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wild_turkey last won the day on January 27 2020
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Texags celebrating the Kimmel news like they just won a national championship. It still blows my mind that people welcome fascism so eagerly.
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Wife has a Tesla Model Y that we bought new 4 years ago. It has 42k miles on it. It’s been a good car but the high voltage battery failed last week. We got an error message that it wouldn’t charge fully. At first it was limited to 53%, then a few days later, it could only go to 37%. We tried a software update and a reset to no avail. Scheduled service with Tesla and they replaced the HV battery at no charge. The replacement was a refurbished battery so it’s not like we got fresh life in the car, but oh well. Despite not paying anything, it’s still a bit frustrating because a primary motivation of buying an EV was for a more climate and environmentally friendly vehicle. Replacing the HV battery after 42k miles must drastically increase the environmental impact of this specific car. I wouldn’t buy another Tesla for a myriad of reasons (Elon, Elon, Elon, and there are better EV options that didn’t exist in 2021), but this certainly adds to our frustration with the company.
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The destruction of America's public education system
wild_turkey replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
No reviews so far, but I have some Audible credits that I need to burn, so I just started listening. -
Eventually we’ll be told that Epstein never actually existed and it was all a liberal conspiracy.
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First ABC because of George Stephanopolous saying Trump "raped" a woman when it was technically only sexual assault as defined by NY laws. Then CBS because of 60 Minutes editing of a Kamala Harris interview that allegedly made her look more charismatic. Then NPR and PBS because ??? Project 2025 said so? Or because they are a liberal media source? I'm not even sure. Now NYT because they are accused of being a "full-throated mouthpiece of the Democrat party". Oh, it looks like they are specifically upset that some past articles said A) Trump made his fortune through fraud, and B) an interview in which John Kelly (Trump's first term chief of staff and retired Marine general) said he met the definition of a fascist (narrator: he does), and C) the NYT wrongly credited a producer on The Apprentice for its success, rather than giving credit to Trump himself (oh, come the fuck on). I fully expect the NYT to either settle or cave in, because we already saw it with ABC and CBS, and because no one seems capable of fighting. We have clearly lost free press in this country, meanwhile, Fox News can advocate for euthanizing homeless people on the streets and spread countless lies and misinformation and no one does shit. This country is so damn lost at this point. I don't think the midterms will save us, if we even have midterms.
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The leader of the free world has rocks for brains.
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There needs to be a Christmas card service that allows people to anonymously send pages from the birthday book to that special MAGA person in their life. Spend $10 and choose from a variety of cards, or spend $50 and give them an advent calendar version where they receive a new one each day. There can be personalized memos that say things like “Merry Christmas, you voted for a pedophile.” All proceeds go to charities to help sex trafficking victims.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
wild_turkey replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
I don’t have Facebook, but a quick glance at various sites this morning shows this is a common sentiment. He’s being described as a conservative Christian leader. I’m a little dumbfounded by the Christian part. I was only vaguely aware of him when his tweets and soundbites got cross posted other places, but I never saw anything that I would consider Christian. He appeared to me as a secular far right conservative. Did his online or in person message have a heavy Christian component that I was unaware of? Just to play devil’s advocate, I’m sure most of the things I ever saw from him were the most offensive quotes, at least to someone like me, and they were reposted because they would get a reaction from people like me. I understand that’s the unfortunate nature of the internet world. But I’m honestly curious where this Christian leader thing is coming from. As someone who has quit going to church and is very reluctant to ever resume going to church, I think modern American Christianity has a severe problem with aligning itself with polarizing political figures (almost entirely on the right). Many members of that party say and do things that are undeniably hateful and un-Christ-like, which is ironic especially for Evangelical Christians, who claim they want to spread their faith. The worst way to evangelize is to publicly attach your Christianity to these types of people. -
Dude, this genie has been out of the bottle. Have you already forgotten the June shooting of Minnesota representative Melissa Hortman and her husband? People like Charlie Kirk have used their online presence to incite hatred and increase the likelihood of these things happening.
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I like Talarico and am happy he’s running, but I doubt it will be very close. He has a good background and he speaks a good message on social media, but Texas voters aren’t interested in things like facts and campaign promises. Texas voters care about the R next to the name because that’s a sign the candidate loves Jesus and will fight against abortion and LGBTQ rights. It doesn’t matter if that R candidate cheats on his wife and uses taxpayer money to cover it up, or if the opposing D candidate actually went to seminary, because Texans are too simplistic to even consider those basic truths.
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That’s not even close to being true. B&B Butchers, Mesero, Doc B’s, Rise, Grimaldi’s, Cru, Fixe, and Malai Kitchen have all been in business since they first opened around 2018-2019. Clearfork isn’t my favorite area to dine out, but it seems to be very successful as all of those places have survived through Covid, far better than you could say about areas like downtown, Magnolia, or W 7th.
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What was the actual point of the hearing with the Senate Finance Committee last week? Is there some kind of threat of actual consequences for RFK Jr, or is it all just political theater to make it look like Congress still does something? Is the Senate deliberating on something, and if so, what is that specifically? It doesn’t do anyone any good for bipartisan senators to grill RFK Jr for 3+ hours if he simply goes back to destroying American healthcare infrastructure with no restrictions.
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So the best case here is that Trump made a joke about purchasing a “fully depreciated” woman for $22,500. Is that correct? And the worst case is that it wasn’t a joke, and that either a woman or an underaged girl was sold to Trump? So the U.S. President either thinks of women as property or that it’s okay to joke about them being property. And the same MAGA base that was so vocal about Sound of Freedom and sex trafficking is now silent because this is either fake news or just a joke between friends. And women voted for this sack of shit. It still blows my mind.
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Donald’s signature is in the same place as on the Epstein birthday card, so that tracks.
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