Well fuck and now everyone is like damn everyone knows that about Murph. Well…until some tells me otherwise I stand by Fran being stupid as hell. Unless that was someone who did something extraordinary.
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Nah. Google “fran CrossFit origin”. Just a name that Glassman came up with, supposedly. There are enough people calling CrossFit lame for it to be okay that you didn’t know the origin behind a name.
This is a great example for outrage over someone saying something that someone else could conceivably find offensive. And look - you didn’t even get fired from your job!
Tough to say. I’d like to think that in the interest of the country you could find it in yourself to vote for an “opposing” party one time to get the worst of what the Republicans have to offer out of office and send them a message that his kind of rhetoric is not tolerated in America, but that’s probably too big a pill to swallow. Maybe hold your nose and cast a 3rd party vote ? Again, perhaps too big an ask.
A republican senate majority all but gridlocks a Dem president anyway as we saw last term for Obama. He didn’t even get his rightfully due SCOTUS pick, something they went on record saying they would deny Hilary as well.
All I wanted was a second season of That’s My Bush!
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Well…can we at least be hopeful that there will not be 1, 375, 463 Benghazi hearings?
I did. After a lifetime of voting Democrat, I voted for Romney in 2012.
It’s not. I don’t know about you, but I only vote for president once every four years. It is actually quite easy, just as easy as everything else I vote on that day.
It really isn’t. Voting is quite easy.
The trouble, as you might imagine, is that people don’t always see things the same way you do. I’m more concerned with the actual policies outlined by the Democrats being implemented. You’re more concerned with the mysterious butterfly effects from Presidential tweets and statements you don’t like. To each their own. Your point of view is perfectly valid.
Given the bad human outcomes from Democrat policies and the fact that the Democrats have been on the wrong side of history for the entire history of their party’s existence, I’m not about to take any actions that would move their national policy platform ahead one bit.
That’s just me.
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Democrats were on the wrong side of history throughout their parties existence and yet you were a lifelong Democrat until 2012?
Correct.
I did not look very closely at their policies at all until around the mid 2000’s, and I didn’t get around to looking closely at the outcomes of their policies until the last decade or so. If you would have asked me who was responsible for Jim Crow and segregation in 1998, I would have said “Republicans, duh, everyone knows they’re the racists”.
Simply stated, I was an extremely low-information voter.
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The problem is blaming any party for that. Racists were responsible and if we think that either party has members with clean hands we are simply trying to avoid seeing the dirt on our hands.
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Surely you understand I’m not talking about how difficult it is to physically vote for something, yes? Let’s not get silly here.
In any event this is probably more time than I’ve spent on t nation in all of last year combined, and I thank you for a civil conversation about things but I just don’t have the time to give this I would need to in order to continue at A decent standard so I’m going to tap out here.
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I wouldn’t say Republicans are racist. I would say that they are now pretty much the exclusive home of white supremacists and white nationalists if they vote for one of the two major parties.
While what you said is true I think by 1998 the parties had flipped enough that those who favored segregation or a return to Jim Crow laws were Republican voters.
Those people haven’t exactly been quiet about the fact that they think they have found the perfect representative in the Republican President.
I suppose if one wants to do so (as it’s constantly brought up by some) they can focus on where Democrats or Republicans were decades or centuries ago. But that doesn’t really change where they are now.
Things get silly every time I find myself explaining an opinion on things that are not Donald Trump, because the conversation always gets pulled to Donald Trump somehow.
Why would you comment on outrage mob behavior when Donald Trump is posting on twitter?
And here we are, a few dozen silly posts later.
That’s every other year, isn’t it? Male namesone year, female the next? Maybe I remember wrong, but I can think of several hurricanes that had male names.
You would remember hurricanes having male names because they do but it is relatively recently that we’ve started doing that - for a long time it was female only.
Interesting that this was/is seen as a negative thing though. You could look at it like a hurricane is a destructive thing or you could look at it like an extremely powerful and unstoppable force…
Actually, the KKK generally hates Trump because his daughter is Jewish (and, well, all his kids married Jewish people).
The Grand Dragon endorsed Hillary:
Not sure if I follow his logic, but the video on Youtube is pretty amusing. Maybe he was a sucker for the freebies:
Edit: Forum being buggy on me again so no idea if this will end up showing up or getting swallowed up or something.
Do they? ( see below from quick google search). I think one could find an overwhelming amount of evidence that white supermacists/white nationalists have flocked to Republican candidates for quite a few recent years now. I mean one can simply look at a picture of Congress and see which side white supremacists would be most happy with the results.
Trump’s advisory team has been composed of Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon who have long championed the ideals of white nationalism. I shouldn’t say that all white nationalists and supremacists vote Trump because that’s impossible to know or prove. But I will say it would be overwhelmingly easier to find white supremacist/nationalist supporters for him than any of his opposition. And in much greater numbers.
“Why we voted for Donald Trump”: David Duke explains the white supremacist…
The former KKK leader sees it as part of the president’s vision for America.
KKK’s official newspaper supports Donald Trump for president
The Trump campaign criticized the Crusader article and called the Ku Klux Klan newspaper “repulsive.”
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A quick google search would show at the minimum the Obama sticker or button completely right wing fabrication. As for the others I would have to dig, but that was a 2 second search to determine it was bullshit. I’m not 100% sure of the point of the picture but it’s clearly taken from a right wing website or by someone who wanted to push an at least partially false agenda.
If you are bound and determined to see confederate flag hats, bumper stickers, shirts, etc the rallies to go to would be Trump ones. Not to say it would be impossible to see one at a Clinton, Obama, Biden whoever recently. But your best chances in modern history would be to go to Republican events.
More comes out about Glassman.
So I guess when people were calling it a cult, they were right.
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