Politics Thread

[boozehound]

I think a lot of people were just tired of politicians and that’s why we elected the exact opposite of a polished politician. I for one am pretty much done with a bunch of people talking politics and being politically correct and slamming the other party. Can we just get someone that has a clue and isn’t just going to toe the party line and give us the same shit all of the time? Probably best to just blow up both parties who are more concerned about bringing up dirt rather than just providing good sound solutions and brining everyone together? The back and forth slamming by both parties is really old.

I mostly agree, but just read the posts in this thread. 90% of them are people aggressively and completely towing the party line for their respective party. Also we are on a basketball message board for a Liberal Arts University so I would imagine that the level of discourse here is actually more objective than the average.

Trump is the President right now and his whole campaign was basically slamming everyone he went up against. Remember the Republican primaries?

[Smails]

Is there really a question about WHY the President's supporters are rejoicing in Biden's constant tripping?

You have is a group of people who have been told for the last 3 years that they are racist, dumb, chauvinistic and anti-intellectual liars for supporting the President. The left has been preaching from very high ground about how awful of a person DJT and how "non-presidential" (that's my personal favorite) he is.

These same preachers are now supporting Joe Biden for president. Joe Biden has an active sexual assault allegation against him, routinely has said things that can only be classified as dumb, and has now waded into the waters of telling a race how to vote based on their skin color. You can't cling to some imaginary moral high-ground for 3 years and then not expect some significant counter-punching when you present a candidate like Joe Biden as the anti-Trump. Reaping and sowing.. It's a terrible look for our political system but you can't spend 3 years attacking and then want to reverse course and talk about civility and discourse.

[boozehound]

Is there really a question about WHY the President's supporters are rejoicing in Biden's constant tripping?

You have is a group of people who have been told for the last 3 years that they are racist, dumb, chauvinistic and anti-intellectual liars for supporting the President. The left has been preaching from very high ground about how awful of a person DJT and how "non-presidential" (that's my personal favorite) he is.

These same preachers are now supporting Joe Biden for president. Joe Biden has an active sexual assault allegation against him, routinely has said things that can only be classified as dumb, and has now waded into the waters of telling a race how to vote based on their skin color. You can't cling to some imaginary moral high-ground for 3 years and then not expect some significant counter-punching when you present a candidate like Joe Biden as the anti-Trump. Reaping and sowing.. It's a terrible look for our political system but you can't spend 3 years attacking and then want to reverse course and talk about civility and discourse.

Right - and they are all complete hypocrites for it. Both sides. I would actually be supportive of the right questioning why the left isn't more outraged by Biden's comments. The hypocrisy comes in when, instead of criticizing the disparate responses from the left they just do the exact same thing that the left did to Trump (that they hated) by pretending to be aghast at how racist he is.

[Juice]

Right - and they are all complete hypocrites for it. Both sides. I would actually be supportive of the right questioning why the left isn't more outraged by Biden's comments. The hypocrisy comes in when, instead of criticizing the disparate responses from the left they just do the exact same thing that the left did to Trump (that they hated) by pretending to be aghast at how racist he is.

Except this is nothing new for Biden.

"They're going to put you all back in chains"

Whether it's Trump or Romney (who I think we all agree is a decent man), Biden uses race to attack Republicans.

[JTG]

[QUOTE=boozehound;676274]I mostly agree, but just read the posts in this thread. 90% of them are people aggressively and completely towing the party line for their respective party. Also we are on a basketball message board for a Liberal Arts University so I would imagine that the level of discourse here is actually more objective than the average[/QUOTE
What? Liberal Arts University ? According to US NEWS XU is 13% liberal arts. X is mostly business, hosp admin, med, pre med. etc. Probably explains why only 13% of the posts on here are left leaning lunacy.

[boozehound]

What? Liberal Arts University ? According to US NEWS XU is 13% liberal arts. X is mostly business, hosp admin, med, pre med. etc. Probably explains why only 13% of the posts on here are left leaning lunacy.

Is this a real post?

Unless things have changed since I graduated in 2004 Xavier identifies themselves as a Liberal Arts University, and has for quite some time. That does not mean that the majority of students are Liberal Arts majors, just that they have a core Liberal Arts curriculum that is deeper than most other schools (think Language, History, Theology, Philosophy). For example I was a Finance Major but still had to take like 9 credit hours each of the aforementioned disciplines, which I would not have had to do at many other Universities.

Are you not going to be a fan anymore because they are defined as a 'Liberal' Arts school? Do you think you should petition them to change it to 'Conservative Arts School'?

Bonus points for being obtuse enough to conflate 'Liberal' in the context of 'Liberal Arts School' with 'Liberal' political ideologies. While you could argue a correlation, that's not what the Liberal in Liberal Arts references.

[Xavier]

Yeah, it is definitely still considered a Liberal Arts school

[Juice]

Biden spent two minutes here saying absolutely nothing at all

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/sta...679983114?s=20

[boozehound]

Biden spent two minutes here saying absolutely nothing at all

https://twitter.com/johncardillo/sta...679983114?s=20

John 'Murder Hornet' Cardillo? This is a guy from Newsmax posting a video on twitter that's over a year old, right?

Moving past the source, I'm not sure this is really a major point of differentiation between the two candidates. There is like 100 hours of tape of Trump rambling without really going anywhere. How you evaluate the differences between the two in this area really seems to be more of a function of what hyper-partisan personalities you listen to or follow on twitter.

[bjf123]

A politician talking and not really saying anything? That’s never happened before!


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