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Resileafs I actually wanted to be Resileaf Since: Jan, 2019
I actually wanted to be Resileaf
#333026: Oct 9th 2020 at 8:42:13 PM

"Joe Biden will tear down your house and replace it with another house with smaller windows" takes a special kind of dumb to believe.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#333027: Oct 9th 2020 at 8:59:26 PM

At this point, Trump is sounding like Futurama Nixon.

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RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
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#333028: Oct 9th 2020 at 8:59:34 PM

And lest we forget:

“I heard that the commission a little while ago changed the debate style, and that’s not acceptable to us. I beat [Biden] easily in the first debate, according to the polls that I’ve seen,” Trump said. “But I beat him easily, I felt I beat him easily. I think he felt it, too. He wouldn’t answer any questions and he had the protection of Chris Wallace all night long. I thought Chris Wallace was a disaster.”

Trump continued, “But I beat him in the first debate. At the second debate, we had a never-Trumper as a host, but that’s OK because I beat [Biden] in the second debate also.”

This was when he was talking about refusing the new rules for the second debate.

Edited by RainehDaze on Oct 9th 2020 at 4:59:42 PM

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#333029: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:01:57 PM

Man are those withdrawal effects going to be painful.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#333030: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:08:18 PM

I am not sure Trump will stop taking the drug until he's dead.

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RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#333031: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:10:26 PM

That would be worse. But drugged up Trump is hilarious if nothing else.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Galadriel Since: Feb, 2015
#333032: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:11:06 PM

A federal judge has overturned the Texas governor’s voter suppression efforts:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/texas-ballot-drop-boxes/index.html

The judge ruled that the governor could not limit ballot drop boxes to one per county, as it violated voting rights.

Edited by Galadriel on Oct 9th 2020 at 12:13:00 PM

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#333033: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:13:36 PM

As we saw with Florida, let's see how long that lasts.

The Republicans just appeal everything no matter how heinous until they get a ruling they like.

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Resileafs I actually wanted to be Resileaf Since: Jan, 2019
I actually wanted to be Resileaf
#333034: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:23:29 PM

I'm looking forward to Trumpsters insisting that there was a second debate.

Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#333035: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:24:23 PM

So Graham is refusing to take a Covid test before their debate, to the point of canceling it.

He is likely to have it but is hiding it as if he did have it the SC nomination would be up in smoke.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#333036: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:31:06 PM

[up] That's not all Graham's done. I don't know the full context, but for some reason, on camera, he said African-Americans in South Carolina can go anywhere in the state... as long as they're Conservative, not Liberal.

I pray Harrison kicks this ass out of the Senate in November.

Aukefi Since: Apr, 2019 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#333037: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:31:50 PM

Any way, yeah, the American Right has a persecution complex a mile wide

Oh, terribly so. I dunno if you've seen Ben Shapiro's sister trying to kinda buy her way into influencerdom, but she is constantly saying how this is the moment for conservatives to take the culture back, how oppressed and silenced conservatives are, etc.

Edited by Aukefi on Oct 9th 2020 at 9:33:02 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#333038: Oct 9th 2020 at 9:44:14 PM

Anyway, my earlier point was that it's kind of not helpful to think that we'd have made less progress if HRC was POTUS these last few years instead.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#333039: Oct 9th 2020 at 10:05:18 PM

That's not all Graham's done. I don't know the full context, but for some reason, on camera, he said African-Americans in South Carolina can go anywhere in the state... as long as they're Conservative, not Liberal.
Reminds me of an old Klan flier where they say they're okay with the "good" black people and basically say the town's black people (might) not be beaten or hung so long as they don't try to unionize or ask for civil rights or basically do anything that rocks the boat in any way.

Karxrida from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
#333040: Oct 9th 2020 at 10:41:50 PM

A heavily medicated @RealDonaldTrump tells Sean Hannity that @JoeBiden will make America "a 9th world country, not even a 3rd world country," and says Biden has committed to tearing down buildings and replacing them with "new buildings with tiny windows."

God, this is gold. Tiny windows? So they're not even worse or uglier buildings, they're just rebuilt with tiny windows?

minseok42 A Self-inflicted Disaster from A Six-Tatami Room (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
A Self-inflicted Disaster
#333041: Oct 9th 2020 at 10:57:23 PM

What's so wrong with small windows?

"Enshittification truly is how platforms die"-Cory Doctorow
Wispy Since: Feb, 2017
#333042: Oct 9th 2020 at 11:32:22 PM

I mean Trump already revealed the scary underbelly of America. We really are just a 3rd world country trying to act like a 1st world one.

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#333043: Oct 9th 2020 at 11:35:29 PM

The steroids are melting his brain. The coherency is gone. He's just rambling on and on. I think whatever bad stuff was going on with him mentally was accelerated by COVID and his treatment.

Resileafs I actually wanted to be Resileaf Since: Jan, 2019
I actually wanted to be Resileaf
#333044: Oct 9th 2020 at 11:36:18 PM

On a strictly technical sense, 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries just refer to countries aligned with the US, countries aligned with the USSR, and countries unaligned to either faction back during the Cold War.

So, the US is a second world country now, I guess?

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#333045: Oct 9th 2020 at 11:41:11 PM

...You really think Trump knows the meaning of first, second and third world countries? He just made up 9th world country because it sounds "more badder" to his melting brain.

AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
She/Her Pronouns
#333046: Oct 9th 2020 at 11:53:44 PM

[up][up] Unless we've had a Communist revolution since the last time I've checked, we'd be either a first or third world country.

The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#333047: Oct 9th 2020 at 11:57:26 PM

I thought it was a joke about Trump selling out to Putin.

nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#333048: Oct 10th 2020 at 12:07:43 AM

Bernie Sanders released 150 endorsements for downballot candidates. Includes everything from state legislative races to sheriffs and city councils.

Edited by nova92 on Oct 10th 2020 at 12:27:47 PM

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Forenperser Foreign Troper from Germany Since: Mar, 2012
Foreign Troper
#333050: Oct 10th 2020 at 1:01:32 AM

[up][up] That's why I like Bernie. Even though he is not a direct member of the party and can be a bit grumpy, when the chips are down he always does the right thing and endorses the Democratic side, even if he doesn't necessarily always agrees with them.

Edited by Forenperser on Oct 10th 2020 at 10:02:06 AM

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