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  1. democrats shot themselves in the foot over vietnam and sirhan sirhan gunned down RFK in a hotel ballroom, helping nixon to the presidency. that guy was as shithead of the highest order. the republican party, despite knowing he was a shithead of the highest order, protected him until it became 100% politically untenable to do so. then we elected a nice guy as president, but he was too nice, so we went with smiling shithead saint reagan, who really united conservative economic fuckwadery with conservative social fuckwadery. the former broke the social contract wrt the economy by knocking down unions, pushing the burden of taxation further down the income/wealth curve, and eviscerating much of the regulation that had been put in place to protect the public in the prior couple-few decades from the worst of capitalism, while the latter tried to cling to some 1950s whitewashed notion of social structure with the trigger being school integration. then conservative media really got underway using expertise in psy-ops public relations that the API had been perfecting for decades, even teaching the nazis a thing or two, to gaslight the public against expertise generally, but specifically governmental and scientific expertise, and to push libertopian ideology that essentially meant that there's no consequences for using the public as an open sewer, using the term 'personal responsibility.' that also tied into a backlash against social services - public health, public schooling, welfare, etc. along the way we amped up the drug war, incarcerating (and often disenfranchising) mostly minority men. bill clinton, who was a bit rapey and a bit of a shithead, tried to embrace 3rd way politics, but that helped cost the democratic party the old blue collar base, while also failing at advancing public health and giving away social services. then the supreme court decided to halt the counting, al qaeda flew planes into the WTC, shadow president cheney got us into a completely unnecessary land war in asia, and the 'personal responsibility' state allowed banks to become huge systemic risks and crash the economy. despite that, republicans were out of power for all of about 6 weeks in 2009, during which obamacare passed. meanwhile, kansas billionaires were upset that a company they owned was held (fictitionally) personally responsible for spewing benzene in corpus christi, so astroturfed backlash against the first black president by some of those blue collar whites bill clinton hadn't paid enough attention to into the tea party. thereafter, the republicans got a toehold of power back in the senate in a special election following the death of ted kennedy, took the house in 2010, and started gaslighting the public with phony investigations. conservative media kept celebrating idiocy and squawking about washington, mitch started refusing to fill judicial appointments (the party of wealth has always known of the power of the judiciary, see the Midnight Judges Act), and the idiots wanted one of their own in the presidency. and one emerged: the birther in chief, donald j. trump. they liked the fact that he appeared to say his mind, despite his mind being full of goo. they liked that he wasn't a career politician. they forgave the fact that he's the ultimate coastal elite, a supposed billionaire real estate developer from manhattan born with a golden spoon in his mouth. even centrist media loved to show him because he was a rating bonanza compared to the rosencrantz and guildenstern of the 10 other completely interchangeable republicans who started running for the presidency in 2015 (or 13, c'mon ted). combine the idiotic fervor of the 'keep government out of medicare' crowd with the democratic party's choice to run the wife of the man who'd let working class whites get away, the 'but i can't vote for a democrat,' crowd, and the machinations of an electoral system put in place to placate white men who owned black men as their chattel property and and you have the election of a loud mouth idiot who plays up division and embodies all the worst facets of american conservatism since 1948 to the presidency.
    39 points
  2. That's a lot of words to say that you started hanging out near the Junior High School again no matter what the judge said.
    29 points
  3. To some of you, "you have to travel back at least 200 years" is a difficult concept.
    28 points
  4. Republicans went crazy when a black man got elected President. The end.
    18 points
  5. Greed as a virtue. The concentration of wealth/power and lack of concern for the wellbeing of our fellow citizens and environment. Nation of fuck you, got mine. There is no single moment.
    16 points
  6. They're waiting for a Democrat to be elected President. Like vampires emerging from their coffins when darkness falls, except far less genuine and worldly.
    16 points
  7. We should turn Mar a Lago into a permanent cemetery for Coronvirus dead, just like we turned Robert E. Lee's front yard into Arlington National Cemetery.
    16 points
  8. If you think masks aren't worth it then you're a goddamn moron who doesn't understand science or medicine at the level of an average junior high student.
    15 points
  9. Marcel Brooks should be wearing a certain type of bracelets
    14 points
  10. I'd go to 3400 BC, right before the birth of writing, so I could make "ou sucks" the first written words on Earth.
    13 points
  11. Did he say what be shot on the back nine?
    11 points
  12. Me playing my Les Paul traditional honey burst. A buddy and I entered a contest for the Detroit Tigers. It was called April in the D. They would play your song during tigers games on tv when they cut to commercial. This is me playing in Comerica Park where the tigers play. It’s a stage in a bar area. We got to do a 40 minute set. When we played our April in the D song the filmed it live on FS Detroit. Pretty cool. We took 2nd Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    10 points
  13. Five points, New York. I'd probably start a street gang of Nativist Protestants, because i want to do hoodrat things with my friends
    10 points
  14. Hey lets stick with this tangent Her 7:20 PM I'm home, look at the moon it looks huge Me 7:51 PM (I look 360*) Where is it I don't see it? Her 7:54 PM I guess you can't see it from where you are. 7:55 PM I mean the Sun Me 7:56 PM Sun, moon what's the difference
    10 points
  15. I realize that technically she's not even a real aTm fan, and she's from Florida, but I like to imagine that she's Scholz's mother-in-law, and I'm never moving off that certainty. It explains so much about his anger.
    9 points
  16. HammLite was fooled by a fake account and posted a story and text that Bobby Taylor had committed to aggy ::
    9 points
  17. You and those people saying "nahhh" are fucking morons. Every last one of you.
    9 points
  18. You know, I occasionally unhide one of your posts, and am immediately reminded why I hid you in the first place.
    8 points
  19. Southern Strategy begat the Moral Majority which begat the Contract With America which begat the Tea Party which begat whatever the fuck you want to call what is going on now.
    8 points
  20. You need to head over to the SurlyKaren.com board and see if you are in the hot or not thread!
    8 points
  21. Shoutout to whichever of you assholes first promulgated the “cheese slice as a hinge,” for it really is a game-changer.
    8 points
  22. Smart. The school will save a fortune on tackling dummies.
    8 points
  23. He is the most dangerous man in America right now. And it’s not close.
    8 points
  24. I have to admit this one is true. I remember standing on top of some buildings in New York with a bunch of my Muslim friends and we were all cheering when Bradford went down.
    7 points
  25. I would guess Robin hung himself that very night after realizing what (who) he had done.
    7 points
  26. It's already been answered, but he was never right physically after his injury. Look back at his numbers right before he got hurt, it was like 18.5 ppg on 52% shooting, 14 rebs, 3 blocks per game, and 4 assists. All the while being considered one of, if not the, best passing big men in history. He was the best player on a championship team in Portland that took out an absolutely loaded Sixers team with Dr. J in the finals. The rest of that team really wasn't that good -- Maurice Lucas and Lionel Hollins were top shelf, but Walton elevated his teammates to a championship level. I'm talking scrub ass dudes like Dave Twardzik and Bobby Gross playing way, way above their heads. His career was completely wrecked by injuries and even then, he still managed to be an integral part of that 1986 Celtics team, which is one of the greatest in NBA history. There's no telling how great he could have been. He's also arguably the best college basketball player of all time, including a finals game that is considered one of the best performances ever in any sport -- he went 21/22 and 44 points in a championship game.
    7 points
  27. His composite issue lies in the Rivals OU bias. March 1 McCutching decommits from Alabama and silents to OU. He tells the OU staff that he will get Mukuba to commit as well. In this time period Mukuba's ranking goes from 64 in the state to 43 in the state on May 13th. Mukuba released a top 12 list on May 19th and did not include the Sooners. The next time that Rivals updated their rankings he fell to 56 in the state, unranked nationally. 247 has him as a 91 overall - 214 in the country. He started as an 85. ESPN has him as 33 in the state (194 in the country) and 83 overall (the same overall grade as Foster, Blackshire, Ketron, Quay, etc) a single point bump could move him as high as 15. I am bullish on Mukuba and think he should be a top 10-15 guy. So I think they all have him undervalued but it's Ferrell and Rivals that are doing him the biggest disservice and it's clear why. Fuck that guy.
    7 points
  28. 7 points
  29. Is it too much to ask that anyone remotely involved in the enforcement of laws be completely insulated from the political shit in this country? No talking at party conferences, no talks to special interest groups, no support from parties or PACs, just completely isolate them from the political bullshit. Put substantial sunrise/sunsets on involvement with it too. If you took money from any of the above within 5 years of serving, you're disqualified or penalized. Put the service back in public service. We put substantial restrictions on the military about their political participation, those should increase as the levers of power people hold increase. Want to be a partisan hack? Stick to congress.
    7 points
  30. Yep. As the war had heated up in June 1862, Congress passed a law that empowered commissioners to assess and collect taxes on real estate in "insurrectionary districts." The statute was meant not only to raise revenue for the war, but also to punish turncoats like Lee. If the taxes were not paid in person, commissioners were authorized to sell the land. Authorities levied a tax of $92.07 on the Lees' estate that year. Mary Lee, stuck in Richmond because of the fighting and her deteriorating health, dispatched her cousin Philip R. Fendall to pay the bill. But when Fendall presented himself before the commissioners in Alexandria, they said they would accept money only from Mary Lee herself. Declaring the property in default, they put it up for sale. The auction took place on January 11, 1864, a day so cold that blocks of ice stopped boat traffic on the Potomac. The sole bid came from the federal government, which offered $26,800, well under the estate's assessed value of $34,100. According to the certificate of sale, Arlington's new owner intended to reserve the property "for Government use, for war, military, charitable and educational purposes." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-arlington-national-cemetery-came-to-be-145147007/
    7 points
  31. "Herd immunity ... It's herd mentality ..."
    6 points
  32. If the cops are given more money, they spend it on more toys of violence that are misused or overused to justify their purchase, and they put citizens in danger. If the cops are faced with less funding they retaliate by refusing to do their jobs and they put citizens in danger. If the cops feel they have support and protection, they act entitled to overstep the rules of law and simple decorum and they put citizens in danger. If the cops feel threatened or unloved, they use that as an excuse for acting with wanton disregard for human life and safety and they put citizens in danger. There is no path that I can see in which police depts suddenly become an entity that protects and serves the citizens, because their mission statement is to protect and serve themselves.
    6 points
  33. jesus fucking christ, how long do yall want this to affect our football? masks = slowing spread = fucking football. this isn't rocket science.
    6 points
  34. That didn’t suck.
    6 points
  35. I've been fighting a losing battle trying to keep my peach trees from dying because of the drought we are going through (two months no rain, 100 plus days). This morning, I left a hose on a trickle to water one. Later at the office, it starts thundering and looking like maybe we are finally going to get some rain, so I call the wife and tell her to please turn off the water hose if it does start to rain. Convo goes like this: Her: which hose do i need to turn off? (We have spigots on three sides of the house but the peach trees are only on one side) Me: the one on the east side of the house. (Long pause) Me: You do know which one is the east side, right? (Long pause) Me: Its the one on the same side as our bedroom. You know how the sun comes in the morning if we don't close the blinds when we go to bed? Her: Oh, yeah, right. So, it does end up raining, pretty hard actually. I get home 5 or 6 house later and think to myself, "I probably better just go ahead a check to make sure she actually turned it off." Well, not only did she not turn it off, she turned it on full blast. East side of the house looked like a swamp. I didn't even say anything.
    6 points
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