The Hofoid House of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VII

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

People who say "COULD care less" instead of "COULDN'T care less" sound dumb.

It's terribly annoying.

I could care less about prople saying "could care less" and probably should.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This is so exaggerated.  The only reason GA-6 was close this last election was because of Trump.  If the GOP had nominated anyone else, he/she would have carried that district by a wide margin, and probably most of the other R-leaning suburban enclaves that swung/trended D.

That said, the GOP has had a big problem with suburban voters since the 90s due to the rise of religious and social conservatives in the party.

If you subscribe to the idea that Trump has accelerated trends already in-progress (of which there is a good argument for), then there is no guarantee GA-6 will go back to where it was before. History is rife with examples of presidents pushing certain regions into the arms of the other party. Usually they just act as a catalyst for existing trends.

The Democrats spent Record amounts of money on Georgia 6 and had a very good candidate and the GOP had a very mediocre candidate and spent about 1/2 as much and still won. Trump was an awful switch for Texas, Virginia, Georgia and Colorado. The fact that Texas and Georgia did not become competitive under these ideal conditions means that they will be Solid Red States for the foreseeable future. 

Dems spent about $2 mil more than the GOP in GA-6 when add all the numbers up, not 1/2.

"Trump was a bad fit" is becoming an increasingly leaned on excuse for Republicans on this forum,  it fits their narrative virtually anywhere they want it to.   

Well its kind true. Look how well Trump did in the midwest and north east, and look how abysmal he did in the south. 6/11 of the swings against him were in the south (Arizona, Utah, Texas, Georgia, Maryland, and Virginia), while out of the 5 that weren't in the south, 4 were democratic states. I understand demographics and all, but going from an 18 to 9 point victory in Texas is down to many factors.

Calling not only Arizona, but freaking Utah southern states.

There's a fair amount of truth there as far as Arizona is concerned. A lot of the initial settlers were ex-Confederates and it was subject to preclearance under the VRA before Section 5 was struck down.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Congress should enact the Catalonian Relations Act that commits us to sell weapons to the Catalonians so they can provide for their defense.

While Beet's riff on the Taiwan Relations Act is absurd, I don't think his failed attempt at humor that likely went over the heads of most people here is absurd enuf to be placed here.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yet another reminder why this thread is named after him:

1992. I submit the idea that the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 paved the way for Waco ->Oklahoma City, possibly Columbine and then 9/11.

If George Bush had been re-elected, I anticipate that Waco wouldn't have gone the way it did, thus no Oklahoma City. The Columbine Killers would have been nutjobs either way but the date they selected was the anniversary of Waco and Oklahoma City so who knows if that would have occurred.

Also, I believe the Bush/Quayle administration from 1993-1997 would have been much more aggressive with Al Qaeda after the 1993 World Trade Center and Embassy Bombings. With the case of 9/11, any little change to the thread would have quite possibly prevented those attacks.

Bush's re-election in 1992 would have took America on a much, much different path.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yet another reminder why this thread is named after him:

1992. I submit the idea that the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 paved the way for Waco ->Oklahoma City, possibly Columbine and then 9/11.

If George Bush had been re-elected, I anticipate that Waco wouldn't have gone the way it did, thus no Oklahoma City. The Columbine Killers would have been nutjobs either way but the date they selected was the anniversary of Waco and Oklahoma City so who knows if that would have occurred.

Also, I believe the Bush/Quayle administration from 1993-1997 would have been much more aggressive with Al Qaeda after the 1993 World Trade Center and Embassy Bombings. With the case of 9/11, any little change to the thread would have quite possibly prevented those attacks.

Bush's re-election in 1992 would have took America on a much, much different path.

In that case the entire election what if board is absurd.

I suppose I should have focused in upon the absurd turning point and mentioned that this post was in a thread about the most consequential US presidential election.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Democrats for sure.

Schumer stands there with this stupid look on his big nosed face wanting to shutdown the government. Trump plead with both sides not to let it happen.

I think it's clear, Democrats care more about illegal immigrants who are vastly insignificant to our country, our world and our culture than they do actual American citizens. I can't understand the love for people of no consequence over natural born American citizens and our military.

Quite sad and pathetic. But liberals themselves are cowards. Afraid of guns, afraid of war, afraid of conflict. They are weak physically and emotionally, and we need strong people in the world. Weak people create a huge encumbrance on American life.

In other words, it's nice to give to charity, but make sure you take care of your own expenses first.

That's blatant fascism.

More like blatant NAtional SOcialist than anything Italian.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

There is a concern that certain devout portions of their population might push back progress on women's rights and gay rights. I, myself, would not want to see women being shackled into their homes and being forced to wear restrictive clothing. I wouldn't want to see gay marriage and protections be rolled back. I want to be able to walk into Subway and get a ham sandwich (something increasingly difficult in places like the UK). I don't want our cities to turn into the no-go zones of Stockholm or Bradford, or Copenhagen.


...and I wouldn't want Christians pulling that crap either.

The whole thing is Islamophobic, but the ham sandwich part raises it to another level.

Wanting to eat pork (something people cannot accuse me of, btw) is Islamophobic? Okay.

Its not Islamophobic, but it is Speciesist, so it is immoral either way.

What is this word? My decision to buy chicken over beef at the market is now a f#cking “ism”?

No. No it is not.(believing that animals deserve rights is).

Am confused. I had assumed “speciesism” to be bias toward one species over another (and natural implications thereof). Apparently it’s the opposite. In any case, some D-MD has declared this belief in animal rights as immoral?

Any type of belief that any type of meat is acceptable to eat is speciesist, because it indicates that someone believes that humans should be allowed to discriminate against non-humans.

Carrot juice is murder.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Not really his fault, but considering what happened just a little later, it is absurd.

SCOTUSBlog: No retirement announcements from any Justices.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Brad Pitt issue is why I make use of hyphens. I love my father—currently going by the name “Brad Pitt”—and God. Having sentences work involves intelligence, nuance, and tact. Opting to not deploy a handy comma involves none of these. The lack of the Oxford comma renders one’s words an aesthetic nightmarescape.

I agree on the need to use hyphens rather than commas to offset appositives. I use the Oxford comma; but all it generally does is clarify something that is clarified by context most of the time. Moreover, most of the ambiguity could be solved by using something besides commas to offset appositives.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Fun fact: I’ve only spent about a week and a half out of the country my entire life. That how patriotic I am.

I don’t see anything wrong with this.

You implied that international travel is un-patriotic.

How often was George Washington outside of North America? 

So John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Livingston, each of whom spent years outside North America, and were four of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence were unpatriotic?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Fun fact: I’ve only spent about a week and a half out of the country my entire life. That how patriotic I am.

I don’t see anything wrong with this.

You implied that international travel is un-patriotic.

How often was George Washington outside of North America? 

So John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Livingston, each of whom spent years outside North America, and were four of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence were unpatriotic?

Look who hath pierced the veil of thinly disguised sarcasm! Who could have guessed that I did not actually doubt the patriotism of our soldiers at Normandy! (Though Jefferson’s patriotism is perhaps worth questioning)

You speak truly. Just imagine all the turmoil we'd have been spared if he hadn't arranged for the United States to give Napoleon fifteen million dollars for stolen Spanish property.