Politics And Current Events

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

DeSantis is a scumbag and deserves all the **** in the world for being a hypocritical shithead

[DigitalGypsy66]

Today in treason:

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Jamie Lee Henry is the first openly transgender officer in the army too. Anti-trans people are gonna have a field day with this

[tifosi77]

That's some thread. All this was outed in the last five weeks? Guy is saying wifey lady gives off strong GRU Handler vibes. So that's fun.

[Troy Loney]

So about the big l protest vote. Looks like it’s getting pulled off the table

[Viva la Ben]

Hate to see it

[mikey]

That's good. I'd hate to introduce any additional options or viewpoints into our excellent, current situation...

[Viva la Ben]

I’ve heard enough from the far right mikey

[Gaucho]

[King Colby]

That's good. I'd hate to introduce any additional options or viewpoints into our excellent, current situation...

Ideally we consolidate everything to far left liberals and far right conservatives with nothing in between, above or below them. The push in that direction we're experiencing now seems to be working out great so I'm hoping we double or triple down.

[MR25]

I guess I dont get the complaints about the Libertarians removing themselves from the conversation, considering the tweet and article both specify that the party was infiltrated by extremists. It's basically QOP Jr. That's not really a "differing" viewpoint from what we're getting from the current R party...

[mikey]

If you're referring to me, my comment was more about the grave dancing from the tunnel visioners...

[MR25]

But the viewpoint you're talking about is no longer indistinguishable from the GOP, due to the right wingers taking over the party. The Libertarian party has effectively become redundant.

[faftorial]

But the viewpoint you're talking about is no longer indistinguishable from the GOP, due to the right wingers taking over the party. The Libertarian party has effectively become redundant.

For those who didn't read the article, here's what someone from the Virginia Libertarian said after they disbanded the party in VA:

“Statements from the national party, including those endorsing thinly-veiled antisemitism, explicitly welcoming bigotry into the party, reversing the LP’s 50-year legacy of support for LGBTQ+ rights, and openly denouncing women’s suffrage, the civil rights act, and democracy itself, has rendered the national image of the party functionally indistinct from other alt-right parties and movements,” the former party’s parting resolution reads.

[nocera]

What does Reason.com have to say about this?

[Viva la Ben]

Probably some gibberish.

[faftorial]

Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South Carolina and Nebraska sue Biden to block student loan forgiveness:

“President Biden’s unlawful political play puts the self-wrought college-loan debt on the backs of millions of hardworking Americans who are struggling to pay their utility bills and home loans in the midst of Biden’s inflation,” Ms. Rutledge said in a statement on Thursday. “President Biden does not have the power to arbitrarily erase the college debt of adults who chose to take out those loans.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/us/p ... -debt.html

[nocera]

Good. Every red state should. And make sure you do it before the midterms.

[mikey]

But the viewpoint you're talking about is no longer indistinguishable from the GOP, due to the right wingers taking over the party. The Libertarian party has effectively become redundant.

The viewpoint is not indistinguishable. It's the most distinguishable. Folks infiltrating the political party, I can't speak to that...but I certainly wouldn't support it, as I don't support GQP talking points...if that's the way that it's going, that's obviously unfortunate.

But in NY (another place designed to stifle independent thought), Larry Sharpe was to run on the Libertarian ticket - he got denied ballot access for whatever nonsense reason...I guess not enough in the ol payola fund. But I mean, that's a legit guy, backed by Andrew Yang...and I mean, you can't even place a vote for him because your people made rules to keep them raking in all of our money and outputting almost nothing...sometimes a net negative.

"This movie sucks."
Want to leave?
"No!"
Want to go see another movie?
"No! Hmph!"
All right, well wh-
"This movie sucks."

*shrug* cool clubhouse, dudes...

[MR25]

"Your people" the hell are you talking about? You think this is another "teams" thing?

Honestly - did you read the article? It seems like you didn't, otherwise I feel like it would be easy to understand where Troy and VLB are coming from instead of attributing it to "grave dancing"

[MR25]

The only reason I ask is because what you think is being discussed WRT to the article, and what everyone else seems to be discussing, is 2 separate things.

[Viva la Ben]

mikey can’t speak for what is in the article, but writes walls of gibberish attempting to speak for people itt.

[King Colby]

The only reason I ask is because what you think is being discussed WRT to the article, and what everyone else seems to be discussing, is 2 separate things.

I honestly thought mikey was responding to this comment that accompanied the Twitter link...

"So about the big l protest vote. Looks like it’s getting pulled off the table"

[MR25]

But those comments aren't without context, is my point. Namely, the article that the comment was referring to.

[CBear3]

Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, South Carolina and Nebraska sue Biden to block student loan forgiveness:

“President Biden’s unlawful political play puts the self-wrought college-loan debt on the backs of millions of hardworking Americans who are struggling to pay their utility bills and home loans in the midst of Biden’s inflation,” Ms. Rutledge said in a statement on Thursday. “President Biden does not have the power to arbitrarily erase the college debt of adults who chose to take out those loans.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/us/p ... -debt.html

The admin quietly pulled FFEL’s from the program, with a consolidation date of today rather than the end of October and there’s still no real guidance about how it’s supposed to work. There went our forgiveness.

Moral of the story, do whatever it takes to get every handout possible even when you don’t need it. If we’d have consolidated to get the COVID pause even though we didn’t need it we’d be getting it forgiven now.