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WhatTheBuck

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  1. I learned about his passing from Bob Weir’s IG. Yeah, the first thing I thought of was Blue Sky because it’s such a great road trip tune. Windows down, volume cranked up. I remember my first ABB awakening came when I was young, in high school and I was awake one morning listening to my clock radio. Ramblin’ Man came on and I wasn’t ready to get up yet so I just lied there and listened. I never really paid much attention. It sounded like kind of a country redneck tune with that twangy voice and I was pretty dismissive of it. But then it got to the guitar solo(s) part and I got it. I stumbled on this on YouTube tonight: The Dead and the All and crossed paths numerous times. Here’s an excerpt from the 4th set of the Dead in D.C. on 6/10/73 when they were joined by Betts and Butch Trucks. The whole set is killer if you dare to seek it out. RIP
  2. They’re all idiots. Trump especially.
  3. Fwiw, the Kennedy family is endorsing Joe Biden, not Jr. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245530551/kennedy-family-endorse-biden-not-rfk
  4. So? Are you suggesting the Bible endorses the good kind of slavery?
  5. They’ll never expand beyond four eight twelve teams…
  6. But the Bible endorses slavery. If you believe that the Bible is the holy word of God and if you really get your values from your scripture then you should be perfectly fine with slavery. That’s a-okay with God. He just tells you how to treat them, he never said slavery is wrong. But nobody gets their values from their scripture. They just interpret their scripture in whatever way is necessary to support the values they already have. It’s a myth that “mainstream Christianity” has ever approached anything that’s pure and loving and kind, anything that conforms to the teachings of the character Jesus in the Bible (which never included a denunciation of slavery). Religions are man-made socio-political institutions that evolve alongside the societies that practice them. Christianity has always been employed to defend our darkest impulses just as readily as, if not more-so than our finest.
  7. Fucking Barr, man. He should still hang for lying to America about the findings in the Mueller report. I saw a clip this morning of him on Fox News saying he’ll vote for Trump again. He said Trump is playing “Russian roulette,” (nice choice of words, you Russian-investigation-obfuscating piece of shit,) and that 4 more years of Biden would be “national suicide.” Really, Bill? Suicide? Seems the country is doing okay. I recall the same sort of hysterical warnings coming from the GOP about an Obama presidency but we had 8 years of Obama/Biden and came out better than before. Have we forgotten Trump’s gross incompetence and mismanagement of the pandemic? Yeah, thanks for testifying that Trump lost the election and warning that a second Trump term would be a “horror show.” You’re still a traitor and a spineless coward who at the end of the day will choose party over country every time.
  8. Unlike back when a whole lot of Christians in this country owned slaves.
  9. Lol, right. The audio of his “grab ‘em by the pussy” comment didn’t do it. Video of him shooting someone on Fifth Ave wouldn’t do it. His base is bereft of standards, values, or fixed principles of any kind. No decent person supports Trump. Its sad but true. It also makes them totally predictable. There is no bottom. Nothing that will change their minds.
  10. Yeah, um, her crooked dad taught her most of what she knows.
  11. I don’t know about God. But Jesus did. Matthew 19:21 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition) 21 Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money[a] to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” Footnote: [a] 19.21 Gk lacks the money
  12. He’s not dead, he just smells funny.
  13. Please, Mr. Spaceman, don’t take me along for a ride.
  14. Ukraine aid needs to get done ASAP. I’m not holding my breath and I’ve got a pretty cynical view of Johnson’s determination to get it done. But if it doesn’t get done then that will be a further indictment of the pro-Putin sympathies in the GOP.
  15. Why did Michael Cohen go to jail? Do you think election interference is okay? Not sure what’s confusing.
  16. Yeah but just because they don’t show up at the courthouse doesn’t mean they won’t show up at the polls. We can’t get complacent and overconfident. I think that’s part of why Trump won in ‘16. I can’t prove it but I believe he would’ve lost if they held a re-vote the day after the election. I think a lot of voters stayed home because they assumed he had no chance. I think a lot of them woke up the next morning thinking Hillary didn’t look so bad after all. I’m not suggesting you disagree but I think we must never lower our guard and should always take seriously the threat that Trump might actually win. No one can afford to sit on their hands. Anything but a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump and against American constitutional democracy. We can’t assume the fascist sympathizers will sit at home on Nov. 5. We have to assume they’ll turn out and we have to show up ourselves because there are more of us than there are of them. Stay vigilant.
  17. He’s going to relish all the media attention and the free advertising of his rants about his victimhood.
  18. I saw that interview. Sununu’s a fucking tool. One point he made repeatedly was that “it’s like reality tv” with Trump’s supporters, as if that’s justification for ignoring the seriousness of his crimes. What’s particularly galling is that Sununu knows it’s not reality tv. The reality of Trump is that he’s a criminal, totally corrupt, totally unfit for office. But Sununu doesn’t care because Trump’s supporters are living in their fantasy world so he’s going to live in it to. Because, you know…power. He’s setting an example that I still think Nikki Haley will eventually follow.
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