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Goredho

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  1. 4 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    His cult members don't care. He says it and it is the gospel truth. Human beings never evolve or change. This is no different than Germans thinking Hitler was their savior. These idiots at these rallies really believe Dotard was sent by God to make their lives better and to make the lives of brown-skinned people a living hell.

    We are dealing with the worst of humanity right now. There is no rosy endng to this. We are descending into the depths of fascism and are on the path to where a significant portion of the populace looks at Dotard as a God-king. If you study history at all you know that great empires throughout history are done from within. We are watching the sunset of America having a good voice on the world stage coming to an end because millions of our fellow citizens chose hate and bigotry over the greater good of our fellow human beings. We are the terrible human beings we have said that other countries are. It's us now and it is not pretty.

    I have at different times taken solace in the fact that even Germany after Hitler was able to recover and become a strong western democracy.

    But then I remember that it was possible because there was a democratic superpower to help ensure it.

    If the US crumbles, we won't be so lucky.

  2. On 11/24/2019 at 3:12 PM, Chad said:

    Any y'all remember when we all laughed at the aggy when they played  Clemson for calling a timeout down by 21 with 6 seconds remaining? Then Tom Herman turns around and does the exact same thing against Baylor down by 21 with 5 seconds remaining. Get that goof the fuck out of here.

    Losing I can handle. Making us look silly compared to aggy?   Fuck off, Herman.

  3. 1 hour ago, Deej said:

    We really should organize a Surly Guitar Mafia Singapore trip. We can stop on the way there to jam at AUTF's bar top lounge.

    The Surly Guitar Mafia Jam: 35 dudes with guitars, half playing “Smoke on the Water” while the other half are playing the intro to “Stairway to Heaven” — all poorly.  A disinterested well-past-her-prime stripper in the corner counts ignored quarter notes with a pair of maracas.

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  4. 11 minutes ago, DougO said:

    I had a dream last night that I had somehow totally forgotten to add the dual-humbucker Telecaster Deluxe to my list of guitars in my inventory. I woke up thinking, "where the hell did I put that guitar, anyway?" Then I realized I have never owned one.

    I guess that constitutes a nightmare by guitar pron standards.

    Its a prophecy, ignore it at your peril!

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  5. Dunno what to say, other than I'm sorry for your nephew, you and the rest of your family, @Judge Roybeanbag.  My wife's brother committed suicide when he was like 15, some 26 years ago.  She and her parents are still profoundly affected by his loss to this day.  But -- and for whatever it is worth -- they have found a way to to live with it while still finding joy and happiness in the world.

    Good message in the OP.

  6. I got a letter from the government the other day
    I opened and read it, it said they were suckers
    They wanted me for their army or whatever
    Picture me giving a damn, I said never
    Here is a land that never gave a damn
    About a brother like me and myself because they never did
    I wasn't with it but just that very minute it occurred to me
    The suckers had authority
    Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell, how long has it been?
    They got me sitting in the state pen
    I gotta get out, but that thought was thought before
    I contemplated a plan on the cell floor...
     

     

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  7. Not sure what you would pick as the single best political song from the Clash.  London Calling would probably be the most popular.

    Another anti-war song that may have been Hendrix’s most impressive guitar work. 

     

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  8. 2 hours ago, Fozzz said:

    I have a feeling we're going to be hearing a lot about Hawley in the years to come.  If the GOP makes this turn, the democrat party is toast.  I doubt it will substantively come to pass, but even only a rhetorical turn could pretty much make dems a party only for minorities and urban white granola eaters. 

     

    54 likes and 18 retweets.  Compare to...

    I don’t think Hawley is taking the wheel anytime soon.

  9. 17 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I want to be wrong, I hope I am. 

    But there is an entire support system keeping Trump from falling regardless of the evidence or facts.  That’s the real threat to democracy.  

     

    Sums it up. 

    This.  Trump is Trump.  No surprises there.  Everything else that operates to keep him rolling is the real surprise/disappointment.

    Trump is pretty perfect as a GOP hatchet man to the centrist & leftist progress over the last 25-30 years.  He has no conscience and won’t lose a wink of sleep over any negative outcome from his actions.  And if he ultimately needs to be stopped, the GOP can make the case that it was all him — that he was a rogue outsider who ran amok and that they ultimately, heroically, stopped.

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