U.S. Politics, November 2022: “I don’t know, you hear the same things I do”

lol I remember in like 2004 there was this controversy b/c some political ad was flashing the word "DEMOCRATS" across the screen and at certain points it (maybe unintentionally?) cut off part of it to just say "RATS". whereas now political ads are like "Mandela Barnes will personally send criminals to smash your baby's head in" while playing riot footage against a picture of his face digitally altered to look darker

I have often reminisced over the "macaca" incident

“That escalated quickly”

I'm thisclose to throwing out my tv set the next time I have to see an ad with a red-faced Joe Rogan shouting misleading bullshit about Pritzker. Not a campaign ad development I've welcomed. Less Rogan, more Dick Bigger Jr.

Your search - "a rat that looks like pete buttigieg" - did not match any documents.

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I'm thisclose to throwing out my tv set the next time I have to see an ad with a red-faced Joe Rogan shouting misleading bullshit about Pritzker. Not a campaign ad development I've welcomed. Less Rogan, more Dick Bigger Jr.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

DeSantis has got ya beat. He has his cancer victim wife in commercials purring about his manliness.

ew

tbf, the #4 google result for "pete buttigieg looks like a rat" is literally his official DOT bio

Greg Abbott has a commercial with a twentysomething woman talking about how much she trusts him to keep her safe blah blah blah and then she's like "oh yeah, he's my uncle - Tio Greg"

You don’t have to think he’s great obviously but Pete Derangement Syndrome is very much a thing that’s indicative of larger ways the same people who embrace have let themselves become dumber and get played by stupid bullshit online that helps republicans.

it is pretty crazy here in WI though you will see a commercial claiming that Evers let loose thousands of violent criminals and then immediately after one fact checking it saying "no the governor can't even do that if he wanted to". was watching some daytime TV while working out and I swear it was like 80% political ads

Every McKinsey consultant should be cast into a pit of vipers.

I'm not sure what bugs ya. Biden'll be the nominee unless he croaks, and if he loses in '24 we don't have to worry about Pete or any Dem winning anything again.

Don is overestimating the importance of the Secretary of Transportation imo, but more importantly nothing I do online helps or hurts republicans

The last words the jury heard before the prosecutors rested their case - Defendant Elmer Rhodes saying: “We should have brought rifles. We could have fixed it right then & there. I’d hang f**king Pelosi from the lamppost.” In the courtroom, you could have heard a firing pin drop.

— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) November 3, 2022

polling shows that 25% of straight ticket Republican voters turned because BasedLenin69 tweeted "mayo pete lol"

we don't have to worry about Pete or any Dem winning anything again.

Our troubles will be over!

That “ oh yeah my random posts mean so much” thing doesn’t work and it’s just being dishonest. The navel gazey “blah blah McKinsey” nonsense like it fucking matters given the stakes of everything. In retrospect it will seem insane to norma people that everyone wasn’t just cringey “blue no matter who” wine mom while all this stuff was going on.

the only norma people I know are both Trump supporters anyway

Sound unlikely

*Sounds

ok I give in, I will vote for Pete on Tuesday

Oh Rob lol.

oh my God, could you imagine?

oh good big don is back

- america in 2024 ^

Wait why do you want that?

i heard he'd make big don abernathy stop posting here and i'm a single issue voter

I get that honestly. I mean I voted straight down the ticket Dems primarily (one could say “solely) to get Dr Morbius to stop posting here and…you know

Goodbye Normal Jean

what a relief, a truly fp-able post

Huh?

jfc dude

rob otm

thread slipped into absurdity and that's saying something for this thread

Mods you wanna take care of him, I am not interested in waiting for the FP threshold

why in the afternoon in the u.s. does ILE get all yessed out

If my comment was about a guy who didn’t also make comments like that I could see doing the whole “Mods!” thing.

If my comment was about a guy who didn’t also make comments like that I could see doing the whole “Mods!” thing.

Well, he also got banned sometimes.

Gee I wonder what the difference is

Oh that’s a good point.

What JoeStork said

xxp - Nothing wrong with a lil' absurdity in the pols threads now and then for some levity, imho. Laugh to keep from crying etc etc. But absolutely not in favor of that tasteless bullshit that crossed the line.

What’s it like to be the kind of person who comes back to gloat about someone who’s now dead?

woah hey that’s not a fair characterization. It was a retort to an insult. Relax.

Jeez, the only reason I mentioned Pete was to use his example from 2020 to demonstrate that a surprisingly viable 2024 presidential candidate need not be visible to anyone, yet. One could emerge from as obscure place as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. I was so far from touting him as the best choice in 2024 that I specifically said Pete had already topped out his career by getting to be a second tier cabinet member.

I understood your initial post, Aimless, I was simply bemoaning the fact that he might be the best we have when he's clearly execrable.