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  5. Posted

    6 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    I have not heard that. Seems off to me. Biden is a centrist. His policies are not extreme. Roosevelt accomplished some similar infrastructure things, but in his case, they were more of a means to and end, to employ masses of people. While his innovative policies seem tame today, they were controversial at the time. 

    Biden's policies are extreme in the sense that they are actually accomplishing something. The current crop of Republicans are anti-accomplishment and as such they do everything they can to sabotage them.

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    6 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Trump's own cognitive impairment caused him to publicly admit to conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

    I think that kicks the legs out from under any previous defense, he should actually be going to prison soon, and be disqualified from running again.

    If there had been even mild amounts of common sense in this situation, his political career should have ended back in 2016 when he publicly asked Russia to interfere in the election. But even then most Republicans felt it was a just great idea to ask a totalitarian dictatorship to sabotage US democracy in order to get that absurd strutting posturer installed behind the Resolute Desk.

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    4 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    You're singling out individual nutcases.

    I wish. They are representative of the GOP. For example, Ron de Santis could not have gotten his law put through without the backing of the entire Florida GOP among both Senate and Representatives. Marjorie Taylor Greene is Kevin McCarthy's right hand woman, a position she would not have if she were an individual nutcase. Mike Huckabee was *cheered* by the crowd he voiced his violent rhetoric to, and he is by far not the only Republican using violent and threatening rhetoric.

    Poorly thought out laws are enacted with depressing regularity in every political system I have ever heard of. You would need to do a lot of talking before you could convince me that the Republican party was the sole exception to this rule. I do not consider these in any way the equivalent of hate rhetoric aimed at promoting civil violence and genocide.

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    Wrong name

    14 hours ago, Darth Fluffy said:

    Please elaborate. You seem like a generally reasonable guy, yet your political opinion does not track with reality. I would like to know more.

    I am curious about this as well. Please give examples of Democrats who have said or enacted more unhinged things than:
     

    • Marjorie Taylor Greene, who claims Jews have started forest fires in California by means of orbital laser cannon
    • Mike Huckabee, who recently stated that if Republicans do not win in 2024, the next election will be decided by 'bullets not ballots'
    • Ron de Santis, who has effectively enacted the death sentence for being a trans woman in public by 1) making child molestation punishable by death and 2) claiming that being a drag queen or trans woman is child molesting. Oh, and changed procedure so you only need 8 out of 12 jury votes for a death sentence rather than an unanimous jury vote.

     

    Of course it might be that you find all of the above perfectly reasonable, in which case I suppose I have earned a death sentence from any reasonable government.

    ~tOH.

  19. Posted

    On 8/27/2023 at 9:42 PM, mlooney said:

    These were things like county clerk.  Hardly earth shattering important.  All the "big" offices had at least 3 candidates. 

    I feel honestly relieved. The county clerk of Hodgeman County, Kansas is somewhat less likely to start making speeches about how neighbouring Pawnee County historically belongs to Hodgeman.

  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, mlooney said:

    The rest of the leadership, the ones that control day to day activities is still around.  Also Prigozhin was almost worshiped by some members of Wagner. A possible revenge march is within the realm of possibility.  

    I don't know. I have no personal experience with being a megalomaniacal genocidal dictator but this does not strike me as having been Putin's smartest possible move. It just seems like taunting the Law of Unintended Consequences.