The Otherworldly Circus - The America Thread

[manutd/dogs]

I think Harris team is wary of gotcha moments that could do more harm than good. Kamala went on the Call her Daddy pod the other week, but as far as I know, the chat was fairly basic and didn't dig too deep, much different to what can be expected from Joe.

Yep, rumor had it that they needed all of the questions beforehand, which is simply impossible on a long-form podcast. I really don't get it though - if she's such a brilliant prosecutor then surely a simple conversation answering questions from a fairly neutral podcaster should be no issue. How the hell is she supposed to run the USA if she can't even do that without training wheels?

 

[Pugz89]

Yep, rumor had it that they needed all of the questions beforehand, which is simply impossible on a long-form podcast. I really don't get it though - if she's such a brilliant prosecutor then surely a simple conversation answering questions from a fairly neutral podcaster should be no issue. How the hell is she supposed to run the USA if she can't even do that without training wheels?

It'd also be interesting to compare the numbers of the Trump JRE and Harris JRE episodes, if the latter eventuated. Trump episode has nearly 39 million views on Youtube, and that isn't including Spotify either. Very decent numbers.

 

[manutd/dogs]

It'd also be interesting to compare the numbers of the Trump JRE and Harris JRE episodes, if the latter eventuated. Trump episode has nearly 39 million views on Youtube, and that isn't including Spotify either. Very decent numbers.

Especially since YouTube hilariously shadowbanned it from showing up in search results. You just know that if Trump had somehow bombed then they'd be trumpeting it from the rooftops.

 

[Norm De Guerre]

Why the **** would Harris go on Joe "Id like to feel a dick inside me" Rogan's Brocast?

The guy is the ultimate dumb unfunny hack.

So the quintessential right winger.

 

[Thunderoad]

So much credulousness on display.

So, so much.

 

[manutd/dogs]

Why the **** would Harris go on Joe "Id like to feel a dick inside me" Rogan's Brocast?

The guy is the ultimate dumb unfunny hack.

So the quintessential right winger.

Maybe, just maybe, because it's the biggest podcast in the world and that the Democrats are exceedingly desperate because the American people have realised that their candidate is a laughable, failing automaton, who only knows how to call Trump a fascist and remind us she came from a middle-class family?

 

[Pugz89]

Why the **** would Harris go on Joe's Brocast?

The guy is the ultimate dumb unfunny hack.

So the quintessential right winger.

Its literally the most listened to/watched podcast in the world. Would be pretty good publicity for Harris to go on it i'd have thought. To label him a right winger is a bit laughable as well tbh. In fact, he'd actually lean left on many social policies.
Has also had quite a range of guests on his podcast over the years covering both sides of the aisle and many different topics.

Just had a browse of the catalogue of his previous guests which include:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - human rights activist and author of "Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights."
Cenk Uygur - political commentator and political activist. He is also host and co-founder of “The Young Turks”
Quentin Tarantino - Film director
Tom Delonge - Blink 182
Judd Apatow - Film director
Louis Theroux - Documentary maker
Bill Maher - TV show host
Bernie Sanders
Annie Jacobsen - Pulitzer Prize finalist, investigative journalist, and bestselling author. Wrote “Nuclear War: A Scenario,”
Amanda Knox - spent four years in an Italian prison following a wrongful conviction for the murder of her roommate.
Abby Martin - journalist, host of "The Empire Files" series, and director of the 2019 documentary "Gaza Fights for Freedom."
Shane Smith - Canadian-American journalist. He also is the co-founder and CEO of the international media company VICE.
Ana Kasparian - producer and co-host of “The Young Turks” and also teaches journalism at Cal State Northridge.
Bari Weiss - American opinion writer & editor. In 2017, Weiss joined The New York Times as a staff editor of opinion section.
Iliza Shlesinger - comedian, host, and writer. She was the 2008 winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing.
Anthony Kiedis - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Snoop Dogg
Demi Lovato
Miley Cyrus
Macaulay Culkin
James Hetfield.

 

[King Harold]

People on here now not happy for a normal human being in charge anymore

Much rather the bloke they know!
Cheering on the stable genius , who just happens to be a criminal, and narcissistic moron.

 

[manutd/dogs]

People on here now not happy for a normal human being in charge anymore

Much rather the bloke they know!
Cheering on the stable genius , who just happens to be a criminal, and narcissistic moron.

After watching your incensed rants for years now about the Orange Guy, I actually worry for the state of your health, Harold. Yes, he's a terrible human, we get it. We hear you and validate your concerns. Now go outside and touch some grass. Things will be okay, even if he gets in. I promise.

p.s. I painted you a portrait:

 

[Thunderoad]

After watching your incensed rants for years now about the Orange Guy, I actually worry for the state of your health, Harold. Yes, he's a terrible human, we get it. We hear you and validate your concerns. Now go outside and touch some grass. Things will be okay, even if he gets in. I promise.

p.s. I painted you a portrait:

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Don't get personal and perhaps you should take your own advice.

 

[Dogs 13]

I've done my civic duty. My ballot arrived at my county election office and was accepted. It will be counted at 7pm Tuesday Chicago time when the polls close in Illinois.

I've also contributed again to the Harris campaign and to the campaign of a cousin who is running for a fourth term for the Illinois State House of Representatives.

I shall miss my dozen emails every day from the Harris campaign, Democrats Abroad, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

On SM-A135F using BigFooty.com mobile app

Hopefully the ballot box won’t be burned.

 

[manutd/dogs]

Don't get personal and perhaps you should take you're own advice.

Mate, I've followed this thread for a long while and have seen insult after insult hurled at anyone brave enough to espouse a different view to left-wing-approved groupthink, including from our resident monarch, with the result of them somewhat sanely vacating this thread so it can resume its groupthink circlejerk status. Usually while the mods have sat back and done nothing.

I ventured on here trying to discuss the nuts and bolts of the election process, which I've always found fascinating, but all I've seen from the usual suspects in here is infantile drive-bys. If all you have in your intellectual grab-bag is shouting 'Orange-Man-bad' ad-nauseum or that Vance has funny eyes, then someone is eventually going to call you on it.

 

[Thunderoad]

Mate, I've followed this thread for a long while and have seen insult after insult hurled at anyone brave enough to espouse a different view to left-wing-approved groupthink, including from our resident monarch, with the result of them somewhat sanely vacating this thread so it can resume its groupthink circlejerk status. Usually while the mods have sat back and done nothing.

I ventured on here trying to discuss the nuts and bolts of the election process, which I've always found fascinating, but all I've seen from the usual suspects in here is infantile drive-bys. If all you have in your intellectual grab-bag is shouting 'Orange-Man-bad' ad-nauseum or that Vance has funny eyes, then someone is eventually going to call you on it.

Have a spell.

 

[Fossie 32]

Mate, I've followed this thread for a long while and have seen insult after insult hurled at anyone brave enough to espouse a different view to left-wing-approved groupthink, including from our resident monarch, with the result of them somewhat sanely vacating this thread so it can resume its groupthink circlejerk status. Usually while the mods have sat back and done nothing.

I ventured on here trying to discuss the nuts and bolts of the election process, which I've always found fascinating, but all I've seen from the usual suspects in here is infantile drive-bys. If all you have in your intellectual grab-bag is shouting 'Orange-Man-bad' ad-nauseum or that Vance has funny eyes, then someone is eventually going to call you on it.

Yeah let's stop the personal insults.

Gotta admit though, I am baffled how anyone can defend Trump, not from a political point of view but just as a person.

But carry on.

 

[manutd/dogs]

Have a spell.

Oh, I have, for months. This thread is generally not a healthy or open place and my posts in it are few and dare I say way less than yours. But echo chambers are boring, and now, in this final week, when things are getting exciting? Nah, I'll be staying right here. For all its faults, this thread is a microcosm of the US itself in that it supplies not only a facsimilie of the insanity of Gameday threads, but two opposing sides het up on largely delusionary exaggerations fed by agorithmically-curated media within an ocean of unrelated but unremitting tribalism. Regardless of who wins, it's popcorn time.

 

[manutd/dogs]

Yeah let's stop the personal insults.

Gotta admit though, I am baffled how anyone can defend Trump, not from a political point of view but just as a person.

But carry on.

Agreed. You are one of the better posters on here Fossie and I wish others would lead by your and a few others examples. Fresh was the same - never insulted anyone but was hounded and insulted by most for holding different views.

I know footy is over and people need a new horse to back, but surely we are all adults capable of somewhat intelligent discussion without the childish need for insults and name-calling.

And I mostly can't stand Trump as a human. He is a narcisistic fool, but as per usual, the myopic view is just on him. I think RFK Jr and Tulsi are fantastic and the fact they are on his transition team is very encouraging. Also, as a left-wing person strongly for abortion and gun control and trans-rights and more, who loves Bernie Sanders and large elements of democratic socialism, I equally find what is behind the Democrats terrifying and sincerely hope they don't get into power. And I am equally baffled that most can't see it, but that's the beauty of disagreeing with civility and levity.

Let's hope the others in this thread are capable of the same.

 

[Charlie Bucket]

while Trump effortlessly did three.

 

[Thunderoad]

Trump: "A young man leaves for school and goes to school and the authority takes him over without parental consent and they do things to him that you don't want to know about."

He lies with absolute impunity and his credulous admirers just eat it all up.

 

[manutd/dogs]

Trump: "A young man leaves for school and goes to school and the authority takes him over without parental consent and they do things to him that you don't want to know about."

He lies with absolute impunity and his credulous admirers just eat it all up.

"Have a spell mate."

 

[Thunderoad]

"Have a spell mate."

It's odd that you have an issue with a direct quote but you have no problem beginning a post with 'Rumour has it.....'

In any case, what's even remotely personal about what I wrote?

The only circumstance you could possibly take offence at that is If you believe Trump's lie.

 

[manutd/dogs]

It's odd that you have an issue with a direct quote but you have no problem begging a post with 'Rumour has it.....'

In any case, what's even remotely personal about what I wrote?

The only circumstance you could possibly take offence at that is I'f you believe Trump's lie.

I have no issue at all, post away. You just seem a little too emotionally 'into it' with the 'Orange Man bad' stuff and I know how that can affect people, so I thought it best if you maybe had a rest, but if you're good then go for it. Maybe just take breaks and drink plenty of water.

 

[Pugz89]

Trump: "A young man leaves for school and goes to school and the authority takes him over without parental consent and they do things to him that you don't want to know about."

He lies with absolute impunity and his credulous admirers just eat it all up.

"And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world, the first time this century," Harris said.

So we've established both candidates are liars. Cool.

 

[yebach]

Why the **** would Harris go on Joe "Id like to feel a dick inside me" Rogan's Brocast?

The guy is the ultimate dumb unfunny hack.

So the quintessential right winger.

Because he's the host of one of the most listened to podcasts on the planet.

 

[Thunderoad]

I have no issue at all, post away. You just seem a little too emotionally 'into it' with the 'Orange Man bad' stuff and I know how that can affect people, so I thought it best if you maybe had a rest, but if you're good then go for it. Maybe just take breaks and drink plenty of water.

You seem to have an acute radar for the emotions of others while simultaneously being completely oblivious of your own.