O-Trap

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On Mar 18, 2019:

  • O-Trap replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 01:23 pm
  • posted by iclfan2

    They're insane. Kamala and Pocahontas also said they would be for adding supreme court seats. They want Trump to win again.

    Throw Beto in that mix.  He was saying something like up to 15 SCOTUS judges would be interesting.

On Mar 16, 2019:

On Mar 15, 2019:

  • O-Trap replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 04:33 pm
  • posted by iclfan2

    That’s a good argument to raise the age, not lower it. 

    The problem is that it's subjective.  How dumb/ignorant/naive/undeveloped do you have to be?
     

    posted by jmog

    This is more of an argument for raising the voting age to 21, not lowing it to 16.

     

    I wasn't actually suggesting that.  I knew plenty who were dumb at 21, too.  It's subjective.

    My only point is that since we allow 18-year-olds to vote, 16-year-olds aren't THAT much of a stretch.  We do let them drive, after all, and even get married with provisions in some states (including Ohio).

    One might claim that, to an even greater degree, it's a blemish on democracy: that idiots in large numbers have the ability to make, determine, or influence decisions that involve everyone.

     

On Mar 14, 2019:

  • O-Trap replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 11:37 pm
  • posted by Spock

    I have seen this video during a senate hearing.......you scratch your head and wonder if she knows that Wells Fargo is a bank because her line of questions implies she thinks they build pipelines

    Or operates them.  ;)
     

    posted by iclfan2

    It isn’t just the new ones who are dumbasses, don’t forget Pelosi is still a moron. Today she said she supports lowering the voting age to 16. Does she not realize how fucking stupid 16 year olds are? (She must, bc she knows they’d mostly vote democrat). 

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/434115-pelosi-says-she-backs-lowering-voting-age-to-16

    Here's the thing: I'm not sure 18-year-olds are that much better informed and wiser.

    At least I wasn't.  I was a naive idiot.

     

  • O-Trap replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 10:34 am
  • posted by geeblock

    Huh?

    My guess is that this is some kind of loose allusion to the people busted for the bribery stuff.

    If not, I don't feel bad.  Even that was a stretch of a connection.

  • O-Trap replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 10:33 am
  • posted by gut

    Morning Joe basically said exactly that recently.  Said she's a backbench player and getting far too much attention.

    If anyone wasn't sure of that already, her attempt to take down the CEO of Wells Fargo should put the exclamation point on it.  She looks like a flustered simpleton, leaning almost exclusively on a series of non sequitur questions.

    Whether you do or don't like her policies, I think you have to agree that she's not exactly the best spokesperson for them.

     

On Mar 13, 2019:

  • O-Trap replied to "Making fun of friends' grammar" at 03:30 pm
  • posted by justincredible

    I hope their not English teachers.

    Elementary teachers, so low-level English IS in the curriculum they teach.

    Also ... nice ...

  • O-Trap replied to "What's outraging you today?" at 03:27 pm
  • posted by geeblock

    I cant believe businesses are still sending out Junk mail and flyers and catalogs ect...is there a way to make it stop?

    They do it because, believe it or not, it's still profitable.

    I didn't know about the link above, but it's worth checking out.

On Mar 12, 2019:

  • O-Trap replied to "Making fun of friends' grammar" at 06:12 pm
  • posted by FatHobbit

    I tend to only make fun of someone's grammar if I think they should know better.

    Well, they are educators.  Both of them.

On Mar 11, 2019:

  • O-Trap replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 02:44 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    AOC is a moron. 

    I saw where she was angry at the fact that “in America, if you don’t work, you starve.” Uhhhh, yeah. That’s kinda how it should work, no? 

    How I've seen this teased out amounts to "the robots are coming for our jobs."  The worry among some is that there will be, at some point, significantly fewer jobs than people who wish to work them.

    But I mean ... if we've only got 12 more years before climate change kills us all, does it really matter?