Post #425,720
9/28/18 2:53:33 PM
9/28/18 2:53:33 PM
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I trust we’re all agreed now
…that the Dread Butch Hillary would not have nominated this piece of shit to SCOTUS, that there was an actual, substantive and consequential difference between the two major party candidates in 2016, and that principled abstention, the notion of voting as a gesture of personal affirmation, carries with it a downside.
Just sayin’.
cordially,
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Post #425,721
9/28/18 3:18:13 PM
9/28/18 3:18:13 PM
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I'll give you this.
While I am secure in my conviction that the Democratic Party is still a too pro-corporate party for my liking, there is still a difference between the two parties that should not (as I did in 2016) be ignored. In 2016, I did not, would not, could not believe that after two years of this insanity there would still be 40% of my countrymen who support the plain-for-all-to-see disaster of the current federal government. In other words, I had far too much faith in Americans. I wrongly thought that with this large a disaster, the Peeple would finally rise up and rebel against the ruling 1% and their minions in office.
That is never going to happen in this country. Decades of underfunding our educational system and the vast number of well attended churches have taken their toll. We are, at least 40% of us anyway, an irredeemable assembly of truly outstandingly despicable people. That 40% has crushed what little hope I had left for this country and its people.
In short, the Democratic Party is still horribly flawed but it is the best that can be done with the people of the United States. More is the pity. I vow to do my best to never forget that 4 of 10 Americans are unworthy of life and turn up at the polls to vote for the least bad candidate (whom will always be the Democratic candidate).
To that end, the wife has never registered to vote in her life. But I've convinced her to register and vote this year by asking her how long she was going to allow the idiots that surround us to outweigh her voice in how she is governed. I'm not taking credit for her making the decision to register, she had the reaction I expected all non-participating citizens would have to the Trump administration. In truth, it's far more likely that Trump convinced her to finally start voting than anything I said.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #425,854
10/10/18 7:46:45 PM
10/10/18 7:46:45 PM
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Not bad
I’ll cheerfully stipulate that the Democratic Party is an imperfect instrument. That the postwar duopoly, before the GOP began to fizz with rabies, served the interests of capital.
Nevertheless: it remains (for perhaps a little bit) a duopoly, one branch of which, however compromised, has not gleefully embraced cruelty and sadism as the other one clearly has.
In the 2016 campaign it was apparent to some of us—not, alas, to you—that Trump was a uniquely dangerous excrescence thrown up by the Republican Party.
After almost two years, things are far worse than I, at least, expected. This is not the time for internecine quarrels. It’s time to ally with Stalin. Hell, it’s time to ally with Churchill. Manchin voted for Kegger Kavanaugh. Sigh. That was a cynical and soulless calculation. Shall we rally the troops to abstain next month? No. I’ve given $50 to Collins’ eventual opponent, for vengeance, and $50 to Heitkamp, because she deserves it. As to Manchin, who votes with his party 80% of the time, the thirty pieces of silver will have to suffice.
I am not wholly confident that next month’s election will not be electronically ratfucked. If that happens, comrades, we’ll see what the country is made of. Rabid mice, is what I’m thinking.
cordially,
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Post #425,855
10/10/18 9:45:35 PM
10/10/18 9:45:35 PM
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aside from the court leaning right, what in 2 years is far worse? curious to me it seems like more
of the same competing corporate entitlements and a nastier public discourse. Been going that way for a number of years not just the last two.
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #425,857
10/10/18 11:32:50 PM
10/10/18 11:32:50 PM
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“what in 2 years is far worse?”
Is this a trick question? The rise to power of a fascist movement appears worse than it did two years ago.
It might not seem an undesirable development to you. This would not surprise me in the least.
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Post #425,859
10/11/18 8:07:27 AM
10/11/18 8:07:27 AM
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ah so you are speaking in general not any specifics, understood and I agree with you
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #425,867
10/11/18 5:13:29 PM
10/11/18 5:13:29 PM
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this is “disingenuous” dialed to eleven
…and I do not feel compelled to refute such a nakedly shoddy argument.
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Post #425,869
10/11/18 7:51:34 PM
10/11/18 7:51:34 PM
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of course not since you believe as the following journaleze do that trump's election is illegitimate
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #425,870
10/11/18 11:27:52 PM
10/11/18 11:27:52 PM
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tl;dr - It's all Bill and Hillary's Fault Example #19837401
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Post #425,871
10/12/18 2:32:17 AM
10/12/18 2:32:17 AM
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"Believe!" it was "illegitimate'; Box you've finished Losing-It. wholesale.
ILLEGITIMATE SCREAMS ..from gigabytes of words.. Ever. Since. While the details of this illegitimacy remain to be assigned with precision; the FACT of Illegitimacy SHOUTS like these all-CAPS do. Among the remaining assertions to some. day. be accurately catalogued: is the overall influence of Russians, $$$-big-Capitalist rat-fucking and a further list which is familiar now to millions of the sentient, worldwide.
"Illegitimate" pales as epithet when compared with the moronic level of this creature's mentation, his now viewed daily habits and his massive ignorance of any *idea* of "governance"; incompetence will do as his most telling incapability, never mind his inability even to read--much less retain!--a succession of plain-English words. (Right NOW he's patently weaseling over another poker chip: $110B re selling arms to the Saudis: it's always the money he looks at; it is all he knows (or cares about). as in, q.e.d.
Sometimes.. you're so full of bodily excreta that, your eyes are brown, y'know?
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