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The Dems would have been better off not taking back the House, by far.

You know that saying, it's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt? Now apply that to the Dems. Luckily for them, they won't have that problem again for a while.

All the Dems accomplished by taking back the House was getting their hands on all the rope they needed to hang themselves.
 
didn’t know where to post this because it’s outrageously funny so here

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Why are they so fucking good at satire
 
Clinton narrowly lost the 2016 Presidential Election to Donald Trump. Despite winning the popular vote with 65.8 million votes to Trump’s 62.9 million, Clinton lost the Electoral College 304 to 227.

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Narrowly lost...

Monthly reminder that Hilary Clinton won California by 4.3 million votes, while Trump won the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes.

I have no doubt Clinton could win California again, but nothing she's done in the last 3 years has increased her popularity in the other 49 states.
 
What I'm most disturbed by since the 2016 election is how uninformed I feel now. I don't trust any news at all. I think I was better informed about the world prior to the internet even being a thing.
Physicists thought they were better informed about the world before relativity was a thing. But more seriously, I wonder if social and political certainties about the world are taking the same hits in the Internet age that the 19th century understanding of the natural world was taking in HP Lovecraft's time.
 
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A solid source of glowing TDS:
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His basic argument throughout the book is that Trump's popularity was based on him pandering to Christians. (If he was pandering to anyone, it was white people, ethnic Americans, in general. The book appears to be not only another antichrist hit piece, but slimy anti-Trump cash-grab.

This was his Thanksgiving advice:
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This is the same tard responsible for this:
Kanye West volunteering to perform for inmates is a constitutional violation because Christianity. That is what the Freedom From Religion Foundation spends its time doing?

Like most SJW's, this guy is a militant anti-theist with a hateboner for Christianity. Color me shocked.

The funniest part is that he's under the impression that it's still the early 2000's and the GOP is leaning hard on the fundies like they did when Bush was in office. The only pandering that Trump has done towards the Religious Right was naming a closet case from Indiana as his VP, and even then that was to hedge his bets and keep the fundies from staying home on Election Day because Ted Cruz lost the primary in 2016.

The 2016 election cycle was basically the last gasp of the Religious Right. They're completely dead on the federal level and are slowly dying on the regional level.

As it is, Mike Pence is really the only remnant of the Religious Right that's still relevant in Trump's administration and he's in a mostly powerless figurehead position. Jeff Sessions is gone, Steve Bannon is gone, and Pence is an empty suit.

Yes, Trump has a lot of support from the remnants of the Religious Right but aside from having Pence as a token VP, he's not really done anything to actively pander to them. He's a hedonistic New York billionaire who has supported the LGBT community since the 80's. Even Obama opposed same-sex marriage and anti-LGBT discrimination laws when he ran in 2008.

The main reason why Trump is popular among Christians is because he doesn't actively despise them and attack them like the leftists and neoliberals do.
 
Physicists thought they were better informed about the world before relativity was a thing. But more seriously, I wonder if social and political certainties about the world are taking the same hits in the Internet age that the 19th century understanding of the natural world was taking in HP Lovecraft's time.
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
-- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934


How much of today's dogma is utter nonsense, divorced from reality? Are there many areas where myth and falsehood do not rule? Even mathematics being taught to kids is being diluted with a social justice slant. People in general probably are dumber and less useful than they were a generation ago, though literacy is probably at an all-time high thanks to smartphones.
 
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Why are they so fucking good at satire

Because they aren't trying to push a message and actually be funny.

This is a great take down. They have nailed the impeachment circus completely, down to the Donald Trump quote.
 
As it is, Mike Pence is really the only remnant of the Religious Right that's still relevant in Trump's administration and he's in a mostly powerless figurehead position. Jeff Sessions is gone, Steve Bannon is gone, and Pence is an empty suit.

Don't want to PL here, but I have a good bit of anecdotal evidence that Pence was rather significant to the actual conservative Christians voting in 2016. The Christians who were skeptical of an adulterous 3-times-married dirty-talking braggart would literally say, "but he's got Mike Pence there as well, so the Administration won't be too bad".

Whatever people might think of Trump's campaigning tactics or policies, he was objectively more clever than everyone else when he made his VP pick.

By the way, remember when the Religious Right was screaming that Presidential character mattered back in 1998, then the Democrats spent 20 years arguing that a President's sex life was private and irrelevant and it's totally not a moral failing? I bet they were super glad they won the culture wars and convinced the public to excuse infidelity when November 2016 rolled around.

(The only thing that could have made it worse would be if they nominated someone who reminded everyone about Bill Clinton's sexcapades on a daily basis... oh.)
 
I figured as much, too open to abuse I suppose.

So basically it's up to ethics committees and regular old police to punish any lawbreaking congressional Dems might have done?

If you mean specifically the House ethics committee then potentially yes, but I can't see Republicans being that fanatical in pursuing to punish Democrats because of their abuse of impeachment proceedings that is if and when Republicans hold a majority, nor can I imagine on what legal grounds exactly that they could punish their colleagues outside of the whole Nunes leak thing which sounds downright unethical if not outright illegal. Even then, who would they punish anyway if they could? The worst offenders as far as I can tell are Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff. Everyone else is just falling in line.
 
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Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
-- Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July 1934


How much of today's dogma is utter nonsense, divorced from reality? Are there many areas where myth and falsehood do not rule? Even mathematics being taught to kids is being diluted with a social justice slant. People in general probably are dumber and less useful than they were a generation ago, though literacy is probably at an all-time high thanks to smartphones.
I would argue that literacy is at an all-time low. People don't care about syntax or structure. Just because they have smartphones, it doesn't mean they are doing anything smart with them. You would be amazed how many times I come across people in their 20s-30s that don't know the difference between to, too and two; or there, their and they're.

The truth of the matter is that the US in particular was founded on the ideals that people have the freedom to do and believe whatever they want. Unfortunately instead of using this freedom to strive for something greater, every generation has become more accepting of mental and social stagnation.
It is the typical American's right to be an idiot.
The US leads behind most other nations in a ton of areas including education, STEM graduates, employment, healthcare, internet quality, and many more. And as time goes on, it will only get worse because it is far easier to say we are the greatest nation in the world than actually be the greatest nation in the world.

And the best part about this American nightmare is that the people that can change the status quo never will. Because they are either making a killing off of the ignorant mass's pliability; or they are at odds with the opposition that will fight for their right to keep the masses uneducated through one way or another.
 
I would argue that literacy is at an all-time low. People don't care about syntax or structure. Just because they have smartphones, it doesn't mean they are doing anything smart with them. You would be amazed how many times I come across people in their 20s-30s that don't know the difference between to, too and two; or there, their and they're.

The truth of the matter is that the US in particular was founded on the ideals that people have the freedom to do and believe whatever they want. Unfortunately instead of using this freedom to strive for something greater, every generation has become more accepting of mental and social stagnation.
It is the typical American's right to be an idiot.
The US leads behind most other nations in a ton of areas including education, STEM graduates, employment, healthcare, internet quality, and many more. And as time goes on, it will only get worse because it is far easier to say we are the greatest nation in the world than actually be the greatest nation in the world.

And the best part about this American nightmare is that the people that can change the status quo never will. Because they are either making a killing off of the ignorant mass's pliability; or they are at odds with the opposition that will fight for their right to keep the masses uneducated through one way or another.
So what are we gonna do? Sit down and die?
 
The Dems would have been better off not taking back the House, by far.

You know that saying, it's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt? Now apply that to the Dems. Luckily for them, they won't have that problem again for a while.
Aside from several west coast districts being outright stolen by ballot harvesting, the 2018 midterms went the way I had hoped. I believed that if given an inch the Dems would jump off a cliff in exuberance and holy hell have they jumped.
 
Monthly reminder that Hilary Clinton won California by 4.3 million votes, while Trump won the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes.

I have no doubt Clinton could win California again, but nothing she's done in the last 3 years has increased her popularity in the other 49 states.

Especially, since people have moved out of California and aren't returning. Added to the fact that not a lot of people are moving into Cali, Hillary will win California again. But the voter count will be a lot lower than 2016. Though California probably includes illegal immigrants in their census just to show that their state is "growing." But either way, given that California is very heavily Democratic, so of course that will be the key factor for Hillary winning.

Though, it will be hilarious if for some reason, a good majority of the Democrats decided to not vote. While every Republican decided to vote, then we watch as California for the first time since Regan, goes red. Then the rest of the country will watch as all major News Network pisses their pants while trying to stay calm.

That right there will be one of the best things to have ever happen.
 
I feel you. I wish I had the balls to write "major media spin started midway through George W's time in office", but I know it's not true. It just became apparent at time and has only gotten worse with age.
What terrifies me is that this level of coverage and spin will not end with Trump's exit, be it with a removal or after another four years.

I know that it borders tinfoil hat territory to say, but the media has an immense amount of power; and all it takes is for it to be focused on a greater goal than partisan viewership for it to deal an incredible blow to our democracy.
I also feel that if the media is not put in check by a law or set of guidelines that force them to be purely objective, then it's only a matter of time before networks start fabricating stories to further their own agendas.
We used to have the Fairness Doctrine. Also, in the USA, it is not illegal to lie on the "news".
 
Aside from several west coast districts being outright stolen by ballot harvesting, the 2018 midterms went the way I had hoped. I believed that if given an inch the Dems would jump off a cliff in exuberance and holy hell have they jumped.
It wasn't even that impressive of an accomplishment for them. A high number of neocon Representatives saw the writing on the wall and left voluntarily. And a President almost always loses seats in his first midterms.

They kept bring up stupid shit like they won the national popular vote, which is not a thing. The Senate map is different each cycle so you can't compare apples to apples. Also, in some states like California, if the top two vote getters in a primary are from the same party, you could have a Dem vs Dem race. I think that was the case in Pelosi's district. That's one reason why the count was so skewed. If you're a moderate or conservative, you still have to vote for a Democrat.

We used to have the Fairness Doctrine. Also, in the USA, it is not illegal to lie on the "news".
The fairness doctrine wouldn't do shit when half the country denies objective truths, like the fact that gender is binary.
 
Oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuck...

Brace yourselves my Nibbas...the cringe to end all cringe approaches

A whole series on why Hillary is infact the bravest smartest nicest strongest and specialest should-have-been-president in human history, featuring candid interviews with all her most dedicated brownnosers, and the narrator/presenter apparently being Hillary herself

I suggest that when this comes out it gets shown as the movienight feature of the week as an endurance test for the bravest of souls who are willing to plumb the depths of the darkest narcissism known to man
 
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