All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[hyped78]

Hunter is the GQP’s lifeline for distracting everyone from the ongoing Documentgate with Trump, the 1/6 hearings which will be starting back up soon, and the evolving clusterfuck with Herschel Walker in Georgia. Pathetically predictable.

Yeah. I don't know if it's just me, but the last time I heard "Hunter Biden" in the news it was in October 2020, just before the elections. And now magically he shows up on the news again, two years later! (by news I mean mainstream news, because I guess the likes of Fox News and Newsmax have always kept yapping about this)

[babyblob]

Hunter shows up before elections and magically anytime they catch Trump or some other GOP member in a mess. The GOP just uses fear and distraction. Look at Georgia where the Christians are falling all over themselves to back Walker. The Anti Abortion family first Crowd backing a man that beats his kids and pays for an abortion for a girl friend cant defend that so all they have to say is "Hunter's emails. hunter is a sex offender Hunter this and that." because they back candidates that spit in the face of everything they claim to stand for just to own the Libs.

The Family first party is owned by a man that pays hush money to a porn star and has cheated on every wife he has had. The Law and order party backs a man that calls terrorists special people that he loves. yet you point this out and it is "Hunter is in China's Pocket we all know that. What about that Russia money and that art show!"

Biden works to pardon people convicted of simple pot offenses and what do we hear from Fox News and the GOP cult? "Well Hunter is a drug addict so of course Biden pardons other Junkies."

The GOP is a party full of liars and sick cult members.

The Right talks about how sad it is the Left is so obsessed with Trump and we need to move on. But Trump is a former president and chances are he will run again. he is a man that has done real harm real damage to this country that will take years to repair.

Hunter is a nobody that just happens to be the son of the current president and they cant stop talking about him at least once an hour. That goes so far beyond obsession it is sick.

[Rzerox21xx]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/w...-war-risk.html


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[Dalak]

I don't really know what's going on. I know what the news says is going on, but a lot of this just isn't logical. Did we get invaded by disinformation bots that the geriatric men in politics just mindlessly believed? Is that how we got into this mess?

Kidding aside, I'm bothered by this. It has the potential to cause tension between actual people as they question each other's loyalties and the media is not helping. Pick a team? No, I think I'm going to vote Independent, and I'd encourage everyone else to do the same. Maybe we'll finally break the rules of the two-party system and get someone worthwhile in office for a change.

When one side is rolling back rights for Americans that have stood for decades, openly supports Treason & Rebellion, and has become the party of Trump and all that means (Cruelty, Bigotry, and Corruption), why are you advocating to hand the election to them by splitting the vote of people who object to that sort of thing?

[kcomics]

When one side is rolling back rights for Americans that have stood for decades, openly supports Treason & Rebellion, and has become the party of Trump and all that means (Cruelty, Bigotry, and Corruption), why are you advocating to hand the election to them by splitting the vote of people who object to that sort of thing?

Like I said, nothing about the current political climate makes sense, and I think we should just concede that we're experiencing political theater. Whoever they actually want in office will probably get it, but this looks like social engineering to me, and I don't understand why we're going along with it. If they learn they can rig the election like this, what will stop them from continuing to do so? Someone should blow a whistle, let them know the game is up, let them know we're smarter than this.

[Tendrin]

Like I said, nothing about the current political climate makes sense, and I think we should just concede that we're experiencing political theater. Whoever they actually want in office will probably get it, but this looks like social engineering to me, and I don't understand why we're going along with it. If they learn they can rig the election like this, what will stop them from continuing to do so? Someone should blow a whistle, let them know the game is up, let them know we're smarter than this.

This sort of cheap cynicism is always an excuse.

[hyped78]

Like I said, nothing about the current political climate makes sense, and I think we should just concede that we're experiencing political theater. Whoever they actually want in office will probably get it, but this looks like social engineering to me, and I don't understand why we're going along with it. If they learn they can rig the election like this, what will stop them from continuing to do so? Someone should blow a whistle, let them know the game is up, let them know we're smarter than this.

What social engineering and what election is rigged? I'm lost

[babyblob]

What social engineering and what election is rigged? I'm lost

When ever a no name 3rd party candidate is not elected to president in a landslide in their first run it is a rigged system.

[kcomics]

This sort of cheap cynicism is always an excuse.

The Republicans and their outrageous behavior is just a smokescreen, imo, just a means of scaring people. No one wins like this, and we should just reject both choices and elect a sensible candidate. Let them know we will not be bullied into accepting extremes.

[Tendrin]

The Republicans and their outrageous behavior is just a smokescreen, imo, just a means of scaring people. No one wins like this, and we should just reject both choices and elect a sensible candidate. Let them know we will not be bullied into accepting extremes.

Yeah, this entire post is ridiculous.

[Kirby101]

So Jill Stein would make a better President than Biden?????

[babyblob]

The Republicans and their outrageous behavior is just a smokescreen, imo, just a means of scaring people. No one wins like this, and we should just reject both choices and elect a sensible candidate. Let them know we will not be bullied into accepting extremes.

The problem is there is no 3rd party candidate that can win the vote in a couple counties in one state let alone on a national level. That is the problem with the opponents of the 2 party system. (And I dont like the two party system but that is not here nor there right now) Most of the Anti two party crowd do not seem to grasp that it takes a lot of years of hard work to build a viable party. It has to start at the local level in city council races and mayors. School boards and county offices. Then move beyond the city and county to the local state level like reps in the state house, then state level with members in the national house and congress. It is not as easy as putting Joe Blow on the ballet for a congress seat and saying the system is rigged when he is beaten by more well known, better funded candidates with more experience.

[kcomics]

Yeah, this entire post is ridiculous.

If it is, then is it fair to say that democracy is not working the way it was intended in this current version of the United States, and if that's true, doesn't something need to be done? I don't normally even pay attention to politics but all of this noise is concerning, and personally I just want things to get back to normal. The last thing I need is the idea that these battles between extremes are going to be the new normal. This is the kind of stuff that happens in nations that are just trying out democracy.

[kcomics]

The problem is there is no 3rd party candidate that can win the vote in a couple counties in one state let alone on a national level. That is the problem with the opponents of the 2 party system. (And I dont like the two party system but that is not here nor there right now) Most of the Anti two party crowd do not seem to grasp that it takes a lot of years of hard work to build a viable party. It has to start at the local level in city council races and mayors. School boards and county offices. Then move beyond the city and county to the local state level like reps in the state house, then state level with members in the national house and congress. It is not as easy as putting Joe Blow on the ballet for a congress seat and saying the system is rigged when he is beaten by more well known, better funded candidates with more experience.

What about FDR? Wasn't he a third party candidate? What allowed him to get elected?

[babyblob]

What about FDR? Wasn't he a third party candidate? What allowed him to get elected?

FDR was elected in 1933. Politics were very different and comparing elections from close to 100 years ago to now is not in the least bit valid. Also FDR was a Democrat. The party was founded in 1828. I dont see how that makes him in any way a 3rd party. FDR was a strong Democrat and about as far from Independent 3rd party as you could get.