The Hofoid House of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VII

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She's more evil than most. Most politicians don't launder money to the DNC and 33 state parties during a primary to circumvent campaign finance laws. Most politicians don't have their Foundation take millions from the Saudis before they approve $165 billion in arms deals.

You are a sick man. Go seek professional help.

In response to something at least something widely believed among a fair amount of the electorate and then deflects to something unrelated. Prove that he has no opinion and is just a partisan hackery troll and now on my ignore list.

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Just the fact that Manning was allowed to run was enough to set me off.

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Ok this is a new low...

These are my Midterm predictions.
2018 House Results: R+2
2018 Senate Results: R+7
In the house, I’m predicting the Republicans to have a net gain of 2, due to Republicans flipping 10 Democratic districts (MN-01, MN-07, MN-08, NH-01, NV-03, PA-17, AZ-01, WI-03, IA-02, and IL-17), and Democrats flipping 8 Republican districts (CA-49, CA-25, CA-10, CO-06, TX-23, VA-10, FL-26, and FL-27). Meanwhile, in the senate, I’m predicting the Republicans to have a net gain of 7, due to flipping 7 Democratic Senate seats (WV, IN, MO, ND, MT, OH, and FL).

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PA is not gerrymandered. If Hillary won CD-6 CD-7 and CD-8 then how could it be gerrymandered ? At the same time PA-17 and PA-9? The seat with Charlie dent voted for obama in 2012 so clearly dems can win the seats.

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It depends on if he's burned through the money from his last campaign. He did purchase a lake house which is a substantial expenditure. He might need to run again for financial reasons.

Thinly veiled anti-Semitic tropes about Sanders being a greedy grifter are noted. Alt-centrists are gross.

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I would strap 45lb plates to my ball sack and swim up the Arctic river full of ravenous pirahans in the winter so I can wrestle a polar bear on a 2x2 iceberg just to put my name in a hat with 1 million other names for a chance to hear you fart through a walkie talkie, M'Lady.

Okay, it's a creepy in a very Atlas " this is why we can't have nice things and remain a sausage fest" kind of way, I'm sure Virginia had a slightly cold shudder when she read it, but it was still kind of funny.

I don't think DTC intended to offend her, and it was clearly meant to be humorous but it just felt very creepy and thus disrespectful to a women, with a history of high quality posts, who was willing to post a picture of herself online on a forum of mostly men. Honestly that portion of the thread as a whole was cancerous. It's like some people on here have never looked at a women before.

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I'm not a bernie supporter BUT I think the best shot for the bernie bros, other than bernie himself, would be Brown and Warren.

Brown voted to ban flag burning in the early 2000s. Since Sanders supporters hate America that won't sit well with them.

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So, let's look at things overall. In three of the four races tonight, things went as expected in Missouri - Republicans win, Democrats lose. The loss was wider than I expected in 39 and 129, and smaller than I expected in 144, but still the republicans won as expected. But in District 97, we saw a vastly different result, with a Democrat winning a very republican seat, a disastrously improbable event. Looking at the county results, it is apparent that the Jefferson County vote, which is way too democratic, was the victim of voter fraud. Democrats likely bused voters from other districts in just enough numbers to illegally flip this race. What this should do is mobilize every resident of Missouri to keep careful watch over their respective polling place and do all they can to stop future fraud. I encourage the republican candidate in HD-97 to pursue electoral fraud charges for the Jefferson County portion of the district in state court as soon as feasible.

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^ I was headed to the funny posts gallery, but this works too.

One rule to live by is when a person starts ranting about their opponents busing voters in, you know they are full of sh**t and probably just can't stand being wrong / losing.

Honestly this may seem irrational but Wulfric annoys me almost as much as King Lear does. He seems left leaning given his strong opposition to the GOP agenda yet he insists on endorsing almost as many Republicans as Democrats, and yet is triggered by the word "socialism". If a thread on [insert Red state Dem party] pops up, he'll laugh at the party, but I haven't seen him trash say a non-Atlas Blue state GOP party. It's like he's scared of being called liberal and/or is just a troll who happens to provide well-informed analysis. I also don't like how strongly worded his stances are on abortion, but that's probably cause I'm far left on the issue, and he's by far not the only pro-lifer on this forum.

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What an informative, in-depth refutation of Ben Shapiro's political philosophy. Certainly not a shallow, immature ad hominem attack at all...

SHort people often have a biiiig chip on their shoulder.  And it leads, in its extreme forms, to personalities like Ben Shapiro.  If Ben Shapiro were 6'4 instead of 5'4.... he'd probably be a Democrat.

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Like seriously, what do you want other than a suburban mother of two who is one of the principle figures of the #resistance? She's practically grown in a vat to run in the Panera Belt in 2018.

She's also a carpetbagger who is paying her husband lots of money from here congressional account.  Seems like a great get right there.

She moved home (something the DCCC seems more than willing to support in other candidates) and her husband happens to work for one of the better digital firms in the country. Good try Jarkansas.

Pointing out the truth isin't trying anything honey.  But go on ahead and support her, I know you guys have to support some women to seem fair.

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Alex was getting too close to the truth. He was right about The Memo. He was right about chemicals in the water turning kids trans. The powers-that-be couldn't have him exposing any more inconvenient truths so they did what they typically do and RoyMoored him.

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Nobody cares.

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California has a low standard of living because it has a lot of people from the third world living there and they do not magically become middle class by living on US soil.

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I've spent a little time in both, humans are not supposed to live (at least in any great numbers) where Phoenix is.  The environmental costs of people living where people shouldn't live is crazy, and it's expensive in coin too but that's less important because the people living there are paying for it more than I am....but we all get to suffer the environmental degradation.

Yes, people that care about the environment and live in places not suited for humans (ya know, like southern California) are assholes.  Passing laws making plastic bags illegal and watering your grass makes you stupid too.


so Pit, easy as hell.

who even cares about the environment?

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I'm not so sure he'll win the general election.  This district's better off with a moderate Republican.

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The reaction was immediate with Republicans being estatic with their Midterms hopes getting higher while the Democratic hopes were down. One thing was certain, without Bernie, the Democrats were now having less hope for the future and it looked like things would not go as expected.

Bernie retiring from politics would give me much more hope for the Democratic Party's future. Anyway, go on!

You must be looking forward towards Democrats losing another 1000 seats, with a more strident adherence to the failures of the Obama-Clinton era: NAFTA that destroyed the Midwest, Crime bill that threw Blacks in jail, Welfare Reform that threw the poor on the street, Unnecessary military adventurism in Yugoslavia and Libya, Deregulation of Wall Street that caused the financial crises, A Healthcare bill that jacked-up health insurance prices and was written by the heritage foundation, and finally more deportations of undocumented immigrants under the "Liberal" Obama then any other president. With Democrats like these who needs Republicans?

Wow, a drop to -807 seats. I don't know about you, but I'd call that a wave.

He's including state house seats there. But as for the rest of the substance, and other posters like Mondale often say the same thing, has some things that I don't agree with regarding Obama. I prefer single payer to Obamacare but in terms of lower the number of uninsured, it's been a major success. And what's wrong with deporting undocumented illegal immigrants who have committed crimes? Do you seriously want open borders? And people totally forget that there's this thing called Congress. Was he too naive at first in regards to reaching out to Republicans? Yes, largely because despite genuine intentions, he wrongly believed in promoting bi-partisanship (something both he and Biden talked about in the 2008 election) as a way of fixing both DC and the country, and partially due to inexperience, didn't understand how unwilling they were to compromise. Am I happy with his Wall Street speeches last year or how he increased the number of interventions from 2 to 7 or his trade policy? No, but he did some good things.

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Toughen up Princess.

It's good practice for when you own your own business.

What’s absurd about this? It’s true

Being a POS to a kid for having s###y parents isn't cool. Also calling someone "princess" to mock them in this context is wrong on so many levels.

Unless you literally can't function and are bed ridden, it's a good idea to go to school unless you're like a senior in high school, where grades don't matter.

I never missed a day of high school, and throughout grade school, I missed a total of 8 school days (not counting field trips). 3 were kindergarten in sometime in May, 2 after I got pink eye in 3rd grade the last week before Christmas break, once I was sick and the nurse sent me home in 5th grade in October, and once in 6th grade when I had a fever in March.

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If McConnell supports it, it's probably a bad thing.

Click for context.

Wasn't Mitch McConnell the deciding vote to kill the flag burning amendment? 

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She already had been written off by Sanders supporters as stupid slut who slept with men to get jobs, so it's not like this statement really matters because they hate her anyway for supposed conspiring to sabotage Bernie!

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(All three posts are ignorant)

Campaign Zero rated Bernie's platform the best of all of the candidates running. You'd think that would be what matters. But here we are 3 years later, and people are attacking him for this. These pathetic attacks show that establishment Democrats have nothing good to attack him with.

It's becoming more obvious that Sanders has some degree of racist undertones, especially after this and his remarks on Barack Obama at a ceremony to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement... in an 80% black city.

That's total projection from the wing who has the guy who just talked about how he misses the good old days when he was pals with James Eastland.

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I still think it's too early to say, but if I had to guess I would say no. Look at how energized the Democratic base are, and how well they've done in special elections since Trump was sworn in. If these same people really turnout in 2020, Trump is toast.

Which is exactly what everyone thought after 2010, it's true that Obama still had a lot of leeway and if Trump lost the same points Obama did he'd lose bigly...but then again, Trump is a master of hypocrisy. He'll find one flaw, just one, and define the person by said flaw until their approvals artificially drop below his or at about his.

Suddenly, high(er) turnout will override the midterm successes and put Trump over.

Oh, shut the f up. You are sounding like all these whimpering liberals after 2004 who were convinced that Democrats would never win an election again.
Unless you have something substantive to say take your tiresome shtick somewhere else.

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I wonder why Mary Taylor is doing so poorly despite John Kasich's endorsement. I mean, he's a very popular governor and would win reelection easily if he wasn't term-limited.

Because Kasich is a Democrat?

Let's see, Kasich is extremely pro-life, has an anti-gay record (despite virtue signaling), has an A rating from the NRA, supports right-to-work laws, favors massive tax cuts, is anti-union, and is very hawkish on foreign policy. He's far to the right of even Joe Manchin yet somehow he's now a Democrat

Context matters. To many GOP voters, he is a Democrat. Learn not to take PNM literally

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who was our best shot?

National Democrats liked Huffstetler the best, but they also thought Jay Hulings, Ed Meier, and Alex Triantaphyllis would be the best in Texas, soooo. Looks like he's going to be joining the rank of strong fundraisers who DC wanted but flopped when it came to getting actual votes.

Jay Hulings, Ed Meier, and Alex Triantaphyllis kind of were the best.... primary electorate isn't the general electorate.

Only if you have a strong preference for male candidates. Gina Ortiz Jones and Lizzie Fletcher were the top vote-getters for a good reason.

By that logic, Christine O'Donnell was a stronger candidate than Mike Castle.

You’re strawmanning because you don’t want to confront your biases. People on Atlas are biased against female candidates, along with much of the DC establishment, which is why they supported candidates like Alex T and ignored their serious issues, like him not even living in the district.

Or you could just...you know...be wrong and making an argument that doesn’t hold up well under scrutiny as a result.  And if you don’t like that example, how about Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin?

Hey, the site is <95% male, and it has a bias towards male candidates, I'm just pointing that out. Yes, sometimes the winners aren't the best candidates, but in the cases I pointed out above, they were the best candidates.

Alex T (he didn't live in the district), Meier (he didn't have much of a profile besides "Clinton fundraiser"), and Hulings (he had laid off a good chunk of campaign staff right before the primary, that's not a good sign) had serious issues, but the biases of Atlas users and the DC establishment caused them to overlook it.

I supported Jones in the primary.  All I’m saying is you shouldn’t assume everyone who thinks Alex T or that Levin is a better candidate than Jacobs without being a sexist.

Are you saying that there is no bias against women on the forums or among DC in general? Pointing out the bias isn’t me crying out sexism.

I’m not saying there isn’t a lot of bias, but some races where the most electable candidate happens to be a man even though he has a female primary opponent.  Supporting a male candidate over a female primary opponent b/c he’s the most electable candidate isn’t bias against women, it’s simply prioritizing retaking Congress over potentially blowing competitive races by making an empty symbolic gesture.  I support Radinovich over Phifer in MN-8 b/c he can win the GE and she can’t.  I’d support Radinovich just as strongly if the candidates’ name were Jane Radinovich and Lee Phifer.  Right now, my first choice for 2020 is a Gillibrand/Brown ticket.  I’m supporting Amy McGrath over Jim Gray in KY-6.  I’m supporting Kate Browning in NY-1.  I could go on, but the point is that you shouldn’t be so quick to assume that everyone is motivated by gender bias with this stuff.

Please do go on, because you in particular seem to be against equity in Congress, by calling it an empty gesture. I assume you don’t care whether women make up 5% or 50%, so if you really don’t care about advancing the rights of women and minorities by increasing their representation, then maybe you should reconsider your affiliation as a Democrat. The party of white men is on the other side.

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DeWine will win, I would still vote for Cordray since I am hackish like that, but DeWine would be a better Governor.