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[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

I don't care who is in the Epstein Files. They need to be released to the public, with victims protected. There needs to be justice brought to whoever abused and trafficked these women. Donald Trump Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Republicans, Democrats, there needs to be justice for these women.

[CMRivdogs]

Possibly some good news out of Indiana. Granted it's still a deep red state, but at least they're committed to proportionality to a certain extent..

 

 

[Screwball]

19 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

 

I don't care who is in the Epstein Files. They need to be released to the public, with victims protected. There needs to be justice brought to whoever abused and trafficked these women. Donald Trump Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Republicans, Democrats, there needs to be justice for these women.

Not gonna happen. This is all lip service for the serfs. The women are only part of it. The bigger picture is money laundering and blackmail. Much has been out there for years and nothing has happened. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

This is a senate race to pay attention to. Peltola has won statewide twice before. Alaska is getting hit hard with all these cuts. 

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

 

I don't care who is in the Epstein Files. They need to be released to the public, with victims protected. There needs to be justice brought to whoever abused and trafficked these women. Donald Trump Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Republicans, Democrats, there needs to be justice for these women.

They have already conditioned us to accept that Trump and the rest of them had sex with underage girls on a serial basis, so the revelation of such could be hardly surprising, almost to the point of ho-hum. So it's got to be better than 50-50 that what really happened is worse than even that.

[Motown Bombers]

It just keeps getting better with this guy. Bernie Sanders sure knows how to pick them.

 

Edited October 23 by Motown Bombers

[Mr.TaterSalad]

He's toast now. There is no way he can make it through a Democratic Primary given the mountain of terrible and ugly this he's said and done. I would imagine there will start to be calls for him to drop out at this point. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[romad1]

14 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

This is a senate race to pay attention to. Peltola has won statewide twice before. Alaska is getting hit hard with all these cuts. 

I would support that pickup in November 2026!   

[Tigeraholic1]

9 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

He's toast now. There is no way he can make it through a Democratic Primary given the mountain of terrible and ugly this he's said and done. I would imagine there will start to be calls for him to drop out at this point. 

Have faith, Jay Jones is still in it..... In fact, a mod in here was demanding we call Platner a patriot just last week. No calls for him to drop out.

Edited October 23 by Tigeraholic1

[oblong]

nobody demanded anything.  Just pointing out that some people think that serving in the military bestows some special status on somebody that we're supposed to care.  

Go back to protecting your pedophile overlords.

 

 

[Motown Bombers]

One of the differences between Democrats and Republicans is that Platner will lose the primary handily, but if he were a republican, he would be Secretary of Defense. 

[Netnerd]

You mean, “Secretary of War.” Secretary of Defense is weak.

[oblong]

45 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

One of the differences between Democrats and Republicans is that Platner will lose the primary handily, but if he were a republican, he would be Secretary of Defense. 

just this morning I got pushed a reel by a comedian who said "It's a good thing we killed Osama Bin Laden when we did because today he'd be secretary of transportation if he was still alive"

[chasfh]

52 minutes ago, Netnerd said:

You mean, “Secretary of War.” Secretary of Defense is weak.

I don't know whether I've mentioned this here—I certainly did in the old forum—but I have long regarded the Department of Defense as being, in reality, the Department of Offense. We don't defend against anything, because nobody ever attacks us in the serious of a nation-state, which is what armed forces are constructed to defend against. But we sure do go the the offensive in countries (and, now the high seas) all over the world, to defend the interests, mostly economic, of the people in power in this country, and we have ever since 1898.

"Defend the interests". Maybe that's what they mean by Defense after all.

[Motown Bombers]

Kind of troubling how a middle aged white man with a beard emerges trashing Dems and saying all the leftists favorite buzzwords and they immediately fall for him. 

 

[romad1]

39 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Kind of troubling how a middle aged white man with a beard emerges trashing Dems and saying all the leftists favorite buzzwords and they immediately fall for him. 

 

I think the current gov might have this primary under control by now.   Virginia Dem party probably wishes it had done oppo on the AG candidates.  Now a MAGA idiot is going to give the top of the ticket headaches. 

[chasfh]

42 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Kind of troubling how a middle aged white man with a beard emerges trashing Dems and saying all the leftists favorite buzzwords and they immediately fall for him. 

 

I know this Jonathan Martin guy, late of the National Review, is basically saying as much in his Politico article, but do you honestly believe the Democrats of Maine are essentially "leftist" red hats who will embrace and love and worship this guy the worse the news gets, and will stuff the ballot boxes for him to get him elected? Because as far as I can tell, that has not happened for any Democrat I can think of since basically Huey Long.

[Motown Bombers]

5 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I know this Jonathan Martin guy, late of the National Review, is basically saying as much in his Politico article, but do you honestly believe the Democrats of Maine are essentially "leftist" red hats who will embrace and love and worship this guy the worse the news gets, and will stuff the ballot boxes for him to get him elected? Because as far as I can tell, that has not happened for any Democrat I can think of since basically Huey Long.

I think Mills is going to win handily. The issue is how popular this guy became among the left nationally. Bernie Sanders doubled down on him after the Nazi tattoo, the POD Save losers still support him, and he was getting funding from somewhere. 
 

Dems did stuff the ballot box for Fetterman. 

[chasfh]

44 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I think Mills is going to win handily. The issue is how popular this guy became among the left nationally. 

The $64 question at hand is, did this Platner guy become popular among "the left" before all this bad news about him came out, or after?

Also, I must not be part of "the left", because I had never heard of this guy before I started you posting about him here.

[Motown Bombers]

15 minutes ago, chasfh said:

The $64 question at hand is, did this Platner guy become popular among "the left" before all this bad news about him came out, or after?

Also, I must not be part of "the left", because I had never heard of this guy before I started you posting about him here.

Before but many still doubled down on him. 
 

Guess you aren’t. He was only supported by some of the most popular politicians, podcasts and influencers on the far left. 

[chasfh]

13 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Before but many still doubled down on him. 
 

Guess you aren’t. He was only supported by some of the most popular politicians, podcasts and influencers on the far left. 

You are literally my only source for this information. Well, you and Jonathan Martin's evidence-free opinion column.

[chasfh]

By the way, this general notion that Democrats are waiting to fall madly in love with their candidates in the same way Republicans do with Trump remind me of the gainsaying that used to take place on the old board about religion and atheism.

Posters there who professed to be Christians used to insist that atheism is itself a religion, with its own worship structure and everything. Those posters could not possibly conceive of the idea that atheists could not need something or someone in their lives they are compelled to worship, as though worshiping were a basic human function like breathing, eating, or ****ting. This is a patently ignorant idea, of course, since atheism is definitionally the absence of religious worship.

Same with the idea that Democrats must be waiting for someone to fall madly in love with, as the red hats have fallen explicitly in love with Trump. There may be a sliver of the current Democratic base that is like that, but there is no way that sliver is not way, way, way smaller than the large swath of the current Republican base who have fallen madly in love with Trump.

So I am not buying it when I hear anyone opine that Democrats are en masse falling madly in love with this horribly-flawed politician or that, simply because Republicans have fallen so madly in love with Trump. That sounds like something MAGA is trying to sell us to denigrate Democrats as being nothing more than puddles of emotional goo and/or to cover for MAGA's own unrestrained emotionally-gooey horniness for Trump.