2020 US Election Thread

[TheBig3]

Yeah, you're right. The reason we don't have democracy is because of Nancy Pelosi. What a nuanced political position.

[The Batlord]

Ffs you're taking that boring bait? Is Nancy Pelosi your girlfriend?

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by TheBig3

Yeah, you're right. The reason we don't have democracy is because of Nancy Pelosi. What a nuanced political position.

Calm down. Just repeat to yourself "Pelosi is not a Kennedy, she's not from Boston. She's from the left coast." till you feel better ace. If ice cream was money she's eating buckets of ice cream and you're lucky if you can lick her ice cream scooper. She has a mean wicked refrigerator fill with Ben & Jerry's ice cream while the rest of us are lucky enough to use spigot water to fill the ice cube tray.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by TheBig3

Yeah, you're right. The reason we don't have democracy is because of Nancy Pelosi. What a nuanced political position.

Beautifully so.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Ffs you're taking that boring bait? Is Nancy Pelosi your girlfriend?

Welcome to the Bates Motel.

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Anteater

Welcome to the Bates Motel.

Are you saying 1. Nancy Pelosi is not alive, and 2. TheBig3 is playing both parts of hardcore Democrat concierge and Nancy Pelosi cause that would be one wicked burn on your part you just dished out there skeezah.

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Calm down. Just repeat to yourself "Pelosi is not a Kennedy, she's not from Boston. She's from the left coast." till you feel better ace. If ice cream was money she's eating buckets of ice cream and you're lucky if you can lick her ice cream scooper. She has a mean wicked refrigerator fill with Ben & Jerry's ice cream while the rest of us are lucky enough to use spigot water to fill the ice cube tray.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Ffs you're taking that boring bait? Is Nancy Pelosi your girlfriend?

Rule #1 of the Internet: If someone has an opinion you don't like, then they are "freaking out."

[Lucem Ferre]

Nancy Pelosi definitely isn't as bad as her predecessor who had to step down because he covered up a child molester.

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Nancy Pelosi definitely isn't as bad as her predecessor who had to step down because he covered up a child molester.

She's not someone I'd follow into battle, but in terms of knowing how to get legislation through, she's the best I've seen in the modern era. There'd be no ACA without her.

[Lisnaholic]

Without my old ally, Chula Vista, I try not get too caught up in these Dem vs GOP threads; I don't want to be some shrill, alarmist outsider, but I gotta say that if you compare the US with W European democracies, or with the US in the perhaps the 70s, then it displays some very worrying traits:-

-gun toting lunatics who believe there is a cabal of pedophiles causing forest fires with space lasers

- the GOP who, with regard to Trump, combine all three of the famous monkeys into one political position: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. For example, if I remember that first impeachment correctly, it was "ok, we'll permit a trial, but no witnesses can give evidence." McConnell's second impeachment vote, "He's not innocent, but I'm going to vote as if he were."

-just yesterday, 35 "no" senators won out over 54 "yes" to block a bipartisan investigation into the Jan 6 riot. That 35 senators defeat a vote of 54 is the counter-intuitive consequence of the mysterious filibuster, of course, but the vote is also counter some professed GOP talking points: draining the swamp, backing the boys in blue. Also counter the weeks of negotiating in which all the GOP demands were met. It's a return to Sen Grassley's tactic of bad-faith negotiating.

- commentators describing the onslaught on voters rights as "back to the days of Jim Crow"

- a blatant, hypocritical u-turn from McConnell to load the Supreme Court in favour of conservates for decades to come. Women's hard-won right to make their own decisions about their own bodies now in jeapardy.

- Dems are compared to Nazis and public health recommendations are likened to the Holocaust

- without evidence, 53% of Republicans think that Biden is not the President, despite allegations of election fraud being shot down in about 60 court cases. I wonder to what extent that 53% paused to wonder if they were being duped when fraud-conspiracy ring-leader Guilliani admitted in court that he was not making an accusation of fraud.(Or when S Powell's legal defense was, "No sane person would believe what I say")

A lot of humour doesn't transfer well as it goes from one nationality to another. I suppose that's why I'm rather mystified by these Pelosi jokes, the great "Bernie Sanders likes blue sheets" scandal, or, for that matter by that Fox News outrage over a manufacturer's strange decision to rename Mr. Potato Head: a storm in a toybox to distract and deflect from What's Going On (copyright: Marvin Gaye).

[TheBig3]

It's not great days for the US, but it's been worse.

But the scandal stuff is because there's no gatekeeping media any longer. And there's no cultural uniformity as there is in other Western Democracies.