Politics Thread

[Strange Brew]

I’m trying hard to believe things aren’t this dire, but he also has a point. It’s very disturbing that people won’t except the results of an election if the person who they want to win doesn’t, and would actually support taking measures to install that person anyway. That’s scary. It leaves a taste in my mouth that’s more foul than most things.

https://youtu.be/HKVBvooZ2c8

Bill is pushing this narrative. People have accepted 2020. A real threat to Democracy is the silencing of the opposition and using the letter agencies to target political opponents and parents. This narrative from the Ds is a sick joke. It needs to stop as it leads to more division.

[xuwillie]

Bill is pushing this narrative. People have accepted 2020. A real threat to Democracy is the silencing of the opposition and using the letter agencies to target political opponents and parents. This narrative from the Ds is a sick joke. It needs to stop as it leads to more division.

It’s a last ditch effort from the Libs to try and keep the senate. They don’t have anything else they can run on so kind of expected. There are nut jobs on both sides that won’t accept anything so to say it’s a republican issue is just stupid.

[xubrew]

It’s a last ditch effort from the Libs to try and keep the senate. They don’t have anything else they can run on so kind of expected. There are nut jobs on both sides that won’t accept anything so to say it’s a republican issue is just stupid.

My concern is that if they don't keep the senate or house, will they leave, assess why they didn't win, and then talk about what to do about it?? Or will they throw a fit and take it to court to try and stay in office anyway??

If they win back the senate and house some day, will the Republicans leave, or will it be a repeat of what we saw in 2020??


I'll be a little callous and compare it to basketball. Had a team like Kentucky lost last year in the NCAA Tournament, and showed up at the press conference and whine incessantly about how it was stolen from them, and they were robbed, and they really did win the game...that'd be ridiculous. If they tried to get the results of the game overturned, that'd be even more ridiculous. If they showed up at the site of the next round and declared themselves the actual winners, and had people at the NCAA with them who removed Saint Peter's from the floor and said they couldn't play, that'd be so jacked up that the whole system would be broken.

That's where I fear our politics may be heading. I hope a lot of GOP candidates don't win. Hershel Walker has completely debunked any theory that we want our best and brightest to lead us. But if they do win, then they win. That's how it works. It's time for the Dems to take a serious look at how the fuck they lost to HERSHEL WALKER!! Not to protest and insist that they won, and to take measures to put themselves in office anyway. What happened in 2020 and in the months (and years thereafter) was RIDICULOUS!! I believe he is right when he says that actually can fundamentally change this country. It's a little bit alarming to think we may be heading that way. If nothing else, we seem closer to it than at almost any other point in our history.

[xuwillie]

My concern is that if they don't keep the senate or house, will they leave, assess why they didn't win, and then talk about what to do about it?? Or will they throw a fit and take it to court to try and stay in office anyway??

If they win back the senate and house some day, will the Republicans leave, or will it be a repeat of what we saw in 2020??


I'll be a little callous and compare it to basketball. Had a team like Kentucky lost last year in the NCAA Tournament, and showed up at the press conference and whine incessantly about how it was stolen from them, and they were robbed, and they really did win the game...that'd be ridiculous. If they tried to get the results of the game overturned, that'd be even more ridiculous. If they showed up at the site of the next round and declared themselves the actual winners, and had people at the NCAA with them who removed Saint Peter's from the floor and said they couldn't play, that'd be so jacked up that the whole system would be broken.

That's where I fear our politics may be heading. I hope a lot of GOP candidates don't win. Hershel Walker has completely debunked any theory that we want our best and brightest to lead us. But if they do win, then they win. That's how it works. It's time for the Dems to take a serious look at how the fuck they lost to HERSHEL WALKER!! Not to protest and insist that they won, and to take measures to put themselves in office anyway. What happened in 2020 and in the months (and years thereafter) was RIDICULOUS!! I believe he is right when he says that actually can fundamentally change this country. It's a little bit alarming to think we may be heading that way. If nothing else, we seem closer to it than at almost any other point in our history.

All good points and why I think a split house and senate is probably the best thing for this country until people can chill the hell out. Hell my sister still thinks Kerry beat bush and Clinton beat Trump. She'll never accept those results.This has been going on for a while now.

[xubrew]

All good points and why I think a split house and senate is probably the best thing for this country until people can chill the hell out. Hell my sister still thinks Kerry beat bush and Clinton beat Trump. She'll never accept those results.This has been going on for a while now.

Yes, it has. I'm not going to say that it hasn't. I admittedly probably just ignored a lot of it, although I was annoyed in 2016. Once the election was over, not only was it obvious (or should have been) that Trump won, but the REASONS he was able to win should have also been obvious. The Dems were simply not able to look in the mirror and be critical of themselves as to how it happened.

But getting back to the basketball metaphor, up until 2020, I just chalked it up to it being the same as coaches whining sour grapes at a press conference. Now we seem to be at the next stage. Trying to get the results of a game thrown out, and to try to forcibly keep the team that actually won from advancing to the next round and putting the losing team there instead because that's who we were rooting for. That's a new level. No one ever took it as far as Trump did, and it appears that there is an entire clan of GOP candidates who are actually running on the platform that they will push to overturn elections if they don't like who wins them.

[X-band '01]

My concern is that if they don't keep the senate or house, will they leave, assess why they didn't win, and then talk about what to do about it?? Or will they throw a fit and take it to court to try and stay in office anyway??

If they win back the senate and house some day, will the Republicans leave, or will it be a repeat of what we saw in 2020??


I'll be a little callous and compare it to basketball. Had a team like Kentucky lost last year in the NCAA Tournament, and showed up at the press conference and whine incessantly about how it was stolen from them, and they were robbed, and they really did win the game...that'd be ridiculous. If they tried to get the results of the game overturned, that'd be even more ridiculous. If they showed up at the site of the next round and declared themselves the actual winners, and had people at the NCAA with them who removed Saint Peter's from the floor and said they couldn't play, that'd be so jacked up that the whole system would be broken.

That's where I fear our politics may be heading. I hope a lot of GOP candidates don't win. Hershel Walker has completely debunked any theory that we want our best and brightest to lead us. But if they do win, then they win. That's how it works. It's time for the Dems to take a serious look at how the fuck they lost to HERSHEL WALKER!! Not to protest and insist that they won, and to take measures to put themselves in office anyway. What happened in 2020 and in the months (and years thereafter) was RIDICULOUS!! I believe he is right when he says that actually can fundamentally change this country. It's a little bit alarming to think we may be heading that way. If nothing else, we seem closer to it than at almost any other point in our history.

So you're saying the Wisconsin Badgers were crooked back in 2016?

[xubrew]

So you're saying the Wisconsin Badgers were crooked back in 2016?

Of course!!!!

And UCLA was crooked in 2008 when they weren't called for an obvious foul at the end of the game against Texas A&M!! That would have eliminated UCLA and Xavier would have most likely walked into the Final Four!!! Xavier should have shown up at the Final Four with people from the NCAA who were also Xavier alumni, and had UCLA removed from the court!!!

And Hugh Dallas during the 2002 World Cup was corrupt as hell!!!!!


All of these results should have been overturned!!!

[Masterofreality]

My concern is that if they don't keep the senate or house, will they leave, assess why they didn't win, and then talk about what to do about it?? Or will they throw a fit and take it to court to try and stay in office anyway??

If they win back the senate and house some day, will the Republicans leave, or will it be a repeat of what we saw in 2020??


I'll be a little callous and compare it to basketball. Had a team like Kentucky lost last year in the NCAA Tournament, and showed up at the press conference and whine incessantly about how it was stolen from them, and they were robbed, and they really did win the game...that'd be ridiculous. If they tried to get the results of the game overturned, that'd be even more ridiculous. If they showed up at the site of the next round and declared themselves the actual winners, and had people at the NCAA with them who removed Saint Peter's from the floor and said they couldn't play, that'd be so jacked up that the whole system would be broken.

That's where I fear our politics may be heading. I hope a lot of GOP candidates don't win. Hershel Walker has completely debunked any theory that we want our best and brightest to lead us. But if they do win, then they win. That's how it works. It's time for the Dems to take a serious look at how the fuck they lost to HERSHEL WALKER!! Not to protest and insist that they won, and to take measures to put themselves in office anyway. What happened in 2020 and in the months (and years thereafter) was RIDICULOUS!! I believe he is right when he says that actually can fundamentally change this country. It's a little bit alarming to think we may be heading that way. If nothing else, we seem closer to it than at almost any other point in our history.
You Misspelled John Fetterman

Fixed it for you

[XU_Lou]

It's almost like Biden wants as many Democrats as possible to lose??? Additionally, it's almost like Biden wants to hurt as many Americans as well??


Sen. Joe Manchin Saturday demanded President Biden apologize for saying coal plants "all across America" will be shut down, in a scathing statement just days before crucial midterm elections.

"President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality, they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs," Manchin, D-W.Va., said. "Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden and instead believes he does not understand the need to have an all in energy policy that would keep our nation totally energy independent and secure."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/man...e-learn-lesson

[Strange Brew]

Fixed it for you

He also could’ve inserted 2000 and 2016 in for 2020..