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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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He should probably get a more respectable running mate if he wants to win 2020, Mike Pence is kind of embarrassing. Though that might be more just veeps being easy to criticize than anything serious
Pence is the embarrassing one?
Hypocrite Knight Templar? Yes.
But in what universe is he more embarrassing than Trump himself on his best day?
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Dec 2nd 2018 at 10:02:14 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Pence nicely sold his soul to Satan for power. Firmly serving an anti-Christ Caesar of wealth, adultery, lies, and corruption while he claims to be still a just man as well as tries to sell Trump to evangelicals.
I wonder if any part of him acknowledges that.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Dec 2nd 2018 at 10:03:45 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Several personal accounts of Pence describe him as a Tautological Templar to the hilt, mixed with an unholy amount of ambition.
Shame isn't something his type experiences.
Ouch.
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Dec 2nd 2018 at 2:21:38 PM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I go to law school in Indiana. I’m taking a leadership & the law class, and we each had to profile someone and do a 10-15 minute presentation. I did Professor Michelle Alexander (author of The New Jim Crow), a classmate did Michelle Obama; another classmate did Bobby Kennedy; another classmate did the guy who was the US rep in the Japanese version of the Nuremberg trials.
And this girl picked Pence. And she didn’t even really list any accomplishments?!?
The only angel on Pence's shoulder is Lucifer.
It better news, Pelosi has pledged to pass the Dream Act
when the Democrats take control.
Edited by Parable on Dec 2nd 2018 at 10:53:28 AM
I'm going to a community college, and I'll be doing a presentation on Ruth Bader Ginsburg later this week (we're all doing one of the current Supreme Court Justices, and they were chosen for us based on our expressed political beliefs from earlier class assignments). I shudder to think of what the Kavanaugh presentation will be like. I already suffered enough last Thursday when one of the guys who presented for Clarence Thomas tried to get me into watching Ben Shapiro because I had mentioned that I was Jewish.
Actually, I'm also doing my final on how the law and bigotry interact.
I didn't even have a counter, because I couldn't remember who Ben Shapiro was at the time, just that he might be someone I dislike. Obviously, he's a fucking assbag, but my mind was just drawing a blank while this guy was telling me all about how "he's Jewish, like you" and "he's conservative, but he makes a lot of good points".
From what I've seen of him Ben Shapiro tends to make good evidence-based arguments. You might not agree with his conclusions, but there is a logic there. If you want to go up against him, you do have to know your stuff. I know I don't agree with him on everything, but I think to just dismiss him as being racist or homophobic or transphobic is a mistake.
Shapiro's an ass who blames Obama for everything. And I mean fucking everything.
Then there was a certain tweet of his:
"Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock"
Seriously, what in the everloving fuck.
Edited by M84 on Dec 3rd 2018 at 5:12:54 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedBen Shapiro is the most dangerous of all, someone who is REALLY good in cherry picking facts until he distorts the truth completely, but unless you know what he did, it is easy to fall for him because he sounds reasonable. Here an example of someone taking apart the whole "Jews could have defended themselves with guns" argument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfHXJRqq-qo&t=135s
Edited by Swanpride on Dec 3rd 2018 at 1:23:46 AM
Regarding "evidence-based arguments", here's another video (from a left-wing perspective) on Shapiro's absolutely braindead response to climate change, featuring this absolute gem of his (at 12:40):
You think that people aren't going to just sell their homes and move?
Edited by Eschaton on Dec 3rd 2018 at 1:43:22 AM
