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Should be a wild four years.

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NSA Intern said:
I've just realised John Felted-man missed ANOTHER massive opportunity for a PR win. If he were the only democrat to stand and clap for no tax on tips, overtime, social security; if he were the only democrat to stand and clap for the cancer kid or the russian penal victim, he would immediately be seen as 'the reasonable one' and had a +15 boost to his opinion ratings. He's again completely fucking up his 2028 chances by failing again and again to be seen as any moderate, democrat-capable-of-bipartisanship potential candidate which he alluded to trying to be.
What a gigantic fucking retard.
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Justice Tony said:
Not going to lie, I don’t really think he had any chance in 2028 due to health concerns. But otherwise I completely agree, it was a big missed opportunity.
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Malodorous Merkin said:
The Democrats, any Democrat, had a golden opportunity to stand up last night and cheer while Trump announced "no tax on overtime and tips", or the even the cop cancer kid, or anything else that was a no-brainer to cheer for.

If like Fetterman, or any other Dem, had done that, they would've shown themselves to be the lone sane Democrat that all the hordes of disenchanted and disgusted Dem voters could rally behind come the midterms, and finally vote to get some sanity back in their party.
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While we denizens of this humble website affectionately consider each other to be autistic…

…are you stupid niggermonkeys seriously unable to comprehend that Fetterman is a *senator*, and not a member of the House, where the speech was given? Yesterday, some of you were thinking Breyer was still on the SCOTUS, now this? Holy shit.

I didn’t watch the broadcast in its entirety, so if Fetterman was actually there as someone else’s +1, then that’s my bad and I’ll bow my head and take my puzzle pieces/trash cans.

Fetterman did actually release something in the hopes of trying to salvage the moderate image he’s been trying to cultivate. Only time will tell if it works.
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I almost feel bad for Dem leadership.
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https://www.the-independent.com/new...allace-maddow-trump-speech-maga-b2709500.html
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MAGA pundits and right-wing influencers are apoplectic over Nicolle Wallace’s comments about President Donald Trump making a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor an honorary Secret Service agent, calling for the MSNBC host to be fired over her “deranged” and “repulsive” remarks.

Midway through his joint address to Congress on Tuesday night, the president acknowledged DJ Daniel, who was dressed in a police uniform in the gallery alongside his father. Noting that Daniel had always dreamed of being a police officer, Trump said that the young teen was a pediatric cancer survivor who had beaten his diagnosis.

“In 2018 DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago,” Trump said to loud applause, before surprising Daniel with another announcement.

“Police departments love him. And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service,” the president declared while Daniel’s eyes grew wide.

Following the president’s nearly two-hour speech — the longest ever before a joint session of Congress — Wallace and MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow took exception to what they felt was the president exploiting and politicizing Daniel’s cancer survival.
supporters to blast Wallace online over her “sickening” commentary while accusing her of “politicizing” a moment from a highly partisan political speech.


“This is genuinely the most repulsive comment I've heard in a very long time from anyone on television,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk raged, adding: “MSNBC should fire Nicolle Wallace. Disgusting.”

Megyn Kelly’s executive producer Steve Krakauer labeled Wallace’s remarks the “most odious thing” he’s ever heard on cable news. “Totally broken-brained punditry,” he tweeted.

Former Georgia state representative Vernon Jones decried Wallace as a “liberal racist piece of sh*t” while also urging MSNBC to “fire her effective immediately,” while far-right provacateur Ian Miles Cheong fumed that the MSNBC star was “unhinged.” Other conservative social media personalities, meanwhile, described her as “deranged” and “depraved.”

A representative for MSNBC declined to comment.
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Delany's Donkey said:
it's hard to say. one could argue without the American revolution you'd never have the French revolution which is where a lot of these problems in the west originate.
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You can always go further back if your going down that particular route, a lot of the aspects of the American Revolution took their inspiration from the Enlightenment.
 
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Pig Cups said:
…are you stupid niggermonkeys seriously unable to comprehend that Fetterman is a *senator*, and not a member of the House, where the speech was given? Yesterday, some of you were thinking Breyer was still on the SCOTUS, now this? Holy shit.
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SOTU speeches are given before house and senate together
 
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Hojicha said:
I work in the UAW, and unfortunately the way things are you don't have an incentive to give a shit while you work other than maintaining the hourly rate/breakneck speed quota they demand. The UAW doesn't really work for the people anymore as much as they act like the HR branch of x company. They will make a show of being there if your supervisor makes up some shit against you, but they won't really fight for you. I see the union reps walking the floor everyday dressed like they're hot shit while the rest of us are sweating our asses off, greasy and covered in metal shavings. This is common knowledge among UAW workers. We are apathetic yes and there's no pride anymore, but we work in dirty hot hellholes working a mile a minute for our good hard earned money building vehicles we can't afford but we don't take pride in the useless faceless Union. They don't even save jobs from being cut.
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I think that’s the way unions end up when the margins are gone. We just really, really fucked up with the outsourcing, and we paid these other countries to build their industry so they could undercut ours
 
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HodgePodgeRogerDodger said:
I’d argue there are some people with some good criticisms and then there are people who don’t realize a lot of it is trolling. Trump is in and he should be criticized, but the issue is that it’s very hard to tell due to TDS and people here trolling (for Boomers anyway).

The solution is to use the block function. If someone is shitting up the thread because people keep responding to them then hit ignore. Don’t feed the trolls. It’s a bigger issue if it’s an Android Raptor situation where one person keeps derailing the thread by responding to people even if that person ignores them.
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That's the thing: Trump isn't immune to criticism. It's just that people tend to be emotional, relies on hypotheticals, way too angry, and dehumanizes their opponents in order to score a gotcha.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Who's that and what did he do?
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Hoo boy, Last Stand, you opened a fun door today.

Strom Thurmond was an ancient politician who I can basically describe as being the last Democrat to get the software updates. He was born in 1902 and was in office for over half of his 100 year life. I've heard on multiple occasions that he was a grand wizard in the KKK, and while I've never actually confirmed that, he was arguably the single loudest and proudest voice against black integration and rather infamously voted against Hawaii joining the US because he felt it wasn't white enough. Finally in the 1960s, he left the party to join the Republicans, presumably incensed over not being issued the treasured N-Word Pass.

He was basically a living punchline for racism, like this weird proto /pol/tard that existed like 75 years before the internet, and it was even funnier because he had been a Democrat for most of his life, representing a history that the party was really hilariously not proud of. The dude was a fucking living meme before we knew about the term, a subject of ridicule for both the left (who saw him as a relic of a former era, best left behind) and right (who saw him as their racist uncle that we all respect but wish he would stop screaming about them uppity negroes every time we get together for holiday dinner).

Like a lot of more aggressive politicos, he mellowed out a bit over the next few decades, in a fashion not too dissimilar from Fred Phelps realizing he had gone too far in his declining years.

The funniest part however, would come out after his death, where it came out that despite his constant anti-black rhetoric in his time, at the absolute height of his I hate the darkies arc, he turned out to have fathered an illegitimate black child in his 20s. There's not really much to say here, it is what it is and it's fucking hilarious.
 
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NSA Intern said:
its only a threadban and that for a few weeks, you can piss him off in future
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He isent that bad, I like him and fatpacks and unless he was being absurdly annoying or breaking rules I dont like him being threadbanned even temp, thats what sperates us, (and 1,000 other things) from reddit

we dont ban people we disagree with just because they disagree, even moronically, with the group concussion, thats atleast this mornons humble opinion. but im not the all powerful janny so its not up to me
 
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