Politics Thread

[Xville]

Which has zero to do with serving in the US Senate.
Glad you prefer a brain damaged grifter

You don't think that peddling pseudoscience and potentially harmful products has anything to do with serving in the Senate? Does trust not mean anything to you when voting for a candidate?

I didn't prefer one or the other...i think they are both terrible choices which goes back to my original point that maybe based on these midterms Republicans will wake up to the fact that they need a better pool of candidates, and move off Trump

[94GRAD]

Which has zero to do with serving in the US Senate.
Glad you prefer a brain damaged grifter

But doesn't it mean he can be bought to say(vote) for anything for the right dollar amount?

[GoMuskies]

But doesn't it mean he can be bought to say(vote) for anything for the right dollar amount?

So he'd fit in.

[noteggs]

Russian missiles hit Poland and kills two. Things just got a lot more interesting NATO.

[paulxu]

The former president introduced, on a large scale, something I don't recall in my lifetime.
There were occasional examples, but in 2016 it became the norm.
In the first Republican presidential debate, the practice of name calling and belittling your opponent became the norm for some Republicans.

Whether attacking the opponent directly, or his/her spouse and family with derogatory names and comments, it continues unabated to this day

And it infected our political discourse for the last 6 years, and seemingly into the future. And what's worse, it has crept into society as an accepted practice, even with well educated people like on this board. For some reason, some people feel compelled to belittle other posters with name calling, etc.

Don't think it's good for our country in the long run. There have been other times in our history when vitriol and hate were predominate, but not recently until 2016. I can't imagine Reagan or Obama spouting off the nonsense our former president does daily. And his followers, even here in XUhoops, do the same.

We can be better.

[Masterofreality]

You don't think that peddling pseudoscience and potentially harmful products has anything to do with serving in the Senate? Does trust not mean anything to you when voting for a candidate?

I didn't prefer one or the other...i think they are both terrible choices which goes back to my original point that maybe based on these midterms Republicans will wake up to the fact that they need a better pool of candidates, and move off Trump

Oh, I don ‘t know. Like this “pseudoscience”?
Biden mandates a “vaccine” that “allegedly” stops Covid. Thousands of people are “mandated” out of their jobs.
Except it doesn’t stop Covid at all. Millions of people catch Covid after the doses. Some multiple times.
Seems as if there is an accuracy problem in medicine?
Existing Government peddling “pseudoscience - to deleterious effect

[Xville]

Oh, I don ‘t know. Like this “pseudoscience”?
Biden mandates a “vaccine” that “allegedly” stops Covid. Thousands of people are “mandated” out of their jobs.
Except it doesn’t stop Covid at all. Millions of people catch Covid after the doses. Some multiple times.
Seems as if there is an accuracy problem in medicine?
Existing Government peddling “pseudoscience - to deleterious effect

I wasn't aware that Biden was an MD and a surgeon? If you want to blame someone for the above, blame Fauci and/or the CDC whose direction Biden was taking just like Trump when he was in office.

I like the sidestep in not answering my question though.

[STL_XUfan]

When will the FTX money laundering scheme see the light of day with the MSM? Pretty damning to see the Dems laundering our tax dollars through Ukraine.

Crooks.

You are deep in the right wing sauce if you are buying into this conspiracy theory. My guess is the actual media will report on it when there is something to report. Good news, with a chapter 11 a lot of the information to prove or disprove this craziness could become public.

[STL_XUfan]

Russian missiles hit Poland and kills two. Things just got a lot more interesting NATO.

It will be interesting to see what tact Russia will take here. You cannot imagine they are dumb enough to attach Poland, and even if they were, the target would not be a random Polish farm. So it likely had to be an accident. Does they go full disinformation campaign and claim it was a false flag, or take responsibility as an unintended accident. I do not think NATO is so anxious to get into the fight to start WWIII over something that credibly appears to be an unfortunate accident.

[GoMuskies]

You are deep in the right wing sauce if you are buying into this conspiracy theory. My guess is the actual media will report on it when there is something to report. Good news, with a chapter 11 a lot of the information to prove or disprove this craziness could become public.

That may be, but this guy is DEFINITELY getting the kid gloves treatment from part of the media, and it's definitely because he's a big donor to Democrats. Man, if a story like this ever happened to a major Repupblican donor the NYT story on it....would be very dissimilar to the one the just did on SBF.