Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 171: Crazy Like a Fox (& Friends)

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Being willing to vote with the party even when you have qualms with the decided upon policy?

What else would you call it? I guess Cucked if youre on The_Donald
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I call it gross.

See also, one of the top 10 reasons our government is so fucked up in the first place.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

CelesMyUserName posted...

https://twitter.com/sarahcwestwood/status/991037723770281984

ahahahahahahahahah just burn the whcd down

"conservative comedian" is the funniest joke I've heard today

are you telling me you don't find it hilarious when Steven Crowder dresses in drag to prove just how silly all those liberals are
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StartTheMachine posted...

are you telling me you don't find it hilarious when Steven Crowder dresses in drag to prove just how silly all those liberals are

i'm glad i haven't had the displeasure of seeing steven crowder do this.
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WHCD can quickly redeem itself with this dumb idea if they had Steven Crowder face off against Trae Crowder.
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I don't even know what a steven crowder is
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

StartTheMachine posted...

are you telling me you don't find it hilarious when Steven Crowder dresses in drag to prove just how silly all those liberals are

i'm glad i haven't had the displeasure of seeing steven crowder do this.

it's not a one time thing either. it's like half of what he does

and just get Trae at the WHCD in one form or another and I'm good
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Reuters:

https://tinyurl.com/y9n3qe5j

Older nbc article

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-democrats-can-t-take-millennial-vote-granted-n804836

The trend of millennials leaving the Democratic party continues.

God damn millennials! Curses!
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I love how you always stop having a problem with polls and statistics when it says what you want to hear.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/01/trumps-former-health-secretary-americans-will-pay-more-because-gop-weakened-obamacare/

If only there was some way he could have known...!
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kevwaffles posted...

I love how you always stop having a problem with polls and statistics when it says what you want to hear.

This comment makes a lot of sense.
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It does! Strange you'd apply sarcasm to a statement everyone here agrees with like it's nonsense.
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StartTheMachine posted...

So these topics are all basically "Corrik comes up with some insane justification for an equally batshit insane position" and everyone else argues for two pages why Corrik is nuts but he never budges...right?

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You know, I know I've complained about these arguments in the past, but...

At this point, I'm gonna say it. The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.
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BowserCuffs posted...

You know, I know I've complained about these arguments in the past, but...

At this point, I'm gonna say it. The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.

Wrong!
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BowserCuffs posted...

You know, I know I've complained about these arguments in the past, but...

At this point, I'm gonna say it. The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.

Too bad.
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NFUN posted...

BowserCuffs posted...

You know, I know I've complained about these arguments in the past, but...

At this point, I'm gonna say it. The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.

Wrong!

No, I know I'm right. Of course, as one of the annoying ones yourself, you probably can't see it that way.

redrocket posted...

BowserCuffs posted...

You know, I know I've complained about these arguments in the past, but...

At this point, I'm gonna say it. The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.

Too bad.

So what I'm getting from your post is, everyone should stop complaining about how annoying things are.

I'm okay with that.
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LapisLazuli posted...

It does! Strange you'd apply sarcasm to a statement everyone here agrees with like it's nonsense.

What? Let me know when you are done trolling. Thanks.
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I mean it'd be one thing if you disagreed with me, but what I said was extremely straightforward.
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I think he's alluding to your skepticism of a blue wave for the 2018 midterms despite polls and special elections suggesting otherwise.
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BowserCuffs posted...

The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.

it always has been.
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Corrik posted...

Reuters:

https://tinyurl.com/y9n3qe5j

Older nbc article

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-democrats-can-t-take-millennial-vote-granted-n804836

The trend of millennials leaving the Democratic party continues.

God damn millennials! Curses!

you think you're some kind of expert on millennials because you can google a few articles?
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

you think you're some kind of expert on millennials because you can google a few articles?

Corrik doing this is fucking hilarious.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

BowserCuffs posted...

The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.

it always has been.

I'm absolutely positively shocked you agree with this.

/s
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kevwaffles posted...

I mean it'd be one thing if you disagreed with me, but what I said was extremely straightforward.

And it is incorrect. Which is why I said it made no sense.

I posted an article. You could choose to read it or respond to it or not. If you wish not to, that is fine. Taking the topic off course to try and deflect from the article itself is silly.

If you wish to know how much I value polls, you can ask me.
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NFUN posted...

BowserCuffs posted...

You know, I know I've complained about these arguments in the past, but...

At this point, I'm gonna say it. The complaining about the arguments has become far more annoying than the arguments themselves could possibly be.

Wrong!

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charmander6000 posted...

I think he's alluding to your skepticism of a blue wave for the 2018 midterms despite polls and special elections suggesting otherwise.

If he is referring to this, then yes, I do not value them. We have no actual polls for the majority of the races.

Saying well if Trump is doing worse than this amount it attributed this much to every single race across the board, I call a bit bullshit on that.

Most polls I have issues with are ones where they do not account for the electorate properly. I think there was an Arizona poll or something earlier this year where they polled 46% Dems 39% Republicans and 15% other.

I pointed out how that didn't make sense based on the electorate. Then someone said, that is how they turned out 4 years earlier. Which I said you can't just copy and paste 4 year old turnouts into your polls.

Another poll I had an issue with was the McGinty - Toomie poll. It just didn't appear to be lining up with expectations.

So yeah, some polls I take issue with.

However, I also was one of the ones who was posting RCP polls almost daily back before Clinton and Trump's election. If you remember, I said Trump had 0 chance based on them.

So, the comment makes no sense.
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Yes, three pages of fruitless, pointless conversation with bad faith actors is much better than comments at the end of these diversions lamenting the wasted time, space and energy, because the real issue isn't the crime but the revelation.
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Ironically the generic candidate polls severely underestimate Dem performance in special elections so far!
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NFUN posted...

the real issue isn't the crime but the revelation.

when the revelation is repeated 3000 times and adds 0% to the discussion, yes, it is.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Ironically the generic candidate polls severely underestimate Dem performance in special elections so far!

They are special elections in specific locations. Suggest you wait for some real polling on races when the time gets closer. We don't even have candidates yet for some of these.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

NFUN posted...

the real issue isn't the crime but the revelation.

when the revelation is repeated 3000 times and adds 0% to the discussion, yes, it is.

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Each one is a specific location that might have it's own considerations, but they're a pretty diverse group of districts overall and all of them have big Democratic overperformances besides the Utah one (which still had a small Dem overperformance)
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Corrik posted...

Reuters:

https://tinyurl.com/y9n3qe5j

Older nbc article

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-democrats-can-t-take-millennial-vote-granted-n804836

The trend of millennials leaving the Democratic party continues.

God damn millennials! Curses!

You can just say "white men"
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Each one is a specific location that might have it's own considerations, but they're a pretty diverse group of districts overall and all of them have big Democratic overperformances besides the Utah one (which still had a small Dem overperformance)

Despite special elections err to the party not in power (as do midterms though not usually as much), a lot for these races had extenuating circumstances. For example, you had the saccone-lamb race where the outgoing seat was mired with a Republican controversy which forced him to resign.

Moore-Jones had a ton of controversy.

I mean, until we get polls on individual races, it is just your hopeful thinking that you can transpose some number and put it across the board to figure out how many seats you can win.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

you think you're some kind of expert on millennials because you can google a few articles?

damn I legit lol'd
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I think we can at least all agree that arguing over the posts complaining about arguing is the real highlight of the topic.
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Corrik posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

Each one is a specific location that might have it's own considerations, but they're a pretty diverse group of districts overall and all of them have big Democratic overperformances besides the Utah one (which still had a small Dem overperformance)

Despite special elections err to the party not in power (as do midterms though not usually as much), a lot for these races had extenuating circumstances. For example, you had the saccone-lamb race where the outgoing seat was mired with a Republican controversy which forced him to resign.

Moore-Jones had a ton of controversy.

I mean, until we get polls on individual races, it is just your hopeful thinking that you can transpose some number and put it across the board to figure out how many seats you can win.

Those excuses don't really fly when there's one for almost every race...! (I will give you that Moore was far worse than can be expected, but there will be lots of candidates as bad as Saccone or as good as Lamb in November).

In any case, there weren't any such excuses in AZ-8 last week and the same thing happened as in the rest.
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LordoftheMorons posted...

there weren't any such excuses in AZ-8 last week

don't worry i'm sure corrik will invent one
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mnkboy907 posted...

I think we can at least all agree that arguing over the posts complaining about arguing is the real highlight of the topic.

I'm quite proud of myself for that achievement
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Corrik posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

Each one is a specific location that might have it's own considerations, but they're a pretty diverse group of districts overall and all of them have big Democratic overperformances besides the Utah one (which still had a small Dem overperformance)

Despite special elections err to the party not in power (as do midterms though not usually as much), a lot for these races had extenuating circumstances. For example, you had the saccone-lamb race where the outgoing seat was mired with a Republican controversy which forced him to resign.

Moore-Jones had a ton of controversy.

I mean, until we get polls on individual races, it is just your hopeful thinking that you can transpose some number and put it across the board to figure out how many seats you can win.

Those excuses don't really fly when there's one for almost every race...! (I will give you that Moore was far worse than can be expected, but there will be lots of candidates as bad as Saccone or as good as Lamb in November).

In any case, there weren't any such excuses in AZ-8 last week and the same thing happened as in the rest.

There wasn't one for every race. Dems won what like 4 special elections or something?

Edit: Think there may be more special elections that happened than I am aware of.
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mnkboy907 posted...

I think we can at least all agree that arguing over the posts complaining about arguing is the real highlight of the topic.

Better than "talking" to Corrik.
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mnkboy907 posted...

I think we can at least all agree that arguing over the posts complaining about arguing is the real highlight of the topic.

I feel compelled to argue with this.
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https://twitter.com/philipwegmann/status/991401614362730501?s=21

This girl gets it
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Trump postpones decision on imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada to June 1

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/steel-tariffs-deadline-1.4641458

Canada's exemption period was officially set to end at midnight April 30. But late Monday, Trump decided to give Canada, Mexico and the European Union another month to work out a deal with the Americans.

The Trump administration issued a statement saying it had come to a final agreement with South Korea on steel imports and had reached agreements in principle on steel and aluminum with Argentina, Australia and Brazil.
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http://amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/tom-price-tells-the-truth-about-obamacares-individual-mandate.html

Out-Rubioing Rubio.
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Hey @Suprak_the_Stud isn't it funny how posting a link to a poll they obviously didn't like set them off for like 50 or so posts arguing about nothing to do with anything at all I said?

No one even discussed the article at all. Haha.

Is this seriously so far off from your Donald friends? O.o
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Corrik posted...

Edit: Think there may be more special elections that happened than I am aware of.

You should Google that.
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LapisLazuli posted...

Corrik posted...

Edit: Think there may be more special elections that happened than I am aware of.

You should Google that.

Psh, as if that would make him an expert on the subject.
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Trolling.
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