# I Pit Daily Kos and the Shameful, Disgraceful Lies About The Republican Platform **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860 "2016-07-13T23:28:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/21 "2016-07-14T13:38:20Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > An important point, there. We have to keep in mind that both sides do it. For sure, Mark Shields, Rush Limbaugh, not very much difference, really. Bullshit. This thread has firmly established that the DK comments were firmly grounded in truth, unlike the propaganda nonsense spewed by the other side. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/22 "2016-07-14T14:00:47Z")
For the benefit of any millennials reading this thread: _The Daily Kos_ is this left-leaning advocacy group that your grey-haired, pony tail grandparents grew up with back in the dark ages (aka, before social media). Markos Moulitsas is, like, 100 years old; which is even older than Kim Kardashian. Oh, and Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, which is a political party in the USA, where you live. It’s unlikely you’d ever vote for them, but just in case you were toying with the idea, listen to Markos-- about this subject he knows his shit!! ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/23 "2016-07-14T15:46:14Z")
Also for those just joining us, please be aware that this program contains language intended for mature audiences, including profanity and occasional irony. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/24 "2016-07-14T15:49:50Z")
Hey, could y’all keep it down in here?! All this whooshing is scaring the cats. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/25 "2016-07-14T19:29:08Z")
I think some of you are very quick to dismiss the harm of pornography on children. I recall failing several exams on the week that I stumbled upon a copy of hustler on the back-roads back home from class. I could have lowered my middle school GPA by a whole half point! Who knows what kind of street vagrant I would have become had pages 10 through 19 not had been ripped out. The amount of imaginating I had to do to fill in the missing content was also pretty draining, and possibly traumatic - it’s probably why I still buy D&D books to this day - even though I no longer play! Imaginating withdrawals. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/26 "2016-07-14T19:32:10Z")
I agree. Kids have it way too easy these days. We had to often rifle through trash cans or hunt in our older siblings bedrooms to find porn. With the internet, there’s no challenge. Where’s the fun in having everything right at your fingertips, so to speak? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/27 "2016-07-14T19:35:36Z")
Whippersnappers! Back in my day, we had to [make our own porn](https://aintnohothouseflower.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/venusofwillendorf.png)! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/28 "2016-07-14T19:36:47Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I agree. Kids have it way too easy these days. We had to often rifle through trash cans or hunt in our older siblings bedrooms to find porn. With the internet, there’s no challenge. Where’s the fun in having everything right at your fingertips, so to speak? When I was a kid in the Boy Sprouts, one of our greatest achievements was the Paper Drive. We had half our two-car garage filled with rolled up newspapers. Didn’t get squat for them money wise, it was all a bust. BUT, in amidst all of the newspapers collected, we boys found about a half-dozen porno mags, some of which we’d never heard of before. JACKPOT! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/29 "2016-07-15T16:58:59Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Whippersnappers! Back in my day, we had to [make our own porn](https://aintnohothouseflower.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/venusofwillendorf.png)! I grow my own porn at home in the garden to reduce my carbon footprint. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/30 "2016-07-19T02:21:19Z")
Yo elucidator, Are you ready to retract your pitting? [WARNING PDF](https://prod-static-ngop-pbl.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL%5b1%5d-ben_1468872234.pdf?mid=76323&rid=15462307) > [@](#): > > The Democratic > Party does not understand > that coal is an abundant, **clean** , > affordable, reliable domestic > energy resource. > [@](#): > > A good > understanding of the Bible > being indispensable for the > development of an educated > citizenry, **we encourage state > legislatures to offer the Bible > in a literature curriculum** as > an elective in America’s high > schools. Does this next segment apply to Musilim’s wanting sharia law? Or just just christians wanting to avoid icky secular and/or gay people? > [@](#): > > that man-made > law must be consistent with God-given, natural > rights; and that if God-given, natural, inalienable > rights come in conflict with government, court, > or human-granted rights, God-given, natural, > inalienable rights always prevail; that there is a > moral law recognized as “the Laws of Nature and > of Nature’s God”; and that American government > is to operate with the consent of the governed. And how is this not denying women from combat? > [@](#): > > We reiterate > our support for both the advancement of women in > the military and their exemption from direct ground > combat units and infantry battalions. And how about giving OUR land to rich ranchers and bigoted racist terrorists? > [@](#): > > Congress shall > immediately pass universal legislation providing for > a timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal > government to convey certain federally controlled > public lands to states. Or are you willing to leave the party as they obviously are publicly stating that they stand for ideas that you obviously find egregious? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/31 "2016-07-19T02:30:18Z")
Am I being whooshed, or do you, **rat avatar** , not realize the **luci** is as left as they come. ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/32 "2016-07-19T02:32:22Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Am I being whooshed, or do you, **rat avatar** , not realize the **luci** is as left as they come. Or [Poe’s Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860/33 "2016-07-19T10:53:00Z")
So you did not realize that **luci** is a lefty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-daily-kos-and-the-shameful-disgraceful-lies-about-the-republican-platform/759860.md?page=1)