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I gave Talarico money. My wife gave him more money. We never gave money to anything political until last year when we donated to Harris. And now Talarico and Newsom. I think Talarico is genuine and exactly what Texas needs. I am not optimistic that he will win, but I’ve also grown quite pessimistic about the Texas electorate to ever vote in their best interest. He is speaking in our city next week and we plan to go. Tired of sitting on the sidelines for everything, and I might very well flee this state or even this country soon, but I at least want to be in some minor way involved before throwing in the towel. Was at a party tonight where Talarico came up in conversation. A guy said he’s interested in Talarico but he “wants to see a plan” because he doesn’t like people without plans. I was trying to think of a polite way to say “fuck you” when my other friend said “Trump has a plan and it’s to eliminate people like me.” She’s gay and I love her for speaking up. I backed her up but it’s so frustrating that with all the bullshit happening, people would still look at a guy like Talarico and think “I need to see a plan.”
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All of You with Brett Goldstein was a good watch. It’s the kind of romance drama I can enjoy. Reviews are mixed and I can understand why certain people may struggle with it, but it worked for us. The characters felt real and there was just the right amount of that Roy Kent humor.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
wild_turkey replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Imagine saying that to a Jewish person in 1930s Germany or Poland. “Hey, it’s not so bad, you can touch the ground.” Imagine saying that to an immigrant in the United States today, even if that person is here legally and has followed everything they have been asked to do. Imagine saying that to a trans person in the United States today. Imagine saying that to a Mormon person in Michigan who just had their church shot up and burned down by a right wing gun nut. Imagine saying that to a single mom in Texas who works her ass off to feed her kids and now she might lose her Medicaid coverage. Imagine saying that to a person who lost their livelihood simply for repeating a post of Charlie Kirk’s own words, in a way that perhaps his own words made him look a wee bit racist or misogynistic, and it got MAGA snowflakes triggered for portraying him negatively. All of those people should apparently look at the ground at touch it and be thankful they live in Trump’s America. Praise be.- 810 replies
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Chase Sapphire Reserve new fees and benefits
wild_turkey replied to wild_turkey's topic in Food and Travel
I’m going to Austin for the aggy game and staying 2 nights at The LINE downtown. I’ve stayed there before and liked it, but our friends who gave us the game tickets are already booked there, so it’s also the easy choice. It’s listed for $413 on Expedia (surprisingly good price) or $645 on the Chase portal (typical price). Chase has it listed as both a points boost hotel and The Edit hotel, which means daily breakfast for 2 is included and also $100 hotel credit. Still not enough to offset the $232 price increase, but I called Chase to ask about the $250 credit for The Edit hotels, which they assure me will apply to this booking since I will be staying after my Oct 26 activation of new benefits. So I chose to book through Chase and pay $305 on my card and 17,000 pts. I will get $250 back as a statement credit, as well as the $100 hotel credit and breakfast. The breakfast is the least important perk because I like that Veracruz tacos place they have, but oh well. As a new benefit of CSR, the $250 x 2 credit for The Edit hotels is only partially helpful in this case, due to the Chase price being higher than Expedia. It would almost be a wash, except that the $100 credit helps, and the points boost helps. -
What does it say about Netflix that they keep sending me emails and using their home screen to inform me they are getting 10 Things I Hate About You? If that’s all they have to brag about, their new content selection is abysmal.
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“and essentially create Transgender operations for everybody.”
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It’s incredibly reckless and misleading for Trump to advise pregnant women to avoid Tylenol and tough it out, and to avoid giving Tylenol to children after they are born. There’s a good chance some women will foolishly follow his advice and their untreated fever will cause more harm to their baby. Incredible how much MAGA pretends to care about abortion but then invents new ways to harm unborn babies and living children. Just insane stupidity spewing from the fat orange mouth of the president. He can’t even pronounce acetaminophen and he wants to give medical advice on it.
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Camp Mystic pre-July 4, 2025 - “You can trust us with the safety of your young children.” Camp Mystic post-July 4, 2025 - “That was a horrific act of God and there was nothing we could do. We need your sympathy and also buy these yard signs and please don’t sue us.” Camp Mystic September 2025 - “We will be open for business again soon with new safety features (even though we still maintain that last thing could not be prevented). Please send your children back and pay your tuition and you can trust us this time for real.” What kind of lunatic parent would ever drop their daughter off there again? I’d rather send my kid the Fyre Festival.
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Just like a lot of MAGA faithful tried hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin for the virus-that-didn’t-exist, I guess we’ll see a trend of sick MAGA pregnant women avoiding Tylenol. Unfortunately, some of their feverish kids will be denied its benefits.
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Maybe they should ignore this, bring in James Talarico to speak, and let him get ushered off campus or arrested. Make a spectacle of it.
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Corsica is very high on my list. You can find my Corsica thread on the travel board. Benefits of France but off the mainland, less expensive, less fuss. It’s absolutely gorgeous with an incredible diversity of geography. Corsicans are proud people with a reluctance to accept outsiders. Part of that is a 1000+ year history of being invaded and conquered by various empires and countries. Part of that is frustration about wealthy people elsewhere buying vacation homes and taking housing away from actual Corsicans who live there full time. People who do that might find their rarely inhabited vacation homes burned down. Their beliefs seem entirely fair, but I think they are willing to accept outsiders who will at least partially assimilate into Corsican culture and contribute to local society. The only drawback for me is that my line of work (physician) is an uphill road. I know a moderate amount of French but I need to pass the language exam at B2 proficiency and I am not quite there. I would also need to pass medical exams in French and serve an apprenticeship. I already teach my 2.5 year old French and she knows about 30 words so far. We’ll get there. My wife is a slower learner but she can say “Je voudrais encore verre de vin, s’il vous plait” without much trouble. She’ll be fine. I need to also learn Corsican. Honestly though, as much as I love my profession, I would rather wait tables in a free country than raise my child in a fascist country.
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I currently live in a fascist state in a fascist country. That’s hard to type and still hard to accept this new reality, but it’s true. I have a 2 year old with her entire life ahead of her. I will not raise her in this bullshit environment, even if it means leaving all of my family, friends, and career behind. I used to weigh the pros and cons of what I would leave behind, but the list of cons of staying has become incredibly long. I’m trying to hold on until the 2026 midterms before making any big decisions. I don’t know if I’ll have that luxury at this point. I used to think CA or CO were possible relocation options. The problem with that is that they are both currently under fascist rule.
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Well, you see, Donald Trump does a lot of really bad shit. If the media reports the news with basic facts, and those facts include the bad shit he is doing, then that media source is then liberal and biased. NPR would be a good example. If Jimmy Kimmel shows a clip of Donald Trump acting like a jackass, that’s offensive. If people post quotes of Charlie Kirk online that make him look racist or misogynistic, then the people posting the quotes, and not the infallible Charlie Kirk himself, are in the wrong. How dare someone take one of his racist comments out of context and try to tarnish the memory of a good Christian man. John Oliver has to be next on the chopping block.
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What is the point of the House hearing with Patel? Just more political theater? Congress isn’t going to do shit, just like they aren’t going to do shit to RFK Jr.
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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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