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  1. Lol. Any black person that has done well for themselves knows what Brisket here said is dead on balls accurate. You're one of the good ones. "You are so well spoken". They have it in their heads that everyone else is ignorant and a criminal. Just one or two good ones.
  2. My daughter refused to entertain any recruiters from traditional red states for college volleyball. She is headed to a blue state for school. We saw it as an opportunity to vacate Texas as a family. So we will see how that goes but we are also looking at properties outside the country. If things start to really hit the fan me and my daughter are out(the brown ones) and my wife will stay and close up shop.
  3. This part reminds me of a conversation I had. I have a friend who was talking about no tax on tips. I told him it was Republicans shenanigans, simply a loophole they can exploit. When he disagreed I told him if they really wanted to help tipped workers, how about eliminating "tipped minimum wage". ...........Silence.
  4. Isn't it weird though? We've been running the trickle down experiment for over 40 years now. Why are people still voting for it?
  5. True as this is, that stretch from WW2 to 1980 man. We almost had it. Peaking in the 1960's. Housing construction was still pretty good. Almost everything we churned out in the automotive world was fuckin awesome. Equality was heading in the right direction. That's when the south rose up, and politicians rode that wave all the way to current times if you think about it. Sometimes I think to myself, what if Reagan never came along. That dude, even though more polite and charismatic, did far more damage than Trump is doing.
  6. My mom was an alcoholic so much appreciated sir!
  7. What's crazy about this country is the motherfuckers that came over here, came here because they weren't shit where they came from. They got here and a couple years in, here come the Irish and Sicilians. Now they hate those dirty Irish and Italians. A Few years later here come the Chinese, and the Blacks were set free. All the sudden the Irish and Italians get folded into the "white" box in order to gang up on those dirty yellows, reds, and browns. Now the Jews want in, but we would rather let the dude in Germany kill them all rather then let in those shifty Jews. The truth is none of us were shit or we wouldn't have left where we came from. That's the funniest thing about it. Now we wanna puff out our chest as if any of us are from some Aristocrats. Fuck out of here.
  8. Naw bra! Olds vote. Olds should have enough experience to quit falling for the okie-doke. I think I was about 7 when I first started screaming at Wile E. Coyote to quit falling for the Roadrunner's shit every Saturday. That's how I feel when I look at this country.
  9. I feel the same way I did when the Rodney King video came out. I was angry that they were doing it but felt a sigh of relief that finally people got to see black folks weren't lying about the ass kickings they were getting when no one was looking. The ugliest part of America is right out in the open. All these years most of America has been in denial. Swearing everything was just fine. Sure, it was fine for a small segment of the populace. This was the only way forward. Sad it had to come to this but the 1st step of the 12 step program is said to be the hardest.
  10. What part of this don't you guys understand? The Republicans have successfully pulled 7 presidential terms in my lifetime to the Dems 5. In that time they have cut top line taxes from 70%. Cut corporate taxes. Created a bunch of tax loopholes. Signed a bunch of bills to allow corps to destroy US manufacturing. Dipped into entitlements. Merged the banking sectors back together and allowed banking entities to keep swallowing one another. Deregulated. Got us into a bunch of wars. Ballooned the debt. Put us into a recession everytime one of them has held office. Gotten a bunch of kids shot at school. Reversed women's bodily autonomy. Literally they have successfully been stripping away everything that was gained from the Progressive Era, The New Deal Era, and the Great Society. Republican states have the lowest minimum wages. Most crime. Worst schools. Most poverty. Yet still the masses keep voting for them. How have they been doing it? Because the American people care more about making sure they have a caste system than they care about self preservation. This has been the problem throughout history regardless of the system the people have been in and the number one reason societies crumble. The Dems struggle because they preach equality. America doesn't want equality. As long as Republicans include a hierarchy they will keep winning.
  11. Like Apple gives a fuck. Americans are going to buy their products regardless. If you really wanna hurt Apple, Donald, cut Huawei and ZTE loose.
  12. Let me preface this by saying nothing you said here is wrong Stache. So I have the pleasure of having a father in law who mainlines Fox. Shit is always on in the background. So I hear the stuff they broadcast. They either don't cover the things you outlined or spin whatever is "spinnable". Now my father in law is highly educated, and so the worst kind of Republican. However, the majority of people out there have no idea what the law actually says. They DO think the president has the power to make decisions. They are told that the judges are wrongly prohibiting the President's ability to do his job and get these filthy criminals and rapists out of OUR country. They WEREN'T paying attention in Civics class. When you have dialogue with them this is completely obvious. So if we aren't having any dialogue with them, they have no education of the subject matter, and their go to source for information is lying to them, how are they to learn? It is absolutely exhausting to engage them in conversation, but it must be done. The general consensus here is that Dems mustn't concede online spaces, and we are critical of them for not fighting the good fight. Yet here we are unwilling to take on difficult dialogue with right wingers in our own lives. The fight starts at the grass roots level. We need to be willing to not neg bomb anyone coming here with a difference of opinion because that discourages discourse.
  13. Deep down I know this is the case but I keep holding out hope.
  14. I try my best to imagine the perspective from other cultures. I think about how it must feel to see minorities be able to proclaim ethnic pride while white people have to sit that one out.
  15. I get it. I guess I am just hopefully to have something other than an echo chamber here. Maybe it's not feasible.
  16. Man, I am not trying to overstep here but the banning and negging aren't my favorite. We can never have a decent back and forth here because people who disagree are too afraid to say anything for fear of what just happened. If someone gets out of pocket maybe we could handle it through DM?
  17. I get that, but you are intelligent and therefore able to step outside the "them vs us" and see the trajectory looks awfully familiar. So why pretend you don't see it?
  18. Some years back two of my teammates from High School got the idea for the three of us to start meeting up yearly. One went to SMU(my high school center) and remained in Dallas. The other went to West Point and is up for General and was in Killeen. So we meet in a small town in Texas at a BBQ spot. Anyway, we started talking about things that were happening when we were kids and when I started telling my experiences they were shocked at how different it was from theirs.
  19. That depends on where in the Hitler story arc we are talking about. Hitler didn't come right out with the death camps. What he did was put those undesirables on trains to another country out of the view of the German citizens. Some years down the line the Germans found out they were killing them. We are currently in the beginning stages of Trump trying to suspend Habeas Corpus so he can get on with the process of pushing out 15 million(his words) Hispanics to who knows where to do who knows what. But keep chuckling.
  20. Went? Lol Been
  21. Yep. Obama came out of nowhere.
  22. It's hard to win when the other side always has the trump card. R's- "We are going to raise your taxes and give HUGE tax breaks to billionaires!" The unwashed masses- R's- "and don't wanna get rid of those dirty Meskins?" The unwashed- We don't have anything like that on our side where we would sell our soul in order for it to get done. Hard to beat that.
  23. Don't feel bad. Every culture is particularly fond of that ole ladder function. We will make it through this thing together. 19% + 14% is a whole lotta people.
  24. I get what you are saying but I think the disconnect is that what he is saying is that the GOP is using already well known people to broadcast their message. People like Rogan and Andrew Schulz are pulling in huge numbers. We have a ton of left podcasters but none of them of the notoriety of them since they were celebrities before the podcasts. Despite the optics Dems have to do the same because without a recognizable name you just don't drive the numbers you need to.
  25. Let that be a lesson to you. You should've taken a cue from the black community and kept it under the 15% threshold like we have. Now you fucked around and drew the Eye of Sauron and now all of Mordor is after you.
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