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Mitch McConnell chased from KY restaurant by protesters

Talk about what is fair and what is not fair in the way we treat others.

Right here in this forum, it seems we have a double standard.

Liberal posters are being handed out infractions for baiting or flaming, when it is actually the other way around.

I am the victim of this unfairness on several occasions in just the few weeks I have been posting here.

But here, the rules of the forum, apparently only apply to Liberal posters.

Its just more de-legitimizing and undermining liberals and shooting the messenger- because you don't like their message!

Hilarious! So what else is new when our best example of this is their leader- Donald Trump!
 
If liberals think gerrymandering explains their lack of voter participation, lack of election results at every level of our country, you've got a long ads recovery ahead of you.

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The Derp said:
Republicans cheating.
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You're hopeless.

You know what..nevermind. Just stay at home, because it's all rigged.

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The Derp said:
I would say the toddlers are those who run away from conflict and cry about being bullied for being hideous people.
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Hideous people?
Man you're not contributing to the division in the USA...you ARE the ESSENCE of the division in the USA.

Conga-ratz on that...:roll:
 
maxparrish said:
So you think the solution to behaving badly while encountering McConnell is to meet at a specific location to behave badly?
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So it sounds to me like you don't think politicians should be confronted at all.

Seems to me that the ghosts of the 2010 election are now coming back to bite the GOP, so they're doing everything in their power to stop that from happening.

But their fear is only motivating more to hold impromptu town halls in public places.

If the GOP isn't going to hold a town hall, then it's up to the constituents to do so in public places.
 
maxparrish said:
This has nothing to do with town hall or citizen forum Q@A and discussion - this has to do with a mini-mob of slogan chanting, unbalanced protesters demanding to "vote you out" and "abolish ICE"...while hurling insults at the demon (e.g. 'turtle head') and issuing personal safety threats such as "we know where you live"
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If these reps held town halls with any regularity, then that's the forum constituents use to address their grievances.

Do you think our political system is supposed to insulate elected officials between election days?
 
The Derp said:
That doesn't seem to be the case at all, as Democratic turnout in the primaries is well above that of 2014 (and even 2016 in some cases).

That didn't seem to be the case when Conservatives did this nonsense in 2009 and 2010.

What you mean to say is that it doesn't turn on Trump voters; and it's not supposed to do that anyway.

We don't need Trump voters to win elections; Doug Jones proved it. And it's far easier to convince a non-voter to vote against cruelty, indifference, and cowardice than it is to convince a Trump voter to change their mind.

It's why Ocasio did so well, it's why Abrams did so well, and it's why most of these new, grassroots democrats are winning primaries, forcing runoffs, or upending the Establishment.
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It will be curious to see how the DNC responds in regards to who is promoted as presidential candidates. The take away from 2016 was neither party wanted the outsider; one party just failed to sink their outsider because he was better at promoting himself than they were at promoting their candidates.
 
The Derp said:
Like what, specifically? Bullying someone over what? You don't get to cry that you're being bullied simply because you're being confronted over having a hideous position. So what is it these people are being "bullied" over? Their race? No, that's Conservatives doing that bullying. Their religion? Nope, that's Conservatives doing that bullying too.
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What hideous position?
 
maxparrish said:
"Need a Town Hall" ? What a lame excuse for thuggery.
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Oh why is that? Are you afraid what happened at town halls in 2010 will be repeated in 2018? Because that's what I think is primarily driving that fear. It's not about "thuggery" (Coded language, of ccourse), unless you're going to admit that the GOP embraced that thuggery 8 years ago to electoral success.

So if it ain't broke...
 
Fiddytree said:
If liberals think gerrymandering explains their lack of voter participation, lack of election results at every level of our country, you've got a long ads recovery ahead of you.
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Gerrymandering is voter suppression, dude.
 
Fiddytree said:
You're hopeless.You know what..nevermind. Just stay at home, because it's all rigged.
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No, it's not all rigged. And of course show up to vote. My point of contention is that we shouldn't have to wait for an election to show discontent with our elected representatives.
 
The Derp said:
Oh why is that? Are you afraid what happened at town halls in 2010 will be repeated in 2018? Because that's what I think is primarily driving that fear. It's not about "thuggery" (Coded language, of ccourse), unless you're going to admit that the GOP embraced that thuggery 8 years ago to electoral success.

So if it ain't broke...
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I'm sorry.
I must have missed the part where Obama's cabinet couldn't get served in places.
Can you remind us of exactly when that may have happened please?
 
Buzz62 said:
Hideous people?Man you're not contributing to the division in the USA...you ARE the ESSENCE of the division in the USA.
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Kidnapping children is hideous.

Calling Nazis "very fine people" is hideous.

Cutting taxes for the rich and corporations, then arguing for cuts to Medicare is hideous.
 
ElChupacabra said:
It will be curious to see how the DNC responds in regards to who is promoted as presidential candidates. The take away from 2016 was neither party wanted the outsider; one party just failed to sink their outsider because he was better at promoting himself than they were at promoting their candidates.
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I say no nominee over the age of 60.
 
Buzz62 said:
I'm sorry.
I must have missed the part where Obama's cabinet couldn't get served in places.
Can you remind us of exactly when that may have happened please?
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I don't think that Obama quite has the same level of divisiveness on the Republic that Trump has. Though there was a lot of screaming and gnashing of teeth on the part of the right during those times.
 
Buzz62 said:
I'm sorry.
I must have missed the part where Obama's cabinet couldn't get served in places.
Can you remind us of exactly when that may have happened please?
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What you missed was that Democrats were holding town halls; today, Conservatives aren't.

Democrats held forums where these teabags could express their grievances, even though it ended up costing them at the polls.

The GOP saw that, saw how powerful town halls clogged with ranting, raving people were, and decided to avoid that for this cycle.

It's pretty obvious why; it worked for the GOP in 2010 and they know it'll work for the Democrats in 2018.
 
The Derp said:
Gerrymandering is voter suppression, dude.
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It only explains a small part of the problem, dude.

It's voter participation up and down the ballot for over a decade, in multiple demographics.

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The Derp said:
Kidnapping children is hideous.

Calling Nazis "very fine people" is hideous.

Cutting taxes for the rich and corporations, then arguing for cuts to Medicare is hideous.
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Kidnaping Kids? Where? Who?

Calling Nazis "very fine people"? Where? Who?

You don't like your tax cut? Give it back then.
No? :cool:
 
Fiddytree said:
It only explains a small part of the problem, dude.
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It's a large part of the problem. By gerrymandering, the GOP suppresses votes within narrow districts so as to preserve their undeserved majority.


Fiddytree said:
It's voter participation up and down the ballot for over a decade, in multiple demographics.
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But none of that has nothing to do with the GOP refusing to hold town halls today for fear the footage from those town halls will be used against them in 2018, just as they used it against Democrats and Obama in 2010.

So this isn't a matter of any principles; this is purely a matter of the GOP avoiding any confrontation.

That is hideous.
 
Ikari said:
I don't think that Obama quite has the same level of divisiveness on the Republic that Trump has. Though there was a lot of screaming and gnashing of teeth on the part of the right during those times.
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Yet they could eat in peace.
 
Buzz62 said:
Kidnaping Kids? Where? Who?

Calling Nazis "very fine people"? Where? Who?

You don't like your tax cut? Give it back then.
No? :cool:
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I don't feed sea lions.
 
Buzz62 said:
Yet they could eat in peace.
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Because there were town halls and forums for constituents to engage their representatives.

The GOP is avoiding that in this cycle. It's pretty obvious why.
 
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