Crazy American Politics

[TheDonbytheDee]

1 hour ago, Mason89 said:

I’m all for getting rid of golf. Horrendous for the environment and piss poor land use. Plus I’m shite at it.
We should throw Rugby Union in the bin as well while we’re at it. That’s where the golfers will gravitate towards after that’s gone. 

I had Rugby in my  post above, but I didn't want to go full Bertie and alienate myself from everyone on the forum, so I deleted it.

When I go into work on Monday, the first thing I will be asked is did I watch the rugby.

My response will be, did I fuck.

 

Bit Scotland were playing.

and?

You may think that is bad, but I have worked at the company 10 years and they know I don't do rugby, even if Scotland are playing.

I never get emotional or sentimental about Scotland. I wish I could say the same about AFC though.

Two season ticket holders, that I work with, are missing the game today to go out and watch the rugby.

Gadz

 

Each to their own and all that though.

[OrlandoDon]

3 hours ago, RicoS321 said:

I don't think that's fair, or an accurate reading of what was written. Just rudeness, and lacking in empathy. And arrogant as fuck, of course, assuming that you know more about a person's own experience than they do. Even if you assume that a small part of the post was embellished, it would be weird to assume it wasn't in some way informed by the rest of the it. 

In my opinion, Trump is a vulgar child who has the cognitive abilities of his predecessor, and should be stood down because of that. Voting for Gavin Newsom (or Vance, or whoever) as your answer? Isn't that equally as deluded? 

I’d agree with that, but I want to stress that I’m not looking for anything. If people ask me a direct question I usually answer. There’s nothing here that I haven’t heard before. It’s just sad that people are narrow minded and cannot accept difference. It gets personal when people don’t have the capacity to think deeper so just spout the same generic shit Ive heard a million times then get personal. And ironically these are the people who scream diversity.
It’s very similar to the way California went, where the majority are incredibly intolerant, you lost friendships, fights, cancel culture, all from a side who rams difference down your throat. It’s also interesting the blatant lies stated ( in my opinion of course) like vaccines not having a downside. Every single one does, every one has a side effect, you just chose to either ignore those or weigh up the pros and cons. 
 
what some people here don’t seem to realize is that of the 70 plus million that voted trump, many are not trump supporters or even republicans, I’d say that’s me. We just fear the dem party more than this one, and we’ve had Obama and Biden show what that’s about. And lived in Cali to see how that goes. I’d challenge those who can’t let trump go to look into why people cannot accept the alternative. Cue the racism and abuse, the generic response, but it’s deeper than that.

[Mason89]

1 hour ago, TheDonbytheDee said:

I had Rugby in my  post above, but I didn't want to go full Bertie and alienate myself from everyone on the forum, so I deleted it.

When I go into work on Monday, the first thing I will be asked is did I watch the rugby.

My response will be, did I fuck.

 

Bit Scotland were playing.

and?

You may think that is bad, but I have worked at the company 10 years and they know I don't do rugby, even if Scotland are playing.

I never get emotional or sentimental about Scotland. I wish I could say the same about AFC though.

Two season ticket holders, that I work with, are missing the game today to go out and watch the rugby.

Gadz

 

Each to their own and all that though.

But aren’t the anthems just marvellous? That Haka as well, so intimidating!!! 

[Mason89]

45 minutes ago, OrlandoDon said:

 It’s just sad that people are narrow minded and cannot accept difference. 
 

All of that was just generic nonsense and false equivalence that you’ve been spoon fed, which I’ve heard a million times due to people like yourself being incapable of independent thought 

On the quote though, how many genders would you say there are? If you had to put a number on it 

[RicoS321]

14 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

All of that was just generic nonsense and false equivalence that you’ve been spoon fed, which I’ve heard a million times due to people like yourself being incapable of independent thought 

On the quote though, how many genders would you say there are? If you had to put a number on it 

Is it two? Is it a trick question? I genuinely don't know or care, which I expect is the position of most.

[Mason89]

6 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

Is it two? Is it a trick question? I genuinely don't know or care, which I expect is the position of most.

That’s the thing though, nobody knew or cared. It’s an issue created out of nothing & transgender people were collateral. Their lives weren't hard enough apparently

Now we have the ridiculous position where grown men are pretending they care about women’s weightlifting events 

 

 

[RicoS321]

50 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

That’s the thing though, nobody knew or cared. It’s an issue created out of nothing & transgender people were collateral. Their lives weren't hard enough apparently

Now we have the ridiculous position where grown men are pretending they care about women’s weightlifting events 

 

 

Agreed. Very much so.

[OrlandoDon]

5 hours ago, Mason89 said:

All of that was just generic nonsense and false equivalence that you’ve been spoon fed, which I’ve heard a million times due to people like yourself being incapable of independent thought 

On the quote though, how many genders would you say there are? If you had to put a number on it 

Why does it matter to you what I believe? That’s the whole point, you are incapable of handling an opinion that differs to yours. You don’t debate, you just keep ramming the same points with minimal substance. I don’t fit in your box, or give you the answer that matches yours, so you get insulting, personal, condescending, it’s predictable, Rico said bully. Or you make light because you have nothing to add. 
this is exactly why left California, exactly how you appear, I was told what to believe and had to fit a specific category or got canceled. 
I don’t give a shit how many genders you think there are, but I have an issue when you over reach and start telling me what I must now believe and how I must live, especially when I am no harm to others. Societies continually evolve and change is inevitable, but there is still a place for freedom of expression and beliefs. It’s not my job to tell people how to live, to each your own. I don’t understand why you can’t accept that.

[Mason89]

You’re a walking contradiction. If you believed any of that, you would vote accordingly. You don’t. 
I didn’t like Biden or Obama either. I’d vote for the Mark Hately Party if he was standing against Trumps though. 
 

The way you vote means you absolutely are a harm to others. Would you care for examples or will we just agree I’m right here? 

[RicoS321]

7 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

The way you vote means you absolutely are a harm to others. Would you care for examples or will we just agree I’m right here?

If you voted for any party in any recent election anywhere in the world you absolutely are a harm to others. Which is why only humans vote.

[Mason89]

11 minutes ago, RicoS321 said:

If you voted for any party in any recent election anywhere in the world you absolutely are a harm to others. Which is why only humans vote.

You would accept that there’s varying degrees of that though, with the GOP being pretty near the top 

[RicoS321]

6 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

You would accept that there’s varying degrees of that though, with the GOP being pretty near the top 

I would say that if you split a circle into individual degrees, then mainstream political parties would all sit somewhere within a 3 degree segment. The difference between US democrats and Republicans is simply the velocity at which they enact their destruction of the planet. Hence why their donors comfortably flit between them. But, yes, the US Republican party is a detestable institution. 

[Kowalski]

"It'll be bad news for NATO if Europe don’t drag me out this enormous pile of shit I’ve got myself into"

Not an actual quote but well done to Starmer for standing strong. Farage and Badenoch would have had us knee deep in this fucking quagmire by now. 

[Kowalski]

Another belter. 
 

 

[manc_don]

7 hours ago, Kowalski said:

Another belter. 
 

 

The guy just needs to be put down. Enough of his corrupt idiocy.

[TheDonbytheDee]

2 hours ago, manc_don said:

The guy just needs to be put down. Enough of his corrupt idiocy.

It's went way beyond parody now. 

 

[Mason89]

We’re at the end stage now, I think they’ll remove him before the midterms. You can only deny the reality of the situation for so long. He has acute brain rot 

[CurlsLikeTattie]

Unfortunately(?) that post appears to be fake. Not that I don't believe he isn't that unhinged, he just can't be held to that one.

[RicoS321]

10 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

We’re at the end stage now, I think they’ll remove him before the midterms. You can only deny the reality of the situation for so long. He has acute brain rot 

I don't see a significant amount of decline from ten, twenty or thirty years ago. 

He has always had the mind of a child. 

[Mason89]

1 minute ago, RicoS321 said:

I don't see a significant amount of decline from ten, twenty or thirty years ago. 

He has always had the mind of a child. 

Yeah his starting point was never great but if you watch videos of him campaigning the first time round to what he’s like just now, you can see the decline very clearly. 
 

His brain is mush. They’ll be shiting themselves every time he’s in front of a camera. The big mistake his backers made was choosing the couch fucker as the replacement. If anyone in the country liked him at all, he’d be president already 

[RicoS321]

17 minutes ago, Mason89 said:

Yeah his starting point was never great but if you watch videos of him campaigning the first time round to what he’s like just now, you can see the decline very clearly. 
 

His brain is mush. They’ll be shiting themselves every time he’s in front of a camera. The big mistake his backers made was choosing the couch fucker as the replacement. If anyone in the country liked him at all, he’d be president already 

The people behind him will be perfectly happy for him to do whatever he likes, the more divisively the better, as long as their objectives are being met. The Iran war has already seen another large transfer of wealth, however it might have been a miscalculation that - without hyperbole - has the potential to take down the entire global economy. Those behind Trump will be well insulated because of the focus on Trump, so it might be worth the risk to them. If they can add Cuba to the list shortly then that'll be another transfer. That the US public is collateral, and even Trump, is of little concern. Nor is it of significant concern if they get another four years of a compliant democrat party. 

[Mason89]

I’d disagree with that. They’ve over egged the pudding, or rolled out the chaos too fast. The custard coming out of Trumps ears and the unpopularity of Vance/every other weirdo in the GOP is bad news for them. 
As gutless as the Democratic Party are, they would never have started anything in Iran. I know they’re quite happy with genocide inside Isreal but they wouldn’t have stood for them crossing borders. The war in Ukraine would be playing out differently too. 
Billionaires get paid regardless but there wouldn’t be such obvious looting under the Democrats.