Joe Biden beats Donald Trump, officially making Trump a one-term twice impeached, twice popular-vote losing president

[Uaarkson]

I’m calling it.

 

Either the Republican Party eats itself alive and splinters, or they coalesce around this horseshit and suffer a long, slow decline in public support, parallel with the decline of their constituency demographic.

[CitizenVectron]

2 minutes ago, Uaarkson said:

I’m calling it.

 

Either the Republican Party eats itself alive and splinters, or they coalesce around this horseshit and suffer a long, slow decline in public support, parallel with the decline of their constituency demographic.

 

But they'll still control the Senate most of the time, the House some of the time, and the Presidency half of the time because of the massive institutional advantages the Constitution provides (and gerrymandering, etc).

[skillzdadirecta]

1 hour ago, MarSolo said:

It’s amazing, the GOP is straight up going full Nazi.

They're just comfortable saying the quiet part out loud now... this is where they've BEEN for at least the last 50 years.

[Ricofoley]

46 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

But they'll still control the Senate most of the time, the House some of the time, and the Presidency half of the time because of the massive institutional advantages the Constitution provides (and gerrymandering, etc).

Also, the inherent advantage of the media just refusing to acknowledge what the party actually stands for. Consider that Maggie Haberman at the New York Times and Johnathan Swan at Axios yesterday both separately reported that even Trump loyalists in his immediate circle are disturbed by his behavior and think that something dangerous might happen in the next month. You might think that that would mean that the newspaper would determine based on that that you, the reader, should be equally disturbed by what's going on and cover it across the entire paper like it's a national emergency, but they're just.... not. You're just supposed to treat it like it's a weird curiosity, it seems like.

 

Then you have the stimulus negotiations, where the GOP is putting in poison pillsthat are explicitly designed to sabotage Biden's presidency, but every headline is just something banal like, "Congress fails to reach agreement on stimlus"

[Kal-El814]

3 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

I’m calling it.

 

Either the Republican Party eats itself alive and splinters, or they coalesce around this horseshit and suffer a long, slow decline in public support, parallel with the decline of their constituency demographic.

The GOP is going to be fine. 

[Spork3245]

5 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

I’m calling it.

 

Either the Republican Party eats itself alive and splinters, or they coalesce around this horseshit and suffer a long, slow decline in public support, parallel with the decline of their constituency demographic.

This gets said every time a Republican loses the presidency, yet, the GOP digs their heels in and moves further to the right and somehow remains.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

This gets said every time a Republican loses the presidency, yet, the GOP digs their heels in and moves further to the right and somehow remains.

And Trump got the second highest vote total of all time, second only to Biden so it's not like it's a static group that is still small and the world is passing by.

[LazyPiranha]

16 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

And Trump got the second highest vote total of all time, second only to Biden so it's not like it's a static group that is still small and the world is passing by.

While I don’t see a massive drop off in support, I do wonder if the next GOP candidate can really pull people in like Trump did.  People were enthusiastic for him, the problem for the GOP was people were more enthusiastic AGAINST him.  In a much more boring election, I do wonder what happens.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

His celebrity was a big part of his popularity and part of the myth surrounding him. Also unlike most gopers today he has a personality and could be funny. This is severely underrated by many of the left in trying to understand his appeal, despite his obvious grotesqueness

[Uaarkson]

2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

And Trump got the second highest vote total of all time, second only to Biden so it's not like it's a static group that is still small and the world is passing by.

White baby boomers aren’t a static group, they’re slowly disappearing. The real problem of course is that alternate reality news programming is now hard-baked into that “side” of society. Only time will tell how much of it sticks with the younger generations.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

1 hour ago, Uaarkson said:

White baby boomers aren’t a static group, they’re slowly disappearing. The real problem of course is that alternate reality news programming is now hard-baked into that “side” of society. Only time will tell how much of it sticks with the younger generations.

Cool only gotta wait for four more presidential election cycles and hope that some other culture war greivance (or even material concern!) doesn't start winning voters over to them in the meantime

[SuperSpreader]

2 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

White baby boomers aren’t a static group, they’re slowly disappearing. The real problem of course is that alternate reality news programming is now hard-baked into that “side” of society. Only time will tell how much of it sticks with the younger generations.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, it's stuck with younger generations

[Iculus]

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. (what I think of every time I read the thread title)

[dualhunter]

8 hours ago, Iculus said:

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. (what I think of every time I read the thread title)

 

Everytime I see an escalator undergoing major repairs I think of this claim. It isn't stairs when there's a fence up at each end and the "steps" are stacked against a wall. Temporarily stairs is more for when it's just stopped, rather than broken since even with minor repairs you can't use them since they're blocked off.

[SuperSpreader]

9 hours ago, Iculus said:

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. (what I think of every time I read the thread title)

 

What about the ones in China that have opened their escalator mouths and mauled people?

 

 

[SaysWho?]

Anyone have tacos recently?

 

I loved refried beans on tacos. That's why I want to try fried beans because maybe they're just as good and we're wasting time.

[Iculus]

14 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Anyone have tacos recently?

 

I loved refried beans on tacos. That's why I want to try fried beans because maybe they're just as good and we're wasting time.

Refried beans aren't actually fried twice.

[SuperSpreader]

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

Anyone have tacos recently?

 

I loved refried beans on tacos. That's why I want to try fried beans because maybe they're just as good and we're wasting time.

"Refried" is a translation error that stuck 

[Joe]

Shout out to tostones, which are actually fried twice. Fucking delicious.

[CitizenVectron]

Ever had twice-baked potatoes? There are different ways to do it, but I like to bake a potato, split it open after, fill it with the stuff I like and mash the inside up a bit (bacon, butter, chives, etc), close the skin back up as best as possible, and bake it again. It's like mashed potatoes inside a baked potato, with all the "fixings."

[SaysWho?]

2 hours ago, Iculus said:

Refried beans aren't actually fried twice.

 

1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said:

"Refried" is a translation error that stuck 

 

Okay, I was just keeping the theme with Hedberg jokes, but I learned something new.

[Iculus]

24 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

 

 

Okay, I was just keeping the theme with Hedberg jokes, but I learned something new.

I got it. People seemed to miss the joke, so I was playing to that.

[mclumber1]

The dream team has assembled in the Oval Office:

 

[Jason]

2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

The dream team has assembled in the Oval Office:

 

 

A failmoot.

[Fizzzzle]

I spent way too long today reading stuff about Matt Gaetz. That is someone that can absolutely go fuck himself.

[Air_Delivery]

2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

The dream team has assembled in the Oval Office:

 

If those bozos are meeting they are plotting some ratfuckery. 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

1 hour ago, Fizzzzle said:

I spent way too long today reading stuff about Matt Gaetz. That is someone that can absolutely go fuck himself.

He's gonna primary rubio and probably win

[Chairslinger]

4 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

The dream team has assembled in the Oval Office:

 

 

2 hours ago, Jason said:

 

A failmoot.

 

 

The West Wing today must have looked like the slide of Homer's goober sperm......

 

 

 

[Ricofoley]

Alright, so if I understand this correctly, Trump is mad because Mitch McConnell won't support him in a coup attempt even though Trump went through the trouble of making one (1) tweet and one (1) phone call recording on his behalf.

 

 

[marioandsonic]

Just one more month...just one more month...just one more month...

[Jason]

14 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

Just one more month...just one more month...just one more month...

 

[Ricofoley]

My Pillow Guy did not get the memo about the lawsuits

[Jason]

4 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

My Pillow Guy did not get the memo about the lawsuits

 

[Littleronin]

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Somebody needs to tell Pillow Mike that Gorka's doctorate is joke and that he doesn't deserve to be called "Doctor." 

[thewhyteboar]

25 minutes ago, Littleronin said:

Somebody needs to tell Pillow Mike that Gorka's doctorate is joke and that he doesn't deserve to be called "Doctor." 

Gorka's "dissertation" contains this MS Paint image: