Random Politics & Religion #00

It's perfect, perfect, how that video cuts out the part where he pledges to support the nominee so long as the Senate is properly consulted.

I posted the full speech before but don't feel like looking through my post history but it's embedded in this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/us/politics/joe-biden-argued-for-delaying-supreme-court-picks-in-1992.html?_r=0

Relevant part at about 2:44.

Perhaps I should have specified FULL context.Butt ache alert

/looks at all the consulting Obama has done with the senate.



/yawns

His nominee has been meeting with the Senate. You should probably learn Checkers first.

Whoa, tone down the pictures, Altima. Chess is clearly a metaphor for racial aggression and violence and will not be tolerated. My company, Generation Snowflake Inc., is making a new game where there are no sides, the colors of the pieces represent various cultures, and every piece moves in exactly the same way. It's called "Tolerance". Check out our Kickstarter! Instead of taking money for it, we will be collecting cribs, pacifiers, and blankies for victims of Donald Trump chalkings at college campuses nationwide.

Politicians flip, politicians flop. Gotta tow the line you're getting paid to tow. Saying what they gotta say, like a stripper or a ***. Not as easy on the eyes though :(

Did you guys like the Obama's tango?

Despite ideology or political positions, I though it was nice. Tango is so Argentina.

Well you can tell he's not really good at it, the girl was leading.

Whoa now there bub, some people on this website doesn't like it when you call Obama a ***.

They will call you racist for it.

Frankly, I think it's insulting to strippers and prostitutes to compare politicians to them.

Yeah, strippers and prostitutes:
- actually contribute to the economy, rather than wreck it
- actually show up for work
- make it clear up front whether or not they're going to *** you
- etc, etc

In stupid racial news:

Bernie Sanders criticized for saying white people don't know what it's like to be poor


I know this is 3 weeks old, but I just came across this today.

This is just another example of Sanders pandering to a crowd just for votes. Just like pretty much every politician ever.

Now if people will wake up to realize this......

No one ever says he doesn't pander to voters or small donators?

At least not that I've seen.

They're clearly wrong if they've said that.

He just doesn't pander nearly as much to big-money donors. He still does that, too, obviously, because he's a politician and that's what they do.

There are people who say he doesn't do that at all, but obviously they don't understand how things work.

As far as his actual statements, making any blanket statements about race is misguided, at best. In this case I think he's sort of bungled the point he was trying to make.

It's true that it's extremely difficult, borderline impossible, for anyone who doesn't live in predominantly black, poor areas to understand or empathize with people who live in such a situation. As the number of whites in such areas is extremely low, his point is valid, though again...made poorly.

He does himself no favors by presenting his point in a poor way, which is a bungle he's made several times, to be honest.

Truthfully I think his pandering attempts are so blatantly obvious and badly done because he's actually not that good at pandering.

Which, in a roundabout way, is sort of a nice thing. But it certainly does him no favors garnering votes.

He nominated the person that Orrin Hatch, the most senior republican senator, recommended.

All I know is that pawn has done a very poor job of defending his king. Look at him, standing around watching others kill his liege, nary a finger raised in protection.

What a terrible, terrible guard. He should be ashamed!

The way these people make it sound like they are taken out on the street and beaten up by cops every day. You know, the usual rape/pillage/murder storyline we hear every now and then from third-world countries.

While I may not know what it's like to live in those areas, that doesn't mean I don't know how to help improve everyone's lives, including theirs. But why should anyone listen to me, even if evidence shows that my ideas are correct?

Then run for office.

You make it clear you have money.

You've clearly got these amazing plans and ideas.

Do something about it.

He just realized he was only a pawn his whole life.

Excuse me.

Have you ever lived in a trailer park before?

I've spent most of my life either living in trailer parks or in cheap run down housing with entirely too many brothers and sisters under one roof. I am thankful that I was the fifth child and didn't have to sell drugs and steal like my oldest brother did to afford food and school clothes for the rest of us.

Now there is a whole long backstory to all this but the short version is that I grew up dirt poor white trash, the kind you liberals make fun of on a daily basis. So please tell me all about how I can't possibly understand the crushing despair and harsh lifestyle of impoverished people.

Nobody will vote for me, I'm a Texan and people still remember Bush. Ted Cruz isn't helping me out either.

I know that people will vote/not vote for me because of where I live, I know that people are that petty.

I rather not waste the money.

...you lived in a predominantly black urban area?

I was speaking to the very specific situation at hand.

It could be that I'm giving Bernie to much credit for the situation he's describing, and he was in fact being broad and just wrong.

I'm willing to admit being wrong on that if that's the case.

But if you assume that I am speaking to the fact that no one white can understand crushing poverty, you're talking to someone else who once resided in a trailer, whose room was smaller than a standard single-person prison cell.

Believe me, I'm sorry if I gave that impression, because I'm painfully clear on the subject myself.


Please do not make assumptions about me. I don't make fun of anyone who doesn't bring it upon themselves, and my definition of that is decidedly narrower than yours, I assure you.

Do you hold any regional office?

Effect changes at your own local level. Make them work. Prove everyone wrong.

...I might. I mean, it's not like I have much else to do now.

Here, here.

I look forward to being proved wrong.

Because really, what's the worst that happens if I'm wrong?

"Oh look. You were right. I'm better off now! Damn!"

he's busy educating the poor misguided misanthropes that post on this website... all twenty six of us.. >.>

because if he can sway just one person on a rarely visited forum section of a third party hack website of a dying fourteen year old on line japanese video game... then... he's one step closer to...achieving his lifetime goal of.... making...

ok I have no idea what happens if he actually winds up convincing anyone of anything...

but if you have an electron microscope you can almost see the conservative cracks starting to form in pleebo's progressive liberal armor... after seven or eight more years who knows what will happen?

Except you wouldn't be effected.

Hell, most of my ideas require federal-level intervention. It's mostly tax law.

Texas doesn't have a state income tax for individuals.

it's his voice... dear gods.. if him or hillary wins I'm going to remove the speakers from my television...holy crap