[Thanos]

I'll agree to that if you apply the same standard to Trump, Giuliani, and Gingrich.

[Lemmy]

Thanos Thanos:

Romans used to fall on their own swords for less.

Ancient Rome gives us the gold-standard for behaviour?

Thanos Thanos:

He's permanently embarrassed and disgraced both his wife and children, which is bad enough. Keep that in mind that those e-mails, even if they're just copies or mundane office business nonsense, could be enough to shift enough of the votes of those who already distrust Clinton to Trump. This small ridiculous man with a masturbation/exposure fetish could end up putting the biggest clod in American electoral history into the White House. Weiner and his lack of self control could be the smallest but most important cog that succeeds in wrecking the world.

That may all be true. Doesn't mean you should be encouraging him to kill himself over it. Not sure exactly what a "masturbation fetish" is, but I'm thinking that every man who ever lived has/had that.

[Thanos]

We'll see. If Clinton loses because of this then Weiner will be more hated in the US than the guy who caught the playable foul ball at the Cubs game a few years back and cost them a playoff spot.

[BRAH]

Holy Shit and people want to trust Hillary with the Nuclear codes?

[Thanos]

If they keep using e-mail after this then they deserve everything that the Operation: Assange agents in the basement of the building at Dzerzhinsky Square do to them. What the fuck am I saying this for anyway? They're Americans. Part of their definition of being exceptional means that they'll never ever fucking smarten up.

[Lemmy]

Thanos Thanos:

We'll see. If Clinton loses because of this then Weiner will be more hated in the US than the guy who caught the playable foul ball at the Cubs game a few years back and cost them a playoff spot.

You see, that's a PERFECT example of where optics cloud reality. Bartman didn't cost them the game. Alex Gonzalez cost them the game. He doesn't make an error and the Bartman play never happens. Not that Alou would have caught it anyway, but Bartman wasn't the goat for what he did, he was the goat because Alou had a shit-fit afterwards. Alou just turns around and goes back to left field and no one remembers the play.

Perfect parallel to politics. Outrage in all the wrong directions. Flawed optics and false outrage leading to mob mentality. That pretty much sums up the political right these days.

[BRAH]

Thanos Thanos:

We'll see. If Clinton loses because of this then Weiner will be more hated in the US than the guy who caught the playable foul ball at the Cubs game a few years back and cost them a playoff spot.

It Begins: Chicago Tribune Calls on Hillary to Drop Out

$1:

What if she is elected? Think of a nation suffering a bad economy and continuing chaos in the Middle East, and now also facing a criminal investigation of a president. Add to that congressional investigations and a public vision of Clinton as a Nixonian figure wandering the halls, wringing her hands.

The best thing would be for Democrats to ask her to step down now. It would be the most responsible thing to do, if the nation were more important to them than power.4 And the American news media — fairly or not firmly identified in the public mind as Mrs. Clinton’s political action committee — should begin demanding it.
But what will Hillary do?

http://louderwithcrowder.com/begins-chicago-tribune-calls-hillary-drop/
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[Thanos]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Thanos Thanos:

We'll see. If Clinton loses because of this then Weiner will be more hated in the US than the guy who caught the playable foul ball at the Cubs game a few years back and cost them a playoff spot.

You see, that's a PERFECT example of where optics cloud reality. Bartman didn't cost them the game. Alex Gonzalez cost them the game. He doesn't make an error and the Bartman play never happens. Not that Alou would have caught it anyway, but Bartman wasn't the goat for what he did, he was the goat because Alou had a shit-fit afterwards. Alou just turns around and goes back to left field and no one remembers the play.

Perfect parallel to politics. Outrage in all the wrong directions. Flawed optics and false outrage leading to mob mentality. That pretty much sums up the political right these days.

Yeah, but I'm not a conservative anymore. My right wing is a different one now from the burned-out Reagan one, but I still want Clinton to win because Trump is such a ridiculous mean-spirited moronic pig of a person.

[Alta_redneck]

[shockedcanadian]

Thanos Thanos:

Lemmy Lemmy:

Thanos Thanos:

We'll see. If Clinton loses because of this then Weiner will be more hated in the US than the guy who caught the playable foul ball at the Cubs game a few years back and cost them a playoff spot.

You see, that's a PERFECT example of where optics cloud reality. Bartman didn't cost them the game. Alex Gonzalez cost them the game. He doesn't make an error and the Bartman play never happens. Not that Alou would have caught it anyway, but Bartman wasn't the goat for what he did, he was the goat because Alou had a shit-fit afterwards. Alou just turns around and goes back to left field and no one remembers the play.

Perfect parallel to politics. Outrage in all the wrong directions. Flawed optics and false outrage leading to mob mentality. That pretty much sums up the political right these days.

Yeah, but I'm not a conservative anymore. My right wing is a different one now from the burned-out Reagan one, but I still want Clinton to win because Trump is such a ridiculous mean-spirited moronic pig of a person.

It's funny, I was considering the same concept myself, in relation to Canada though. Now that McKay has stepped away from running for Conservative leadership, who are these people who have hijacked the party?

Many of them are gone, but some are like mice who come out when you turn off the lights. Guys like Alexander, Steve Blaney. Some of the people who are long gone still cast an ominous shadow: Vic Toews (in particular), Julien Fantino, these guys represented the worst of the worst as far as I am concerned.

Conservatism needs to attach itself more wisely to the Libertarian movement. In polls prior to the finish of the primaries, none other than Rand Paul polled the highest against the Democrats. He is what I suggest is a "real" conservative. He would have made record cuts to taxes, social justice changes and minimized governments role. Without a doubt, his policies would have helped America greatly. The only issue I had with him was his foreign policy, which I believe requires some intervention on the part of America, not a full withdrawal.

But alas, the social far right can't stand to believe the expansion of liberties is a good thing, so a Libertarianism at this time isn't feasible. It is the most broadly and naturally accepted ideology in America, what the founding fathers put in place to ensure Americas success. Either the left or right will embrace it...eventually...

In Canada we of course have nothing of the sort. Doomed to lose in globalization, while lying is secrecy earns people careers. I say good luck to Canada.

[Lemmy]

Thanos Thanos:

Yeah, but I'm not a conservative anymore. My right wing is a different one now from the burned-out Reagan one, but I still want Clinton to win because Trump is such a ridiculous mean-spirited moronic pig of a person.

Didn't say you were. Just trying to comprehend why it is that the right has, over the past decade, become synonymous with stupid and angry. It wasn't always that way. What has politicized the stupid people and why do they gravitate right?

[BRAH]

The Ancient Lord of Darkness is pleased.

[andyt]

Lemmy Lemmy:

What has politicized the stupid people and why do they gravitate right?

Pretty simple:

Also, didn't they do research that found righties are less intelligent? Where else are they supposed to go?

[BRAH]

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Biden's reaction.

[xerxes]

$1:

Biden's reaction.

Couldn't have been more perfect.