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Disco Strangler

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  1. No shit this. Father’s Day is to spend time with your kids - not to victory lap that your sperm made offspring. Hopefully Bannon shot some hoops with his real dad. Maybe Eric and Junior can get some reimbursement from pops for the therapy they need (but will never get)
  2. Why didn’t we see the same type of massive protests that we have had in response to George Floyd’s murder when we went through Colombine? Sandy Hook? Orlando nightclub? Virginia Tech? Mandalay Bay? Stoneman Douglas? Santa Fe High? Sunderland Springs? El Paso Walmart? Countless others. We have seen public sentiment reach critical mass on racism. It will reach critical mass on gun control soon. It’s coming. Second Amendment fans will wonder what happened to their stronghold on the issue and wonder how the change happened so fast. Change is coming and the old NRA “slippery slope” argument for fighting tooth and nail against the slightest change is a loser bet. These kids doing active shooter drills for the past few years protest and march their asses off, so I’m betting they are going to vote en mass as well. If you are in the 2A camp, this is your window of action. Don’t buy more guns. Instead, put your money where your mouth is. Invest in mental health with real treatment sponsorship. Agree to global background checks. End gun show loopholes. Meet reasonable legislation half-way. Stand up for truth when nut jobs call the next Sandy Hook victims “actors.” Stop the good guy with a gun fantasy play, and set up a fund for victims of random gun violence based on a voluntary fee when buying guns or ammo. Change is coming. Positive action. By you. Right now. Is the only way to head off the kind of changes that you see as worst case scenario.
  3. On Founding Fathers vs. Confederate Losers: our 17th century founders have warts, but are the winners writing history and remain revered in spite of their warts. The statues were erected out of a place of reverence that endures, even as we dig deeper and talk about into the uglier and more broken failings of these men. The traitors of the Confederacy have statues not erected out of a sense of reverence, but out of a continued attempt to suppress the cause of freedom and equality they explicitly stood against. All of the Rob E Lee High Schools in Texas started after (and in response to) Brown v Board of Education. These monuments are not about honoring the ideals of flawed men, but honoring the flawed ideals themselves.
  4. The new RTJ4 is fire. The song Walking in the Snow is the best protest song since Four Dead in Ohio.
  5. You on the party line with Brisket, or is there a phone talkin’ club that the rest of us can’t join?
  6. Does Texas reap the benefits of this “windfall”? I’m expecting magnified shades of Chicago 1968 and can’t imagine the amount of protests and tension NC is avoiding. Thankful that SA mayor Ron Nirenberg said F-off to the R convention two years ago.
  7. I chose to put one of the posters on this thread on ignore six months ago. Now that I revisit this thread, I’m aware that this poster only really posts on THIS thread. This website contains multiple sections and subsections, but well played, comrade.
  8. This kind of thread is where Surly shines (and simultaneously insists upon itself)
  9. But of course, mask wearing has become a culture war issue. Wear a mask in close quarters? Shit, I would rather kneel for the anthem. My mask-free face is a symbol of my individuality and my belief in a personal freedom. It was easy to see it coming: Trump advised mask wearing when the recommendation started, but also went out of his way to state that he would certainly not be wearing one. Pence tours a Covid ward and is the only person who can't be bothered to wear one. Trump tours a mask factory, refusing to wear a mask. Cities like San Antonio and Austin put teeth into mask ordinances, only to have Gov. Hot Wheels (after putting his finger in the air to see which way the conservative wind was blowing) completely gut local control by making it an unenforceable recommendation. The new study from Austria shows that mask wearing reduces Covid transmission by 90%. It should be an easy sell, Golden Rule issue for the already-vulnerable MAGA crowd. But, they have confused something that is a minor inconvenience for the collective good with the concept of "fighting tyranny."
  10. He literally Jim Jones’ed some cult members with his command to drink the Kool Aid.
  11. His wife is pegging his sweet ass tonight. Weak ass beta cuck. To keep his ego intact, what’s it gonna take. Gonna have to tell the boys at Cracker Barrel that he made that candystriper cry and put that libtard in her place.
  12. That’s some 20/ __ hindsight.
  13. The fattie with the mask. Family Guy Fawkes
  14. How many of these fuckers goin to prison in the next three years? Gonna be more than Trump’s 2016 circle of dipshits. Hopefully Jared gets the Shawshank shower treatment.
  15. Counterpoint: if team (R) cared about the Constitution or country, we would have a more competent leader (not much, but definitely more) who would be a steadier hand in this debacle. Pence would not have lead as many sheep over the misinformation cliff. Instead, they traded our future on the 50/50 chance (at that time, less now) that they would hold onto their power. That vote was our country’s turning point, not a distraction.
  16. True story: People kept referencing "Lt. Dike" in their posts on this board, and every time I assumed they were referring to our own Danny Goeb, who is Lt. Governor and kinda looks like an elderly female lesbian. Only today have I figured out the Band of Bros connection.
  17. Foreshadowing: Early news - Chinese virus, wet market issues, I made jokes about “bat soup” on 1/19 (MLK weekend 2020) . . . It was a story onTV then. The Setting: The moment in time that we rejected WHO tests, setting the course of a multi-week delay until CDC developed tests. Conclusion: First Trump “daily” press conference - “We have 5 MILLION ‘Chinese virus’ tests rar’ing to go . . . and we will test err body” [Opie Cunningham / Narrator: They didn’t . . .] Shocker / real story: Why did we forego the WHO tests and decide that we would go our own way with new CDC tests? Who was at that meeting? What was the strategy? Prediction: The journalist answering this issue wins the Pulitzer (Quote me when this happens)
  18. Maybe we need a code word language. Like Chad Johnson on Hard Knocks: Child please = Trump is going to kill us all shiiiiit = a unified federal response would have shown real leadership say what? = where are the 4M tests that were coming 10+ days ago?
  19. Would be delicious if George Soros put up his bail money.
  20. Soy bean welfare queens. Meanwhile, think of how much money we are saving by cutting back on free/discounted school lunches for those little bastards ripping us off and scamming the system. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, punks!
  21. This reminds me of the glorious Aggie fan stories about visiting teams kicking the shit out of the Ags on the field, but utterly changed in their spirit by experiencing the wonder of Kyle Field and hospitality of 100K gomers. Pure. Fan. Fiction.
  22. Trump just handing out Presidential Medals of Freedom to his golfing buddies: Tiger. Rush. Next up. Kid Rock, come on down.
  23. Ever notice that IANAL is Lanai spelled backwards? Coincidence?
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