I've had people say it's a hardening, actually ~ US presidential election 2016 part 9/11 never forget

lol don't let any info penetrate that bubble Morbz

mordy got dronezoned

you can stfu Shakey; I absorb info faster than cancer drugs. I also p much don't give a shit about jobs except mine, as most of them will be obsolete in a decade or two, and then what a marvelous civil war might coincide with the Extinction Event.

Just gonna go put on my happy music now

and by happy music I mean this tweet

https://twitter.com/DanQuayle2016/status/637449562479853568

like if anything she probably calculated correctly that without seeming gung ho on foreign affairs she couldn't even get her foot in the door. if you asked me if americans prefer more bombing other countries or not bombing other countries i'd bet that a majority would prefer to bomb other countries.

Bombing other countries may appeal to the majority's lizard brain (and that's definitely a factor in this election), but I think a majority has become much more wary of intervening in other countries without an understandable resolution in sight, and without certainty of the consequences. I don't think Clinton's tipping vote on Libya was based on appealing to sexists, afaik people weren't even aware of her significance in the final decision until Libya was in chaos. I don't see her as a bloodthirsty warmonger, her reasoning of her more hawkish actions is generally understandable and defensible, but she consistently underestimates the chances of things going to shit.

i was about to ask why Hillary's campaign isn't sending out Biden to talk mad shit on Trump while she's sick, but then I checked and he just challenged Trump to go jogging with him. Amp it up a little, Joe.

lol that is so joe

uhhhh

http://i.imgur.com/RPqdG0Z.jpg

that third tweet has been deleted? to "avoid confusion." don't leave us thirsty kurt

@JimPethokoukis
"This is the first statistically significant annual increase [in real median household income] since 2007" - IHS Global

and man, that one sure led to memorable things

cool, can't wait to introduce stigmas about mental illness to this awesome campaign

we really need to cover the waterfront on stigmatizing illness in general

Andrew Rafferty
‏@AndrewNBCNews
.@davidplouffe just told @chucktodd Trump is the heaviest presidential candidate since William Taft

oh cool

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said conservatives may need to turn to physical violence in order to protect the United States against contemporary liberalism.

The Republican governor put forth the controversial suggestion after speaking of the “degradation of society” during an impassioned, 15-minute speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The provocative comments started to gain national attention at the start of this week.

“America is worth fighting for ideologically. I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically. But that may, in fact, be the case,” he told the crowd.

Bevin suggested that if Democrat Hillary Clinton were elected president, she would set the nation on a dangerous course that might require bloodshed to correct. He told the audience that the “candle” of liberty might go out “on our watch.”

To hammer home his point, he paraphrased a famous quote from Founding Father Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“Whose blood will be shed? It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren. I have nine children,” he said. “It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood that is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away. Don’t let it happen.”

XP Only grilled KFC from here on out.

who talks about their fucking kids like this

"hey, junior might need to water the tree of liberty with your blood, can you spare a few pints"

fucking psychos

i think a lot of this bullshit is related to (stupid) people's childish need for excitement all the god damn fucking time. why are these conservatives so averse to being good stewards of the earth and society? even when one gets into a real position of power -- fucking governor -- he fantasizes about being mel gibson in the patriot instead.

He's got nine kids! Who'll miss one or three if it keeps that liberty tree goin'?

think that was a Pat Buchanan go-to quote

just found some important information about watering trees with blood:

http://menstrual-cups.livejournal.com/2102366.html

i think a lot of this bullshit is related to (stupid) people's childish need for excitement all the god damn fucking time. why are these conservatives so averse to being good stewards of the earth and society? even when one gets into a real position of power -- fucking governor -- he fantasizes about being mel gibson in the patriot instead.

^god, this. is it possible that at least some of these guys ever get embarrassed by this shit? or is business just too good?

i'm sure he's just saying what he actually believes

i'm sure he's just saying what he actually believes

I agree. He's sincere about his anguish over the civil war he imagines is coming. What bears examining is what his beliefs are based on.

It is no accident that Armageddon is envisioned as a literal armed battle. For believers, only massive bloodshed can cleanse away the sins of the world. Very likely he is projecting a similar mindset onto what he thinks of as "God's country" and its sins against God's laws. It is a mistake to discount how powerful an effect this mythology has on millions of Americans. It is totally real to them.

tribalism taken the logical next level - killing each other!

i think a lot of this bullshit is related to (stupid) people's childish need for excitement all the god damn fucking time. why are these conservatives so averse to being good stewards of the earth and society? even when one gets into a real position of power -- fucking governor -- he fantasizes about being mel gibson in the patriot instead.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 23:08 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is no doubt that these are the stanzas of a madman the likes of whom it horrifies one to think of as the recipient of high public office, but let's all be clear-eyed and brave in front of any gods or holies we each hold dear and sacred when we declare that the claim that the threat our side is facing today, or this week, year or election cycle is the worst ever faced and will drag all progress with it if given an inch is a claim that the left makes as easily, as untruthfully and as wildly as the right.

yeah no as much as the Left hated Bush or the idea of Palin I honestly don't remember this rhetoric about some sort of civil/ holy war.

Yeah no obv the left will not couch it in the terms of the right so congrats on that

when faced with its latest worst-ever threat, the american left talks about such wild things as moving to canada, not killing the people with which it disagrees

yep exactly the same

Yep. The nascent challop will certainly allow that the left does not react in similar fashion having so declared said threat.

will are u here to defend the castle or what who asked you to defend the castle you don't seem particularly well equipped btw nobody is attacking the castle its just a spectacularly boring hollow echoing thread on us politics i promise u the castle is unthreatened by any post I make here

those namby-pamby liberals trying to escape to Canada will be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution happens.

i didn't say the left wasn't prone to grandiosity and overreaction at times as well

you're just projecting that on my statements in order to make some false equivalency for god knows what reason

(though i've often said if you want to see some gun control in this country real quick like all you need to do is get a bunch of brown and black guys with "Obama 2016 - ∞" t shirts nonchalantly open-carrying in red states/ suburban areas)

and I didn't disagree the right was, nor claim one side was not a damn sight better than the other. but extremism and the kindling for extremism and the baiting and language and thirst and fervour for drama and excitement and insistence that it all gets cured or dies forever on MY WATCH comes from all sides and is probably that much more disappointing and damaging from the side that ought to be the natural enemy of it

that would not result in gun control xp

idk imago, reagan made short work of open carry in california when the panthers marched on sacramento

nah you're right. i just want some t shirt that say "Obama 2016 - ∞"

regardless, it's a bad strategy for achieving gun control.

Cant prove a false equivalency!

God knows what reason = if ilx really has to keep over and die then dear fuckin christ let it now be in the manner of the eight or ten puke election threads so far this year. Oooh dat trump! ooooooooOOOOOOooo DAT TWUMP!

man ppl are bad at this thread

not/now

jclc can we fight pls

I'd ask hoos but he's actually irl

though she denies it to the press, that escalated quickly

I'm going to just keep starting new threads until this stops happening

I'll be there. Waiting.