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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.
#137376: Sep 5th 2016 at 10:18:28 PM

The sum total of her entire public life was in being a pernicious ultraconservative old crone. I'm not at all sad she's gone — it's just one more villain out of American political life.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#137377: Sep 5th 2016 at 11:47:41 PM

Yup. I'll feel the same way about Ann Coulter.

New Survey coming this weekend!
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#137378: Sep 5th 2016 at 11:59:44 PM

Speaking of Coulter, it seems she got shellacked at Rob Lowe's roast. She was reportedly dumbstruck.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#137379: Sep 6th 2016 at 12:53:20 AM

I don't know what kind of black magic was used to create Coulter, but I dearly hope that particular grimoire was destroyed.

Do not obey in advance.
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#137380: Sep 6th 2016 at 12:58:01 AM

[up]

Inter arma enim silent leges
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#137381: Sep 6th 2016 at 3:50:57 AM

So, a new CNN poll shows that Clinton and Trump are practically tied.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-election-2016/index.html

Before you start to panic, please read the article. It notes that Clinton is still beating Trump massively with minorities, has a better campaign machine by a long shot, has a better funded air game, and has a state-by-state/electoral college edge.

And we still have the debates coming up.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#137382: Sep 6th 2016 at 4:22:57 AM

So a New Jersey GOP candidate running for a spot on the West Deptford Township Committee tweeted a rape threat to a Daily Beast reporter. One of those "rapefugee" threats the alt-right loves, even.

Remember when the GOP wasn't completely morally bankrupt?

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#137383: Sep 6th 2016 at 4:34:22 AM

[up]Eisenhower was before my time.tongue

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#137384: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:09:22 AM

Yeah, at an absolute minimum, the Right (especially the Religious Right) has been at least somewhat morally bankrupt since a bunch of integration hating preachers decided that the moral choice was to push a divorced movie star who hung out in Hollywood and was friends with all sorts of people they said were damned (Jews, atheists, believers in evolution, anyone whose skin tone was darker than extremely light tan) into office over the devout farmer/naval officer/Sunday school teacher who helped the poor and went on to wipe out entire diseases in Africa.

It's just gotten worse with time.

edited 6th Sep '16 6:09:43 AM by TheWanderer

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#137385: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:12:06 AM

It's still mind fucking me that people hate minorities so much their willing to risk the stability of global civilization itself just to stick it to them.

New Survey coming this weekend!
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#137386: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:12:56 AM

It makes sense if you accept the premise that said minorities are a major threat to global civilization.

edited 6th Sep '16 6:13:14 AM by Kostya

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#137387: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:14:50 AM

[up][up][up]I don't get the reference. Could anyone spell it out for me?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#137388: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:19:29 AM

[up]I believe Trump/Romney? Or McCain. Can't tell...

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#137389: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:19:41 AM

[up][up]The GOP getting Ronald Reagan to beat Jimmy Carter.

edited 6th Sep '16 6:19:49 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#137390: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:22:33 AM

[up]Haha, seems like a recurring theme, doesn't it?

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#137391: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:22:48 AM

No, he's referring to Jimmy Carter vs. Ronald Reagan. EDIT: Beaten.

edited 6th Sep '16 6:23:04 AM by speedyboris

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#137392: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:31:15 AM

Well, it kind of happened again. Trump, former reality show star, mediocre executive, raging narcissist, has beaten out the more reasonable (low bar there) Romney and veteran McCain for the seat.

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#137393: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:31:52 AM

As everyone said, back in the late 70s, a group of ultra racist preachers like Falwall, Robertson, and the Jones clan who had fought racial integration tooth and nail and were facing losing their tax exempt status because they were still refusing to integrate their own schools like Bob Jones "university" threw their support behind Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, (an actor from the sinful and, according to them, Satanic Hollywood) over Jimmy Carter, who certainly was a lot more in tune with that Jesus guy.

Since then it's just been a progression to selling arms to state sponsors of terrorism, (Iran-Contra) telling God to stuff it on that whole "be a good steward of the Earth" thing, making government small enough to fit inside your bedroom, becoming ever more hateful of your fellow man, getting involved in a couple of wars on false pretenses, etc., until we arrive at the point we see today where religion is only free if it's your religion, culture wars need to be fought against any appearance of non-heteronormativity, it's considered good form to try to get African countries where you're preaching to make homosexuality a death penalty offense, and so on and so forth.

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
HallowHawk Since: Feb, 2013
#137394: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:32:01 AM

[up] We'll see about that in two months.

blkwhtrbbt The Dragon of the Eastern Sea from Doesn't take orders from Vladimir Putin Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Dragon of the Eastern Sea
#137395: Sep 6th 2016 at 6:57:32 AM

He already has it.

I'm not talking about the presidential seat, I'm talking about the Republican Candidacy. He already has that.

Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you
Antiteilchen In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good. Since: Sep, 2013
In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.
#137396: Sep 6th 2016 at 7:03:37 AM

It's still mind fucking me that people hate minorities so much their willing to risk the stability of global civilization itself just to stick it to them.

They either don't care or even think about global civilzation.That would require caring about other people. Or they think they live in the end times anyway.

Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#137397: Sep 6th 2016 at 7:10:16 AM

Meanwhile, Washington called off a bilateral meeting with the Filipino government after Duterte called Obama a son of a whore. Yes, that phrase you probably have heard if you have had the misfortune to ever enter a multiplayer game with a Filipino player having a bad day.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#137398: Sep 6th 2016 at 7:30:41 AM

He has previously used the epithet against Pope Francis, although he later apologised, and the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines.

What a dick!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#137399: Sep 6th 2016 at 7:34:25 AM

[up]Well, that just shows that life would be better if we could mute and report outside games. tongue

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#137400: Sep 6th 2016 at 8:15:56 AM

@Tactical: That's a somewhat reductionist view of the whole Trump movement. Nativism is the glue that binds it together, but there's always been a strong nativist undercurrent in the United States, at least as long as its been a country. It wouldn't be gaining as much traction as it is without economic anxieties and a number of other converging factors.


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