117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

[MissThundercat]

Bedfellows in the sin/save cons.

Make room. Went to rural Michigan today and found pro-life signage and cannabis shops a few hundred feet from each other.

[Kepler]

Make room. Went to rural Michigan today and found pro-life signage and cannabis shops a few hundred feet from each other.

This has long since stopped surprising me.

Growing up, I assumed stoners were all either lefty or apolitical because of the 60s and 70s, but West Virginia showed me how drug use fits perfectly with conservative laziness. As always, when the Right complains about drugs sapping the will to work, they are projecting. They're just talking about themselves and their families, who have no work ethic and no ability to do anything but zone out on meth.

Don't get rid of the drugs. Get rid of the Right.

[dxmnkd316]

This has long since stopped surprising me.

Growing up, I assumed stoners were all either lefty or apolitical because of the 60s and 70s, but West Virginia showed me how drug use fits perfectly with conservative laziness. As always, when the Right complains about drugs sapping the will to work, they are projecting. They're just talking about themselves and their families, who have no work ethic and no ability to do anything but zone out on meth.

Don't get rid of the drugs. Get rid of the Right.

Yeah, I've gone through the same revelatory process over the last 5-6 years. Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake but it didn't really occur to me that it's projection until these last few years. I've always assumed the same thing you did, lefty or apolitical.

But the signs have always been there. The far right and meth. The rich and their coke parties. It's obvious looking back.

[MissThundercat]

Yeah, I've gone through the same revelatory process over the last 5-6 years. Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake but it didn't really occur to me that it's projection until these last few years. I've always assumed the same thing you did, lefty or apolitical.

But the signs have always been there. The far right and meth. The rich and their coke parties. It's obvious looking back.

South Dakota admitted to being on meth.

I'm also reminded that rich white people get rehab and a fake apology tour while anyone else gets jail and (blank) Anonymous.

[Kepler]

I'm also reminded that rich white people get rehab and a fake apology tour while anyone else gets jail and (blank) Anonymous.

Well, yeah.

[Handyman]

https://twitter.com/PabloReports/sta...IFT87Z3Mw&s=19

Just asked Sen. SINEMA what the Senate should be doing to protect transgender people.

"I'm going to get a cookie," she said, "but my staff will happily answer."

[MissThundercat]

https://twitter.com/PabloReports/sta...IFT87Z3Mw&s=19

I'm going to drink some coffee and try to pretend I didn't read that.

[French Rage]

I really should have joined the debate team in college, because apparently the skill needed to win the national title was incredibly low: https://twitter.com/malonebarry/stat...84584996630528

[Handyman]

You can see the difference between American and British media right there. American Media would have quit the discussion as soon as he shifted it to politics and this guy didn't. You could see the look on Zodiac's face when he realized he wasn't going to talk his way out of the question this time.

[ScoobyDoo]

I really should have joined the debate team in college, because apparently the skill needed to win the national title was incredibly low: https://twitter.com/malonebarry/stat...84584996630528

He won the national title? No wonder our country is so ****ed up.

[Kepler]

You can see the difference between American and British media right there. American Media would have quit the discussion as soon as he shifted it to politics and this guy didn't. You could see the look on Zodiac's face when he realized he wasn't going to talk his way out of the question this time.

It's true. For forty years, as a soon as a Republican says "that's just being political" about a fact, our corporate-owned media steps down. When a conservative faces a real journalist he has literally nothing to say. He can't defend the indefensible rationally, he can only deflect. And when a good interviewer or reporter doesn't scurry away when attacked by a Republican, you can see all the color drain out of the conservative's face. This isn't fair! This isn't the way the game is played on Hate Radio where the host has the mute button.

It happens here, too. Look how right on this thread the leading conservative response is "you guys are such liberals." Not addressing the substantive issue, just dredging up the partisan affiliation. Because that is the universal signal to all conservatives: "Stop listening immediately! Danger! Non-cultist speaking! They will try to confuse you with their facts! Stop listening now!"

The desperation of conservatives when they try to engage in debate, covered over by a veneer of false bravado, is like watching a schoolyard bully stutter and flinch when faced with a kid half his size who won't scare.

[dxmnkd316]

I really should have joined the debate team in college, because apparently the skill needed to win the national title was incredibly low: https://twitter.com/malonebarry/stat...84584996630528

It's really apparent how much our media ****ing sucks *** when you see clips like this.

[Swansong]

It's true. For forty years, as a soon as a Republican says "that's just being political" about a fact, our corporate-owned media steps down. When a conservative faces a real journalist he has literally nothing to say. He can't defend the indefensible rationally, he can only deflect. And when a good interviewer or reporter doesn't scurry away when attacked by a Republican, you can see all the color drain out of the conservative's face. This isn't fair! This isn't the way the game is played on Hate Radio where the host has the mute button.

It happens here, too. Look how right on this thread the leading conservative response is "you guys are such liberals." Not addressing the substantive issue, just dredging up the partisan affiliation. Because that is the universal signal to all conservatives: "Stop listening immediately! Danger! Non-cultist speaking! They will try to confuse you with their facts! Stop listening now!"

The desperation of conservatives when they try to engage in debate, covered over by a veneer of false bravado, is like watching a schoolyard bully stutter and blanche when faced with a kid half his size who won't scare.

Covid and vaccines really emphasized this.

[aparch]

It's really apparent how much our media ****ing sucks *** when you see clips like this.

It's pretty apparent how the US media is more concerned about maintaining "access" to these politicians instead of doing their job.

*Glares toward Maggie Haberman*
*Gives side eye to Chuck Todd*

[Handyman]

It's pretty apparent how the US media is more concerned about maintaining "access" to these politicians instead of doing their job.

*Glares toward Maggie Haberman*
*Gives side eye to Chuck Todd*

Haberman isn't about access...it is about the fact that her mom has been in bed with the Kushners and Trumps for quite a while. She is bought and paid for.

Chuck Todd is just a power whore like Lindsey Graham.