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  1. Yeah, I've been clueless and wrong so many times in the last 5 years in my understanding about who we are as a nation. I didn't think evangelical christians would lustily endorse a man who is so obviously and profoundly immoral, and vote for him even after hearing him brag about sexual assault. I didn't think they'd take his side during the election when he repeatedly insulted the parents of an American soldier who died for this country. I didn't think we'd have an American president publicly kneeling before Putin while dismissing our allies. I didn't think an American president would find it impossible to denounce David Duke (pretending not to know who he was after speaking about him in numerous interviews) or be so visibly angry when forced to denounce the Nazi who killed someone in Charlottesville ("Both sides!"). I didn't think those same American white people would take the side of the pro-authoritarian mob who broke into the Capitol instead of supporting the officers who they killed or the democracy they wanted to overthrow. But it turns out that your pro-Trump consultant understood America much better than you or me. I'm still kind of in shock, to be honest.
    18 points
  2. A future in which Michael Irvin being a voice of reason is not a future I imagined.
    13 points
  3. He's the worst thing to happen to this country in a long, long time. Completely tearing us apart from the inside.
    13 points
  4. JFC, just die already, you orange piece of shit.
    10 points
  5. This isn't your Plano explosion.
    9 points
  6. Meanwhile... I wonder if anyone has any ideas about why these two cases of illegal voting are treated so differently. Hell, the black guy didn't even know it was illegal for him to do what he did. Maybe if we try a little critical thinking we can come up with a theory.
    9 points
  7. Grandfather died and I was leaving to be one of the pallbearers out in west Texas. Almost New Mexico. I got stuck in some bad traffic outside of Ft Worth as was going to be about 30 minutes late. About 45 minutes before I get to the funeral parlor, I'm on some 2 lane road in the middle of nowhere going about 100. Cop gets behind me and turns on his lights. Passes me. Gets in front and slows down to about 85. Figuring he would have already pulled me over, I stick right behind him all the way to funeral home. I park. Cop parks by hearses and come over to me. "You must be Jameslaw. I'm your cousin, Don. You dad told me to keep an eye out for you."
    9 points
  8. 9 points
  9. Took the boy out to cruise the beachfront in search of sharks and bulls. Tried right in front of Pleasure Pier first and caught this old warrior. Notice the love bite on the back end. moved on out a little ways to drift behind a shrimp boat and had a double hookup pretty quick. Mine got off but his stayed hooked for a good 30 minute fight. We kept chasing the shrimper but never got another hookup. Started getting a little bumpy so we headed back in. Good afternoon and the boy got his pb shark so far.
    9 points
  10. I think the Black guy in Houston who “illegally voted” is facing 20 years or some such. He’ll probably get all 20, because, you know…
    8 points
  11. 8 points
  12. Fished skinny waters in islamorada this morning. Tarpon on the fly. Hooked two, a 10-15 pounder and a 40-50 pounder. Saw something like this from the large one before I lost it: The one I had was larger. exhilarating, but not easy fishing.
    8 points
  13. It would’ve been so much better if Covid had killed him while he was in office.
    8 points
  14. Posted from a friend on the Facebookz. On New Years Eve, 1959, my parents-in-law were celebrating at a supper club in Havana, dancing into the New Year with hopes of happiness & prosperity. Just after midnight, the music stopped & the lights turned on. The man who got on the stage told the crowd that Batista had fled Cuba, Fidel Castro’s army had won & was making its way into the city. Time for everyone to go home, get off the streets, it wasn’t safe. As they left, they saw the first signs of the revolution. Parking meters were smashed in pieces & shots were being fired in the distance in celebration of what was coming. The thing is, like most such chaotic moments in history, nobody really knew what was coming… In a few months time, Castro would force everyone into the city “square”. By force, I mean his troops went door to door making sure that all were in attendance. If you weren’t, you were taken to jail. All of this was to announce that Cuba would now have a new currency, and whatever money you had to date, whether you had worked for it your whole life or inherited it from your parents who had spent their lives working for it, you would now only be allowed to keep $200 worth…that’s it. The rest went to the Cuban government. Fancy that. They were liberating the Cuban people from prosperity, independence & freedom because now they would be dependent on the government for EVERYTHING. The next day, my father-in-law went to work with his brother as he did everyday in his father’s meat packing factory. When they arrived, they walked in to see soldiers throughout the factory. The one in charge approached my father-in-law & his brother and told them that the factory was now property of the state and that they could go back home because they had no more right to it. As they turned to go, the soldier stopped them once more and asked them how they got there. When my father-in-law told them that they had driven their cars, the soldier said those cars also belonged to the state, so they could hand over the keys and walk home. It was the beginning of the end for my father-in-law who left Cuba a year later. His brother never made it out. He committed suicide many years later and my father-in-law had to hear about it from friends of the family. My in-laws came to the US with NOTHING. Everything they owned and had worked for was left behind. My father-in-law was allowed to take a couple pair of pants, two shirts, one belt, and one pair of shoes…that’s it. This is what they came here with to start a new life, and they were the lucky ones. My father-in-law passed away a few years ago. He never got the chance to go back to his beloved island, to see his family and friends, to see his home where he grew up and started his life and family, but most importantly, he never got the opportunity to see Cuba free. This is just a part of their story, and only one of so many other stories for so many other Cuban families. I thank God everyday that my husband, myself and our children were born here. But I will never forget where our family came from and what they went through. We stand with the Cuban people against years of tyranny and dictatorship. We let our voices be heard because theirs are silenced.
    8 points
  15. Why is a sovereign citizen getting involved in the affairs of the United States? should we not treat them as enemy combatants? At the very least accept their denouncement of American citizenship and escort them out of the country?
    7 points
  16. I didn't pay any attention to any of that, or, really, the "lab leak/natural origin" debate. It was a sideshow, fiddling while Rome burns. Also, I recognized that diplomacy and statecraft dictated a) that we not dwell on the Chinese origins of the virus and b) probably not sling allegations about malfeasance, at the time. The only reason we are able to have this debate currently is because the virus is more or less under control. My bias is that I am a science person. I tend to defer to science people over fucking politicians 99 times out of 100. Even when the science type is, himself, a politician of sorts. That goes double when the politician in question is a bona fide stupid motherfucker who is trying any goddamn thing to distract people from the virus and his absolute inability to lead anyone in anything except in finding new people or things to hate.
    7 points
  17. I think my favorite Trumpkin move is where they ignore all opinions from doctors until they find one that agrees with them.
    7 points
  18. If these sovereign people aren't citizens can't we ship them to Gitmo?
    7 points
  19. This cavalier attitude of "go ahead, let your kid under 12 get Covid and they'll be fine" pisses me right the fuck off. Serious illness in kids from it is rare but kids do and WILL die unnecessarily from this -- and more so than from the flu, as pointed out above. Kids' schooling and lives will continue to be disrupted in large part because older people refuse the shot.
    7 points
  20. I’ll never forget when one of our consultants said he was thinking Trump might be the best candidate. I was like WTF?!? And you advise us on strategic planning, performance improvement, and were ex-military? I then noticed my parents going from repulsion to acceptance to admiration of Trump as lifelong Republicans. It’s a gut punch seeing people with advanced degrees get conned in real time. It has crushed my world-view on American exceptionalism and the future of functioning democracies. Then add COVID.
    7 points
  21. If that is in any way political, this country is doomed.
    7 points
  22. Yeah, whether or not this douchebag poser bought a $325,000 car doesn't change the fact that Joel Osteen, and the prosperity gospel he stands for, are absolute frauds and one of the reasons why people distrust organized religion. Fuck this guy.
    7 points
  23. So you’re moving the goal post from the US military can’t “steamroll” them in 24 hours to we can’t win the hearts and mind of the people by using drones and having tanks rolling down their streets? On the initial point you are 100% incorrect the US military could absolutely annihilate the Cuban government if they choose to. Unlike with Vietnam or Iraq they have supply lines from more than half the damn county from Texas to Connecticut within a days distance in addition to 5 full service naval bases in Florida and a pre-established base of operations in Cuba that could organize and run the entire op. Would that make the Cuban people want to rejoice and support democracy or join the US as our 51st state? I highly doubt it (which I think was your point after moving the goal post) which is why the US military has stayed out of it. But don’t think just because the US doesn’t use its military might to resolve this conflict in 24 hours, doesn’t mean it can’t.
    7 points
  24. They don’t put bourbon in it or nothin’?
    7 points
  25. buncha pulp fiction haters in here. gtfo with that nonsense. i watch whenever it’s on. it completely redefined the way we observe and process “movie time”. and it did it through characters and dialogue, not plot twists. you could never do that today because audiences have become too sophisticated. because of pulp fiction.
    7 points
  26. Ah, Hey-soos. I like him very much. But he no help hit curveball.
    6 points
  27. I liken the Trump era to a massive multi-level marketing scheme. Political Amway if you will. With both, I can't explain how college-educated people fell for this shit. There are what I thought were very reasonable people I know who completely fell for this and are still in the tank for him.
    6 points
  28. This is a good development. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/us/politics/reporter-records-justice-department.html Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday issued a broad ban on using subpoenas, warrants or court orders to seize reporters’ records from their employers or from communications firms in an effort to uncover their confidential sources in leak investigations, outlining sharp new limits on the practice. “The Department of Justice will no longer use compulsory legal process for the purpose of obtaining information from or records of members of the news media acting within the scope of newsgathering activities,” Mr. Garland wrote to federal prosecutors in a three-page policy memo, adding that the department would also revise its regulations to reflect the new approach. The memo, which also bans forcing reporters to testify about their sources or turn over their notes, said the Justice Department would support legislation to give greater protections to reporters’ information to better ensure that they hold under future administrations. Mr. Garland’s memo laid out a set of exceptions. They included if a reporter is under investigation for an unrelated crime; if a reporter is suspected of committing a crime like “breaking and entering” to gather information; if the department is seeking to authenticate already published information — a situation that arises sometimes in television news broadcasts of footage that can be evidence of a crime; or if reporters themselves have been deemed to be agents of foreign power or members of foreign terrorist groups. An exception will also apply in situations where seizing reporters’ records is deemed “necessary to prevent an imminent risk of death or serious bodily harm, including terrorist acts, kidnappings, specified offenses against a minor” or attacks that could incapacitate or destroy critical infrastructure, Mr. Garland wrote.
    6 points
  29. My neighbor’s best friend’s dad died from COVID. He was a doctor and refused the vaccination. Some doctors are dumb asses.
    6 points
  30. Futureman is the worst troll on this site. He isn’t even funny like some other trolls.
    6 points
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