General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Chris]

ive heard this a lot recently. Still need to go vote cuz his supporters will

this was about the guy running against Ted Cruz trying to be a real politician while Ted Cruz is saying "trans people bad" Cruz will win

 

[Chris]

The "keep politics out of sports" crowd is now the crowd that accuses birth women of being men and harasses them in the name of their own politics and goes nuts when Trump is paraded out like a celebrity at UFC shows. One time Obama did guest commentary for the MLB all star game for like a half inning and it was the end of the world

 

[Death By Looch]

That type of crowd is the worst... I'm always saying it.

 

[Death By Looch]

bro yes lol you can't talk to a Republican anymore without them going off about how trans people are ruining their lives.

I mean... that is pretty much on par with the violent video games or violent/naughty TV (WWE Attitude Era for example) argument. "My kid does bad things because of video games and TV, it obviously can't possibly have anything to do with my parenting."

 

[Chris]

Yes but we call that fighting the good fight, when the other side does it, it's canceling

 

[Death By Looch]

Same principle really... I can't be responsible for my faults, unhappiness with life etc... someone else HAS to be the guilty party

 

[Death By Looch]

Yes but we call that fighting the good fight, when the other side does it, it's canceling

Exactly...

 

[Chris]

Those poor Dixie Chicks didn't recover from bad mouthing Bush for like 15 years lmao

 

[JakeYourBooty]

The "keep politics out of sports" crowd is now the crowd that accuses birth women of being men and harasses them in the name of their own politics and goes nuts when Trump is paraded out like a celebrity at UFC shows. One time Obama did guest commentary for the MLB all star game for like a half inning and it was the end of the world

I remember Ronald Reagan doing an all star gaur and calling back to back Bo Jackson and Kirby Puckett homers to start the game off


“That one looks like it’s going there too”

 

[Chris]

I remember Ronald Reagan doing an all star gaur and calling back to back Bo Jackson and Kirby Puckett homers to start the game off “That one looks like it’s going there too”

Bush's most famous moment of his presidency is throwing out the first pitch. Politics have always had a place in sports whether anyone likes it or not, it's so funny when they act like its new just bc they don't like this version

 

[Death By Looch]

Yea... politics and sports go hand in hand. Always have, always will.

 

[Chris]

Bush's approval rating basically doubled after that post 9/11 first pitch

 

[Death By Looch]

My favorite example (that probably most Americans, especially those "keep politics out of sport" people, wouldn't care about) is when the FIFA made Brazil change their fucking laws, so they can sell beer in the stadiums during the 2014 World Cup.

 

[Chris]

Oh I remember that lmao

 

[Chris]

Americans are very in tune with world cup news, anything else not so much unless Iceland makes another Euro run