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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#343176: Dec 12th 2020 at 5:47:34 PM

So I was watching the pilot of The Critic out of some sense of morbid curiosity. And there was a joke about this model having dated Donald Trump.

Goddarnit. Can't even escape the guy watching a 26 year old cartoon. grin

Terrible show, would not recommend.

In the same vein, some of the later The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes had some Trump jokes during the monologue. Unfortunately, there were also some Biden jokes (as he was in Congress at the time), which makes searching the show on Youtube to be an annoying experience, because every other video recently has been "LOL Biden was crappy* even back then!"

  • (crappy in those uploaders' opinions, natch)

Edited by speedyboris on Dec 12th 2020 at 5:59:19 AM

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#343177: Dec 12th 2020 at 6:35:52 PM

I’d rather the Democratic party split between the moderates and progressives.

Jesus Christ, whhhhhyyyyy would you want that?! You want to fracture the left and hand the GOP literally every election in the country? Even MA would be crawling with Republicans if a catastrophe like that happened.

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#343178: Dec 12th 2020 at 6:38:25 PM

[up]Again, I clarified in my following post that I was responding to someone positing a hypothetical time when the republican party had collapsed.

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Perseus Since: Nov, 2009
#343179: Dec 12th 2020 at 6:44:58 PM

[up][up] The scenario posited was if the GOP implodes and is rendered impotent as a political entity. Someone said they'd hope some of the "moderate" Republicans would rebuild the party as a remotely rational institution, as a one-party state isn't healthy. However, in this specific hypothetical situation, wherein the reactionaries are no longer a threat, one might reasonably prefer the idea of the two parties instead being moderate and progressive left.

Edited by Perseus on Dec 13th 2020 at 1:48:26 AM

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#343180: Dec 12th 2020 at 6:49:54 PM

The GOP hypothetically collapses and fragments and the proposed Democratic response is to mirror it in doing so?

Look, if the GOP one day collapsed into two or three parties, that would be the opportunity for the Democrats to capture every single seat in every legislature in every state in the country.

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Perseus Since: Nov, 2009
#343181: Dec 12th 2020 at 6:58:11 PM

The entire statement here is "If there have to be precisely two parties that hold serious chances of gaining power, I'd rather have a moderate party versus a progressive party than a conservative party versus a liberal party." That's it. Obviously, in reality, where conservatism is not going to become completely irrelevant in the foreseeable future, this is a moot point. No one's actually advocating for the Democratic Party to break up.

Edited by Perseus on Dec 13th 2020 at 2:26:04 AM

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#343182: Dec 12th 2020 at 7:15:49 PM

The Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature are refusing to pay millions owed to counties for Trump's recount. Said counties voted overwhelming for Biden.

nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#343183: Dec 12th 2020 at 7:20:41 PM

As the article notes, the Trump campaign has already paid the money, and a GOP-led committee is refusing to release it.

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#343186: Dec 12th 2020 at 7:48:02 PM

[up]Finally some unambiguously good news for once!!

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#343188: Dec 12th 2020 at 7:59:33 PM

What a cuckservative RINO, amirite?tongue

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nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#343189: Dec 12th 2020 at 8:38:25 PM

Sorry to be posting bad news right after good, but North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley (D) conceded to Paul Newby (R) after a hand-recount of votes found her still behind by just a couple hundred votes. Democrats lost 2 seats on the NC Supreme Court this election, retaining a narrower 4-3 majority. Newby will now be the Chief Justice on NC's highest court. Raleigh News-Observer

About a month ago, Slate covered the importance of this election:

The North Carolina Supreme Court has confronted systemic racism, reckoned with the state's Confederate history, and protected voting rights under the leadership of Cheri Beasley, the first Black woman to serve as its chief justice... Newby, a white male Republican who serves on the court alongside Beasley, has loudly and frequently objected to the court's clear-eyed acknowledgment of racism, using his dissents to attack Beasley, a Democrat, as a judicial activist. If Newby wins, his victory will be a major setback for racial justice in North Carolina.

Edited by nova92 on Dec 12th 2020 at 8:38:38 AM

TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#343190: Dec 12th 2020 at 9:33:42 PM

And to the surprise of no one, the Trump supporter rally in Washington escalated into violence when the Proud Boys started targeting "anyone with Antifa".

Aka: Everyone that wasn't a Trump supporter.

4 stabbed and one shot as reported thus far.

Ayasugi Since: Oct, 2010
#343191: Dec 12th 2020 at 11:03:43 PM

Was there even a counter protest nearby? Or was the escalation all on them?

nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#343192: Dec 12th 2020 at 11:06:42 PM

AP News:

Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump returned to Washington for weekend rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden.

Sporadic fights broke out between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators after sundown Saturday. WRC-TV reported that four people were taken to a hospital with stab wounds, and the Metropolitan Police Department told the station that 23 people were arrested.


That demonstration, which drew 10,000 to 15,000 people to the capital, ended late in the evening with scattered clashes between Trump’s loyalists and local activists near Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House.

On Saturday, police took more steps to keep the two sides apart, closing a wide swath of downtown to traffic and sealing off Black Lives Matter Plaza.

But while Saturday’s rallies, including one on Freedom Plaza downtown, were smaller than on Nov. 14, they drew a larger contingent of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group known to incite street violence. Some wore bulletproof vests as they marched through town.

The group saw its profile raised after Trump in September famously told them to “stand back and stand by.”

After the rallies ended, downtown Washington quickly devolved into crowds of hundreds of Proud Boys and combined forces of antifa and local Black activists — both sides seeking a confrontation in an area flooded with police officers. As dusk fell, they faced off on opposite sides of a street, with multiple lines of city police and federal Park Police, some in riot gear, keeping them separated.

One Proud Boy yelled out, “You cops can’t be everywhere!” The Proud Boys later dispersed.


Question: Are The Wrap or Daily Beast reputable sources?

Edited by nova92 on Dec 12th 2020 at 11:06:52 AM

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#343193: Dec 12th 2020 at 11:15:15 PM

Daily Beast is very left learning, IIRC, but doesn't make information up?

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#343194: Dec 12th 2020 at 11:21:56 PM

That's been my impression as well.

nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#343195: Dec 12th 2020 at 11:26:22 PM

[up], [up][up] Thank you - I knew they leaned left but didn't know if they were Vox or The Intercept on the journalism front.


Los Angeles County elected a new District Attorney, George Gascon. He campaigned as a progressive and has already begun to implement a number of changes. CBS Local News:

Newly sworn-in George Gascon announced Monday that county prosecutors will no longer seek cash bail for any misdemeanor or non-violent, non-serious felony offenses.

Attorneys who have clients behind bars awaiting trial on any of the affected offenses can immediately schedule a hearing to revisit bail and his office won't contest their release.

Gascon, 66, also told reporters he is taking the death penalty "off the table" and will seek to re-sentence inmates on death row to life in prison.

The former San Francisco prosecutor also declared he won't file any gang enhancements in criminal complaints, saying they undermine rehabilitation, exacerbate racial inequities and unnecessarily crowd jails and prisons.

He also pledged to immediately end the practice of charging minors as adults, and will make victims' services available to families of those shot and killed by law enforcement officers.

The District Attorney's office will also not require victims of crime to testify against perpetrators in order to gain access to victims' services.

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#343196: Dec 13th 2020 at 12:03:36 AM

I saw this on twitter and man, he wasted no time getting on top of things.

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#343197: Dec 13th 2020 at 1:09:43 AM

Man is also a former cop himself, I imagine the local police force are very angry with him. Hopefully he’s able to stay safe.

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nova92 Since: Apr, 2020
#343198: Dec 13th 2020 at 3:11:52 AM

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms declined a position in Biden's Cabinet, though the senior adviser who gave that information to AJC didn't specify which role she had been offered.

Edited by nova92 on Dec 13th 2020 at 3:12:22 AM

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The Element of Hyperbole.
#343199: Dec 13th 2020 at 4:20:57 AM

It's funny how both sides of the aisle act like infighting is more prominent on the other side. Right wingers say the left eats itself. The left wingers say the right eats itself.

Don't... both sides do that? The whole ideological purity thing? Or am I mistaken and it really IS the right that mostly does it?

Edited by GNinja on Dec 13th 2020 at 12:28:48 PM

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#343200: Dec 13th 2020 at 4:25:45 AM

Leftwingers generally don't take it to the extremes the Trumpists are taking it now. Y'know, shit like death threats as seen in Georgia.

Disgusted, but not surprised

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