How much Shinola does that translate to? Is it a 1:1 thing?
If the tourniop brand is to make liberals cry, then many of these types can and will show up here, not to support him, but to say loudly that they “DO NOT SUPPORT HIM,” make liberals cry, and have their jollies.
Dimni Dumdum is even a “liberal” who likes to do this.
My, but aren’t you the silver-tongued devil. If you offered to buy me a drink, I might doubt your intentions. To be perfectly fair, when someone like you has been posting about conservatives as long as you have in this place, any halfway constructive criticism tends to sound like your dad telling you to put down the bong and find a job, but you know something, QuickSilver? You’re all right in my book.
Well . . . I’m not what you would call a brilliant person, and non-brilliant people tend to come up with rather non-brilliant plans, but I’ll give it a shot.
I mean, I realize I’m going up against the undefeated here, but have you given a thought to trying what’s been working pretty steadily for the past 250 years? Getting involved with a campaign? Going door to door with a notebook and pen and taking names, explaining your case, and taking the resident’s name for a mailing list? When’s the last time you held a sign for your candidate and stood on a corner. When’s the last time you volunteered at a polling place or attended a town hall? Citizens have been doing this since before we had electricity, let alone computers, so looks like I make it to the bonus round.
And anyway, didn’t you say so yourself in the post I quoted? 80,000 goddamned votes. 80,000. How many of those 80,000 could have been swayed if a few of us turned off our computers, spent some of our hard-earned coin, and gone to those swing states. For that matter, how many of those 80,000 might have been turned if the Clinton campaign had done its job and actually campaigned in swing states?
OK, OK, I get it. All right? I get it. It’s hard, backbreaking, thankless work, and it involves not only turning off the computer but putting down the nachos and getting up off our fat asses. That takes effort, and it takes money, and I know you’re all busy [del]jerking each other off[/del] shouting into the void, but I doubt if a civil rights activist from Selma who got her head bashed in on a bus boycott march would be very impressed with what you’ve done so far.
Which brings me to social media. What you said about social media was a good point. A very good point, in fact. If there’s one thing the democrats didn’t have enough of, it was angry, fucked-up people bitching on the Internet. Even now, I feel the lack. I look at the twenty or so threads on the front page of the Pit dealing with Trump and Trump voters and conservatives and gun nuts and abusive policemen and high school students wearing MAGA hats and some Iranian dude who got blowed up on the tarmac, and I think, "Can’t we as a serious political party unite behind a common goal, a common set of ideals, our common roots and use some of that energy to scream a bit more in all caps on the Webz? Maybe the problem is that they just don’t know this board leans left.
Now put down the bong, turn off the computer, and get to work. You know what you need to do. The question is whether you care enough about the state affairs to feel that you have to do it. I will repeat that the Trump voters are wayyyyy ahead of you.
The picture Il Douche retweeted, with Schumer and Pelosi wearing hijabs.
Caption: **The corrupted Dems trying their best to come to the Ayatollah’s rescue. **
Sorry to interrupt, you were telling us what assholes we are?
Yeah, nice try. The beneficiary of Russian interference has done everything in his power to keep the US from investigating that interference. Funny how Trumpies strain to keep changing THAT subject away.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/state-department-officials-embassy-security-imminent-threats
State Dept. Officials ‘Blindsided’ By Trump’s ‘Imminent’ Threats Claim
It appears that the occupants of the “imminently threatened” embassies were not informed.
That way Trump can claim they were attacked without warning (without mentioning who didn’t do the warning).
I’m not sure who you’re talking to. I certainly never called any of you an asshole. I mean, not that the thought never crossed my mind at all, but you know . . .
Oh, and you should totally respond to that. Twitter and the Internet are serious business, and if you let that slide, you’re just showing that you don’t care about the political process. This is a serious attack by Trump undertaken in good faith, and in no way a cheap transparent trick to keep your eye off the ball. Remember, whatever you do, DON’T GET OFF THE INTERNET!!
He’s laying the all the groundwork so he can be an expert witness at the Hillary Clinton Benghazi 2.0 show trial in 2022.
I would like to hear it too, not only he misleads with the changed quote, but he gets it wrong twice, first on what you pointed out, and second: My point was about how, even if it was not directed at “fine” Nazis, defending the old south and its monuments remains a very sick thing already. A legacy that historians already noticed that the original Nazis got their inspiration from.
Oh, don’t be so humble; You’re not that great.
As luck would have it, I’m in a deep blue state so my efforts would be of limited value in this regard.
Yep. HRC really screwed the pooch. I believe she took responsibility for it. To the extent that any politician takes responsibility for things. I mean, she was beaten by Trump. I doubt she’ll ever live that down.
Or we could just all go to the quarry and throw stuff down there.
Wouldn’t be so sure. MAGAcult rallies may be raucous, but it seems like it’s the same faces in different places. You know… morons.
I’ll grant you this… if Trump wins in 2020, it will not be due to not enough people with notebooks, knocking on doors. It will be down to voter apathy. It’s entirely possible that American society is much worse than we think.
I like the way you post. Do you have a newsletter? 
Is there a law against you campaigning in a battleground state?
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No idea. But I have a fucking job and I’m allergic to flyover states.
Is that even a serious suggestion? Who, other than a political campaign staffer, actually uproots their entire life to knock on doors in fucking Wisconsin? It’s interesting how people are so full of [del]shit[/del] good advice they wouldn’t be caught dead taking themselves.
You fools! Nobody puts pounds of shit in a rhetorical bag, that just leads to garbled communication. It is and always has been “10 gallons of shit in a 5 gallon hat.” See how much more sense that makes? The units actually express what you’re trying to say, and it also looks extra dumb, because now your hat is (clearly!) overflowing with shit. “What are you doing, and can’t you tell you can’t fit more shit in there anyway?”
What has happened to education in this country? :smack:
No. (Not my original answer.)
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I would like to hear it too, not only he misleads with the changed quote, but he gets it wrong twice, first on what you pointed out, and second: My point was about how, even if it was not directed at "fine" Nazis, defending the old south and its monuments remains a very sick thing already. A legacy that historians already noticed that the original Nazis got their inspiration from.
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He said there were violent people on both sides, and there were "very fine" people on both sides. The uproar was because it was presented as fact that EVERY protestor was a Nazi or neo-Nazi, which was not true.
From Politifact:
"On Aug. 15, 2017, President Donald Trump *held a press conference* to discuss an executive order he had signed on infrastructure permitting. Reporters shortly began asking questions about Trump’s initial response to violent protests in Charlottesville, Va. *It was at this press conference* that Trump said that "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides." (italics mine)
If you want to view any who defend those monuments and such as "very sick", that's your prerogative. Keep in mind, though, that some people are descended from those who they like to think fought well in a bad cause, and the South was squashed worse that post- Versailles Germany (and more that almost all real Nazis). Racists are found all over, but painting those with whom you disagree with that brush diminished the term.
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I apologize, and will avoid doing this.Well, I guess you don’t REALLY care about the election then, do you? If you did, you’d actually be doing something, rather than just whining on the Internet, like someone mentioned above.
I, myself, don’t care, so I’m not going out of my Blue State and campaigning in bum-fuck Kansas or wherever. The good news is you’ll probably get 4 more years of good Internet whining though, so you got that to look forward to!
It was a Nazi/neo-Nazi march. Anyone who didn’t want to march alongside Nazis left when all the Nazis showed up in their Nazi garb and chanting Nazi slogans. You know what to call someone who marches alongside a bunch of Nazis with white supremacist imagery and chanting white supremacist slogans? A Nazi. There were no “good people” on that side – only Nazis.
I don’t know if I should take this seriously or as some sort of performance art. I’m going with the latter.
Is there such a thing as deformance art?