The BlueSwan Basement of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VIII

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Can you even read?

Can you? I said alot, I.e. a surprisingly high number to me due to my prerecognitions. If I got a dollar 1/5 times a year(adj. by real 2018 $$), plus bonus I would have at minimum $10 with some other goodies in 50 years. With that I could buy a practically free bagel with a coffee. That feels like a $35 snack is a horrendous metaphor looking back as I type this out. Just focus on the first two sentences.

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It will be easier for Dems to target McConnell or Roberts or Ernst rather than TX, Mt or GA

Yeah, a state that trump won by 40 points is clearly going to be more competitive then GA and TX which he won by 5 and 9 respectively.

Yeah, it pretty clearly is for anyone over the age of 16. He narrowly won a safe state in 2008 and was an underdog for a lot of 2014 before his opponent was a complete dud. Prior to the Kavanaugh confirmation, he was arguably more unpopular than either of those times and Cocaine Mitch will likely revert to that status - fairly or unfairly. An inoffensive conservative is not losing to anyone in Texas and while Perdue has a similar chance to lose as McConnell does, the risk of a runoff election does not bode well for Democratic chances in a federal race.

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30* and absolutely if you were willing to give it any shot at all. McConnell can't touch Trump. He couldn't even close in on John McCain

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Full-on anti-Catholic bigotry here:

As far as I can tell, the Roman Catholic Church has made three main contributions to American life:

(1) Caused needless human suffering with unreasoned opposition to family planning of any kind.

(2) Physically and mentally destroyed untold numbers of children through sexual molestation and predation by priests.

(3) Established private K-12 schools that do not education the neediest of children, but rather provide a safe space for privileged, racist whites. This is particularly true in cities in Southern and Border states.

The results of the third were on full display during this incident.

Saddened to see that Kamala Harris's and Mazie Hirono's messages of hate have spread.

Don't feel singled out here. Indy Texas promotes bigotry towards people of all creeds. By far the worst offender on this site who should have been banned long ago.

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His post in this case is correct though.

And the anti-Catholic bigotry continues.

You can't be "bigoted" against an organization. It's also not bigotry to oppose the Republican Party, Democratic Party, Southern Baptist Convention, NARAL, the NRA, etc.

So you're going to excuse the poster writing "main contributions"?  It's pretty evident that the poster's opinions extend beyond the Church itself.  Point #1 is evidence of that, as the poster portrays pro-life Catholics, who cite faith as their reasons for opposing abortions, as purposefully making women suffer.  Point #3 claims that the Catholic Church and, therefore, Catholics actively seek to establish schools that promote racism, a gross and disgusting claim to make. 

You can oppose the ideals of an organization, yes (though it's laughable that you included four non-religious or non-ethnic-based organizations up there to make your point), but when you claim that the Roman Catholic Church has only primarily done three terrible things in America, you are, in essence, tying the faith to those who practice it and are accusing all of those who follow the Church of carrying out these things or supporting them (two of which, Points #1 and #3, are not accurate and blatant attempts to call Catholics abusers of women and promoters of racism).

Please do not support absolute trash and bigotry like that post's content and then attempt to defend it by saying "But he was only attacking the institution, not the people!!!"  Furthermore, the fact that you agree with his post in its entirety, that the MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS of the Church are those three points, even if you are only referring to the Church, is certainly telling.

BRTD has always publicly hated Catholics, you see. He has revealed nothing that he didn't first reveal more than a decade ago when hating on every Catholic nation.

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I say its time to rename this thread.

My proposal is shown in this post in its modified subject header.

One day after I call you out on your programming issues logical shortcomings. You're a clever one!

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Guess it’s Jill Stein 2020 for me!

I mean, you already support Gabbard, so you might as well vote for another Russia shill in the GE.

Please don’t ever quote me again. I don’t care about your opinions in the slightest, and this is why I have you on ignore.

"I have you on ignore which is why I get triggered by posts you make."

Even beyond that, this whole thing is a very concerning new Internet trend that comes across as borderline sociopathic aggression in response to rather bland statements.

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Damn, I was hoping it'd be in Florida so I could go to both the RNC and DNC

What kind of person would want to simultaneously want to go to both the DNC and the RNC on the same cycle. Going to a convention where a candidate is formally accepting a nomination when you oppose that candidates sounds like one of the worst ways possible to spend ones time.

Uhhh, journalists for one. I would imagine that an outright majority of posters on this site watched both RNC and DNC 2016. I thoroughly enjoyed DNC despite my hatred for the devil.

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I know that staunch GOP/trump supporters fear Biden ... as they should.

They don't have to cause he's DEAD ON ARRIVAL.

There's exacty 0.00% chance Joe Biden is gonna be the next president. Let's not kid ourselves please.

Right now I feel like Rubio and Christie are the two most logic answers to your question. Rubio for his likability, his humble background story, his soothing voice & non-threatening appearance, as well as his fluency with foreign policy issues. Christie for his fire in his belly, his many memorable debate moments, and being willing to tackle runaway entitlement costs by gradually rising the age of retirement.

Kasich just doesn't come across as presidential, though policy-wise he might be the most experienced and convincing of all the candidates. At this point, Kasich seems more wonky than Jeb to me.

Out of Carson, Trump and Cruz, I think that Cruz is the more likely option as the eventual nominee, by quite a distance even. And Trump is the least likely.

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I know that staunch GOP/trump supporters fear Biden ... as they should.

They don't have to cause he's DEAD ON ARRIVAL.

There's exacty 0.00% chance Joe Biden is gonna be the next president. Let's not kid ourselves please.

Right now I feel like Rubio and Christie are the two most logic answers to your question. Rubio for his likability, his humble background story, his soothing voice & non-threatening appearance, as well as his fluency with foreign policy issues. Christie for his fire in his belly, his many memorable debate moments, and being willing to tackle runaway entitlement costs by gradually rising the age of retirement.

Kasich just doesn't come across as presidential, though policy-wise he might be the most experienced and convincing of all the candidates. At this point, Kasich seems more wonky than Jeb to me.

Out of Carson, Trump and Cruz, I think that Cruz is the more likely option as the eventual nominee, by quite a distance even. And Trump is the least likely.

Trump won in 2016, we saw what happened when he tried to become president before.

Individual candidacies of the past don't mean jack.

Exactly! We are in agreement if that isn't clear...

Thanks for extending the parallels between failed past runs! Tend to forget about that in Trump's case.

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Have you been to an Ivy League (or similar caliber) campus? Like 80% of the student body is non-religious/atheist and that's probably underselling it.

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Maybe some people's understanding of "humility" means that they acknowledge "their place" in society. Its a sad and confusing state of affairs. Just because someone actively hates themselves doesn't mean that they should be subjected to violence. In fact, they are probably the ones who should be protected from it the most.

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

Thinking this about Buttigieg, (sigh)

I propose renaming the thread after Sprouts Farmers Market, for this completely absurd and ignorant post

I'm starting to see a pattern. Everyone this thread gets named after wants to instead name it after me when my favorability is the complete reverse of theirs.

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Can people please only use this thread for it's intended purpose? About two entries on this very long page qualify for this already banal thread

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Anyone who voted for Roy Moore, Corey Stewart, or Rick Scott in 2017 or 2018.

Rick Scott, seriously, comparing him to the other two is just wrong

It's like me saying anyone who voted for Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, or Jon Tester in 2018 is bad

Indeed, Rick Scott is far worse.

>Saying Rick Scott is worse than a theocratic pedophile, a neo-Confederate, or an anti-Semite

That is how bad he is, yes.

You also said he’s worse than ISIS , that’s ridiculous

There are many fine people who got caught up in ISIS including many great Americans. Teenagers will err away from their natural desire for goodness now and then due to idealist propaganda and the desire to be something Great. That is more understandable than a old greedy super millionaire illegally scamming his way to even greater wealth.

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We would love to face Harris..

Then you'll lose. She's better and more compelling at this than Obama. If you want a culture war then you'll lose. The silent majority backs liberal cosmopolitanism.

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Yo wtf

Did you take that screenshot using a potato powered 90s laptop? I can barely read it. I don't even know which poster is that.

Yeah, I'm poor.

maybe I should Paypal or Venmo you $1500 later

Do not allow the left to gain our wealth. We control the vast majority of wealth in this country, and we need to keep it that away by only supporting each other. Even if the money goes to a Trump-supportive business, you are first reducing a hardcore dissident's possible debt burden.

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A smarter thing to do would be to not hire them in the first place.

How would an employer know? Somewhere in the 0.25% - 0.5% of the population is transgender, but it's way, way, rarer than that that you see someone in public and can tell that they're trans. Most trans people blend in seamlessly. If you work for a large company, there's a good chance you have (or have had) a trans coworker and never know. Any time you're in a crowded restaurant, mall, stadium, etc., there's a good chance you're around a trans person without realizing it.

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Context:

Republicans gonna Republican.

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Kavanaugh assaults women, perjures himself repeatedly about it, and is rewarded with a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court where he can deny justice to women and victims of sexual assault for 40 years, and we have to put up with “Kavanaugh’s a victim” and “don’t be mean to Justice Ginsburg by bringing up the perjury!” narratives? No thanks.

Never thought I would see the day of inoffensive American mods spewing outright lies and garbage like this.

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Thank you, Scott, for pulling the footage. It really is ridiculous that PJ’s first ever incarnation was as a Trump supporter and everyone pretends this didn’t happen. Even if it was “ironic” (), it has never been addressed and he transitioned out of it just in time. Hilarious that OSR, who I don’t know to have ever understood sarcasm, apparently thinks PJ’s “irony” was obvious.

It's very clearly not irony. There is nothing ironic about deciding between Trump and Kasich. The posts make genuine rationales and cite overall agreement on the issues and point out Trump's shortcomings. The all caps trolling is a feature of both types of supporters.

Lief's irony ended the second the primary concluded. Johnson identified an explicit moment in the campaign (gold star families?) as the reason for the transition.

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Bloomberg is a neoliberal fascist

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You people with your conspiracy theories.  My god.  I don't see any Buttigieg supporters saying the recanvass was done to stop Buttigieg from retaking the lead.

I don't see any Buttigieg supporters anywhere in Democratic party politics. Because they're either Republicans or they spend all of their time in wine caves.

Buttigieg supporters are either yuppies who either ended up lucky after college and didnt have to struggle like other millenials for whatever reason like being trust fund babies, having great degrees, or connections like Tara mcgowan who enriched herself from her being a ex hillary staffer and going on to get Hillary's dark money and ended up creating the sh**tty app that crashed and coincidentially is married to a person on the buttigieg camp . or Gen X especially socially liberal economically center-right wine moms.  Or the worst of identity politics.

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Rush looked cooler smoking than Ben Shapiro ever has or ever will.

Ben Shapiro is a huge fan of Star Wars and can talk about a Star Wars topic for hours and has read the old EU as well .

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As usual, a rude and exceptionally trashy choice to post in this thread out of a discussion in which you are participating. You have a way of making people feel sorry for making the mistake of engaging with you in the first place.

Dude, you've been on Atlas too long to be this thin-skinned.  In any case, I can't stand Bloomberg either and hate what him being nominated would represent, but the idea that he'd be worse for the country than four more years of Trump is absurd at best.

This might not be the proper thread to discuss this, but to those of us who view Trump as not the cause of our problems but a symptom of those problems that have existed long before his presidency, four or eight years of Bloomberg would not be much better than four more years of Trump because we see no evidence that he would do what is necessary to change those things which led to the election of Trump in the first place.

If it's four more years of Trump as opposed to four or eight years of Bloomberg followed by four or eight years of Cotton or Hawley, I would be hard pressed not to pick the former because if you think Trumpism is bad, imagine Trumpism but with a president who's not constantly undermined by scandal and personality and overall ineptitude.

The GOP thanks you for 6 SCOTUS seats
(accelerationism is an idiotic idea to focus on and you should just try to win every election you can)

It's not accelerationism, it's looking at elections and considering the impact they will have long-term.

Yes, the courts are one reason to prefer Bloomberg over Trump, but the courts themselves won't be enough to impede the creeping, crypto-fascistic tendencies of the populist right which has become mainstream for the GOP.

What about all the lives that will be destroyed in the meantime if Trump is re-elected? 

I love the Bloom, but I'd love to hear about these lives and why there would be any difference if Bloomberg is elected. A handful of El Salvadorian migrants or Somali refugees? Otherwise, I think you are just netting out different military reactions to events. As if healthcare or any other tangible change is going to happen under Bloomberg...