The Klartext Landfill for Absurd, Ignorant, and Deplorable Posts VI

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

3-17 days of fighting before the PRC surrenders.  Depends on how long they want to get their ass handed to them.

It would be the other way around.

The rare instance where both posts in a quote chain belong in the Landfill

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Even if Gianforte is to the right of the typical R's, who cares? As a freshman member of congress you basically have to vote 100% of the time with Leadership to build up trust and get the committee assignments you want. In 2020 dems can try running someone who isn't a socialist by association and then I'll endorse that person.

1) your deeply silly notion of what socialism is belongs in this thread, so thanks for posting it here. Now, if you can work on constraining it to this thread we'll be getting somewhere.
  
2) My question springs from a Gianforte quote that was discussed earlier in the thread. Which you would have known if you'd been following along instead of swooping in at a random moment to offer one of your highly sought after "endorsements," having apparently just Kingpoleon style googled Gianforte and discovering that his opponent had committed the capital offense of donating to a Presidential candidate who likes Medicare.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

A flawless, beautiful mandate. I feel bad for Hamon and PS, but they were due for a wipeout when their president had a single-digit approval rating.

Perhaps in the not too distant future Corbyn can become PM, f**k everything up and alienate everyone, and then an upstart liberal party without the recent baggage of the LibDems can dominate everything like EM has. One can dream.

>implying that Liberalism is popular outside of the upper-middle class.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Republicans are literally profiting from demolishing healthcare in the US, yet we'll yell a bit more about Russia.

Newsflash: People are concerned with keeping  their jobs than the Russia hysteria. There's people working two or three jobs who still aren't making enough, yet you'll scream about Russia till the moon falls into the damn sea. Seriously, the solution to everything is Russia, it seems. Dems lost an election? Russia. Bernie Sanders saying you need to move left or you'll keep losing? Russia sympathiser. Stub your toe getting out of bed in the morning? Russia. That's the level it's gotten to.

People are worried about their jobs. People are worried about their healthcare. People are worried about putting food on their tables. Yet, Democrats won't hammer Trump on these issues because it means giving ground to the left, so they keep screaming "RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA" every time something goes wrong. If 2018 doesn't go well for the Democrats, I guarantee that they'll blame Russia, the left, or both.

Start focusing on the damn issues already. Talk about healthcare, the minimum wage, Wall Street reform, etc. Democrats are better on those issues than Republicans are. But no, that means the left gets a foothold in the party, and we can't  have that. Gotta protect Booker and the other Third Wayers.

Sorry, did you mean to post this in the Simple Truths gallery?

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

OK let me break down all the stupidity in this post:

1-It was in response to a NYTimes story about officials of the Trump campaign meeting with a Kremlin-related lawyer. Not a DNC press release or statement by any Democratic politician. Thus making most of it a non-sequitur.
2-Bernie Sanders is an anti-Russia hardliner as well.
3-"The Democrats aren't attacking the Republicans on healthcare", OMG give me a f[inks]ing break.
4-It's impossible for Cory Booker to be Third Way, since he wasn't a politician when Third Way was even a thing. It's 2017, not during the Tony Blair or Bill Clinton administrations.
5-For that matter, this is what Cory Booker has said about healthcare and the minimum wage:
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2017/05/sen_booker_rallies_for_newark_airport_workers_wage.html
https://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=69
6-The entire premise is a logical fallacy that implies that it's impossible to both attack Trump for Russia connections and attack him on the issues that absolutely no Democrats are doing both.

Not to start a squabble in this squabble free thread (lol), but here's my view

1) Whether it's the NYT or Dems lionizing Adam Schiff, it's a broader liberal sentiment that RussiaGate is a Top Matter Of Public Discussion That People Will Care About.

It's really not. The investigation should proceed, and the Dems should highlight the process occasionally, but what GOTFan said was true; the American people don't really care.

2) Again, not like Russiagate isn't worth discussion, or that Russia is currently a geopolitical adversary. But the tone and emphasis has been WAY out of whack wrt to what comes out of Democratic/Liberal Washington. Bernie gets that, and the level of emphasis that occurs is basically correct: issue a statement when something big happens, continue pushing procedurally, but when you're communicating with the public you're talking about issues they actually give a flip about.

3) Yeah sure. But again, as someone on the left (and as someone who likes to think he knows something about politics) the degree of emphasis placed on Russia is deeply frustrating.

4) This is an academic distinction. Yes, Third Way has become a short hand for something other than the literal DLC. Whoop-de-do. I'm so impressed that you pointed this out.

5) Again, emphasis, emphasis, emphasis. I think Booker is actually figuring this out quicker than most (much to my chagrin, he actually seems pretty smart at the inside game).

6) "logical fallacy" I don't think it's outrageous to think of public attention as zero sum. If you're spending time talking to them about one thing you're not talking to them about something else. And if the thing you're talking about is some boring, holier than thou droning about "our sacred processes are being violated! Very unfair! Treason!" then you're going to turn people off. 

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

When the 22nd century arrives, Trump will be revered for stopping the US and the West from getting run over by hordes of uncivilized "immigrants".

TBH he's the person who has made the case for renaming this thread best and fastest. I don't think even eharding made it this persuasive in a mere 48 hrs.