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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#286601: Aug 5th 2019 at 8:26:11 AM

[up]So pretty much knock knock jokes then.

Seriously, I can't remember if I ever found a knock knock joke genuinely funny or just groan-worthy like a bad pun.

Disgusted, but not surprised
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#286602: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:00:32 AM

[up]at least bad puns have charm.
To paraphrase (I think?) George Carlin, the mark of a truly great bad pun intended shaking your head in dismay all while wishing you'd thought of it first.

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#286603: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:07:56 AM

I found meme culture lazy since people can't be assed to make actual replies and just use a pic with text that took 5 seconds to type.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#286604: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:09:19 AM

If by memes you mean the archetypical kind that mostly consists of your typical image macro and a pithy saying then I agree that they're abysmal, but memes encompass any kind of humor or in-joke that gets borne across multiple people beyond a singular and tightly secluded social circle. I'm not about to give up "On your left!" anytime soon.

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#286605: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:15:23 AM

There are funny/enjoyable memes, but those are few and far between.

But this is off-topic.

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#286606: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:36:35 AM

Fandom in-jokes that just use meme formats are pure gold, and you can't change my mind.

"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
SeptimusHeap MOD from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#286607: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:39:20 AM

Enough. Memes are not the topic here.

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CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#286608: Aug 5th 2019 at 9:42:37 AM

All right, understood.

If we want to discuss further, the "Politics and Media" thread is probably a better setting for this topic.

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#286609: Aug 5th 2019 at 11:14:34 AM

Trump is musing aloud on the possibility of using these white supremacist murders as incentive to pass more racist policies.

From the hideous bowels of Trump's Twitter account:

We cannot let those killed in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, die in vain. Likewise for those so seriously wounded. We can never forget them, and those many who came before them. Republicans and Democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying....

....this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform. We must have something good, if not GREAT, come out of these two tragic events!

Yep. That's right. In the wake of these tragedies, Trump wants to write gun control policies and attach harsher immigration laws to those policies as riders.

I would call it tone-deaf if he wasn't already openly racist. He's using racist murders to try and convince us to us buy gun control, at the cost of rights for the same people that his people are trying to murder. Does anyone else get a protection racket vibe here? Because this feels protection racket-y to me. Except with human rights instead of cash.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 5th 2019 at 12:18:39 PM

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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
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#286610: Aug 5th 2019 at 11:46:50 AM

I mean, this isn't the first time he's pulled this. The last time led to a months-long government shutdown.

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#286611: Aug 5th 2019 at 12:07:46 PM

In a nutshell: "Keep out the brown people or we'll kill them."

Soban Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#286612: Aug 5th 2019 at 12:19:12 PM

Confusion: Biden offers sympathy for the ‘tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan'

Biden, 76, mistakenly referred to the shootings as “the tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before," but later corrected himself, according to a pool report. Biden seemingly confused Houston for El Paso and Michigan for Ohio when speaking to donors about the shootings.

...

Sunday was not the first time that Biden mixed up names on the 2020 campaign trail. In May, Biden confused former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who left office in 1990, with then-Prime Minister Theresa May.

...

During a Democratic primary debate last week, Biden misstated his frequent line about eight years of Trump, among other flubs. Biden warned that "eight more years of Trump will change America in a fundamental way," even though Trump is constitutionally limited to one more four-year term after 2020.

This might not be the nail in yhe coffin, but it's not promising.

Edited by Soban on Aug 5th 2019 at 3:19:57 PM

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The Shadow
#286613: Aug 5th 2019 at 12:32:17 PM

Dear God.

If the Democrats nominate Biden, Trump is going to win by a landslide.

Edited by MrHellboy on Aug 5th 2019 at 2:33:04 PM

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AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#286614: Aug 5th 2019 at 12:37:07 PM

Even without his other issues the frequency and degree of these flubs would eventually pose a genuine danger in a world leader.

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Knows-Many-Things
#286615: Aug 5th 2019 at 12:43:36 PM

[up][up]I don't think it's heading that way. Kamala Harris and Bernie seem like the most likely candidates because they will certainly get votes. Personally I'm rooting for Warren but that's neither here nor there. Once people start to realize that Mr. Biden isn't going to be Obama 2.0, and win before the first vote is even cast, they'll stop throwing so much weight behind him.

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FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#286616: Aug 5th 2019 at 12:44:58 PM

Yeah at least whenever Bush the Sequel said something like “the past is over”, he got the point across but just in the wrong way.

Biden just doesn’t seem to get the point to begin with.

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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#286617: Aug 5th 2019 at 12:58:12 PM

Re McConnell fracturing his shoulder: Why couldn't it have been his leg? It would've been more humiliating for him, since it would force him to use crutches or a wheelchair to move around (especially the former in, say, the Senate chamber, since it has a lot of stairs).

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
bitemytail Since: Dec, 2011
#286618: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:02:40 PM

Biden's always been a gaffe machine. Nothing new.

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#286619: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:05:00 PM

If the Democrats nominate Biden, Trump is going to win by a landslide.

Don't be ridiculous, Trump isn't going to win in a landslide against anyone.

I get that we rightly dislike Biden but let's not confuse our views with the views of the American public, Biden is a bad candidate for a number of reasons but giving Trump an easy victory is not one of them.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#286620: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:07:46 PM

There seems to be this weird assumption that Americans collectivtly are secretly progressive as we are.

Don't you think if America was as progressive as this forum, Republicans would have been made irrelevant like long, long, LONG ago?

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#286621: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:08:45 PM

> Don't be ridiculous, Trump isn't going to win in a landslide against anyone.

-Monkey's paw twitches-

oh no,thats not good

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#286622: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:13:48 PM

[up] Is this the moment where we point out yet again that even his last victory was a) extremely close and b) due to electoral shenanigans?

And that was before he had the power to screw everyone over - four years of Trump have likely soured a lot of people on the idea of an encore.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#286623: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:15:01 PM

Maybe not by a landslide, but I sincerely think nominating Biden will be the last nail in the coffin, that is 4 more years of Trump.

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Everyone's friend Malamar
#286624: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:15:25 PM

[up][up]I hope you speak from better experiences with the voting population than I've had.

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Aug 5th 2019 at 4:15:36 AM

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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#286625: Aug 5th 2019 at 1:19:46 PM

I wouldn't discount the possibility of Trump being re-elected because republicans cheated that hard.

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