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  1. 42 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    And if any of those farther right candidates pull it off, they could easily go down in the general election.  ANd they will be heavily outnumbered in Congress   

    When nothing happened after Sandy Hook, I thought the NRA and their friends were untouchable.  But Parkland, Sutherland Springs, And Vegas generated a lot more buzz than I expected.  Particularly Parkland. 

    The NRA and GOP could support some common-sense things that might head off some shootings.  Maybe Bubba doesn’t get his bump-stocks anymore or his 30-round magazines.   Maybe Cletus loses his guns a lot easier because he came into contact with law enforcement/mental health professionals.   Nope, the NRA gonna NRA.

    One livestreamed mass shooting where kids are begging for their lives or crying for mommy as they are murdered, and the house of cards comes tumbling down.  

    I wish I could share your rosy outlook. I'm more pessimistic. If Alex Jones didn't get immediately banished from public attention after he declared Newtown a hoax, I have a hard time being anything but cynical on the subject. We all watched the survivors of the Parkland shooting get labeled as "crisis actors" and then the status quo get maintained in the last election.  

    I don't know if a school shooting will ever get live streamed or, if it does, how many people could see it live whether it's because they don't hear about it in time or lack the wherewithal to view it. I'm not sure if there's a point in discussing the technical aspects behind something like that happening but it would probably have to be the shooter(s) broadcasting from body cams. If you didn't happen to catch it live, I'm not sure any more reputable media outlet would replay the video let alone Fox News, the favored network news outlet of right wing gun nuts. 

    If Newtown didn't shock you, I'm not convinced that video of all those little children getting gunned down would make the difference, especially when there's going to be someone there to tell you it's fake news. And I don't think, if it did happen, that Wayne LaPierre and Dana Loesch would respond in any way other than to say the solution is more guns, and how it wouldn't have happened if there was "a good guy with a gun" there to stop it. You know damn well where slorch and his ilk would stand on that divide. 

  2. 21 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    She wasn’t a spy.  She was a monkey wrench.  Her purpose is to sow chaos, to cause controversy and undermine institutions, to drive the partisan wedge deeper.  

    That’s my theory anyway.

    She's not a spy in the traditionsl sense where she's undercover in a clandestine espionage operation. But she's still an agent of the Russian intelligence services employed in an influence campaign funded and directed by the state. She should be treated like any other foreign spy. 

  3. 32 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    And then the NRA and the gun manufacturers are going to find their friends in Congress are not returning their phone calls or trying to protect them. 

    And then those congressmen will get primaried by farther right candidates who do return their calls. And accept their campaign contributions. 

  4. 9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    You will see the current President feel obliged to attend but my guess is that the other Presidents, including Jimmy Carter at 112, will find convenient excuses why they can't attend in person but send their sympathies to the family.  Perhaps Don Jr. can attend via Facetime from prison.

    speaking of which, I would love to hear the inner voice of Jimmy Carter sitting at the end of the pew looking down the row at the Clintons, Obama and Trumps.  He's probably thinking that he handed off the Presidency 40 years ago to Reagan/GHWB, and the rest of you lead us to Trump.  WTF.

    He's witnessed the long slide of the GOP to the far right that started with Nixon, continued with Reagan/Bush, went even farther with Bush/Cheney, and ultimately resulted in Trump who is the ultimate expression of every bad trait of the whole lot. I doubt that he saw the fiscal irresponsibility of Reagan/Bush, the hypocrisy of dealing with terrorist Iran in order to illegally fund death squads in South America, or the introduction of phony Christians like Falwell and Robertson into the GOP as positives. 

  5. 3 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    then there's this:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/trump-white-house-has-no-plan-counter-mueller-report/577417/

    why would your lawyer make that statement? 

    total.

    goat.

    rodeo.

    they have no plan for the mueller report.

    much more at the atlantic link if you want to understand what a colossal goat fuck that is this administration.

    How can you craft a coherent plan when you're not representing a coherent client? A client who can't speak without lying and is most certainly guilty? And a narcissist who thinks he's above the law and beyond reproach? And you're Rudy Giuliani, a crazy person. 

    Yeah, good luck with that. 

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  6. 43 minutes ago, BearCountry11 said:

    Need to post a follow up.  

    Getting ready to go to work today and wife hits me with “I actually really liked that Stella last night.  We should buy some!”

    "Apology accepted."

    Buy some for her. See if she drinks it. 

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  7. 3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The NRA is a political machine and it’s built around that.  That genie is never going back in the bottle.  

    And given the shadiness surrounding them with the Russian stuff, I have serious doubts they are still around 5 years from now.  

    I wouldn't bet on that. 

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    They're principally a pro-industry lobbying group. They fund Republican politicians in order to achieve legislative goals that boost the profits of gun manufacturers. The GOP is now practically a wholly owned subsidiary of the NRA. 

    Now they're starting to expand from an industry/political organization into a far right lifestyle brand. I think they'll keep growing in that direction. I don't think their members, or followers or whatever you want to call them, really care about the Russian involvement or will even believe it if and when they're shown proof of GOP politicians being bought with Russian money. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    The worst thing about the "potatoe" fiasco wasn't that the VP seemed goofy.  It was the potato spelling insecurity it instilled in my brain.  Prior to that I was confident in my potato syntax.  After, not so much.  I still have to double-check.

    Interesting. I would've thought it would cement the correct spelling in your brain so you'd never make the same mistake Dan Fucking Quayle did. And he did it while trying to correct a school child in a spelling bee, making him look particularly stupid. It's a simple mnemonic device to associate Dan Quayle with "potatoe" and know that's the wrong spelling. Dan Quayle = wrong. 

  9. 17 minutes ago, seven said:

    I'm another one of those engineering types that can't spell. It's very frustrating because I can almost always tell a word is misspelled but have no idea how to fix it. But knowing that about myself, I take the time to make sure I don't look like an idiot in professional correspondence. 

    Dictionary.com

  10. 1 hour ago, Brandywine said:

    The music in the background while President Trump came in and was seated at the funeral was Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan, by John Williams. It's an emotional piece of music.  

    Saving Private Ryan is fake WWII news. 

  11. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    I’m never going to budge off of the position that being willing to harm someone is ok so long as you are trying to feed them jesus is sick, cruel, and insanely twisted.

    I'll never budge from the position that teaching a child there's a place called Hell where they'll burn for all eternity if they're not good qualifies as exactly that. 

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  12. 1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

    Once sent my wife to the HEB five minutes from my house to get one ingredient that I needed for the dinner I was already preparing (and the reason why I needed it was that she used the last of it and didn't write it on the grocery list that's on the fridge, so I had no idea we didn't have it).  

    Took her 40 minutes to return.  She "saw people that she knew."  

    "Did you tell them that your husband is at home waiting for this ingredient so that he can finish dinner for the family?  I guess not.  Maybe you should have?"

    TONE.  

    She meant she "knew" them in the biblical sense. 

  13. 40 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

    You can replace trump with the entire GOP.  And change debt to climate change and you've got another couple articles.

     

    It wasn't by accident that the tax cuts for the rich were permanent while those for the middle class were set to expire in...seven years. And gullible middle class voters think he's working for them. 

  14. 55 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

     

    I believe this is known as "Chooky's Law"  and can be applied more universally, across the internet.

    Yeah, it's usually stated: "Don't feed the trolls."

  15. On December 4, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Steamboat1874 said:

    Wings suck and are a total waste of money.

    You are basically paying about $12 a pound for pieces of chicken that have a tiny amount of actual meat on them.

    Give me a breast, leg or a thigh.

    The chicken wing is just a delivery vehicle for the sauce.

  16. George called it "Voodoo Economics." He was right. But they're still selling it. Why isn't that the lead story being trumpeted by every news source? Or any news source?

    His son Jeb(!), the so called "smart" one, the one who was expected to be next in iine for the presidency before Dubya cock blocked him, called Trump a "pathological liar." He was right too. Is the Bush family hiding from that? Don't want to piss off the DOTUS? Because maybe he could really hurt you? You've all got it pretty good as long as we're all addicted to oil so let's not rock the boat?

  17. 1. Jesus, Kenny. Everything in that url starting with the question mark is unnecessary and superfluous. 

    2. In my experience, recommendations by America's Test Kitchen aren't very reliable. For example, don't sell me on a rice cooker with a lid that doesn't detach. 

    3. I need to replace my toaster oven. It still works okay but it's past its prime. It's made by Black & Decker. It's 31 years old. It's still functional and I use it regularly. Just used it tonight to cook a Bahama Mama and toast it's bun. I haven't shopped for a replacement but when I do I'll be looking for another Black & Decker. 

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