The Atlas Asylum of absurd/ignorant posts IX

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Well, I guess I was going to end up in this board sooner or later. But at least I wasn't nearly as bad about the runoffs as MillennialMAModerate.

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Johnson by a wide margin. While one may criticize the Tenure of Office Act on procedural grounds, it’s pretty obvious he violated it, and therefore deserved to be impeached.

Clinton was guilty of perjury, and I would have voted accordingly, but I also think the investigation into his sex life was irrelevant and bullsh–t anyway.

The two Trump impeachments were, in the first place, red-baiting; and in the second, an obvious attempt to silence and served as the pretext for blatant censorship, so they were HP moves.

Yeah holding a president accountable for inciting a terrorist attack on our capital and abusing his office to blackmail an ally into announcing an investigation into your political rivals son for political gain in an election are actually an attempt to censor critics 🙄

Your obvious falsehoods aside, how do you really get away with labelling something a "terrorist" attack when the protestors never even brandished firearms? It was a pathetic outburst that took up an afternoon, got dispersed within a few hours, and since then nothing has happened. Lamest "terrorist" attack of all time.

Original quote about January 6th also qualifies.

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Today has made me realise just how much more interesting I find British election results than American ones.

US elections are a 50/50 trench war between two national parties that fundamentally agree on most major issues and basically every state and locality is just a rehash of the national partisan divide. In America, all politics is national and people even vote on local elections just to indicate their opinion on the President.

The UK at least has regional v. national dynamics + a multi-party system.

While some of this is accurate, polarization has still not fully taken over local elections, just look at the Republican mayors in cities like Fort Worth, Miami and Arlington (and until recently, San Diego). Also ticket splitting still very much exists in the United States, just look at Southern California, perhaps ground-zero for American ticket splitting. Also saying that the Democrats and Republicans are the same on every issue is a totally absurd position that really shows a massive misunderstanding of American politics. Even during the Clinton neoliberal era that so many people love to cite, the parties were absolutely not the same. Literally the only part of this that is accurate is that the US does not have a multi-party system, and honestly that's for the better, given how we've seen in the UK that FPTP can result in parties winning majorities while only having been voted for by a plurality. Overall, this post fundamentally misunderstands how American politics actually works.

That's probably Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine.

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Exactly these incompetently run elections undermine trust and confidence and make it seem like Trump's BS of election fraud may be sort of true. New York state and the city are a disgrace when it comes to managing elections properly. Not want to sound lecturing here, but sometimes I think you guys just should get out and let us Europeans run your elections. We don't have the issues.

Forget Europe. Florida does it completely right.

Florida is really good at it. Don't be bitter just because Democrats keep coming up short there. But don't take my word for it.

Here's Jeb!: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-florida-became-americas-vote-counting-model-11604703732

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Exactly these incompetently run elections undermine trust and confidence and make it seem like Trump's BS of election fraud may be sort of true. New York state and the city are a disgrace when it comes to managing elections properly. Not want to sound lecturing here, but sometimes I think you guys just should get out and let us Europeans run your elections. We don't have the issues.

Forget Europe. Florida does it completely right.

They're really good at it. But don't take my word for it.

Jeb! is spot on here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-florida-became-americas-vote-counting-model-11604703732

I mean after the debacle in the aftermath of the 2018 senate race, it seems clear that there’s something to be desired with their election administration.

They got a full statewide recount of over 8 million votes completed in 12 days. That is a gold standard, no matter how you slice it.

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I am going to visit relatives in Alabama (my mother is from Alabama) and many of them are anti-vaxxers.

Which precautions should I take?

If you're fully vaccinated, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

I mean, the vaccine is not 100% effective and is less effective against certain variations (i.e. Delta).

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Besides, looking at this from a purely political perspective, if you're a Democrat why would you be opposed to this media coverage of Delta? They're not blaming the Biden administration in any way and are basically portraying the surge as an act of God due to a much more powerful variant. They're keeping the "state of pandemic" going, but that's great for Democrats! Joe Biden's approval rating on handling COVID-19 is consistently 5-10 points higher than his overall approval rating, so if people are still thinking about the pandemic in 2022, they'd be more likely to vote Democratic.

What you don't want is for people to have forgotten about the pandemic by 2022, give Biden no credit for it when voting, and vote according to the usual issues along their usual partisan allegiances, which would put the Democrats in serious jeopardy of losing the House. Shouldn't you be wanting the pandemic to continue for as long as possible so people are constantly reminded of how badly Trump bungled it and Biden continually looks like the "adult in the room"?

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China doesn't have any troops stationed in Muslim holy sites/arming Israel. What reasoning would terrorists have for suddenly waging jihad against China lol, especially when they're busy having a war with who they view as "infidel occupiers in Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

Maybe because they're imprisoning millions of their Muslim population into concentration camps, violating their human rights and trying to indoctrinate them.

Is that actually happening, though, or is it just a right-wing plot to make Americans hate China?

The Democrats are going to lose the House by a wide margin, and Speaker McCarthy will make sure that Biden and Harris are imprisoned, thus becoming President.

It almost feels like cheating to include SnowLabrador's posts on here.

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AOC vs. MTG. It's all about base turnout.

In response to who would be both parties' strongest nominees be in 2024. I really wonder if this thread should be renamed after SnowLabrador.

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OSR being in agreement with Jordan Shanks is proof that horseshoe theory is real.

I mean using the military to enforce these types of lockdowns:

- Nobody allowed to leave more than 5 km from their house

- Only allowed 1-2 hour outside of your house period for exercise

- Not allowed to have any visitors in your home

Plus cops are now going door to door asking people if they heard about any protests


Seems like a quasi-police state at this point

Also the fact that they're not even allowing their own citizens to come back in, which is a blatant human rights violation. Everyone just needs to accept that COVID will not be eradicated like smallpox or polio.

Ahem: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56924188
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/04/1010891117/aussies-stranded-abroad-include-hundreds-of-kids-folks-short-on-cash
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/australians-stuck-abroad-covid/index.html

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OSR being in agreement with Jordan Shanks is proof that horseshoe theory is real.

I mean using the military to enforce these types of lockdowns:

- Nobody allowed to leave more than 5 km from their house

- Only allowed 1-2 hour outside of your house period for exercise

- Not allowed to have any visitors in your home

Plus cops are now going door to door asking people if they heard about any protests


Seems like a quasi-police state at this point

Also the fact that they're not even allowing their own citizens to come back in, which is a blatant human rights violation. Everyone just needs to accept that COVID will not be eradicated like smallpox or polio.

Ahem: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56924188
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/04/1010891117/aussies-stranded-abroad-include-hundreds-of-kids-folks-short-on-cash
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/australians-stuck-abroad-covid/index.html

Yes I'm aware, I'm saying it's absurd that you're calling this a human rights violation.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/05/un-raises-serious-human-rights-concerns-over-australia-india-travel-ban?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1620175474

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Yeah, it really is cheating to include SnowLabrador's posts on here.

No. They're the good guys here, they alerted the rest of the world so that we'd have time to prepare. And the US completely squandered it; if anything, WE should pay reparations for helping the anti-vaccine movement proliferate.

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Hate to say this, but Beshear seems like a slight favorite now. This is despite Beshear being no different than a generic Democrat, who imposed extremely harsh COVID restrictions.

Ryan Brune's take seems to be Beshear winning by 2, like Kelly and Edwards. That seems about right.

Maybe voters may actually want to reward someone for trying to keep them safe!

Imagine thinking COVID restrictions are popular.

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I know I've said it feels like cheating, but still:

No. I'd rather fight against Israel after they bombed that hospital.

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