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  1. Just kidding, but assuming Putin to be one of his creditors, and abandoning Trump faster than anyone else.
  2. If the lady that wrote that opinion piece for the LA Times thinks holding the response in the kitchen is regressive she might find better examples by looking in the mirror. From the link: "The 42-year-old rising GOP star wore a understated solid-green blouse, a no-nonsense hairdo and minimal makeup. But the look was so generic, she could have been a nonspecific character in a pharmaceutical ad if only she were gathering flowers at an outdoor market or riding a bike in a sleeveless shirt to celebrate the retreat of her moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis." Of course, maybe that's just her thing and she would have equally picked apart the look of any Republican male that might have given the response. I saw little of what I would consider legitimate criticism in that article. Maybe that's just me. ...no need to point out though...that Trump is so much worse it baffles me how any reasonable person could bring themselves to vote for him.
  3. Yes. But it not being so doesn't lead to what I see as Vat's hyperbole, that he has yet to double down on...unlike Swansont, who claims it's legitimate criticism. (his term for it) Thus the "?) and the "Surely not") You read far more into my words than is actually there...with a little help from INow even when I make it clear I don't agree with it. Not that I ever claimed Warren and Britt were doing the EXACT same thing in the kitchen...I clearly stated otherwise. But it's hardly a stretch to consider both the SOTU address, and the SOTU response, very much in part campaign speeches.
  4. So...you're saying it's okay if woman is there cooking, but not campaigning? Surely not! Here just for you is a photo of Warren campaigning, not cooking, in her kitchen: Cheers! That's certainly a more credible line of "legitimate criticism", IMO.
  5. I guess because I thought it was obvious that it was intended to make the Senator seem "down to Earth", someone voters would feel they could relate to. Why do you think Elizabeth Warren used the kitchen for political purposes? Why do you think she would do that if she thought it might purvey a message of encouraging female subordination? She obviously thought it would make her seem less stiff and academic. I don't think she would have done at at the expense of equality for women. The current Republicans don't show much respect for themselves, their religion, or their claimed values, when they toe the line with Trump, IMO, but I don't think "putting a woman in the kitchen" was what they were selling with their SOTU response. Trumps MAGA crowd can only vote once.
  6. Here is the "legitimate criticism" you're defending? A woman's place is in the kitchen. Katie's true calling is wife and mommy - the Senator thing is just a hobby that the Patriarch of the Home has kindly permitted her to do. Never underestimate the regressiveness of the American right-wing. Sorry you couldn't access the SNL video. If I can find an all-region version, will post it. I don't know much about Katie Britt, but I doubt that was her thought process in choosing to do the rebuttal from her kitchen. Whatever Vat, or INow, might think of her politics, I very much doubt they believe it was either. Maybe you can explain why you believe it is, or for some reason want to defend it as "legitimate criticism". Surely you're joking, Mr. Swansont!
  7. Substantially yes. Which was why I didn't sign on to it but admitted to the "poke with a rhetorical twig". To wit: I don't see it as the EXACT same thing, just that I was well aware of Warren's use of the kitchen as a political setting. Nor do I fault her for it. I don't consider any of us insincere partisan hacks, nor do I think you all can't be bothered watching their conduct or beliefs or voting records. But I think we can be biased. Not that I believed Vat's hyperbole was intended as any more serious than INow's satire. Plus I thought it was funny.
  8. You tell him Swansont! ...and don't let him get away with "insincere partisan hacks" thing either!
  9. That one. This is the political humour thread, after all. (Though the youtube I posted is rather well done, I have no disrespect for Elizabeth Warren)
  10. Here's a better...oh wait no...that's Elizabeth Warren Maybe she's just a Elizabeth Warren Wannabe?
  11. I certainly hope you're not trying to imply that Mike Johnson isn't the second coming of Moses...subservient on Earth only to Trump himself... https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/house-speaker-mike-johnson-moses-speech-rcna128126 "Or so Johnson thought. According to Rolling Stone magazine, the speaker was “perhaps unaware that the event was being recorded for the NACL Facebook page.” The video is no longer available, but Rolling Stone reports that Johnson thanked the organization for not letting journalists in. “I’ll tell you a secret,” he said, “since media is not here.” God had spoken to him throughout Republicans’ weekslong effort to find a new Speaker, Johnson said. Eventually, God revealed to Johnson that he would be a Moses-like figure leading the GOP and the country through a “Red Sea moment.”"
  12. Currently next in line are the two seated behind Biden in last night's State of the Union Address. Kamala Harris and the kid that was making faces to her left.
  13. When you put it that way I feel a little more fortunate. Very few around me have much good to say about Trump.
  14. Don't mind me. I thought we were done with Trump after the crap he pulled after the last election. Apparently not. Old Joe may be holding it together better than expected, or not...depending on your expectations...but he's not getting any younger. We are much to close to a return of Trump. It's like watching a train wreck.
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