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Hayabusa Rider

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Exactly 50.1% of Alabama voters voted for someone other than the only person who could defeat a known child molester. You can pretend that Alabama is an anomaly but the reality is that it isn't that far off from most states and if you asked most conservatives across the country before the election if they thought Doug Jones was a better candidate, relatively few would agree. Keep in mind that Doug Jones is a conservative by most measures. So the reality that you want to deny is that a huge portion of the country really does believe that a child molester is better that any Democrat, even a conservative one. Buy you go ahead and keep believing you're playing me and that you have it all figured out. After all, I don't even know what's going on.

I cut a check to Doug Jones to even though Alabama is half a nation away because- Alabama. Now how about a figure to show what you claim? How many people literally think Liberals are worse than child molesters? I'm not going out on a limb and say they are part of a loud-mouthed minority. Where they do in fact manifest themselves I will take a stand and materially oppose it, and it seems that action won the day.
 

dank69

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I cut a check to Doug Jones to even though Alabama is half a nation away because- Alabama. Now how about a figure to show what you claim? How many people literally think Liberals are worse than child molesters? I'm not going out on a limb and say they are part of a loud-mouthed minority. Where they do in fact manifest themselves I will take a stand and materially oppose it, and it seems that action won the day.
I'm not aware of any concrete data to support my opinion. All I know is that even in a liberal state like Connecticut you don't hear people randomly bashing conservatives like they just assume everyone agrees but people will tell you all about how shitty liberals are on a daily basis unsolicited.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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I'm not aware of any concrete data to support my opinion. All I know is that even in a liberal state like Connecticut you don't hear people randomly bashing conservatives like they just assume everyone agrees but people will tell you all about how shitty liberals are on a daily basis unsolicited.

Then why attack people who aren't in support of that either? Those who in every post about this administration they participation in completely cut down Trump and anyone that supports them? Most liberals I know are fine people. I support many initiatives such as income equality and stand with them against white supremacists. How many Democrats have I treated like Trump? The only one is from my state Cuomo and hell libs here don't like him either. My beef is that leadership needs to be more invested and stand in such a way that the voter can look at them as people with a moral center who oppose what's happening. If that's a great sin, mea culpa.
 

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Then why attack people who aren't in support of that either? Those who in every post about this administration they participation in completely cut down Trump and anyone that supports them? Most liberals I know are fine people. I support many initiatives such as income equality and stand with them against white supremacists. How many Democrats have I treated like Trump? The only one is from my state Cuomo and hell libs here don't like him either. My beef is that leadership needs to be more invested and stand in such a way that the voter can look at them as people with a moral center who oppose what's happening. If that's a great sin, mea culpa.
Why am I cutting you down? Because it's too fucking late. Democrats have zero power to stop this, yet here you are demanding they stop it.
 
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blackangst1

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For evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary for you fuckstains to convince enough people that liberals are worse than child molesters. Then you can cry about how liberals aren't stopping your mess after you've effectively given liberals zero power to stop it.

Oooohhh you mean like how the Democrats are doing to the GOP?

Gotcha.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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Why am I cutting you down? Because it's too fucking late. Democrats have zero power to stop this, yet here you are demanding they stop it.

Your attacks have no effect and you are wrong. It's not too late but change begins with taking a stand. You weren't around with it was "too late" to end "equal but separate". Too late because racism was so entrenched in society that blacks were always going to ride in the back of the bus, until someone grew a pair, someone with no power at the moment, and started a wave across the nation. While the results were imperfect, one man and a black one at that, opposed the powers that be. This <insert censored term> was born in Atlanta when blacks were still being strung up. Hell they were still being lynched more than a decade after his murder.

He had no chance, no voice, zero power. A guaranteed failure and yet he was something we no longer see, a leader. Compared to him Democrats have nothing? What they lack is courage and will, not excuses. If that offends you then perhaps it's not me.
 

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Why am I cutting you down? Because it's too fucking late. Democrats have zero power to stop this, yet here you are demanding they stop it.

Democrats have zero chance for one reason and one reason only. They dont have a platform most people agree with. All they do is cry Trump! Trump! Trump!

Whose fault is that?
 

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Your attacks have no effect and you are wrong. It's not too late but change begins with taking a stand. You weren't around with it was "too late" to end "equal but separate". Too late because racism was so entrenched in society that blacks were always going to ride in the back of the bus, until someone grew a pair, someone with no power at the moment, and started a wave across the nation. While the results were imperfect, one man and a black one at that, opposed the powers that be. This <insert censored term> was born in Atlanta when blacks were still being strung up. Hell they were still being lynched more than a decade after his murder.

He had no chance, no voice, zero power. A guaranteed failure and yet he was something we no longer see, a leader. Compared to him Democrats have nothing? What they lack is courage and will, not excuses. If that offends you then perhaps it's not me.
Ah the good old days. Remember that time Fox News convinced half the nation that MLK was disrespecting America?
 

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I cut a check to Doug Jones to even though Alabama is half a nation away because- Alabama. Now how about a figure to show what you claim? How many people literally think Liberals are worse than child molesters? I'm not going out on a limb and say they are part of a loud-mouthed minority. Where they do in fact manifest themselves I will take a stand and materially oppose it, and it seems that action won the day.
Being from Alabama I have to say, he's not far off. I am in one of the Bluest areas in this state, and even here Doug Jones wasn't popular. Sure, the Democrats that live here (actually a fair amount) liked him, and a few Republicans here sided with him, but for the most part it was silence from the right side. It took weeks of people talking about it to convince even my family it wasn't a smear campaign by the Dems, and I'm pretty sure many of them just refused to vote instead of voting for Doug. Is that better than voting Moore? Sure. But it doesn't instill confidence in me.

Thing is, I know people who voted Moore too. They were just all in denial that any of it was true. No one I know admitted that he was a molester and then voted for him. The worst of the worst I heard was that obviously Moore wasn't a molester, but even if he was is that any worse than electing a god-hating democrat who wants to kill babies with abortion?

I'm not a huge fan of this state sometimes.
 

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Democrats have zero chance for one reason and one reason only. They dont have a platform most people agree with. All they do is cry Trump! Trump! Trump!

Whose fault is that?
Democrat policy for all intents and purposes is the exact opposite of GOP policy. GOP policy has been shit for decades. Rather than admit that you couldn't discern good policy from bad if your life depended on it you'll instead just disagree with the opposite of shit policy like every other conservative on the planet.

As for crying Trump, that should have been enough to convince a sane electorate to vote unanimously for Hillary. Unfortunately there are 63 million other people just as retarded as you.
 
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HomerJS

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Of course, I know you do. His pants are poopie too.

Oh, liberals are worse than child molesters? That's fascinating. Since no one I know has inferred that by the wildest stretch of the imagination, that's news!

You don't even know what's going on do you?
Clearly you don't know any Roy Moore voters or Donald Trump
 

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Being from Alabama I have to say, he's not far off. I am in one of the Bluest areas in this state, and even here Doug Jones wasn't popular. Sure, the Democrats that live here (actually a fair amount) liked him, and a few Republicans here announced him, but for the most part it was silence from the right side. It took weeks of people talking about it to convince even my family it wasn't a smear campaign by the Dems, and I'm pretty sure many of them just refused to vote instead of voting for Doug. Is that better than voting Moore? Sure. But it doesn't instill confidence in me.

Thing is, I know people who voted Moore too. They were just all in denial that any of it was true. No one I know admitted that he was a molester and then voted for him. The worst of the worst I heard was that obviously Moore wasn't a molester, but even if he was is that any worse than electing a god-hating democrat who wants to kill babies with abortion?

I'm not a huge fan of this state sometimes.
The entire country is infected with similar people. I hear similar shit constantly right here in CT.
 
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Democrats have zero chance for one reason and one reason only. They dont have a platform most people agree with. All they do is cry Trump! Trump! Trump!

Whose fault is that?

Which explains the popular vote in the last presidential election, obviously. And the need for GOP gerrymandering to hold the HOR.
 
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I cut a check to Doug Jones to even though Alabama is half a nation away because- Alabama. Now how about a figure to show what you claim? How many people literally think Liberals are worse than child molesters? I'm not going out on a limb and say they are part of a loud-mouthed minority. Where they do in fact manifest themselves I will take a stand and materially oppose it, and it seems that action won the day.
651,972 + Donald Trump
 

blackangst1

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Democrat policy for all intents and purposes is the exact opposite of GOP policy. GOP policy has been shit for decades. Rather than admit that you couldn't discern good policy from bad if your life depended on it you'll instead just disagree with the opposite of shit policy like every other conservative on the planet.

As for crying Trump, that should have been enough to convince a sane electorate to vote unanimously for Hillary. Unfortunately there are 63 million other people just as retarded as you.

Democrat and GOP policy *on paper* is opposite in many ways; however, if you honestly can say with a straight face in practice they arent nearly identical, well...Im not the retarded one.

Secondly, Im neither Democrat nor Republican. In most elections I split my vote. So, again, youre the retarded one.

Lastly, you didnt address my point.
 

blackangst1

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Which explains the popular vote in the last presidential election, obviously. And the need for GOP gerrymandering to hold the HOR.

I suppose you need to be reminded popular vote doesnt matter. We arent a Democracy.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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651,972 + Donald Trump

How many registered voters are there? That's kind of the point, there's a lot of people, that's middle sized city. It's hard to equate those numbers to the nation as a whole. Consider that Moore lost- that's more encouraging than not. This isn't a hopeless mess by any means unless we let it end up that way.
 

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How many registered voters are there? That's kind of the point, there's a lot of people, that's middle sized city. It's hard to equate those numbers to the nation as a whole. Consider that Moore lost- that's more encouraging than not. This isn't a hopeless mess by any means unless we let it end up that way.
Yes the fact that a child molester barely lost is oh so encouraging.
 

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Democrat and GOP policy *on paper* is opposite in many ways; however, if you honestly can say with a straight face in practice they arent nearly identical, well...Im not the retarded one.
Mmhmm, because in practice they don't vote exactly opposite each other. Much identical. None retarded.

Secondly, Im neither Democrat nor Republican. In most elections I split my vote. So, again, youre the retarded one.
Who you claim to vote for means nothing. How you post here means everything.

Lastly, you didnt address my point.
I addressed both of your points. If I didn't it should be easy for you to show which point I didn't address.
 
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The problem with the Dems IMO, is that they have lost touch with the concerns of most people, and simply jump from liberal cause to liberal cause depending on which is most popular at the moment. Not that I disagree with most of them, it is just that they focus too much on liberal causes and attacking (rightfully) the racist, bigoted, biased viewpoint of the Republicans, Trump especially. What they need to do is focus on helping the vast middle of the population, and come up with a policy to actually change things, i.e. control healthcare, make higher education more affordable, protect the environment without going to unreasonable lengths, and so forth. It is really hard to explain what I mean without sounding like a Trumper, but the Dems have to recapture the middle ground. Hard to believe that almost a year and a half into the Trump presidency, the Dems havent come up with a charismatic leader or a coherent mainstream platform to counter him.

Edit: It is a sad indictment of our country, but when Trump was elected, I thought for sure we would rebel against his policies and that for certain he would be run out of office in the next election by a landslide. Sadly, if the next election were taking place now, in the absence of any strong moderate leaders from the Dems, I think he could be re-elected.
 
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Hayabusa Rider

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The problem with the Dems IMO, is that they have lost touch with the concerns of most people, and simply jump from liberal cause to liberal cause depending on which is most popular at the moment. Not that I disagree with most of them, it is just that they focus too much on liberal causes and attacking (rightfully) the racist, bigoted, biased viewpoint of the Republicans, Trump especially. What they need to do is focus on helping the vast middle of the population, and come up with a policy to actually change things, i.e. control healthcare, make higher education more affordable, protect the environment without going to unreasonable lengths, and so forth. It is really hard to explain what I mean without sounding like a Trumper, but the Dems have to recapture the middle ground. Hard to believe that almost a year and a half into the Trump presidency, the Dems havent come up with a charismatic leader or a coherent mainstream platform to counter him.


Here's a suggestion to get recognized, for a start. Trump and Nunes haven't invited Democrats. How about Chuck S says "screw that", gets a few reporters and lets it be known that he's attending and taking notes and will be heard.

Go over and force Trump to admit him or physically restrain a leader of Congress to forbid access. Take lots of pictures in that event and hammer home "this is what the Swamp really is" and Dems get in the faces of the administration, literally if required.

"Damn, did you see that? Schumer did something besides wagging his tongue. Maybe there are people with balls after all".
 

dank69

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The problem with the Dems IMO, is that they have lost touch with the concerns of most people, and simply jump from liberal cause to liberal cause depending on which is most popular at the moment. Not that I disagree with most of them, it is just that they focus too much on liberal causes and attacking (rightfully) the racist, bigoted, biased viewpoint of the Republicans, Trump especially. What they need to do is focus on helping the vast middle of the population, and come up with a policy to actually change things, i.e. control healthcare, make higher education more affordable, protect the environment without going to unreasonable lengths, and so forth. It is really hard to explain what I mean without sounding like a Trumper, but the Dems have to recapture the middle ground. Hard to believe that almost a year and a half into the Trump presidency, the Dems havent come up with a charismatic leader or a coherent mainstream platform to counter him.
The problem with Democrats is they are too liberal and have to control healthcare, make education more affordable and protect the environment, 3 things that are not liberal. They have to recapture the middle from the GOP that actively fucks the middle over without even trying to hide it.

May I suggest that maybe you have been conditioned to fucking hate liberals? I mean, all they have to do to please you is be on both right sides of every issue.
 
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