The BlueSwan Basement of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VIII

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Totally false. He's a Log Cabin Republican who is a massive Trump fanatic. Complete exoneration! NEXT!

Not sure if trolling, but doubt

Its true.

Buttigieg=Log Cabin Republican???

Court packing=Log Cabin Republican???

Abolishing Electoral College=Log Cabin Republican?

Buttigieg is obviously a liberal, this is low, low quality trolling

I did not know it was possible to be this stupid.

I am not saying the allegations are true, I am saying that it is stupid to think that Buttigieg is any type of Republican, he is clearly a liberal

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Totally false. He's a Log Cabin Republican who is a massive Trump fanatic. Complete exoneration! NEXT!

Not sure if trolling, but doubt

Its true.

Buttigieg=Log Cabin Republican???

Court packing=Log Cabin Republican???

Abolishing Electoral College=Log Cabin Republican?

Buttigieg is obviously a liberal, this is low, low quality trolling

I did not know it was possible to be this stupid.

I am not saying the allegations are true, I am saying that it is stupid to think that Buttigieg is any type of Republican, he is clearly a liberal

How is thsi “absurd and ignorant”

He obviously wasn't talking about Buttigieg.

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The worst poster ever was probably Evergreen though. Imagine if Frankenstein’s monster became a radical pro-rape SJW? That was basically Evergreen.

Reminds me of Texarkana, although he was nothing compared to some others.

I’m still in shock that he was banned over a signature. It wasn’t even explicit.

Shockingly ignorant, as texarkana's signature wasn't even a factor in why he was banned.

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Greatest I Am always had Regards for everyone

Greatest I Am was an annoying poster on the religious thread, who attacked people, who disagreed with him

I swear you are the densest person EVER.

(And honestly Ernest's joke was pretty good.)

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"Dangerous", say the ones censoring free speech. This is absolutely unconstitutional.

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Papacy dominated the Eastern World during the Celtic Iron Age, but when the Vikings came and other Groups, started developing more secular religions, the Protestant Era began, and reformed the monarchy and papacy.  As a result, Britian expanded its empire to the West, where colonists, who were deemed as witches, for not following the Celtic catholic church, sought refuge in the new world.

What is this a response to?

Unironically asking for clarification and expecting a non-non-sequitur from olowakandi.

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I just don't know honestly, might just have abstained... Corbyn and Tony Benn, Attlee and MacDonald are the only ones i would have turned out enthusiastically for. I just see no reason to vote for centrist Labourites like Blair and Brown who did anything but help the working class (and in case of Blair even made war crimes), like what's the difference between Blair and Cameron or Blair and Reagan. I honestly don't know.

And centrists sometimes aren't better than right-wing candidates... See Macron. I honestly think Marine Le Pen would be better for the working class in France. I might've supported Macron once, but now i'm leaning towards Le Pen if the second round is repeated. We already know what we get if we vote for centrists and it's horrible, why not give the right a chance. At least economically they're better candidates, and all i care about is working class interests economically and the environment (and maybe some social policies).

I know more from US politics than UK politics although, that might explain the weird voting pattern. I don't know Milliband and a lot of the other past Labour candidates i voted for.

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Grassr00ts probably also believes the Myers-Briggs means absolutely anything whatsoever.

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Seth MacFarlane's brand of "liberalism" is mostly annoying and unfunny and The Simpsons is way past it's prime and rarely funny anymore, so... South Park it is, I guess.

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I guess I just don't understand what exactly happened to Ohio. Obama won it twice, and Kerry won it in 2004 if you account for stolen votes by Bush.

What happened in OK

Did Dan Boren and Brad Henry run??

This was the map I meant to post in the previous Warren/Inslee v. Trump/Pence, but I mistakenly posted the wrong one. Warren was reared in Oklahoma, and is a southern populist who appeals to rural, poor whites such as those in Oklahoma, not to mention the possibility of activating Native American voters (of whom there are many in OK, and also NM and CO).

Thinking Warren would actually win OK, even Brad Henry can’t win modern OK, but muh-April polls will show him leading Inhofe, creating a muh-tossup, Warren will not even break 35% in OK, bold prediction

Man you guys are the easiest ones to be baited by a blatant troll EVER.

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Since 1990, Ohio Democrats have elected one governor against an incumbent with a literal 5% approval rating in 2006.

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Senile old fogey faces the wrong way during campaign speech.  You're supposed to face towards the microphone, old man!  What an embarrassing gaffe.

Are you kidding me?
He turned around to acknowledge the people behind him, and at the second someone took a picture.
Why are you posting this nonsense?
Please don't do this. This is what we expect from Deplorable trump morons.

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Stabenow is a very lackluster backbencher who underperformed Gore in 2000 and since then has lucked out with being up for re-election only in good years for Democrats and pre-2018 against utterly awful opponents. She's hardly an institution or someone particularly a powerhouse in the state.

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THIS IS WHAT WE FEARED, THE PALE-FACE IS A DEMON

It wouldn't shock me if this was true.  It also wouldn't shock me if some America-Hating type made up the story and America-Hating snot noses just choose to believe the negative account uncritically.

Click for context.

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Except for MS.  I would put it a lot higher.  It was third on this list in 2016, and is only going to become more D over time; in fact, it is destined to flip D at some point.  I just can't see it behind a state like KS- and yes, I do understand KS is trending D and worth keeping an eye on.  But there's a much different dynamic at work there.

Mississippi will become majority black eventually at current trends, so not that insane of a prognosis.

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The election : 2016 easily

The year: 2006 pretty easily


The whole 2000s are probably the most Conservative Decade we have had since the 1920s

The 1980s too were so conservative with the Reagan Revolution, Theresa May in the United Kingdom and Brian Mulroney in Canada, notably.

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Definitely this one

LOL, thanks for the vote!

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Hilarious density and lack of reading comprehension on display:

That's a good way to alienate a large chunk of their base voters.

Minorities are very skeptical of those sources. Black women don't like it when a rich bro from Brooklyn tells them to bend over their knees.

Black women probably also don't like it when a white guy from Delaware projects his own opinions onto them.

Except actual real live black women have made it very clear they like that white guy from Delaware far more than they do the other white guy from Brooklyn. And you projecting your own opinions onto them (when it is very clear to anyone who cares to find out what their actual opinions are), while simultaneously projecting your own qualities onto others, is far more condescending than anything Biden could ever say.

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How about the Republicans being like the DUP?

Well, they have certain tendencies which you find in the Republicans but not so much in other UK parties, mainly those associated with the Christian Right, but overall Northern Ireland politics is sufficiently weird that comparisons don't work that well.

As far as religion and gun ownership goes, the similarities are striking. The DUP's radical bigoted evangelicalism would have its place in Alabama today, excoriating Catholics instead of agnostics. Ian Paisley remarked after the Pope's death that "this Romish man of sin is now in Hell", and described Catholics as those who “breed like rabbits and multiply like vermin”.

But the DUP are the definition of a single-issue party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ME45v08fQ0&pbjreload=10

And in that sense it doesn't quite fit with the Republicans, who have multiple wings as well as the frothing Religious: the progressives (Baker, Scott, Sununu, Hogan...), the reasonable (people like Amash, Collins, the former Walter Jones...), the libertarians (Rand), and the authoritarians (Trump' manservants)

IMO most British Conservatives would be Republicans if they'd launched a US political career, and most US Democrats would either be Labour or Lib Dem in the UK.  I'm sure there are exceptions but in general I think Democrats aren't motivated by the same sorts of things as Tories and vice versa, except of course where they're mainly motivated by whatever suits their own careers best.

I agree with you. I'd argue it would be far easier for a British politician to gain mild success in America than vice versa. The sort of US politicians who could climb their way the British ladder are the low-key but relatively high-quality moderates - .e.g. Greg Walden for the Republicans, and quite a few Democrats - someone like Denny Heck or Mike Quigley would fit in well as an average Labour MP.

I vehemently agree. That a Labourite MP would join the Democratic party makes no doubt, but it doesn't follow that a Democrat would join the Labour party.

In fact, as far as taxes, business and interventionism goes, I think the vast majority of the house Dems would part ways with Corbyn and feel closer to a Cameron or a May.

Does no one at the Tory party understand all this could have been done in one day, without shenanigans, with ranked ballot voting? Rank candidates in order. Machine tells you who wins while maximising voter satisfaction.
They're wasting so much time for nothing with this baby version of it.

That said, I think Tories would presumably say that they want the inter-ballot jockeying, that they'd like to see how candidates respond to changes in the dynamics and that they are open to the idea of lesser-ranked candidates endorsing better-ranked ones. I'm not saying this is correct, but I think this would be the argument.

But that would be balderdash. The only case RBV doesn't cover is if MPs actually shift their vote on who is to become prime minister in a month. That some could change their mind on such a momentous matter in a few hours reveals a appalling lack of conviction.
They're not all weathervanes, are they?

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Parker and Stone (sane, normal, etc)

MacFarlane's shows tend to be garbage (can't recall a single time I ever so much as chuckled at an episode of FG, for example). 

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Safe R because of WWC trends, 2016 realignment, etc.

Check out the poll results and see how asinine this strawman is.

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Parker and Stone (sane, normal, etc)

MacFarlane's shows tend to be garbage (can't recall a single time I ever so much as chuckled at an episode of FG, for example). 

You must've accidentally put the quote here, instead of the Simple Truths Gallery.

I thought you liked Family Guy.

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The stupid post was the one talking about Jones winning as an "open socialist", when he never campaigned as one or claimed to be one.

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Gabbard.

I kinda wished Obama, Trump, Cruz, Warren, Sanders and Gabbard were all members of the same party, while Clinton, Romney, Biden and the Bushes of the opposite party (the neoliberals). A united anti-establishment front vs neocon/neolib establishment. Things would be much more interesting.

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Republicans are the worst to make these folks run around begging for health related compensation benefits.

You just had to make this about politics, didn't you? Bush already gave compensation by hunting the guys who did this.