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As per SOP, you're coming here and telling a group largely made up of moderates what moderates believe, based on what you've been spoon-fed by your right-wind media diet. Does it take a lot of effort to remain so willfully ignorant that you post this in a thread where several people, including me, have detailed their support for Biden? There's zero doubt that he's increasingly looking like a horrible campaigner right now, but that doesn't negate what he has, and could continue to do as President.

I know it's 2024 and we're all about progressiveness, but I'm just not sure if America is ready for a duck president.

Who is shocked? Contrary to what the Fine Folks of Fox are telling you, it's not like everybody on the left thought Joe was 47 years old.

At least he didn't launch the same thread 3 times. He's undoubtedly not as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as I'd like to see, but I think at least 45% of the 'baffled' look is trying to process the random streams of bs coming out of Trump's mouth every time they un-mute his mic.

I think he's skirting the line by not attacking you but rather 'your plan'....still came across as extraordinarily dickish though (not Jakee, just 'his post').

I envision that we'll see Brent coming with data from the moment he peed in the ocean as evidence that these are not the hottest it's ever been...

I took him for more of a Truth Social guy

Why wouldn’t he be confident, with his unimpeachable record of predictions?

Of course! Everybody knows that a battery at 80% capacity is absolutely useless. It's scientifically impossible for such a thing to keep the fridge powered and food from spoiling until the mains come back on.

WHOOOOOSH

Next you'll say a hamburger isn't food because it can't produce a calf.

You've said some weird shit here over the years, but now you're claiming a charged battery isn't a power source???

If that’s your interpretation of my lack of desire to debate your interpretation of NOAA papers, I’ll try to restrain my tears.

Silly Brent, Trix are for trolls

A single data point with a <1% change you claim as proof there's nothing wrong, while ignoring every single indicator that goes in the opposite direction. Fuck, now you got me craving some Lucky Charms

I think the vast majority of the protesters were trying to call attention to 30,000+ deaths in Gaza, the majority of them civilians, and 10's of thousands more living in absolutely horrific conditions. That strikes me as a cause worth raising a stink about. A few nutters on faculty got a pretty disproportionate amount of coverage...their positions are unfortunate but hey: if a nutter can be Speaker of the House, why can't one be an adjunct professor? Antisemitism is disgusting and should be squashed whenever/wherever it rears its head...it's unfortunate that antisemites were using these protests to elevate their vile position; they're just as bad as Hamas in my opinion. A couple things that might cross your mind: - It's possible to oppose Hamas and oppose the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians. - It's possible to oppose the actions of the far-right Israeli government without being an anti-semite. - Despite what Fox tells you, US universities aren't the bastions of antisemitism they're being made out to be. Most of the tiki torches are being lit off-campus.

I saw a whole lot of LinkedIn connections referring to the pro-Palestine protests on university campuses a while back as 'pro-Hamas'....I guess some people are allergic to nuance.

I guess my timeline got a bit blurry, thanks for doing the digging to clarify.

Didn't he disappear as soon as Rush Limbaugh passed?

I wasn't sure if he said that with respect to the verdict, or if he'd just seen the browser history on his son's burner phone.

As I see it, the only options this cycle are Trump or Biden. Anybody else is a spoiler...that's just the realities of the 2-party system and it's not going to change anytime soon. I'm not Biden's biggest fan, but he's done a lot of good, he seems like a decent human, and most of all he's not Trump. The disaster of a 2nd (or as he himself has floated, potentially a 3rd) Trump term is hard to overstate. I like BIGUN...I always find his posts here insightful and I remember having a great fucking time sharing a beer with him at the Dead Man Boogie at Skydive Temple back in 2009, and I think we did a few jumps at SDD back in the day...that is to say, I respect the guy and I'm not gonna shit on his plan to vote for neither. That said, IMO a vote for neither is a vote for Trump, since the outcome is pre-decided as one of them winning by a razor-thin margin. Or we can have 4(+) more years of tax cuts for billionaires, rolling back infrastructure progress and promises of a new infrastructure plan/ACA replacement 'In 2 weeks'...

Or completely misinformed. Fox has got a pretty impressive reality distortion machine up and running.

I appreciate the compliment and back at ya man.... I almost didn't post that as I was worried it'd come across as taking a shot at you; that wasn't the intent, it was just an opportunity to make a cheap Tiger Woods driving joke. The triviality of this place waxes and wanes. Your presence helps steer it in the right direction, IMHO.

I know that when I think about safe driving, Tiger Woods is the first name that comes to mind...

There’s definitely some truth to that. I know quite a few only children who went on to ensure they had at least two kids. That said, there’s a difference between what constitutes a ‘large family’ today vs a couple generations ago, no? I’ve now got the Jim Gaffigan bit stuck in my head where he’s talking about needing to say ‘Catholic’ after the family size: “6 kids, Catholic”