SE Hoya Containment Thread (aka Politics)
Welcome to the Official SE Politics Thread. The aim here is for high quality political discussion and debate. The concomitant aim here is for that high quality discussion and debate to NOT devolve into MAD posting, BAD posting, trolling, name-calling our community fracture.
We embark on this project hoping to encourage fair and thorough exchanges of views, and also fair and thorough advocacy for positions. We should learn a lot.
Rules
1. Posters are required to have 50 posts in SE over the last 365 days. This thread is not a proxy for the Politics forum, or an arena for goal-based issue advocacy from people we don't even know.
2. Pure devil's advocacy will not be tolerated unless it is identified by that poster as the aim of the particular post. There will be no run of the mill nitpickery for the sake of nitpickery.
3. This will be enforced loosely, but you are obligated to outline your basic position on whatever issue you're debating. We will not have loaded, gotcha-style internet-standard race to the bottom terrible posting in this thread. That does not mean you have to state every closely-held belief in every debate. You just can't hide the ball. "I'm not sure what my position is" is a completely valid position to hold.
4. Insults are out. You will not resort to that in this thread, because that will ruin this thread.
5. If you demonstrate an ongoing commitment to lowering the quality of discourse through incessant trolling or simply being really terrible, you'll be removed from this thread.
6. These are subject to significant revision as this thread develops.
There is a tradition in SE of better, fuller, funnier discussion of a really wide range of topics. Let's continue that here.
Speech was better than it had any business being and he didn't try to take the nomination back nor mention Hannibal Lecter. Wins all around
they are a fun football team to watch, but it's really hard for me to get past the incredible racism. the tomahawk chant is awful. the racist name is awful. the face paint is awful.
but imo the worst is the pregame war drum and chant. jfc man
also, Kelce is old. and I think losing Sneed is going to hurt them more than people realize.
lmao they sent a billionaire governor after bernie with 10x his rizz you absolutely hate to see it
RFK just announced he’s doing an address on Friday. Widely expected to be him dropping out and endorsing Trumpy
What a journey nobody asked for or needed
accidentally caught 5 seconds of that thing and mike pence's foreign policy adviser is at the podium? yammering on about how great the genocide is, i imagine. probably more republicans speaking there than progressives lol #vbnmw
I can’t wrap my head around RFK endorsing trump being helpful to trump
If the idea that would be trump voters were voting RFK they knew they were throwing their vote away without voting Biden or Kamabla. They’ll still throw their vote away by not voting, it’s not like suddenly they’ll vote Trumpy cuz RFK says it’s ok
i assume it'll help trump a little bit, but yeah a lot of them are probably "double-haters" who'll vote for some other freak or just stay home. would be interested to see the poleing on it
saw bernie was there yesterday ... he might qualify, even though he's a zionist
Holy ****ing god Bill might be more far gone than Biden
I can’t wrap my head around RFK endorsing trump being helpful to trump
If the idea that would be trump voters were voting RFK they knew they were throwing their vote away without voting Biden or Kamabla. They’ll still throw their vote away by not voting, it’s not like suddenly they’ll vote Trumpy cuz RFK says it’s ok
RFK was financed largely by GOP money. He was always supposed to be a spoiler. Polling shows he's not an effective one, but he's a nut job with no actual policy positions. He was always going to try and wiggle into cabinet job with Trump in exchange for an endorsement, but his brain worm-having, bear corpse ditching ass isn't getting anyone many votes.
The rumor dating back a few weeks was that RFK was going to endorse trump in exchange for HHS Secretary appointment and that trump was down for it
That terrifies me as much if not slightly more than trump’s presidency
the squat
John Legend doing Prince covers is pretty cool, but I dunno, it's no Kid Rock
No shame in being emotional, but Walz' kid is an ugly cryer
CNN is unwatchable bile and I truly despise tapper bash and Jones, but if there is a just and loving god on a nightly basis someone takes a **** directly into the eyeballs of Scott jennings
GENOCIDE!!!!!!
