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  1. American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders is pretty damn intense.  It asks what's real or not in the way of proof or our personal skepticism.  Would love to read others views.  I think the government was dirty but again, there's no proof. Does this make me a conspiracist?   There's a lot to look at, but very little in the way of smoking guns.  It also becomes pretty easy to file this in the Cloak Room as well.  

  2. 50 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

    I’m not worried.  Biden had a good SOTU and the repub response was ridiculed by all sides. Britt was beyond horrible. 
     

    The polls will narrow as the election gets closer and more people enter the fold. It won’t take Trump long to remind most people why they voted against him 4 years ago or 8 years ago. The guy has the maturity of a 1st grader.

    Yep,but no way Trump can duplicate his former self--he's unhealthy, has no stamina--can watch him short circuit during every speech now, is a substantial number of brain cells lighter and only had a 3rd graders vocabulary initially.  Even his nicknames no longer have any bite--sleepy Joe again?  Yep, sleepy Joe beat that cheating ass and is campaigning from a place of power because America got sick of Dotard, and booted his bloated ass.  Now, he'll remind and flog the American memory with his dim witted cons and antics.    He's a dumber person than before, and it'll bear out. 

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  3. 12 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Is she talking about the embryos or all the Americans sleeping by the streets and highways because we refuse socialized universal health and mental health care, and access to affordable housing?   

     

    11 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    Honest question and wondering if this should be its own thread but when the cunt from Alabama was asking if you are better off now or 4 years ago what is your answer?  For me I am better off now and I feel the country is also.  I am curious who on Surly was doing great 4 years ago and now Biden has ruined their life or maybe vice versa.  Or maybe you are better off or worse and it has nothing to do with who is president.  

    For those that survived Covid, they're probably better off now.  Also, those that had their college loan burden eased, they should feel more control of their livelihood.  I know we're all a whole lot safer now that a lunatic isn't in the WH. Cheers to the temporary riddance of stolen cofefe and hamberders.  

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  4. 2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    The general answer is I don’t want it to cost me money to do things that I’ve decided won’t help the issue that I don’t believe exists, and doesn’t help me in any way. 

    True, but everybody has admitted to it now--the charade is over.  Big oil is blaming the populace for allowing them to do it--citizens shouldn't have allowed them to pay legislators to control the message. It's never ending. And this is the end message for the rich taking advantage in capitalism--shouldn't have allowed us to do it.  Unfortunately, the bill still has to be paid, just going to cost more and those enabling this are hoping they'll be dead by then.  

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  5. 9 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    You have to believe something environmental is causing the rise in rate of rapid onset dementia in people under 60. I don't have a link for that, but I believe I've read or heard about the dementia rate from someplace reliable.

    Lot's of sicknesses that are probably being diagnosed individually to try and understand how the body responds or adapts, but what does the body do to a composite barrage of things hitting it at once.  For example: plastics and pesticides and covid/vaccine responses.  

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  6. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    We need to learn to say to our family, friends, and loved ones: “You can’t be that dumb.”

    I've said this many times--if I'm wrong, then we erred on the side of caution--no harm, no foul and needed to it eventually anyways since petroleum is nonrenewable. If you're wrong, then what?  Do you honestly believe 9 billion people can't affect the planet?  Why are you against acting responsibly?  It's usually met with silence or stupidity--but there's no changing minds or retention.  Clean brainwash of any logic or rational thought.  

  7. 9 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    You have to believe something environmental is causing the rise in rate of rapid onset dementia in people under 60. I don't have a link for that, but I believe I've read or heard about the dementia rate from someplace reliable.

    Something else I'm curious about that happened last time the cicadas emerged along the East Coast was that birds were going blind.  I don't recall (and may be my own ignorance but I didn't see studies at the time) but my hunch was that the cicadas were emerging through pesticides.  And then the blindness seemed to pass once the cicadas were gone, but I never read a connection.  Going to watch again this year and see if they both happen around the same time again. I witnessed it several times and still think about it.  

    https://news.yahoo.com/birds-suddenly-going-blind-mystery-153821318.html 

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  8. 52 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    So "it was too good, he must have been in drugs" is what the shit-for-brains are going with, huh? Odd choice, but who am I to conspiracy shame.

    Which is the exact same thing they said after he cleaned Trumps clock after their debate. That drug is called winning. 

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  9.  

    4 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    It’s the new way of America thanks to Trump

    We no longer have a shared reality 

    An insurrection was a tour of the capital 

    A phone call asking election authority to find more votes is just a perfect call

    Words have no meaning 

     

     

     

    And this is also a synapsis of why you can't reasonably discuss anything with the both siders.  They're dishonest and the only thing they have to justify any of their transgressions is to somehow pretzel into a both sides response.  Hillary was never president, nor surrounded by cabinet members and military that were willing to engage and act on her behalf with what power they could to incite and stall their insurrection.  That's a huge difference.  The same dishonest dealers brought us alternative facts to justify flat out lies.  Nor did she give a speech about marching to the capital to fight like hell to take back their country.  And he did this without any evidence to back his sad clown ass statements, which bore out in courts over the first year of Biden's presidency.  But sure, both sides.  

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  10. 9 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Silver is not a troll, he's fucking broken because polling is broken and he's a shit ass pundit. 

    The pollsters are mad the election results don't match their polls, so they have to resort to really bad punditry to try to justify why they are employed.

    But when his platform supports trolls trolling, he's a troll by association.  His platform has become just another rw stooge bot echo chamber.  And he's not apologizing for his shitty research after common sense was posted to his attention.  

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  11. 3 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    Whether or not it is the correct legal decision depends on whether you think judges should have personal input into whether election law should make sense or not. The three liberals are clearly concerned about the possibility of GOP states ruling that all Dems are insurrectionists based on nothing and keeping them off the ballot (though one would think that SCOTUS could check that by determining whether or not someone actually committed insurrection) and see a real judicially cognizable interest in supporting some degree of uniformity in elections for federal office, but this decision isn't remotely based in the text or history of the 14th Amendment nor in structural Constitutional concerns (typically the Court looks at federalism, especially in elections, as good, not a horrible thing to be avoided at all costs even to the extent someone who committed treason should stay on the ballot).  

    If you're a legal realist that thinks the courts have a role to play in filling in the blanks when the text of the law isn't entirely clear, I guess it's not insane for you to think that this is the correct legal decision (though I think the text of the law is fairly clear here). But if you've ever spent even a single fucking second touting anything any conservative legal commentators have said about what law should be and you want to pretend that this aligns with what you've previously touted, you should ___________________________________________________ [content that would get me suspended and/or might encourage someone to actually commit self harm has been censored by me]. 

    A SCOTUS ruling that Colorado's electors can't be counted. Based on what? Who fucking knows, but that's what would happen.

    Well they did go 0-62 in court already where they presented 0 evidence of fraud.  FFS, he was propped up by a foreign bank and governments.  He may as well be a foreign spy, campaigning for the American presidency.  He definitely hired spies into his cabinet--people working for other governments, thereby compromising them.  Flynn is roaming free and would probably join the sick, fat fuck's cabinet again should he be elected.  Fuckstain had a hotel down the street from the WH that had standing bribes booked with over 30 governments for the entirety of his presidency.  

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  12. 5 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

    He doesn't control the White House this time, so any coup attempts will be much more difficult to pull off.  DC will be ready for shenanigans this time.

    I'm more worried about election interference a la hacking voting machines via NK, China, Russia or some other shitty wannabe Nazis. He's publicly asked for their assistance.  And voter role purges without evidence and only in Democratic counties is back in effect.  It's not difficult to see their game plan--just listen to them.

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  13. 17 hours ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    I don't think you are allowed to run as a 3rd party candidate if you participated in either the maga or democratic primary.

    Guess Nikki will need to be elected first before rules and laws don't apply.  Of course they didn't apply to Dotard before either, or he wouldn't have been allowed to run based on paying a prostitute, therefor compromising him in the first place.  Oh but what are we going to do.

    Republicans are now in the purging rolls portion of the election timeline now.  Will this be handed back to the state rights again?  

  14. 1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:

    I was thinking about Dred Scott the other day.

    One thing AP history drilled down in us is that it was a terrible decision. Maybe the worst ever by the Supreme Court. It upended a tenuous ‘peace’ created by the Missouri compromise… and set us on the path to the civil war. And that’s outside of the abhorrent moral aspect of it.

    All that being said, I am 100% sure this court in its make up would have ruled the same way. Maybe not 7-2 but sure as shit 6-3. 

    The Supreme Court is undoing the protections of a post civil war / post Jim Crow / post civil rights era that helped America rise to be the leader of the free world. Without those protections we rot from within and ultimately face the same fate as we did in the mid 19th century.

    I fundamentally do not understand how the federalists society, fascists, conservative catholic bloc, and Crow disciples think that this leads to a better America.

    Or maybe they don’t and they just want to hoard their billions. And their calculation is that they’ll be the ruling class / on the winning side of any civil conflict. It’s so dystopianly unAmerican 

    I think the last sentence is the ultimate goal--a ruling class.  However, it's been said many times before here, they never control the autocrat monster they create. 

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  15. On 2/28/2024 at 2:22 AM, Hookah Horns said:

    The fact that all these congress critters are so fuckin desperate to keep their seats should tell us they're being paid way too much for the amount of work most of them do. We should knock em down to minimum wage and then we'll see who really wants to serve. 

    But then we'd truly be stuck with the dumb ones, and that's way too much power for someone working minimum wage.  At that point, they'd also be low class whores for anyone that would pay a few nickels extra.  We should definitely take away their socialized health care plans though.  

  16. 3 minutes ago, Slacks said:

    So... I always wonder, and maybe one of you can explain... How is it that any minority group is the mover of the election?

    On one hand, the comment is that X minority community doesn't vote. On the other hand, that same minority community is supposed to deliver a win to the D party.

    To me, it always sounds like a way to keep minorities as 'them'.

    Look at the last page or two of the thread... Muslims are a threat to the Ds... And should vote D because they're going to cause Trump to win.

    If Trump wins, it won't be because 100,000 Muslims in Michigan or 10,000 black people in middle Ohio didn't vote Biden. It will be because millions of the majority that actually control the vote will have spoken and chosen Trump.

    Why does this charade exist and get repeated?

    I think it's because the swing states were so narrowly won, and while no group by themselves can probably change much, they can collectively with all their varied single issues.  

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  17. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    It’s all of the above and it’s the propaganda.  20 years of Rush, Fox News, and Alex Jones coupled with a vapid materialistic society that worships wealth and domination over the content of someone’s character.  Trump checks all the boxes plus he’s genuinely ignorant and uneducated which effectively resonates with the like minded.  

    Also racism--lots and lots of racism.  Remember, their rights are infringed when Black, Muslims and Latino are given equal rights.   

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  18. 56 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    The reporter asked one of the Arab Americans organizing the "uncommitted" movement, "What is your response to the argument that the alternative to Joe Biden is much worse for the Arab and Muslim community?"  The man answered along the lines of, "The person who has lost 30 family members in Gaza has no concept of anything worse than that."  

    I'm not saying that's a good answer, but it shows how one demographic might make the Gaza war a singular issue that drives their vote, without the ability to see the bigger picture.  Maybe they'll change their mind when November approaches and Trump goes all in on Israel and makes more idiotic comments about the Arab and Muslim population in general.  But that NPR piece didn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy.

    It's interesting how all the different groups that make up the Democrats have their issues and breaking points with Biden, whereas the others side threatens their freedoms and livelihood altogether--restricting voting access, removed affirmative action, upend affordable care act, women's rights, deregulate agencies that restrict pollution and consumer protections, upping retirement age to 70 while still unraveling SS and Medicare/caid, pro predatory loans, privatizing education, usurp democracy.   We'll show the libtards--we'll bleed out all of our collective rights to fuck them, while decrying both sides.  

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  19. 46 minutes ago, Balcones said:

    Wait until they subpoena the actual 12,000 text messages. Just the threat of that should be enough for Willis and Wade to cry uncle. I’d imagine those will be far from perfect.

    Again, for the umpteenth time, they're not being tried.  And as for damaging messages being released, pretty sure they're not running for president either and whatever comes out won't be very beneficial to Trump's criming.  Sure, we'll look at them and think, idiots.  We'll look at Trump and say add it to the mountain of crimes, every climbing skyward that this criminal represents.  America will know it's voting between an old man and a mountain of shit, representing a party of shit that would actually support him as their candidate.  But sure, on the other hand, we'll know that Fanny Willis had sex with Wade.  

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  20. 12 hours ago, Balcones said:

    How is anyone expected to get a fair trial when both the DA and Special Prosecutor lie under oath in the process?  
     

    At this point, is there any doubt they lied to the court? Other people can bring the charges and try the case against Trump, but if these two will lie to the court over an affair, why would do you think they be truthful on everything else?
     

     

    Are they being tried for their lie?  If not, commence the flogging of Dotard.  As always, let the evidence determine guilt.  I'm sure their defense at the end to a jury will be along the lines of can you believe a couple of liars or your lying eyes?  

  21. 30 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    A question I have is how have the Democrats not cultivated a better candidate than an 80 year old for this election? Biden himself said he planned to be a one term president before the last election. He knew then he was a stop gap to defeat trump. He's an absolutely terrible candidate to be running at his age and that's just a fact. The way Stewart ended that first show told me he's disappointed the Democrats didn't do better to ensure the savior of the republic isn't an 80 yr old looking older and more senile by the day. 

    it's not that Dems don't have better candidates, but rather what candidates do they have that America is ready for?  They have a bunch of great candidates that won't go anywhere because they're women, gay, black...Biden is just a centrist really, with some progressive points peppered in.  America still feels more comfortable with grandpa white dude than somebody they've siloed their families from in real life.  Democrats had to coalesce around a candidate that they thought would bridge whatever divide existed.  He's experienced, hired the right people and didn't stray too far left-like reparation discussions like Warren did.  He's also brought it when needed.  

    The bad--the executive office ages those that give a shit and try to do a good job, and he's already pretty old.  A vote for Biden really brings an added critical eye to his VP, since there's a very real chance they take over.  I wish the USA was reaching an enlightened American Renaissance, but instead we'd rather censor books, and steer towards a religious secularism.  So I expect it will be a while still before Dems get their best minds into the Executive office.  

    All in all, Biden has been great and I think he knocked it out of the park for his term.  I wish he'd work to try and fill in other positions such as replace DeJoy with a new post master general.  

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  22. 10 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

     

    You’re not wrong about physical / outrageous comics.

    But the smart ones tend to become bitter and that makes them unfunny as satire stops becoming satire when it’s mean.

    He still comes at it from a place of hope and is putting up the mirror to society in a an effort to change it for the better.

    I look at someone like George Carlin as someone who towards the end no longer had any hope. He was bitter and it came across in not being that funny anymore

    Marc Maron talks about this a lot.  I like him a lot, but find him at times to be an over the top jackass.  

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