Danny Boy
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Everything is just so batshit crazy that it's hard to determine what deserves a deeper look, or what is just relatively normal political bullshit.
Agree.
Everything is just so batshit crazy that it's hard to determine what deserves a deeper look, or what is just relatively normal political bullshit.
I say give him enough rope to hang himself. This won't look good if obstruction of justice charges are ever brought.
Everything is just so batshit crazy that it's hard to determine what deserves a deeper look, or what is just relatively normal political bullshit. Trying to be better about that deeper look.
I agree with looking at things on a deeper level and not giving in to hysteria just because that's what everyone on your side is doing, but in the scenarios that have been laid out, I think you have to look at 1) how self serving is/was it of the president to not enforce those laws; and 2) how dangerous is it to the nation.
Obama: DADT, federal laws in states that have legalized marijuana, and not deporting gay partners? Basically nil, on both counts. Pretty innocuous stuff.
Trump: Not imposing sanctions on Russia? Pretty bad on both counts.
He has absolutely hurt our standing in the world, but yes, that's capable of bouncing back.And he hasn’t ruined our standing in the world, or discredited the truth at all.
Everything will return to normal
How he tossed it out there so nonchalantly, and all the minions got up and clapped...The notion that federal workers should be able to be terminated “at will” is genuinely terrifying, dictatorship stuff.
Job growth down? Fire the agency head and the author of that report. Poor attendance at an inauguration? Fire the national park service head and the analyst, the photographer and the writer. Any federal worker who engages in free speech - fire them. Dismiss an entire intelligence agency of 35k people and put in your own people if they fail to tell you what you want to hear? Why not.
Anyone with even a passing affinity for democracy should be part of The Resistance.
Thanks for the perpetual dismissiveness of views to the left of yours as in unison with the far right! Very productive dialogue. Good luck once again eschewing young people and the left in a doomed attempt to pick up two suburban Republican votes for every working class Democrat vote you lose! The problem last time around was clearly the left being traitorously picky and falling for Russian propaganda, and not employing electoral strategies that have failed over and over again. I apologize for not being on board and will be sure to drum up support for Joe fucking Kennedy or whatever.Ok, thanks for the response.
Thanks for the perpetual dismissiveness of views to the left of yours as in unison with the far right! Very productive dialogue. Good luck once again eschewing young people and the left in a doomed attempt to pick up two suburban Republican votes for every working class Democrat vote you lose! The problem last time around was clearly the left being traitorously picky and falling for Russian propaganda, and not employing electoral strategies that have failed over and over again. I apologize for not being on board and will be sure to drum up support for Joe fucking Kennedy or whatever.
This is exactly the response I'm talking about. Leftists can say the most reasonable, most true things possible, and Democrats act like they're batshit.
it's amazing that you can actually type with your head that far up your own ass.
You two are truly incredible. The Republicans have all three houses, guys. Your strategy isn't working.
I'm certainly complicit in it and have been an Online Person (Twitter has undoubtedly been the most influential medium for me) for far too long for any of this to rankle me once I exit the browser, but I appreciate the sentiment nonetheless. I hope you (as well as everyone else here) are doing well.Don't be mean to peef, it makes me sad.
thank you for posting this and explaining a bit about where you're coming from. i will try to be a bit less heated in the future. again i apologize if i got personal, it's never my intention to be mean but i totally know that i get carried away sometimes. it's too easy to be a jerk to an avatar and a username when you wouldn't dream of being that way to the real person. i'm sure we'd have a swell time if we ever got to have a beer together. all the best peef.I am not saying everything I say is "true" in the sense you are implying, I meant I have seen "Resistance" types all over the place balk at even plainly stated things and it's immensely frustrating. And this exact scenario, the focusing on certain turns of phrase and making them into much bigger deals than they were meant to be is another one.
I do apologize for one thing: I am not on this forum nearly as often as I used to be because I just have way less time on my hands aged 27 and with a time-consuming job. I deliberately deleted the app for this forum from my phone years ago. So the only time I am on here is when I have a break from work and am at my desk. It lends to me making sweeping, broad statements that probably come off in an unintended fashion because I seem totally unwilling to engage on specifics. Rather, it's because so much is happening so often and I am unable to comment on each one individually here. When you stop by once a month or so, you're posting about moods more than specific events and policy.
I will say one thing that bothers me and is probably influencing most my frustration is the inexplicable coronation of Joe Kennedy that has occurred from mainstream Dems over the last week. Maybe a more specific conversation like that can lead to a more constructive discussion. How do we feel about him being put forth as a face of the movement?
My goal is to try and get people to stop being needlessly mean to other posters, or needling them. Even if it's being done by people I am friendly with.
Is life not enough of a shitshow that we have to add to it online? I'm not perfect and like to snark, and have bitchy moments, but .... yeah.