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10 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

“Don’t blame me.  I voted for ‘Gary Johnson.’”

The GJ voters are the most self loathing people you will find. 

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He seems proud of this for some reason. 

 

15 hours ago, NWBuck said:

And the way the "Religious Right"/"Moral Majority" coalesced against his reelection is just astounding.

Not really if you know their history. 

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

"This myth of origins is oft repeated by the movement’s leaders. In his 2005 book, Jerry Falwell, the firebrand fundamentalist preacher, recounts his distress upon reading about the ruling in the Jan. 23, 1973, edition of the Lynchburg News: “I sat there staring at the Roe v. Wade story,” Falwell writes, “growing more and more fearful of the consequences of the Supreme Court’s act and wondering why so few voices had been raised against it.” Evangelicals, he decided, needed to organize.

Some of these anti- Roe crusaders even went so far as to call themselves “new abolitionists,” invoking their antebellum predecessors who had fought to eradicate slavery.

But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools. So much for the new abolitionism."

 

Just now, 4th&Five said:

He seems proud of this for some reason. 

 

Lol. That’s fucking hilarious. 

12 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Right, herds gotta be getting out of control 

We really only started to back off middle of last week, and were pulling forward ahead of that, so it’s not critical right now, and other plants are pushing chain speed where there have been less issues.

I didn't vote at all last election. I'll be voting libertarian on this one. 


Your constant white-knighting for Trump says otherwise.
The GJ voters are the most self loathing people you will find. 
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3 minutes ago, tchookem said:

 


Your constant white-knighting for Trump says otherwise. Actual Gary Johnson voter here, soec0bff0c546e4b3b347fdf7dfd2d2ffc.gif

 

Constant? 

20 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

He seems proud of this for some reason. 

 

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27 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

That's why I'm voting this year.

Just so you are aware, the Libertarian repose to a virus like this would be even worse than Trump’s. They would’ve absolutely left it 100% up to the states. No guidance, no help, and they likely would’ve vetoed any stimulus. I used to be a libertarian too. But libertarians are only good when there is never a crisis. Sometimes you need to get everyone on the same page and lead. That is not the mission of a libertarian federal government. It would be a disaster. 

26 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

He seems proud of this for some reason. 

 

This tweet gives me a Charlie Sheen winning tiger blood vibe. We all know how his health turned out.

16 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Just so you are aware, the Libertarian repose to a virus like this would be even worse than Trump’s. They would’ve absolutely left it 100% up to the states. No guidance, no help, and they likely would’ve vetoed any stimulus. I used to be a libertarian too. But libertarians are only good when there is never a crisis. Sometimes you need to get everyone on the same page and lead. That is not the mission of a libertarian federal government. It would be a disaster. 

Not too much different than now. I also don't think that government taking control of the states would do much of anything.

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11 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

Not too much different than now. I also don't think that government taking control of the states would do much of anything.

I feel like I say this several times a week:  the Federal government has options no state has.  Can the states print money?  Can the states operate at a budget deficit?

I think it would be great to live in a world where pork barrel politics didn't exist, and states were able to accrue sufficient supplies to weather an event like this.  That's not reality.  Never mind the fact that this is literally an external threat, an enemy if you will.  Why not respond in kind . . . with a coordinated, national approach?

16 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

Not too much different than now. I also don't think that government taking control of the states would do much of anything.

yeah, so federalism isn't necessarily the "government taking over the states." it's the idea that the federal government would help to coordinate with the states an appropriate national response by helping to briefly nationalize certain supply chains and send them to the states that need them most. this would prevent price gouging and state hoarding and bidding wars that are toxic for a pandemic type response.

we do not expect texas to handle a hurricane response all by ourselves - we do what we can, both publicly and privately, and then fema does what they can to mitigate the rest. fema hasn't responded to montana that i can recall, but montana absolutely has a vested interest in a functional fema as a member state of the fucking union.

56 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Not really if you know their history. 

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

"This myth of origins is oft repeated by the movement’s leaders. In his 2005 book, Jerry Falwell, the firebrand fundamentalist preacher, recounts his distress upon reading about the ruling in the Jan. 23, 1973, edition of the Lynchburg News: “I sat there staring at the Roe v. Wade story,” Falwell writes, “growing more and more fearful of the consequences of the Supreme Court’s act and wondering why so few voices had been raised against it.” Evangelicals, he decided, needed to organize.

Some of these anti- Roe crusaders even went so far as to call themselves “new abolitionists,” invoking their antebellum predecessors who had fought to eradicate slavery.

But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools. So much for the new abolitionism."

 

Yup... I fully get that (that article is an important part of my doctoral work. :) )

What's surprising to me is how quickly a group of folks who espoused values for being "in the world but not of the world" sold their souls to be "in the world with power to rule it". It's an interesting debate over end times, in some circles: Screw the world, 'cause we're going to heaven -vs- Getting the world ready for Jesus to come back and build heaven here.

57 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

He seems proud of this for some reason. 

 

Only one Japanese Emperor has ever accepted a declaration of total surrender.  I wonder if Hirohito was tweeting gleefully about that historic decision.

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

He seems proud of this for some reason. 

 

Any time he does something no other president has ever done, it’s a cause for celebration. 

Abe Lincoln? Nope. They didn’t even have 50 states. So sad.

JFK? Hell no. Trump? Yes. GOAT. 

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1 hour ago, NWBuck said:

Yup... I fully get that (that article is an important part of my doctoral work. :) )

What's surprising to me is how quickly a group of folks who espoused values for being "in the world but not of the world" sold their souls to be "in the world with power to rule it". It's an interesting debate over end times, in some circles: Screw the world, 'cause we're going to heaven -vs- Getting the world ready for Jesus to come back and build heaven here.

I could stand to dig deeper into this, but it would be a serious derailment.

Do we have an evangelical thread already?

Edit: I have several questions lined up as well as commentary. I'll save them for later. 

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38 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

Any time he does something no other president has ever done, it’s a cause for celebration. 

Abe Lincoln? Nope. They didn’t even have 50 states. So sad.

JFK? Hell no. Trump? Yes. GOAT. 

If Fred Trump had said to him, "I love you. You're my son and I'm very pleased with you." He might not be such a needy, ill-informed, malignant tumor of a person. 

Instead he's never been satisfied with any amount of praise. We get Daily Dumpsterfireside Chat where he damages his numbers and inspires fear and confusion.

 

 

7 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I could stand to dig deeper into this, but it would be a serious derailment.

Do we have an evangelical thread already?

Edit: I have several questions lined up as well as commentary. I'll save them for later. 

 

Jack is one of the most damaging and evil enemies of the United States for not pulling the plug on this idiot years ago. 

Jack's action by inaction has done more to kill and damage Americans than Bin Laden could have ever dreamed. 

13 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

We need an OANN thread.

 

 

 


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46 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Moron. 

 

the sad thing is, this would've been a somewhat appropriate and even helpful tweet.

9 weeks ago. 

you can't rewrite history or rearrange the timeline.  this shit is written in ink you baboon.

2 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

the sad thing is, this would've been a somewhat appropriate and even helpful tweet.

9 weeks ago. 

you can't rewrite history or rearrange the timeline.  this shit is written in ink you baboon.

9 weeks ago, assuming that the feds won't spend time bidding against you for masks, only to confiscate them anyway 

1 minute ago, NWBuck said:

9 weeks ago, assuming that the feds won't spend time bidding against you for masks, only to confiscate them anyway 

yep.  you can already seeing him trying to reconstruct the narrative.

october - 2020:

"mr president, how would you respond to critics that said the federal govt was slow-"

--interruption--

"well, as you recall, we let the states run everything on their own, and we were there to support them if needed, but we completely got out of their way.  some states did very well, and many democrat governors were very complimentary of me, you can check the reports."

When Fox News doesn't toe the line turn on OAN.  When OAN offers off a single point of constructive criticism - the next iteration will be even stupider, more morally repugnant, and even more slanted than the last two.  Can't wait.

1 minute ago, deech said:

When Fox News doesn't toe the line turn on OAN.  When OAN offers off a single point of constructive criticism - the next iteration will be even stupider, more morally repugnant, and even more slanted than the last two.  Can't wait.

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13 minutes ago, deech said:

When Fox News doesn't toe the line turn on OAN.  When OAN offers off a single point of constructive criticism - the next iteration will be even stupider, more morally repugnant, and even more slanted than the last two.  Can't wait.

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17 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

I admit it. In 2016 I thought there was a solid chance that Trump would at least turn the corrupt political establishment on it's ear in a positive way for the country. 

 

For the life of me, I honestly don't see how anyone could have thought that.  Not trying to insult you, but what exactly did you think he was going to do, besides wave a magic want?  How could a guy with a history of business failures, civil rights violations and litigation against him for fraud get the deep state to stop being all corrupt?   Did he give any indication that he was going to go after big business or lobbyists?  Had he ever displayed any empathy or interest in helping the poor?  

Not being snarky.   I just admit to not seeing how anyone could have ever voted for him in 2016.   I assume that you hated Clinton?

4 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:

For scale that plant can kill 22,000 a day out of 507,000 national capacity. This plant is getting the pub, but Tyson had a similar sized plant in Iowa go down last week. We also have a fuckload of pork in cold storage. It’s more of a farmer issue than a consumer issue at this point. Same with the JBS cattle plants battling the same issue. 

Smithfield is also now owned by the Chinese.

16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Smithfield is also now owned by the Chinese.

And China’s bought a record amount of pork the last month. JBS(Brazil), and Tyson(Piggy) have major issues too. Cargill has kept it together better than the others so far, but that’s typical for them. The biggest problems right now is big numbers expended a lot ahead of the trade deal/asf and theres not any slack in the system unless Seaboard can pull another shift out of their ass somewhere labor wise. 

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4 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Just so you are aware, the Libertarian repose to a virus like this would be even worse than Trump’s. They would’ve absolutely left it 100% up to the states. No guidance, no help, and they likely would’ve vetoed any stimulus. I used to be a libertarian too. But libertarians are only good when there is never a crisis. Sometimes you need to get everyone on the same page and lead. That is not the mission of a libertarian federal government. It would be a disaster. 

The Trump administration's response has the worst parts of a libertarian response: denial of reality/embracing of stupid ass conspiracies; lack of federal coordination leading to disparities and even competition between states, etc. It also has the added bonus of purposefully ignoring the situation and the Trump cult following him no matter how fucking stupid or false anything he says is. If even one Desantis, Abott, etc. makes better decisions in an alternate universe where their tongues are separated from the saggy Trump choad, that's thousands of lives saved. 

Libertarian principles have a place in our political dialogue. But A pandemic isn’t the best place to get all dogmatic about it. 

4 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

He seems proud of this for some reason. 

 

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OAN “reporters” always seem young as fuck and always have a weird fucking spy vibe. Does OAN have connections to the Kremlin or folks like Les Parnas types?

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

No one should ever question or contradict dear leader <<<< this is straight out of late 1930’s Germany

 

what the fuck has this country become ?

1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

what the fuck has this country become ?

Seems about right for a country that elected a reality show star president.

 

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15 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Libertarian principles have a place in our political dialogue. But A pandemic isn’t the best place to get all dogmatic about it. 

Sure, in a perfect theoretical world where libertarianism is about protecting individual rights while also respecting the individual rights of others. Instead, real world libertarianism is about maximizing selfishness, others be damned. We have a full blown tragedy of the commons in almost every aspect of American life because of supposed libertarian principles.  Covid spread is only the latest example of it.  Once you guys decided the individual right to discriminate was more important than the individual right to be free from discrimination, libertarians have been in a steady decline.

What used to be "my right to punch ends where your face begins," is now "I have a right to punch, fuck your face or anything else that gets in the way."

Hell, you guys don't even give a fuck about clean drinking water anymore. 

8 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

Sure, in a perfect theoretical world where libertarianism is about protecting individual rights while also respecting the individual rights of others. Instead, real world libertarianism is about maximizing selfishness, others be damned. We have a full blown tragedy of the commons in almost every aspect of American life because of supposed libertarian principles.  Covid spread is only the latest example of it.  Once you guys decided the individual right to discriminate was more important than the individual right to be free from discrimination, libertarians have been in a steady decline.

What used to be "my right to punch ends where your face begins," is now "I have a right to punch, fuck your face or anything else that gets in the way."

Hell, you guys don't even give a fuck about clean drinking water anymore. 

Oh good. Circus mirror depictions of political philosophy.  Go ahead and do the two major parties next. 

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