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Mourning_Cloak said:
Alright so is Mike Pence off coping and sneeding and zapping in a corner somewhere? How is that guy holding up?
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Honestly I stopped giving a fuck about him after he certified the last election. He doesn't and never did have Trump's charisma.
Lorne Armstrong said:
Remember when Colbert called in every favor he possibly could to get his sister elected to Congress, and failed?
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When did that happen because that sounds pretty damn funny?
 
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FieldPiece said:
I also think there should be a "jury selection" for elections where 12 random Americans are selected to run for office alongside the candidates.
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In many rural areas of the South that's how town/county councils are selected. It's called a 'Police Jury'. They send a summons to randomly selected registered voters just like jury duty and if you won't serve you'd better have a damn good reason. Not a fan of forced anything personally. It might be used elsewhere but I only know about it in the South because I've lived it and it feels straight out of 1850.
 
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Amazing. lol.

As so many people here (including myself) have said before: Democrats, you pushed Biden, and now you've GOT Biden.

This glorious shitshow couldn't be happening to a nicer party of bullies and gaslighters.

Lorne Armstrong said:
Remember when Colbert called in every favor he possibly could to get his sister elected to Congress, and failed?
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I remember!

He threw a temper tantrum on his show after she lost, too. It was amazing.
 
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Nol 2 said:
You also didn't have 9/11 and the wars that followed, then the great recession, then Covid.

Not to put too fine a point on it, you mentioned earlier that your big political awakening happened in when you were 15 when Trump got elected. For Millennials it was the Twin Towers falling.

Comparing the two comes across as gauche and ignorant.
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No. I noticed politics when Obama got elected. And no offense, I saw those towers fall in 1st grade. Which was patriotic as fuck. The 2000s were better time than you make out.

And motherfucker I worked through covid, shut up.
 
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Larry David's Opera Cape said:
Arrested threat-maker boomer Michael Wiseman's Linkedin:


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Mercury is his dad's footwear company: https://www.mercuryfootwear.com/endtoend-label-shoe-manufacturer

His wife Debra was also very active on FB, but either she deleted her account or someone deleted it for her already, all that's left is google traces.

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Here's a link to more information about him:

https://archive.ph/eluIM

Here are his email addresses:

michaelmartinwiseman@gmail.com​

mwisema9@idt.net​

mwisema@msn.com​

mwisema@idt.net​

mwisema9@msn.com​

mwiseman@get-noticed.com​

mmw@get-noticed.com​

domainadmin@get-noticed.com​

parrot@novernet.com​

michaelwiseman@g4s.com​

madeline@golyrical.com​

mmw@get.noticed.com​

wisema9@idt.net​


By the way, G4S is a security company. I mean real life security, not internet security. (Although they might do that too.)
 
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Harvey Danger said:
And that's a good thing, because wildly swinging how the country works every 2-4 years is a terrible idea.

The Founders wanted a stable society which gave the people the levers for gradual change, not sudden or radical change. That's why we have a republic, not a democracy. Every move towards more democratic institutions over republican ones has led to distorted politics and more centralized control.

If you're annoyed at old people fossilizing bad old ideas, well, first off you aren't paying attention to how radical the platforms are that the octogenarians are pushing. But secondly, if you're still upset at old politicians, you need term limits on Congress specifically. 2 terms for President works out fine, no limit for SCOTUS is probably fine given how law needs to work even slower than legislatures.
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that is correct. There was supposed to be layers of government, insulating checks that prevented the whims of the public from influencing policy while still representing their overall interests. The 17th Amendment was a mistake, and it was probably the moment the Republic hit the deathbed
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
Amazing. lol.

As so many people here (including myself) have said before: Democrats, you pushed Biden, and now you've GOT Biden.

This glorious shitshow couldn't be happening to a nicer party of bullies and gaslighters.


I remember!

He threw a temper tantrum on his show after she lost, too. It was amazing.
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And she ran as Colbert, but instead of that gay, frenchy-sounding col-BEAR, she pronounced her name as it is, COL-burt.
 
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Nol 2 said:
You also didn't have 9/11 and the wars that followed, then the great recession, then Covid.

Not to put too fine a point on it, you mentioned earlier that your big political awakening happened in when you were 15 when Trump got elected. For Millennials it was the Twin Towers falling.

Comparing the two comes across as gauche and ignorant.
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Milennial here. I vividly remember where I was, who I was with, and what I was feeling on 9/11. I was definitely old enough to understand the graveness and the tragedy of it all.

For me, 9/11 wasn't a political awakening. If anything, it was just the first really, really historical tragedy that I was alive and old enough to see AND understand the scope of it.

What followed AFTER 9/11, though, was my political awakening. I grew up in a Republican household, so my politics basically were "well, this guy winning makes my parents happy, so I guess I'm a republican too." As I got a little bit older, I started to have some "conservative" values, such as being anti-abortion and whatnot. Very baseline stuff.

The Patriot Act changed everything for me, though. I heard about what it was, and it awakened a part of my brain that turned me into a critical thinker. That was when I started to really pay attention.
 
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