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mchookem

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  1. you know,  i just don't have it in me to enjoy these public comeuppances. the whole thing just sucks. he probably has employees, customers, kids, other family whose lives have been negatively impacted to varying degrees by his actions and ignorance.

    and it is SO ignorant, him even saying he doesn't understand. my god, man! some of these people,  their world is so insular that they are shocked at the righteous public outrage they incur...but I continue to be amazed at their surprise,  like, wtf did you THINK would happen?

    i just don't understand. 

    i wish in some of these cases there could be follow up...did this experience change any of these people? did they learn anything from it? do they now realize that no, they are not in the majority with their  POV and maybe the world really doesn't agree with me?

    there's got to be something good to come from all this loud, ugly thrashing

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  2. wtf i realize the dude was an annoyance in the middle of the street,  but that was a residential street and that car had a full 8 seconds to stop. lay on the horn, kid woulda moved

    lucky

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  3. i just feel helpless. i can donate money. which i do. and i can vote,  which i always do. 

    but unless the house actually flips, this shit is just gonna keep rolling along.  cowards in Congress aren't going to do anything. 

    it's a slow moving train wreck and it's just horrifying to watch. 

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  4. 7 hours ago, Parliament said:

    An early look at what makes MM so great.  Cooper's eccentricity and underrated, deep knowledge of the business.  Roger's immaturity, glibbness and ability to "grow up" at the time it's really necessary.  Don's naivete, caused by the fact he grew up poor.  And Pete trying to be a baddass, only to be exposed as the douchebag he is.  Also a great plot twist.  

    Roger shrinks an extra inch in height 🤣

  5. 3 hours ago, RandomIdoit said:

    Because I don't care if the UK or anyone else thinks he is nice or awesome. If he was a jerk and America was prospering, very few people would care.

    America is prospering, has been for several years before Trump took office.

    they don't think he's not awesome. they think he is stupid and harmful to the world, the one we all have to share.  which he is.

  6. 4 hours ago, RPM said:

    She ain't walking through the door, but she could clearly see what was going on behind it. I wasn't a Hillary fan. I voted for her as the lesser of two evils and also the only one on the ballot qualified to be President. But damn, she was 100% correct about Donny & Vlad.

    in retrospect she was correct about a lot of things

    sigh

  7. i don't know much about them,  but I've recently seen both Mitch Landrieu and Eric Garcetti on talk show tours (maybe promoting books??)

    anyway... they were both sort of vague about the idea, definitely gave the impression they would be open to the idea. mayor is pretty low on the political experience scale...but Sarah Palin, so yeah. i could see them in the mix. 

    personally, i like Hickenlooper. 

  8. re: the discussion about the immigrant families separation perhaps being the issue that finally pushes some over the edge...

    FWIW my northeast Texas cousin who is diehard Team R and regularly posted stuff about Obama banning the White House Christmas tree and shutting down Texas oil fields and whatever other nonsense (she's in Gohmert's district)... this morning she shared one of the journalist videos from one of these detention camps and she is appalled...

    "If a parent were to treat their child like this they would be arrested Please don’t bash me about caring for these children... illegal or not, they deserve better!" 

    she'll probably still vote straight R, but it's obviously getting to her, and she felt she had to pre-emptively defend against other Team R folks,  which i found interesting. 

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