Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

  On 9/29/2018 at 6:12 PM, goDel said:

it really was.

 

too bad mccain is not around any more. would be interested in hearing his take on the whole ordeal.

McCain would have been "deeply concerned", and that's about the extent of his caring. He was a useless piece of shit.

That "useless piece of shit" single handedly saved the ACA last year.    

in case anyone's interested in hearing what Jeff Flake actually says about his calling for the delay and investigation: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/flake-kavanaugh-interview/571735/

  On 9/29/2018 at 7:08 PM, goDel said:

That "useless piece of shit" single handedly saved the ACA last year.    

meh, it's garbage anyways.

  On 9/29/2018 at 10:26 PM, azatoth said:

 

  On 9/29/2018 at 7:08 PM, goDel said:

That "useless piece of shit" single handedly saved the ACA last year.    

meh, it's garbage anyways.

 

it's better than nothing and certainly has saved me from having to sell my house to pay for care.  previously i got denied coverage by every provider because 'pre-existing conditions'.  it was a step in the right direction but is so watered down compared to what they started with. they gave up a lot and the dems totally shit the bed with making it right when they had the chance. 

lol  / jazz

Perfect aging

so, is kanye a human 4chan?

What is it with rappers and late career name changes

  On 10/1/2018 at 1:14 AM, ignatius said:

so, is kanye a human 4chan?

 

? the black white supremacist. lol jk. don`t be mad 

a very very large... yebrain

yezus christ

What if he gets elected and the us gets stuck on a loop electing all these idiot presidents, each one zanier and more unbelievable than the last?

Is he talking about the part of the 13th amendment that results in prisoner slave labor? He's a fool if he thinks Trump is going to challenge the prison industrial complex.

I expect Kanye to get to a much deeper level of weird in the next few months. A tipping point of weirdness. 

Ye's performance on SNL should have been outsourced.

  On 10/1/2018 at 8:58 AM, Candiru said:

I expect Kanye to get to a much deeper level of weird in the next few months. A tipping point of weirdness. 

Autechre collab pls

Interesting thread on how people can support someone whos telling obvious lies

"we need to get him in there to stop abortions, umkay" 

so, a lot of people don't really care if he's unfit or guilty of rape, sexual assault etc.. they just want them fetus to come out the vajeen. 

single issue voters are the suck. 

https://youtu.be/opi8X9hQ7q8?t=22m54s

jump ahead to 22:53

  On 10/2/2018 at 4:34 AM, goDel said:

Interesting thread on how people can support someone whos telling obvious lies

 

https://twitter.com/ewzucker/status/1046219625690804224?s=21

 

https://twitter.com/ewzucker/status/1046219639464882176?s=21

Yeah, wow, holy shit that's fascinating. and scary. very, very scary. . .

Edit: This article just came across the feed, similar take on the relativity of "truth": https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/02/brett-kavanaugh-lying-politics-220812

^ This, in hindsight, is what really makes it worst than ever for me when I discuss politics with friends and relatives who have gone all-in. Even worst than the days of futile arguments in the era of W Bush and Iraq or the early era of Obama. We got the preview of it post-Tea Party with the birthers and the gradual normilazation of right-wing fringe conspiracies.

I miss talking about actual ideological ideals, policies, etc. Now I deal with relatives who think Trump's appropriation of the term "fake news" as "a brilliant strategy" and will resort to conspiracy, delusion, and denial when faced with anything. Actually stump them and the tangent off to regurgitate something about how "great the economy is now." The US has a base of nationalists that will not go away until the die off. Even if an impeachment occurs and a scandal is unveiled they will bitterly deny their true complacence. They are in the minority but still in great enough numbers to command a GOP majority via gerrymandering, slick propaganda, and exploitation of the electoral college and voting policies that encourage apathy and low turnout among those who'd vote Democratic.

^agreed. 

On a lighter smaller note, there's undoubtedly going to be some markets/economy reset/stall/crash coming soon enough and a tiny, vindictive, evil part of me wants it to happen sooner rather than later just so it's not while Trump is out or exiting and he can blame it on him losing power, as it will likely have very little to do with Trump directly.