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my favourite is Trump not wanting to name him after himself because he was afraid he would be a failure.

You know time was we used to shame idiots into silence. Now they feel like their opinions are as valid as anyone's and people are just OK with it. Problem is idiots took the phrase that everyone is entitled to their opinion to mean they could disregard anything they don't like and believe whatever they want. Liking vanilla over chocolate is an opinion and you are entitled to that no matter what else anyone else says, but **** like "in my opinion masks do nothing" is not above criticism because you can prove that masks do in fact work. People like this need to stand up and pull their heads out of their asses and be open minded enough to critically think about things rather than celebrating their ignorance.

So essentially you're all over the map in what you want... so why in gods name would you defend Trump? Anti war? Well I dunno that Trump is as antiwar as all that. If he saw a personal benefit to a war he'd start one no questions asked. He has already stepped pretty close to that line with Iran. If you are left leaning on on social issues why Trump? He's full on with the Republicans backwards social agenda. You talk about education for drug crimes with is the complete antithesis to Trumps law and order campaign planks (which what he means is lock em all up in the corporate prison system the US has going) Everything you have listed Biden is a better fit than Trump for your opinions IMO with the one exception, your anti-progressive taxation belief. Which is a pretty flimsy thing to use to justify supporting a pretty shitty party and president because every single study shows that trickle down economics don't work and a progressive taxation scheme is vastly superior. It's why everyone in the economics field has said Bidens plan will see a better economic recovery than Trumps. More and more it appears that you just have this irrational dislike of democrats, likely as a result of shunning legitimate news sources in favour of agenda pushing right wing news sources. That's my take anyway. Why else prefer an out and out criminal fascist over a right leaning Democrat? As for Hunter Biden.... the exact point is that Guiliani has no credibility and pawned off this story hoping it would be damaging to Biden's election chances.

Please elaborate... Because you know what the biggest gripe Democratic supporters have with Biden? He's too much of a moderate willing to extend the hand and work with Republicans. So I would love to hear what makes Biden so unappealing to an obviously right wing person.

which means what exactly? Cause to me if you know someone is making **** up a simple way to refute it is to ask for something back that they don't have. Even the most blindly conservative people have got to admit that this entire thing is too insane to be believable. None of it adds up, and when you consider how hard the Trump team is trying to make a big deal out of Hunter Biden it just loses even more. Christ Joe Biden has been in politics for 100 years, this is the best you can come up with to make him seem unappealing? It's just lazy. Guarantee it's just more projection from Trump "Well my kids do this kind of shitty thing, so Biden's kids must do it too"

And the big scandal is apparently that Joe Biden is a caring father to his son. I can see why Trump thinks that's bad, but to normal people it only makes Biden look better.

2016 Hillary Clinton being unpopular and a general "how bad can he really be?" for Trump and no wonder people stayed home. Now they have seen how bad Trump can be and people are like "holy ****, we gotta get rid of this guy" So yeah, always expected a big turnout. People love to toss unpopular governments out on their asses.

This is exactly what I tried to tell colin earlier in the thread. Under the guise of being impartial media has gone too far in normalizing abhorrent behavior on the right and making minor things on the left seem as bad. True unbiased news would be brutal to the right, but it appears bias because of how awful Republicans are.

The real take away there is even mentioning a possible loss. That to me screams that he knows he is losing.

We paid 2 dollars to see a matinee at the cheap theatre and i wanted my money back.

General rule of thumb is that big turnouts for elections mean voters are unhappy and want change.

Some of those early seasons are really uneven. Few years ago I did the same, had seen most of the episode but not every single one. Was a fun watch though. I did the same for TNG and honestly I found there were more bad TNG episodes than DS9.

This is the problem with people these days. There is so much information out there, you can always dig until you find something that says what you want it to say. And lots of people think that means they're more informed because they have looked so hard to find it. But here is the thing with mainstream media... Any credible news source is going to fact check and check sources and they won't go out there with anything that isn't reliable. There is journalistic integrity still (as much as it's been eroded). What the right hates is that reality is not as right wing as they want it to be so they pretend that it's just biased for the left.

Hunter Biden again, it was a nothing burger before and it's still a nothing burger. Do some reading about this whole "scandal" and it quickly falls apart as nothing more than an attempt to give this things any kind of life. And why is Trump trying to hammer Biden on nepotism when his kids and their idiot spouses have jobs in the administration? When they can't even qualify for security clearances?

It was all nerd stuff. Don't worry there will be enough explosions and fist fights and quips to be the same kind of movies. They may be crappy movies, but you gotta respect Sandler for basically admitting that he just takes his friends on vacation and makes a movie. Living the life.

Alternate dimensions dont count! Seriously what is hard to get? It is still a cartoon movie. Dont take it too seriously.

Hilarious that conservatives think they are based on rationality. The reality is thst modern conservativism (excepting the evangelical part) is based on pure unadulterated greed

My precious NDP? Come off it. I have never in my life voted NDP anywhere. I simply don't subscribe to the team mentality some people do. The UCP were always going to attack education and healthcare becausr they are republican north. And rachel notley did some good things for this province at a time when itnwas needed. But people like you just thought that a change in government would make oil boom again so you didn't bother to do any critical thinking about the election. Why would you ever trust Jason Kenney? The man cheated his own party to become leader! What did you think he was going to do to the rest of us?

Implying that obama was bad? What is that based on? Look Bush and Trump have been absolute disasters as president. Obama did a lot of work to try and fix the messes Bush left hiwever he had ti deal with an obstructionist republican controlled senate for a lot of that. Obama tried to work with the other side and they only wanted to stonewall him.

It is all in there. Or did you think administrative bloat was actually true? Plus you had to look at what they said and how they acted outside if just what they wrote in their platform. You voted for the leopards eating faces party and are now surprised they sre eating your face.

And which misinformation are you referring to?

No I dont think democrats want the court to strike down the 2nd amendment at all. That is whataboutism. Both sides are not the same and trying to imply that is just being willfully ignorant. Roe v. Wade wasn't the court making a new law, it was about saying that laws that restrict a womans rights were unconstitutional, and it struck down laws that infringed upon those rights. That is what the court is supposed to do. Uphold the constitution. Just because the minority that is the right wing don't like people having rights doesnt mean they are right. There are far more progressives than there are regressives, but the regressives have gerrymandered their way into having a disproportional amount of power. That isn't even getting into these nonsensical originalists who want to interpret the constitution as it was when it was written. The writers knew that it needed to be a living document that evolved with the times. That is why there was a process for amending it.

More whataboutism... and of course it is wrong. Change to a simple majority was done in response to republican shenanigans. And your drivel about republicans not wanting judges to create laws while democrats want them to create laws is hogwash anyway. Republicans want judges who will strike down laws they don't like plain and simple. Democrats want judges who will rule on laws with impartiality, as it is supposed to be. The right wants to take away rights and it is the courts who are supposed to prevent that. Which is why republicans are desperate to appoint judges who dont believe in these rights.

Ok, but what makes this lady a candidate that the republicans are so desperate to seat other than her politics? You want politics out of the process? I completely agree however this candidate is 100% a political one so stop trying to pretend it is the democrats injecting politics into it. It is all on the republicans (specifically Trump who nominated her)