US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Sekirodiealot]

That's why I said "context or not". Trump gets flamboyant when mocking people, but with that guy in particular, it was easy to make it seem malicious. Hence why I think having the guy mumble unaided was to bate a soundbite.

It's why it annoyed me seeing the media treat the reporter like a child

 

[The Last Stand]

Again, abortion and birth control is but ONE segment of American healthcare that has been hijacked and reduced to moral hysteria. The only reason I'm relieved it's a states issue is that they can focus on other issues to address for the American people.

 

[JambledUpWords]

In two separate states I have witnessed PAC generated ads that completely lie about the GOP candidate's position on birth control and abortion.

Two minutes of searching showed the commercials were complete fiction but most people are not going to bother with that because GOP is so evil.

I just work under the assumption that 99% of political ads lie to you, because if politicians were forced to be honest, nobody would actually vote for them. Most politicians, especially ones in Congress, generally suck, but Trump is one of the few I trust because most others couldn’t go through the amount of scrutiny he has, as well as being jailed and having an assassination attempt by his opposition, and still come out as unscathed as he has. I actually wish more politicians got as much scrutiny as Trump has, because so many get away with crap because they just say nice things to a camera.

 

[The Last Stand]

I just work under the assumption that 99% of political ads lie to you, because if politicians were forced to be honest, nobody would actually vote for them.

It's less on "honesty," but more on what can they do, or NOT do, for me. You go for the spectacle.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

I just work under the assumption that 99% of political ads lie to you, because if politicians were forced to be honest, nobody would actually vote for them. Most politicians, especially ones in Congress, generally suck, but Trump is one of the few I trust because most others couldn’t go through the amount of scrutiny he has, as well as being jailed and having an assassination attempt by his opposition, and still come out as unscathed as he has. I actually wish more politicians got as much scrutiny as Trump has, because so many get away with crap because they just say nice things to a camera.

Media got too complacent with the power they wielded. They helped Bush Junior win the presidency twice. They moved to black Jesus Obama after. And then comes along Orange Man Bad who won without the media's help.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The DNC sure loves to push the parents out of the way when it comes to children and sexuality. It is almost like they are all child predators or something.

I mean ... Providing a minor with birth control behind the parents' backs is 100% something that a child predator would do.

Oh, while we're on the subject ... Let's talk about yet another evil thing that Planned Parenthood has been caught sweeping under the rug several times over:

They've been caught many, many times performing abortions on minors (some minors as young as 10 or 11 or something) who are accompanied by an adult with no questions asked. Planned Parenthood is essentially a safe haven for child rapists to get rid of the evidence. I do believe it was one of the earliest Project Veritas videos to come out, so this was over a decade ago. Perhaps it was another undercover journalist who discovered this ... But my memory is telling me it was Project Veritas.

Just thought I'd bring this up, since the DNC tonight was so focused on rape within families and such ...

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

All of these fucking faggots got out done by fucking baby dog when it came to showmanship

 

[JambledUpWords]

Media got too complacent with the power they wielded. They helped Bush Junior win the presidency twice. They moved to black Jesus Obama after. And then comes along Orange Man Bad who won without the media's help.

The media attacks just made him more likable. I remember in 2016 of Dems trying to make a big deal about Trump’s liking of fully cooked steak with ketchup, and his eating of KFC with silverware. It got so ridiculous that it was at levels of “Hitler drank water too.” It also just worked as free advertising, because even if the coverage was negative, his name was kept way more at the front of people’s minds than Hillary’s was.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

The media attacks just made him more likable. I remember in 2016 of Dems trying to make a big deal about Trump’s liking of fully cooked steak with ketchup, and his eating of KFC with silverware. It got so ridiculous that it was at levels of “Hitler drank water too.” It also just worked as free advertising, because even if the coverage was negative, his name was kept way more at the front of people’s minds than Hillary’s was.

Hillary stupidly bought into this TDS as well with her campaign.

The second I saw the "Love Trumps Hate" posters, I knew it was over for her. Who in their right mind would use their opponent's name on their own campaign advertising?!

 

[CaddestSlown]

The second I saw the "Love Trumps Hate" posters, I knew it was over for her. Who in their right mind would use their opponent's name on their own campaign advertising?!

With a single apostrophe, you can turn that positive message against negativity into a glowing endorsement and command for the masses. Very poor choice on their part, honestly, no wonder orange man won, even his enemies were rooting for his fascist ways! Sad. So sad.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

Hillary stupidly bought into this TDS as well with her campaign.

The second I saw the "Love Trumps Hate" posters, I knew it was over for her. Who in their right mind would use their opponent's name on their own campaign advertising?!

That why this "joy" campaign is so fucking tone deaf. As if people wanted to be reminded of how shit the economy is and as if people didn't have it hard enough. They are being told to be joyful....

Wtf.

 

[mlanguishi]

Ana, jump ship while you can! Even Cenk's kinda like, well yeah.. Cenk will go apeshit stupid again, but maybe Ana has a chance heh.

 

[Day of the Cope]

To my understanding, the biggest issue that the vast majority of Republicans have with birth control at this point is that the Democrats are trying to make it widely available to minors without the parents' knowledge.

Which is objectively fucked up. I'm wholly behind the GOP on this one.

Hmmm... thinking out loud here, but the fact that there's a growing movement of trying to give minors HRT without their parents knowledge... one has to wonder...
Post under me also adds to my thought with how flippantly we've been playing with hormones and now we're giving minors cross-sex hormones...
Again, all thinking out loud, but it's something to really think about.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

Personally, I am against the pill

I'm generally against it as well. Not because I think it's morally wrong or anything but because I think there are some serious health and behavioral issues with it. I think having a normal hormonal cycle is healthy and does a lot more than just make you bleed, so disrupting it without good reason to do so should be treated with a lot more skepticism. For things like PCOS common reasons for it like insulin resistance should be evaluated first, and more conservative methods to address it and improve it if it's a factor recommended initially to see if that's all that's needed. Most PCOS is insulin resistance related, and a proper nutrition plan (to normalize insulin, blood sugar, etc) and other lifestyle changes (improving sleep, and stress) can improve it or even get rid of symptoms entirely for some people.

For birth control I'm much more in favor of condoms and barrier methods especially combined with cycle tracking and taking extra caution around certain times in your cycle (also works better if you're healthy because your cycles are less likely to be irregular), or a non-hormonal IUD if they're comfortable with the risks.

There is a movement by women to look a lot more critically at hormonal birth control, and stop taking it, and it is for a reason. Hormones are no joke, and they have much larger roles than just being able to be pregnant versus not. They have roles in things like diabetes and heart disease risk, stroke, connective tissue, cancer risk, and mental health too. We assume we know a lot more than we do, and women take hormonal birth control seemingly without considering the impacts or risks it could have. Not all possible effects are on the label either. Many drug side effects are found much later, like with metformin and b12 deficiencies and genital defect risk when taking it during conception.

 

[JambledUpWords]

That why this "joy" campaign is so fucking tone deaf. As if people wanted to be reminded of how shit the economy is and as if people didn't have it hard enough. They are being told to be joyful....

Wtf.

I think I’d have a hard time trying to choose a good slogan for a rushed campaign under an unpopular presidency. People like it when you promote positivity and hope, but that’s hard to do when your policies of the last few years have been the opposite of it. A more honest slogan would be “I’m not Trump, so like me.” Dems really dropped the ball with this presidency, and even the best PR teams in the world can only do so much to make it look good.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Ana, jump ship while you can! Even Cenk's kinda like, well yeah.. Cenk will go apeshit stupid again, but maybe Ana has a chance heh.

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Ana Kasparian's character development over the past year or so has been entertaining as hell to watch.

 

[Day of the Cope]

I'm generally against it as well. Not because I think it's morally wrong or anything but because I think there are some serious health and behavioral issues with it. I think having a normal hormonal cycle is healthy and does a lot more than just make you bleed, so disrupting it without good reason to do so should be treated with a lot more skepticism. For things like PCOS common reasons for it like insulin resistance should be evaluated first, and more conservative methods to address it and improve metabolic health recommended initially to see if that's all that's needed. Most PCOS is insulin resistance related, and a proper nutrition plan (to normalize insulin, blood sugar, etc) can improve it or even get rid of symptoms entirely for some people.

So many issues start and end with a proper food intake. But we're not allowed to talk about that because Coca-Cola psyop'd everyone into think the issue is a lack of exercise.

 

[CaddestSlown]

Ana Kasparian's character development over the past year or so has been entertaining as hell to watch.

Her story is kind of compelling when you look at it on a broader scale. Makes you want to root for her.

BREAK THE CONDITIONING, ANA, GET OUT OF THERE!

Hope it works out, honestly.

 

[The Last Stand]

That why this "joy" campaign is so fucking tone deaf. As if people wanted to be reminded of how shit the economy is and as if people didn't have it hard enough. They are being told to be joyful....

Wtf.

We need to stop making memes reality.

 

[Amelia Troonheart]

So many issues start and end with a proper food intake. But we're not allowed to talk about that because Coca-Cola psyop'd everyone into think the issue is a lack of exercise.

Had to figure that out for myself the hard way. Many other people still havent realized it, or misunderstand what it means.
I feel like the more it's a top down approach the more likely it is to become corrupted by outside influence, or inside influence if the people coming up with what the top down approach is have financial ties or biases with little power from the voters to get them out if it becomes obvious or it's clearly not working.
Check into the people who come up with the dietary guidelines, and then what their financial ties are, for example.