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Offline Squidward von Squidderson

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« Reply #465 on: January 07, 2021, 11:57:42 pm »
Republican Governor of Maryland has come out and said Trump should be removed. 

He had the National Guard ready to go after being called in a panic by politicians trapped in the building, but needed Secretary of Defense permission to deploy them into Washington.  Permission was denied....   until some general in the army called him out of the blue 1 1/2 hours later to give him that permission, despite the fact that the guy wasn’t authorized to do so.

What a shitshow. 

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/01/08/maryland-governor-describes-delayed-permission-to-send-national-guard/
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« Reply #466 on: January 08, 2021, 08:03:21 am »
A poem: "Dear Mike Pence, you're so f*cking dense, you sat on the fence for four years, hence, you're now past tense"

EDITED DUE TO EXCELLENT GRAMMAR SCAN BY BUBBA M. ILEY
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« Reply #467 on: January 08, 2021, 08:18:18 am »
Very nice. Although you need a comma after "years". Otherwise, "hence" could be interpreted as "in the future" and not "therefore", and I don't think you want that.
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« Reply #468 on: January 08, 2021, 10:33:33 am »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/republican-lawmakers-rioters-capitol-photos-b1784170.html?amp

At least 6 elected Republicans from various states took part in the insurrection.  One claims there was no violence...  it’s a media hoax.

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« Reply #469 on: January 08, 2021, 10:39:06 am »
So you are fine with a never ending war with no understanding or compromise. You aren't interested in persuading anyone, just beating them over the head until they see things your way. How does that make you any different from them?

Zealot: noun

a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.

I have no idea what you're banging on about here or what you think my point is. By your own admission, Trump voters are either hard core MAGA heads or habitual high-propensity Republican voters: what is to be gained from trying to win them over when there are large swaths of the electorate (independent low-propensity voters) waiting to be tapped into?

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« Reply #470 on: January 08, 2021, 11:02:53 am »
LOL the Back the Blue/Blue Lives Matter crowd has now killed more cops than "violent BLM thugs".

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« Reply #471 on: January 08, 2021, 11:31:41 am »
LOL the Back the Blue/Blue Lives Matter crowd has now killed more cops than "violent BLM thugs".

The head of the police union in Philly says this wasn’t insurrection, just a protest.

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« Reply #473 on: January 08, 2021, 11:47:38 am »
I have no idea what you're banging on about here or what you think my point is. By your own admission, Trump voters are either hard core MAGA heads or habitual high-propensity Republican voters: what is to be gained from trying to win them over when there are large swaths of the electorate (independent low-propensity voters) waiting to be tapped into?

I agree but you don't do that by lumping them all together and calling them names.

Like it or not 74 million people voted for Trump. Rather than calling them all morons you might want to ask why they are so disenchanted with the way Washington operates that they would vote for someone like Trump. At least as many independents lean toward Republican as lean Democrat, maybe more.

The Democrats flipped Georgia for the Senate and Whitehouse. Abrams and Biden didn't do that by calling Republican voters morons. The Dems had good candidates and ran a good campaign, the Republicans had crap candidates, ran a lousy campaign and in spite of Trump doing his best to sabotage them, it was still a lot closer than it should have been.
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« Reply #474 on: January 08, 2021, 11:51:57 am »
Like it or not 74 million people voted for Trump.

except for those who reflexively voted Republican... uhhh... you know, party before country!

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« Reply #475 on: January 08, 2021, 11:55:49 am »
Democrats allowed two covid positive members on the house floor to vote last week.  Pretty disgusting.

Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) razor-thin re-election victory as speaker, which required a reckless Pelosi allowing two Democratic House members who tested positive for COVID-19 to vote in person
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/532881-heres-why-manchin-romney-and-collins-are-about-to-wield-serious-senate-power

Also, Manchin, Romney, and Collins will control the Senate.  So no ending the senate filibuster. no Green New Deal, no D.C. statehood, no Puerto Rico statehood, no packing the Supreme Court, etc.
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« Reply #476 on: January 08, 2021, 12:00:03 pm »
a part of the 'brain trust' - note the dude actually wearing his employee ID/lanyard... now publicly fired by his employer! As expected, active ongoing efforts to identify other "patriots".

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« Reply #477 on: January 08, 2021, 12:05:43 pm »
I agree but you don't do that by lumping them all together and calling them names.

Again: the portion of Trump voters I would consider to be winnable for the Dems is a tiny fraction of the total. And those can be peeled off by offering the same prgressive vision that would appeal to the Dem base if only the party would actually embrace that.

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Like it or not 74 million people voted for Trump. Rather than calling them all morons you might want to ask why they are so disenchanted with the way Washington operates that they would vote for someone like Trump. At least as many independents lean toward Republican as lean Democrat, maybe more.

That's not what you said earlier: "When Independents are factored in, 49% of registered voters identify or lean to Democrat and 44% identify or lean to Republican."

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The Democrats flipped Georgia for the Senate and Whitehouse. Abrams and Biden didn't do that by calling Republican voters morons. The Dems had good candidates and ran a good campaign, the Republicans had crap candidates, ran a lousy campaign and in spite of Trump doing his best to sabotage them, it was still a lot closer than it should have been.

They flipped the Senate by running two progressive candidates and working on turning out Dem-leaning voters. They did not bend over backwards to chase rural and suburban white Trump voters. When they did that in places like Kentucky, they got their asses handed to them because noone wants to vote for a fake Republican when there's real Republicans on offer.

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« Reply #478 on: January 08, 2021, 12:06:35 pm »
Democrats allowed two covid positive members on the house floor to vote last week.  Pretty disgusting.

Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) razor-thin re-election victory as speaker, which required a reckless Pelosi allowing two Democratic House members who tested positive for COVID-19 to vote in person
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/532881-heres-why-manchin-romney-and-collins-are-about-to-wield-serious-senate-power

Also, Manchin, Romney, and Collins will control the Senate.  So no ending the senate filibuster. no Green New Deal, no D.C. statehood, no Puerto Rico statehood, no packing the Supreme Court, etc.

Hey Shady how many cops did the Kavanaugh protesters beat to death?

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« Reply #479 on: January 08, 2021, 12:10:36 pm »
LOL the Back the Blue/Blue Lives Matter crowd has now killed more cops than "violent BLM thugs".
Here is something else of interest...

The cop that was killed (Brian Sicknick) may have actually been a Trump supporter.

I think its a perfect metaphor for Trumpism... the way people who support it (perhaps with the idea that they may benefit) end up getting harmed in the end.

See: https://wikibious.com/brian-sicknick/
(Not sure how reliable that site is... that's why I said he 'may' have been a Trump supporter. But even if he personally wasn't a Trump supporter, many police organizations were.)