US politics - The Don v Ally McBeal.Single,Successful falling Apart

Cheasty · November 5, 2021, 6:45pm

It’s quite ironic, as you don’t seem to be able to construct any arguments beyond shrieking.

What in your own words, has the Republican party got to offer ordinary people in America beyond pro-white, anti-minority identity politics, and anti-science identity politics?

What, in your own words does the international right wing have to offer ordinary people beyond the same?

Rejection of democracy, attempted coups, disinformation, poor standards of education for the disadvantaged, demonisation of trans people, demonisation of people of colour ie. racism, demanding censorship against liberals and leftists, batshit conspiracy theories, voter suppression, terrible healthcare, censorship in education, vigilante laws against women, cheerleading the destruction of the climate, cheerleading the anti-vaxx “movement”, disastrous handling of the pandemic, economic destruction, stratospheric wealth inequality.

These are the central, cherished tenets of right wing politics and of your politics.

Your politics is the politics of wrapping yourself in the flag and of Brexity blue passports.

Why don’t you try to make a case for why all these are, in your view, good things?

Instead of shrieking, like.

Which you pretend to be against but are in fact of the worst practitioners of on this forum, as is your fellow Galwegian buddy.

Cheasty · November 5, 2021, 7:00pm

Not sure how you make that out. I specifically said Taibbi’s best work came when he was a heroin addict.

But right-wing loons like @maroonandwhite certainly do hate heroin addicts.

Perhaps you’d like to take it up with him? Yes?

Cheasty · November 5, 2021, 7:12pm

This is what conservative America is now.

Thoughts, @maroonandwhite and @Tierneevin1979?

Cheasty · November 5, 2021, 11:23pm

Just wondering whether @maroonandwhite would agree with the characterisation of the shrieking right wing lunatics terrorising school board board members across America, as, well, shrieking right wing lunatics?

Or maybe something even more accurate? Like say, fascist thugs and criminals?

Maybe some of our other resident shrieking right wing racist morons like @Tierneevin1979 and @Enrique might like to comment?

Nah, course not. They support it.

It was only days after Sami Al-Abdrabbuh was reelected to the school board in Corvallis, Oregon, that the text messages arrived. The first, he said, was a photograph taken at a shooting range. It showed one of his campaign’s lawn signs—“Re-Elect Sami”—riddled with bullet holes. The second was a warning from a friend. This one said that one of their neighbors was looking for Mr. Al-Abdrabbuh. The neighbor was threatening to kill him.

Like many school board races this year, the one in May in Corvallis, a left-leaning college town in the northwest corner of the state, was especially contentious, swirling around concerns not only about the coronavirus pandemic but also the teaching of what Mr. Al-Abdrabbuh called the “dark history” of America’s struggle with race. Even months later, Mr. Al-Abdrabbuh, the chairman of the school board, is still taking precautions. He regularly speaks to the police and scans his driveway in the morning before walking to his car. He often mixes up his daily route to work. “I love serving on the school board,” he said. “But I don’t want to die for it.”

In recent months, there have been Nazi salutes at school board meetings and emails threatening rape. Obscenities have been hurled — or burned into people’s lawns with weed spray.

In one extreme case, in suburban San Diego, a group of people protesting mask mandates disrupted a school board meeting in September. After taking an unauthorized vote, they summarily installed themselves as the district’s new board.

Barname · November 5, 2021, 11:29pm

Frum ha! Seriously! Why would you credit a word from that fool?

Cheasty · November 5, 2021, 11:33pm

You better get onto @Tierneevin1979, mate. He’s the poster that brought him up in admiring tones.

Cheasty · November 6, 2021, 12:04am

We have a case of voter fraud and the perpetrator has been caught red handed. It’s Glenn Youngkin’s son.

In light of this shocking new development, I presume this means the Republicans will now be calling for the Virginia election to be re-run? Yeah? Yeah?

And they’ll be calling for the law to be enforced in the strictest possible terms against Young Kin?

Tierneevin1979 · November 6, 2021, 12:46pm

The House passes Biden’s infrastructure bill with support from 13 Republicans. First indication Democrats have learned from Virginia.

Cheasty · November 9, 2021, 2:06pm

What’s the difference between the Republicans and ISIS again?

myboyblue · November 10, 2021, 5:01pm

You’d love to be in the middle of that, slathered with Irn Bru, mighty fun

maroonandwhite · November 11, 2021, 12:01pm

Greenwald knocks it outta the park with this thread

habanerocat · November 17, 2021, 5:41pm

Cheasty · November 17, 2021, 9:46pm

De Santis’s press secretary seems to be a terrible Jew-hater.

The Republicans aren’t the American Nazi Party for nothing…

glasagusban · November 17, 2021, 11:42pm

Poor auld Labane better keep running.

The_Most_Infamous · November 18, 2021, 12:03am

DeSantis hasnt done a bad job on the aul covid.

Lazarus · November 18, 2021, 12:55am

The President cares for your children more than you do

myboyblue · November 18, 2021, 9:29pm

Horsebox · November 18, 2021, 10:46pm

murica be crazy

Cheasty · November 18, 2021, 11:47pm

That lad is brain damaged, retarded, he’s on the spectrum. When lads like him are subjected to four years of propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since Hitler, he’s what you end up with.

TheBlackSpot · November 18, 2021, 11:48pm

ffs leave @labane alone