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We've got 3 more years of defiant republicans swearing it's nothing worse than a flu while taking their last breaths. Or ordering crap from Amazon on public wifi on their mobile location detectors, all while swearing the vaccine will put yet-to-be invented technology in their bodies.
3 years of them dying will result in far few voters, or they'll have to come around on the "flu" or vaccine and tell their voter base what 'libruls' have been saying all along.

That said, I'd much prefer DeSantis or Cancun Cruz to Trump. Most of those guys have a shred of normalcy in their tiny brains, whereas Trump genuinely preferred chaos to every other option.
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i genuinely think cruz is one of the most odious individuals in american public life. trump is a clown but cruz is machiavellian.
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

A Republican accusing anyone of fearmongering at this point is just adorable. DeSantis is his own walking, talking meme. Satire can't keep up with the state.
Republicans fearmongering has been a meme for the whole history of the Republican party

https://www.peoplesworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pjimage-5-2.jpg

https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/03/powell_un_anthrax.jpg

https://s.france24.com/media/display/5e9a039c-3235-11ea-a542-005056a98db9/w:1280/p:16x9/TrumpIran.webp

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Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
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I'm glad to see that most of these men are wearing American flag lapel pins. That means they're definitely more patriotic than anyone without one, and deserve the support of Americans.
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Anybody else watching the reinstatement?

https://twitter.com/anthonycwalker/stat … 77604?s=19
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Is Joe Biden in trouble? Is he failing?
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
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nope. the trump admin gave the taliban credibility as a political entity and negotiating partner.

they seemed to sincerely believe that the taliban would return and be diplomatic. laughably naive.

biden is just letting it play out. not his fault.
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I think the Obama negotiation was a prisoner exchange? I guess you could say negotiation isn't unprecedented, though for the outcome of the war is a little different. I wonder if Trump had his outraged tweet about the Obama exchange in mind when the 2020 stuff was getting set up. He doesn't like people who lose or get captured or killed, after all. Bunch of losers.
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Re: the prisoner exchange, the right tried to make a big deal out of it but that didn't take off. Their criticism lasted a good 5 minutes. Really hard to criticize saving an American from the head choppers. 

Biden made a speech about what happened. tl;dw, "no regrets pulling out"

I think this is the right move. I can see some Biden people being proud "Biden got of us of Afghanistan". No one in their heart wanted to be there.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
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I read a few snippets of it, sounded like reasonable stuff. In spite of everything, his presidency has been far less embarrassing than Trump's so far.
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I will give him credit for not making situations worse by posting to Twitter. Of course that is smooth brain stuff. The executive branch's is mostly run by secretaries and their departments. Any Democrat occupying the office would be fine.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
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https://www.salon.com/2021/08/20/fox-ne … ignorance/

wow the right-wing in america really have gone full retard. 'american marxism' and 'the franklin school'. how can anyone be this dumb and get published and connect with a readership?

not to mention the usual ruse where all these pundits keep mass-buying their own books to game the 'NYT bestseller' accolade.

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Mark Levin is a JD with experience in high levels of government. He has zero excuse to be making these kinds of errors in any of his books (unless of course they are intentional and he wants to sell a product to a specific audience).

You wouldn't know it (the education stuff) from listening to the guy though, just another angry shock jock catapulted into the position by virtue of his guest appearances on Limbaugh and Hannity's shows.

The most interesting thing was his long feud with Michael Savage.

‘Troll, Thigh Rash, Transgendering Weiner…’

Mark Levin called fellow conservative radio host Michael Savage “a troll” and a “snaggletooth” Thursday night, another episode in a long-standing feud between the two hosts, each of whom thinks the other a phony.

Renaming Savage “Michael Weiner”—”He changed his name,” Levin said, “but you can’t blame him, he’s named after male genitalia”—Levin derided Savage as “a real cancer on this business. He is a phony, fake conservative. All you have to do is Google his name, Google ‘Allen Ginsberg,’ Google ‘Fiji,’ and all kinds of stuff comes up.”

(For the record, Googling “Michael Savage Allen Ginsberg” will yield pretty fascinating results.)

Thursday’s diatribe came in response to Savage’s statements on other conservative radio hosts. “Now, he goes on the airwaves and trashes and he trashes a couple of my friends,” Levin said, “Rush [Limbaugh], Sean [Hannity], claiming they’re not conservative enough, you know like him.”

“I don’t know, I’ve never seen Weiner Nation at a tea party rally. I’ve never seen Weiner Nation helping the conservative movement.”

The grudge began when the two pundits hosted competing radio shows. Levin claimed he beat Savage and forced him out of the time slot.

“You little troll, you little nobody,” Levin said Thursday. “I kicked your butt in the ratings, head to head, one end of the nation to the other. That’s why you’re late night. Got it? I’d like you to come back at six pm, against me, eastern of course, so I could do it again, snaggletooth.”

“I think I might do a one hour special,” Levin said in closing. “‘The Weiner We Didn’t Know.’ You like that, Mr. Producer? No, ‘The Little Weiner We Didn’t Know.’ Actually, ‘The Transgendering Weiner.’ Or something like that, I’ll figure it out.”

Listen to the whole segment here:
From the comments:

9/11 truther monarchist • 8 years ago
Alien vs Predator. Whoever wins we lose.
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A gun battle broke out in downtown Portland Sunday evening as Antifa marched on the streets. An unidentified gunman and Antifa exchanged multiple gunshot rounds.

Video tweeted from multiple sources shows a “random civilian” exchanging gunfire with Antifa in the Portland business district.
https://media.breitbart.com/media/2021/08/Portland-Shooting-w-gilr-640x480.png
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order … a-protest/

Good lord people need to chill.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
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On Oregon, guy was watching a documentary on 1930s Nazis the other day. So we got talking about various points of history. Innocuous stuff, right? Wrong. It was leading to a point!

"You know what this reminds me of? The woke stuff. Antifa guys attacked a church." Er, ok? Lots of things to unpack and define here, and he couldn't.

Q: "What is 'woke?'"
A: …
Q: "What is antifa and how is it 'organized?'"
A: " … well they're organized enough to attack a church! I cannot condone!"

Well, neither can I. Nor can I condone people swarming in from out of state pointing weapons at and assaulting Oregonians for other reasons. Or the police just waving them on by.

Not that it excuses assault or anything, but I guess the church thing had that one anti-cop Canadian pastor who spread COVID misinformation as a guest speaker? I don't know if Breitbart pointed that out.

e: mirriam-webster discusses "woke" as a word in flux. one of its uses is rather how like conservative pundits/politicians use "socialism" or "librul." scary buzzwords. "biden wants to VAX your kids!"
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woke used to be called virtue signalling, in the context of identity politics. performative stuff, like piety, or assuming the guilt of past crimes, etc. pundits from the left and the right criticised this sort of behaviour – rightfully so – when it took place in bastions of privilege, like ivy league colleges, and just ended up being a neat little routine for rich white kids.

'woke' seems more nebulous now and less useful. blanket denigration of progressive or liberal thinking generally, by paleo-conservatives or reactionaries. tbh i'm not sure what is so risible in trying to exercise care and consideration for your fellow citizens, for e.g. or in just trying to not be a shit about victims of racism/sexism/discrimination/etc. like it costs a person nothing to just be decent, recognise another's point of view in a respectful way, etc. even upholding the tenets of basic liberal discourse seems like a 'weakness' to these guys. if dialogue and conversation breaks down, you're really heading towards authoritarianism or the rule of the strong group over the weak. it's not 'woke' to recognize the emergence from that hobbesian nightmare as one of the things about western civ that are worth preserving.

and no, for the umpteenth time, BLM and co. are not pursing a course of arson and rioting in order to achieve their aims. literally no statistic supports this.
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also: just the sheer amount of grift involved in this 'culture war' stuff now. it's not even a question of genuine convictions in many places. just the usual seedy parade of opportunists and grifters.



bla bla franklin school ... antifa ... woke libs ... buy my book!
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top kek



this whole movement and hysteria reminds me more of a 'dungeons and dragons/metal music/rap music/violent video games'-type scare.

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uziq wrote:

top kek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In6NVLANvLc

this whole movement and hysteria reminds me more of a 'dungeons and dragons/metal music/rap music/violent video games'-type scare.
Magic the Gathering's latest set was based on dungeons & dragons. Literally had the title dungeons & dragons in the name. The IP is owned by the same people who print Magic cards. The dungeons & dragons set was actually the highest selling set of all time.

I have said this before but on like every issue there is, American social conservatives have been losing since the LBJ signed the '64 Civil Rights Act. There are set back and hard times but now the gays can get married and the fastest growing demographic in the country is mixed race people.

Judging by the right wing's "success" in the past, I expect Critical Race Theory and Culturally Responsive Training to become the norm in education inside 15 years. The right wing's hyperventilating about CRT is probably going to accelerate it's adoption due to the wonders of negative partisanship.
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Déjà vu strikes again. People pulling their hair out about CRT but they can't tell me what it is and just devolve into a bunch of nonsensical rambling. See also vaccines, vaccine development ("#* the epidemiologists!"), antifa, BLM, "woke," list goes on. Whatever in the long string of "didja-hear-abouts," which I may not even be very familiar with, but cannot be explained by the didja-hear-abouters. If the rant sounds stupid I'm going to look it up, and it usually turns out to be stupid.

Hot takes on CRT (months ago) and now "woke" (recently) from a guy who opened my office door to ask me what Q-Anon was, well into all the Q-Anon stuff. Being able to virtually see the buzzword strings dragging them along is kind of freaky. Turns out your gut feeling was just a parroted headline (could get into a multi-paragraph edit on this guy and covid stuff alone).

Opinions made on gut feelings rather than legitimate cases for/against. And of course legislation in vague terms running up against free speech and academic freedoms, well-put.
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It's really funny that the next governor of California is going to be a talk radio host.

Why do Republicans keep electing movie stars and media people? Reagan, Arnie, Trump, and Larry Elder. Larry Elder of course being the leftover discharge.
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Larry Elder might win with like 10% of the total.

Republicans aren't really a party of values beyond "not democrat". Just look to their statements and focus- telling everyone how evil xyz person is because "socialism". They are the misinformation and uneducated party.
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I have a bad feeling about the upcoming NJ governor race. Our governor has done a good job I think. He hasn't managed to solve the issue of high taxes and cost of living though the cost of living thing is out of his control. What really bothers me is how motivated republicans voters are to punish the blue state governors for the lockdowns and COVID restrictions.


Anyhow, here is the campaign website for the republican running for NJ governor.
https://www.jack4nj.com/
Aside from wanting to defund my job, I really don't like the police and immigration positions. The whole platform is a giant fuck you to the urban areas of the state.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
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So I click on the sky news link I mentioned in the pandemic thread and the sidebar is suddenly full of fox news spam (and similar sky stuff). Relentless tsunami of hit pieces hourly, conveniently forgetting events that lead up to 2021.

At least two bitching about the "woke agenda." Similar screaming in the comments, some of which may be professional trolls.

Shameless gaslighting, anyway. Loving all the unhinged behavior it's egging on and getting impacted by it.

sky news woke rant comments wrote:

Thomas Ace
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“ Everything that goes WOKE turns to shit! “ - DJT
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Kek1085
2 days ago
God bless Donald J Trump 🙏🏿
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Why Justice
2 days ago
What does the word woke means
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bless their hearts

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