TheGreatGamble

13 hours ago, Dodger said:

Sigh, if they weren't such dicks I'd drop cable for Directv. 

I'd just drop cable period.

1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

But, but, we had a REALLY great deal! 

And a great letter!

Red Dead Heads? 

Shocked... Shocked I tell you. This is my shocked face 

1 minute ago, SaysWho? said:

 

You're starting to understand why the argument for the center-right moderate falls on its face.

Not every center-right candidate has the baggage of a clinton. 

4 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

So Bernie, who you have touted as someone who could have actually beaten Trump, is a radical who is easier to pin down as a radical by people on right-wing sites (unlike Obama who was unable to be attacked by Fox), yet is better than Hillary, the normal candidate.

 

Sounds legit.

Again, if you don't want to listen to what im saying, thats fine. Hillary was a liar, had a long history as a liar, and had too many scandals behind her. Even if those scandals were really nothing, they were easily used against her. And that's exactly what happened. Right dopwn to the final week before the election. I don't agree with all of Bernie's policy, but at least he isn't riddled by scandals and doesn't have a history of lies. 

20 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

I don't know why TheGreatGamble upvoted this considering he thought Bernie was a better candidate than Hillary and you're saying Bernie's radical.

Bernie being a better candidate than Hillary doesn't make him a good candidate. Hillary was a bad candidate because of her skeletons, not her policy,. 

3 hours ago, Scott said:

I think one problem is that Democrats are so diverse. It’s hard to fan the fire of a voting base when everyone is so different. Personally, I’m a liberal because of environmental issues. Others are liberal because of gender and race equality issues. These two groups may struggle to hear the same rallying call. That’s why I like moderates. They are likely to appeal, at least mildly, to all groups of liberals, while turning away very few. If you nominate a person whose platform is “yay Antifa,” you’re not going to earn the votes of those hunters I mentioned earlier.

 

Also, the more radical the nominee, the easier it is for Sean Hannity to create a boogeyman that will draw out conservative voters.   

This is a major problem with both sides. If you support some liberal positions (or conservative), but not all of them, then you have parts of the party complaining you aren't a real liberal, or you're a RINO, or whatever. 

Some positions are not my fight. Some parts of both platforms I disagree with. Some parts of both platforms I do agree with. But the left is far worse for eating their own than the right is, and that ideology of perfect being the enemy of good has hurt the democrats./

7 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

 

It's the "I will call you later!" that really puts a point on things! 

On 9/27/2019 at 1:31 PM, RedSoxFan9 said:

The target audience for Peloton is wealthy professionals who probably don’t have time to use it and will drop the subscription service after not using it for months

My gym has Pelotons, they are amazing bikes. 

But yeah, not a very stable IPO. 

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. are in a 'cold war' for their father's favor and reportedly suspect each other of planting damaging stories

Oh Jr, the whole world knows the only child Trump cares for is Ivanka. 

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

That's literally not what the article is about. 

I know, and otherwise I agree with almost everything you said. Drivers are assholes, and so are cyclists sometimes. But obviously you are correct that layout of American cities makes biking a terrifying thing. 

32 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

"Legit cycling" doesn't require spandex. WTF?  @b_m_b_m_b_m

 

The entire point of this article is that cycling needs to be accessible to more than just the hardcore spandex warriors. 

no, but serious and competitive cycling do. They aren't just for looks  They wick away sweat and work as compression garments to improve blood flow throughout the body. It's not a faschion statement. And if you wear clothes over them, they get soaked. 

I don't cycle, but I know a few guys who do. The tech in bikes is incredible, and the they weigh almost nothing. No unsprung weight at all. Some of them upwards of 10k. A local guy does iron Man (swim, run, bike), and they use custom built and fitted bikes. Like every sport out there, theres a science to it. Right down to the IPO 

The man is a caricature of a Moustache twirling villain, which is already a caricature in and of itself. 

2 hours ago, Massdriver said:

The kids have no charisma though, except perhaps Ivanka. 

The right absolutely fucking loves Don Jr. He's a very avid and and serious hunter, a strong supporter of the 2nd, has always been a staunch republican and pro life (even when the rest of the famdamily were liberals), and he loves to troll liberals online. 

He's pretty much the Right's Spirit Animal. 

I want to see this, but the wife refuses. SHe will only watch a horror movie at home with me, she says getting scared in a theater is embarrassing to her (I don't know why, thats supposed to be a point, but she does get jumpy), so unless I find a friend to see it with, I may just wait until it's on home video. The first IT terrified her. Even at 36 she has an overactive imagination. She's ok if she can cuddle up close to me on the couch and hide under a blanket when it gets too scary, but that is her limit. 

I watched Mothman Prophecies with her when we first met 14 years ago, and had to go to work the next evening. She ended up awake in bed all night with the lights on and doors locked. LOL. She's gotten slightly better, but not much. 

Just now, Anathema- said:

 

Thanks for the analysis, Canadian.

if you say so, nutjob. 

On 8/28/2019 at 5:46 AM, Reputator said:

How the hell did they steal a safe weighing hundreds of pounds in less than 5 minutes? I couldn't even load a couch into a truck that fast.

Man, people steal harleys in far less time with just a few guys to pick it up quick and throw it into a van. Whoever did this was obviously prepared. 

1 hour ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

I don't know that Trump has ever taken a serious stance for "family values". Evangelicals like to pretend that he has though. So I don't know if I'll call him a hypocrite on that one. Which feels weird.

Trump had no religious leanings at all, ever. He was also a democrat until Obama hurt his feelings. Everything Trump says and does is about opportunity. He doesn't give a fuck about any evangelical cause, beyond its ability to get him votes. 

2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Just thinking today about how with all the talk of packing the courts, if we had a credible (or even just respected) opposition party in the Democrats (and specifically the Democrats in the Senate) we could get a major piece of constitutional reform passed even this era. 

 

Democrats, if credible, could threaten to massively pack the courts from top to bottom unless a constitutional amendment is passed that places a term limit on the judiciary, phases out older judges who are past this limit over a 10 year period, and formally sizes SCOTUS in the Constitution at 9 justices.

 

Hell, I'd be ok throwing them a bone and placing term limits on legislators, but at a limit that is still pretty high like 4 terms for senators and 10 for reps, as an added enticement. (As of late, I'm becoming more and more in favor of limits)

The last thing anyone should ever want is a constitutional convention, and you can't change it without that. And a 2/3rds vote (or is it 3/4?) is needed to ammend. What you are suggesting is almost impossible. 

The middle class need to start hanging the elites from trees until they start working for them. Start with the Trumps, the Clintons, Pelosi, Cruz, King, everyone who has enriched themselves at the expense of the working class. CEO's, politicians, everyone who is trying to make life worse for the working poor, but especially those pretending to be champions of those people while enriching themselves and selling access behind closed doors. 

The company my father works for sent out a letter in February congratulating the workforce on record productivity and and profits, before forcing them on strike in late march saying that because of the economy and their economic positions, they would have to take concessions on the new contract. My dad was 8 days from retirement, now he's on a picket line fighting because pensions are one of the things they are attacking. 

The general managers exact words, on the news, was, "This is necessary because newly retired workers are living too long". 

Not "retired workers are living longer", but "retired workers are living too long". His exact words. This is a place that is detrimental to health and safety, and has caused the cancer of many employees (though the company would never admit it).  People like him are the ones that need to be strung up by the neck. And not a long drop from a short rope, thats too quick. 

1 minute ago, SilentWorld said:

Mugabe wasn’t perfect but he did liberate Zimbabwe. RIP.

Ya, then he murdered thousands of his own people. 

if trump can design a goblin glider, it will all have been worth it!

5 hours ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

https://ijr.com/resurfaced-video-bernie-sanders-climate-change-1989/

 

It’s very Trumpian to criticize the media

Ok, you are being disingenuous as possible. Theres a huge duifference in saying the media isn't covering something, and saying it's fake.  

8 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

 

Well done, AOC

It really wasn't. She completely misconstrued what he said.