So, what you're saying is that you can't actually refute anything he's saying, so you're going to act like a whiny little anonymous child coward... but one who actually agrees with what he says, since you're unable to refute it.
So instead, we have hayseeds in the middle of the country making bad decisions
You want to know why Democrats lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters? Because Hillary got caught expressing her contempt for millions of Americans out loud. Just like you're doing right now. You've just told me that a person who runs a business in, say, Wisconsin, employing hundreds of people to manufacture high-end equipment that your local fire department drives when they come to your house to save your life, are hayseeds that can't be trusted. Hillary thought that, too. Which is why she didn't even set foot once in that state during her campaign, and narrowly lost that state. To someone who seems interested in making the business environment for such manufacturers and their employees more attractive and sustainable. Keep calling those people homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, irredeemably deplorable hayseeds just like your preferred candidate. You'll get the same results, and probably once again scratch your head about what went wrong.
Can you point to a single policy he's done that you can legitimately support (assuming you're not a multi-millionaire)?
I know, you think it's valuable to you for some vague, hand-wavy rhetorical reason known only to the people inside your own echo chamber, to pretend you are utterly unaware of any perspective beyond that which Nancy Pelosi tells you to repeat for her. But out here in the real world, things like the recent tax reform package aren't "the apocalypse." Rather, it amounts to retaining quite a bit more of my hard-earned income. No, not I'm not a multi-millionaire, and your attempt to pretend that millions of people who do things like working for themselves, running a farm, owning a small to mid-sized business and the like are your evil adversaries and don't deserve the regulator and tax relief we're seeing... well, it's pretty transparent.
No, poorer people who already don't pay any income tax can't by definition get relief from taxes they don't pay. They're also not the ones making decisions to buy new equipment, hire help, or make other long-term decisions that impact the wider economy. You're clearly in that camp. I'm sorry you don't earn enough to pay any income taxes, but you're in pretty good company with the better part of half of the population. Consider some more schooling, perhaps?
He's done the exact opposite of everything he claimed he would do.
Really, you need to talk your handlers at the DNC and get them to update your talking points. They're hilariously out of date.
the US has an electoral college for historical reasons having to do with the representatives' travel time
And yet you can't admit out loud WHY travel time would matter. Why not simply get a tally of votes from all of the states and send them in to DC for a nation-wide count? Because we don't run the country like a PTA meeting. We're NOT, for very good reasons, a democracy. We're a republic of (now) 50 states and some associated territories. Just as we use the different structures of our bicameral legislature to prevent high-population members of the republic from lording it over the lower-population members, the electoral college is a structure that's explicitly designed to buffer the impact of a bunch of urbanites hundreds of miles or a continent away running the lives of the people in the middle who do things like grow their wheat for them.
We don't actually conduct national elections based on the popular vote. That's so that the people in 48 other states in our republic aren't ruled by the dense urban populations in a couple of coastal counties. Which you know, but are trying to pretend you're too dumb to understand. Why? Who do you think you're communicating to or persuading when you try to pretend you don't understand the constitution or the structure of the republic and how we've been conducting elections for centuries?
Why are you complaining that progressives sound like Trump?
I'm just savoring the toxic, vitriolic, laughable hypocrisy on the part of the unhinged left. And just when you think the sting from losing the political power they want would have been fading a bit, they get even more insane. It's fantastic.
Oh look, another Russian spy troll sent here to make Progressives look like imbeciles.
No, that's pretty much exactly how progressives talk these days. The level of unhinged, reality-disconnected Trump Derangement Syndrome that started the night Clinton's contempt for most of the country cost her the election... it's pretty spectacular. That's not a troll post, that's what Democrats sound like now.
Ah, Mr. Lazy Ad Hominem returns! Never any substance, always embarrassingly childish rants. But thanks for reliably demonstrating the shallowness of your grasp on things that matter. Please, keep it up!
Launching a car in to space? Why? What the heck is this saying "Except" Elon Musk can be a complete "Idiot" at times.
I know! Why would we testing a rocket by using a car as a test mass when we could, instead, help all of humanity by launching some of our surplus double-quotes, which seem to turn up, like invasive mussels in the Great Lakes that don't belong there and make their users look foolish, everywhere.
I am concerned about liability in this latest "venture" of his. I'd assume he's had a team of lawyers cover his ass nine ways from Sunday, but all it would take is one high-visibility mishap -- say, a fatal kindergarten fire -- to spoil the fun for everybody.
Do you worry about this every time someone buys a gallon of gas to use in their lawnmower? Because that, and a rag and a match and a glass bottle is every bit as dangerous to a kindergarten class as a controlled-burn tool like the ones in question. More so, really.
You are correct. And if you're trying to be snarky, it doesn't matter - because you're correct anyway.
Let me guess... instead of being worried about people who use these to clear brush in order to avoid devastating wildfires, or who use them regularly to do controlled burns on everything from sugar cane fields to zoysia turf to tent work infestations... you're going to go for the nonsense and ignore that anyone with a match, some gas, a rag, and a bottle could cause just as damage as so many of those drive-by flamethrower attacks that are obviously a big problem in your neighborhood.
We can expect people who have been harmed to rant and rave in the street all day long.
The problem is we've got people who have NOT been harmed doing things like beating people bloody and smashing campuses because... somebody's going to make a seminar appearance and... talk.
The DNC emails reveal much more wrongdoing than Hillary's emails.
Yes and no. They reveal a corrupt organization, and her aggressive willingness to use it to game the party's support towards her and away from someone like Sanders. We see her willingness to cheat during debates, etc. But that's NOT the same as committing felony offenses while being Secretary of State, and having political supporters in the DoJ and FBI making it all go away. Not sure how you're missing the context, here.
But you didn't worry about that when you heard, say, all of the anti-Bush chanting, and watched him routinely being burned in effigy? You're only NOW worrying about how people chant?
Good, because I'm pretty sure the answer is in her goddamn emails.
No, not "her emails." Rather, "Her willingness to look you in the eye and lie non-stop for a year about her deliberate mishandling of classified material in a way that would lose anyone else their clearance and their job, and likely put them in serious legal jeopardy... and the willingness of a few key people in the FBI and DoJ to do everything possible to make sure she was held to a different and - by comparison - completely toothless standard for purely partisan political reasons, to make sure she became the next boss of all of those people who would lose their jobs and their liberty if they did anything even approaching what she did, and which everyone near her insisted on getting immunity agreements to even talk about."
And, at this point, it wouldn't really matter. Except that what the purely partisan year-long witch hunt we're currently witnessing is based on is a collection of decisions and actions made by some of those very same Clinton-backing partisans in the FBI and DoJ. Yes, that IS under our control. Those people shouldn't be in that line of work. There are a jillion other things that would more constructively benefit from all of the energy the left is currently putting into their phony, theatrical hysterics. But they still can't get over the fact they put Hillary Clinton forward as their candidate, and lost because she was a terrible candidate who went out of her way to exhibit her disdain for - among other things - millions of women she called deplorable. Or the entire state of Wisconsin, in which she couldn't even be troubled to set foot during her campaign. So to make up for their terrible performance and choices, the Democrats and the majority of the media, which carry their water, are standing around with their hair on fire pretending it's all about something else, and wasting all of our time and energy. Yes, we can do something about that, and should. Because we have other stuff to do.
So, that means that as someone who doesn't get "senior discounts" because I'm below a certain age, I'm being discriminated against? This cuts both ways.
Expressing "feeings" doesn't have to meet the legal definition of defamation to still wind up getting lawyers involved. Even so, would you consider a restaurant review that says "My [food emoji] had [insect emoji] and [poop emoji] in it. Never eat here."... to be an expression of "feelings," or the use of symbols to convey what any reasonable person would consider to be something exactly like "My salad had bugs and shit in it. Never eat here." ?
Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, of has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
"of has confounded" - ?
Ah, I get it. It's not terrible editing, it's more mysterious encryption!
The problem is that too many people (aided through deliberate efforts by most of the media) cannot (or pretend they are unable) grasp the difference between reporting on the latest episodes in Russia's decades-long campaigns to destabilize and meddle with politics here and in every other country around the world... and the fantasy of Trump colluding with Putin to "hack the election." The ongoing attempt to qualify the investigation as strictly into the latter is indeed a narrowly partisan thing.
So you're saying we should compare entire terms, while only having a year of his to work with, during which most of the media hasn't yet even slightly paused in being completely unhinged about Hillary Clinton's inability to win the election, and spends untold hours every week trying their hardest to poison the well. How were you planning to make that full-term comparison, at this point? Check back next month when people's paychecks go up, no matter how much Pelosi tries to tell them they're victims.
There are plenty of people who will report observations consistent with parts of the portrayal of the Force.
Yes, and talking burning bushes, and being probed during alien abductions, and having lunch with Bigfoot, and being turned into a newt, etc. What's your point?
It's a miracle I haven't felt the urge to drive around town attending all of the FB events that show up on my newsfeed. It's almost as if seeing an event listed in that way doesn't compel me to change my mind about a candidate or a policy issue. Amazing! But somehow it probably still cost Hillary the election, I'm sure. I'll check with Rachel Maddow for confirmation on that.
You're doing it again. There doesn't have to be anything "ghostly" about consciousness for it to be (as it is in humans) a complex phenomena that involves different neurological sub-systems is as-yet-only-just-being-described ways. An ant isn't sentient because an ant doesn't have enough synapses to even begin to function at that level of complex neural activity. The ant's a marvel of highly specialized adaptation. Limited, dedicated, purely-instinct-driven firmware-style adaptation. I know an ant isn't sentient in the same way that I know a $12 digital alarm clock isn't going to be useful for bitcoin mining.
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So, what you're saying is that you can't actually refute anything he's saying, so you're going to act like a whiny little anonymous child coward ... but one who actually agrees with what he says, since you're unable to refute it.
Oh look, the crying children have arrived.
So instead, we have hayseeds in the middle of the country making bad decisions
You want to know why Democrats lost nearly a thousand legislative seats, most of the governorships, both houses of congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and the good will of millions of two-time Obama voters? Because Hillary got caught expressing her contempt for millions of Americans out loud. Just like you're doing right now. You've just told me that a person who runs a business in, say, Wisconsin, employing hundreds of people to manufacture high-end equipment that your local fire department drives when they come to your house to save your life, are hayseeds that can't be trusted. Hillary thought that, too. Which is why she didn't even set foot once in that state during her campaign, and narrowly lost that state. To someone who seems interested in making the business environment for such manufacturers and their employees more attractive and sustainable. Keep calling those people homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, irredeemably deplorable hayseeds just like your preferred candidate. You'll get the same results, and probably once again scratch your head about what went wrong.
Can you point to a single policy he's done that you can legitimately support (assuming you're not a multi-millionaire)?
I know, you think it's valuable to you for some vague, hand-wavy rhetorical reason known only to the people inside your own echo chamber, to pretend you are utterly unaware of any perspective beyond that which Nancy Pelosi tells you to repeat for her. But out here in the real world, things like the recent tax reform package aren't "the apocalypse." Rather, it amounts to retaining quite a bit more of my hard-earned income. No, not I'm not a multi-millionaire, and your attempt to pretend that millions of people who do things like working for themselves, running a farm, owning a small to mid-sized business and the like are your evil adversaries and don't deserve the regulator and tax relief we're seeing ... well, it's pretty transparent.
No, poorer people who already don't pay any income tax can't by definition get relief from taxes they don't pay. They're also not the ones making decisions to buy new equipment, hire help, or make other long-term decisions that impact the wider economy. You're clearly in that camp. I'm sorry you don't earn enough to pay any income taxes, but you're in pretty good company with the better part of half of the population. Consider some more schooling, perhaps?
He's done the exact opposite of everything he claimed he would do.
Really, you need to talk your handlers at the DNC and get them to update your talking points. They're hilariously out of date.
the US has an electoral college for historical reasons having to do with the representatives' travel time
And yet you can't admit out loud WHY travel time would matter. Why not simply get a tally of votes from all of the states and send them in to DC for a nation-wide count? Because we don't run the country like a PTA meeting. We're NOT, for very good reasons, a democracy. We're a republic of (now) 50 states and some associated territories. Just as we use the different structures of our bicameral legislature to prevent high-population members of the republic from lording it over the lower-population members, the electoral college is a structure that's explicitly designed to buffer the impact of a bunch of urbanites hundreds of miles or a continent away running the lives of the people in the middle who do things like grow their wheat for them.
Trump lost the popular vote
We don't actually conduct national elections based on the popular vote. That's so that the people in 48 other states in our republic aren't ruled by the dense urban populations in a couple of coastal counties. Which you know, but are trying to pretend you're too dumb to understand. Why? Who do you think you're communicating to or persuading when you try to pretend you don't understand the constitution or the structure of the republic and how we've been conducting elections for centuries?
Why are you complaining that progressives sound like Trump?
I'm just savoring the toxic, vitriolic, laughable hypocrisy on the part of the unhinged left. And just when you think the sting from losing the political power they want would have been fading a bit, they get even more insane. It's fantastic.
Oh look, another Russian spy troll sent here to make Progressives look like imbeciles.
No, that's pretty much exactly how progressives talk these days. The level of unhinged, reality-disconnected Trump Derangement Syndrome that started the night Clinton's contempt for most of the country cost her the election ... it's pretty spectacular. That's not a troll post, that's what Democrats sound like now.
Ah, Mr. Lazy Ad Hominem returns! Never any substance, always embarrassingly childish rants. But thanks for reliably demonstrating the shallowness of your grasp on things that matter. Please, keep it up!
Launching a car in to space? Why? What the heck is this saying "Except" Elon Musk can be a complete "Idiot" at times.
I know! Why would we testing a rocket by using a car as a test mass when we could, instead, help all of humanity by launching some of our surplus double-quotes, which seem to turn up, like invasive mussels in the Great Lakes that don't belong there and make their users look foolish, everywhere.
Ask a farmer, or a landscaper if they think it's a toy. I know, you probably think tractors are toys, too.
The Nazis stopped using flame throwers, because they were too crazy and dangerous, and killed more of their own people than enemies.
So what you're saying is that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Does that physically hurt?
I am concerned about liability in this latest "venture" of his. I'd assume he's had a team of lawyers cover his ass nine ways from Sunday, but all it would take is one high-visibility mishap -- say, a fatal kindergarten fire -- to spoil the fun for everybody.
Do you worry about this every time someone buys a gallon of gas to use in their lawnmower? Because that, and a rag and a match and a glass bottle is every bit as dangerous to a kindergarten class as a controlled-burn tool like the ones in question. More so, really.
You are correct. And if you're trying to be snarky, it doesn't matter - because you're correct anyway.
... you're going to go for the nonsense and ignore that anyone with a match, some gas, a rag, and a bottle could cause just as damage as so many of those drive-by flamethrower attacks that are obviously a big problem in your neighborhood.
Let me guess... instead of being worried about people who use these to clear brush in order to avoid devastating wildfires, or who use them regularly to do controlled burns on everything from sugar cane fields to zoysia turf to tent work infestations
We can expect people who have been harmed to rant and rave in the street all day long.
The problem is we've got people who have NOT been harmed doing things like beating people bloody and smashing campuses because ... somebody's going to make a seminar appearance and ... talk.
The DNC emails reveal much more wrongdoing than Hillary's emails.
Yes and no. They reveal a corrupt organization, and her aggressive willingness to use it to game the party's support towards her and away from someone like Sanders. We see her willingness to cheat during debates, etc. But that's NOT the same as committing felony offenses while being Secretary of State, and having political supporters in the DoJ and FBI making it all go away. Not sure how you're missing the context, here.
But you didn't worry about that when you heard, say, all of the anti-Bush chanting, and watched him routinely being burned in effigy? You're only NOW worrying about how people chant?
Good, because I'm pretty sure the answer is in her goddamn emails.
No, not "her emails." Rather, "Her willingness to look you in the eye and lie non-stop for a year about her deliberate mishandling of classified material in a way that would lose anyone else their clearance and their job, and likely put them in serious legal jeopardy ... and the willingness of a few key people in the FBI and DoJ to do everything possible to make sure she was held to a different and - by comparison - completely toothless standard for purely partisan political reasons, to make sure she became the next boss of all of those people who would lose their jobs and their liberty if they did anything even approaching what she did, and which everyone near her insisted on getting immunity agreements to even talk about."
And, at this point, it wouldn't really matter. Except that what the purely partisan year-long witch hunt we're currently witnessing is based on is a collection of decisions and actions made by some of those very same Clinton-backing partisans in the FBI and DoJ. Yes, that IS under our control. Those people shouldn't be in that line of work. There are a jillion other things that would more constructively benefit from all of the energy the left is currently putting into their phony, theatrical hysterics. But they still can't get over the fact they put Hillary Clinton forward as their candidate, and lost because she was a terrible candidate who went out of her way to exhibit her disdain for - among other things - millions of women she called deplorable. Or the entire state of Wisconsin, in which she couldn't even be troubled to set foot during her campaign. So to make up for their terrible performance and choices, the Democrats and the majority of the media, which carry their water, are standing around with their hair on fire pretending it's all about something else, and wasting all of our time and energy. Yes, we can do something about that, and should. Because we have other stuff to do.
So, that means that as someone who doesn't get "senior discounts" because I'm below a certain age, I'm being discriminated against? This cuts both ways.
Really, lazy editors? Is it too much to ask to even get the company names correct? It's "Orbital ATK," and has been for quite a while, now.
Expressing "feeings" doesn't have to meet the legal definition of defamation to still wind up getting lawyers involved. Even so, would you consider a restaurant review that says "My [food emoji] had [insect emoji] and [poop emoji] in it. Never eat here." ... to be an expression of "feelings," or the use of symbols to convey what any reasonable person would consider to be something exactly like "My salad had bugs and shit in it. Never eat here." ?
Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, of has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
"of has confounded" - ?
Ah, I get it. It's not terrible editing, it's more mysterious encryption!
The problem is that too many people (aided through deliberate efforts by most of the media) cannot (or pretend they are unable) grasp the difference between reporting on the latest episodes in Russia's decades-long campaigns to destabilize and meddle with politics here and in every other country around the world ... and the fantasy of Trump colluding with Putin to "hack the election." The ongoing attempt to qualify the investigation as strictly into the latter is indeed a narrowly partisan thing.
So you're saying we should compare entire terms, while only having a year of his to work with, during which most of the media hasn't yet even slightly paused in being completely unhinged about Hillary Clinton's inability to win the election, and spends untold hours every week trying their hardest to poison the well. How were you planning to make that full-term comparison, at this point? Check back next month when people's paychecks go up, no matter how much Pelosi tries to tell them they're victims.
There are plenty of people who will report observations consistent with parts of the portrayal of the Force.
Yes, and talking burning bushes, and being probed during alien abductions, and having lunch with Bigfoot, and being turned into a newt, etc. What's your point?
It's a miracle I haven't felt the urge to drive around town attending all of the FB events that show up on my newsfeed. It's almost as if seeing an event listed in that way doesn't compel me to change my mind about a candidate or a policy issue. Amazing! But somehow it probably still cost Hillary the election, I'm sure. I'll check with Rachel Maddow for confirmation on that.
You're doing it again. There doesn't have to be anything "ghostly" about consciousness for it to be (as it is in humans) a complex phenomena that involves different neurological sub-systems is as-yet-only-just-being-described ways. An ant isn't sentient because an ant doesn't have enough synapses to even begin to function at that level of complex neural activity. The ant's a marvel of highly specialized adaptation. Limited, dedicated, purely-instinct-driven firmware-style adaptation. I know an ant isn't sentient in the same way that I know a $12 digital alarm clock isn't going to be useful for bitcoin mining.