Now This Is Getting Scary

"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko) 05/22/2020 at 13:33 • Filed to: None

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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:41

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We get so used to it but I try to focus each day on utterly insane it is. But then you just can’t stand to think about him anymore, how can anyone be that dumb or be evil and dumb enough to support him back in 2016 and especially now? Humanity is doomed if close to fifty  percent of the population is totally cool with this. America is looking like the kids in school that are proud they haven’t learned anything and end up in the special class in the temporary building past the football field. 

The new lows just keep getting lower, this calls for a new round of minefield donkey:

punkgoose17 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:42

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Completely expected. We have a toddler as president.

jimz > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:42

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all I hope is that I can find somewhere else to live before it all falls down here.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:43

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Yeah, that’s pretty much par for the course at this point.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:44

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If in your view the entire world revolves around you, then of course any view point contradictory to your own is automatically an assault against you yourself.

 The man could just go along with the experts and acknowledge this is a tricky and evolving situation with no easy solutions - but that would mean admitting that he’s not the smartest, best, know-all of all time. 

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:44

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From me and all the other scientists: Fuck him. We don’t bust our asses to understand how the world works just to have him claim we are just out to get him

jimz > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 13:44

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why do they support him? because the #1 thing they love about him is he “owns the libs.”  Whatever that means.

someassemblyrequired > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 05/22/2020 at 13:52

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this kinja post is so getting sharpie’d once Jared finds it

HammerheadFistpunch > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:53

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At this point there are only 2 types of people left:

people who insist that trump is still somehow a net good despite everything he is and says

Everyone else.

I’ m a fraid there isn’t going to be a lot of crossover anymore.

Taking his political actions entirely out of the equation what it takes to be a trump supporter at this point is a set of comprehensive blinders to everything else about him and his administration.

To be a trump supporter is to say “yes he is an idiot, an amoral nutjob, a starved for attention reality star, a general danger to social progress (or even social entropy) , an enabler and advocate political division, a friend to despicable despots, monetarily and politically compromised to our enemies   and quite possibly the biggest personal embarrassment to the office in living memory...but he said that thing I like/did that thing I agree with so he’s alright with me. ”

It’ s a trend I’ve noticed over the last 4 years of people simply being able to brush aside the blatant and open horrors for some kind of mild political gain in their favor . I realize capitalism says “I vote for the guy that does right for me and me alone” but even then, what are the net costs for minor wins weighed against everything else?

Svend > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:53

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The sheer levels of his ignorance that man has is staggering.

Then there are the people who voted for him, wow, just wow.

First it was a study funded in part by his own government’s National Institutes of Health that raised alarms about the use of hydroxychloroquine, finding higher overall mortality in coronavirus patients who took the drug while in Veterans Administration hospitals. Trump and many of his allies had been touting the drug as a miracle cure, and Trump this week revealed that he has been taking it to try to ward off the virus — despite an FDA warning last month that it should only be used in hospital settings or clinical trials because of the risk of serious side effects, including life-threatening heart problems.

Why aren’t we encouraging him to take more of it again?

McMike > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:56

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I’ve never be prouder to lead the world in testing.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:58

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Was it not already scary?

dogisbadob > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 13:59

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Trump is so awful he makes Biden look like a good choice

If Biden wasn’t Obama’s VP, he would have done no better than John Delaney. Come to think of it, Delaney would’ve been the best choice to put against Trump. He’s sane, not old, is experienced enough but not quite a career politician, has good ideas and good plans including universal healthcare, and understands that the US is more than the coasts, but he won’t even be considered for VP since Biden actually remembers he said he’d pick a woman because he has to pander to identity politics and cover for his own (even without Tara Reade) sleazy history albeit not as bad as Trump’s

Unfortunately, this got me grayed from Jezebel. I’m not a Delaniac, just a blue no matter who because we gotta stop Trump and Delaney would be the safe choice and the best chance.

I hope Biden picks Warren, but he’ll probably end up choosing Harris

Spanfeller is a twat > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 14:00

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Is this another rick roll?

*clicks link*

Oh no...

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 14:01

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As terrible as it is to wish this, I’m secretly hoping  that enough Trump supporters have lost loved ones due to this administration’s inaction that the vote will swing back over to the side of reasonableness.

MonkeePuzzle > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 14:02

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ZHP Sparky, the 5th > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 14:02

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Your paragraph before last - this exactly. Whether it be tax cuts, racism, owning libs, immigrants, whatever your issue may be - damn what a way to live to watch the world being set in flames by this madman but accept that as a reasonable price to pay for whatever that reason you support him is.

I really hope that things change in November - if it doesn’t, we’re absolutely doomed in the long run too. 

MonkeePuzzle > McMike 05/22/2020 at 14:03

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to quote my mother, “TESTING MY LAST NERVE!”
in which case, we are indeed all being tested

HammerheadFistpunch > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/22/2020 at 14:06

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My worry is that like so many of the things that happen he’s in a good position to BS his way back into their hearts. i.e. if its a terrible situation the n “I was great but it was the darn [governors /who/chinese/etc] who are the real enemies that made this happen.” or “see it wasn’t bad, because I’ m a genius and fixed it and those libs were just cry babies about the whole thing” (despite the facts that it wasn’t bad because of actions he wasn’t involved with or even directly opposed). What’ s really sad is that he’ll clearly tell someone either one of these depending on what they want to hear.

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 14:08

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Here’s the bigger problem:

“You’ve got more questions?” Biden responded. “Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

https://nypost.com/2020/05/22/biden-says-charlamagne-tha-god-aint-black-if-he-might-vote-for-trump/

Folks, both sides need to do better. Way better.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > MonkeePuzzle 05/22/2020 at 14:08

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You clicky the real link, didn’t you.

HammerheadFistpunch > Svend 05/22/2020 at 14:08

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We need a “ very real” and “ important” medical study about the importance of mercury injections as a way to ward off COVID to find its way to his desk.  Specifically mention that there is a secret plot by the left to hide this important information.

MrSnrub > dogisbadob 05/22/2020 at 14:12

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He’s probably going with the Klob 

DipodomysDeserti > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 14:13

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I feel like I have a much different perspective than most of American society. I teach Jewish students whose great grand parents went through the Holocaust. They all recognize that Trump is an idiot, but not an idiot worth anyone’s time or energy. They experienced real horror. My Russian students, whose families survived the Germans and the Soviets, think Americans are soft.

HammerheadFistpunch > DipodomysDeserti 05/22/2020 at 14:14

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Everyone is soft after 2 generations of prosperity. And your students are right.  

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ZHP Sparky, the 5th 05/22/2020 at 14:14

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Owning Liberals = Job One

DipodomysDeserti > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/22/2020 at 14:15

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If you think Trump is a scourge, you  should recognize that a lack of empathy lies at the root of the problem.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > DipodomysDeserti 05/22/2020 at 14:17

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That's why I said secretly

MonkeePuzzle > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 14:19

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joy was had

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 14:21

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Reminds me of John Mulaney’s bit: “There’s a horse loose in a hospital”

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 14:22

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Type 1  = Turd Polisher

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Tim (Fractal Footwork) 05/22/2020 at 14:24

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DipodomysDeserti > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By 05/22/2020 at 14:24

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Having ER docs come out and talk out their ass, saying the CDC vastly overestimates mortality rates because “math is hard”, isn’t helping things on the scientific front. We niw have medical professionals downplaying the flu, because everyone, not just Trump, have lost their minds.

Gotta say, as a student, I’ve been working directly with research scientists in labs, and not once have we ever given a shit what Trump has to say on anything. They’ve mostly been concerned with what’s gonna happen next year, since a good portion of grad students had to leave, and you can’t use federal funds to pay furloughed staff.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By 05/22/2020 at 14:29

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What, you mean you didn’t go in to mountains of debt and many years of grueling studies thinking “hey now THIS is how I’m going to secretly impose my communist liberal world view on unsuspecting Trump supporters!”?

Svend > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 14:34

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Sounds like it could be an idea. 

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > ZHP Sparky, the 5th 05/22/2020 at 14:38

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Hey, shush, you’ ll let the secret out!

fintail > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 14:39

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I like how “millionaire” is in apparent sarcastic quotes.

fintail > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 14:42

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Bu...bu...but Obamacare witch hunt socialism fake news good people on both sides grab them by the....

Lest we forget:

DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By > DipodomysDeserti 05/22/2020 at 14:44

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As far as I know, each doc that has come out has quickly been disproven by their colleagues, and yes, believe it or not, it doesn’t t ake brains to be a physician. Between my wife’s friends in med school and myself teaching full fledged docs how to use a pipette , the M.D. title means very little to me.

And you should be terrified of what Trump has said regarding research. My and thous ands of other jobs are funded from federal grants, which he has said time and time again he is cutting funding

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > dogisbadob 05/22/2020 at 14:53

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He wasn’t my first pick either, actually pretty far down the line - but saying if he wasn’t Obama’s VP he wouldn’t even be in the running is like saying if someone hadn’t come first in the nationals he wouldn’t have even been considered for the Olympics!

boredalways > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 14:55

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“ Now This Is Getting Scary"

JUST NOW YOU’VE NOTICED?!

DipodomysDeserti > DucST3-Red-1Liter-Standing-By 05/22/2020 at 14:55

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I have a pre med degree, trust me, I know. One of the reasons I chose not to pursue medical school was because I saw how many dummies could get an MD, and it clued me onto how fucked our healthcare system was.

I also know actual medical research takes a long time and a critical eye. We didn ’t even know this thing exis ted a year ago. No one is truly disproving anyone at this point. Nothing is obvious or easy when it comes to biology. People are always intimidated when it comes to things like physics. They don’t understand that basic biology is dumbed down to an incredible degree to make it even remotely understandable to the general population.

As far as we know, math doesn’t change, we just discover more about it. We know for certain that biology changes. We can develop math to explain some of the change, but not all of it.

DipodomysDeserti > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 15:00

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I’m starting to learn how some cultures, with long memories, build in a hardness to their communities through certain social norms and child rearing . Many without even realizing it. I would include the LDS community into this category. Everything is always changing. Nothing is permanent.  Building strong communities, regardless of what you believe, is what matters.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > fintail 05/22/2020 at 15:01

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fintail > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 15:06

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I 110% believe that, too.

fintail > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/22/2020 at 15:07

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A fun thing is, many would probably sacrifice their own mom/grandma etc to “own teh libs”

fintail > dogisbadob 05/22/2020 at 15:09

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It’s not about the good choice, it’s about the less shitty choice.  Any choice is better than Agent Orange.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > fintail 05/22/2020 at 15:10

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We need some laws to prevent verifiable lying all day long, every day in the future. I just don’t understand how it’s legal or possible. There are so many things, something he did or said a year old feels so old at this point.

dogisbadob > ZHP Sparky, the 5th 05/22/2020 at 15:12

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Biden tried twice before, both with poor results. He ran in 2008 against Obama, and back in 1988 when he was actually young enough to handle the job. One of the reasons Biden didn’ t run in 2016 was because he thought he might be too old, and it could’ve also been a reason Obama chose Biden in the first place: because he’d be too old to run on his own and ride Obama’s coattails.

This guy can’t speak a coherent sentence, may have dementia, the sniffing girls, and a long record of being on the wrong side of history. He consistently told people not to vote for him during his campaign events.

Why else would Biden be so popular when his key accomplishments are the war on drugs, the way he treated Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearing, and the 90s crime bill? Most people who voted for him probably see Biden as a third term of Obama.

What else made Biden viable now when he wasn’ t viable the last two times? And with the extra age and declining ability on top of that.

fintail > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 15:13

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Well, this is the 8756 76454th year of his regime.

If telling lies was illegal (and enforced) , I suspect about half of the economy would collapse.   This stage of capitalism is built on it - really, 45 is more of a symptom than the disease.  What he maybe does most is prove how much ugliness is out there.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > fintail 05/22/2020 at 15:14

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Well hopefully the drug he is promoting for his portfolio will kill him. 

dogisbadob > fintail 05/22/2020 at 15:16

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I agree with this, and I’ll vote Biden in November, but I just hope he picks someone good for VP because that’s who we’re really voting for.

fintail > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 15:19

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I’ve always been of the opinion that flatly wishing overt harm to someone is bad mojo... but.. .it’s just a matter of time, and I won’t cry.   

fintail > dogisbadob 05/22/2020 at 15:20

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I’d like to see someone under 60 in such positions, too. Hard to believe we once had presidents in their 40s, not to mention VPs.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > fintail 05/22/2020 at 15:21

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Well some people cross the line and seem to enjoy doing it , just start listing the ways he is hurting people and the country. He likes doing these things and then just switches over to bragging about something. 

fintail > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 15:25

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I might be superstitious too :)

I do hope that whatever happens, he does it to himself , like looking directly into the sun but several notches higher.

I’m trying to think of any net positive brought on by this regime. Not coming up with anyth ing right now.

dogisbadob > fintail 05/22/2020 at 15:31

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+1

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 15:36

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New version

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > fintail 05/22/2020 at 15:43

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Snooder87 > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 16:04

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That’s not really an issue with Capitalism.

It’s act ually a long-standing and well known problem with popular democracy. The main flaw with democracy is that at times it can devolve in demagoguery. At that’s when the common idiot voter votes for short term self-interest over long term public good.

The Roman s called it “bread and circuses”.

jimz > DipodomysDeserti 05/22/2020 at 16:15

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I feel like I have a much different perspective than most of American society. I teach Jewish students whose great grand parents went through the Holocaust.

I’m not saying that’s where we’re headed, but if they don’t recognize that this is the same divisive, nationalist, nativist rhetoric that led to the rise of the party that carried out the Holocaust, well...

The Nazis didn’t just come out of nowhere.  

jimz > fintail 05/22/2020 at 16:16

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no they wouldn’t.  they’re fine with “sacrifice” up until you expect them to do it.  I mean, it took a couple of weeks of no golfing or no hair salons before people started screaming about “Communism.” 

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > dogisbadob 05/22/2020 at 16:26

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I agree with everything that you said - and as I said before, from a policy position or an excitement as a candidate perspective there is absolutely nothing there for me. Yet he is still miles ahead of Trump, that’s the main reason I will vote for him. Our primary was on Tuesday, I guarantee you that I still didn’t vote for him even knowing that it won’t change a damn thing.

For the majority that did pick him through the primary process though, the Obama VP credential is a big part of that. And many people are OK with his political positions - which I find to be 100% fence sitting (which usually results in falling over in to the wrong side of the fence on a regular basis) . All I meant was that you can’t take out the Obama connection as to why he is in the position he is currently in given that it is a huge, if not the main, driver .

jimz > dogisbadob 05/22/2020 at 16:27

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Delaney’s problem is he’s a doorknob. by which I mean milquetoast, drab, beige, whatever. Like it or not, a big part of getting ahead in politics is image.  With the exception of 1988, the winner has been the one with the most notable personality or the most perceived “genuine-ness.”  The doorknobs always lose. 

ttyymmnn > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 16:28

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My mom asked a Trump supporter friend, and that is exactly the answer he gave. “All that stuff he does and says is horrible, but I like some of his policies.” That, and he’s not a liberal, whatever that means any more.

Kiltedpadre > HammerheadFistpunch 05/22/2020 at 16:45

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It will only work though if he has a personal financial interest in the mercury manufacturers. He would’ve given up on this drug ages ago if he didn’t stand to gain from increased usage.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > dogisbadob 05/22/2020 at 17:09

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You almost wish you could fast forward the next 4 years. I don’t want any of these guys in the white house. It sort of comes down to your faith in the people behind the scenes to keep the wheels turning despite active sabotage.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/22/2020 at 17:11

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Dang it he’s rubbing off on all of us. I am wary of any and all links now.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > ttyymmnn 05/22/2020 at 17:21

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“All that stuff he does and says is horrible, but I like some of his policies.”

Then why not get off their damn butts and pick a different leader who will push the same policies? Are they really that happy with settling for so little? 

fintail > jimz 05/22/2020 at 17:35

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Maybe they’d sacrifice their friend/neighbor’s kin, then. I mean, they (via directive of the wealthy they revere but will never become) willingly and knowingly cut off their own noses to spite the libs. None of them are objectively better off now than in 2016, but they don’t care, because Obama something something.

But good point, these are the chickenhawks, same who would love to see some kind of war with a draft, but you can be damn sure would keep their own sons out of it.

I like seeing the cries of “tyranny” from the zero self-awareness   patriots crowding around various capito l buildings.

fintail > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 17:36

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If there’s any goodness in the universe , these people will encounter some kind of cosmic correction.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > fintail 05/22/2020 at 18:37

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I kept thinking that in the USMC, but terrible things kept happening to good people  years.

DipodomysDeserti > jimz 05/22/2020 at 19:33

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It could be headed there, especially with more people willing to throw away civil liberties for safety. Difference is we all have guns. Lots of them.

jimz > DipodomysDeserti 05/22/2020 at 20:46

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except the people I see strutting around with guns would be just fine with tyranny. They wouldn’t call it “tyranny” because they’d be the ones in charge.

it’s sad watching these fat morons peacock around my state’s capital with rifles and “tacticool” wardrobes, carrying signs calling the governor a “nazi” and a “dictator.” Utterly clueless that trying to do something like that under a real dictatorship would not end with their fat asses getting back in their cars and going home. A real dictator would make sure they don’t go home.

Ever.

I’m just... I’ve given up on us as a society.  I’ve brought it up recently; I looked at some pics I took of my grandparents’ old WWII ration books.  Four years of rationing of food and essential goods, four years of having to watch their sons drafted and facing never seeing them again.  They could put up with that for years for the greater good.  In the face of a deadly virus we still don’t fully understand, we can’t even do without leisure activities for a couple of months before we turn into a bunch of screaming pissbabies. and instead of pulling together for the greater good we just fight about which political party is more evil.   We’re fucked. 

fintail > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/22/2020 at 20:47

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Looking at some of the absurdly wealthy in this society, it seems the opposite also happens too often.

DipodomysDeserti > jimz 05/22/2020 at 21:14

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Plenty of people not marching around being morons. Our society has been fucked for a long time. I guess the earlier you realize that the better you can set yourself up. Me and mine aren’t fucked. My grandfather earned a purple heart as a paratrooper in WWII. The shit he saw told me to never put any faith in society. My friends and family are my society.

jimz > DipodomysDeserti 05/22/2020 at 21:23

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I guess you and I are fatalists in our own ways.

DipodomysDeserti > jimz 05/22/2020 at 21:54

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I consider myself extremely lucky to have found a very good group of friends at a young age. I’d probably be in prison otherwise.

EL_ULY > fintail 05/23/2020 at 11:41

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hahahahah and counting

fintail > EL_ULY 05/23/2020 at 12:59

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I really need to find an update to that (I didn’t make it).