The Truman Tavern of Simple Truths and Smart One-Liners 33 1/3: The Final Insult

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Anyone who stands behind Trump now has absolutely no honor or integrity.

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Every accusation is a confession.

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See that conservatives and Libertarians suddenly become fearful of the overreach of police Authority when it's used to actually PROTECT minorities. However when it's used to keep them in their place instead of protesting, of course the sky's the limit.

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> Kansas elected a Democratic governor in 2018
> It has a pretty high concentration of college+ folks
> Bollier is raising ridiculous amounts of $$
> The GOP primary is extremely ugly right now
> Trump's own internals are showing him doing horrifically in the state

All of the evidence that we have points to the fact that this could be a real race. Anyone who denies it just not seeing what's in front of their face. I don't care that Kansas hasn't elected a Democratic senator in 70 or whatever years. 2020 is a different ballgame, and people should realize that by now.

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Hot Take: Not all Democratic primaries are about Berniecrats vs. the establishment

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Y'all I was being sarcastic. I know the BLM protest organizers aren't trying to kill anyone (at least not by covid) and I know Biden isn't responsible either.

Sorry I sparked some controversy though.

There have been so many bad takes around the internet it's getting hard to detect sarcasm.

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"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" literally has no basis in the evidence.



Some of these graphs are a bit old, but the central finding has not changed.

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Interestingly, both agree that Marshall is at 43%, which is:

a) What Kobach got
b) Not where a Republican in Kansas should be at the beginning of October

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If Obama - Trump areas like this are (even narrolwy) going Biden, Trump is beyond finished. To say nothing of the even stronger swings we're going to see in upscale, educated burbs

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Imagine using that green jacket lady meme in 2020

Also imagine thinking that being upset with Trump’s presidency is bad or cringe lol

It's cringe when it's 24/7/365.

Trump is a bad president 24/7/365

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Alabama made it clear it didn't want any qualified candidate. It wanted a candidate to match their intellect.

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My family wasn't intending to go today. I'm waiting at home to get tested on Friday because I was around a person who I didn't know got infected with COVID. I am currently quarantining. I haven't showed any symptoms yet which means I haven't gotten infected or the symtoms have started appearing later (I was around the said-infected person on Friday) I'm glad I didn't go out. Makes me feel proud that I didn't unintentionally infect people. I'm proud of my family for staying home.

Also, F#ck you posters who went and gambled with other people's lives.

What a pathetic human being

What is your solution then, watch my relatives die?

I don't freaking care if you celebrate. Just stop trying to make everyone's life as sad as yours is just because you don't get to have fun.

Your bad priorities aside, don't you just want this pandemic to end?

I want kids back in schools, students back at colleges, intercontinental travel reopened, bars back in service, workers back in offices, concerts, in-person sports games, and the rest of it. America being shut down sucks, and that's exactly why I'm covid-cautious.

Personally, I'm not scared of the virus (or really much else), but I just want my life back. That's not going to happen until case counts go down, and case counts won't go down until we quit having big gatherings and being militant mask-wearers. If you get together with 10 people, there's a 1 in 4 chance somebody is infected. That's just probability. The fewer large gatherings we have, the faster America reopens.

That may or may not be true, but I've gone to probably 50-100 large gatherings of between 10 and 500 people since May, and I still don't have antibodies.  Just because someone there has covid does not mean it is remotely likely that you'll get it.  Stop being paranoid and live your life, unless you are high risk.  You can squeeze out a pretty normal life (at least in red states) if you are willing to.

Just because it hasn't happened to you yet doesn't mean it's not possible. Sure, maybe you specifically didn't get infected, but plenty of the hundreds of people you've been with probably did, and just pretending the issue doesn't exist just because you haven't personally caught it yourself (yet) is a really stupid philosophy.

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No. I expect elected officials to demonstrate good judgement and voting for Trump is the opposite of that.

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I'm very concerned about them.

See thread for context

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One of the fun things about the Atlas Forum has always been that it's totally acceptable to make a poll about another poster asking whether they're a horrible person (this would not be allowed on any other site where I've ever spent any substantial amount of time), but it makes it a lot less fun when the bar for being a good person is apparently so low that you can be a mentally subnormal Nazi and still have half the site defending you.

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But then again I'm not surprised that a forum that is overwhelmingly male is so concerned with the totally real epidemic of false allegations.

Meanwhile back in reality, false allegations are about as common as voter fraud. If you're going to claim there's an "epidemic" of false allegations, you may as well jump on board with Trump's election conspiracy theories because both are based in self-inflicted victimhood complexes designed to invalidate legitimate instances, be it real accusations or legally cast votes.

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Shocking how many Republicans are willing to stand up to Trumpism when they know the MAGAts won't track them down and kill them for voting against Mango Mussolini.

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It is only fitting for the citizens of Alabama that Tommy Tuberville gets Mo Brooks as a companion in the Senate. 

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Terrible take, although I can understand the sentiment. Trump (and Trumpism) absolutely has a future, much like cancer has a future: terrible, destructive, an immense human cost, and hopefully eradicated utterly as soon as possible (but likely will be around far longer than we'd like).

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Gun control has always been racist.

This is true.

This is my main issue with pro-gun leftists claiming to want to improve peoples' lives. You can't improve peoples' lives, if some deranged lunatic shoots everyone dead. Like haven't we seen enough mass shootings to realize maybe...just maybe....guns don't actually belong in the hands of everyday people. Oh, alas, it'll probably take another 10 or 20 years for people to actually come to their senses, this is the single issue that frustrates me so much, because the thinking on it is just so disconnected from reality on the part of the gun advocates, oh well.

Guns do belong in the hands of the people, but anyways, in a country like the United States, taking away all guns is just never going to happen, mass confiscation, given the number of firearms in the United States, is near impossible no matter how much some people may want it. And getting past that, keeping guns out of the hands of the population isn’t necessarily going to stop shootings/violent crime etc...

So defeatist to say you can never do it so you might as well not try.

Obviously the first step is to drastically curtail the number of guns produced and sold, as that is out of control. If you're in a hole, stop digging.

Then we can start to talk about banning the ownership of the types of guns that have been used to massacre innocent people over the past four decades.

The overwhelming majority of gun violence is committed with handguns. Do you intend to ban the ownership of pistols?

Production first, and then ownership.

Ridiculous. You want to shut down an entire industry and forcibly confiscate material from hundreds of millions of people? And do you think criminals and terrorists who want to commit mass murder wouldn’t stop at nothing to gain access to weapons through illegal means, that they would allow government enforcement and laws to stop them?

Hell yeah I do. Have you thought about this for more than ten minutes? Dude, if the guns aren't being produced and sold in America, that starts to diminish the supply from the get go.

"Illegal guns" that your criminals and terrorists have their hands on mostly just started out as legal guns bought by American rubes.This myth of a wide-scale criminal operation to replace guns is just an NRA talking point to justify their existence (they are a gun industry lobbying group.)

You also do realize that most people who have guns don't have the manpower or firepower to go up against the entire government, right? I mean, what the f*** are we paying for with a military more expensive than the whole European continent's if we can't bring down Judd Clampett and his closet full of 30-30 Marlins?

But the current status quo of selling millions of guns a year basically without limits is the chief cause of gun violence and our monthly massacres. As I said, if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging.

Absolutely agree. It’s really depressing to see red avatars repeat inane NRA talking points about gun restrictions. America is the only country where mass shootings are a regular occurrence, and it is the only country with firearms-on-demand. And we’re supposed to believe there’s no link between the two? Give me a break. In countries with harsher gun restrictions, the only criminals with guns are those in organised crime, and they only use their weapons on each other, not ‘civilians’. Random psychos looking to murder schoolkids are going to find it much harder, in fact nigh-on-impossible, to get their hands on weapons of mass murder if sensible gun controls are in place. The other alternative is that one is willing to tolerate mass shootings as a necessary price to pay for...what exactly?

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And people somehow still believe that Republicans are more willing to vote for Democrats than the other way around.


Would a Democratic governor of Nebraska ever have this approval rating? Not a chance. Not even if he campaigned on building a wall.

Ben Nelson won almost every county when he got reelected to the Senate in 2006 against Pete Ricketts (our current GOP governor). I don't think that that's possible for now, but before 2010 Nebraska had a long history of electing Democrats throughout the 20th century.

Yes, I know. I was emphasizing that there has been a change in recent years.

In recent years Republican party essentially disappeared. The Trump's party took it's place and most past voters...

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White Supremacist says racist things is the generic headline you can run for basically anything an elected Republican official says.

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Libertarians are freaks.

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There literally hasn't been a florida gubernatorial race decided by a more than 1.1 point margin since 2006  and DeSantis scraped to victory by a tiny 0.4% margin but sure it's Safe-R cause muh Atlas memes despite 2 of those election taking place in terrible years for democrats.

Remember how the Wisconsin blue wave in 2010 destroyed republican in the state cause it voted for Obama by 13 points in 2008.

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Dictator Joseph taking our guns away!!1!

Anyway, the pro-gun faction just needs to ask why there are so few deaths from guns in all of Europe or even in Canada. There needs to be something done about this epidemic.