What made you roll your eyes today thread?

[sesamemuppetfan]

Hear hear.

Huh?

 

[D'Snowth]

It's an old expression; it's basically an enthusiastic "I agree," or "I concur," or "You said it," along those lines.

 

[MuppetSpot]

How some people, like clockwork, get their iPods taken away for disobeying their parents.
You would think after the first, fifth, or maybe even NINTH time, logic would prevail:

"Hmmmm... if I keep misbehaving, my iPod goes bye-bye. Maybe I should wise up".
Maybe the person in question should take a good hard look at who they're getting mad at.
Is it their dad for taking the iPod away? Or is it them for allowing it to happen, especially after this is far from the first time, and aware of what the consequences would be?

Or maybe it's a desperate way to get attention.

I agree, this isn't right. I know who you are talking about. (not me)

 

[sesamemuppetfan]

It's an old expression; it's basically an enthusiastic "I agree," or "I concur," or "You said it," along those lines.

Oh yeah, that's right!

 

[D'Snowth]

Apparently D'ump feels that he's entitled to hefty royalty fees just for showing his face at these GOP Debates.

If this guy is our next president, we are seriously screwed.

 

[charlietheowl]

Apparently D'ump feels that he's entitled to hefty royalty fees just for showing his face at these GOP Debates.

If this guy is our next president, we are seriously screwed.

I keep waiting for the day when either him or Ben Carson (or most Republican candidates) say something that's so beyond the pale they have to drop out of the election. But it hasn't happened yet despite so many bizarre comments, which is terrifying.

 

[D'Snowth]

This whole election is terrifying me to be honest. There's umpteen Rep candidates, all of whom have their own personal agendas to fill, meanwhile there's only two Democratic candidates, neither of whom I'm confident in.

 

[fuzzygobo]

If the Republicans can get a unified front something good might come from it. They all seem to agree "DO NOT LET HILLARY WIN!!!!!" But that's as far as they can get.

I'm still amazed how well Trump leads in the polls, despite having no specific plans for solving anything, and sticking both feet in his mouth at every turn.

I'll allow him this much. Politically correct attitudes have stifled so much, politicians became so obsessed with not offending anybody they can't make a move. Trump shoots from the hip and doesn't give a rat's butt whose feelings get hurt. You can't hurt his.

Does that qualify him to be a good President? No, but at least people feel he can do SOMETHING. Maybe that's why crowds get so turned on by him. Putting a helmet on and going into the game, even if you're going to get tackled, does more than just watching on the sidelines with hands in your pockets.

 

[Drtooth]

While I am certainly not going to pick on anyone's beliefs, I'll say this much. The Republican Party (on the level of politicians) has been absolutely disgusting these past 8 years. There's a difference between being a political opponent and wanting to sabotage the country to blame someone so they can get back in and make the same exact mistakes that lead us to disaster (look at how much warmongering is coming from Jeb Bush, considering his family's legacy of screwing around in Iraq creating the same exact monsters we're fighting now). They're clearly the "our crap doesn't stink" party. And for fairness sake, the freaking left are so incredibly wishy washy and try to be everyone's friend, thus alienating their own base trying to get those who don't like them to like them with the obvious results.

Trump is pandering. Sure, politicians pander, but not with as much bile, hate, and fear mongering as he has spewed. And maybe it's time top stop villifying him and go straight for the source. He certainly wouldn't be saying horrible things if there weren't those agreeing with him. I don't see why anyone's shocked at anything he says. He was part of the Birther movement! And not even because he believed in it. He was just passive aggressive about getting someone who'll give him a well deserved tax cut in office, and pandering to the far, far right. Something all Republicans should distance themselves from. And it's that extreme radical right that not only feeds the beast, it created it. With all the loud mouth demagogues, internet safety zone bubbles, and biased narrative, the anger and fear that came from those gives up those who want a nasty politician like Trump. You know how he's saying some vicious Islamaphobic crap after the Paris plot? It's the same exact crap demagogues were spewing back in 2002 that kept the masses uninformed and frightened enough not to question invading Iraq, and calling everyone who told them to calm the heck down terrorist sympathizing socialist commies. And yes, I want to give credit to the other Republicans for calling him out on it. If only they weren't banging the drums of war and blaming everyone but their own party for going into these countries and true to Batman form creating our own villains. And I can't believe we're still getting that bullcrap about how we can destroy terrorists. You know, fighting terrorists is like trying to get some sleep. The harder you try, the worse you get.

Plus, I really hate the whole thing about blaming everyone else but their own party for things not getting done. They wanted to get rid of the fillibuster back under the waning years of Bush, the left should have let them. The same party that wanted to get rid of it is the same party that used the heck out of it when they were a slight minority party and wanted to sabotage the big eeeeeeeevil libruls. Sure, it's easy to blame the president for everything, but we have, without a doubt, the worst Congress in history. And a minority of the minority was all to blame. The very same one that also screwed the other Republicans over. Like I said, it's like when Skeletor created the plant monster to destroy He-Man, and then it turns on him instead. They created a monster, now they have to deal with it. Trump is perfect for the Republican party. He's a personification of all the far right pandering that doesn't help anyone.

 

[D'Snowth]

The Republican Party (on the level of politicians) has been absolutely disgusting these past 8 years.

I'll say this much: they had it too good too long with G.W.'s two terms, so when they lost to Obama the first time around, they have been the biggest bunch of sore losers (and I mean sore losers, so much so in fact that they created a radical third party - Tea Baggers - simply because they hate Obama so much) ever. But we still have problems with them: they ended up being majority of the House, and all they've done these past eight years is stop Obama at every turn; there's so much Obama was going to do to improve this country, but the Republicans just hate him so much that they've cut off all of his plans to make things better for middle and working class (which the Republicans hate anyway) and the country in general, then they turn right around and point fingers at him like, "D00d! Obummer didnt keep his promise! He da wurst prez eva! Y u stoopit pepl vot 4 him?!" Heck, the right has been so opposed to his Healthcare plan since the beginning that they keep saying as soon as they get a Republican back in the White House, one of the first things they're going to do is throw out his Healthcare plan - they absolutely hate the idea of providing poor people with decent healthcare, they just want to go back to denying coverage to people who can't afford it, because we've gotten to a point where doctors and medical professions don't careabout people anymore, they just want more money in their pockets - which they won't get if they treat poor people.