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3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#334602: Oct 22nd 2020 at 7:07:24 AM

Dark Horse bet: He chickens out at the last minute

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#334603: Oct 22nd 2020 at 7:29:29 AM

I predict another train wreck

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#334604: Oct 22nd 2020 at 7:33:54 AM

No way. McConnell is a revenant in a badly-stapled skin suit; he'll just keep plodding forward until they ram the nomination through, even if they only have three people in the entire Senate chamber. The law means nothing to him.

It's been fun.
clemont107 Mega Togekiss?! from Land of Missed Opportunities (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Mega Togekiss?!
#334605: Oct 22nd 2020 at 7:43:09 AM

McTurtle, like Trump, is a perfect example of a real-life Jerkass, except smarter.

It still amazes me that both of them still have people willing to stand by them.

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#334606: Oct 22nd 2020 at 7:47:03 AM

I really wish people stopped mistaking an absolute disregard for the laws and absolute ruthlessness with cleverness and intelligence.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#334607: Oct 22nd 2020 at 7:56:29 AM

Well, it does take a certain degree of low cunning to realize that things like "rules" don't actually prevent you from doing whatever you want if nobody else is willing or able to do anything except whine at you.

Emphasis on "low".

Edited by Reflextion on Oct 22nd 2020 at 11:00:41 AM

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#334608: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:00:40 AM

Mc Turtle is probably doing this out of sheer pettiness and spite at this point.

Most likely due to knowing that he is a dead man walking (he is 78 years old and judging from the pictures, in a deteriorating state of health already.) So this judge nomination is just his giant middle finger towards anyone that isn't on "his team" and will remain as such long after his departure if the judge gets the spot.

The fear of legal consequences shrinks surprisingly fast when one is standing one foot at death's doorstep (from old age, disease or both) after all...

Zarastro Since: Sep, 2010
#334609: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:05:06 AM

Well, Mc Connell has all but managed to secure a strong conservative majority in the SC for the next few decades (and crucially denied this to the Democrats), I doubt he loses any sleep about the bad example he set with his behaviour, especially if the SC restricsts or bans abortions.

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#334610: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:06:32 AM

Mc Connell, hard as it may be to accept, acts on principle. He really believes that some people are just better and more deserving than others of positions of responsibility, and a proportional degree of compensation. He believes in what he thinks of as "meritocracy", and that for the most part, people rise (or fall) to the level they deserve. He's what we would call an "authoritarian."

Edited by DeMarquis on Oct 22nd 2020 at 11:07:30 AM

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#334611: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:06:48 AM

My biggest fear is during the debate Trump will do his stalker thing or he did with Clinton or otherwise infect Biden.

I'm assuming this isn't a realistic fear, but it's the one foremost in my mind.

ShadowWingLG Since: Dec, 2013
#334612: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:09:55 AM

I have no doubt they will have a barrier between them, ESPECICALLY in light of Trump's infection. If they don't Biden has the perfect reason to walk away and there's a chance he'll get PRAISED for the action while Trump tweets that Biden is a coward.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334613: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:17:53 AM

Oh yeah, Giuliani promised to that "interviewer" he was going to eat a bat.

Wait a minute... has no standards to speak of... no dignity... messes around with bats... finds himself in compromising situations...

Oh my god, Giuliani is turning into Randy Marsh.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#334614: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:18:34 AM

One of the conditions for the debate to even take place at all is that Trump shows up with a "NEGATIVE" Covid-19 test that must have been taken the very same day before it all starts first.

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334615: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:19:02 AM

On the debate, there's no way Biden will walk away. He's much too much a gentleman and professional for that.

And Trump is not going to do his stalker thing, or he would have done it the first time around. That's just not his strategy with men.

Edited by Redmess on Oct 22nd 2020 at 5:20:09 PM

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#334616: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:21:05 AM

There is a Mac Donald's cheeseburger in a cage attached to Trump's podium. It's very effective at keeping him in place.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334617: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:25:10 AM

Apparently Trump held a rally in Eerie, Pennsylvania, where he told the crowd he was only here because of the "plague", and told them there was no way he'd come there if not for that.

I think he's losing his touch. Way to insult your own supporters. grin

Trump also told the same crowd that if Sleepy Joe becomes president, politics will become boring again and people will lose interest in it. Which frankly, after four years of Trump, sounds amazing. We could indeed do with much less interesting politics in the US.

Edited by Redmess on Oct 22nd 2020 at 5:27:33 PM

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#334618: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:29:34 AM

Hopefully not too boring since that's how we got Trump in the first goddamned place and, ah, I really don't trust my [gag] fellow voters to remember that fact in 2024.

Edited by Reflextion on Oct 22nd 2020 at 11:30:43 AM

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#334619: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:32:33 AM

As for the debate, I don't expect Trump to walk out. He is probably going to move his interruption tactics to the debate part.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#334620: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:35:31 AM

Trump didn't win because politics got boring, he won in part because the middle income business class thought he was an Alpha Male.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#334621: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:36:00 AM

I don't think that Evil Turtle is a Jerkass, more like a totally amoral power exploiter/Chessmaster.

Someone wrote an article arguing that Trump's fundamental problem is that he's too obsessed about how The Internet - that is, conservative-leaning portions thereof - respond to him even though the vast majority of the electorate doesn't care.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#334622: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:36:51 AM

Has Trump been training for this one?

Edited by Aszur on Oct 22nd 2020 at 9:39:23 AM

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#334623: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:38:31 AM

Define "training." Every time he responds to a question in the practice session, they give him a candy bar.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#334624: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:40:04 AM

That rings a bell.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#334625: Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:40:40 AM

It doesn’t really make sense tbh as Obama had the biggest peace overture to Iran in the past 50 years and the biggest boon to their government. Biden winning is probably the most beneficial outcome to Iran.

Once again, it was a false flag.

They were most likely trying to discredit Trump by posing as his supporters and very publicly intimidating voters. It makes perfect sense that Iran would try to undermine his campaign in such a way.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Oct 22nd 2020 at 8:40:54 AM

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