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Tiamat

I've seen the future...
I'm not sure how my browsing led me to this clip, but the whole video was shocking. Several self-proclaimed Democrat callers were VERY disdainful towards their parties' conduct during the speech, talking of quitting the party. Assuming they're not crank callers (and why would anyone put in the effort to troll C-span of all things) I think it hints at a larger trend of regular voters being fed up with congressional democrats.
I had a similar epiphany watching this video of an Iowa voter who wanted to change her primary vote after belatedly learning that Buttigieg was gay. I wondered "And how many other Democrats are like that?" Which isn't to say something infantile like "Dems are the REAL homophobes". Rather, videos like that really show that the screen-addicted news junkies, tumblr/twitter ranters and, dare I say, Spacebattles users, make up a small percent of the Democrat voting base. Many of them might be like the woman in the video, who was so low-information that only on the day of the Iowa caucus did she learn that Pete Buttigieg was a gay man. Or they're like those C-span callers, watching the behavior of Congressional Democrats and seeing a party that doesn't gel with their own views, deciding of their own volition that it's time to split.

Wow, yeah, if it was Fox News that would be one thing, but this is C-Span. And those callers sound pissed. This altogether is really looking bad for the Democrats.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
I would be if the dems hadn't gone full authoritarian.

TBF, it looks to me the Dems are sorta the winners because of how much pull they have on things like western media and academia and how they can keep doubling down on idiocy

BUT that’s just them maintaining insane views onto reality

The moment reality comes knocking by, they’re dead
 

DarthOne

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TBF, it looks to me the Dems are sorta the winners because of how much pull they have on things like western media and academia and how they can keep doubling down on idiocy

BUT that’s just them maintaining insane views onto reality

The moment reality comes knocking by, they’re dead
That doubling down has been backfiring on them to various degrees over the last few years. What control they have over the media and academia is mostly just there from previous momentum. And in the Information Age, that’s not enough. Especially with how much support they’re losing.
 

ShieldWife

Marchioness
The biggest obstacle to a Trump 2nd term is Trump doing another scandal. He's his own biggest enemy.
You mean a real scandal, right? Not the made up ones. Though I have an idea where the next one is coming from.
Democrats with their histrionics and impeachment shenanigans have likely inoculated Trump from actual scandals. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop reacting. The closest Trump gets to actual scandals are an offensive faux pax here or there and everybody is used to that now.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Democrats with their histrionics and impeachment shenanigans have likely inoculated Trump from actual scandals. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop reacting. The closest Trump gets to actual scandals are an offensive faux pax here or there and everybody is used to that now.

I'm not sure if Abhorsen thinks similarly, but I think he thinks just being kinda rude or saying something that can be considered highly offensive or be taken out of context or anything that can remotely be considered scandalous is a weapon

You have to be PERFECT even if your enemies are not

It's something I learned in China, you have to ALWAYS "Save Face" or be polite and never really be considered rude or make a wrong face
 

Cherico

Well-known member
Democrats with their histrionics and impeachment shenanigans have likely inoculated Trump from actual scandals. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop reacting. The closest Trump gets to actual scandals are an offensive faux pax here or there and everybody is used to that now.

trump has entered the Tyson zone, that area of life where your actions are so bizarre that you get a pass on them because it is now expected of you.
 

Shipmaster Sane

You have been weighed
TBF, it looks to me the Dems are sorta the winners because of how much pull they have on things like western media and academia and how they can keep doubling down on idiocy

BUT that’s just them maintaining insane views onto reality

The moment reality comes knocking by, they’re dead
Dems are winning! they have media and academia!

Media and academia have been teetering on the edge of a cliff for some time now.
 

CarlManvers2019

Writers Blocked Douchebag
Dems are winning! they have media and academia!

Media and academia have been teetering on the edge of a cliff for some time now.

The way people realise the latter is when they actually move away from those places and see things from the outside

Sure it all looks big, strong and expensive, but it’s not as loved as they say it is
 

Isem

Well-known member

So you know how Trump pretty much instantly used Pelosi's stunt as a campaign ad? Well Pelosi tried to get it taken down but got told to fuck off by both Facebook and Twitter. So much for being proud of having torn it up.
 

Cherico

Well-known member

So you know how Trump pretty much instantly used Pelosi's stunt as a campaign ad? Well Pelosi tried to get it taken down but got told to fuck off by both Facebook and Twitter. So much for being proud of having torn it up.

Facebook is in major legal hotwater because they got caught red handed going to scammer conventions to sell peoples information its not a question of if their in deep shit its a question of if their corperate board is going to jail or not.

Googles in the same boat and twitter has realized that their going to face conquences too.

Big tech went for to the bat for the dems in a way that quite frankly is in all likely hood dangerously illegal they did so for reasons of ideology and because they need a protector but if the dems lose big this year well the republicans now consider punishing them a survival issue because it is.

conquences are coming and Pelosi is asking for an absolutely mammoth task its not going to happen.
 

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