Anecdotally, I spent 12 hours at Disneyland a few weeks.back, and only clocked one maga hat. I gave him my best sneer, but he was too cowardly to join the line for Mr Toad’s Wild Ride with us. It’s just as well; they really should have based the ride on the far superior Rankin/Bass film.
Such a fantastically stupid list of completely unsupported assertions. And they have it saved, so they can go over it with people! I have two takeaways from this thread:
I’m going to start referring to this kind of argument as “root beer logic”. Nobody will know what I’m talking about, but I’ll think it’s funny.
They’re probably a political strategist for the DNC
I think this is the only way to win, but I have very little hope that it will happen. People need a ticket that projects hope for a better future, not one that promises to maintain the status quo. If people were happy with the status quo, Trump would not be a factor. Yet, time and again, it’s all the Democrats are willing to offer.
Obviously not, but if people aren’t excited about the ticket, they’ll stay home—which is functionally a vote for Trump. At this point, we need candidates that give people hope for a better future, not just promise to maintain the status quo.
That data is for Senator Mike Lee of Utah, not Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee. They’re both pieces of shit, but I don’t see any AIPAC donations listed for this one.
Ok, but can you throw in an M203 and a leaf sight? Maybe a box of 40mm HEDP? Indirect fire is a real game-changer.
It’s not the best argument; Generic Democrat has no personal baggage. I’m in favor of finding a better nominee (maybe even partially due to your advocacy), but unfortunately we can’t run Generic Democrat.
Well, I don’t know that it’s even possible to force Biden out without his consent. Certainly, it would be prohibitively difficult and contentious. Still, “If the GOP isn’t doing it, why should we?” is a terrible argument, by any metric. The line of reasoning that says Biden should step aside, and support another nominee, looks like this:
It looks increasingly like he’s going to lose.
If he loses, the country will—based on available evidence—likely descend into a pure kleptocracy, with fascistic and theocratic tendencies.
Based on his own statements, he doesn’t fully grasp, or properly weigh, the consequences of losing this election. He’ll feel fine about losing, as long as he does his best.
Given the above, maybe we’d be better off with someone else.
I’ll stipulate that I was on the #binarychoice train myself until recently. The sad fact is, he’s just that bad. And it’s not too late to change course.
I’m sure that the mainstream coverage has been terrible—I avoid it these days for precisely that reason—but I don’t think switching candidates is guaranteed electoral suicide. Plenty of smart and reasonable people are looking at Biden’s performance—and his polling—and thinking we’d be better off with another nominee. Biden himself—setting aside the glaring problem of his advanced age and obviously reduced mental faculties—doesn’t seem to grasp the dire consequences of a potential loss, based on his post-debate statements.
At this point, I (and lots of other people who are neither stupid nor crypto-fascists) think we’d be better off with another candidate. 4 months is tons of time in today’s media environment.
You’ve articulated my concerns here better than I could have—thanks. I don’t know what’s to be done about it at this point.
Not familiar with bcdedit but I could try.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say I am, either—strictly a dabbler. For me, it’s just a matter of finding various forum posts from other people trying to get it working, and applying different suggested fixes until something works (ideally). There are tons of helpful comments out there, if you can find them.
I wouldn’t mess with bcdedit unless you get linux installed, but there’s no boot entry for it in your bios.
I recently got my old Dell dual-booting windows 10 and mint. Didn’t have issues getting mint installed (I used Etcher to burn the ISO to a USB drive), but windows absolutely didn’t want to play nice with Grub, and I had to use bcdedit to get it to load the boot menu. Working fine now, though! Looking at some articles, it seems like f10 is probably your bios key. It really ought to be able to boot from usb; my mobo is 12 years old and supports it.
I’m pretty sure it’s a big truck, that you can just dump things on.
Would you care to expand on this? My impression is that he did what he did out of ethical concerns, and has paid a high price for it.
Not a super high bar, tbf. Y’all’s overton window is considerably to the left of ours. Your point is solid, though, I think, in that cultural identity is a much better predictor of personal politics than religion.
I mean, they made the emoji movie. And fucking battleship. Nothing’s too far-fetched. A family drama based on Connect 4? Why not! How about Dwayne Johnson stars in an action movie based on Hungry Hungry Hippos? It’s all too plausible now.
It’s a pretty on-the-nose username, given that they’re basically just transcribing Fox News segments. In a saner world, this would be a parody account.
You wouldn’t download a baby?!
Yeah, I only looked it up because I remembered being charged for dropping off a broken TV at a Texas location.
This take is reductive to the point of dishonesty. It was, in fact, rigged for Clinton in a number of ways. Major media outlets invariably attributed an overwhelming majority of superdelegate votes to Clinton, right from the beginning. In all the reportage most people saw of the race, this dishonest framing gave a strong impression that Sanders had no chance—that voting for him would be a waste.
To say nothing of any other chicanery that took place, that went a long way to depress progressive turnout, and dissuade any moderate Democrats from considering him as a serious contender. The media were pro-Clinton in a much more fervent and mask-off way than they’ve ever been pro-Trump, and mainstream Dems, by and large, believe the shit they read in WaPo and NYT.