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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

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

  1. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Perhaps. I wouldn't mind if that remained true. We'll see.

    I predict a Democratic Party that, well, it's already become more religious/rigid in nature, and will continue to do so. The fate of the world is on the line roughly every month with one issue or another. You talk like that long enough, your voters really believe it, and the accountability circle tightens into political dogma.

    You strike me - and you tell me if I'm wrong - as more of a classic liberal who'd guard against such limiting ideology. Well, I think it's getting more prevalent in the party, and Trump, awful as he actually is - he really is the worst - is a useful long-term bogeyman in the journey. I predict we may pay twice for Trump; once when he was president, and next in the speech limits in reaction to his presidency. But we'll see. I want to be wrong about the latter and maybe I will be. I often am.
     
  2. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    MSNBC reporting Schoen lied and house managers gave him the security video in advance
     
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  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    What exactly is the ideology that liberal ole me is going to guard against? Sorry. I am seriously not following.
     
  4. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    The idea that the word "fight" is problematic and should not be used by politicians because of what it can incite.
     
  5. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    It is a stupid word to use by people who are depended on to use language with more discretion.

    Trump is the oaf he is - there is no black hole as deep as his stupidity - but I expect greater nuance from an Ivy-trained lawyer.
     
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  6. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

     
  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    As I said, context matters.

    1) A politician trying to get people to vote for them, who talks about fighting for [insert whatever it is]? Sure, knock yourself out.
    2) A politician who loses an election, spends months bullshitting about it having been stolen and riling up a mishmash of white supremacists, gun nuts and functionally illiterate morons to storm the capital building on the day the election is going to be certified? Not kosher.

    If that sensibility makes me a classic liberal, then by all means, I am John Locke.
     
  8. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

  9. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    And it's the same guy who advocated for "Second Amendment people" to take out a former opponent.
     
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  10. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I think your position on No. 1 makes you more liberal than I think could happen, is what I mean.
     
  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Travis Kelce approves.
     
  12. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

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