Maybe if all the people who wanted to argue the other side weren't all skinheads
Maybe if all the people who wanted to argue the other side weren't all skinheads
And this isn't unique to here anyways. This is what's happening to discourse in general.Or actually stopped with the cutesy/vague one-liners and stuck around long enough to have a proper, legitimate conversation.
So, seems pretty safe to assume that not only is Trump colluding with the Saudis to cover up the torture and murder of a journalist for money, but also in 2016 as well. Right?
it's pretty weird to smoke weed legally, i gotta say
Lol for real! I don’t smoke weed but I am almost tempted to smoke a joint right in front of a cop for some reason lol
You're just a tin foil hat wearing weeniehttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-money-syria.html
if you're referring to this, i hadn't seen it before now, and yes now it's certainly very safe to assume that.
apologies for my wrong assumptions earlier.
as a 65'er I think it really depends a person individually..
It shouldn’t be not allowable for old people to run, but I think it’s perfectly reasonable to suggest that someone who is too old is less likely to be in touch with the future, or other criticisms associated with age.
by "echo-chamber territory" i meant FYM itself - aside from the occasional drive-by "fuck the lazy poors and the evil socialists who want to help them" ranting-at-strawmen from the usual suspect, this place has really become the same half-dozen or so of us lefties chatting about current events and agreeing with each other for the most part.
i mean, i like chatting with you guys about this stuff and having a place to safely blow off steam about dipshit donnie's latest antics but it's not like we still have anything resembling the debates and discussions that we used to have here.
What constitutes a Canadian Conservative?
While wearing denim. With a mooseRiding a horse backwards and politely not wanting immigrants to terkerjerbs that nobody wants to work in Yukon.
What constitutes a Canadian Conservative?
Is it like sliding a range of policies rightward on a left - right continium? More complex? Etc.
I think there was some discussion about 2020 candidates at the end of the last thread, and I wanted to chime in...
Warren is perhaps my first choice. She knows how to get a crowd excited - in that regard she's perhaps better than any female politician I've seen and also better than a lot of male ones too. I have two concerns though:
1. We have two-year election cycles now, and I don't know if I can stomach two years of Drumpf calling her Pocahontas every day for two years. It's nauseating to think about. I hate the misogyny that permeates his base.
2. The governor of Massachusetts is a Republican. If we don't take back the Senate in the midterms, we'll have another chance in 2020, and if Warren were to run and win, the Republican governor would fill her seat with a Republican. Something to think about. In contrast Harris and Booker are both from states with Democratic governors(I'm assuming Gavin Newsom will win his governor's race in California in November). Speaking of which...
Harris & Booker are both similar in that they are young, African-American, relatively new to the Senate, and both are excellent politicians who can get a crowd going wild(Booker blew the roof off the place at the 2016 Democratic convention). They are both eminently likable I'd be able to support either wholeheartedly. Though it should be mentioned that the far-left Bernie types are going to tear Booker apart for his connections to Wall Street.
Gillibrand doesn't interest me much. Too much like Hillary. I had no problem voting for Hillary, but I don't love her, and I feel like Gillibrand would present some of the same problems as a candidate - too reserved, too buttoned up, unable to really light a fire under the base. Then again, she's the one I know least about here, so maybe I'll change my mind.
Biden. There isn't a bigger fan of Biden than me. I love the man. Back in 2008, after Obama locked up the nomination and the media was speculating about who he would pick to be his VP, the whole time I was saying Biden, it's gotta be Biden, he's clearly the best candidate, the best person, the most qualified, etc. I think he was a great VP. I love him. But I'm weary of him running. Because he's 80. Because I fear that while he'll appeal to people in Ohio/Pennsylvania/Michigan/etc who may have voted for Drumpf, I feel that the increasingly liberal base may seem him as too centrist. That said, I could get on board, if he were to, say, commit to serving one-term only, and select a younger home-run VP candidate to basically have the nomination served up on a platter in 2024, i.e. Booker or Harris maybe.
Sanders. I'm sorry, but I've decided that I don't want him to run. He's just too divisive. I started as a Bernie supporter in 2016. I voted for him in the Ohio primary. But I became increasingly uncomfortable with him and his supporters as time wore on. With him, because he talked about one thing only and appeared to have no mental agility - nothing to say about anything else, especially foreign policy, he was one-note - he was too lax about gun-control, and he didn't appeal enough to minority voters who are vital to getting Democrats elected. With his supporters, because to them Bernie was the only honest progressive. Even now, they call Warren, Harris, and Booker faux-gressives. Because Warren didn't support Bernie in 2016. Because Harris didn't bring charges against Steve Mnuchin's company when she was the AG of California. Because of Booker's aforementioned ties to Wall Street. For them, Bernie is the only one. That's not support of a candidate, it's worship, similar to how Drumpf's supporters worship him, and it's not a healthy relationship to have with a politician. There's no perfect progressive, we can't let 'good' be the enemy of perfect, and I don't want to have to have that argument for the next two years.
I don't know that it's getting a shrug. It's blowing up my feed today.It's telling how awful a time we're currently in that this kinda gets a shrug... but
The President praised a congressman body slamming a reporter in the middle of a controversy over a reporter being kidnapped and dismembered.
And flannel, too?While wearing denim. With a moose
It's telling how awful a time we're currently in that this kinda gets a shrug... but
The President praised a congressman body slamming a reporter in the middle of a controversy over a reporter being kidnapped and dismembered.
I don't know that it's getting a shrug. It's blowing up my feed today.
indeed!tl;dr - dave had 4 shots of espresso this morning
What the actual fuck is up with Georgia. It’s just so blatant.
Cue The random “what election” comment...
Oh and Dems have to win the house at very least to see what’s on his tax returns.
May not change anything but i always feel awareness will equal change