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Goredho

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  1. Can we just deport Mark Maddock to Dumbfuckistan? Oh, I forgot, he already resides in Dumbfuckistan.
  2. It’s just good old free market capitalism at work. Capitalists are really only responsible for consolidating and increasing capital. It only seems irresponsible if you care about things other than money.
  3. “Conservative sex” is the preferred nomenclature, dude.
  4. 1. MAGA types hate Rona McDaniel. She isn't viewed as one of them. 2. As the Venn diagram of "Republican", "Conservative" and "MAGA" condense to a single circle, "RINOs" like Rona are going to be hard up, especially if they are blacklisted everywhere outside of that. Probably deserved, leopards eating faces, etc.... but... 3. If someone formerly enabled Trump and MAGA but now feels compelled to work against them, it is in my family's best interests for them to find a place to do that. I have no idea if that is what Rona was going to do, but we are in an immediate existential crisis for the country as we have known it. If she's willing to help prevent a complete Trump takeover and establishment of a MAGA federal government, then I don't care what she did two, four, six years ago. I want her help to keep Trump out of the White House now. 4. A whole lot of people benefit from citizen outrage our country's internal strife, and they are not all part of the MAGA movement. Media across the political spectrum has a particularly strong profit motive in promoting war vs peace.
  5. Well that was pretty spectacularly terrifying.
  6. That is definitely the image of someone who was better off 4 years ago.
  7. Just have her perform traditional conservative women’s work.
  8. Capitalists migrate and population follows. There was a time when Detroit was a thriving center for new enterprise. There will be a time in the future when cities in Texas resemble today's Detroit.
  9. You want to see Alex Jones eat Elon Musk's ass?
  10. Is it really new?
  11. Where's Chappelle when we need him most...
  12. The orange guy on live TV.
  13. Like most things, there's a happy medium between coddling and harsh discipline. Going too far in one direction or the other is destructive. I mean, look at the kids in Footloose. They just wanted to dance, for chrissakes.
  14. Yeah, the discussion has been successfully redirected towards the usual political suspects.
  15. In case anyone is finding the current crop of conspiracy theories lacking, Trump's going to get his windfall through a merger with a company with "World Acquisition" in its name that just so happens to be headquartered in Wuhan, China -- the epicenter of COVID-19. Trump, whose companies have a long history of filing for bankruptcy, announced a deal Wednesday night to bring a new media company public through what’s known as a SPAC, or a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation. Trump Media & Technology Group, chaired by Trump, said it will launch a new social media platform that the former president promises will “stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech.” RELATED ARTICLEWeWork is finally going public. A lot has changed The media company has agreed to combine with Digital World Acquisition Corp., a blank check company that exists solely to merge with private firms to take them public. The Nasdaq-listed shell company is led by Patrick Orlando, who is also the CEO of Yunhong International, a SPAC based in Wuhan, China, according to filings. The blank check company’s shares nearly quadrupled on Thursday, finishing up 357%. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/business/trump-social-media-spac/index.html
  16. If only the government was as well run as Boeing, X and Purdue Pharma, all our lives would be hunky dory.
  17. I absolutely won't believe that until I see it, but if Letitia James seizes Mar-A-Lago, I hope she makes sure to document the event similarly to this.
  18. Same. I under appreciated that a year of lockdown for me was 1/50th of my life, but 1/10th of my 10 year old's life. I under-appreciated how that experience of isolation would affect them. They turned to digital means of interrelation with others and we are still trying to help navigate them out of that.
  19. I hope it doesn't come down to force, but it might. I would hope that the 5% could see that it is in their best interests to ensure the 95% are content even in a capitalistic society. The Camelots of the uber-wealthy are built on the backs of the working class. They need only shrug to shake their foundations.
  20. The American dream only needs to be reset to allow this trend to continue. Rather than asking 95% to reset to accept a lesser reality than they would have experienced in 1973, I'd rather see the 5% reset to experience the reality they would have experienced in 1973.
  21. I think its hysterical that a lavish wedding is being used as the bar for the affordability crisis young American's face. It's far more basic. Take the American dream I experienced growing up and as depicted on leave it to Beaver or whatever. One parent works, the other is focused on home and family. They have a nice house and a couple of cars. They have a couple kids getting decently educated at public schools. The children will go to college and not be saddled with cradle-to-grave debt. Kids aren't disillusioned because they can't have a lavish wedding like they might see on the season finale of "The Bachelor". They are disillusioned because the "American dream" is now a very unrealistic pipe dream for them. That's the result of laissez faire policy decisions that simply trust corporations and the uber wealthy to safeguard the welfare of our society's middle class.
  22. I think there is a sweet spot that policy should endeavor to hold where people who are not "elite" (economically, intellectually, etc...) are able to feel good and happy about their existence and their life's trajectory. Our policy has been to grease the rails by which money can be moved from the middle class to the already wealthy. Its not a perception problem that people in the middle class have to cut back or assume more debt to have the life they had 30 years ago. Or to that they grew up in if they are a young adult. That's not all kumbaya beneficence on my part. Happy, content people don't revolt.
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