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wild_turkey

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  1. This is going to be a fun day.
  2. It would just be nice to live in a world where leaders could recognize a mistake and make a good faith effort on both sides to reunite this man with his wife and autistic son. I think every presidential administration in history would do that until now. Trump could get a big PR win out of returning him home but they won’t do that because it undermines their effort to instill fear, which is one of the goals. If this family ever gets reunited, they need to immediately look for a better country to flee to. Change names 3 times and become cattle ranchers in New Zealand.
  3. Maybe Greg Abbott could also give the Greenlanders some private school* vouchers using Texas property taxes. *private school must not engage in antisemitism, DEI, or acknowledge any ideological values that don’t align with white Christian nationalism
  4. So the same people who decided a legal immigrant was part of MS-13 because he wore a Chicago Bulls hoodie will now be deciding which social media posts constitute antisemitism and therefore worthy of going to El Salvador? What’s next? Facial recognition to figure out who attends an anti-Trump rally?
  5. The surprising thing is that they stayed open close to 2 years.
  6. The Dubai leg was pretty cool. Would’ve liked to see all the teams do the scuba challenge, but it was still good. I liked Pops and Jeff and was sad to see them go. Old man is ripped. Hesitating for that train was a fatal mistake. I actually like all of the remaining teams except Jonathan and Ana.
  7. That was a great season. It also had the NFL cheerleaders and Mallory/Gary. Lots of fun teams. Didn’t Kynt/Vixen drive about 2 hours the wrong direction when they got eliminated? Like record time for being horribly lost in TAR history. They were a pretty bad team that somehow managed to avoid elimination longer than they should’ve, kinda like the Hillbillies in their season.
  8. Not only were they in first, but they had assigned 25 lbs to their 3 biggest competitors, and only 15 lbs to themselves. Getting to the Driver’s Seat first should’ve all but guaranteed winning the leg without extra help.
  9. If Jonathan and Ana had not foolishly burned their Express Pass when they were easily in first place, they could have used it in this leg where he struggled, no?
  10. If tariffs are the way to bring manufacturing back the U.S. and Make America Great Again, then why are we delaying the path to our own greatness? Why wait 90 days when we could start becoming great again today?
  11. Exactly this. Jonathan is awful. Ana seems decent. He starts saying his body was breaking down and it was like he couldn’t even function. What in the hell did he think happened to him during the coral challenge when other teams seemed just fine? The way Ana was talking makes it seem like his breakdowns are a somewhat common occurrence. This was clearly not her first time watching him do that and you could tell she was walking on eggshells to avoid upsetting him more. Even her “Come on babe” encouragement was met with “Stop saying that.” Their post race interview was very telling as well. Hers talked about how they help each other with struggles. His was all about himself - “I can compete with anyone here”, “This is not how I pictured my race,” etc. No credit to his wife at all, just me and I. Total egomaniac. He’s clearly abusive and she needs to leave him. They separated once but she should make it permanent.
  12. I mean, you actually have to wonder. There is definitely some unrest occurring publicly with wealthy people who previously supported Trump. Money makes the world go ‘round and there’s only so long the elites in this country will watch their fortunes get smaller. They supported Trump with the expectation of growing those fortunes. It’s not a 1-2 week drop in stocks that scares them. It’s the idea that America is very quickly giving up our economic dominance on the global stage and those fortunes, or the systems that enabled them, may never return to the previous status quo. Sure, a guy like Ted Cruz wants to maintain favor in the MAGA community, but guys like that also get campaign funding from sources like Big Oil. How long will they stay loyal to a president that appears to be committing economic suicide?
  13. Stupid question, but is there a reason Republicans want Cornyn out? Is he not MAGA enough?
  14. You keep carrying on about bets but that’s just a distraction from the fact that a man was legally living in America, married to a woman who is a U.S. citizen, father to an Autistic child who is also a U.S. citizen, and he was deported by the U.S. government to a prison in a different country that we have no control over, without notice or due process, and even though our government admits it was a mistake, they then tried to say he might be a gang member because he wore a Chicago Bulls hoodie, as if that somehow justifies their mistake, and their general attitude is sorry not sorry. Even if you are somehow right and this man eventually gets returned to his family in the U.S., the fact this happened in the first place is scary and shows how far America has fallen. Quit talking about bets. Bets usually have a winner and a loser but this situation only has losers. There is no outcome that would make the people in this discussion feel remotely good about any of it.
  15. I’ve seen a few people say that Timothy Ratliff was in the clear, but was there actually something in the show that suggested this, or is it just speculation? I thought Saxon’a reaction when he turned on his phone was his realization that something bad had happened.
  16. Definitely looking forward to this one.
  17. Sad that Chelsea died because she was easily my favorite. Didn’t hate the ending but didn’t love it. Happy I watched the season but it was my least favorite of the three. For me it would be 2>1>3. Will still be looking forward to S4 if they make it. I felt the Ratliff family got off too easy. I don’t like it when shows heavily imply a death only to take it back, and I thought that happened multiple times with them. Teasing the poison with every character only to have them all survive it was annoying. Maybe that’s the joke. The corruption that comes with money is a heavy theme in this series. Piper flaked on her plans because of not having access to modern luxuries. Belinda was a genuine character outside the hotel guest social sphere, yet now she gets a taste and lays aside her suspicions about Tonya to just enjoy being rich. Not saying anything really, but it’s interesting to watch.
  18. I went to an MLB game the other day and they played the national anthem. My first time hearing it live since the election. I realized I didn’t care. Actually, that’s untrue. I realized I was angry about what is happening and sad about what used to be. About this ridiculous ritual of honoring a country that is currently tearing itself apart. It’s like having a happy marriage and then your spouse starts doing meth and cheating on you and gambling away your life’s savings in a shitty Oklahoma casino. Then your anniversary rolls around and you just think “Why, why, for the love of God, why??? We had everything and you blew it apart.” And now you want me to watch the wedding video and pretend that it still means something? Colin Kaepernick was ahead of his time but he was absolutely right. I’m not sure what to think about July 4 this year. Maybe I’ll plan a trip to Montreal and drink French wine. Maybe Americans won’t be allowed to visit Montreal by that time.
  19. Lost in a lot of this is that the press conference was named Make America Wealthy Again. The fucking arrogance of the richest nation in the history of the world announcing tariffs against poor third world countries because we want to be wealthy again. As if to say we weren’t rich until now and those evil countries were holding us down, but now we have a plan to break free of their grasp and become prosperous. The entire world should hate us.
  20. Watched it this week and thought it was very well done. Hard to say I liked it because the subject matter was tough, but I am glad I watched it. Some of the scenes in the final 2 episodes were especially heavy on the emotions, just making you feel awful for the people involved, which I think is a testament to the writing and acting. Stephen Graham in the final episode was phenomenal and his grief was palpable. The way each episode was a continuous evolving shot was pretty incredible and made me feel as if I was part of the action. Here’s a cool article about their filming: https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/adolescence-one-take-episodes-netflix-1236339292/ One of the themes was the hazards of social media for adolescents, and I do feel terrible for kids having to navigate that today. As a parent though, the part that resonated with me the most was the perspective of the parents, their grief, their struggle to pick up the pieces and solve the problem of today, and their questioning of what they could have done differently. That’s a scary thing to think about. You can do a ton of things right but neglect one seemingly small area and have your world unravel. It was the kind of series that left me with a lot to think about.
  21. Do y’all remember when he had concepts of an economic plan? Those were better times.
  22. They were pretty fucking good, and then Trump rolled in with his Make America Great Again bullshit and convinced millions of people that our country was broken and needed a reality TV show host to fix it. Not once, but twice he sold that lie and stupid Americans bought it. There needs to be a new campaign of AWG - American Was Great.
  23. Global markets are tanking and Fox News has their main headline about 4 disloyal Republican senators. No mention of the stock market.
  24. I think Trump does a lot of things that are clearly stupid, but I don’t think you can blame this entirely on stupidity. That would imply that he has somewhat good intentions for the long term of our country, and that his methods are merely flawed because of his own lack of understanding. While the lack of understanding part is likely somewhat true, I don’t think the good intentions part is at all true. I think this is someone who is deliberately destroying our country. That is not stupidity. That is an evil person achieving exactly what they set out to do.
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