Political Bullshit 2024
18Hey all -
Wanna share your thoughts on the current political climate? Candidates? Flag pins?
Do that here. We won’t be allowing political discourse in the product threads or other weird places.
You still gotta follow the rules and be respectful to each other. (No name-calling, in particular.)
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@blaineg
God I miss those two…
To keep the place calm and relaxed, may I suggest a nice scented candle?
For those who require levity in these perilous times, I suggest www.capitolfools.com
@werehatrack As opposed to the Capital Tools (aka, the ones in office)?
I vote for peach cobbler 100% of the time
@tysontomko You want to impeach a toddler? That’s so weird.
Or maybe it’s my eyes that are weird. I’ll try sleeping it off.
I finally learned that anyone who used name calling while ‘discussing’ politics (libtard, orange cheetoh, etc) are the saddest, lamest people out there.
@haydesigner What about politicians that do that?
@haydesigner Wonder which politician started calling names first?
@Felton10 @haydesigner Probably Adams.
Thank you!
Thanks. I was just looking for cat food reviews and found political garbage yesterday.
@funsyd That’s been excised with the establishment of this thread. Political comments elsewhere will be dealt with via the Giant Inflatable Bop-Squeaka Hammer of Moderator Deletion if I find them. Namecalling here may result in disemvowelment of the comment, removal of the name-calling via hamfisted-Edit, subthread-lock (possibly with a Warning), or other creative mischief adopted on the fly, if I catch it. Other mods have other plans/methods. It won’t be fun, though.
@funsyd @werehatrack extra thanks to @extramedium for the product thread cleanup! It is so very much appreciated!
@funsyd @werehatrack Locking the thread won’t solve anything. The crap will just surface elsewhere. Better all the misbehavior be on this thread where others don’t have to deal with it because they can ignore it.
/image vote cthulu 2024
@Cerridwyn Both polarized sides regard the other as a greater evil than a mere insanity-inducing Elder God. Cthulhu may be a sort of compromise; the evil with only one agenda, unconcerned about the Terribly Important Issues one way or the other.
I just realized that this is a very Charlie Stross Laundry Files scenario…
@Cerridwyn Saw a bumper sticker version of this back in the '90s.
@yakkoTDI daughter had the TShirt back in 2004 she reminded me
@Cerridwyn @yakkoTDI A 2024 version is available at pegasuspublishing.com
@Cerridwyn
@Cerridwyn @mycya4me This is one I ran across a couple months ago:
Of course, it turns out that I got it from here on Meh.
@narfcake Months of vomiting seem to precede a day of voting.
Or is that just all the drugs the TV tells me I can’t live without? *
*Side effects may include death.
/youtube sons and daughters of robin hood by dahm the bard
I might write-in Irk and Glen for all state level positions.
@OnionSoup I agree!
I saw a political style yard sign for wu-tang clan. Made me smile.
@medz
Now there’s a name I haven’t thought of long time!
ICYMI
https://meh.com/forum/topics/hey-everybody-its-glen-presidential-debates-1
@xobzoo Odin or Cthulhu would be the Best choices!
@mycya4me And they would represent a much better 2-party system than we have now.
Though I worry today’s voters might still pick the wrong one…
There are too many good ones here to copy them one at a time. So go to amawhosit and giggle
https://www.amazon.com/Presidential-Election-Independent-Political-Literally/dp/B0D2LNJVLX?th=1
@Cerridwyn I think the two that made me laugh the most out of those were
Another I liked was “Have we tried turning it off and then turning it back on again?”
And the answer to that one is “Yes, about 250 years ago. But while it gave us good results for many years, it was a lot of work and took a long time. I don’t think today’s society has what it takes to see that one through to the end again.”
(I worry that’s what it’ll take to actually fix things, but I worry even more that the wrong group would end up on top afterward and the “fix” would be worse than what we started with.)
Found this one too
Etsy also has some good ones ofc
@Cerridwyn Great! I Love it!
Great keep going on.
I’m just going to say that six weeks ago, my position was “Anybody but these two”. I’m far from convinced that the change represents the best we could have, but I can at least support one candidate willingly now, where before it was only a “lesser of two fundamental evils.”
@werehatrack I have worn a Clothes Pin to the Polling station before. That is to represent that the Choices stunk!
Now I am working the Polls as an Election official!
@mycya4me I’m slated to be a Presiding Judge at one of the polling places in November. I might work as a clerk in the early voting, too.
In September 1787, Elizabeth Willing Powel approached Benjamin Franklin after the signing of the Constitution and asked,
Franklin famously answered,
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Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947
British politician (1874 - 1965)
Regarding the current contests.
I tend to agree with the quote that politics is “the art of the possible”.
IE it’s whatever one’s culture and legal system throw out if the chaos, confusion, and messed-up mess.
It’s not about some wished for ideal. Ever. Politics is about reality, not idealized perfection.
Once in a while politics throws up people who are admirable, or who are heroic, or who accomplish something incredible.
More often it’s ineffective or petty or the churning of great energy, achieving little.
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For this particular contest I believe that one side has promise. Might be ok. Maybe even good or very good.
And I believe the other side is lunatic, built on delusion, narcissism, self-pandering, corruption, naked power grabs, and total lies and BS.
And is working for the destruction of the republic, all to achieve the point of satisfying vanity.
I’m glad we don’t have the sort of “republic” or “democracy” that Russia has. Putin is worse than our current choices.
But perhaps not that much worse than the prospect of those I deem “the bad guys” winning.
In any case, if my choice of designated “bad guys” win, Putin will win also. Perhaps Putin, who is not a candidate here, will win really really big.
Or not.
Politics and history are full of predictable stuff, and also full of events and changes none or few saw coming.
I understand to a degree why a person may support the other side. There is a lot of mythology and personal philosophy and often way too much choice based on the emotional satisfaction of thinking
“I’m right. You’re wrong”.
And we all have that flaw to some degree.
None of us can analyze reality to the target of infinite precision. So at some point all of us make our choices.
I do not believe that the flaws or the two sides are close to equivalent.
One is way better, the other is way worse.
And obviously I believe that the supporters of “my side” have way way way fewer thinking flaws than those supporting the major alternative.
I’ll leave those comments there.
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But I do have actual contempt for quite a few of the bigger names on what I call the “bad guy” side.
Not all of them. And not their supporters and believers.
But yes some of the folks at or near the top of the campaign.
And those contemptible sorts can go fuck themselves (in the literal meaning of the words), film themselves fucking themselves, and upload then entire library of “filmed narcissistic lying sociopathic and dishonorable persons self-fucking” to Pornhub
Not OnlyFans. Pornhub.
Because these contemptible garbage politicians, viewed in the act of self-fucking (or doing anything else for that matter), are not worth a dime of anyone’s OnlyFans money or other monies to be spent.
And these garbage lying power-grabbers also not worth having even the smallest unit of moral or ethical or honest and honorable credibility assigned to them.
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I’m not sure if this sort of post is welcome. If not, my apologies. Don’t intend to mess with anyone’s mood.
If this post bothers too many people, I’ll ask TPTB to delete.
This is typed on a phone. Apologies for errors.
@f00l Yep I agree!
@f00l I will note that a bit of a bomb about YouTube personalities getting paid to be Putin shills dropped today. They claim they were duped, and it might be technically true, but they profited handsomely from delivering a pro-Russia diatribe and didn’t ask too many questions about where the wretched excess of funding had come from. Something tells me that they were willing to volunteer to be useful idiots for that kind of cash.
@werehatrack
I’m shocked. Shocked
Aren’t you?
: (
@f00l I’m shocked that they didn’t ask for more money.
@f00l @werehatrack Imagine how much they would pay a politician if they’re willing to pay that much to a faux-journalist.
I am certainly glad that Drumpf cleared it up for me that illegal aliens are only eating dogs and cats. If he had included parrots that would have been a deal breaker for me.
@Felton10 I think he just got confused when he heard someone talk about “eating pussy”.
@OnionSoup Given that Malaria wants nothing to do with him now, I’m sure eating pussy got him going.
For once Trump was right-through exhaustive research I was able to uncover the real culprit in the cat eating scandal.
This is a grand idea.
Anyone watch the debate? Trump had to ask his lemmings after the debate how he did and of course rather than incur his wrath, the told him he did great and won it. And now he claims that Harris wants a rematch because she knows she lost it.
Do we actually want a person so self-centered and egotistical anywhere near the nuclear codes?
@Felton10
We do not
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He’s been lying and thereby trying to weaken and destroy the Republic for nine years now
All for the point of putting salve on his vanity
And he seems to have been exactly what all those who want politics to be like professional wrestling were happy to have, happy to cheer on
as long as their leader was giving them phrases they could yell and cheer, for they were willing to accept any lies and any destruction of our constitution
Nine years is enough
It’s time the country quit worrying about the corrupting and destructive bottomless well of insecurity and vanity
And the self delusion of his followers
Nine years was too much
How the hell did it come to this?
Was it a combination of the corrupting influence of Fox News and new Gingrich style politics?
Was that the apparent end of the Cold War, which turned out to be an overly optimistic point of view made people think they could just be a stupid and toxic as they wanted, and it would not have any serious effect?
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Every single individual active during the revolution and the creation of the country who is now one of our revered national heroes would’ve despised him
Every Republican ex-president who is not named Trump and every living Republican nominee for president not named Trump despises him
Starting with World War II in historical terms
Every Republican ex-president who is not living and every Republican nominee for president who is not living would have despised him if had they lived to see him
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There’s nothing quite like a nation winning World War III and appearing to win the Cold War, although that’s becoming a little bit more in doubt
Then, following that up by electing, a man who is devoid of honor and who lies every time he opens his mouth and corrupts and destroys and throws away and attempts to suppress every virtue that made those victory possible
On Sept. 7, Kamala Harris visited a Penzeys location in Pittsburgh. Penzeys is scathingly honest about their opposition to Trump, and Fox News and MAGA influencers are now trying to put them out of business.
https://wapo.st/4d3Zjhx (Not paywalled)
Bill Penzey has put out an appeal for support: https://www.facebook.com/Penzeys
I now have the lyrics stuck in my head playing on repeat. Fear the earworm! (Not related to a brain worm.) If you do watch it, be sure to stay around for the dog at the end.
@rockblossom OHHH - those Kiffness cat-collaboration songs really are sticky! His first one runs through my head for days if I hear it. Not sure I want to watch this …
@Kyeh Sometimes I’m alone, sometimes I’m not. A meowworm.
@rockblossom Oh, it’s that same song, then? It is a fierce one!
@Kyeh The song in the video above is new. The other one is the first Kiffness video I remember that got stuck in my head on continuous replay.
@rockblossom Oh, okay. Yes - that first one is inexorable.
I am sure this thread will eventually turn into a giant out of control political bonfire.
@Kidsandliz I am not as certain. I’m seeing signs of a potential implosion on one side as a whole at the same time that I have personally seen some multi-level double-down faction supporters buying even the most outrageously farcical stuff. The datum that gives the the most hope is the count of the number of people polled who refuse to respond. (I’m one of them, for that matter.)
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack missed the cat food thread…was it worse than the Black Rifle Coffee one?
@Kidsandliz @PHRoG It barely got started before the official Take It To The Politics Thread announcement was made (and the OTP content was deleted).
@Kidsandliz At this point in the last election cycle, in my own neighborhood, there were about a dozen houses sporting pro-Trump signage. Six months ago, one house down at the other end of the street had two Trump signs out. Today, the only political signs in the neighborhood are the three I’ve got, for minor-race Dems. (I’m pretty much the anarcho-commie-eat-the-rich extremist in my area. And I don’t just vote, I also serve as an election judge, and I don’t care which way they vote as long as they show up to do it!)
Godsdamnit, another presumed nutcase with a gun was intercepted adjacent to the Mar-a-Lago golf course, suspected to have been there for an assassination attempt. TRUMP MUST NOT BE ASSASSINATED. That would be a catastrophe. We got lucky twice now, and I sincerely hope this is the last such incident. But if it’s not, then I hope the law enforcement and protective detail people keep him safe. Alive and unhurt, he can be defeated at the polls. Injured, he would likely grow stronger. Martyred, his followers would go nuts.
@werehatrack
Pretty sure that boat sailed long ago.