btw if you hate HilRod, but are voting for her in Nov 2016, both she and Mordy thank you and invite you to the inauguration.― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 21:32 (38 minutes ago) Permalink
btw if you hate HilRod, but are voting for her in Nov 2016, both she and Mordy thank you and invite you to the inauguration.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 21:32 (38 minutes ago) Permalink
i have no idea what i'll do in november 2016... because it's 17 months away! i doubt i'll vote for HRC in the primary, but if i'm still in a swing state you bet i'll vote for her over scott walker or rick santorum.
but in any event i don't subscribe to your particular political calculus, which seems designed to achieve nothing but a sense of self-satisfaction, may the world rot.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
i've been experiencing for the past five years the effect of republicans controlling every branch of government, and it's far uglier than anything you've experienced in NY, believe me.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Barney Frank: "Never let the other side think you’re satisfied; you should always be asking for more; and you best maximize gains in fact by minimizing them in characterization, until and unless you are a hundred percent successful."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Once upon a time I considered myself one of those people who, to quote Charles Pierce, claim independence as “a way to buff up your intellect by staying above the hurly-burly of ordinary politics.” But when you live in a red state that's going to sink in five feet of water you do what you can.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
i have never been remotely interested in buffing up my intellect through voting for the most overrated office in the unfree world; don't ascribe balsa-wood motives to everyone.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
it's not as though i'm ascribing them in ignorance!
i've never met anyone who has such scorn for pretty much any political view or even taste profile that is not completely his own (indeed it often seems you will shift your position so as not to achieve any congruence); on the basis on your posts here you seem absolutely consumed by a narcissism of small differences (which you no doubt would characterize as a gaping chasm).
i can't pretend to understand your deeper motives but just based on what i read here i imagine you must find casting smug disdain upon others' opinions rewarding on some level (perhaps only in the short term), because you do it over and over and over etc. again.
i can't think of any other poster on ILX--since i started "contributing," so to speak, in 2002--whose "persona" is so devoted to, and nearly completely identified with, casting scorn on others and greeting every earnest contribution with absolute cynicism.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
and i'm guilty of the same thing! but, i hope, not to the same persistent degree, and not to the exclusion of other things.
i mean there's no doubt that from a certain point of view, the world is a hopeless and deeply fucked place, as is american politics at most levels, in many places. but you'd think those facts would lend you a bit of empathy rather than the presumption that you're the last honest man.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
this is not worth arguing about for the millionth time guys
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
there are still LAFFS to be had!http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeb-bushs-recipe-for-a-better-society-shame/2015/06/10/9c28ecd4-0f92-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
the gop '16 field has decided to adopt a platform of slut shaming and man-splaining
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link
a cavalcade of failures: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n12/chris-lehmann/the-candidates
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
yeah, you're right. sorry all.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
oh man, that LRB piece is great, although frankly they are too kind to scott walker.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
for example it fails to mention how many people working for walker (as both governor and in his previous role as milwaukee county executive) have been indicted/convicted of various abuses of their positions.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
otoh it has hipped me to the wonderful descriptor "lying crapweasel"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
the jeb bush parts are big lols @ the concept of board of directors
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
bush is floundering i guess http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-jeb-bushs-campaign-ran-off-course-before-it-even-began/2015/06/10/386331e6-0eb6-11e5-adec-e82f8395c032_story.html
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
fuckthread byethread
let me know when the "big guy" has a coronary
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
see you in 24 hours!
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Thursday, 11 June 2015 00:52 (nine years ago) link
i was addressing Soto, you stool.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 June 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
The thing I find mystifying about these chucklefuck campaigns is they are like 100% of the time dominated by infighting in the inner circle of managers, confidantes, and cousins on payroll. Maybe it's all this campaigning starting a year and a half out from the election keeping people from actually preparing.
― jennifer islam (silby), Thursday, 11 June 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
Fighting over crumbs from oligarchs ennit
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 02:48 (nine years ago) link
really really wish i liked hillary more
a lot of my issues aren’t from left or right
but like clinton foundation; email thing; etc :/
well, all politicians are slime i guess
& oughtn't let perfect be enemy of the good (but)
― drash, Thursday, 11 June 2015 04:36 (nine years ago) link
not all politicians are slime
but i agree w/ last statement, although to rephrase "don't let the good be the enemy of the mediocre"
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
"don't let the good be the enemy of the mediocre"
yes i think this is more accurate
― drash, Thursday, 11 June 2015 05:05 (nine years ago) link
Robert Costa @costareports 1m1 minute agoWhy did Bush tap Diaz? Friends say they grew chummy on road, both intense night owls and non-stop e-mailers
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
e-mailing!
worst slash fiction ever
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 11 June 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, sorry, gonna need names.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
there's Pat Carver of Rexburg, Idaho, recently elected to the city council. she hasn't started her term yet but people say that she appears to have her heart in the right place, she's a good listener, has a few interesting ideas regarding municipal infrastructure that she would like to bring up early in her -- oh wait, this just in she's been served charges for embezzlement and aggravated assault. so yeah they're all slime
― legendary wireless executive (Karl Malone), Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
this guy represents my district and i like him a lot
― Mordy, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:12 (nine years ago) link
Pelosi's as good as they come imo. Feingold, Mikulski, hell Sanders too - I'll stan for them.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
emailer emailer mail me an eel
― how's life, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
wow cant believe u guys like politicians those clowns down in dc what clowns
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
'politicians suck': probably the lowest level of political engagement possible
― Mordy, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
just a buncha clowns dont know what the heck theyre doin down there fn clowns unbelievable
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC3W1BiUjp0
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
The headline on bloomberg right now is "Walker: I like Marco Rubio a lot"
Then they showed a clip of walker saying that, and he speculated about the possibility of a walker/Rubio ticket, saying they'd have to arm wrestle to determine who would be on the top of the ticket.
So there you go, it's settled on the GOP side.
― legendary wireless executive (Karl Malone), Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
it's odd how Walker's currently in front of a bunch of polls, and yet I see almost zero news pieces on him
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
you should move to wisconsin, you'll have more than your fill
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
I read a Walker horror story every day, most recently regarding Wisconsin university system. But Scarbra and "Mika" don't consider it news.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
feel free to post some - if it's not on WaPo/NYT/SF Chronicle I generally don't see it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
This one is delicious.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 June 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
The Koch brothers signaled furiously that Walker is their preferred guy, but they aren't loading him up with cash this early. Too much chance of Walker failing and their possibly alienating the affections of whoever succeeds.
― Aimless, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
so what would potentially sink Walker - corruption charges?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Voters getting to know him
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
A speaking style that increasingly grates the more you hear it.
― Aimless, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
idk he seems to be doing okay in the state he governs
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
aka The Cheesehead State
― Aimless, Thursday, 11 June 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link