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  1. 1 minute ago, TexArcher said:

    Look, I've said for years that anybody still in this guy's camp is either stupid or evil.

    I'm coming to realize that *for some of them* it may be a little more nuanced than that.  I know these people well enough to know that they're not closet racists and they're not stupid.  So how did they get taken in anyway?  Seems like a question worth figuring out, that's all.

    This right here is the truth.  It’s easy to say they are all racists just like it’s easy to say all democrats are woke or whatever.  If we all take a step back we would see that the truth is in the gray areas of this.  The manipulation of the population of this country by the media (Fox News and social media like Facebook), and the way the algorithms work to make sure people just see their bubble of news has affected non racist, intelligent people in a way we may not be happy to admit happened.  I think the left gets this also but from maybe MSNBC or other media outlets that distort the world for them (not as bad as the right does but it is there).  Many of the people of this country have lost the ability for critical thinking and that is what makes them so gullible to these news sites/social media sites.  What is strange is many have the ability for critical thought in other aspects of their life, like their work, but lose it once they view the world outside through the lens of a Fox New broadcast.

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  2. In the past when this happened the police usually found the suspect and when cornered the coward would shoot himself.  Now, the coward will just wait for Trump to pardon him.  MAGA turned this country into a great place, huh?

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  3. 6 minutes ago, victory88 said:

    .  I’m not putting up an American flag outside my house this 4th of July.  Most people I see constantly celebrating the flag now are racists, sexists, homophobics.  I don’t want to be associated with them and what our flag symbolizes  now.

    But God bless everyone!  We are Christians!  We love everyone!   Sorry for the rant but I feel like I’m living in a fucking crazy made up world that this shit is happening and everyone is just sitting quietly and not speaking up about it.

    You can hang the flag upside down like a Supreme Court justice would do.

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  4. 3 hours ago, bluto said:

    Ten Commandments posted in EVERY public school classroom about to be on the governors desk. 

    It’s about fucking time they passed something like this.  Now all the troubles of this state, dare I say the world will be solved.  Can’t wait for the Texas law saying you have to pray to Jesus before your food is served at a restaurant or you get arrested.  

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  5. 55 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    It's bizarre, all these really smart people expecting that it'll be different with them.  Pure ego.  Yeah, you're the one person who can do business with Trump and not get fucked over.  Sure.

     

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  6. Bumping this thread.  I have to go to Honolulu in 2 weeks for a business trip with like 20 clients.  It's only for 2 days and we have to stay on Waikiki beach at the Sheraton.  Any good local places to eat (both fancy and local stuff like Poke)?  I figure we can do Pearl Harbor.  Any other recs?  I am renting a car but not sure if I need it.  

  7. 3 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Why would you think that?

    The internet has made people even less able to tell a good source of information from a bad one than they were in previous generations.  

    This is exactly correct.  My son's college age friends come around and sometimes we end up talking politics.  These are smart kids and are a mix of races and religions (African American, Hispanic, Indian, Korean, Jewish, etc...) and many of them site things they see on the internet as truth when it's just right-wing propaganda.  Good kids but they have zero clue what they are talking about but believe it's the truth.  Some of these kids voted for Trump for this reason and it is crazy and quite sad.  The public education system in this country has failed us (done on purpose by the GOP to keep the rubes in line).  

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  8. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    It won't be.  We may be eating leaves out of our hats, enjoying electricity for 1 hour per day on a rotating schedule, and dying in droves from a viral illness that has a vaccine but our government banned it, and Fox News will run wall-to-wall stories about a trans kid who appeared in one girl's community basketball league game in Peoria, and it'll be a GQP landslide across the board.

    Is this your glass half empty or glass half full view?  The truth is we may be just a few years away from a Jim Jones Kool Aid incident that takes out half the country.  

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  9. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    "Before the president makes a big mistake based on bad math."

    Dude.  Who in the FUCK do you think you're talking about?  "Big mistakes" and "bad math" are the core of his very being.

    Nope, you fuckers hated uppity minorities and queers SO MUCH - about shit that really didn't even affect you, except you couldn't use slurs in the workplace - that you had to vote for Trump.  And we hear talk of "kitchen table issues," which is things like prices, and income levels, and educational availability, and the ability to retire without having to eat cat food.  NONE OF THOSE FUCKING MATTERED, AT ALL.  IT WAS A LIE.

    And now, those people who SAID those things mattered ("muh price of eggs!") aren't going to have kitchen tables anymore, much less stuff to put on them. 

    God we are so fucking dumbstupididioticmoronicgalacticallyfuckingstupid.

    You know, I don't know what everyone else on this board thinks, but I am starting to think you aren't much of an optimist.  

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  10. 3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Market is rallying on rumors that Trump is pausing the tariffs for 90 days except for China. Trump saved the economy that he tried to ruin!

    And its down again.

  11. Feeling a little bit lucky when it comes to my 401K.  My company was sold last week to another company so I am in the process of rolling my entire 401K to a personal account meaning I took it out last week.  I haven’t gotten the money yet to move to my personal account so I basically avoided the shit show of that last few days.  Now as far as my other investments, yeah they got destroyed just like everybody else.  

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  12. Just now, C-Man said:

    Or when COVID-25 or -26 hits while we have our pants around our ankles

    Look at the bright side.  When the next pandemic hits we will have so little resources put into the CDC, vaccines, healthcare, science, etc... that there is a good chance most of us will be killed by the next virus.  So, we got that going for us... which is nice. 

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  13. 4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    I'd say this tariff stupidity is probably the top non-war unforced error a US President has ever committed.  Just no reason for any of it and so incredibly stupid.  This really is Trump's masterpiece.

    So can we all agree we have a new "blunder" to add to the list of classic blunders. Never get involved in a land war in Asia, never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line and never put tariffs on the entire world.

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  14. 1 minute ago, ztejas said:

    I just thought it was an interesting note. Not advocating for him to take over at Texas - but the fact that that was the first name that my guy brought up was something. 

    Wouldn't be surprised if he crushes it at NCST.

    Do you know what Brad Stevens does for a living? 

    Why not just get Joe Mazzulla to coach and Brad Stevens can be his “GM”?  They seem gettable with that struggling Celtics team.

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