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Beantown Express 2.0

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  1. 2 minutes ago, RPM said:

    Once someone is brainwashed, it's very difficult to un-wash.

    So I just switched Fox News on for the hell of it since its halftime of the NFL game and they are talking about how everything Trump did is legal and this the call and complaint are not criminal and not impeachable.  It’s like I live in a different fucking world.  I swear they could say the Bahamas is fine after the hurricane and half the country would agree and say those damn Bahamians are just trying to get money from the rest of the world.  It’s sick.

  2. Man, I just finished a business dinner and I never talk politics or religion but somehow my client (around 40 years old) started talking about the news today and I said it looks like Trump may be in trouble.  Next thing I know this guy is going off on how Biden and his son are the crooks not Trump and Trump is the greatest president ever, the economy is the best this country has ever seen thanks to him, the world loves us again thanks to him, and on and on and on.  He then added that Trump cleaned up the housing mess caused by the Democrats that Obama couldn’t fix.  I had maybe too many bourbons so I asked if he watches Fox News and he said it is the only real news and everything else is fake.  I said maybe go look at Reuters, BBC, AP, instead of CNN and MSNBC and see if those are more neutral and he railed on about how all of those are liberal and lie about our president.  I will add that this guy is a very smart, successful business man and I was kind of shocked.  If people like him believe everything they are told by Trump and Fox News I think I may have to take my bottle of William Larue Weller and join Brisket on his ledge.  Holy Shit!

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  3. Can someone explain to me the concern for impeaching causing the R's to GOTV better?  I think they will GOTV no matter what.  Even without an impeachment Trump will tweet about RBG's seat on the court, invasion of brown people via caravan, etc...in order to GOTV and the R's will line up to vote in masses.  The question Pelosi should be figuring out is how do we GOTV best for the Dems.  It seems like the Democrats are playing this like a football coach with a 6 point lead with two minutes left and deciding to play a prevent defense allowing the other team to march down the field and score the winning TD.  The only way they can win this is to vote to impeach, let McConnell say he won't bring a vote to the Senate for some insane reason and then control the narrative by spending the next year running ads, talking on TV about the criminal in the White House.  It may not work because this country is made up of idiot voters but sitting back and not thinking Trump won't get his base to vote using some kind of made up lie is crazy.

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  4. Had these a few times about 8 years ago.  Worst pain ever.  First time I went to the ER and they gave me morphine.  Didn’t touch the pain at all as I was still writhing on the ER bed.  Hit me with more morphine like 15 minutes later and nothing.  They finally gave me the shit that killed Michael Jackson I think and that knocked me out and when I woke up the pain was gone.  I truly fear getting another one.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Loco said:

    A guy who I worked with was in Homestead and rode it out during Andrew.  I asked him about the storm...  and he starts talking about this movie he has...  after a full critique of the movie he says, "the reason I have that movie is because I rented it from Blockbuster before the storm. And after the storm, there was no more Blockbuster."  He spent 6-7hrs under a mattress watching the storm through what used to be his ceiling/roof.  

    All I can say is the sound of the winds is nothing I have ever heard.  It’s a frightening sound.  

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Loco said:

    I was in Gainesville during Andrew..   Nice day/weekend (no real impact at all)  Then a few of my friends got called up to the National Guard.

    I decided to go home from Austin before school started for a long weekend and my shit luck it was when Andrew hit.  We had to evacuate as my family’s house was on the Dade/Broward County line on the inter coastal.  Andrew was supposed to come ashore there but veered south to Homestead at the last minute and devastated that area vs Hallandale and Hollywood FL.  Even where we went to ride the storm out inland part of Hollywood the winds were brutal.

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