Comments by Puddy Tat (page 28)

LOL. what do people care more about, the "inflation reduction act" aka Orwellian misnamed green pork, or having to choose between their electric bill and food? All that icky inflation free growth under Trump, global peace (according to Biden's own national security advisor the quietest Middle East in twenty years), droning Iranian terrorists rather than giving them money, controlled border without importing crime and blight, and a rapid vaccine in a year for a pathogen that no one knew existed. Not to mention Democrats are saying not to worry about her proposals like the price controls on food and a tax on unsold capital gains, both of which would be the worst economic proposals since the 70s. God deliver us from another term of Trumpian prosperity!

^ Now we have a term of each to compare. Harris was second in command, self proclaimed last one in the room to a vegetable of a president...if his presidency were so successful, why is she running so hard away from it???

No, it's more like "glad you listened that I'm not interested, all the best."

^ Being second in command behind a vegetable makes it awfully hard to distance oneself with any credibility. She says her values haven't changed from her police defunding, rioter bailing out, private health insurance banning, border opening, gender surgery promoting past, Bernie Sanders even said she's just looking moderate to win. Why should we believe a change of heart that only happened on election season?

^ I thought brain waves started at 14 weeks, which is about where I draw the line, and with the same thought process. I would ban elective third trimester abortions but they're fucking rare.

@gammanu - yes I do. I was thinking of that too. It was great.

^ Not going to deny that. But I want the most unambitious, boring/competent government we can get. First, do no harm.

"People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don’t need politics, they have jobs." - PJ O'Rourke

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats." - PJ O'Rourke

@mickey48066 - I offered a left-leaning friend a $10,000 bet on this. He wouldn't take it.

All 4 girls on the thread are hot.

^ It would interesting to see what % of members post on the discussion board period.

^ Someone seeking attention today.

I didn't watch the debate and every commentator defended their side, but I notice betting odds turned a few points towards Harris, so I guess she "won." Still I don't think these things matter too much unless someone completely goes to shit.

Smash. Love those birthing hips.

^^ Did not have standing to sue != it did not happen

"Analogous to being unconcerned that measures that seek to stop illegal voting may also interfere with legal voting." Horribly twisted and irrelevant analogy. Not sure who's talking about putting anyone in jail. "True, your whining about me just making a proposal is not stopping anything" You're the one whining here. If it means that much to you, start the petition. "In the same way, I know Trump actions were either malicious or incredibly incompetent," All idle speculation with little impact on Americans' lives now "No, they'd be breaking the law in ways similar to those listed in Jack Smith's indictment." Specifically which ones? "The Biden Administration ask (improperly in many cases) asked social media companies to take down posts, and those companies willingly complied. " Courts have ruled that such "jawboning" constitutes an implied threat

"So you want a Stalinist type deal, where it's OK to stop some from legally casting their vote, to prevent illegal votes?" Not sure where you got "Stalinist" from, that's just name calling, but I favor one legal individual, one vote. One illegal vote cancels out one legal vote. "You have to have a complaint first, otherwise there's no reason to amend (duh)." Nothing is stopping you. The idea of a national popular vote has been around forever, along with liberal kvetching about it. "True, I can't. But why else did he wait till the Pentagon finally allowed the Guard to be deployed, before telling rioters to go home?" You should have stopped after the first sentence. We'll never know. "No President, of any party, should appoint office holders because they are willing to break the law." So because they support Trump's agenda rather than the Democrats', they're breaking the law? Is the FBI (Strzok and Page) conspiring to stop Trump acceptable? Or the DoJ's blatant double standards of prosecution? Frankly, I hope Trump sweeps away the bureaucracy. The left's fear is that we'll see how unnecessary they truly are. "Freedom of expression under Trumpist Republicans" I'll see that, and raise you a government-sponsored censorship bureau, leaning on a social network of 2 billion, outsourcing censorship to outside agencies under the guise of "fact checking," and a President/VP candidate who have openly expressed hostility to freedom of speech. There's no equivalence.

^ No, the guy was making a JOKE. Geez.

"If one person's vote is suppressed, there is voter suppression." If one illicit vote is cast, one legal vote has been nullified. "The Constitution has 27 amendments." And until it is amended, it is the clear cut law of the land, not a suggestion to be disregarded when inconvenient. Want a national popular vote, pass an amendment or don't complain. "Trump only told them to go home as a CYA" Glad you know what he thinks. Contorting yourself so you can say Orange Man Bad. "Exactly, Trump is going to put in people who are loyal to his intention to make his word law." Good. Democrats are allowed to, why are Republicans not?

I assume every surface in the VIP is covered in the semen of a thousand men.

^ LOL we all know it's you. Depression isn't the same as simping for a girl and losing her to a low-level weed dealer. Please carry a potted plant around to replace the oxygen you steal from the atmosphere.

^ This is the real Icey, who claims to be a big deal when he can't even keep a girl from a low-level weed dealer. https://tuscl.net/discussion/76367 @ilbbaicnl has been civil and factual, you're not mentally or morally fit to judge a thing about me.

@hank - you said "the legal theory was strained." That sounds like "he should not have been charged with a felony." Of course TDS creates some major blinders. Everything is OK in pursuit of Orange Man Bad. @ilbbaicnl - You linked to a leftist advocacy group that of course is going to cite exactly what they want to see. Every illegal vote cancels out a legal vote. The left acts like anything that increases the number of voters is prima facie a good thing. In 2016, 136.75 million people voted in presidential elections; in 2020, 158.38 million people voted. Clearly if Trump was suppressing voters, it didn't work. In Georgia, 6.714 million registered in 2016, 7.234 million in 2020, including 2.049 million black voters vs. 2.179 million. These numbers do not support a claim of voter suppression. "We should use the Israeli system, without voting districts." Israel is a nation of 9 million people, the size of New Jersey. The Constitution is pretty clear that the US is a union of states. If we had a national election, rather than state-by-state recounts, we would have recounts in every district and chaos as an army of lawyers descends on it. Yeah, a national popular vote might be "fair," but it comes with its own hurdles and is not constitutional. "His lack of action on them shows he wanted an excuse, not a real reason, to explain claims of election fraud." You're contradicting yourself. Did Trump promote voter suppression or not? You can't have it both ways. "Saying it was the fairest election ever may well be true." It beggars belief that anyone would say that, with a million new procedures put in place for COVID. Doesn't mean Trump would have one, but new procedures are not clean. "And no real evidence of ballot box stuffing was found, that was all pure bullshit." Not an answer. New ballots that ran disproportionately for Biden were found in many places. Ballots are being sent to nursing homes and other places where people are not able to vote for themselves. "But there were some who would not have been violent if they didn't believe there was clear proof the election was stolen. That is on Trump." That's your opinion. In fact, Trump told them to pack up and go home. Trump is not responsible for everything his supporters do. That's more Orange Man Bad. "He's made it clear, if reelected, he's going clean house of anyone who has principles other than abject loyalty to him personally." This happens everywhere in the corporate world, and in the federal government, goes back to the beginning. No one wants employees that will undermine there agenda at every step of the way. If anything, Trump had a lot of disloyal people on board, and it's harder to remove them due to federal service protections. The left makes it sound like Trump is going to replace everyone who disagrees him with a mindless slave--well, did he do that in his first term? If he didn't, there's no reason to believe he would in the second. This is yet more TDS to hide Harris' doublespeak and failures in her current office.

^ We had 4 years of Trump and it did not become harder to vote. I'd be fine with alternative methods of ID so long as it keeps to one legal voter, one vote. But I doubt that someone who doesn't care about participation in society enough to get an ID would care enough to cast a vote. A policy that everyone agrees on benefits both sides and more importantly faith in the system as a whole. I don't get why ANY safeguard, whether ID, in person voting, or reviewing rolls draws fire from the left, unless they are doing something untoward. All the documented irregularities of 2020 have both sides working the refs for this year. Gerrymandering is a different issue and one that both sides have been content to do when they have power. If it were up to me it would all be done by a mathematical formula that only took into account density and convexity. But that means Democrats would have to give up majority-minority districts, which are historically favorable to them.