Politics Thread

[Masterofreality]

You have zero knowledge of politics if you honestly believe that’s a red herring. The better candidate would have been a rock. That’s kind of my point.

What is not a red herring is a brain damaged grifter receiving 400,000 early votes before a ridiculously bad debate performance.
Talk about a horrific candidate and a bunch of clueless lemmings.
Enjoy the circus elephant.

[Lamont Sanford]

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.

Funny (or is it ironic) that all of the recent so called "right wing conspiracies" have actually come true...i.e. Covid origin, the Russian dossier, etc.

Keep believing the SBF / FTX isn't the biggest Ponzi scheme since Bernie Madoff. (Another big time Dem donor I might add.)

[paulxu]

Uh. Huh. That stuff predates the former President.
Politics is a dirty business.
Romney was called a “murderer”, with Obama’s consent.

Hard to say what PACS might do or not do when they run ads.
Pretty clear this guy was a departure from Reagan and Obama.
When you make fun of a war hero like McCain, there's probably no low to which you will not stoop.
So, here we go again.

And he has profoundly altered the tenor of American public life — shattering long-held standards of decorum and civility with often shocking attacks on political rivals, judges and reporters. He has frequently made racist and antisemitic remarks, mocked people with disabilities and denigrated developing countries, bragged about sexual assault and paid hush money to a porn star, praised dictators, declined to disavow extremists, inspired his supporters to resort to violence and defended white supremacists and Jan. 6 rioters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ing-president/

[XU_Lou]

???

Funny (or is it ironic) that all of the recent so called "right wing conspiracies" have actually come true...i.e. Covid origin, the Russian dossier, etc.

Keep believing the SBF / FTX isn't the biggest Ponzi scheme since Bernie Madoff. (Another big time Dem donor I might add.)

Exactly.... That list of "right wing conspiracies" is much longer than what you mentioned...

[XU_Lou]

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."
- William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)


"I am, as an ex-CIA agent, opposed to the disinformation activities in which I was involved. I admit that I was involved, and I think it served no useful purpose. Propagandizing the American public or Congress is not the CIA's job." — Frank Snepp

[Strange Brew]

Hard to say what PACS might do or not do when they run ads.
Pretty clear this guy was a departure from Reagan and Obama.
When you make fun of a war hero like McCain, there's probably no low to which you will not stoop.
So, here we go again.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ing-president/

Funny, McCain wasn't such a hero to the Left in 2008 and I don't agree with what Trump said.

[paulxu]

Funny, McCain wasn't such a hero to the Left in 2008 and I don't agree with what Trump said.

We disagreed with his policies...but honored his service. We did not belittle him.

Lake probably lost Arizona because she ran McCain supporters off.

[Strange Brew]

We disagreed with his policies...but honored his service. We did not belittle him.

Lake probably lost Arizona because she ran McCain supporters off.

What policies did you disagree with.

When his service was mentioned as a quality it was dismissed as if it didn’t matter. Same with Dole.

[paulxu]

Cutting taxes on corporations and the very wealthy, attempts to privatize Social Security, staying in Iraq, etc. (2008 platform positions).

I started this by noting we need a better political discourse in the country, and maybe here on the board.
When McCain died, he did not want Trump invited to his funeral. But wanted both Bush and Obama to deliver eulogies, which they did.
One of his advisors noted:

“I think it is John McCain imparting a lesson in civility by asking the two men who defeated him to speak, as an example to America that differences in political views and contests shouldn’t be so important that we lose our common bonds and the civility that is, or used to be, a hallmark of American democracy,” Duprey said.

That civility has been lost. Hopefully it will return.

[Lamont Sanford]

Lake probably lost Arizona because she ran McCain supporters off.

Yeah, riiiiiight. It had nothing to do with a corrupt and incompetent Secretary of State running an election (from her basement) that she herself was competing in and chose NOT to recuse herself from. Yeah...nothing to see here folks.

Child please. Surely you jest.