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2020 US Presidential Election (aka: The Trump Coronation)

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    #3332
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Brian? wrote: »
    The civil rights act killed the Democratic party in the south. The GOP stepped in with the Southern strategy that played directly on the latent racism in the South. This is also historical fact.

    The GOP ended slavery. The Dems ended segregation. So yes, they did swap.
    The military was the first to end segregation in 1948. And the democrats just swapped physical slavery with economic slavery in order to maintain control.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #3333
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,566 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    notobtuse wrote: »
    The military was the first to end segregation in 1948.

    Clearly, we are talking about the constitutional end to segregation, passed by lawmakers.


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    #3334
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Wasn't Obama black? Wasn't he president? Wasn't he a Democrat?


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    #3335
    Carfacemandog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,042 ✭✭✭Carfacemandog


    People who wave the Southern, pro slavery Confederate* flag... do they tend to vote Democrat or Republican?


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    #3336
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,949 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Do tell oh knowledgeable one. But be warned I've saved all the truth.

    And before you make yourself look even more foolish than you already do, here's the post that did me in...

    "What's Reddit?"
    Ummm... Nobody mentioned your name and you're not threadbanned in that thread, forget to log back into the Outlaw Pete account there Notobtuse? Care to explain what you're on about there?


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    #3337
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Can you imagine in 2024 (after Trump's second term ends) if Nikki Haley ran and won the presidency with Richard Grenell as her vice president? The first woman, and of Indian decent, as president and the first gay vice president coming from the republican party? Liberal journalists and media personalities would be throwing themselves off rooftops. I'd vote for them. :)

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #3338
    housetypeb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Can you imagine in 2024 (after Trump's second term ends) if Nikki Haley ran and won the presidency with Richard Grenell as her vice president? The first woman, and of Indian decent, as president and the first gay vice president coming from the republican party? Liberal journalists and media personalities would be throwing themselves off rooftops. I'd vote for them. :)

    Why bother posting your daydreams?


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    #3339
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Can you imagine in 2024 (after Trump's second term ends) if Nikki Haley ran and won the presidency with Richard Grenell as her vice president? The first woman, and of Indian decent, as president and the first gay vice president coming from the republican party? Liberal journalists and media personalities would be throwing themselves off rooftops. I'd vote for them. :)

    You'd vote for them because of their race, gender and sexual orientation? Weird.


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    #3340
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Thargor wrote: »
    Ummm... Nobody mentioned your name and you're not threadbanned in that thread, forget to log back into the Outlaw Pete account there Notobtuse? Care to explain what you're on about there?
    Oops, my bad. Looked back and it was about Pete, not me. Oh, well, mid 1980's and now 2020. Mistakes do happen.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #3341
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    You'd vote for them because of their race, gender and sexual orientation? Weird.
    Nope, always liked Haley. And I’ve been impressed recently with Grenell's work exposing the abuses of Obamagate.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



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    #3342
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,375 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Nope, always liked Haley. And I’ve been impressed recently with Grenell's work exposing the abuses of Obamagate.

    What's Obamagate? Can you explain it to me please?


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    #3343
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,566 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Nope, always liked Haley. And I’ve been impressed recently with Grenell's work exposing the abuses of Obamagate.

    She abandoned her post, as governor, to serve another post, which she then abandoned, because of her abuse of power.

    All roads point to her taking a deal. It's going to hang over her if she chooses to return to a public office.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/09/despite-serving-trump-nikki-haley-somehow-avoided-public-humiliation-and-legal-jeopardy/


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    #3344
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,566 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    You know what?

    I don't think Trump is going to get his parade.


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    #3345
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,436 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    notobtuse wrote: »
    The military was the first to end segregation in 1948. And the democrats just swapped physical slavery with economic slavery in order to maintain control.

    I shouldn't, but... explain this economic slavery argument to me.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    #3346
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,597 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Do tell oh knowledgeable one. But be warned I've saved all the truth.

    And before you make yourself look even more foolish than you already do, here's the post that did me in...

    "What's Reddit?"

    Has notobtuse just outed himself as having another account? Stay tuned for further updates.


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    #3347
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,566 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Has notobtuse just outed himself as having another account? Stay tuned for further updates.

    No I can see where he got mixed up. Given as how he never got over the banning, he leaps at every opportunity to gripe about it like its an 800 year war.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?p=109470543

    #aslongaswereonthesubject


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    #3348
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,650 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Nope, always liked Haley. And I’ve been impressed recently with Grenell's work exposing the abuses of Obamagate.

    What exactly has he exposed ?

    Do you mean when he released all the details of the unmasking requests that everybody on Fox got all excited about only to find out that Flynns name was never redacted anywhere by the FBI in the 1st place?

    So if by "Exposing the Abuses of Obamagate" you mean "exposing Trump for creating and abusing the term 'Obamagate" for absolutely no purpose" , then yes , Top work by Grenell


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    #3349
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,770 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Quin_Dub wrote: »

    So if by "Exposing the Abuses of Obamagate" you mean "exposing Trump for creating and abusing the term 'Obamagate" for absolutely no purpose" , then yes , Top work by Grenell

    Amazing considering Trump is the Russian ambassador to the United States.


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    #3350
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,566 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Study of tweets pushing America to reopen shows that most of them were from bots.

    https://gizmodo.com/twitter-bots-drove-the-push-to-reopen-america-study-fi-1843614589


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    #3351
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,566 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Which leads directly in to Trump mulling testing nuclear weapons for the first time in decades.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-administration-discussed-conducting-first-us-nuclear-test-in-decades/2020/05/22/a805c904-9c5b-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html

    To think, a russian botnet could be convincing Trump of the mistaken belief that millions of Americans on twitter support such a measure. Yikes.


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    #3352
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,770 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Russian troll farms in action.


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    #3353
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    White People telling Black People what they should be ! And that ain’t Racist ! ! !

    How could the Democrats could not come up with a Young Candidate ? The Democrat Establishment do not want anything to change and that is why they picked the candidate that will change nothing if he wins ! ! !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMhck1uAGL8&frags=pl%2Cwn


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    #3354
    iebamm2580
    Registered Users Posts: 1,610 ✭✭✭iebamm2580


    Easily the most cringeworhty thing lately is the cuomo brothers love in on cnn during his daily briefings, in the middle of a pandemic update he the governor brings on his idiot brother to recall of times gone by and share unfunny stories. Then Chris reciprocates on his prime time show,2 clowns.


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    #3355
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Nice to see Biden feature in the headlines for a change.


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    #3356
    duploelabs
    Registered Users Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Do tell oh knowledgeable one. But be warned I've saved all the truth.

    And before you make yourself look even more foolish than you already do, here's the post that did me in...

    "What's Reddit?"

    Wait, so you're telling me either you're both the same person or that the two biggest trump blowhards here are banned from the politics Forum??

    Well colour me shocked


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    #3357
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,646 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Idiotic comments by Biden, which he is now apologising for.


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    #3358
    da_miser
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭da_miser


    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Nice to see Biden feature in the headlines for a change.

    his handlers let him out of his bunker and he put his foot in it and managed to anger the entire black vote in The US by insulting and taking them for granted.
    Roll on the debates, will be must see TV, epic car crash for Biden awaits


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    #3359
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,597 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    osarusan wrote: »
    Idiotic comments by Biden, which he is now apologising for.

    No harm sure he just misspoke, or he was joking or insert any other excuse Trumps supporters have used over the last 3 years :pac:


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    #3360
    [Deleted User]
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    Hande hoche! wrote: »
    Nice to see Biden feature in the headlines for a change.

    Telling how little the press have gone for Joe. Yes it's being reported on, but if we are being honest, they aren't going for the jugular in they way they would if it was the candidate on the other side of the aisle.

    Last week when trump asked a reporter of Asian heritage to "ask China" it was reported on as racist.

    But on the flip side, fox news are of course capitalising on this.

    It's really **** that there is no unbiased media any more. News reporting should be factual and opinions left at home. I have no issue with Greg gutfeld or Don Lemon having their own opinion based shows on the networks, but at least give us 30mins a day for a fact based news programme with no spin.

    One can only dream...


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    #3361
    The Phantom Jipper
    Registered Users Posts: 911 ✭✭✭The Phantom Jipper


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Telling how little the press have gone for Joe. Yes it's being reported on, but if we are being honest, they aren't going for the jugular in they way they would if it was the candidate on the other side of the aisle.

    Last week when trump asked a reporter of Asian heritage to "ask China" it was reported on as racist.

    But on the flip side, fox news are of course capitalising on this.

    It's really **** that there is no unbiased media any more. News reporting should be factual and opinions left at home. I have no issue with Greg gutfeld or Don Lemon having their own opinion based shows on the networks, but at least give us 30mins a day for a fact based news programme with no spin.

    One can only dream...

    “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,”.

    I'm struggling to remember as much media coverage of the many Trump quotes like the above.


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