The Seriously? Theatre of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts V

[IceSpear]

Guilt by association sucks. It's also very selective.  Knowing the spineless nature of Republicans,Scalise will get the Lott treatment.

Meanwhile, Democrats will schedule speeches at La Raza, kiss Sharpton's ring, and elect Presidents who attended Jeremiah Wright's church -- without media attention.

[IceSpear]

Eh, still far less corrupt than Hillary Clinton.

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This might sound crazy, but LeBron James just turned 30 this year... any chance we Democrats could talk him into retiring and running against Portman. Would he (LeBron) even be electable statewide?

Jesus Christ.

Lest we forget, NYE's political analysis posts are even worse than his RSS feed ones. Let's not forget that Landrieu was only going to win Orleans Parish...

[IceSpear]

There would be tremendous damage. The gay agenda, the reckless destruction of norms literally thousands of years old, is the defining issue of our time. The base is livid over lawless, activist judges. Romney (who I still genuinely doubt was actually trying to win) shamefully ignored the homosexual agenda and suffered the consequences. Probably because he secretly supported it as well, judging from his record as governor.

And let's face it, the GOP has no creative economic plans, so it needs to rally people on the social issues.

It's like stepping into a time machine and going back to 2004.

[IceSpear]

Lean FC. Certainly better than CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and Fox News.

Context.

[IceSpear]

1. Paul
2. Walker
3. Rubio
4. Cruz
5. Warren

Clinton isn't running

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[IceSpear]

We've reached peak Atlas with this thread.

I almost have to wonder if this is some behind the scenes game to get O'Malley out of the race so that she can have a coronation.

[IceSpear]

Enough food is produced for everyone in the world to eat 4,000 calories every day, with similar ratios existing for other needs and wants. Fossil fuels need to be phased out of course.

>Implying that's enough for Americans

[IceSpear]

1992 did more damage to our country than people realize. I submit the idea that the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 paved the way for Oklahoma City, possibly Columbine and 9/11.

[IceSpear]

kemp was more progressive.

well there was a time when kemp supported affirmative action.  im sure hillary doesnt believe in such things.  the dlc would not be happy.

[IceSpear]

Get ready to collapse, Hilldog.

The movement is building and is on track to wipe her out ... again.

Even the most die-hard Hillary-enablers and bubble-ists should start getting nervous at this sight.

Tender's predictions make OC's look sane and measured by comparison.

[IceSpear]

As a millennial and a progressive, I will be voting Trump in the GE if Hillary is nominated. Frankly, right-wing progressivism is more welcome to me than corporatist stagnation. And there is the very real chance Trump just played all the Republican voters and is actually more liberal than Hillary. I'll take a fascist moderate over center-right Hillary.

#NeverClinton

I honestly think this may be one of the worst posts in Atlas Forum history.

[IceSpear]

It gets worse:

At the best, Trump is a revolutionary fascist moderate with both liberal and conservative values. At the worst, he's a revolutionary fascist right-wing Progressive. Overall, that works out better than Hillary.

LMAO

Please god be a troll or a parody.

[IceSpear]

I'd vote Trump, simply because this country needs a political revolution, and to hopefully make Shill supporters, especially in the South, pay for not knowing what's best for them (i.e. Sanders).

How interesting our friend dax is more interested in punishing Hillary supporters in Mississippi and Alabama than in Massachusetts or Ohio...

[IceSpear]

I...think this fits here perfectly

I used to support very harsh punishments for women who have abortions a la beheading and other cruel punishment. But, I don't support those views now and support a large fine while abortion doctors should be tried for murder.

The thing is, for him, "used to" is a very young age. So even though that's a terrible opinion to have, it's one he only had at a young age, and he's moved past it.

Everyone's acting like he's a terrible person because of an opinion he no longer has! Yes, beheading women who committed abortions is horrible and hypocritical on many levels--and he agrees that it's bad!

I just get annoyed to see well-meaning people be dogpiled on, that's all.

This forum's priorities are hilariously out of whack sometimes. It's gotten to the point where being against gay marriage or posting pictures of hicks off Google Images is more controversial and worthy of a dogpile than wanting to behead women who received a medical procedure. Of course, I'm sure the fact that 99.9% of the forum is male has nothing to do with this.

[IceSpear]

Susan Collins isn't a moderate, she's just what passes for one these days.

You're right- she isn't a moderate.  She is just a liberal.  Less liberal than Democrats, but still a liberal.  Being pro-abortion automatically puts one into the liberal camp, as the position is so ridiculous and extreme that it can't even fit into a moderate viewpoint.

[IceSpear]

Black voters due to their concentration in blue states have made themselves essentially irrelevant to the Republican party.

Because as we know, Mississippi and Alabama have no black people.

[IceSpear]

This is why I wish there was an acceptable third party option, like Webb or Bloomberg. Hillary cannot last five seconds without revealing how much she loves wall street, and TRUMP is Hitler 2.0 .

Honestly, if Austin Petersen (L) wasn't atheist, I would be considering supporting him. (Johnson is an absolute nut with his 43% across the board spending cut and a bunch of other things, #NEVERJOHNSON)

[IceSpear]

Yes, of course I am concerned.  I would have prefered a stronger candidate, such as, say, Cuomo. The cost of failure is too high in this case.

[IceSpear]

Maybe Republicans don't care. But there's a reason he has the worst favorability rating of any nominee...ever.

Yeah, and you're a 23 year old man supporting a 69 year old woman who quotes Maya Angelou.

Huh? Sorry to break it to you, but under 30 voters are going to support her in the general, no matter how many imaginary anecdotes (which are about as predictive as Dick Morris electoral maps) you pump out.

How is this relevant to my initial post anyway?

I just find it funny that young white guys on this forum seem to be supporting an old white woman who panders to minorities.

In other words, the reason why I do not want Hillary President is that she offers nothing to me. As a white male what in the hell do I have in common with feminism, black lives matter, or inclusiveness? Hence why we have the gender gap.

[IceSpear]

Better. Trump is much better at this than Romney ever was.

He is not running against a dark though.

Why is that a bad post? The fact that Trump's opponent is not a dark is literally the only argument against him improving among the white vote. If he was running against Deval Patrick or Cory Booker it would be virtually certain he'd be cracking 60% among whites, and could potentially even do better than Reagan in 84.

[IceSpear]

Who can you think of that rings "good enough" with Sanders Supporters but wouldn't alienate the middle? Warren and Brown would alienate the middle. Sanders himself is probably fine with Kaine or Booker, but his supporters probably aren't. Names that come to mind are the Castros - but only because they're unknown and therefore have few enemies - and Al Franken, who doesn't bring in a single voter Hillary wouldn't get otherwise.

Bernie polls better with the middle than Hillary. The idea that she has to move even further right wing to win is so ridiculous and disgusting.

In a general election, while Bernie would continue to do well with Sawx-type independents who believe that the democratic party has abandoned "real leftism", he would see his numbers fall off dramatically with the independents who actually decide elections, the ones whose ideologies lie between the two major parties. The attack ads against Sanders, which have never been run because VT is socialist and the rest of the nation had no reason to care about him before 2015, write themselves. "Socialism! Isolationism! Destruction of the Health Care Industry!" His current 10 or 12 point lead against TRUMP? It would evaporate to a two or three point lead at most overnight, pretty much literally.

You've bought in way too much to the myth of the centrist swing voter who votes for the most centrist candidate. People know Bernie is a democratic socialist, and he's polling much better and has much better favorables than unethical lying Hillary. And sure, I wasn't going to vote for her anyways, but the further to the right Hillary goes, the more Bernie people she will lose.

Ultimately, even if they hold their nose in the voting booth, 85% or so of Bernie supporters will vote for Hillary, because the alternative is well, a literal fascist. The other 15% or so that vote for Stein, Johnson, TRUMP, or stay home probably didn't vote for Obama either so who cares.

How does one draw the line of literal fascist so that it includes Trump and not Hillary? That's a very fine line.

[IceSpear]

^You posted in the wrong thread I think. Here's a better one.

If he endorses pro-abortion Johnson, I would lose a ton of respect for him.

Pro-choice != pro-abortion

Donald Trump is also pro-choice. Pro-lifers' best choice is probably Johnson, who at least doesn't want federal funding for abortion.

Trump says he is pro-life, so I will vote for him and respect anyone who does.  Anyone who supports abortion at all is guilty of murder themselves and should never receive my vote or the votes of any true conservative.  If Trump announces that he is pro-choice, Mike Smith or some other protest candidate has my vote.  Anyone who votes for Clinton or Johnson is an accomplice in 3000 murders every day and deserves to go to jail.

[IceSpear]

^You posted in the wrong thread I think. Here's a better one.

If he endorses pro-abortion Johnson, I would lose a ton of respect for him.

Pro-choice != pro-abortion

Donald Trump is also pro-choice. Pro-lifers' best choice is probably Johnson, who at least doesn't want federal funding for abortion.

Trump says he is pro-life, so I will vote for him and respect anyone who does.  Anyone who supports abortion at all is guilty of murder themselves and should never receive my vote or the votes of any true conservative.  If Trump announces that he is pro-choice, Mike Smith or some other protest candidate has my vote.  Anyone who votes for Clinton or Johnson is an accomplice in 3000 murders every day and deserves to go to jail.

The idea that West Virginia voters are motivated by racism is overly simplistic, but arguable. The idea that they are so motivated by racism that voters not currently swayed by Trump's dog-whistling would be swayed if he explicitly called himself a racist is laughable. I suspect laughs are exactly what it's meant to provoke, so perhaps you're right that it should be in that thread instead.

The post you submitted is also really bad, yeah.

And it's quite hilarious which one you have more faux outrage over (particularly since mine was clearly tongue in cheek.)

Hurting the fees fees of the poor fragile West Virginians = worse than imprisoning millions for their political beliefs that a zygote is not identical to a human.