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5 hours ago, mello dude said:

Its interesting that he was nominated by Reagan. 

He was a hell of a justice. More middle of the road. I hope Roberts swings a little and fills that void.

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Long rant.

To all the people who let this election break up families and friends let this sink in I think the last civil conversations we had occurred just days before November 8, 2016. You were supremely confident Hillary Clinton would win the presidential election; you voted for her with glee. As a lifelong Republican, I bit down hard and cast my vote for Donald Trump. Then the unimaginable happened. He won.
And you lost your freaking minds.

I knew you would take the loss hard—and personally—since all of you were super jacked-up to elect the first woman president. But I did not imagine you would become totally deranged, attacking anyone who voted for Trump or supported his presidency as a racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic Nazi-sympathizer.

The weirdness started on social media late on Election Night, as it became clear Hillary was going to lose. A few of you actually admitted that you were cradling your sleeping children, weeping, wondering what to tell your kindergartner the next morning about Trump’s victory. It continued over the next several days. Some of you seriously expressed fear about modern-day concentration camps. Despite living a privileged lifestyle, you were suddenly a casualty of the white patriarchy. Your daughters were future victims; your sons were predators-in-waiting. You threatened to leave Facebook because you could no longer enjoy the family photos or vacation posts from people who, once friends, became Literal Hitlers to you on November 8 because they voted for Donald Trump.

I admit I was a little hurt at first. The attacks against us Trump voters were so personal and so vicious that I did not think it could be sustained. I thought maybe you would regain your sanity after some turkey and egg nog.

But you did not. You got worse. And I went from sad to angry to where I am today: Amused.
As the whole charade you have been suckered into over the last 18 months starts to fall apart—that Trump would not survive his presidency; he would be betrayed by his own staff, family, and/or political party; he would destroy the Republican Party; he would be declared mentally ill and removed from office; he would be handcuffed and dragged out of the White House by Robert Mueller for “colluding” with Russia—let me remind you what complete fools you have made of yourselves. Not to mention how you’ve been fooled by the media, the Democratic Party, and your new heroes on the NeverTrump Right.

On November 9, you awoke from a self-induced, eight-year-long political coma to find that White House press secretaries shade the truth and top presidential advisors run political cover for their boss. You were shocked to discover that presidents exaggerate, even lie, on occasion. You became interested for the first time about the travel accommodations, office expenses, and lobbyist pals of administration officials. You started counting how many rounds of golf the president played. You suddenly thought it was fine to mock the first lady now that she wasn’t Michelle Obama. Once you removed your pussy hat after attending the Women’s March, you made fun of Kellyanne Conway’s hair, Sarah Sanders’ weight, Melania Trump’s shoes, Hope Hicks’ death stare; you helped fuel a rumor started by a bottom-feeding author that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slept with Donald Trump. You thought it was A-OK that Betsy DeVos was nearly physically assaulted and routinely heckled. You glorified a woman who has sex on camera for a paycheck.

You have learned all kinds of new things that those of us who didn’t willfully ignore politics for the past eight years already knew. For example, we already knew that illegal immigrants were being deported and families were being separated.

Some of your behavior has been kinda cute. It was endearing to watch you become experts on the Logan Act, the Hatch Act, the Second Amendment, the 25th Amendment, and the Emoluments Clause. You developed a new crush on Mitt Romney after calling him a “sexist” for having “binders full of women.” You longed for a redux of the presidency of George W. Bush, a man you once wanted imprisoned for war crimes. Ditto for John McCain. You embraced people like Bill Kristol and David Frum without knowing anything about their histories of shotgunning the Iraq War.

Classified emails shared by Hillary Clinton? Who cares! Devin Nunes wanting to declassify crucial information of the public interest? Traitor!
But your newfound admiration and fealty to law enforcement really has been a fascinating transformation. Wasn’t it just last fall that I saw you loudly supporting professional athletes who were protesting police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem? Remember how you fanboyed a mediocre quarterback for wearing socks that depicted cops as pigs?

But now you sound like paid spokesmen for the Fraternal Order of Police. You insist that any legitimate criticism of the misconduct and possibile criminality that occured at the Justice Department and FBI is an “attack on law enforcement.” While you once opposed the Patriot Act because it might have allowed the federal government to spy on terrorists who were using the local library to learn how to make suitcase bombs, you now fully support the unchecked power of a secret court to look into the phone calls, text messages and emails of an American citizen because he volunteered for the Trump campaign for a few months.
Spying on terrorists, circa 2002: Bad. Spying on Carter Page, circa 2017: The highest form of patriotism.

And that white, male patriarchy that you were convinced would strip away basic rights and silence any opposition after Trump won? That fear has apparently been washed away as you hang on every word uttered by James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper. This triumvirate is exhibit “A” of the old-boy network, and represents how the insularity, arrogance, and cover-your-tracks mentality of the white-male power structure still prevails. Yet, instead of rising up against it, you are buying their books, retweeting their Twitter rants and blasting anyone who dares to question their testicular authority. Your pussy hat must be very sad.

But your daily meltdowns about Trump-Russia election collusion have been the most entertaining to observe. After Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel, you were absolutely convinced it would result in Trump’s arrest and/or impeachment. Some of you insisted that Trump wouldn’t last beyond 2017. You quickly swallowed any chum tossed at you by the Trump-hating media on MSNBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post about who was going down next, or who would flip on the president.

For the past year, I have watched you obsess over a rotating cast of characters: Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Carter Page, Reince Priebus, Jeff Sessions, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Sam Nunberg, and Hope Hicks are just a few of the people you thought would turn on Trump or hasten his political demise. But when those fantasies didn’t come true, you turned to Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels for hope and inspiration. It will always be your low point.
Well, I think it will be. Each time I believe you’ve hit bottom, you come up with a new baseline. Perhaps defending the unprecedented use of federal power to spy on political foes then lie about it will the next nail in your credibility coffin.

The next several weeks will be tough for you. I think Americans will learn some very hard truths about what happened in the previous administration and how we purposely have been misled by powerful leaders and the news media. I wish I could see you as a victim here, but you are not. I know you are smart; you chose to support this insurgçency with your eyes wide open.

Now, I shall sit back and enjoy your pain.

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7 hours ago, HeavyDuty said:

...And you lost your freaking minds...

I think it was there before this, but now it's concentrated and aimed at a single target. Driven by fear and hatred. Expanded to include anyone chosen for attack, it no longer matters. Yes, hysterical, psychotic, and sometimes criminal. Very odd to see it happen. Can't think of anything similar in history. But, most of it is isolated to a small portion of the population, which attracts way too much attention. Media isn't helping the situation.

I didn't even get to vote, and I still have to defend myself, from what I'm not sure. Way too much attacking going on. It's like I must declare myself a righteous party member in the struggle. sounds socialist to me, no thanks.

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12 hours ago, ReconRat said:

... Can't think of anything similar in history...

Ok, I did think of something similar. A lot of it is not in the history books. Preferred to be forgotten. Labor Wars in the late 1800s. Lasted 10 years or less. Very violent, very political, corporations vs employees with political activists thrown in, along with some federal or state intervention. Much of it was a visibly Socialist movement in America. One reason it did not continue is that the American public was shocked at the level of violence. There were a lot of beatings and murders. Big street fights were common.

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2 hours ago, jbot said:

This sort of manic back and forth is what Putin wants.   

It's also what the Dem's and Repub's want, it's how they keep their base fired up. This is working exactly the way they want it to, has been for some time now.

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I'm not a dem or rep.  I agree (and disagree) with parts of both platforms.  I consider myself a swing vote.  If I had to do it over again I'd still pick Trump over Hillary, she's just to easy to dislike.  If the Dems would have went with a more moderate candidate (niether H or B fit that category) I think the election would have been less polarized and Dems probably would have one.

For 2020, I see Dems moving even further left, which is a tactical mistake.  It's already happened in some of local races.

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On 10/7/2016 at 9:40 PM, drc32-0 said:

How many liberal Supreme Court justices will Hillary get to nominate?

 

There is a certain irony here that the sexual harrasser that beat the wife of a sexual harrasser got to appoint a sexual harrasser to SCOTUS.

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18 hours ago, Tpoppa said:

No one was more ruthless on discrediting those that claimed sexual harassment than Hilldog.  Granted, Bill gave her plenty of opportunities. 

Trump was far more ruthless the last few weeks. FAR and because of it he is unfit for office. Possibly unfit for the human race in general. Hillary didn't say jack shit. There were some right winged crap websites that said she did, but nothing credible. Stick to the facts, there are plenty of reasons Hillary is evil, this isn't one of them.

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4 minutes ago, Tonik said:

Trump was far more ruthless the last few weeks. FAR and because of it he is unfit for office. Possibly unfit for the human race in general. Hillary didn't say jack shit. There were some right winged crap websites that said she did, but nothing credible. Stick to the facts, there are plenty of reasons Hillary is evil, this isn't one of them.

Wrong.  Again.

Hillary went to great lengths to dig up dirt to discredit the women that accused Bill of sexual harassment.  She was FAR more ruthless than anything Trump said.  It's not a conspiracy theory .

https://nypost.com/2017/11/22/ex-obama-cabinet-member-rips-hillary-for-bashing-bills-accusers/

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4 minutes ago, Tpoppa said:

Wrong.  Again.

Hillary went to great lengths to dig up dirt to discredit the women that accused Bill of sexual harassment.  She was FAR more ruthless than anything Trump said.  It's not a conspiracy theory .

https://nypost.com/2017/11/22/ex-obama-cabinet-member-rips-hillary-for-bashing-bills-accusers/

Full of shit. Again.

Unsubstantiated claims is all you have and all you will find. There is nothing even close to real evidence she did anything. Kind of like how the accusers of Kavanaugh were dismissed because there was nothing to substantiate their claims. And rightfully so, you can't condemn someone without facts, which once again you don't have.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/10/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-hillary-clinton-viciously-attack/

 

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On 10/6/2018 at 5:24 PM, Tonik said:

There is a certain irony here that the sexual harrasser that beat the wife of a sexual harrasser got to appoint a sexual harrasser to SCOTUS.

Ahem - who's chaining unsubstantiated and uncorroborated accusations without facts, exactly?  That's the smear the Dems went all-in over the last few weeks and you should see the former-Democratic #WalkAway testimonials as a result - they're impressive both in numbers, lucidity and diversity.

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Did anyone happen to notice the thick, thick irony of the Senate Democrats alleging a biased, partisan investigation?

They have strongly condemned Trump for previously suggesting such a thing was even possible.  CNN is completely steering clear of that conversation.  

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