Look at the mustache on that Republican broad, wow.
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Yea, but that barrel bottom wood is where all the flavor isâŚ
There are possibly hundreds of Madisons, Hamiltons, Lincolns and Jeffersons alive todayâŚpeople havenât stopped being peopleâŚthe means that elevated exceptional people up through the ranks is whatâs dead.
The GOP doesnât bother with recruiting illegals. They go right to the source and just rig the voting machines.
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Such violent rhetoric. I think she must believe it plays well with her type of party members: spoiling for a fight, hopefully a lethal one.
Ugly minds.
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That said I also believe that every day people saying things like this rightfully get a little more room than party heads making public speeches.
Still, on the scale of right wing crazy talk, Iâm going to second your score of 1.5. No big deal.
And quite possibly for the near term.
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This is a comment by Magster on a Daily Kos thread, and I think it really rings true:
Sites like 538 have had so much success the last few elections, I canât help but think that people like Karl Rove and the Koch brothers havenât devoted some resources into influencing polls to create a narrative that they hope becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This combined with the continually increasing difficulty of polling in this age of cell phones where people screen numbers they donât recognize, may have led some pollsters into statistical models where they have skewed themselves into nothing more than a cable pundit.
Sounds desperate, I know, and I will have a 6 pack of cheap beer instead of bottle of champagne chilling in the fridge for tomorrow night (unlike 2012 when I knew Obama would win). But I wouldnât be gobsmacked if Dems hang on.
Thereâs lots in there that just sounds exactly right to meâincluding the desperation of the assessment. But I agree with it all.
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Ummm, Vince Lombardi she ainât.
Kill, Kill, Kill doesnât exactly do it for me. Perhaps it works for those sadistic wingnut batshit crazed idiots that fuel their Teabagging baseâŚ
Motivation through hate is all these baggers have. Its all theyâve ever had.
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Things I exhorted teammates to do in the huddleâ
are different from the cliches I used post-game.
You canât fire up RWNJs any more than they are.
But hey, if it induces one fence-sitter to vote (D)?
Have at it Chairman Horn!
jw1
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I hereby propose that we either kick NH out of New England or that MA secede from New England until that happens. The Pats should be renamed the Boston Patriots and thatâs that. Fuck NH and the knee-jerk contrarian politics that rules it.
Iâd be worried about bath time if I were her kids. Someone, quick, warn child services.
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She sounds straight out this song from âThe Mad Showâ, an off-broadway Mad Magazine production from the 60s:
Weâre gonna stamp out hate
Thatâs our creed
Wipe out violence, intolerance and greed
Weâre gonna start right now
Tomorrow is too late
Weâre gonna stamp out hate.
Weâre gonna stamp out hate
Stamp it in the ground
And then take happiness and spread it all around
Weâll put an end to grief
We can hardly wait
Weâre gonna stamp out hate.
Weâre gonna stamp out hate
Sock it in the eye
Shoot it in the stomach yelling, die, die, die!
Weâll pull its insides out
And look at look at what it ate
Weâre gonna stamp out hate.
and so on⌠it gets progressively more violent from there
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Thatâs in my gut as well Dave.
Thereâs so much $$ available to advertise-- and no place-- to advertise.
Commissioning polls ad infinitum â is the only viable outlet to create a narrative other than advertising.
Iâm an eternal optimist-- sure; admittedly.
But Iâve not been wrong on too many counts prognosticating politically the past 15 years either.
Studying and having faith in poll aggregators goes a long way toward my having been right so often.
But thereâs something âoffâ this cycle.
Actually? Many things seem maligned.
Detest calling it instinct.
But it is what it is.
Seems Iâm not alone either.
jw1
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Yeah, the phone changes matter too.
I havenât answered one polling call. I donât know any other dems who have either. Landlines are fewer and fewer.
I hate to be an âunskewer,â but the dems holding on is within the margins of error for sure.
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Maybe for Balsamic Vinegar, but not for apples. The true leaders in America donât run for political office any more, they are the entrepreneurs, these days. Unfortunately, none of that high bandwidth makes it into the policy formation process within the government, seemingly, anymore. The political debates, in the context of the modern world, that are going on, are imbecilic.
By intention and designâŚ
They want to be a death cult? Okay. Letâs start killing them. Drowning, knifing, shooting, strangling, clubbing. Whatever it takes. The only question is do we start doing that after they lead the country into a place where political murder is a commonplace, or do we start killing them pre-emptively.
They talk a nasty, violent game. I suspect 99 percent of them havenât a clue what that really means.
sorry, we speak reality here. The things you are saying show that is not your native language.
And yeah it is worse, because it exhorts people to kill their political opponents and none of your examples do.
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Whatâs amazing to me is how many times some Democratic candidate says something innocuous and is expected to apologize for it as a misstep or being rude, and Republicans say nasty shit all the fucking time and no one expects them to take back their words or ever make amends. How many times do we have to tolerate that kind of shit in our politics? Gawd the media covering campaigns truly sucks in this country, doesnât it?
Yes it does, but it sucks to a great extent because Democrats in Washington D.C. are criminally incompetent at capitalizing on Republican lunacy. When a Dem commits a minor gaffe, Republicans go apeshit loudly, fervently, constantly, and repeatedly about it, and waste no time in establishing the framing and setting the message.
When a Republican says this kind of stuff, you generally donât hear one fucking thing from any Democrat of any stature in D.C., or anywhere else in the country. Itâs left to a few lonely progressive blogs, scattered local politicians, and TDS/Colbert to comment on it.
The current lunatic-run Republican Party has been a target-rich environment for many years, but D.C. Democrats donât even know which end of the rifle to hold when they wake up from their naps.