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  1. Slorch, if you are equating Trump's scatter-shot, call 1-800-MORON for voter fraud, bullshit with the impeachment, just go fuck yourself. In case there is any confusion on the impeachment, Trump compromised our national interest and leveraged my tax dollars to get a foreign government to assist in his re-election effort. Worse than that, he engendered corruption in a nation that needs to overcome their corruption issue to reduce Russian influence. He sided with the fucking thugs who were murdering Ukrainian activists. He sided with them against the stated US foreign policy in the region. Many Republicans agreed with the facts of the case; that was their rationalization for not calling witnesses in the Senate. Just because impeachment was not politically obtainable does not mean it lacked merit. So fuck this right-wing bullshit gaslighting on it.
    39 points
  2. A recount in PA would now have to be paid for by the trump campaign themselves because it's outside the margin of error
    36 points
  3. Yeah, this. Same in Travis, except if you voted for Trump it spit out a 5’ long coupon for tampons at CVS
    22 points
  4. I spoke to a buddy this week and the bottom line is that, yeah, it's not just randomly quiet. Anyone running their mouth and getting any kind of real word out would be a monumental fuck up. Herman will lose another game because he's incompetent. When he does, he's either fired or it was all bullshit. CDC remains basically off the grid, which is another sign of coordination. USC beating the one team on their schedule that could legitimately have beaten them also helps the entire dynamic.
    18 points
  5. Here is my step mom. This is right when her team entered Kuwait. First woman to run a USAF FAC team. A Bad ass. Right now sitting in N Texas hoping Chemo works this time.
    16 points
  6. Of course. Children are stupid, ignorant, ugly, and short. They put their sticky hands in their mouths and noses then touch, mangle, and break everything. They want the same bland crap to eat morning noon and night, and they leave their sharp-edged plastic toys hidden in the carpet for your bare foot to find at midnight when you go get another beer to take the edge off and not just walk out the door into the cool night, throw the fucking kiddy seat out of your sticky sour-milk-smelling car, and just rev it up and drive it down to the river and see how long it'll float.
    15 points
  7. BoB is an all-time favorite of mine. When Spiers is running through the village is an incredible scene. He has zero cares. I am an avid collector of WII memorabilia and have talked to many veterans. Almost every one of them downplayed their service and were so thoughtful and humble. My great-uncle was a lifer in the military joining in 1937 and retiring in 1962. He was a combat medic during WWII serving in the 103rd ID. He only talked about the "good times" or the funny events he experienced during the War. Aside from getting the usual decorations during the War he was also awarded the Bronze Star with a "V" for valor. When I asked him about the award he simply said that he helped to "liberate" some US GI's that had been taken prisoner. He never would say how and I did not press it. Upon his death and while attending his funeral (I was presented his flag) another family member that also served during the War was talking about my g-uncle's service and gave a high level explanation on how he was awarded the Bronze Star. Medics are allowed to carry weapons but sacrifice their Geneva Convention protection if they use them in an offensive manner. According to the family member my g-uncle had a firearm with him. Apparently he took care of the German soldiers somehow and freed the soldiers. My g-uncle was a very kind and gentle man. The closest story that he ever told about this event was that he had several German soldiers surrender to him and all that he was carrying was a hypodermic needle. Additionally he had a lot of Nazi items that he brought back with him. He was always quick to say that he came by them honestly. My take away is that combat can/will make you do things that may be out-of-character. All in all those guys were badasses. Top Row with Medic Helmet In a captured half-track Danube River; he is on the right Uncle holding a Nazi flag The flag today at my house
    13 points
  8. OK, I know on this forum we have active, retired, and kids of veterans. A thread where we can post about the bad asses ? Here is my dad with his recon team. I love this picture. The way # 3 from the left is smiling. I have asked my dad so many times what joke he was telling and won't tell me. But I like to think it was something the Surly would agree with and appreciate.
    12 points
  9. Trump did not surprise me, but our citizenry have shocked me to my core. Life in a bubble, folks say.
    12 points
  10. As agonizing and embarrassing as all of this has been, I take solace knowing that it's incomparable to the agony still being felt by Fat Donny. You couldn't have written a more painful script for the election than the one that slowly unfolded in front of his beady, incurious eyes -- death by a million paper cuts. It was like James Bond being strapped to a conveyor belt with a giant sawblade at the end. And you can't help but notice the diabolical bastards positioned Bond crotch first toward the saw. Except replace the Bond music with Yakety Sax and replace James Bond with Mayor McCheese. Now we get to watch him solemnly lumber around only when he's forced to go outside. He'll dwell about looming debt and waves of competent and overly eager prosecutors -- the kind he always touted but never imagined would be honed in on him. It's mostly amusing other than hoping he doesn't nuke South Korea or Vermont.
    11 points
  11. Same people that believe voter fraud is widespread believe that COVID is a hoax.
    11 points
  12. I'm not going to neg or name call. Your post is honest and not a troll, so I just profoundly disagree with you about how you perceive events related Donald Trump. It's too easy to dismiss someone who disagrees with you as stupid. We do it too often in this forum. You write well, so I conclude that your mind is fine. The above is what makes these times so crazy. The number of people like you who stand up for Trump and vote for him kills me. You promote rationalizations with such unwavering certainty that it's as much depressing as it is inflaming. And you've made yourself argument-proof by buying the hate engine's ceaseless pitch that only the hate engine is truthful. Let's look at what you write. You start with a concession that doubtless overstates the degree to which you think Trump has "fucked up, and it's plenty." Rhetorical device to disarm the reader, I try to be more honest about degree when I use the same approach. Then you state a truth (or at least an observation that I agree with) that Trump is a symptom. Bullseye. So, you have me leaning your way. This guy is reasonable. Maybe we'll keep agreeing. Well done, Slorch! Next, you slide quickly into what I see as a pathology in your thinking. You deny the first two things you wrote by absolving Trump and blaming other bad actors. It's ego defense. When Nixon was president, the 26% (that seemed mournfully high at the time, now it seems sorta quaint) would regularly claim that Nixon had been failed by his underlings. Next they blamed the press and the gullibility of others thus sliding themselves right into projection. Lastly, you repeat the lie about the response to police murder. The whole response was a riot with property destroyed, persons murdered (mostly protesters, by the way), and "communities destroyed." All bullshit. I'll take you at your word that you believe what you wrote. Hello Messrs. Dunning and Krueger, welcome to the party. All of this is what otherwise sensible people have done to make themselves argument-proof. Ego defense, projection, and seeing what you're looking for. I should thank you for presenting such a good example. It's not merely idiots who back Trump. You will likely turn the tables. It is RomaVicta who is the above! I've enumerated the reasons my own thinking is defective. Again, I would apply the same analysis and, if I felt I was correct, vocalize it. The difference is that I considered that the riots might be violent and did the light research necessary to see that Portland's activities were limited to a scant few square blocks. I saw video of perfidious police kneeling for the camera prior to tear gassing peaceful protesters. "But that wasn't Trump!" He wanted to send soldiers to end it "fast." He inflamed his armed militia (terrorists according to the ebil, lying FBI) followers by active encouragement or tacit support. Oh yea, and he used force including a low flying helicopter to disperse a peaceful protest in front of the White House so that he could come out of his bunker and walk across the street to display a Book he's never read. I don't merely proclaim Trump's responsibility and repeat inflammatory distortions to support a long held belief. I don't want to be associated with lies. I'd rather disassociate with a politician I've supported than have my reputation associated with lying. I suppose you could now go with tl;dr. Maybe so. It is a long post and perhaps uninteresting. But ignoring it could also be another bit of ego defense.
    11 points
  13. Don't forget the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies and dickheads.
    11 points
  14. Remember that one time when a human turtle blocked legislation that would help protect against foreign interference?
    11 points
  15. The difference is that the investigations into Trump originated from the US intelligence community and we’re conducted by appropriate entities. This bullshit is originating from Donald and his inner circle and is being conducted by a bunch of white trash ignorant “poll watchers” who don’t have the slightest idea what they’re looking at nor the credibility to be taken seriously.
    11 points
  16. Woo Hoo! It’s just allergies apparently! But we did have 19 more employees test positive today. Yikes!
    10 points
  17. I've long considered myself someone with a low opinion of the average American's intelligence. I'm also a student of history. Furthermore, I'd been lamenting the polarization in this country for a long time before Trump's election. Despite these, I never would have believed what's happened the past 5 years would happen. Not here. Not anytime soon. Not nearly half the electorate joining a cult of personality developing around a grotesque reality TV star narcissist. Not all the norm destruction, insults to institutions and assorted embarrassments. Not the insane amount of lying, "alternative facts", and attacks on the media. Not a batshit insane conspiracy theory gaining millions of believers. Not the Republican Party being controlled by a complete ass clown. Not this entire third-world disgrace. Not the ignorance of science and trying to wish away a pandemic. Nor all the other shit. I thought America was somehow above all of this. It couldn't happen here. The people would never abide it. We were immune, somehow. I'd often tried to imagine a dictatorship or something like Naziism taking hold in our democracy and I just couldn't do it. But now I can. Was I just naive? Have any of you experienced any of this without constant disbelief?
    9 points
  18. This admin is the most competitive I've ever seen. And by that, I mean that every person in it seems to be engaged in a herculean effort to claim the title of "dumbest fucking fuck to ever fucking walk the fucking planet." Fucking morons, as far as the eye can see.
    9 points
  19. If Joe Biden were President, we wouldn't have lost 240K Americans in 9 months.
    9 points
  20. Here is one of my paternal grandfather who just passed this month. My folks came across this picture and sent it to me, one I'd never seen. The second one is my maternal grandfather who was a mortorman in the Korean war and purple heart recipient.
    9 points
  21. Good thread. Yeah, I'm shocked by the Trump era. NOT SO SHOCKED BY TRUMP HIMSELF - We had a lot of conservatives tell us in 2016 that when Trump said something stupid, he was really playing 4D chess. But after four years of tweeting about "closing the boarders," about Mueller's lack of a "smocking gun," right up until last week's lament that "Votes cannot be cast after the Poles close," we ought to be able to unanimously agree that he's really fucking stupid. But he's always been stupid. And he's always been a racist. He's always been a profoundly immoral person - cheating on his wives, cheating in business, bragging to Howard Stern that they couldn't throw him out of the Miss Teen pageant dressing room because he owned it, bragging about serial sexual assault, mocking the disabled, etc. PRETTY SHOCKED BY THE AMERICANS WHO SUPPORT HIM - I'm looking at you, evangelical Christians. You guys never stopped vigorously and loudly supporting a guy who behaves every single day in a way that is the exact opposite of the way Jesus told you to behave. I'll never understand it, and I'll never forget it. I suppose the only thing I can conclude is that propaganda works. I mean, it works really well, and there are a lot of people like me who were stupid to think that it couldn't work just as well in a liberal democracy as it does anywhere else in the world. Rush Limbaugh... out there telling conservatives for three decades, "Liberals hate America." "Liberals want to destroy this country." His own rhetoric has been turned up to a boil, and Americans can now live in an entire ecosphere where the "news" tells them (and they confirm to one another) that liberals are evil people who burn down cities, celebrate the death of police officers, and want to murder full-term infants. And that stuff is cemented into their brains as factual, because NO ONE in their world will argue otherwise. REALLY SHOCKED BY THE ELECTED LEADERS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY - In 2019, Trump tweeted several times about how four black and brown Congresswomen (all very much Americans, let's point out) should "go back and fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came." Hours later, he mentioned Ilhan Omar by name at a rally in North Carolina, and he stood and smirked while the all-white crowd chanted "Send her back!" I have pretty low expectations for the rabid Trumpkins at a rally that looks like a colorized version of 1930's Germany... but what's still unbelievable to me is that every single elected Republican in the national government didn't call a press conference the next day to repudiate and condemn that bullshit. Every single one of them just ran past reporters and hid in their offices for a couple days so they wouldn't have to answer for it. And why? Because they didn't want to lose the privilege and power of their office. Six months later, those same boot-licking cowards wouldn't even allow Republican-appointed witnesses (Sondland, among others) to speak at an impeachment trial, because they'd rather win their own re-elections than allow the public confirmation that Trump is undeniably a traitor to this country. It's fucking disgraceful.
    9 points
  22. I’m currently waiting in my car in a line for a test at my hospital. I started having a sore throat yesterday and woke up with a fever this morning. I also have a headache and I’m tired as shit but those things seem to be a normal state of being this year. Just got a text the lady in the office two down from me is positive, so that’s nice. I pray it’s just allergies. Our area is spiking again - we have had over 90 positive tests just amongst employees since Sunday.
    9 points
  23. It’s Morning on Surly. Enjoy it! Only 12 hours until the nightly dread creeps back in.
    9 points
  24. Also, I can't take credit for this, but I just saw Parler referred to as Meinspace.
    9 points
  25. ENS TwiceHornDad ca. 1942 at the ripe age of 21. Torpedo and later gunnery officer on DD-583, USS Hall. At anchor off Ulithi ca. 1944, probably between operations in support of the Marshall Islands invasion (Kwajalein, Eniwetok) and the Marianas invasions (Saipan, Tinian).
    8 points
  26. My maternal grandpa, Battery E of the 123rd Field Artillery In WW1. This pic was taken after he trained at Camp Logan, which is now Memorial Park in Houston. Lobbed a shit ton of artillery in France.
    8 points
  27. Mom's side: Grandaddy, WWII. "Sergeant Mack." Army Air Corps, Aircraft Electrician. Commanded a crew of 18 men who were like his sons, they went everywhere, helped build bases for the 9th Air Force, I know he was around and probably worked on P-38s and various tactical bombers. They had an old stray dog that he said must have been a soldier because it always knew when it was chow time. They rescued a teenaged girl who been abused and for some reason the Red Cross didn't want to help her. I don't think he ever gave to the Red Cross after that. Was usually not on the front lines except for one time in Belgium when the Germans busted through in the Bulge. He was in the last village that Peiper got to but was not able to take. Peiper's men were the ones executing prisoners. I have a letter to my mom from him where he mentions being in a basement, hearing tanks, the most scared he'd ever been in his life. He'd tell me stories when I was a child that I would understand in childlike ways, like how in the trip over to England they got sick of rations so they pooled their hidden civilian food and made Brunswick Stew (in my mind I thought he and a few others swam to an island, complete with one palm tree, and cans came floating by.) He talked about how they couldn't catch the German jets in the air, so they'd attack the German bases at night, blow their wings off. I pictured him and his friends doing this on foot, with sticks of dynamite under their arms. Also on the Atlantic crossing, he got tired of being down in the hold with the guys puking everywhere, so he and some friends set up a laundry on deck for the officers, and got to sleep up there in the fresh air. They cleaned the uniforms with gasoline.
    8 points
  28. Mississippi rep wants state to “succeed” from the union if Biden is POTUS.
    8 points
  29. They're essentially behaving like a prosecutor's office seeking an indictment for murder...but there is no weapon...there are no witnesses...there is no body...there is no DNA (victim or perpetrator)...there is no suspect...there's not even a reason to believe a homicide was committed in any context. Someone told them that they may have heard someone else say something about someone they know. They essentially want to procure an indictment for the purposes of searching for a murder victim. That's literally not how anything works...ever, yet that's the path we're being asked to assume is just the normal course of action in the "legal process" that these con men want to pursue. McConnell was on the floor of the senate the other day playing his "I can invoke more logical fallacies than you can and in fewer words" card, quite inarticulately I might add. One wonders if he has suffered a series of strokes in recent years. He's never been a terribly intelligent man, but his latest performances have been beyond ghastly even by his own abysmal standards. Anyways, among others, he was using false equivalence to compare this to 2000, which he probably knows is dishonest. In 2000, the entire issue came down to a recount in one state that his party repeatedly tried to have recounts shut down and the other party really just wanted votes to be counted (like Trump does now). Like someone else said, we really and truly do not know who won Florida. As someone who lived there once put it to me, that election was run to the standards of a Colombian election in the 1990's. McConnell also tried to use the words of HRC as a justification. Yes, he tried to use rhetoric from a private citizen to justify these dilatory judicial tactics. In pursuing these pointless digressions, McConnell is essentially telling us "the Democrats are just as bad as we are." It seems lost on him that he's admitting that his party is bad. More importantly, I cannot for the life of me understand why people just blindly nod their heads at someone who admits that his side is bad, and apparently we need to trust them. This is all very poorly performed mental gymnastics, and it's quite an indictment of one's reasoning faculties to take seriously a single syllable from these fucking clowns.
    8 points
  30. And he'll pay that money, or his name's not Dan Patrick!
    8 points
  31. http://www.progressivebullmoose.party/platform/ Election Reform Abolish corporate personhood. End partisan gerrymandering. We support the Open Our Democracy Act which “requires that states establish independent commissions for congressional redistricting; makes Election Day a holiday; and institutes open top-two primaries for House and Senate elections, allowing all voters, including registered Independents and unaffiliated voters to participate in primaries.” Repeal Citizens United and the McCutcheon rulings. Kill super PACs and end big money in politics. Reform campaign finance laws. Allow open primaries (like in California). Create a “None of the Above” option in all federal elections. Wall Street and Corporate Reform End “Too Big to Fail”—bust ‘em apart. Resurrect Glass-Steagall. Eliminate corporate welfare—including tax breaks, subsidies & loopholes. Tame rampant income inequality—including establishing equal pay for women, a living wage & increased taxes on the billionaires & 0.01%. Strengthen Social Security (remove the ceiling). Cap the size of corporations. End hostile, unproductive takeovers & leveraged buyouts; stop mergers that undermine competition. Establish measures to bring much greater transparecy to the Federal Reserve, including annual or biennial independent audits (the Fed needs to remain independent of partisan politics, but the American people, ultimately, have a right to know everything that happens). Re-write the STOCK Act to strengthen the ban on Members of Congress from trading on insider information, eliminating their "abnormally higher returns," and the harm this causes the American people. Guiding Ideas: "The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government." —Theodore Roosevelt, "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —Franklin D. Roosevelt, "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." —Louis D. Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1916-1939) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." —Plutarch, Ancient Greek Historian (c. 46-120 A.D.) Smaller, More Responsive Government Establish term limits—including lobbyists, congressional staffers, agency “lifers,” and the Supreme Court (18 years), with a rotating Chief Justice (every 6 years). Establish merit-based selection of U.S. Supreme Court justices, with two-thirds supermajority confirmation in the U.S. Senate. Rein in government spending. Balance the budget. Payoff the debt. Rein in corporate lobbying, including a 3-year “cooling off” period, increased transparency and monitoring, and stronger sanctions (fines and imprisonment) for violations. Halt domestic spying without a warrant. Abolish secret courts. Establish a national referendum over extended military action (“The War Powers Act of 1973 gives the president the power to wage war for 60 days before an authorization from Congress is needed.”) Environmental Reform Invest in clean, renewable energy. Move the country away from fossil fuels, while working with corporations to transition workers to new jobs. Demand clean water and clean air. Protect our oceans, rivers, and lakes from pollution, toxic dumping, and over-fishing. Continue to reduce carbon emissions. Repeal immediately the "Monsanto Protection Act," and the DARK Act (Deny Americans Right to Know Act). Stage 2 Priorities: Implement the Progressive Agenda— Women’s Rights Eliminate the gender pay gap. Provide 90 days of paid family leave. Protect women’s health education Require the boards of all public companies to have at least 40% women (and at least 40% men too). Immigration Reform First and foremost, take immediate, reasonable steps to strengthen our borders, protect border communities, and bring an end to illegal immigration. Establish a just, humane path to citizenship that allows immigrant families to stay together, pay taxes, and contribute to the betterment of the United States. As Ronald Reagan said in his 1984 election, “I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.” Enforce the laws against employers that are illegally hiring illegal immigrants. Partner with our Latin American neighbors and allies around the world to reduce the extreme income inequality that drives migration. Student Loan Reform End the federal government’s profiteering off student loan programs. Curb excessive student loan interest rates. Make public colleges and universities tuition free. Health Care Establish a free healthcare system for all U.S. citizens, one that is equivalent to the healthcare available to members of the U.S. Congress. Eliminate the health insurance industry (We currently spend one-third of all healthcare dollars on billing and bureaucracy. This doesn’t even include the profits that go to insurance companies. This makes no sense. We propose to eliminate the health insurance industry and replace it with a single payer system.). Require the government to negotiate lower prices for healthcare costs and prescription drugs. Gun Laws We fully support the U.S. Constitution, including the Second Amendment. We do not support the increasing militarization of the police. We believe in reasonable backgroud checks for all gun buyers (but we do not suppport a “national gun registry” or unlawful government surveillance of gun buyers) Guiding Ideas: "The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world… The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!" —Theodore Roosevelt "To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” —George Washington "By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia,’ ‘the security of the nation,’ and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy… The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important." —John F. Kennedy "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." —Thomas Jefferson "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." —Thomas Jefferson "You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time… It’s a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience." —Ronald Reagan Law Enforcement End the war on drugs. Do not legalize drugs, but decriminalize personal possession. Treat drug use and abuse as a public health issue, not a crime. Recalibrate the DEA to focus on harm reduction and treatment programs, while continuing to focus on drug cartels, and keeping drugs out of the hands of kids. Legalize, regulate, and tax cannabis like alcohol. Outlaw private prisons. End mandatory minimums. Abolish asset forfeiture.
    7 points
  32. Dad, WWII, USN, S1C. Shore Patrol (SP). equivalent of army MP. His job was to beat the sbit out of rowdy, drunken sailors and get them sobered up. And as you can imagine in the Navy, that meant a lot of beating up. He could take you, me, your family, my family, and the Texas Longhorn teams of the last 10 years on simultaneously and not break a sweat. Fortunately, he was a great guy. RIP. Also, shout out to my brother, Army private during Nam in the Signal Corps. Gentle giant at 6'7". Repeatedly won his platoon shooting contests. Wouldn't hurt a flea in real life. Yes, they're badasses, so badass I'm one just from them breathing on me.
    7 points
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