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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
True. Every single thing they'd criticize Biden for is something that would shoot them in the foot.
The debate was especially bad as only one person on that stage looked like John Worfen doing Discount Mussolini (double points if you get that reference).
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Sounds like a shitty version of Majora's Mask
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.![]()
You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
Edited by ironballs16 on Oct 9th 2020 at 3:46:24 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"The GOP sold what remained of it to win in 2016 and is stuck in a giant And Then What? since then.
"You can reply to this Message!"HOUSE OF CARDS did an actually interesting follow up to The Bad Guy Wins as the protagonist (played by someone who is now an unperson to me) finds himself President of the United States—and has absolutely no policies or plans. He is destined to be a lame duck president because he never bothered to think about what he wanted to be President FOR other than revenge.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.So the Mike Lee's comment on democracy has already been mentioned here but here's a Vox article of where the mindset comes from, and some subtleties that might be lost, but are still pretty dangerous.
The short of it is that since the 50s and 60s American Conservatives have been using a specific definition of "democracy" that they created by misinterpreted certain the Founding Fathers said about a specific form of democracy, and use that to retroactively justify both their rule by minority support and the measures they take to keep it in place.
The two I saw pop up at the debate were about H 1 N 1 (which I genuinely didn't know got that widespread in the US) and the mask stockpile - the latter of which, at least, Trump had 3 years to address beforehand.
I looked it up - H1N1 did indeed infect ~60 million US citizens
, but the actual harm that flu did was far lower. I was only commenting about how widespread it was.
Edited by ironballs16 on Oct 9th 2020 at 5:03:51 AM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"It didn't, it was a hypothetical what-if scenario, to show that Obama totally would have bungled a pandemic had it happened to him. As for the mask stockpile, that is of course just ignoring the fact that they didn't do anything about it themselves.
Basically, they are trying to blame Obama for everything going wrong now.
Edited by Redmess on Oct 9th 2020 at 11:02:31 AM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesMc Connell has already blamed Obama for "not leaving a plan" for Trump. Except he actually did have an pandemic plan that even named coronavirus as a potential epidemic. To his credit, he did take it back.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/mcconnell-obama-playbook-pandemic-259969
According to Politico, he said the following towards the Iran Republic: "If you f—- around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before."
So, how much of this is 'roid rage and how much of this is Trump being Trump?
Edited by astrokitty on Oct 9th 2020 at 5:22:50 AM
Somebody once told me the world was macaroni, I took a bite out of a tree

There's a reason their first attack on Biden was to commit impeachable offenses to extort an ally for a smear campaign.