cc_rider wrote:
 

When you're young, you think that maybe you can be friends with the bully, get him to work with you, change him.

After he pants you in public, knocks your books out of your arms, and generally - repeatedly - shows you that he has no intention of changing his ways, you change tactics.

Nuclear warfare, ignoring their pleas for "co-operation" and "bipartisanship" and "equal time."

Done. 

 R_P wrote:
 

Started watching last night. Lots of really cringey stuff and some laugh out loud parts—usually when he's ad-libbing— but we had to turn it off before they got to Giuliani. I'm still not sure I want to see that. 


But I will because Maria Bakalova is amazing. It's one thing for Borat to get up to his hijinx, but she does it, um, in heels and backwards. Absolutely fearless.

Trump very careful who he let into his events and house. No Covid test necessary - High 5! pic.twitter.com/Kf5gGk3n2M

— Borat (@BoratSagdiyev) October 23, 2020

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
There some in the DEM camp who think they need to buckle down and play harder ball. Donnie, Mitch and Co. have stopped at nothing, NOTHING to hold on to power. When they become the minority, and they will eventually, they are sure to demand 'bipartisanship' and 'collaboration' and 'compromise', all of which they have absolutely no interest in reciprocating. Mitch proved it with President Obama: anything, ANYTHING the President was for, he was against. Never mattered if it helped anyone, it wasn't (and still isn't for him) the point. Look at the negotiations over 'rona relief: if Pelosi is 'fer it, he's ag'in it. Full stop. History will not be kind to him and his ilk. Better, if polls mean anything (unlikely), his seat is not safe, and could be handed his walking papers in November. Along with Cornyn and all the other Trump toadies - good riddance to bad rubbish.
c.

For Republicans, Hypocrisy is the Point

 R_P wrote:
 
His opponent is a card-carrying Bad-A$$. She did three tours in Afghanistan, was wounded by enemy fire on the last one. They were rescued, but had to stand on the skids of the choppers all the way out. Under fire. You think the U.S. Senate is going to frighten her?

Cornyn's team made the mistake of criticizing the tattoos on her arm. Went about as bad for him as you'd expect:

"A pro-Cornyn Super PAC is using a photo of my tattoos to make me seem 'radical.' That's pretty funny to me. You think I'm ashamed of them? They cover my shrapnel wounds from when my helicopter was shot down. They're a mark of my service to our country. I'm damn proud of them."

Yes, I already voted.
c.

Good dog!
“What I tried to do is not get into public confrontations and fights with him because, as I’ve observed, those usually don’t end too well.”

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

Yea you better do some research, see how we got here and then you will realize the heights of irony you have reached.......... or not.   Bubbles are not just used so millionaires can continue to collect checks playing in front of cardboard inserts.

 KarmaKarma wrote: 
ayup ...

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

Blame Harry Reid.

 R_P wrote:
 

ayup

 BlueHeronDruid wrote:
 

No surprise at all, just sayin'.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

And this surprises you why?

If the Republican-controlled senate pushes through a supreme court nomination before the election it will be the epitome of hypocrisy.

Republicans back Trump despite reports he called soldiers 'suckers' and 'losers': Reuters/Ipsos poll

If you’d tuned in to the first night of the 2020 Repub­li­can Nation­al Con­ven­tion (RNC) with­out any broad­er polit­i­cal con­text, no one could blame you for believ­ing that the Unit­ed States is fac­ing the scourge of a ter­ror­iz­ing for­eign threat, and that this threat is called ​“social­ism.” Of course, you’d be mis­tak­en, along­side a host of RNC speak­ers.

But that false nar­ra­tive under­girds the GOP’s play­book this elec­tion, as the par­ty has cho­sen to for­go writ­ing an actu­al plat­form and instead sim­ply run Don­ald Trump — a his­tor­i­cal­ly unpop­u­lar pres­i­dent — against a made-up men­ace, with Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Joe Biden serv­ing, sim­ply, as its fig­ure­head.

Yet, by using ​“social­ism” as a stand-in for any­thing they deem anti-Amer­i­can, Repub­li­cans are obscur­ing the fact that many of the poli­cies asso­ci­at­ed with con­tem­po­rary social­ism are actu­al­ly very pop­u­lar among the vot­ing pub­lic. And Biden, a life­long mod­er­ate, has con­sis­tent­ly made clear that he — unlike his for­mer rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I‑Vt.) — is about as far as you can get from an avowed social­ist with­in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic coali­tion.

Still, even with Sanders out of the race, the GOP has appar­ent­ly decid­ed to go full steam ahead with its red-bait­ing line of attack.

RNC Speaker Facing Federal Charges Of Insider Trading

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