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  #2672157 12-Mar-2021 09:12
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quickymart:

 

Christ, I hope not.

 

I don't think any losing presidential candidate has gone on to win another election after they lost, have they?

 


 

Grover Cleveland did it apparently. He lost in 1888 but won again in 1892.


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  #2672206 12-Mar-2021 11:11
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Yeah but how could you not vote for Grover? He's so cute and fluffy and blue.





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  #2672253 12-Mar-2021 13:02
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I'm a little late posting this as Trump's most recent speech has been and gone, but still thought it was amusing.

 


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  #2672267 12-Mar-2021 13:15
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Bitey the dog bitey the dog
He will nip your ankle when you’re having a jog
You can tell him bad dog you can tell him stay
But bitey the bite dog never will obey

 

Bitey was a First Dog, Bitey had it made
Living in DC, he even had an aide
Bitey had a great life, but it couldn’t last
Bitey could not come to terms with his shady past

 

Bitey loves to chew a leg
And sink his teeth right in
He’s not the type to sit and beg
He always wants to win
He says he got elected and the other dog did not
But the vote was fraudulent and everyone was bought

 

Bitey wondered what it was that losers like him do
Then he thought that maybe he could organise a coup
He gathered all the mongrels and the mutts and curs as well
And said if they could hang the VP that would just be swell
 
Bitey  staged a rally and he roused an angry pack
They all attacked the Capitol but then were all turned back
Though Bitey growled and snarled and he gave a mighty shout
the people only wondered, ‘who let the damned dogs out’?

 

(Who let the dogs out who let the dogs out
a zillion dollar tax break oh who let the dogs out?)

 

Humbled Bitey could not stay
A dog that wants to chomp
Belongs a long way far away
In some forsaken swamp

 

Now there is no First Dog, but there is a man
Fit to be the President and do all that he can
To take the country’s broken wings and let it fly once more
And make damned sure no bitey dog gets through the White House door.

 

 





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  #2672374 12-Mar-2021 17:19
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neb: - Weak power of self-reflection, no insight into why they think what they do, c.f. Jonathan Swift quote.

 

 

Just realised that was from notes so it doesn't make explicit what the quote is, it's:

 

 

"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired" - Jonathan Swift, 1721.

 

 

The more usual/informal form of that is "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into". So trying to reason with Retrumplicans is a lost cause.

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  #2674186 14-Mar-2021 11:03
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The Washington Post - A GOP lawmaker says the ‘quality’ of a vote matters. Critics say that’s ‘straight out of Jim Crow.’

 

today

 


Amid a contentious hearing over proposed restrictions on Arizona’s vote-by-mail system, a Republican state lawmaker argued that voters who hadn’t participated in recent elections should no longer automatically have absentee ballots mailed to them.

 

The reasoning, said state Rep. John Kavanagh (R), is that Republicans care more about alleged voter fraud than Democrats - and that “everybody shouldn’t be voting.”

 

Democrats value as many people as possible voting, and they’re willing to risk fraud. Republicans are more concerned about fraud, so we don’t mind putting security measures in that won’t let everybody vote - but everybody shouldn’t be voting,” he told CNN this week.

 

Then, despite no evidence presented of dead people voting or residents using absentee ballots that weren’t their own in Arizona, the longtime lawmaker insisted the proposed voting measures in the state, like the hundreds of others in states nationwide this year, reflected how “quality” mattered just as much “quantity.”

 

Not everybody wants to vote, and if somebody is uninterested in voting, that probably means that they’re totally uninformed on the issues,” Kavanagh said to the outlet. “Quantity is important, but we have to look at the quality of votes, as well.”

 

His comments have drawn the ire of voting rights experts and critics who accused the Republican of using rhetoric “straight out of Jim Crow,” as author Ari Berman said, at a time when GOP-controlled legislatures are advocating stricter voting measures across the United States. 

 

The push from Republicans comes on the heels of former president Donald Trump promoting baseless claims of voter fraud without evidence for months. ...

 

 

 

 

Fascism 101 ...   😕

 

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

 

 Animal Farm, by George Orwell. 





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  #2674574 14-Mar-2021 21:01
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Just found out today, purely by change, that that racist sheriff Arpaio that Trump pardoned was both a constitutionalist, one of the near-infinite variants of American crackpottery where they believe that the local sheriff is the highest form of authority in the land, meaning he (always a he) can appoint his own goons to enforce whatever rules he wants, but was also the guy who sent investigators to Hawaii to uncover the truth about Obama's fake birth certificate, which Trump thanked him for personally at the time. So it wasn't just Trump supporting an alt-right warlord wannabe, it was Trump rewarding a loyal follower.

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  #2674663 14-Mar-2021 23:52
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Only the best people. Federal prosecutors investigate U.S naval reservist at Capitol riot:

Politico: Of those interviewed, 34 agreed Hale-Cusanelli held “extremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities, and women.” One contractor colleague said he discussed his dislike for Jews every day. A supervisor told investigators she had to admonish him for sporting a “Hitler“ mustache

The reservist held secret level clearance at a weapons facility. Seems the Navy had no problem with the insanity, just told him to lose the Hitler moustache.

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  #2674977 15-Mar-2021 15:06
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gzt: Only the best people. Federal prosecutors investigate U.S naval reservist at Capitol riot:

Politico: Of those interviewed, 34 agreed Hale-Cusanelli held “extremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities, and women.” One contractor colleague said he discussed his dislike for Jews every day. A supervisor told investigators she had to admonish him for sporting a “Hitler“ mustache

The reservist held secret level clearance at a weapons facility. Seems the Navy had no problem with the insanity, just told him to lose the Hitler moustache.

 

 

Seems like they still haven't learned the lesson of the Walkers, where a drunken womaniser was regarded as reliable and moral enough to be trusted with long-term access to top secret communications.

 

 

Which he passed on to the Soviet Union for nearly 20 years.

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  #2675204 16-Mar-2021 03:21
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Two thoughts, firstly you're right, he doesn't look bad for the 85-95 age range, and secondly, he needs to go up at least one cup size.

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  #2675227 16-Mar-2021 08:07
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Trump announces daughter in law Lara Trump will run for the North Carolina senate seat. Lara Trump's dog charity has spent two million at Trump's venues in two years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-lara-senate-north-carolina-b1816787.html

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  #2675263 16-Mar-2021 08:51
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Always grifting.





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  #2675414 16-Mar-2021 12:07
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gzt: Trump announces daughter in law Lara Trump will run for the North Carolina senate seat. Lara Trump's dog charity has spent two million at Trump's venues in two years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-lara-senate-north-carolina-b1816787.html

 

That is a lot of dogs. I wonder if they know where their kibble is going to ??

 

Talk about a huge con job !





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  #2675417 16-Mar-2021 12:09
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Who let the dogs out!

 

 





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  #2675419 16-Mar-2021 12:12
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Rikkitic:Who let the dogs out!

 

The White House recently apparently :-)


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