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[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Trump was a moronic dictator

[GregTheGreat657]

After watching this video, I genuinely am close to supporting a full on 1980 style boycott.

Watch the actual video, the IOC is pretty heavily implicated alongside Beijing as being in cahoots in abusing human rights…

The CCP are truly a bunch of evil, tyrannical, scumbags. Not even the USSR was this absolutely sinister in such a dystopian way.

[TheFonz]

How about we just end the Selective Service Registry for all people?

[Ferguson97]

McCarthy would be a horrible speaker. Just in the past few weeks he has shown his absolute inability to be an effective leader, first by failing to prevent the passage of BIF, then by failing to punish the members who voted for BIF, and finally by publicly promising the actual white supremacist Paul Gosar and certified moon bat MTG committee positions back if he becomes Speaker.

However, in all likelihood he'll get the job. His pointless filibuster of BBB was well received by people who think theatrics = leadership, and he is a great fundraiser and gladhander, which is apparently more important than leadership, principles, etc.

For a while I thought Jordan would go for it. I couldn't come up with a better explanation for why he didn't run for senate or governor this year. However, I don't think he's going to. He'd have a tough time too, because if he and McCarthy ran against each other, there would just be camps with members unwilling to compromise.

If it's not McCarthy, I don't think it'll be Scalise. Someone like Ken Buck would be a good choice, and could appeal to everybody. Or they could give it to someone younger who has McCarthy's qualities but none of his liabilities, like Crenshaw. But since he'll only be a third-termer by then, that doesn't seem likely either.

[Schiff for Senate]

Favorite: California

Least Favorite: Arkansas - why is it pronounced like that if Kansas is pronounced differently?

[TDAS04]

Also, how do you survive if you're afraid of humans?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

RIP.  Glad he lived a long life.

Dole was the second person I remember with a campaign commercial (the first was Steve Forbes).

[GregTheGreat657]

The Founding Fathers built a foundation for this country that has withstood the test of time and inspired us to maintain our democracy throughout the ages.
They deserve reverence. They helped create and maintain American democracy, both due to their efforts as living individuals, and due to them serving as inspirations to later men.

If Thomas Jefferson came back to life , he would welcome the criticism. The founding fathers knew that Just because something worked then, doesn’t mean it could be improved now.

They deserve respect. But they don’t deserve adoration like Gods.

You can revere someone or a group of people without thinking of them as literally perfect. None of our Founding Fathers were perfect people. The reverence does not come from them allegedly being "perfect" in any case. It comes from them helping incubate a culture of democracy, liberty, and relative stability in this country.
And their inspiration has already been improved on in numerous ways. And because we are all imperfect human beings, there will always be something to improve on.
The men who founded this nation and brought it into existence would agree with that, yes.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

New Feature: Themes were added

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

One thing I agree with is that anyone who through their own labor looted and burned private property last year is and deserves to be labelled as a thug, regardless of their race or political sympathies.
Attacking private property goes against the social contract.

[Xing]

Initially, I took a wait-and-see approach.  Most people would never make something like this up.  Jussie Smolett isn't most people, however.

[GregTheGreat657]

Initially, I took a wait-and-see approach.  Most people would never make something like this up.  Jussie Smolett isn't most people, however.

What percentage would the previous poster get in the preceding precinct?

Please start with me.

Also happy birthday, Xing!

[Xing]

Initially, I took a wait-and-see approach.  Most people would never make something like this up.  Jussie Smolett isn't most people, however.

What percentage would the previous poster get in the preceding precinct?

Please start with me.

Also happy birthday, Xing!

Thanks!

-SKIP-

[TDAS04]

I'm thinking about running for class president next year. Our current class president is not exactly popular right now. About a month ago, she out a Google Form asking for suggestions on a class sweatshirt. You can order a sweatshirt in your freshman year, and that is your class sweatshirt until your senior year. About a week ago, the final design came out. Let's just say it did not go over well. Some kids were jokingly calling for her impeachment.

[TPIG]

Please don’t do it.  There is always hope.  Find someone good to talk to, get help and comfort.  Just hang in there, life gets better.

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Sad that our current societal/sexual mores prop up the murder of innocent life as an expression of power or independence. I don't care if overturning Roe empowers women or not. Protection of innocent life is a good. Full stop.

No, it's more disheartening that there are people, like you, who actually believe that the rights of a woman are less important than those of a rice-sized fetus that feels nothing, has no thoughts, and is completely unaware of its own existence.

Sorry, but no woman (or anyone) has the right to strip another human of life without due process of law. The arguments you posit (except for size) can be applied to babies after birth as well. Perhaps, the standard should not be artificial, concocted markers that suddenly turn a fetus into a "real" human and instead, we should simply use life itself as the marker.

[GregTheGreat657]

I support firing Fauci, Walensky, et al, and escorting them off the property where their offices are.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Played Bush/Eastwood 1988 and got this (kind of) cursed map:

Vice President George H.W. Bush (R-TX)/Mayor Clint Eastwood (R-CA) 442 EV 51.0%
Governor Michael Dukakis (D-MA)/Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) 96 EV 46.8%

Popular vote: Bush + 4.2
States within 1%: New York, Washington
States within 5%: New York, Washington, Louisiana, New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, California, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Oregon, Arkansas, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Hawaii, North Carolina, Colorado
Tipping Point State: Texas
Closest State by Percentage: New York - R + 0.38% ( + 23,710 votes )
Closest State by Raw Votes: New Mexico - R + 1.37% ( + 7,239 votes )

[GregTheGreat657]

The problem, bluntly, is that for the Democratic Party to become appealing to the Fuzzy Bears of the country, a lot of people’s basic human rights would have to be thrown under the bus and liberalism would have to accept greater restrictions on or even outright eliminations of hard-won rights and protections. So it’s a non-starter.

In a liberal democratic republic, it’s a very dangerous road to go down when you start rolling back the rights of ordinary people even after you might have “excessively” expanded them with say, expansive readings of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. This is part of why I am opposed to the efforts to overturn Roe v Wade, as I am to a lot of new restrictions on gun ownership, many regulations of speech, domestic terrorism statutes, anything making life harder for social minorities of any kind (racial, ethnic, religious, sexual), or the various efforts of the “freedom FROM religion” types. For the same reasons, I have also long been wary at best of many COVID restrictions.

Unlike some people here, I don’t believe that Fuzzy Bear is “merely” a bigot. Let me put it this way: I believe that FB’s religious and theological views are sincerely held and that what could easily be considered bigotry comes from a place of genuine religious doctrine. In other words, I see little evidence of him starting with the premise that gay sex or being transgender etc. is sinful and using religion as a legitimizer for prejudices; I do believe he comes to his views based on his reading of the Bible, and he is very far from alone among Christians (or conservative religious people in general) in that. As a “liberal” Christian myself, I vehemently disagree with Fuzzy Bear’s view of the Bible, but it would be dishonest of me to not acknowledge that it is a very common, mainstream view among Christians in the US and globally,

But what does this all mean for a Democratic coalition that is “socially moderate and economically populist?” Ultimately, Democrats will have to choose economic populism to win anything close to a strong majority—they’ll never be able to out-capitalist Republicans no matter how neoliberal some of them get. As for social and cultural issues, the only way to get so many people who are passionately invested in opposing views on these subjects on the same team is for all sides to call a cease-fire in the Culture War, agree to disagree, and focus exclusively on the economic side (along with foreign policy, potentially). Otherwise, the same toxic patterns will continue to sabotage efforts to broaden the party’s appeal and regain any significant number of social conservatives who have defected.

Not really sure how coherent this post is, I’m rambling on several different subjects. Eh, hope you find something useful in it.

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

Seems like he was a perfectly respectable traditional Republican in most respects. I don’t have strong feelings either way though.

He lent money to Hitler

[Klobmentum Mutilated Herself]

Yes.  Cause the transgender movement took it a step too far with that third bathroom nonsense, and then trying to conflate sex with gender so they could go into a bathroom that doesn't match their sex. It's bad enough that I got pay for elective surgeries and therapies cause someone has a mental disorder, even though they refuses to call it a mental disorder.  That's frustrating to me. 

ADD is  considered a psychological disorder so we pay for it.  We even send them to schools with kids that all have ADD so they aren't stigmatized.  The whole point is to stop them from getting bummed out.  Why can't we do this for LGBTQ Kids in areas where there's enough of them?  Oh... cause Democrats don't like school choice. 

Also, this movement has become a bat signal for the child molesters in the country.  Those A-Hole religious zealots were actually right about that one.  There's so many child molesters in the Democrat Party that Federal and State LEO Agencies have picked up thousands, if not tens of thousands, since Trump came into office in 2016.  They followed one back to CNN, and found two more of them. 

You get the point.  Cease and Desist with your efforts to grant access to men with the desire to enter women bathrooms.  In all the years we've been discussing it, I bet Democrats are unaware of 99.99% stories were guy used it as an excuse to sexually assault a woman. 

Oh and then they try to take female scholarships from biological women cause taking candy from a a baby is just an easy way to build up their confidence.  They need to pick their accommodations, and stop F-ing around with our neatly ordered binary realities.  That's why you send them to a different school with other kids.  This is the way you do it.  What Democrats advocate for on a daily basis is definitely meant to be abusive towards the majority that would respect reasonable demands. 

Who do you got for the Raiders vs. Chargers tonight, Hollywood?

[President of the great nation of 🏳️‍⚧️]

Look I'm trans and bi, but I seriously don't see the reason why schools need to be teaching kids in kindergarten that stuff. Seems unnecessary and if they really need to learn it, let the parents explain it.

When I was your age, I had never met an open trans person. Trans people and trans issues were not mentioned in schools. All the great online resources available to trans people, particularly trans youth today, today to learn, ask questions, and hear people's stories did not exist. Trans people had no media coverage except to serve as sentient punchlines. The Straights did not see it as fashionable to be trans allies — no rallies, bumper stickers, no pronouns in MySpace bios; they were still getting around to that whole Civil Unions thing. Most people didn't know the difference between transgender and a transvestite.

And my parents — who were liberal, secular, and pro-gay — considered my gender expression to be a disease to be "fixed".

So, in other words, I was ed. There was no place for me at home, school, or even online (there were always trans online spaces, but not like today).  There are still trans people whose childhood stories sound a lot like mine, but now there are many trans youth who have a relatively positive experience growing up trans. That is in no small part due to schools becoming a safe space for many kids. Safe spaces for trans youth used to be very hard to come by, and today, they are less so.  Let's not start taking away those safe spaces.

I'm only 29, and oh god, how I wish I could've been born a decade later. I do not want to see the massive progress the trans community has made in a short amount of time reversed. I do not want my experience growing up to become the norm again. That's what will happen if we start rolling back progress. Trans youth need safe spaces.

You may look at all the different anti-trans methods of attack — arresting supportive parents and doctors, detransitioning people, banning trans people from moving to different states, Don't Say Gay, Bathroom Bills, sports bans — and say that some are obviously worse than others, but they're all part of the same agenda. The popular ones like sports bans are Trojan horses for arresting and detransitioning people. This is a genocide attempt in its early stages; they want trans people to stop existing. They are going to find a way to go after trans adults. They want you (well, maybe they don't care about what goes on in Australia), me, Peebs, Scarlet, Disco, Koopa, Courts, and every trans person you've ever met out of the picture, and they don't particularly care if they're dead or alive.

Don't be a useful idiot for people who want to kill you. It's not worth the recommends from Mr. Reactionary (don't rec my posts about having a sh!tty upbringing, you jerk) and John Dule.

[Mr. Reactionary]

AN ACT
to put Frémont's legislative thread back on the first page, and to be vindictive and bitchy and play trans rights chicken

Section 1 (Title)
i. The title of this act shall be, the "Manhood is a Sin Act."

Section 2 (Purpose)
i. Whereas, the Bible, our ultimate moral arbiter on Earth declares that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, His only Son. But at the same time, we're all His children, so in His eyes, we're a bunch of girls, and to be a man is to defile the Lord and His only Son.
ii. Now therefore, the Frémont Parliament does hereby pass this act to protect the public health and morals of the Commonwealth of Frémont.

Section 3 (Mandatory estrogen implants)
i. If assigned male at birth, Frémonters over the age of 16 will be subject to chemical castration using GnRH agonists. Estradiol injections will also be administered once a week.
ii. If assigned male at birth, Frémonters from the age of 12 to 15 will be subject to compulsory implantation of GnRH agonists.
iii. Transgender men (Men who were assigned female at birth) are exempt from the forcible feminization process, if only because the author of this bill knows how it feels to be on the wrong side.

Section 4 (Enactment)
i. This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage.

This has even less of a chance of passing than my previous bill, but...

[Make America Grumpy Again]

Lets develop our own oil.

[GregTheGreat657]

Trump would win with record low Dem turnout

Your map shows Stalin winning D.C.

I can't see DC voting for Trump