Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:05 pm
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I didn't say I was relieved and disappointed. I said I was disappointed and relieved.pearlbeer wrote:I don't know. It seems like the bare acceptable minimum.John A Arkansawyer wrote:This could have been so much worse. I'm disappointed and relieved.
All joking aside, you guys coming so close in Texas is a heartbreaker. I feel it for you from here, and hating Texas is the state pastime (except in football season, when it's whining about the refs) of Arkansas. But you also proved a point: In one of the reddest states in America, a straight-up liberal is just barely short of winning the state.pearlbeer wrote:I'm just very tired of coming very close. Being from Texas, I put more effort into the Beto campaign than any other political campaign in my lifetime. Hundreds of hours fundraising, door knocking, registering people to vote. It has been very rewarding and exciting. However, it just feels like, across the country, what else can we do to win? Yeah, we took the House (barely), but there were just SO MANY disappointing results that, in my mind, are just inexplicable. Beto, Stacey, Gillium, Steve King, Duncan Hunter, Nelson. The rationale for victories in those races is just so...dark.
I'm still up for the fight, and happy we will now have some level of accountability in our government. I just hope the Party takes the time to reflect and shake the tree a bit. If it ain't broke don't fix it? It's broke. Fix it. I think we need new leadership.
The argument against that for some time has been, "We're the best you can do, so I say live it or live with it."pearlbeer wrote:I just hope the Party takes the time to reflect and shake the tree a bit. If it ain't broke don't fix it? It's broke. Fix it. I think we need new leadership.
I bet he overcharged for it, too.pearlbeer wrote:A dead brothel owner beat a Democrat.
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100% correct. If the Dems allow Pelosi to ascend back to Speaker, they arepearlbeer wrote:I don't know. It seems like the bare acceptable minimum. I'm just very tired of coming very close. Being from Texas, I put more effort into the Beto campaign than any other political campaign in my lifetime. Hundreds of hours fundraising, door knocking, registering people to vote. It has been very rewarding and exciting. However, it just feels like, across the country, what else can we do to win? Yeah, we took the House (barely), but there were just SO MANY disappointing results that, in my mind, are just inexplicable. Beto, Stacey, Gillium, Steve King, Duncan Hunter, Nelson. The rationale for victories in those races is just so...dark.John A Arkansawyer wrote:This could have been so much worse. I'm disappointed and relieved.
I'm still up for the fight, and happy we will now have some level of accountability in our government. I just hope the Party takes the time to reflect and shake the tree a bit. If it ain't broke don't fix it? It's broke. Fix it. I think we need new leadership.
I still contend that Bredesen probably would’ve won if the election was a month or two ago. Seems like his comments on wanting to confirm Kavanaugh and his letting Blackburn outpace him in campaign spending came back to bite him in the end.jr29 wrote:A liberal can almost win Texas, but a centrist democrat who was a very popular two term governor can't sniff a senate seat in my home state. Phil Bredesen seemed like the perfect candidate but he got smashed, even with huge turnout in Memphis and Nashville. It is quite discouraging.
"The firearm had been outfitted with an extended magazine to hold more bullets than a typical handgun. It had been purchased legally " I share your pain, outrage and disbelief.pearlbeer wrote:Another day, another shooting. If you read the profile of this guy, it is just inexplicable that he was allowed to keep his guns. Some of the people in the shooting were in attendance at the Las Vegas concert. It's like being struck with lightening twice. Except it's not. This is the new normal. We've accepted it. This is living with it. It can happen to you. It can happen multiple times. This is our reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/i ... e=Homepage
Hoping we can push the Dem Congress to act on this FAST. I'll remind you that after all the promises, bump stocks remain legal. Maybe the Senate won't act, but we can at least get their votes on record. The new Congress should outlaw bump stocks and expand background checks immediately.
Unfortunately this Onion headline is classic because it's virtually always current:pearlbeer wrote:Another day, another shooting. If you read the profile of this guy, it is just inexplicable that he was allowed to keep his guns. Some of the people in the shooting were in attendance at the Las Vegas concert. It's like being struck with lightening twice. Except it's not. This is the new normal. We've accepted it. This is living with it. It can happen to you. It can happen multiple times. This is our reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/i ... e=Homepage
Hoping we can push the Dem Congress to act on this FAST. I'll remind you that after all the promises, bump stocks remain legal. Maybe the Senate won't act, but we can at least get their votes on record. The new Congress should outlaw bump stocks and expand background checks immediately.
Might as well...whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:Just leave the flags at half-staff permanently
Maybe it is time to change the national anthem:whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:Survivors of a mass shooting being victims of another mass shooting—it doesn’t get more ‘Merica than that
pearlbeer wrote:Maybe it is time to change the national anthem:
Nope. Legal weed. Solves more problems with much less opposition.beantownbubba wrote:"The firearm had been outfitted with an extended magazine to hold more bullets than a typical handgun. It had been purchased legally " I share your pain, outrage and disbelief.pearlbeer wrote:Another day, another shooting. If you read the profile of this guy, it is just inexplicable that he was allowed to keep his guns. Some of the people in the shooting were in attendance at the Las Vegas concert. It's like being struck with lightening twice. Except it's not. This is the new normal. We've accepted it. This is living with it. It can happen to you. It can happen multiple times. This is our reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/i ... e=Homepage
Hoping we can push the Dem Congress to act on this FAST. I'll remind you that after all the promises, bump stocks remain legal. Maybe the Senate won't act, but we can at least get their votes on record. The new Congress should outlaw bump stocks and expand background checks immediately.
A few months ago I said it was legitimate, even necessary, to make gun control a single issue voting guide. Subsequent events made the election about Trump (which statistically is also probably a pretty good proxy for gun control) but now that the latest Trump created hysteria is over, it's time to put guns center stage again. And for the umpteenth time, NOBODY (or at least nobody whose opinion I value and endorse) is saying that they want to outlaw gun ownership. Simple steps: background checks, registration, severe control or elimination of high capacity weapons, nothing that should threaten your average hunter or home protector.
whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:pearlbeer wrote:Maybe it is time to change the national anthem:
Not an issue in some more advanced jurisdictions.Flea wrote:Nope. Legal weed. Solves more problems with much less opposition.
Oh, how I love that Iris Dement song....Smitty wrote:whatwouldcooleydo? wrote:pearlbeer wrote:Maybe it is time to change the national anthem:
I live below the Mason-Dixon Line.beantownbubba wrote:Not an issue in some more advanced jurisdictions.Flea wrote:Nope. Legal weed. Solves more problems with much less opposition.
I think you'll beat Mississippi to legal weed though. I'm guessing we'll be last. Michigan just joined the party and Illinois is expecting to pass it in the legislature possibly as early as April. They've had the votes for a year but now they'll have a governor who won't veto it.Flea wrote:I live below the Mason-Dixon Line.beantownbubba wrote:Not an issue in some more advanced jurisdictions.Flea wrote:Nope. Legal weed. Solves more problems with much less opposition.
Q.E.D.
Was having this discussion with my parental units today, they are in NC. Which they find hard to believe is more progressive on a state level than VA, but it is in many many ways. If it were not for northern VA, Richmond, parts of Tidewater, and Charlottesville, we would be racing to the bottom of the 50 along with Mississippi.Tequila Cowboy wrote:I think you'll beat Mississippi to legal weed though. I'm guessing we'll be last. Michigan just joined the party and Illinois is expecting to pass it in the legislature possibly as early as April. They've had the votes for a year but now they'll have a governor who won't veto it.Flea wrote:
I live below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Q.E.D.
Y'all had us beat on interracial marriage by a decade; pretty sure we'll give y'all a run for your money.Tequila Cowboy wrote:beat Mississippi to legal weed though. I'm guessing we'll be last.
You aren't the only one with him on your mind. Patterson brought him up last night during What It Means.beantownbubba wrote:Jemel Roberson.
He's the guy who was shot and killed for acting heroically while black. I just can't get over/past/around this one. On the one hand is the tragedy of it and on the other is the hopelessness of it. I don't have any idea how to deal with this sort of thing. On top of the white shooter at the Pittsburgh synagogue being captured alive even after shooting and wounding multiple cops the pain and fear and worry and despair is getting hard to manage day to day.