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Bucky

(54,094 posts)
8. No, don't be silly.
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 01:02 PM
Jul 2021

There's some naturally good looking conservatives out there. It's just hard to see it once you hear them talk.

In fact, there's something called the "halo effect" in which physically attractive people encounter fewer obstacles in life, and are thus less likely to perceive unfair discrimination in the world.

Also they have more money and grow up with better personal grooming and fashion advice. But even when you control for social economic circumstances, people with objectively more physical attractiveness tend to skew politically to the right.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences/article/abs/effects-of-physical-attractiveness-on-political-beliefs/D5214D0CAE37EE5947B7BF29762547EE

Meanwhile, us Democratic slobs are out here developing our minds and personalities and discovering the importance of compassion.

Midnight Writer

(21,845 posts)
5. What's worse is he made his "joke" in front of a crowd of revved up Wing Nuts.
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 11:43 AM
Jul 2021

I don't recall Democrats making these "jokes" about Donald Trump. Or W Bush.

Sugarcoated

(7,736 posts)
11. There are always some inappropriate comments out there but no elected Democrats
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 02:03 PM
Jul 2021

Dem appointees or military say dangerous and unamerican things like this

Bayard

(22,228 posts)
7. Retired four-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 12:56 PM
Jul 2021

McCaffrey predicted then that the U.S. Department of Justice was going to be “hard-pressed not to consider whether this language is criminal in nature.” But no action was taken.

When is Garland going to do something about this bullshit? Even though I don't see in the article that Flynn mentioned Biden specifically, (then I'd thing the Secret Service would be having a chat with him), this is clearly inciting the lemmings to violence.

GoCubsGo

(32,100 posts)
10. The Secretary of Defense needs to call him back to active duty.
Mon Jul 26, 2021, 01:58 PM
Jul 2021

So he can be court-martialed, and punished accordingly. This seditious bastard should not be walking free, let alone going out there and making assassination threats.

Eddie Slovik got the firing squad for less than what we just saw here.

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