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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

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  1. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    But my original take had nothing to do with perceiving Democrats, other than suggesting that it’s hypocritical to funnel money toward candidates they supposedly hate.

    My post - and Brooks’ column - is about why Trump seems so durable among his supporters, not why Democrats denounce him. I’m perceiving (not defending) his supporters. What Brooks is arguing is, the Democrats’ denunciation isn’t working or, at least, points to the absence of a larger message designed to win over Trump voters.

    i’m not sure I agree with Brooks on the latter point, but I do think the constant denunciation, right now, is a net neutral at best. In some cases, I think it can have the reverse effect of entrenching his supporters even more because, in a perverse way, the more villainous he’s made out to be, the more compelling a threat he is to the people Trump’s supporters hate.

    is it dysfunctional? Yes. Is it dangerous? Yes. I’d go so far as to say that a lot of his supporters mirror cult like behavior.

    How do you get people out of a cult?
     
    Alma, Sep 16, 2022
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  2. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    They were supposed to go to Boston. Not their fault that DeSantis doesn’t know his geography.
     
    Baron Scicluna, Sep 16, 2022
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  3. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

     
    garrow, Sep 16, 2022
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  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Not sure how you are forgetting my response to that Brooks column, since you responded to it.

    Donald Trump lost in 2020! He was a one-term president, which is really difficult to do unless you are a total flop. He was impeached twice. His party lost control of Congress in 2018. A bunch of his hand-picked candidates for the Senate are doing really poorly -- in an stagflationary economy that should have them coasting. Vote projections are actually giving Democrats a chance, when a year ago it was a foregone conclusion that the mid-term elections would be a flip, the way they always are.

    When you write a column that jumps off from the proposition that "they keep trying to discredit him, but it ain't working." ... I don't know what world he (and you) are living in. Democrats may or may not have a grand strategy with regard to Donald Trump. But it's not like Donald Trump is "winning" (to put it into Trump's puerile terms). ... at much of anything since he got elected in 2016, unless the idea is that he managed to avoid being convicted in an impeachment trial or that he has avoided prison so far is a "win." He lost reelection. He's an absolute joke to the majority of the country. It's been one shitshow after another, two impeachments, a criminal probe right now, and him holding a party hostage as it loses its influence, except the candidates he hand picks are unable to gain traction despite an absolute shit economy that always leads to the current bums getting voted out.

    It was just a silly column to me. The premise makes no sense. They keep trying to discredit him, but it isn't working? Like I said, Donald Trump has done it for them.
     
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    The Big Ragu, Sep 16, 2022
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  5. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    Ron DeSantis is a human trafficker and kidnapper.
     
    Octave, Sep 16, 2022
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  6. melock

    melock Well-Known Member

     
    melock, Sep 16, 2022
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  7. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    To go with that fukcing fertilizer face.
     
    goalmouth, Sep 16, 2022
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  8. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    I mean, screw the GOP, but this sounds more like New Jersey’s problem than his. When I left Georgia and got registered to vote here, I didn’t go back to my old elections board and tell them to take my name off. I assumed they scrubbed the rolls themselves and if not, tough shit to them. As long as he didn’t try and vote in NJ after establishing Pennsylvania residency (and it does not look like he did) then I can’t hold this against him.
     
    dixiehack, Sep 16, 2022
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  9. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    Octave, Sep 16, 2022
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  10. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I believe that’s where the Reverse Freedom Riders went in the 1960s.
     
    Inky_Wretch, Sep 16, 2022
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  11. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    DanielSimpsonDay, Sep 16, 2022
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  12. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Yeah, shipped to Hyannis because that's where Kennedy had his summer place. Borrowed bullshit from the KKK used in 2022.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Sep 16, 2022
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