Fresh Start Political Thread

Everytime I voice an opinion that’s opposite of their position…the retort is “Chico is a trumptard”. I get it, don’t address the issue, just scream trump. personal attacks is what happens when positions can’t be argued or a person is a dick..But the latter isn’t the case on this board.

Everytime I voice an opinion that’s opposite of their position…the retort is “Chico is a trumptard”. I get it, don’t address the issue, just scream trump. personal attacks is what happens when positions can’t be argued or a person is a dick..But the latter isn’t the case on this board.


Oh please. Nobody is attacking you personally. I address plenty of issues. Believe i just did as far as gas prices. If you are going to champion the former President at all cost, and then grasp for straws to make the current one seem like the racist, or the friend of the wealthy, etc then Im going to call you out. I literally came back at you with an article addressing the issue you bought up and your reply is this? Seems to me you are playing the victim when you can’t address the issue, not that we are attacking you because we cannot address it?

I disagree, I think Obamacare (just for you Chico) has been weakened enough that Obama's main accomplishment is leading us out of one of the worst depressions this country has seen. But I fully expect every one of our conservatives here to disagree with me on that - they will probably say he didn't do nearly enough that a conservative president would've done.

The most important action was this bi-partisan bill (I think it was the last bipartisan bill for that matter on major legislation):

"....Bank Rescue of 2008, or the Great Recession
The 2007-08 Financial Crisis resulted in an unprecedented federal intervention to rescue banks and restore confidence to the finance sector. The chief culprit in the crisis was the implosion of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and the collapse of the housing market that threatened many companies with insolvency. In the early days of the crisis, no one knew which companies were holding toxic assets and who would be next to falter. Lack of trust spread, with market participants unwilling to take on counterparty risk. As a result, companies were prevented from accessing credit to meet their liquidity needs.5

To address the crisis, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The act created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which authorized the U.S. Department of the Treasury to buy up to $700 billion in toxic assets from companies, which could then replenish their balance sheets with safer assets.5

The Treasury Department was also authorized to buy up to $250 billion in bank shares, which would provide much-needed capital to financial institutions. It bought $20 billion in shares each from Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C). The Treasury Department later sold those shares back for a profit. In total, the government provided $245.1 billion in TARP assistance to banks and recouped $275.6 billion, for an investment gain of $30.5 billion...."

BTW this wasn't Obama although it was his treasury that executed the plan.

Oh please. Nobody is attacking you personally. ....?

Come on now nobody??? I think our local Giant fan only posts personal attacks on Chico.

Come on now nobody??? I think our local Giant fan only posts personal attacks on Chico.


Calling him a cult member isn’t a personal attack it is an observation. It is a cult, hence flying flags with his name etc, and defending him at all costs?

The party of “fuck your feelings “, “make liberals cry again 2020”, and who coined the phrase libtard is suddenly offended by being called a trumptard? What is the expression? Those who live in glass houses….

Political correctness is bullshit party but Trumptard is somehow over the line? LOL

Go to your safe space, snowflake….i could go on and on but I think you get the point. You align yourself with these animals and then you get upset about Trumptard and call it a personal attack?
Nah.

Calling him a cult member isn’t a personal attack it is an observation. It is a cult, hence flying flags with his name etc, and defending him at all costs?

The party of “fuck your feelings “, “make liberals cry again 2020”, and who coined the phrase libtard is suddenly offended by being called a trumptard? What is the expression? Those who live in glass houses….

Political correctness is bullshit party but Trumptard is somehow over the line? LOL

Go to your safe space, snowflake….i could go on and on but I think you get the point. You align yourself with these animals and then you get upset about Trumptard and call it a personal attack?
Nah.

Ooooo, I must have pissed in your Wheaties. But yeah calling a specific poster a Trumptard, Libtard, drunken uncle or even a snowflake are personal attacks/insults in my book. Guess we hold to different definitions on this issue. Heck I don't even agree with Chico when it comes to Trump, but (in my limited experience here) it does seem to me that there are a lot more personal insults directed at him than come from him.

Ooooo, I must have pissed in your Wheaties. But yeah calling a specific poster a Trumptard, Libtard, drunken uncle or even a snowflake are personal attacks/insults in my book. Guess we hold to different definitions on this issue. Heck I don't even agree with Chico when it comes to Trump, but (in my limited experience here) it does seem to me that there are a lot more personal insults directed at him than come from him.


You read so much anger and passion in my post that you think you pissed in my wheaties? Lol. No offense but i do not get that emotional over your posts, or anybody’s for that matter. Too bad you cant really read emotions into posts on a message board.

As far as my pal Chico getting “insulted” more than he “insults” others I simply chalk that up to the Libtards have more posters in the political threads than the Trumptards do. So you’re probably correct.

Enjoy the weekend

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Edit: i was not calling you a snowflake or telling you to go to your safe space btw. It was not directed at you even sarcastically. I was simply pointing out things that Trump supporters have said to others in the past to prove a point, being that if you can dish it out you better be able to take it.
Like I said easy to take a post out of context. Im sure ive done it 1000 times myself.

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Edit: i was not calling you a snowflake or telling you to go to your safe space btw. It was not directed at you even sarcastically. I was simply pointing out things that Trump supporters have said to others in the past to prove a point, being that if you can dish it out you better be able to take it.
Like I said easy to take a post out of context. Im sure ive done it 1000 times myself.


Yes that happens. You have a good 4th as well.

Come on now nobody??? I think our local Giant fan only posts personal attacks on Chico.

Yes, I do. chico has over 27,000 post's I have over 10,000 and you have 138. Not an attack jus saying there is history you might not be privy to. He gets what he gives .

Yes, I do. chico has over 27,000 post's I have over 10,000 and you have 138. Not an attack jus saying there is history you might not be privy to. He gets what he gives .

Yep in a later response I did acknowledge that (my limited knowledge of the background). The good thing about this site is the moderator doesn't stifle one side to the advantage of the other (unlike another site I could mention, heck a mod on that site has completely eliminated all views not of a particular bent and turned it into a poor mans version of Democratic Underground).