The Simple Truths Silver Mine

[Mechaman]

On World War I

We should not have gotten involved in that one.  There were no good guys.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It should be noted that BRTD is judging James Joyce as someone who basically doesn't read books. So we should take that even less seriously than his other nonsense.

[MATTROSE94]

The Tea Party is nothing more than parasite on the GOP, it contributes nothing yet destroys everything.   

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Mostly, the anti-thinking culture he is a proponent of is a bit of a cancer.

Just because I don't think you're even half as smart as you think you are, doesn't mean I'm anti-thinking.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Why is DevotedDemocrat a robot that only creates threads with mindless beltway-like talking points and never responds to anything after? He just creates more and more pointless threads....

[Mechaman]

Perhaps the best summary of Bush Jr. I've seen so far:

Obviously, I disagree with Bush on policy.  The Bush tax cut, invading Iraq, massive giveaways to corporate America while vetoing healthcare for children, scapegoating gay people, pandering to the Christian right, the list goes on.  He was awful on policy and on that alone I would vote HP.

But, beyond that, you have to question Bush's leadership and his competence.  There are four big events he completely botched.  Regardless of how you feel on policy, I defy anyone to say Bush did a good job on any of the following:

1.  He came into office thinking terrorism was Bill Clinton's pet issue so he ignored the issue until 9/11. 
2.  He botched the war in Afghanistan, letting Bin laden escape and eventually ignored the worsening security situation.
3.  He botched Iraq completely until 2007.  He didn't fire Rumsfeld or our incompetent generals, or set out a strategy to win in Iraq. 
4.  He was frozen during the financial crisis, couldn't get TARP passed quickly and his team, especially Hank Paulson, made huge missteps that worsened the crisis.

[Mechaman]

"Collectivist" is a cute little term used to describe anyone who so far as thinks about constructing a system that does not allow people to fall into complete poverty.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

No Reagan (D), what a surprise!

If you prefer Reagan to Ike, then you aren't a democrat

[Napoleon]

Anything described by its supporters as "common sense" is almost invariably a bad idea.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Living in a society that doesn't believe gun ownership is a right, much less that arming more people is a good thing, will tend to show you the absurdity of the American gun situation.

[Joe Republic]

Why do socks admit they are socks?

Because they want to gloat that they were "smart" enough to not get caught.  Actually, what it really means if you create a sock that isn't caught is that you were either boring enough that no one cared or so unoriginal and uninspired in your trolling no one could tell if you were a new idiot or the old banned idiot.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Jeff, would you like to see Update get its own board?

No

Why not?

I'm sure that was not Dave Leip's intent when he created the forum.

And it wasn't his intent that someone could one day hijack this forum by relating his horrible life.

[free my dawg]

He worked hard to earn his hate.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I could totally see the culprit as one of the many Hillary haters on this forum.

No, since it's a woman. We don't have women here.

[Mechaman]

Just looks like a huffpo article that wants to take a factoid out of context for no reason.  Correlation does not equal causation.  There can be a third factor that causes both things to occur with no causation between the original two.

In this case, the richest districts are in major urban centers which skew Democratic by a large margin.  But, if you look within those cities, poor neighborhoods are more Democratic than rich neighborhoods.  Like in Brooklyn, Park Slope only voted for Obama 90% or something versus Brownsville which voted for Obama 99%.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I will never not be outraged when something fails with a majority voting for it. Our system is a f**king joke.

[Lief 🗽]

She is one of the classiest, foxiest gals around- I will be so proud to call her my President...... MADAME President!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You haven't been paying attention, clearly...

[windjammer]

Bushie, you're definitely terrible. Don't you see how your religion has infantilized you?

You have no right to insult me or my religion.

I have not insulted you.

Would you get out of here, please?  You are not here to encourage.  You are here to criticize, mock, and condemn.  How is that helpful?

Bushie, that's literally everybody in any Update threads ever, except J-Mann.  I'm not kidding.  Your most ardent 'fans' are making fun of you this whole time.  I'm not pointing this out to be a dick (primarily), but for you to accept that these people are not trying to help you, but rather point and laugh.  Nothing more.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You haven't been paying attention, clearly...

I don't read the 2016 board, as that would be a complete waste of time at this stage.

[morgieb]

Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You know the biggest irony? How pro-Obama he was in 2008.

[Simfan34]

Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You know the biggest irony? How pro-Obama he was in 2008.

In 2014, I don't think the two are contradictory...

[Joe Republic]

Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You know the biggest irony? How pro-Obama he was in 2008.

This shouldn't really be all that shocking.  The only difference between Obama and Hillary was style, not substance.  Their platforms were basically identical.

[windjammer]

Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You know the biggest irony? How pro-Obama he was in 2008.

The best for that is BRTD.