penningtron wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:55 pm I nearly threw my computer out the window when I saw Tim Kaine's take on last night. Yes, let's all listen to the loser VP candidate on what should have been the most winnable election ever and take notes..

I didn’t see that, and I really didn’t pay attention to the coverage, but I agree with your sentiment here. Dems still clinging to the ideas of centrists and continuing to think that the problem is the moderates are too far to the left is the actual problem here.

penningtron wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:55 pm I nearly threw my computer out the window when I saw Tim Kaine's take on last night. Yes, let's all listen to the loser VP candidate on what should have been the most winnable election ever and take notes..

What was his hot take, if you can stomach a summary?

losthighway wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 8:03 pm

penningtron wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:55 pm I nearly threw my computer out the window when I saw Tim Kaine's take on last night. Yes, let's all listen to the loser VP candidate on what should have been the most winnable election ever and take notes..

What was his hot take, if you can stomach a summary?

I didn't read it past the first paragraph but blah blah 'The Squad'.. exactly the take a tone deaf loser would have.

penningtron wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:55 pm I nearly threw my computer out the window when I saw Tim Kaine's take on last night. Yes, let's all listen to the loser VP candidate on what should have been the most winnable election ever and take notes..

Trump got booed at his own rallies when telling people to get vaccinated?

I absolutely thought that if anything would work, it would be that. I have to revise my understanding of some things.

Imagine the conversation beforehand: Please Mr. Trump, you're the only one they listen to. Just tell them to get the jab for god's sake. And he's like ok if you say I am the greatest 100 times. And so on, and then this happens.

Groupthink is weird that way. Funny how that turnabout came to be.

It took a while but I think Trump is finally slipping into irrelevancy. Most of the GOP will continue to cite the 2020 election as 'evidence' to push voter suppression laws but no longer need to attach his name, and they'll bank on someone way more Covid batshit in 2024 (DeSantis). So while the future may be fucked in so many other ways, Trump will spend his remaining years withering away as a joke babbling about Arizona or whatever to half-full parking lots of nitwits, with Rudy and the pillow guy being his only friends (if none of them end up in jail). Fuck him forever.

Well we can only hope his natural petty vindictiveness will encourage him to split the Republican base for maximum damage on the way out. And by "we" I mean life forms. And with a bit more luck, we might hope somebody like DeSantis will not inspire the same level of devotion among the intellectually challenged as a reality TV king and former wrestling star.

On the subject of irredeemable sacks of shit, is anybody else enjoying the spectacle of the entirety of the United Kingdom including the right-wing tabloids suddenly realising what half of them always knew about Boris Johnson: that he's a lying, incompetent, narcissistic useless waste of fucking space with no sense of decency or respect for anybody?

And it's all so deliciously self-inflicted. None of this would have happened if he wasn't just a total cunt, but then he always was and I guess it was simply a matter of time. And now the whole country finally hates him, at last. He crossed that line that never seemed to exist for Trump. The tipping point has tipped, and hard. He has shit the bed and rolled in the shit and the shit is all over him and he's on the news with shit on his face and everybody thinks he sucks and his approval rating is nobody. He may as well have been caught humping Prince Philip's corpse in Westminster Abbey. How wonderful.

Billy Bunter blagged his way into the prime ministership and he's fucked everything up in record time, simply by being his normal arrogant, lazy, slovenly self. And the history books will duly record that the guy was just total bullshit and good riddance.

Anthony Flack wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:27 am And now the whole country finally hates him, at last.

Sadly, not even close, although it's nice to see the ship listing so.