@gungasnake,
Got a lot of republicans in there too, eh, Snake?
Given he caption, I'm not sure why that is. Maybe it's just trying to symbolize the political spectrum, going from left to right. But if that's the case, Auntie Maxine should the first one pictured.
@gungasnake,
Quote:Dems in outright panic over #walkaway movement
Not really. Who would take something like this seriously?
Quote:I hated guns and God and most of all - Republicans. I loved Europe and big government programs and Barack Obama. First I #walkedaway from identity politics...Jordan Peterson helped with that. Next I learned to love this amazing country and renewed my faith in God and my Jewish heritage. Dennis Prager helped with that. Next I learned about why free market Capitalism has been the greatest force for good in human history, and why Socialism is wrong not just economically, but also ends in totalitarianism and mass slaughter.
This sort of demotivational fiction is more believable to Trump supporters because it confirms what they wish to believe and includes a conversion story as well. Denying any connection with Russian troll farms is exactly what you would expect the "movement" to do.
Russian trolls on Twitter pose as ex-Democrats for #WalkAway movement
@hightor,
hightor wrote:Denying any connection with Russian troll farms is exactly what you would expect the "movement" to do.
Yeah! Just like I'd expect you to deny it if someone said you were a homosexual pedophile who had a special affinity for chubby little boys under the age of three.
@Blickers,
Blickers wrote:Well, if you are going to take back some land you gave away to Ukraine 60 years ago based on a territorial claim, the time to make that claim is when the place you gave the land to secedes from your country. Russian apologists are always claiming that the Crimea supposedly always belonged to Russia, and Russia was the center of the Soviet Union, so when the Crimea was given from Russia to Ukraine, it still remained in the same country Russia was in. But when Ukraine left the Soviet Union taking the Crimea with it, for the first time Crimea was separate from Russia. That's the Russian argument.
I feel it is a strong argument to point out that if Russia wished to advance this argument, then it should have brought it up when Ukraine left the Soviet Union in 1991. Russia might well have felt that militarily it couldn't prevent Ukraine from leaving, but if Russia felt at the time that Ukraine had no right to take Crimea with it then it shouldn't have been the first country to endorse the notion of a free, independent Ukraine. Logically, Russia should have said, "We endorse the idea that Ukraine is now a separate country no longer under the influence of the Soviet Union, but we don't endorse you taking the Crimea away from us". Instead, Russia was the first country to jump on the hooray-for-independent-ukraine bandwagon, then 60 years later takes it back by force of arms. That makes no sense-if you have a territorial claim you make it immediately and hold the claim until it gets resolved one way or another.
Did NATO have a longstanding territorial claim when they stole Kosovo from Serbia?
@layman,
layman wrote:
hightor wrote:Denying any connection with Russian troll farms is exactly what you would expect the "movement" to do.
Yeah! Just like I'd expect you to deny it if someone said you were a homosexual pedophile who had a special affinity for chubby little boys under the age of three.
My my, what are you? A freshman in highschool? What sort of puerile argument is this? Even if you disagree with hightor, he doesn't attack you, does he? He just questions the authenticity of your source for a post, based on other news he has. And how do you counter that argument? Juvenile slurs and an ad hominem attack. Pathetic.
When President Trump replaces Ruth Ginzberg, I mean, to actually replace her with something more or less equivalent (prize for ugliest of the ugly amongst demokkkrat women) he's gonna be back to the realm of fairytles ("Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the
FUGLIEST of them all??") and, of course, there's only one answer to that:
I mean, how picky is a gorilla supposed to be.....
@najmelliw,
najmelliw wrote:My my, what are you? A freshman in highschool? What sort of puerile argument is this? Even if you disagree with hightor, he doesn't attack you, does he? He just questions the authenticity of your source for a post, based on other news he has. And how do you counter that argument? Juvenile slurs and an ad hominem attack. Pathetic.
I believe you misunderstood his post. I do not believe that he was accusing Hightor of those things, but was merely illustrating that it is natural for people to deny untrue accusations.
@Walter Hinteler,
Frankie Boyle said it would be the first crowd funded assassination in history.
I've written about this important history before but the Times has a good and brief piece up this morning
Quote:...Never before, however, has an entire political apparatus arisen to systematically engineer a more dependable Supreme Court over the course of a generation.
Since the 1980s, a network of activists and organizations has worked assiduously to reach this point, determined to avoid the disappointment they felt after Republican appointees like Earl Warren, William J. Brennan Jr., David H. Souter, Sandra Day O’Connor and Justice Kennedy proved more moderate or liberal once they joined the court.
One of the leading figures behind the effort was Ed Meese, who served as attorney general to President Ronald Reagan, two of whose appointees, Justices O’Connor and Kennedy, proved less conservative than supporters originally hoped. Mr. Meese has made it a mission since then to advise subsequent Republican presidents on judicial nominations. In a nod to his central role, Mr. Meese was present in the East Room of the White House for Monday night’s announcement, and Mr. Trump singled him out during his speech.
NYT
And we can note here that the well-documented meeting of GOP strategists and leaders on the evening of Obama's inauguration (where it was established that everything Obama might forward as policy/law had to be stopped or maximally impeded) was set up by Ed Meese.
@najmelliw,
najmelliw wrote:My my, what are you? A freshman in highschool? What sort of puerile argument is this? Even if you disagree with hightor, he doesn't attack you, does he? He just questions the authenticity of your source for a post, based on other news he has. And how do you counter that argument? Juvenile slurs and an ad hominem attack. Pathetic.
Attack? Juvenile ad hominem slurs? Who did I call names? Apparently you can't spot a logical argument when it hits you in the ass, eh?
If you think "expecting someone to deny" a false claim is evidence of the truth of the assertion, as both you and Hi seem to think, then you sure as hell aint gittin on my jury.
I see now that Roy had no problem understanding the argument. Sorry I didn't spell in out real slow for you. I should have known that would be necessary, eh?
@najmelliw,
najmelliw wrote:My my, what are you? A freshman in highschool? What sort of puerile argument is this?Juvenile slurs and an ad hominem attack. Pathetic.
Oh wait...I almost forgot. I DONE BEEN VICTIMIZED, I TELLS YA! You called me boy, ya racist, ya! You accused me of verbal assault! I need some hot chocolate and a lapdog,. After that Imma sic my homeys on your ass too, just for that.
Well, who wants to congratulate me? After years of trying I finally got me a auxiliary policeman's badge! And I just arrested my first serious offender, too!
Yesterday, I read an article in the paper about a guy who raped a woman and kidnapped her daughter a couple of States over. Then, today, I seen this guy who looked suspicious in a crowd downtown...
So I pulled out my gun, pointed at my badge and went straight over to him. I pointed blank asked him: "Did you rape a woman in Georgia yesterday? Just as I suspected, he said, "no." Then, just to be double sure, I asked him if he kidnapped her kid. Once again, he said "No," just as I expected him to! That's when I slapped the cuffs on him and hauled his sorry ass down to the station.
