Hilary Clinton had a functioning brain and many people were genuinely invigorated by her candidacy
― silby, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
exactly
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
xp i call out people on the literally thing too. but the thing is, when i see donald trump, i see a big pile of shit with steam coming off of it, with a little crevice in the side moving up and down in time with the words that he speaks. he literally is a steaming pile of shit, and apparently 53% of voters also see it
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
she still lost white women though
― silby, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
Hilary Clinton >> Joe Biden
i agree too, it's a mistake to lump them into the same category. but i had to hold my nose for her all the same
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
She was definitely a much better candidate, but people didn't absolutely hate Trump the way they do now. hard to remember now but there was a time when a lot of online folks liked Trump b/c he was just eviscerating the GOP
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
I think enthusiasm for a candidate augurs success more often than people hating their opponent
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
Hillary would’ve made a better president and seemed smart and alert and awake but ppl hated her guts and they don’t feel the same about Biden
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
she did seem alert and awake! and sadly those do put her in another league, as a candidate
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
Not that I disagree
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
In a just world, Hillary would be a stronger candidate than Biden, and I say that as someone who doesn't like Hillary much. But Biden Obama's VP and a good ole white guy.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:25 (four years ago) link
it's up to Biden to fuck it up, and I trust he can do it.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
yeah, i mean i'm not going to complain if you call donald trump literally a steaming pile of shit, but to call hillary clinton literally a steaming pile of shit seems slightly... hyperbolic?
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't bet a dollar on the outcome. I've generally thought GENERIC DEMOCRAT would win for the last couple of years and Trump will win people were just doomsayers, but so much of Trump's insanity seems to have been normalized and Biden is such a uniquely terrible candidate (we haven't even gotten to the BURISMA BURISMA BURISMA stage of things) that I wouldn't begin to guess how this will turn out.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
but to call hillary clinton literally a steaming pile of shit seems slightly... hyperbolic?
yes, this is the part where i made a mistake, i readily admit
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
oh wait, and i called biden a literally steaming pile of shit, too.
welp
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
look in the time of coronavirus, etc etc, mistakes are made
Everyone who voted for the Iraq war is a steaming pile of shit
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
let me fix this for the record: we're faced with a decision between a literally steaming pile of shit and a figuratively steaming pile of shit. in 2016 the choice was between a literally steaming pile of shit and however we want to figuratively refer to hillary clinton
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
firm, but fair
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
this is my one hope for 2020, people were mobilized to vote against Hillary in ways they won't be for Biden. I had coworkers who hated her guts for no discernable reason. we rag on the GOP for the way they fired off bad-faith attacks on her for 20 years but it sure as hell paid off
well the fact that "the president doesn't have a functioning brain" is now normalized is probably a point in favor of Biden now, sadly. by and large this is just what we've always known, most voters don't care about racism, corruption, lying, dead people in foreign countries, etc. etc...but once they start losing their jobs and having people they know die as a direct result of the President's incompetence, things might change. murdering 1,500,000 brown people on false pretenses didn't hurt GWB. the financial crisis and Katrina did.
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
I honestly don’t think Trump comes off as nearly as senile as Biden. We’re mostly judging him on content but he’s still a pretty confident speaker. Biden genuinely sounds like my 92-year old grandfather in the final year ‘decline phase.’
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 9 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
is this also the thread for "we're gonna have a Republican judiciary + sham elections for the rest of our lives"
― lukas, Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
however we want to figuratively refer to hillary clinton
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone)
if you're asking my preference, i would prefer we not refer to hillary clinton, figuratively or otherwise. that's probably not a reasonable request, but it just seems like picking at an old wound that will fucking never heal over.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
― lukas
i feel like we should have a separate thread for long-term doom-mongering and we could try to keep this to 2020-only doom-mongering? but it's not my thread.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 April 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
HRC is a white supremacist mass murderer who is partly responsible for this shitshow why should she get a pass
― aaaaeeeeeeoooooooowwww (Left), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
So good to finally have someone on this board who can weigh in from The Left.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
shit really? Perhaps there should be some congressional hearings.
― cuomo money, cuomo problems (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
I honestly don’t think Trump comes off as nearly as senile as Biden. We’re mostly judging him on content but he’s still a pretty confident speaker. Biden genuinely sounds like my 92-year old grandfather in the final year ‘decline phase.’― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, April 9, 2020 2:52 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, April 9, 2020 2:52 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i agree. i think it's hard to imagine Biden beating anyone but 799 people died in my state today of the virus trump was denying was a problem about a month ago so WHO KNOWS
― treeship., Thursday, 9 April 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link
Dumb asshole is gonna win, ffs
― silby, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 01:13 (four years ago) link
This site has enough rolling 77 threads for griping.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 01:16 (four years ago) link
The thread title says what it’s for, it’s for this, so it doesn’t go in other threads
― silby, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWFrynfU4AASTY5?format=jpg&name=medium
Low numbers for Biden in both Trust and Don't Trust, so he does have room to improve if he's able to become more visible
― anvil, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 02:45 (four years ago) link
― anvil, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
its tough when every major news network gives a free 2 hour commercial to your opponent every single night
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
in the main, no one's listening to whatever Biden says about covid-19, because he's not in a position to affect anything about it. people know that he's mostly irrelevant on that subject. it doesn't help that what he does manage to say is neutral boilerplate, stuff like 'I'd take effective action' that means nothing at all. I'd bet most of those trust vs. don't trust responders wouldn't be able to cite anything he said; it's just the usual tribal identification.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 03:48 (four years ago) link
We should get Joe some of the shit from Flowers for Algernon
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
he does have room to improve if he's able to become more visible
Also room to get worse. Seriously, I would be all over a GoFundMe to (1) buy that man a teleprompter, (2) pay a trusted advisor to keep him on script, and (3) get some of them Deepfake tech whizzes to mock up some coherent speeches using his generically likable face.
― molon labe, kemo sabe (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
he's gonna win every goddamn state https://t.co/RggsWIJkDH— Andros of the Embers (@allahliker) April 21, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 13:51 (four years ago) link
of course he is
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/cU6gIdMgGi— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
i forgot how wildly popular the initial travel ban and the wall and border separations were, everyone loved all that shit, this guy's totally right.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
did we really need a new thread just for disgruntled sanders people to talk up trump?
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:03 (four years ago) link
I'd really like to see Biden put out an ad collecting all the times Trump made it sound like he wanted to fuck his daughter.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
Trump is going to be president until we're all dead.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
He'll never do it xp
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
ukilxors can't even be trusted to predict the results of uk elections
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.)
only if he literally kills me
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
(xp) Not sure many, if any, predicted Corbyn would win tbf.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
porn star. hush money. election fraud. uhhhhh, these networks don't make much money. you gotta give them this one.
― scott seward, Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:09 (five days ago) link
we could have the first SOTA where they have to have a 30 minute break to have a nurse change the President
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:10 (five days ago) link
on some level you almost have to marvel how cable news has become the WWF and 2scoops is king heel kayfabe
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:22 (five days ago) link
"We didn't start the fire..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:27 (five days ago) link
I got King Crimson:"... cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary ..."
― nickn, Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:24 (five days ago) link
it's renewed indefinitely whether he wins or loses. until he dies.
I mean, Trump will always be news at some level. But if he loses in November he's done as a central fixation for a lot of people. He'll continue to cultivate his followers for fleecing, but he'll mostly make headlines when he gets convicted or acquitted of things.
If he wins, obviously he returns to center-of-the-universe status. BUT, I really do think the lame-duck syndrome will settle in faster than he expects. Especially because he will be so predictably disastrous and embarrassing. And he'll probably end up impeached again within two years because he just can't help it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:42 (five days ago) link
yeah but Project 2025
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:42 (five days ago) link
I mean, Trump will always be news at some level. But if he loses in November he's done as a central fixation for a lot of people.
I hope we can be so lucky, but I'm skeptical. There is still a lot of fucking media people out there who won't be able to quit themselves from covering every grievance and whine he sharts out.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:45 (five days ago) link
That prarie-faced fuckwad John Kasich just predicted that the Democrats will win the House in November "by a substantial majority, more than people expect" at the moment while the GOP picks up the Senate.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2024 18:45 (five days ago) link
Like everything these crackpots dream up, a lot easier to say than do. Not that they won't try! And not that they won't do damage. But even assuming that Trump can stick to any particular plan with any level of discipline at all, I think his capacity to deliver is let's say unproven.
I mean, working for the federal govt under a 2nd Trump term will be even more miserable, terrible and crazy-making than it was during the first one. Not trying to minimize that. I just think he's a bit of a, if not paper tiger, old, fat and easily distracted tiger. Who is also congenitally incapable of delegating anything without second-guessing whoever he delegates it to as soon as he thinks they look bad on TV.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:17 (five days ago) link
if he loses in November he's done as a central fixation for a lot of people.
he'll mostly make headlines when he gets convicted or acquitted of things.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:19 (five days ago) link
I think his capacity to deliver is let's say unproven.
it's not him I'm worried about, it's the people who plan on putting P25 in place regardless of what he does
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:22 (five days ago) link
Yeah but that's the thing, there is no version of Trump in charge where there are people just going about putting their own agendas in place. He's the one who would have to drive it, he doesn't let anyone else do ANYTHING for very long without throwing them under the bus. And if he doesn't personally care about something, and there's not much he does care about, he's not going to the mat for it because of any ideological principle. He doesn't have any.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:24 (five days ago) link
I'm not saying don't worry be happy. But having watched how things have played out since 2020, I'm way less persuaded we're on the verge of authoritarian takeover at the national level than I was in 2021 in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6.
My concerns about authoritarian takeovers at the state level in red states has only increased, however.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:26 (five days ago) link
Yeah I wouldn’t be so sure the Stephen Millers and Christian Nationalists and forced birth fetishists wont get their way.
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:27 (five days ago) link
They'll obviously be way more catered to under Trump than Biden. He'll issue a bunch of executive orders to make them happy, some of which will survive court challenges. It will be bad! He definitely shouldn't be president again. But he'll also be a lame duck immediately, his popularity ratings will never get close to 50 percent and probably will fall lower than they did in his first term as everyone remembers what it's like to have him as president, and a whole bunch of people in both parties are going to be jockeying to be next in line from day one.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:31 (five days ago) link
Christian Nationalists in particular face the perennial problem that only like 20 percent of the country wants to live in their demented theocracy.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 18 April 2024 19:32 (five days ago) link
The prize is always 4 more years to pick SC judges, though, right?
I did take some solace that, in the article about how the Heritage Foundation hired the trick-shot specialist who became Trump's bodyman, as a means to shore up "We'll be in charge and ready to go if he wins", it mentions that Trump gets big mad every time anyone suggests they're going to "in charge of" the next presidency.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 April 2024 14:51 (four days ago) link
Stephen Miller is a dude I find genuinely terrifying, like all of Trump's mouthpieces come off like cartoon villains but Miller is a very specific type and that's someone who is a henchman for a literal demon. I couldn't be in the same room as him.
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 14:55 (four days ago) link
Nor can his hair.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 April 2024 14:55 (four days ago) link
Stephen miller won't see that post Alfred, but I will
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 19 April 2024 14:57 (four days ago) link
if the last few days have taught us anything it's that you never know who's gonna see your posts
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 15:04 (four days ago) link
few days on ILX, or in jury selection?
― bae (sic), Friday, 19 April 2024 17:04 (four days ago) link
lol I was also wondering, I assume the latter
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 April 2024 17:05 (four days ago) link
If they could match up ilx usernames with their owners they'd disqualify the lot of us, wholesale.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 19 April 2024 17:08 (four days ago) link
"Is it true that you wrote that Donald Trump was a 'Dud'?"
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Friday, 19 April 2024 17:11 (four days ago) link
had a daydream yesterday where i was one of the people being considered for the jury and i suddenly standup and throw my chair at trump and he dies
― z_tbd, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:17 (four days ago) link
and then i become president
― z_tbd, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:18 (four days ago) link
"By our count you wished death on Mr. Trump a total of 103 times across the years 2017 to the present. Isn't that true, Mister, uh, Frogbs."
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 19 April 2024 17:18 (four days ago) link
I still think I can be fair and impartial though
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:27 (four days ago) link
"Indeed, Mr. Frog-bis." "Please, it's Frog B.S."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:27 (four days ago) link
"Mr. Frog-bis is my father"
― nickn, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:29 (four days ago) link
"Mistrial declared until we can get the pronunciation clarified."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:30 (four days ago) link
its supposed to be unpronouncable. you know like the thing Prince did
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 17:31 (four days ago) link
fake polls!
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-leads-donald-trump-poll-actual-voters-2024-presidential-election-1892723
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:34 (yesterday) link
"Actual voters"? What about the bots?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 22 April 2024 16:36 (yesterday) link