pulse Report This Comment Date: July 18, 2024 12:47AM
I was kind of worried there was going to be mass anti/pro trump spammage after
the other day.
I guess I'm relieved it's only been half a dozen or so images.
Anon - not logged in Report This Comment Date: July 18, 2024 02:57AM
That's sad. It's not our politics, however much some people want us to think
it is. Their age is over and history is repeating itself - they're fighting
over the rotting corpse. Surely they could take these posts somewhere else?
quasi Report This Comment Date: July 18, 2024 11:47AM
Surely someone doesn't realize that, whether deserving of the power or not, the
fate of the world could rest in the outcome of this. You can't dismiss a 200
kilo gorilla just because he's not the smartest critter in the jungle.
Peter Puller Report This Comment Date: July 19, 2024 06:28AM
1) It may not be your nation's politics but it is world politics. See Hitler,
Putin, and others responsible for largescale wars that involved more than the
Home and Visitor armies. You are not insulated from this guy's bullshit.
2) What quasi said about the big gorilla. Just because you personally can see
that the guy on a soapbox is a dangerous buffoon, doesn't mean millions of
others are as perceptive as you. And we have to emphasize "dangerous"
in that sentence.
3) Once upon a time in 2015, a big group of Republicans put their names on the
primaries list. The party said "that guy? heh, he's a joke we can't
support, we've got better to choose from." But a stupid thing happened: the
more gullable voters liked him, and he advanced as the party candidate. True to
form, the party said "well, it would look bad if we used common sense and
rejected this, so that's who we have as a frontrunner and that's who we're going
to throw our support behind" (the suffix "while holding their
noses" has been used in contemporary reports).
And in 2023, when a small group of Republican candidates started welling up,
what happened? Some were proxies for Trump, others bowed out because they had no
spine, and the last couple lacked as much money as he'd bilked from followers.
So he's still a joke, but one that still gets told over bullhorns.
quasi Report This Comment Date: July 19, 2024 11:21AM
Actually, Peter Puller, since Anon was whining about American politics as a
whole (and I'm pretty sick of it myself because of the dangerous idiots on the
red team these days), the 200 kilo gorilla I was referencing was the entire U.S.
Like it or not, what happens in the U.S. has consequences around the globe by
virtue of its size and strength, and in this election there are some stark
differences between sides, the most stark for the world and Anon being that
Trump and his Vice President pick Vance pretty much will fuck our allies for a
buck, or just pure petulance.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: July 21, 2024 01:43AM
The fact that there are people that think a Republican did this...
He wAS reGisTErEd rePUbLiCaN...
For the non-Americans and/or non-thinkers:
In a closed primary election state (such as Pennsylvania) it is a common tactic
for someone that is actually a Democrat to register as a Republican so they can
vote for the weakest Republican candidate in the primary election. The goal
being that the worst candidate for the Republicans wins the primary and advances
to the general election thus giving the Democrat candidate a better chance of
winning at the general election...
And yes, it can go the other way too...
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: July 21, 2024 01:47AM
also...
There was an attempt to assassinate a former US President...gee quasi, where's
your call to "ban all the guns" ???
