impact.
Abortion does cause autism and a breakdown of traditional families though, which is one of the reasons for the lost millenials than fill Reddit and still live at home.
1 istural 2018-10-05
Fucking retarded boomers. The future is now.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Literally the most successful and prosperous society in all of human history exists right now. If God is trying to punish us for abortion he's not doing a very good job.
I'll take my chances bro. :)
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Actually America was objectively more prosperous relative to the rest of the world right after World War Two. People were also happier.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
why do you hate the global poor?
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Don't care about them, most of them aren't even Catholic.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
LOL
How can something that doesn't even have a functional neural system have a soul? How stupid do you have to believe to believe that? If they don't have a fucking brain what is the soul even doing? Is it like blank or something? What is the person? Can you tell me any individual distinguishing fact about a "person" that's never even had a single thought, and is in fact incapable of having them? Thoughts and memories are what people are. Things that don't possess them are not people.
1 Thor1138 2018-10-05
Exactly, but you can't argue logic with religious nutjobs.
1 DoktuhParadox 2018-10-05
The United States is a secular nation. Who gives a shit what God says?
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Me and all the other good people.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
If God doesn't like killing babies he's seems like a bit of a dick to me imo
Who in their right mind would object to baby killing?
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Your mom did, even after she saw you, which I think says a lot for her.
1 carpanzzaro 2018-10-05
Wait you know his mother?
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Fuck God, he's a cunt
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-10-05
Actually God tells you to poison a bitch if you think some other bloke knocked her up, to abort it.
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Well yeah don't get cucked player
1 istural 2018-10-05
Allah is a better god.
1 Thor1138 2018-10-05
God is dead.
1 Mordrimbor 2018-10-05
Yeah, and "Der Juden" aren't people, we've all heard this line of reasoning before
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Yeah ask Ireland how that turned out
You're retarded and your retardation is quickly going to become obvious once idiots like you are put in power and start doing shit like forcing a girl who gets cancer during a pregnancy to go off of chemo because it might hurt the baby and then eventually killing them both. Nobody is going to trust you with control over women's bodies. Having sex is not a crime so there is nothing the state can legally hold them responsible for, so how can it prevent a perfectly legitimate medical procedure from a due process standpoint? The woman has not committed a crime, but you are denying her medical treatment? When did she lose her rights as a human being? When did she become an object that the constitution doesn't apply to?
We are going to keep killing babies until the end of time and there's nothing you can do to stop it. :)
1 DoctorFahrenheit 2018-10-05
Nah, society is pretty demonstrably socially, culturally, and governmentally cyclical. Sometime soon we'll be treating women like objects again. Sometime after that we'll be reexamine nt our cultural biases again. Sometime after that a couple of guys like you and I will be having a conversation a lot like this.
Technology may eventually break the cycle, if we don't kill ourselves first, but neither you or I will live to see that.
1 nomad1c 2018-10-05
they will never overturn it. it's a vote winner the way it is
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-10-05
Yeah once you ban abortion you can't campaign on banning abortion.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
Nah, if they get the opportunity, they have to act, or they risk having happen to them, what happened to the Democrats with the white working class after the Obama+60 dems period. Where the Dems did nothing to help working people during a recession, and basically demolished their support there.
You can play games when you don't have the numbers. But this isn't Britain or Canada. The politicians can't abandon their promises and then drag their feet on holding elections until people have forgotten. We designed our system so that can't easily happen.
1 nomad1c 2018-10-05
they won't give themselves the opportunity tho. the case that will overturn it will never make it to SCOTUS, giving everyone plausible deniability
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Not going to happen. They might gut some protections but say they can't totally overturn it to hold is over the religious plebs heads. They are easy to fool for some reason.
1 OriginalRazzmatazz 2018-10-05
Alaska makes law prohibiting abortion. Gets sued. Appeals it all the way to the SCOTUS. Is upheld. Done.
1 Mexagon 2018-10-05
I'm pretty sure they were just going to leave it alone like usual (after all, why would the right do that to themselves) but since Kav is getting raked over the coals with all this false accusation bullshit, I could actually see him overturning it now.
1 Mikeavelli 2018-10-05
They probably won't directly overturn it, but some state will find a loophole where it's technically still legal but there are so many barriers it's impossible in practice, and the Supreme Court will uphold it.
Sorta like Texas tried a few years ago and the Supreme Court struck it down in a 5-4. Now there are two more conservative judges, that would have gone 6-3 the other direction.
1 preserved_fish 2018-10-05
There is one more conservative justice. Gorsuch replaced Scalia.
1 Potatoe_away 2018-10-05
Nothing passes the âstrict scrutinyâ test anymore except national security and cop safety, so itâs pretty unlikely that itâll ever get overturned, not to mention conservative justices appointed by Nixon ruled in favor of roe v wade in the first place. A liberal voted against it.
1 carnivoreinyeg 2018-10-05
Its not getting overturned.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
we r gonna pack it
1 SweatDaddy 2018-10-05
Abortion is becoming obsolete. With plan B on demand and birth control ubiquitous, unwanted pregnancies are pretty much a thing of the past.
1 DominusLutrae 2018-10-05
Are you seriously saying that Kav wasn't gonna repeal Roe until the Democrats were meanies to him? Are you fucking retarded?
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
Lol you dont know msg memes
1 DominusLutrae 2018-10-05
I get your dumb joke. Its premise is pants on head retarded
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
....
Yeah no you dont... punished snake, punished kav
Are you an npc?
1 DominusLutrae 2018-10-05
No I got it. Punished "Venom" Snake, the fake Big Boss who controlled Outer Heaven until Solid Snake killed him (I think in Zanzibarland). It's the other part that's dumb as dogshit.
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
I love how the "get money out of politics" crowd basically tried to blackmail her with that huge campaign donation threat.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
that's because they don't believe Unions and NGO money is equivalent to corporate money, despite the fact that there is no real difference
1 WhatsupDoc001 2018-10-05
To be fair the justification is that unions are democratic unlike corporations that are controlled by a few ultra rich fucks. Having said that the excuse it still retarded given that at the end of the day unions don't represent the majority therefore at best we're looking at a broader oligarchy. Also representatives deciding which representatives should be elected isn't very democratic.
1 carpanzzaro 2018-10-05
I wish anti union scabs had to do without all the benefits they provided.
1 WhatsupDoc001 2018-10-05
I agree.
1 djlewt 2018-10-05
Unions are their own enigma politically: Republicans hate unions, love the cop union. Democrats love unions, hate the cop union.
1 _Suprememe_ 2018-10-05
Public sector unions are cancer.
1 Lindseyisagirlsname 2018-10-05
Because cops are scum, duh.
1 DoktuhParadox 2018-10-05
Since when is donating to an opposing candidate's campaign because of how a candidate votes "blackmail?" Also I wouldn't call the democratic party the "get money out of politics" crowd...
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
I think that opposing abortion is the pro-mayocide position
Think about it, blacks rape white women at huge levels. If we force them to give birth to all those children, we've poisoned like tens of thousands of bloodlines a year. Plus those black children will be genetically predisposed to rape, we will effectively be rewarding rape as an evolutionary strategy, so they'll go on and rape more white girls themselves, and the more rapey ones will be the more genetically successful. Give it a century or so imo and eventually no white girl will be able to walk outside without our genetically bred super-rapist nonwhites immediately jumping on her. The white race will not be able to stand a chance.
1 Plexipus 2018-10-05
I mean the "get money out of politics" crowd in general has a problem with the billions of dollars of dark money that comes from ultra wealthy mystery donors and has reshaped our entire electoral system since the Citizens United ruling. They didn't have a problem with campaigns like Obama's or Sanders' who raised tens of millions from mostly small donations.
1 DominusLutrae 2018-10-05
Lmao how is that remotely equivalent you fucking chud
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
Next 'thing' is going to be dark money brokers starting crowd source campaigns to get around campaign finance laws.... Just watch
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-10-05
No, the story is that a Republican congresswoman doesnât believe survivors.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
Believe gussy, worship the gussy
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
FTFY
1 SigmaWhy 2018-10-05
Best part of this was all the libs saying that Susan Collins needed to shut up and finish her speech
Let đ Her đ Speak đ
1 SJCards 2018-10-05
Based timeline confirmed.
1 seshfan2 2018-10-05
Is this a surprise to anyone? I mean Repubs literally admitted they didn't actually care whether the assault allegations were true or not. There was 0% Kavanaugh wasn't getting appointed.
1 michgot 2018-10-05
There was the Murkowski thing which threw a wrench in the gears but it just got pumped and dumped (like Ford lol)
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
haha rapists getting away with it and being rewarded with absolute power
classic
we're going to have the first rapist majority government in history, so good for drama XD
1 rado1193 2018-10-05
Lmao that was Cory Booker, who is a Democrat.
1 ay_what_is 2018-10-05
Heâs probably talking about the poll
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-10-05
What did he say?
1 rado1193 2018-10-05
He said that it doesn't matter whether Kavanaugh is innocent or guilty, and Trump should find someone else.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-10-05
Lol, same guy said anyone that supports the guy is getting complicit with evil.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
He even used Psalm 23. The guy is a boofing flamboyant dumbass
1 djlewt 2018-10-05
He farts flamboyantly?
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he did
1 missmurrr 2018-10-05
donât disrespect spartacus like that.
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
I used to like Booker when he was just a goofy mayor shoveling driveways for old ladies, but since he made the leap to higher office I literally can't stand him.
It's a shame too because at the time I really felt like he was a good role model in an urban black community, when historically local black politicians have been more corrupt than a bunch of catholic priests at a boy scout convention.
1 disgruntled_chode 2018-10-05
Booker using Newark as a springboard for the obvious mayor-senator-president pipeline that he's trying to pull off just cemented what a plastic careerist he is, and that's a bad image to have amongst Dem activists right now, at the moment when they're feeling their anti-establishment oats. I hope he gets like 7% in the Iowa caucus and drops out after New Hampshire.
1 arandomloser21 2018-10-05
Pretty much this. The more fascinating part is how this circus has been a shit show every step of the way. Easily one of the demâs biggest blunders since Daddy.
1 HolyWarsPunishment 2018-10-05
They really went all in on this.
1 CountyMcCounterson 2018-10-05
If you come at the king you best not miss
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
Nah. I mean the point was to fire up your base and try and make confirming Kavanaugh as damaging as possible. There wasn't any way to stop him becoming a Supreme Court judge.
I mean the narrative has now become 'Republicans are so desperate to help Trump escape justice that they nominated a sexual predator because he said you shouldn't be allowed criminally investigate the president.'
Plus if you delegitimise the Supreme Court enough you can justify packing it.
1 Fataleo 2018-10-05
When ?.
1 michgot 2018-10-05
Damn, I wanted to post this :c
1 Strictlybutters 2018-10-05
I think you have to understand that Collins believes that by putting a former Kennedy clerk on the bench instead of spiking him and getting Barrett she is saving abortion rights.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
When RBG kicks the bucket or Thomas steps down Trump will nominate Barrett
1 Strictlybutters 2018-10-05
Yeah you are correct but I think RBG might be eternal
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
Nah, sheâs got low key dementia at this point. She forgot the fourteenth amendment the other day. Itâs literally her job to known this shit and she forgot about it.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Imagine the drama if Thomas steps down in 2020 to give Daddy another appointment at the 11th hour
1 Casmeron 2018-10-05
That + RGB means Trump could easily have 4 supreme court seats. If one more justice gets hit by a car, Trump could personally appoint the court majority for the next 30 years.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Tbh that would move beyond drama and just be objectively terrible for the country. No president (of either party) should be able to appoint 4+ justices that's just way too much power.
1 cmakk1012 2018-10-05
you are wrong, that would be absolutely fantastic drama even as the nation burns down around us
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Stay mad libtard đđđ
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
I am a libtard on many topics, but I am a radical centrist on the SC. The partisan judges suck (what's the fun if their votes can almost always be predicted in advance to fall on party lines) and I refuse to swallow the Dem "let's pack the courts" pill.
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
What would be extra hilarious, is if RGB croaks, and daddy appoints a center left nominee.
Can you imagine the collective brain snapping as r/pol is faced with agreeing with daddy..... All the while trying to figure it what the catch is.....
1 not_nibiru 2018-10-05
Haha hope he goes full troll and nominates Garland.
1 istural 2018-10-05
Iâm a big supporter of this timeline.
1 westofthetracks 2018-10-05
so you like the supreme court... but not anyone that has sat on it within your lifetime đ¤đ¤đ¤
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
Everyone keeps forgetting that Breyer is 80. Men don't live as long as women. If RBG is gonna kick the bucket, Breyer is right behind her.
Thomas himself is pretty old at 70 but still has a few more years of piss and vinegar in him.
1 ffbtaw 2018-10-05
Yeah but they all have incredible health care.
1 bareballzthebitch 2018-10-05
That didn't stop Scalia from being smothered with a pillow.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Ancient fatty with the beetus kicks the bucket but it was definitely Killary with the garden hose in the drawing room.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Yeah but Heather Heyers totally died of suddenly having a heart attack for no reason while being rammed by a car
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
No, you donât understand, his own weight smothered himself into the pillow. His cat decided to end his life for him.
1 Plexipus 2018-10-05
I love that people actually believe this
1 cmakk1012 2018-10-05
I thought Soros choked him out?
1 arobkinca 2018-10-05
Erotic asphyxiation gone bad. The hooker just cleaned up good.
1 wiking85 2018-10-05
Can you imagine the riots if RGB and Breyer both get replaced by Trump?
1 carthoris26 2018-10-05
The thought of all the drama that could cause makes me shiver with delight. Fuck thots whispering into plastic ears on twitch, reading that is my ASMR.
1 timsboss 2018-10-05
Sotomayor is diabetic.
1 SecretSnack 2018-10-05
Lib here; don't see how replacing a hard right justice with a hard right justice would be the biggest deal.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Because the new one will be a lot younger?
1 SecretSnack 2018-10-05
And ideally not a predator like Thomas.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
They're adding the new resident predator right now
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
You mean superpredator.
1 SecretSnack 2018-10-05
It fits. Predator in position of extreme power
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
(It was a reference to when Hillary said black people were superpredators).
1 SecretSnack 2018-10-05
I know
1 shallowm 2018-10-05
a
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
Kennedy was a solid conservative vote. He was socially liberal on a few things but for workers rights or money is speech was just as right wing as everyone else.
1 SecretSnack 2018-10-05
Not so solid on traditional marriage
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
Do you think that maybe that's an issue he was socially liberal on
1 I_Am_Bambi 2018-10-05
Is this a Trumo sub? Iâm new and I donât know whatâs happening
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
And then we pack the court
Poof
Nice magic trick
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
I, too, read MattY's take
1 Strictlybutters 2018-10-05
I don stole it cause it was good
1 wolfdreams01 2018-10-05
Kavenaugh respects precedent, I don't think he's going to take away abortion rights. I mean, I think there's a difference between being conservative and wanting to live in the horse & buggy era.
1 jorio 2018-10-05
You know, I get that the whole situation seems more divided than ever, but neither Ford nor Kavanaugh would be this angry if they didn't care. I'm thinking if we all butt out and they find a way to get some alone time, then the sparks will just fly naturally,
1 XhotwheelsloverX 2018-10-05
Kavanaugh fanfiction when
1 thisguy60 2018-10-05
Beachweek 2019. duh.
1 MacAndShits 2018-10-05
A beach episode of a court meeting?
1 serial_crusher 2018-10-05
Depends whether she has had exactly one beer or whether he's boofed enough to black out.
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
Fordâs husband is going to buy a Kavanaugh mask for sexy time.
1 BumwineBaudelaire 2018-10-05
did those retards in /r/politics seriously think a senior repub senator wasn't going to vote for the guy? lol
1 jwil191 2018-10-05
They think that the not being white or not having penis will mean that they should automatically agree with their world view.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Collins is mentally retarded so it kind of cancelled out
1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
Wow discrimination against retards will be the end of us
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
tbf, this is what they repeatedly get told.
oh well, live by the idpol, die by the idpol.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
I wish that this was just a joke.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
She voted to keep the ACA despite that being a central Repub campaign point ever since the ACA started. What was more telling than the R next to her name is that she has always voted yes on SC justices no matter the path of the pres who nominated them.
1 Tytos_Lannister 2018-10-05
that pisses me more than anything - she apparently doesn't respect partisan lines
once you have R in front of your name, you are R forever, there is no going back you from the
thugcon live you RINO bitch1 _Suprememe_ 2018-10-05
Collins sounds like the most mature member of the Senate.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
She is unironically one of the few senators still capable of mature bipartisanship
1 moush 2018-10-05
Good thing the left is pushing to elect her opponent next election
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
Pragmatically, this is what should happen with all senators. Once a nominee gets cloture and passes to the floor, the votes are locked in anyway. No votes should be reserved for legitimate protest, but usually they are just used to signify partisanship these days.
1 Hemingwavy 2018-10-05
Yeah but the party let her because they thought they had the votes until McCain pulled one over them at the last minute.
1 RecallRethuglicans 2018-10-05
The Alaskan one wonât
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-10-05
Though sheâs probably gonna caucus with the Dems soon.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
Yes, in a state that hasn't elected a Democratic Senator since 1981, that's totally going to happen.
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
Itâs a weird state of mind when you mind groups everything only based on gender, sexuality and race
1 wiking85 2018-10-05
Murkowski didn't
1 IllustriousQuail 2018-10-05
The salt in /r/politics is real:
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1 jwil191 2018-10-05
Nothing will get men motivated for abortion rights like not having sex.
1 IllustriousQuail 2018-10-05
And how was it supposed to work anyhow? It's not like Joe Schmoe has any say on whether or not someone gets confirmed to the SCOTUS.
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-05
they think that ending a civil war in Kenya means gussy is all powerful and monolithically left wing.
1 _Man_Dog_ 2018-10-05
The best part about this comment was that it was clearly written by some woke incel who canât fathom the idea that women also enjoy sex
1 azriel777 2018-10-05
So, a male feminist.
1 wiking85 2018-10-05
He said incel not rapist
1 HawkGuy 2018-10-05
Same thing.
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-10-05
Incels are just temporarily embarrassed rapists.
1 wiking85 2018-10-05
TIL Aristotle was an incel
1 Tehpolecat 2018-10-05
this but unironically
1 Nom_Chompy 2018-10-05
tbf, although it's been many years since I've read it I do remember the women being very sexually frustrated and nearly caving in themselves towards the end.
1 wiking85 2018-10-05
Well that makes two of us. But I will still call Aristotle a woke incel.
1 Nom_Chompy 2018-10-05
Me too.
1 shallowm 2018-10-05
a
1 _Man_Dog_ 2018-10-05
Thatâs actually pretty interesting, although we all know Mayo women would never have the willpower to pull this off
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
Yet Dijon-ese have a higher birthrate......
Exactly who doesn't have the willpower?
1 kier00 2018-10-05
It's a meme from an ancient Greek play.
1 PizzaHoe696969 2018-10-05
it would just trigger a Day of Bussy.
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1 Gil-Gandel 2018-10-05
Most wives routinely refuse sex by about the third year of the marriage so it's not like the impact would have been huge anyway.
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
Well there are those sex dolls, what are they called... Real dolls.
Now, I hear that they're gonna turning them into androids.....
Sioooooo, there's that
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
Reads like a troll or satire but sadly there are people as retarded as this.
1 mtg_liebestod 2018-10-05
That's what's scary here. Not that anything particularly scandalous has happened here, but that people are completely flipping their shit over routine political wins and losses.
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
Outrage culture
1 CollaWars 2018-10-05
Not that scary really. This people are rl losers with no influence or importancd
1 Steve_Blackmom 2018-10-05
So was the guy who shot those congressmen
1 Plexipus 2018-10-05
The time to be angry about republicans winning the Supreme Court was two years ago but people couldn't be arsed to do anything about it then
1 iodisedsalt 2018-10-05
Not scary at all, don't be a pussy. It's sad and hilarious how delusional they are, but it's not scary.
1 ReddneckwithaD 2018-10-05
Never change burgers, we all love you the way you are
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Trump was not democratically elected, he lost the election and a committee decided to overturn the will of the people and appoint him instead.
1 ErictheRedding 2018-10-05
Imagine believing this and thinking a slight majority in the SC was âpacking the courts.â
1 tathrowaway666 2018-10-05
3edgy5me
1 gracchusBaby 2018-10-05
Do you know what 'packing the court' means?
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-10-05
You can't make me know things!
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
There is no such thing as a popular vote, you oversized shoe wearing bozo
1 zergling_Lester 2018-10-05
The cutest thing by far is Democrats discussing how they don't need to play fair and various ways they can play unfair to win forever while Republicans are in power and are in a better position to do all those things too. And here I was, thinking that cartoon villains explaining their plans were unrealistic đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Ł
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
So, you're just a crazy person, then?
1 Zozbot 2018-10-05
zoz
1 Zozbot 2018-10-05
zle
1 Zozbot 2018-10-05
zozzle
1 HolyWarsPunishment 2018-10-05
If a million shareblue bots clap with a single hand, is there a sound?
1 Vegan_dogfucker 2018-10-05
I think the top comment is also good.
Wait. I thought this was about his qualifications and had nothing to do with political hail Mary's. /s
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Qualifications: is a right wing hack
Could have stopped there. Why do the American people have any responsibility to obey the commands of nine unelected tyrants appointed by an unelected president? This government is wholly made up without the people's consent. And the people have responsibility to a government that governs without their consent. Fuck citizen Trump and citizen Kavanaugh. They will make revolution to restore the rule of the people over themselves inevitable.
1 ErictheRedding 2018-10-05
Because, bussyboy, the cops will arrest you for breaking the law.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-10-05
You would be up against a wall in your fantasy country bougie scum.
1 heavenlytoaster 2018-10-05
It's almost enough to make me want communism
1 Vegan_dogfucker 2018-10-05
Whew boy. 3edgy5me
Imagine being this retarded.
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
Someone needs to mid this troll... Uhhh, I mean guy
1 Anarcho_Autism 2018-10-05
Lol holy fucking shit, the histrionics are unreal. These ppl need mental health treatment ASAP.
Too bad almost half of US women lean conservative/Republican. This strategy, if properly executed, would simply send millions of chads into the arms of conservathots, thus perpetuating the genetic advancement of fascism. đŻđŻđŻ
1 T0yN0k 2018-10-05
You had me here.
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1 Folf_IRL 2018-10-05
With the guns they want banned, right? đ¤đ¤đ¤
1 MacAndShits 2018-10-05
It's okay if they do it
1 steampunker13 2018-10-05
Karl Marx was pro gun. r/communism and r/latestagecapitalism are both anti-gun. They arenât even consistent with their retardedness.
1 shallowm 2018-10-05
a
1 westofthetracks 2018-10-05
gun control is one of the major causes of struggle sessions across leftreddit tbf, i would say the tendency is usually more pro-gun than anti- (at least outside radlib-infested cth) but there are always people willing to throw down over it on both sides.
1 CollaWars 2018-10-05
Lysistrata
1 Chukril 2018-10-05
Can I ping spez, I think we need to let him know that /r/politics needs a quarantine.
1 HavnFunOnTheInternet 2018-10-05
Itâs funny. I voted for Clinton and campaigned for her precisely because Supreme court picks were at stake. Meanwhile half these /r/politics losers stayed home or voted third party because âClinton is yucky corporate democrat.â And âsheâs going to win so why bother.â Now they are throwing a fit because it turns out the election had consequences. Pathetic.
1 Wimzer 2018-10-05
Ok
Lmao imagine putting in effort
1 HavnFunOnTheInternet 2018-10-05
The point is it wasnât about mommy it was about who goes on the supreme court.
1 DarthNightnaricus 2018-10-05
That's because Bernouts have no grasp of how shit works. Elections have consequences.
1 Matacks607 2018-10-05
Holyshit you're a dumbass
1 IllustriousQuail 2018-10-05
wow, rude.
1 REEEorderTheThots 2018-10-05
i get banned for making fun of this faggot
1 Flyllow 2018-10-05
Holy fuck these people need to be sent out of helicopters already.
1 foofoononishoe 2018-10-05
ONWARDS COMRADS! GLORY TO THE MOTHERLAND AND THE PROLETARIAT! NOT ONE STEP BACK!
1 TheColdTurtle 2018-10-05
The amount of pure rage is absolutley insane, holy shit.
1 myshl0ng 2018-10-05
I must have missed that memo
1 ProGenji 2018-10-05
These are 5th columists trolls from Russia stirring shit up
1 iodisedsalt 2018-10-05
"Confirmed serial rapist"? Since when??
1 lcasebc 2018-10-05
Cents We Lerned 2 BELEEVE WHAMYN!!
1 Ultrashitposter 2018-10-05
So when are the actual votes going to get cast so we can get this drama trainwreck starting?
1 IllustriousTooth 2018-10-05
Tomorrow
1 ___-III----III-___ 2018-10-05
Saturday at 5pm ET. Crack open a brewski for Kavanaughty and enjoy
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
Oh baby this is gonna be the perfect pregame for Conor and khabib fight
1 SizeOfThisLad 2018-10-05
Mayo wymym BTFO
Soyboys BTFO
REEEEEToo BTFO
Civil rights BTFO
1 JurijFedorov 2018-10-05
r/politics in a nutshell.
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
>he doesnt know about the free silver movement and then the eventual federal reserve that ultimately made usa a plutocracy in 1913
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
>muh cross of gold
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
Dude, what if we made money not have value? Then we could all have as much money as we want
1 ironicshitpostr 2018-10-05
Inflation is theft
1 Prysorra2 2018-10-05
... I can't believe I haven't heard that yet.
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
this, but unironically
1 TheLordHighExecu 2018-10-05
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
Like your news, do you also get your economics from john oliver and other late night tv plebs?
1 TheLordHighExecu 2018-10-05
How about expert consensus, you tin-foiled Austrian
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
> ad homineming me as an austrian
Oof, sweaty.... that hurts deep
1 Eight_Ace 2018-10-05
America isn't a plutocracy. There's no voting districts on Pluto.
1 thisguy60 2018-10-05
STOP GERRYMANDERING PLUTO
1 bareballzthebitch 2018-10-05
Pluto is the Puerto Rico of the solar system.
1 MacAndShits 2018-10-05
You can't even hold a vote on Pluto because nobody would planet
1 EarnestNoMeta 2018-10-05
racks shotgun
1 wewladin 2018-10-05
I doubt it.
1 bareballzthebitch 2018-10-05
Democracy was never a thing. The US has always been a Republic.
1 thesnakeinthegarden 2018-10-05
guh. A democratic republic is a type of democracy, though, innit?
A true democracy is rare, and I'm not sure anyone actually thinks of true democracy when they mention 'democracy' but rather just having a representitive vote. You know, the ole " Federal Republic and Constitutional Representative Democracy".
1 RicFlairIsGawd 2018-10-05
I believe that it was famous gussy hound Benny Franklin that said "true democracy is two wolves and s sheep voting on what's for lunch"
1 thesnakeinthegarden 2018-10-05
never trust gussy-lovers.
1 Lupusvorax 2018-10-05
Really???
All the blathering about whining about the popular vote? Seems like an ass load more than noone.
1 thesnakeinthegarden 2018-10-05
I feel like there's some validity to one's vote being worth less than another's.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
Yes, and people who make the argument you're responding to always share tow traits: being teenagers, and being idiots.
1 thesnakeinthegarden 2018-10-05
*No actual rebuttal, just insults.
1 6969696970 2018-10-05
republic and democracy aren't mutually exclusive terms and the am*ricans saying this sound retarded
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
When rightists say it they really mean "People of my ideology should hold power no matter how popular or unpopular they are".
1 ErictheRedding 2018-10-05
As far as I can tell thatâs what everyone means.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Yeah of course it's a republic you fucking tard, is there a monarch anywhere? What the fuck does that mean? How is that mutually exclusive with free and fair elections and one man one vote? The unequal nature of the constitution was a stopgap measure, the ideal is equality. Fuck everything else. Fuck rightists who believe in that stupidity purely because they want power. I can't wait until that blows up in your face, and you trigger a revolution by forcing your will on an unwilling populace and you lose everything.
1 MmmDarkMeat 2018-10-05
Excuse me, sir, did you just mansplain to me!?
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-10-05
Yes but if we convince everyone weâre a democracy, we can REE about how the electoral college goes against our principles.
1 1029384756-mk2 2018-10-05
A common definition of ârepublicâ is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, âA political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to themâ
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means: "a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen".
A common definition of âdemocracyâ is, âGovernment by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representativesâ
I gotta say though, I'm not surprised. The US education system is shit, so naturally most of the bullshit you're spewing comes from alex jones substituting primary school.
in other words: You're a retard.
1 serial_crusher 2018-10-05
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1 Raven0520 2018-10-05
> women and minorities couldn't vote > /r/politics: I sleep > a right wing supreme court nomination > /r/politics: DEMOCRACY IS OVER
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
When did the women and minorities thing happened ?
1 TheColdTurtle 2018-10-05
At the start of America, only white male land owners could vote for a while.
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
I donât think r/politics or the internet for that matter was a thing back then
1 TheColdTurtle 2018-10-05
Ah, thought you meant just history in general.
1 myshl0ng 2018-10-05
Only proper way tbh
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
Lmao and there someone immediately below saying Mr. [no refunds] shouldâve won
1 myshl0ng 2018-10-05
1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
Where is justice when you need it đ
1 Slutha 2018-10-05
So this is how democracy dies...with thunderous applause.
1 westofthetracks 2018-10-05
none of these people remember bush v gore
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
I unironically get most of my political news from this sub.
1 Vegan_dogfucker 2018-10-05
That's a terrible idea.
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
I disagree, r/drama tends to be pretty cynical on it's political analysis compared to other subs, so more often than not, correct as well.
1 wolfdreams01 2018-10-05
You're spot on, but the drawback to that much cynicism is that you would be so sad that not even all the platyposts or tayposts or even plaTAYposts (yes, I've given you that bad idea, god help us all) would help with your inevitable depression. Might be wiser to vary your news diet a bit.
1 hoseja 2018-10-05
Joke's on you, I'm already super depressed!
1 Kreenish 2018-10-05
KEGGER KAV
1 Fnhatic 2018-10-05
CAN'T HAMMER THE KAVVER
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
Iâm going to use that one, thatâs fuckin genius.
1 CommentsOnOccaision 2018-10-05
This isn't an SRD approved drama post, guys. We can't be having this here.
Mods and admins are going to have to shut it down. I hear only MDEfugees and CA's would think this is dramatic and enjoy watching the hysteria.
1 shallowm 2018-10-05
This place is literally nothing but a left-wing circle jerk at this point. Of course everyone not a left-winger is getting downvoted.
You've all made it very obvious. There is indeed space between TD (Which I don't think I've ever even posted on) and SRD, which this place has become. Sort by controversial. Any post picking on women or the left, is controversial. Most posts picking on men and the right, are not.
It's not like you guys are even trying to hide it. You've been posting BRDs for days. Sharia Blue has a heavy presence here, including among the mods, and BRD posts are the mods signalling that this sub is now fallen to the fempire. Hence why any post mocking a woman is suddenly downvoted, and a ton of weird SRD leftist shit is getting upvoted.
Bird=BRD=Bring Reddit Down; a SRS meme. Try to deny it by calling it out in plain sight, but it is what it is.
It's time for anyone else just plain leave this sub, block its regulars and go hang out in bigger, better subs, because if every place is a partisan circlejerk (and this place definitely has been for the last few months), we're better off in our own circlejerk subs, like CringeAnarchy, which is a lot bigger than place, and no more or less full of retards. /r/drama is just SRS/CB2 circlejerking at this point. Literally nothing they say makes sense, but they all frantically upvote each other and downvote anyone else.
I won't be interacting with any of you further on this post. You know what's happening here. It's very obvious.
1 King-Achelexus 2018-10-05
"why do we keep losing?"
1 rockidol 2018-10-05
Russians interfered with our election and even gained access to voter registries and the GOP shot down a bill that would've beefed up election security and refuse to condemn Putin for basically anything.
1 bigTstyle 2018-10-05
They also spread dank may mays on Facebook
1 ___-III----III-___ 2018-10-05
Ugh. That bill was just more funding and was shot down because states still hadn't spent the money from the last bill. They literally said theyll approve another round of funding when the states actually spend what was already allocated to them.
1 DoktuhParadox 2018-10-05
Source this claim please. This sounds like some Trumpublican kool-aid nonsense to me.
1 ___-III----III-___ 2018-10-05
Lol no. Source deez nuts
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
These people probably think the Federal Government runs elections directly
1 King-Achelexus 2018-10-05
Russians ate the last slice of pizza.
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
rural votes from mayos scared about brown people and abortion, no other reason.
1 thesnakeinthegarden 2018-10-05
careful. The rural mayos are feeling frisky because the predictable happened.
1 The_Bum_Diaries 2018-10-05
Even brown people are scared of other brown people đ¤Ł
1 allendrio 2018-10-05
as fun as illegals voting for daddy thinking he meant all the other illegals apart from them they are a minority minority.
1 iodisedsalt 2018-10-05
They shouldn't even be voting tho
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
You joke about that, but itâs totally true
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
Humor is based in reality
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Oh no they said a mean thing about Republicans how horrible :(
As a Democrat that's a totally alien experience Republicans are always so nice to me and treat me as a legitimate member of society and not something to be purged so that nothing stands in the way of their fascist dictatorship "republic"
1 Prysorra2 2018-10-05
As an American, I think you're shaping up to be a future lolcow.
1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
Hahaha wow get a load of this guy
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
the future is now man.
1 King-Achelexus 2018-10-05
Americans are stupid
1 Agenda_Poster 2018-10-05
At least we don't eat congealed blood for breakfast like some europoors
1 MG87 2018-10-05
Gamgam gonna gamgam.
Did anyone think a GOP member has a spine?
1 VioletBroregarde 2018-10-05
ngl it'd be pretty cool if we could illegallize all murder of humans and not just ones that have left the uterus
1 coldfirerules 2018-10-05
The existence of this sub proves that to be a terribly stupid idea.
1 VioletBroregarde 2018-10-05
Once they've been found guilty of posting in /r/drama, it's not murder. It's the death penalty.
1 coldfirerules 2018-10-05
Its an act of compassion really.
1 Cajoal 2018-10-05
âI call that ... mercyâ
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
I still think we should be able to do swapsies.
Outlaw abortion, but for every unwanted baby born we euthenize a NEET. Problem solved.
1 coldfirerules 2018-10-05
Ill take that a step further and just abort the parents.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Can't you just enjoy the drama?
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
Can't we take a moment to appreciate how hard mayo woman fight for the right to stick a needle in their unborn child?
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
ew bitch please. i still to this day dont know what the fuck mde is. i just know the first word is million.
being anti-anti-abortion is the woke centrist position because they make all the poor blacks get abortions en masse.
but pls keep roleplaying as some r/drama oldfag
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
I believe in abortion b/c killing babies is fun
that's just me
1 Cajoal 2018-10-05
It keeps the... erm... unwanted population down as well.
1 djlewt 2018-10-05
That's already legal, they just have to commit a heinous enough crime and live in a "pro life" state to be murdered legally by the state.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
It'd be even cooler if we could legalize the murder of all humans regardless of their current uterus-respective position
1 VioletBroregarde 2018-10-05
that's true, it would certainly be way more metal
1 conjay810 2018-10-05
How bout the reverse, we legalize post-birth abortion
1 cheeZetoastee 2018-10-05
two thoughts:
As a DCCC employee I am just ready to get this over with as it has really amped up GOP energy in the district I'm working and is just not helping.
Does anyone on r/politics know what perjury actually is?
1 HolyWarsPunishment 2018-10-05
Perjury is Kavanaugh say he didn't gangrape when it's actually been proven that he did.
1 Trudy_Wiegel 2018-10-05
this but ironically
1 bareballzthebitch 2018-10-05
Proven you say? Like, in court?
1 HolyWarsPunishment 2018-10-05
Shut up, bigot
1 Fataleo 2018-10-05
What the fuck you saying ? Why you withholding evidence then ?
1 zhanx 2018-10-05
When he gang raped you, did he destroy that bussy or just tease it?
1 djlewt 2018-10-05
Bart didn't willfully tell us boofing is a fart, he simply couldn't help himself!
Bart shouldn't be confirmed for the simple fact that he denied us the ultimate drama of having to explain to the US public that a future Supreme Court Justice was talking to his friends about shoving alcohol up his ass to get drunk. That's to say nothing of "the Clintons did this to me!" I mean holy shit that's somewhere between "Rush Limbaugh" and "Alex Jones" levels of crazy, and he's going to determine the future direction of our nations' laws.
Literally anyone that thinks this guy is fit to be a USSC Judge isn't mentally equipped to have say in that decision.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
I'm have drama blue balls from not seeing Fox and CNN have to explain what broofing and the devil' triangle really are on primetime TV. Being too much of a coward to admit to your hilarious high school degeneracy should be instantly disqualifying.
1 tathrowaway666 2018-10-05
he didnât blame the clintons he said the dems were still assblasted about Clinton not being crowned the âYASSSS QUEEEENâ
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
Which is true.
1 gracchusBaby 2018-10-05
t. a """""""Democrat"""""""
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-10-05
To address point 2, do you actually think Devils Triangle is a drinking game and that ralphing refers to spicy food? Are you really this stupid?
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
The Democratic leadership picks the most retarded battles to go all in on
1 cheeZetoastee 2018-10-05
Yes. Makes my job as one of their shills very difficult.
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
Any refreshing ideas for a candidate this time around? If it's another slap fight between the old (((guy))) and her turn I'm gonna lol. I want to vote Democratic again but they make it so hars
1 cheeZetoastee 2018-10-05
Money is on a woman again. I am hoping (((his))) health declines cuz thus sequel would be awful.
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
okay i made idiotic jokes about pelosi getting the pick when she was reeing a year or so ago. Tell me I'm stupid. Please.
1 cheeZetoastee 2018-10-05
You are stupid
1 LSU_Coonass 2018-10-05
no its gonna be kamala harris if the dems are (politically) smart and want to double down on identity politics, itll be warren if theyre retarded policy wise and go for socialism.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
Well, it's a party that pretends to want to help people but is completely and utterly in the pockets of the banking and entertainment industry. The second is just full of asshole, but the first literally won't allow anything that will improve the lives of most people as a strong middle-class has the power to lobby against their interests.
So they have to wage idiot battles like this, because they can't actually push policies that will do anything to noticeably help people. Ever notice how every Democratic activist goes into a frothy rage when you say the Democrats don't do anything, and then makes a huge list of pathetic programs that helped like five people each? As if we wouldn't notice something that actually helped us?
They know they're full of shit, and they hate themselves for it, and then they project that hatred onto everyone else.
1 moush 2018-10-05
Donât forget big tech, they are heavily liberal and going to become more important than any other industry
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
There's also a lot of false equivalence of Democrats and Republicans here ("but both sides!" and Democrats "do whatever their corporate owners tell them to do" are tactics Republicans use successfully) even though their voting records are not equivalent at all:
House Vote for Net Neutrality
For Against Rep 2 234 Dem 177 6 Senate Vote for Net Neutrality
For Against Rep 0 46 Dem 52 0 Money in Elections and Voting Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements
For Against Rep 0 39 Dem 59 0 DISCLOSE Act
For Against Rep 0 45 Dem 53 0 Backup Paper Ballots - Voting Record
For Against Rep 20 170 Dem 228 0 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
For Against Rep 8 38 Dem 51 3 Sets reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by electoral candidates to influence elections (Reverse Citizens United)
For Against Rep 0 42 Dem 54 0 The Economy/Jobs Limits Interest Rates for Certain Federal Student Loans
For Against Rep 0 46 Dem 46 6 Student Loan Affordability Act
For Against Rep 0 51 Dem 45 1 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Funding Amendment
For Against Rep 1 41 Dem 54 0 End the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
For Against Rep 39 1 Dem 1 54 Kill Credit Default Swap Regulations
For Against Rep 38 2 Dem 18 36 Revokes tax credits for businesses that move jobs overseas
For Against Rep 10 32 Dem 53 1 Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
For Against Rep 233 1 Dem 6 175 Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
For Against Rep 42 1 Dem 2 51 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
For Against Rep 3 173 Dem 247 4 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
For Against Rep 4 36 Dem 57 0 Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Bureau Act
For Against Rep 4 39 Dem 55 2 American Jobs Act of 2011 - $50 billion for infrastructure projects
For Against Rep 0 48 Dem 50 2 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension
For Against Rep 1 44 Dem 54 1 Reduces Funding for Food Stamps
For Against Rep 33 13 Dem 0 52 Minimum Wage Fairness Act
For Against Rep 1 41 Dem 53 1 Paycheck Fairness Act
For Against Rep 0 40 Dem 58 1 "War on Terror" Time Between Troop Deployments
For Against Rep 6 43 Dem 50 1 Habeas Corpus for Detainees of the United States
For Against Rep 5 42 Dem 50 0 Habeas Review Amendment
For Against Rep 3 50 Dem 45 1 Prohibits Detention of U.S. Citizens Without Trial
For Against Rep 5 42 Dem 39 12 Authorizes Further Detention After Trial During Wartime
For Against Rep 38 2 Dem 9 49 Prohibits Prosecution of Enemy Combatants in Civilian Courts
For Against Rep 46 2 Dem 1 49 Repeal Indefinite Military Detention
For Against Rep 15 214 Dem 176 16 Oversight of CIA Interrogation and Detention Amendment
For Against Rep 1 52 Dem 45 1 Patriot Act Reauthorization
For Against Rep 196 31 Dem 54 122 FISA Act Reauthorization of 2008
For Against Rep 188 1 Dem 105 128 FISA Reauthorization of 2012
For Against Rep 227 7 Dem 74 111 House Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
For Against Rep 2 228 Dem 172 21 Senate Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
For Against Rep 3 32 Dem 52 3 Prohibits the Use of Funds for the Transfer or Release of Individuals Detained at Guantanamo
For Against Rep 44 0 Dem 9 41 Oversight of CIA Interrogation and Detention
For Against Rep 1 52 Dem 45 1 Civil Rights Same Sex Marriage Resolution 2006
For Against Rep 6 47 Dem 42 2 Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
For Against Rep 1 41 Dem 54 0 Exempts Religiously Affiliated Employers from the Prohibition on Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
For Against Rep 41 3 Dem 2 52 Family Planning Teen Pregnancy Education Amendment
For Against Rep 4 50 Dem 44 1 Family Planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention
For Against Rep 3 51 Dem 44 1 Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act The 'anti-Hobby Lobby' bill.
For Against Rep 3 42 Dem 53 1 Environment Stop "the War on Coal" Act of 2012
For Against Rep 214 13 Dem 19 162 EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2013
For Against Rep 225 1 Dem 4 190 Prohibit the Social Cost of Carbon in Agency Determinations
For Against Rep 218 2 Dem 4 186 Misc Prohibit the Use of Funds to Carry Out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
For Against Rep 45 0 Dem 0 52 Prohibiting Federal Funding of National Public Radio
For Against Rep 228 7 Dem 0 185 Allow employers to penalize employees that don't submit genetic testing for health insurance (Committee vote)
For Against Rep 22 0 Dem 0 17
Source - reddit comment which is heavily sourced, sorry I have no idea how to copy links as well on desktop
1 Jackanova3 2018-10-05
There's also a lot of false equivalence of Democrats and Republicans here ("but both sides!" and Democrats "do whatever their corporate owners tell them to do" are tactics Republicans use successfully) even though their voting records are not equivalent at all:
House Vote for Net Neutrality
Senate Vote for Net Neutrality
Money in Elections and Voting
Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements
DISCLOSE Act
Backup Paper Ballots - Voting Record
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
Sets reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by electoral candidates to influence elections (Reverse Citizens United)
The Economy/Jobs
Limits Interest Rates for Certain Federal Student Loans
Student Loan Affordability Act
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Funding Amendment
End the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
Kill Credit Default Swap Regulations
Revokes tax credits for businesses that move jobs overseas
Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
Disapproval of President's Authority to Raise the Debt Limit
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Bureau Act
American Jobs Act of 2011 - $50 billion for infrastructure projects
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension
Reduces Funding for Food Stamps
Minimum Wage Fairness Act
Paycheck Fairness Act
"War on Terror"
Time Between Troop Deployments
Habeas Corpus for Detainees of the United States
Habeas Review Amendment
Prohibits Detention of U.S. Citizens Without Trial
Authorizes Further Detention After Trial During Wartime
Prohibits Prosecution of Enemy Combatants in Civilian Courts
Repeal Indefinite Military Detention
Oversight of CIA Interrogation and Detention Amendment
Patriot Act Reauthorization
FISA Act Reauthorization of 2008
FISA Reauthorization of 2012
House Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
Senate Vote to Close the Guantanamo Prison
Prohibits the Use of Funds for the Transfer or Release of Individuals Detained at Guantanamo
Oversight of CIA Interrogation and Detention
Civil Rights
Same Sex Marriage Resolution 2006
Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013
Exempts Religiously Affiliated Employers from the Prohibition on Employment Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Family Planning
Teen Pregnancy Education Amendment
Family Planning and Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Protect Women's Health From Corporate Interference Act The 'anti-Hobby Lobby' bill.
Environment
Stop "the War on Coal" Act of 2012
EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2013
Prohibit the Social Cost of Carbon in Agency Determinations
Misc
Prohibit the Use of Funds to Carry Out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Prohibiting Federal Funding of National Public Radio
Allow employers to penalize employees that don't submit genetic testing for health insurance (Committee vote)
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
I didn't read any of this LMAO
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
Serious question, are you afraid of increased political violence for any reason?
1 cheeZetoastee 2018-10-05
Not personally. The larpers might kill each other in a couple rallies but that's it.
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
Well thatâs nice. That makes me feel better.
1 AlecOzzyHillPitas 2018-10-05
Rate the Perez administration 1-10z
Inquiring minds want to know.
1 cheeZetoastee 2018-10-05
No comment.
1 Angrygrape1337Reborn 2018-10-05
There's a reason that subreddit was taken onn the default subs list by the admins along with /r/atheism.
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
The end result of all this hysteria is that Roe is most likely safe and the GOP lost 70% of women for years.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
A lot of women are pro-life
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
A lot of them are old.
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
A lot of them actually have kids that are likely to share their opinions and aren't childless cat ladies like babymurder activists
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
>mfw conservatism is genetic and no leftists come from overbearing conservative parents
1 QuantumFreakonomics 2018-10-05
>Implying it isn't
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
Here's link to the actual study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10519-006-9138-8
Which includes this line:
1 Kreenish 2018-10-05
That's why they are so pro-immigration.
1 coldfirerules 2018-10-05
The GOP doesnt care about any of that.
They have Roe right where they want it...the big bad boogeyman in the corner. Its not going anywhere.
1 negmate 2018-10-05
you mean the demographic that actually votes?
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
Young people get old sometimes.
1 coldfirerules 2018-10-05
Big if true.
1 negmate 2018-10-05
and get less naive.
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
Actually there's a pretty solid new wave feminism movement starting that is pro life. This is college age.
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
Here's how its trending
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
this has nothing to do with political party
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
yeah that pro life feminist movement is certainly solid
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
what are you even trying to say
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
do you honestly think that a solid portion of college aged women are pro life when they identify as democrat in such large margins? use your brain
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
When did I imply it was a even a solid portion? Calm down killer
1 Not_Stupid 2018-10-05
what, like 30% or so?
1 roddypiper534 2018-10-05
It's like 48%.
1 roofied_elephant 2018-10-05
Source?
1 roddypiper534 2018-10-05
https://news.gallup.com/poll/235445/abortion-attitudes-remain-closely-divided.aspx
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Like make them put their money where their mouth is and that is going to evaporate pretty fucking quick
Look at how quickly support for abortion evaporated in Ireland over just a decade or so. Literally the Labor party was once leading in the polls a decade ago, then they announced support for abortion, and lost about 2/3 of their vote over the next few weeks. While last year voters approved abortion by like a 75% majority.
1 DoktuhParadox 2018-10-05
Yeah but that's mostly boomers and Gen-X'ers.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
yah the retarded ones
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
1 siempreloco31 2018-10-05
[Here's the trend from last year](imgur.com\I5rbhas.jpg)
1 GIGGA_SAND_NIGGA 2018-10-05
Again, not all women, certainly not 70%. There are plenty of women with a head on their shoulders that call out a lying bitch
1 Metatron58 2018-10-05
There were spergouts from republicans and conservatives just before and during Obama's tenure in office but nothing like these routine meltdowns from the left.
We are blessed by this level of drama and by all accounts it's only going to get juicier in November.
1 BearThatStares 2018-10-05
I'm already trying to decide how to vote just to help with the drama
1 Thatlookedlikeithurt 2018-10-05
That all depends. Do you want to be around to enjoy the drama or are you just looking for maximum drama?
1 Plexipus 2018-10-05
Are you kidding me? The right was in full meltdown during Obama's tenure. Especially in 2012 when Romney got whomp whomped
1 shallowm 2018-10-05
stfu tard, ONLY liberal leftoid communists can be spergs
1 Plexipus 2018-10-05
Apparently I angered our resident CA MDEfugee contingent. makes sense they wouldn't remember they were like five when Obama got elected
1 moush 2018-10-05
Remember when some dudes in the UK made a giant balloon to make fun of Obama? Remember when Hollywood made movies making fun of Obama? Remember when Obama supporters were called literally Nazis? Me neither.
1 drift_summary 2018-10-05
Pepperidge Farm remembers!
1 Plexipus 2018-10-05
I remember when Obama was called a Kenyan Muslim. I remember when after first arriving at the White House Fox News called his and Michelle Obama's fist pound a "terrorist fist bump." I remember when after Obama had already been president for four years our current fucking President of the United States claimed he was on the case of Barack Obama's birth certificate and had private investigators in Hawaii who were "uncovering big things" and then nothing ever came of it.
Do you have the memory of a goldfish or just selective blinders?
1 moush 2018-10-05
So you posted facebook gossip that literally all politicians deals in. You are showing your bias if you think old republican moms were even half as dedicated as the current libs.
1 Plexipus 2018-10-05
No? Everything I posted was covered on Fox News at least, which is literally the most watched news source in the US, even more so at the time of the events I detailed. It's not my fault the right has a long history of gobbling up Facebook tier memes.
I'm not even arguing that the left (of which I am a part) has lost its shit since Trump's election. But the right lost its shit long, long ago, thus why we were gifted with our reality television host president
1 TehAlpacalypse 2018-10-05
Are you serious? Fox News literally ran a top line news story because Obama used Dijon mustard and wore a tan suit.
And what do you mean itâs going to get juicer? Itâs pretty common knowledge the Dems are gonna take the house and the Reps will hold the senate.
1 Prysorra2 2018-10-05
Pretty sure he meant on Reddit. /r/conservative was essentially the "donald" subreddit of that era.
Oh god 2016 MKII we come. YOU fucking jinxed us.
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Holy fucking shit were you even awake during Obama's term? Are you literally retarded?
1 CirqueDuFuder 2018-10-05
Not even close to the same
1 Ivashkin 2018-10-05
It's the internet, massively amplifies things. Or more specifically the internet going from something that required you to sit down with a expensive computer and dedicate a bit of time to being online, to something that people are connected to constantly in a passive background way.
1 Prysorra2 2018-10-05
Yup. I was there. There were quite a few idiot Palin supporters, but they learned to STFU :-)
1 parduscat 2018-10-05
The Tea Party under Obama was one giant sperg out. All because a black guy became President. Dems should take hope from the GOP. They showed it's possible from losing complete control of the Federal government to having complete control.
1 VidiotGamer 2018-10-05
Tea party lost all it's oomph after the first midterm election. Maybe the dems will settle down as well after this one, but I don't think so. Something really makes me feel like they are losing their minds.
I'm a registered democrat, but I live outside of the US, so maybe I'm too far away to get effected or something, but from my perspective the reaction to Trump seems literally insane. Just focus on winning an election and telling people what you are going to do instead of sperging out about Russian trolls 24/7.
1 parduscat 2018-10-05
Keep in mind, everyone thought that Trump was going to lose and possibly cause the extinction of the GOP, Democrats and Republicans included. So when Trump won, it upset this massive narrative about demographics being destiny and "angry white men" losing their power and what not. Once Trump won, it seems that everyone woke up to the fact that the Democrats had essentially lost almost all practical power in Washington. That, and Trump's a fucking doofus so it's extra scary that the Dems lost.
So imo it's as much the shock of losing the election as actually losing it.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
'Everyone', of course, consisting of college kids on reddit and left-wing media types.
1 parduscat 2018-10-05
Guilty as charged your Honor
1 -absolutego- 2018-10-05
I find the degree to which someone actually believes this reflects exactly how much of a pop culture bubble they exist in.
I lived in a county that went for Clinton by 50+ points and still thought Trump had a fighting chance.
1 zergling_Lester 2018-10-05
I think it's because they found a strategy of stoking the moral panic to the highest degree possible, in an as isolated echochamber as possible, in order to find unity and get everyone to vote and win. However when that last part fails, you are left with a lot of people who were absolutely convinced that X was a rapist and everyone who was not a rapist was in absolute agreement to vote against him yet here we are.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
It didn't even make it that far. Old people threw a lot of lame protests for a few months, then petered out.
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
Yeah, and it lasted like three months. You guys are still going years later.
1 EdLesliesBarber 2018-10-05
(Holy moly)[https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9lpmbd/susan_collins_says_shell_support_brett_kavanaugh/e78ggjw/]
Like, these people are so fucking stupid. Either that or they are 17. How can you be of voting age and not know that America has been fucked for so long. The modern GOP hasnt change their tone or methods since 94 and the elected dems chase money from just slightly less people. Buts its the russians yaasss kweeen literally listening to kesha and trembling.
1 shallowm 2018-10-05
You're not allowed to say mean things about your political opponents, you retard. Didn't you get the memo?
1 Magehunter_Skassi 2018-10-05
So when am I getting my goth BBW slampig braphog PAWG handmaid with two feet?
1 serial_crusher 2018-10-05
Democrats were on "just got told" watch, but aren't any more, because they just got told by Collins.
1 Tytos_Lannister 2018-10-05
the result ultimately does not matter, the GOP would otherwise vote for and confirm Barett who is just a conservative activist who would be voted in because the GOP would love to say "gussy power" even though she has next to no judicial experience (trust me, the conservative media and their talking heads would LOVE to have their token on supreme court)
the only outcome of this was always if either r/t_d or r/politics would be on suicide watch
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
Are you kidding? T_D is the king of spinning their failures into victories. They waste no time. Had he not won they would have just jumped right to the next battle full force.
1 demoloition 2018-10-05
yea, republicans saying "it was russia's fault", oh wait..
1 ThatDamnedImp 2018-10-05
It's hard to take you seriously after that. Everyone does IDpol, but it's hard to claim Republicans go harder on it at this point.
1 moush 2018-10-05
I only have a problem with how it all played out. The witch hunt was pretty bad
1 Tarrock 2018-10-05
Wish everyone on that sub would kys
1 Sea_Safe 2018-10-05
holy shit they are absolutely melting down. i've never seen salt like this on reddit before in my life. this is peak dramacoin
1 Yiin 2018-10-05
maymayjune was the peak of salt cmv
1 King_Drumpf 2018-10-05
Politincels btfo.
1 TheEnglishman28 2018-10-05
Just got banned from there for "trolling" lol
1 watermark02 2018-10-05
Most economic âexpertsâ never ran a business in their life, and analyze economics with a view to maximizing total GLOBAL production. They donât care whether some policy makes your life better or more risky, they only care about increasing global GDP. You are just a number in an equation and they donât bother to quantify all the things you value.
âExpertsâ agree on stuff like âending borders would increase global gdp by 1%!!!â And it very well might be true, but economists donât concern themselves as to whether that net 1% arises by impoverishing America while enriching China. They donât care if it destroys your culture or gets you raped and murdered. They donât bother to try and predict whether no borders would lead to more conflict and crime, that just isnât their interest.
Meanwhile Trump protects borders, issues tariffs, erases âsacrosanctâ regulations, and still raises GDP.
What people need to understand is that for decades American wealth and technology has subsidized the development of billions of people in foreign countries. This has let the elite become ridiculously wealthy, stashing dozens of trillions in capital in fund and secret accounts all over the world, but has empowered and modernized foreign nations with ideologies opposed to our own who will take any opportunity to backstab us.
We can produce an absurd amount of stuff. All that restrains us is ridiculous regulations designed to make us uncompetitive with the global market and policies that drain the rest of our productivity to subsidize foreign countries while enriching the elite.
The extent to which we as a people have been robbed is absolutely staggering. Robbed in ways many canât even imagine. We even end up having ridiculously stupid debates that wouldnât cross our minds if we had the wealth and freedom that was leeched from us.
Like, we should never have to debate whether a service worker should earn a living wage in 2018, and this has nothing to do with socialism or right and left theories. The simple facts are that we are productive enough in the first place that we can have a service economy at all.
50% of workers are service industry BECAUSE farming and factories are productive enough that we can make enough stuff for everyone even if half the workers do service work.
But instead of ensuring that every worker has a decent life, which we can easily do just by virtue of the fact that it is possible for us to have a service economy in the first place - we instead have these absurd debates about whether a service worker deserves a decent life we can easily give them! If we werenât sending trillions of dollars to China, India, and Swiss bank accounts, wtf would be the debate?!?
1 seenten 2018-10-05
Is this pasta?
1 Prysorra2 2018-10-05
Holy shit that guy's profile how the fuck does he write so much bland thoughtful gruel so fast??
1 accounttttttttttt 2018-10-05
this but unironically
1 arandomloser21 2018-10-05
jesus you're a seriousposter machine, and an extremely boring one at that.
1 sharasdal 2018-10-05
wtf r u doin
1 Fataleo 2018-10-05
It's almost like there isn't sufficient evidence to impede his nomination.
1 moush 2018-10-05
Evidence is only required if he was on trial you nazi
1 AnalAssassin6969 2018-10-05
"If this doesn't motivate a massive blue wave and cause Dems to take not only the house, but the Senate as well, my faith in our country to participate in democracy will be pretty much shot."
HA GOTEEM
1 infinitude 2018-10-05
Why does the DNC always blame the voters for their problems lmao
1 Frostfright 2018-10-05
Where's that antonio banderas gif
because dayumn
1 seenten 2018-10-05
This must be the weekly /r/drama seriousposting politics slapfight thread
1 TruthPains 2018-10-05
Who the fuck didn't know this? She's a Republican and one thing Republicans do well is get their bitches in line.
1 AlveolarPressure 2018-10-05
Except for that other Republican roastie who said she would vote no đ¤
1 TruthPains 2018-10-05
Who?
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Murkowski, Republican from Alaska
1 Tytos_Lannister 2018-10-05
that hoe be dead
1 Cassius40k 2018-10-05
Virgin looks down at his feet as he walks vs. Chad steps in TP and doesn't notice or care
1 redblaze17 2018-10-05
White men win again
1 egalroc 2018-10-05
Well what goes around comes around. Brett'll rally the redhats and start hunting down the witchhunters now I recon. Talk about a bunch of dark state delusionalist.
1 ddac 2018-10-05
I was downvoted within 2 minutes at -26 for lmaoâing at the shame chants at Manchin.
1 SmellyFarts123 2018-10-05
Woman has no brain, like most women, news at 11
1 SweatDaddy 2018-10-05
It's salty over there lads. I had to leave because my shadenboner could only get so hard. Keep your wits about you IRL those shitheads are bike lock swinging butthurt.
1 Tardicat 2018-10-05
politics bad
1 myshl0ng 2018-10-05
Haven't they been on suicide watch since 2016
1 LopsidedTraining8 2018-10-05
The Real take away is that with machin voting yes from west Virginia Kavanaugh is the bipartisan compromise
1 xMashu 2018-10-05
Has there been any proof he actually sexually assaulted anyone or no?
I haven't been keeping up on this as much as I should have
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
There's been nothing. No one can corroborate Ford's initial testimony, the second testimony about him flashing his dick in someone's face, had one person corroborate it-by saying he heard it from someone else. They contacted that someone else who said he had no idea what they were talking about. The gang rape accusation is a hysterical farce that featured the accuser walking back her signed statement on national tv.
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
Jesus Christ when did /r/drama become T_D?
1 Bigwooddeck 2018-10-05
You have to go back
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
Ok? Your point is?
1 Bigwooddeck 2018-10-05
You first bucko
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
My point is this post is showing some straight simmularities to T_D, from that awful title to the insult you just threw at me. It reaks with T_d
1 DeathByDragonDildo 2018-10-05
Hey, I remember you from /r/Monstercat a few years ago. I also distinctly remember never seeing your name here so it's interesting that you're commenting on the state of the sub. Stay mad, faggot.
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
Thanks for confirming to me that this sub is just T_D. Sad to see that youâve fallen for that way of thinking that T_D has.
1 DeathByDragonDildo 2018-10-05
And thanks for confirming that this is one of your only visits to this sub. There's a huge variety of opinion here that shares an interest in retards of all alignments melting down. The only people who aren't here are far, far leftists because they're little bitches that can't handle any differing thoughts and fuck off of their own accord when they realise the mods won't ban whoever they want.
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
The left doesnât do that, T_D is.
1 DeathByDragonDildo 2018-10-05
Then you mustn't be familiar with /r/LateStageCapitalism, /r/Anarchism, /r/socialism, /r/AgainstHateSubreddits, /r/Fuckthealtright, /r/beholdthemasterrace, /r/FULLCOMMUNISM, /r/COMPLETEANARCHY, /r/Negareddit, /r/circlebroke2, /r/GamerGhazi, /r/ShitLiberalsSay, or the countless other leftist subs.
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
At least they donât try to hide the fact that they are leftist subs. You canât admit that this is a T_D clone.
1 DeathByDragonDildo 2018-10-05
LMAO you have no idea how much this sub laughs at QAnon 'tards, and spergs from CA, KiA, and MDE. Difference is, those spergs can take a joke. All the leftist lolcows leave.
1 ZMowlcher 2018-10-05
Democracy is dead, it's fucking dead. It may be fun to watch people's reactions but honestly I'm so goddamn depressed at what's happening to our government.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
How is the senate fulfilling its constitutional duty killing democracy đ¤
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
They are ignoring everyone telling them that Kav is not the choice for the court. They are also ignoring the ABAâs calls to stop his confirmation. They are ignoring everyone.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Lmaoooo bruh the ABA still supports him but the ABA president broke ranks and said he wasnât fit smh fake news
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/american-bar-association-reconsiders-supporting-kavanaugh-due-to-temperament
Comments and posts like yours make me realize that /r/Drama has become another T_D clone.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
If you read the letter youâd see his rating still stands âfor nowâ and there was already an FBI investigation so idk what more you want
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
You mean the investigation where they didnât even interview Brettâs roommate? Or even Brett himself? Because trump didnât let the FBI interview them?
That was not an investigation. Youâre absolutely kidding yourself if that was a good investigation.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Why would they interview Brett if he already have a signed testimony to Congress?
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
So if heâs lying then it will be on the FBIâs record. But the fact that the FBI wasnât allowed to interview Brettâs roommate should raise some red flags that this wasnât a full investigation. How will you use mental gymnastics to defend that?
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Assuming this doesnât denigrate into an autist slap fight hereâs an informative NYTimes article on the Kavanaugh hearing and goes into some detail about how the FBI investigation was decided. But to be succinct the 4 swing senators decided who should be interviewed. Take it up with Flake, Collins, Murkowski, and Manchin but the investigation seemed good for at least 3 of them.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-vote-confirmation-process.amp.html
1 amp-is-watching-you 2018-10-05
Direct link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/kavanaugh-vote-confirmation-process.html
I'm a bot - Why? - Ignore me - Source code
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
You completely ignored my question.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
If itâs good enough for the senators itâs good enough for me
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
So you dont think for yourself? If you cant justify it in your own words you shouldnât be justifying it.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Personally I thought an FBI investigation was unnecessary in the first place, so I donât feel the need to justify what I find redundant
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
So youâre ok with a not complete investigation than a complete investigation in the first place? If you think this guy is innocent then you should welcome an investigation, not be against it. Not wanting an investigation (unless the situation was already investigated) just means you dont think the guy is innocent.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
This sets a horrible precedent and is the same argument the NSA used to defend the prism program âif you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry aboutâ are you kidding me? What kinda Orwellian horseshit is this? Itâs innocent until proven guilty not guilty until proven innocent by an investigation. Would republicans have been justifying demanding Hillary ask the FBI to investigate her during the Benghazi hearing? The fact is Ford didnât provide any credible evidence besides a convincing testimony. None of her named witnesses corroborated the account, polygraph is junk science, and she didnât turn her therapist notes over to the Senate judiciary committee. Ask yourself, if she was telling the truth and had nothing to hide then why didnât she turn over her therapistâs notes? If none of the people she named corroborated the sexual assault then I really doubt that Brettâs freshman roommate could corroborate him whipping his dick out at a party. That accusation is a wholly different, and much less serious, one as well. What was her name, Ramirez? She âconsulted her memoryâ for 6 days before deciding it was Kavanaugh. Is this the Satanic Panic all over again? Should we start using regressive hypnosis therapy to get to the truth? And then once again the New Yorker tried to find someone, anyone to say this happened but all they could find was one person who said he heard it from another guy and that guy denied anything happened. I wonât even touch the farce that was the Avenatti accusations. But given all these unsubstantiated claims, that again and again failed to find corroboration I thought that an FBI investigation would do nothing but delay the process until the midterms which is what the democrats wanted. I was right they didnât find anything, and it didnât matter how many people they interviewed they wouldnât have found anything.
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1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
Man your tears are tasty.
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
so what you're saying is you have no idea what an investigation is supposed to do and you dont question anything the republicans do? sounds about right for a T_D user like you.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Lmao you post in r/politicalhumor? Kavanaugh is one the SCOTUS for life baby, no amount of impotent rage spewed into the digital ether can stop it lmaoooo
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
Yeah, your party confirmed a literal political hack in the SCOTUS, didnât you hate it when Clinton was exactly that? Or do you only care when itâs not your side?
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Kavanaugh was made into a political hack when you accused him of gang rape lmaoooo. Stay mad lib, your tears are delicious
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
So you admit that he isnt fit for the job anymore?
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Bruh you seem really mad Mitch McConnell made you his bitch
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
No, Iâm really mad that heâs not representing the majority of Americans. And Iâm mad that Trump is calling Assult victims âElevator screamersâ. He and all the other republicans are fucking assholes and Itâs amazing how you people are ok with it.
1 Pol_Pots_Crockpot 2018-10-05
Seems like youâre moving the goalposts now buckaroo. Stay salty
1 BigCballer 2018-10-05
Seems like you are an idiot.
1 iwantedtopay 2018-10-05
As long as people learn to ignore the Dems' bogus character assassinations democracy will be just fine.
1 toonstoonie 2018-10-05
Dont think she will lose her seat.
1 Krombopulos-Snake 2018-10-05
Man, the entire board is shitting itself. I haven't seen a tantrum this big since the major board purge.
1 CHAD_THUNDERCUCK 2018-10-05
https://i.redd.it/rplj061p8im11.gif
1 bG9sIG5pY2UgdHJ5Cg 2018-10-05
What is this from, I love it
1 JustStopDude 2018-10-05
We are really doing this? Putting a dude that couldn't get laid in college on a lifetime appointment?
Should we be giving incels power? That seems like a bad idea.
1 erichie 2018-10-05
That place is a fucking shit show. Do they seriously not see they are just the left version of The_Donald? There is no place that people can debate politics in a neutral zone anymore. At least The_Donald doesn't stand on a soup box pretending they are angels in disguise.
1 moush 2018-10-05
Iâm sure even spez laughs every time they push for TD to get banned.
1 erichie 2018-10-05
That's also some bullshit too. If you don't like a sub than just don't fucking go there. No reason to ban them because you don't like them.
1 gamespace 2018-10-05
Jajaja