Dunno. It's one thing to have Daddy shit all over you, but to have a snowflake librul call you a girlyman? Ouch!
I don't think it moves the needle. The fact that Ted Cruz is OK with Trump grabbing him by the pussy does not mean Beto is a Texas badass. It means Cruz is just fine with not doing anything about Trump insulting his family. Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee dismisses Taylor Swift fans as 13-year-old girls. So @taylorswift13 has every right to be political but it won’t impact election unless we allow 13 yr old girls to vote. Still with #MarshaBlackburn— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 8, 2018 Comments are EPIC!!!
Good indeed.... BTW, the available evidence suggests 13+10 = old enough to vote but young enough to still be influenced by a pop star. https://t.co/OpvPhEYgY1— Adam Ragusea (@aragusea) October 9, 2018 1049754721718886401 is not a valid tweet id pic.twitter.com/qhOQssT3IK— Christine Cooper💪🙋♀️🦹♀️ 🇨🇦 (@coopSpeak) October 9, 2018
Every time I see his name I want to start singing it to the tune of "Bucket T." "Huckabee-bee-bee bee Huckabee..." Chico "What's grey, has big ears anna trunk?" Groucho "That's irrelevant!" Chico "Hey! That's the right answer!"
Mike Huckabee is what happens when a bunch of kissasses consistently tell you that you're funny when you're not.
A Democrat acting like a Republican (wants a border wall in friggin Indiana) while channeling Jonah Ryan chopping wood: The folksy chopping. The patronizing display of his conservative values. Donnelly is basically one vest away from this being a “Gus van Sant Psychoremake”-type situation. The ad is too obviously real (and awful) to even count as parody. https://www.fastcompany.com/90253998/senator-donnelly-campaign-ad-jonah-ryans-ad-veep
This seems like a race to go after every potential vote. So if he can pull more votes away from Rafael than he looses to Rafael, that is good.
I didn't realize until recently he comes form a political family. And, yeah, I hope he does, too, eventually.
I saw a ton of Congressional campaign ads in Detroit this weekend. the GOP ones dont explicitly state their party affiliation. Just their names.
Go more rural and you will see the opposite. Some of the districts that are long shot (and would mean a tsunami if they happen) are with candidates that avoid talking national politics, avoid talking about trump and "bad talk" Nansi Pelosi. https://www.economist.com/united-st...rebuild-their-relationship-with-rural-america
I notice that (mostly) Republican men don't go after (mostly) Democratic women too hard. They don't have Trump powers. OTOH the NJ senate race saw Hugin the Republican trot out "Menendez allegedly slept with underage Dominican hookers" ads last week. That one might go all the way back when Christie was federal prosecutor. The Bushies wanted their prosecutors to attack Democrats to get passing grades. Seems quaint in the Trumpozoic Era.
re the thread title, maybe no one should use twitter https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...itter-polarization-echo-chambers-social-media The researchers were testing the collision between two popular models. In one, “contact between opposing groups can challenge stereotypes that develop in the absence of positive interactions between them.” In the other, “exposure to those with opposing political views may create backfire effects that exacerbate political polarization.” It was, in other words, a test of the simple theory: Does hearing out the other side make us less polarized, or more? The backfire theorists won the day. The results of the month-long exposure to popular, authoritative voices from the other side of the aisle was an increase in issue-based polarization. “We find that Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative posttreatment,” write the authors. “Democrats exhibited slight increases in liberal attitudes after following a conservative Twitter bot, although these effects are not statistically significant.” I find myself concurring with the final paragraph During our conversation, Bail said something that actually made me laugh. The studies that show intergroup contact reduces polarization and suspicion also show that that contact needs to have certain features — it needs to be positive, there need to be shared goals, there ideally should be a reason for cooperation. “Is Twitter capable of providing the context where people can deliver the intimate, interpersonal, positive contact needed for this?” He asked. The question answers itself.
The smartest guy I know won't use Twitter, he says it degrades conversations and makes people stupider for using it. He's old, so I suppose he would say that, but I imagine that he's also correct. He's not often wrong.
Pfffft....those "[insert world class player here] to Arsenal" rumors aren't going to read themselves!