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#9901 | |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2006
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Nonsense. We all have the choice of who we engage with and who we don't. We can just ignore anyone we're not interested in discussing things with. The amusing part is, the arguments by the majority tend to not be any better, and often worse, than those by the 'bad' posters. Echo chambers suck. I certainly don't think FOFC is any better than it was when people were running in circles venting about how Trump sucks and literally nobody disagreeing with them but it just happened again ... and again . .. and again. At least now we have actual substantive disagreements to potentially learn from. Last edited by Brian Swartz : 05-31-2024 at 01:46 PM. |
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#9902 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Georgia
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This has never been the case.
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#9903 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2006
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Umm, yes it has been. There was an extended period where you could go several pages of posts in the Trump threads with nobody defending him at all. Jon wasn't posting much and when he did he was as likely to criticize Trump as he was to back what he was doing. Edward was against what he was doing in the great majority of cases, so was I ... there were repeated, large blocks of time where it was just a question of how effusive and bombastic the critical rhetoric was going to be.
There was nobody saying Trump was a good president around here. Nobody even close to that. There were issue debates on climate change or Afghanistan or racism or whatever, but there simply was no pro-Trump contingent at all. Last edited by Brian Swartz : 05-31-2024 at 04:39 PM. |
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#9904 | |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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The polling for the UK election is just brutal for the Tories.
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#9905 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Looking forward to a competent, if not strong, showing by you Joe on Jun 27. You got your wish with no audience. Please make sure your make up guy makes you look less old. |
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#9906 |
Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I still don't think this happens. I think Trump finds a way to weasel his way out of it.
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#9907 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2006
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I'm looking forward to ignoring the debate
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#9908 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Looking forward to the carefully planned zingers.
Trump kinda gets a pass. IMO there’s little he says/does that will help/hurt him significantly. He may surprise on some policies (hey, let’s do a bipartisan immigration bill, let’s help Ukraine etc.) but no one will believe him unless it’s sustained/repeated the next 4-5 months. Joe can help/hurt himself significantly by performing/not well. The American public needs to know if Joe is all/mostly there. They already know about Trump. |
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#9909 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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If you're in the neighborhood come on over & we can ignore it together ![]() Hard for me to come up with many things that are bigger waste of time that watching one of those in real time. State of the Union (regardless of who is in office) comes to mind but after that I'm pretty hard pressed.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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This opens the door for me to toss a recent social media post I saw in here. (Bear with me a moment & I'll tie this together) To be fair, I enjoyed the Trump term in office, but that was largely for entertainment value. There were good moments, but not really enough actually accomplished to make me a huge fan of the 4 year span. Which brings me to what I mentioned at the beginning of this post. It comes from Doug Collins, former Congressman (R/GA-9) and failed Senate candidate. I don't remember the last political post I liked as much as this one and I believe it applies in a non-partisan manner. It's simple basic truth, and I loved it a ton. Quote:
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#9911 | |
Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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Amen, I couldn't agree more. It's a little weird that for someone as interested in politics as I, one of the things in life that makes me cringe the most is listening to almost any politician speak. Even most of Obama's stuff made my cringe. Don't know what it is, but it is, and debates are the worst form of it. |
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#9912 | |
Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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Vast swathes of the American populace have long not understood how our legislative system works. But whereas back in the day there seemed to be a sort of acceptance that the system worked slowly and sometimes you didn't have the votes, these days you have morons on both the left and the right utterly convinced that they absolutely know how it works and it should be completely easy to do X, Y, and Z. Lots of them get elected to office - witness Cruz in the Senate self-owning when his botched parliamentary procedure (years ago) got some Democratic bill passed. Or pretty much anything MTG thinks she can do in the House. And, conversely, all the Bernie Bros who are so convinced that if all you did was elect Bernie, he'd kick that ole Congress into shape and pass every left-wing pipe dream of legislation you could think of. The electorate is, by and large, a bunch of idiots. |
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#9913 | |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PDX
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#9914 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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#9915 |
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
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The only thing that is going to make Joe look less old is a time machine.
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#9916 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Makeup does miraculous things.
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#9917 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Cant we use CGI to de-age Joe?
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#9918 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2006
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We can just accept the fact that an old man was chosen on purpose. Trying to hide the fact that he's old as some seem to be trying to do is silly IMO.
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#9919 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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#9920 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Optics matter, especially so in politics, that is reality. Is it shallow? Sure but everyone does it and it’s for the greater good.
Re: Reagan, there is about 8 ‘presidential years’ difference. Quote:
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#9921 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2006
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They also aren't the party of Reagan anymore in anything beyond a historical sense. Reagan was 35 years ago, at the end of his presidency. What percentage of the people who voted for him are even still alive?
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#9922 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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I think he looks good for his age. Just age naturally and try to give off a wise, strong presence instead of trying to look 20 years younger than he is. Like the facelift he had looked worse to me.
I also think your overall presence and demeanor matter (take a look at Eastwood looking tough into his 90's). Trump is nearly as old but comes across as more of a fighter. Reagan's whole gimmick was some tough cowboy who gave off a strong presence. Biden looking so weak on so many issues makes him seem older by proxy. |
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#9923 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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That Trump thing with the electric boats and the sharks is hilarious. I wish he was just a standup comedian.
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#9924 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Well would you look at that-American juries can find both republicans/Trump and Democrats/Biden guilty-jury took 3 hours to find Hunter guilty on all 3 charges
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#9925 |
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
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#9926 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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You just know he's going to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court. ![]()
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#9927 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PDX
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Trump accused Joe Biden of playing politics with his son’s trial, saying, “Joe is more concerned with pleasing the gun control lobby, so he won’t have the courage to step in and help Hunter. Don’t worry, Joe – I will Save your son after I get elected (for the third time)!”
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#9928 |
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
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#9929 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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#9930 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Nice tip of the hat from the President on the anniversary of the supreme court allowing same sex marriage: pardoning those who had been banned from the military for having consensual gay sex
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#9931 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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Senator Menendez and his co-conspirators found guilty on all charges-now lets see him resign. His wife's trial was put off as she recovers from breast cancer surgery
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#9932 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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I think one of the things we've seen with the trump cases and the resulting Biden presidency, is that the bully pulpit is much, much stronger for the executive than anyone realized, thanks to the Rs. The failure to recognize and willingness to use by the Ds has exacerbated the issue to an exponential degree.
People want to feel like their leader is taking charge, has an opinion, and is willing to use it. Biden doesn't. Obama didn't. Clinton.....eh, I was an R at that time. I hated him too. But it's clearly a factor is the perception of a president's ability to get shit done.
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#9933 |
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
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The retired general that they had put in charge of prosecuting the two masterminds of the 9/11 attacks had worked out a plea deal with them for life imprisonment. Tonight Defense Secretary Austin said "ah, hell no" and revoked the deal, putting the death penalty back on the table.
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#9934 |
World Champion Mis-speller
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Covington, Ga.
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In another Friday night bombshell, the Secret Service Inspector General report was just released. They report that then VP-Elect Harris came within 20 feet of the pipe bomb at the DNC.
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#9935 | |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2005
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WTF? I don’t know the chain of command here but at the very least, you’d think Joe signed off on the plea deal (therefore not needing SecDef approval).
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