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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Let's break it down a little: "We have a president trying to send military troops from Texas into OR and IL. Right. He's trying. Hasn't happened yet. He's sent National Guard troops into several cities. What have they done? They haven't killed anyone yet, as far as I know. Sure it's dangerous and looks really, really bad. But if they kill someone, we may have our Kent State moment. A president who's labeled a non-existent organization called "Antifa" only by the magats, but commonly a loose coalition of people protesting are now a designated terrorist organization. Yes, so who are they going to actually arrest? People dressed in black and protesting against Trump? If that happens, then what? The govt. has to prove that they are in "Antifa," which doesn't exist. They'll spend some time in jail, and that sucks bigtime, but they'll be exonerated and freed. They're vaporizing Venezuleans in the ocean for no reason, but they've labeled them terrorists so they're getting away with it. They've lit up two boats, as far as I know. I haven't seen what intel we had or anything. I've heard they were "running drugs," but again, I haven't seen any of the proof. Obviously we don't want to be wantonly killing people, from wherever they are from, for no reason. I don't know what the recourse is or how or if anyone could be held accountable for this. I don't know if anyone/entity is looking into it. Someone certainly should. ICE troops are shooting people protesting legally in the head with chemical munitions, kidnapping citizens and other people here legally. They are ramping up the violence and trying to get the public to accept or ignore it. Chemical munitions? C'mon, it wasn't mustard gas. It was a pepper ball. And it's happened once. I don't know the extent of his injuries, but he never lost consciousness. Yes, ICE is picking up people it shouldn't. Not in large numbers though. Those people are getting due process and getting released, as near as I can tell from news sources. I would agree that the Trump administration is ramping up violence, but mainly by rhetoric and the few, actual violent incidents being all over the news and social media. That makes it appear much more widespread and worse than it actually is. I don't know if the Trump administration is "trying to get the public to accept or ignore" the violence by the federal government. They probably are. But to immamac's point, they are failing. People aren't accepting it or ignoring it. From what I can see, it's riling a lot more people up and turning people more against the administration. It's causing people to become activists. In short, if that's their plan, it appears to be backfiring. Look, I know all of this shit is bad, bad. It looks even worse than that. There is certainly potential for things to get way, way worse with all of the worst possibilities that we can all imagine actually happening. I also think it's important for people to maintain some objectivity and their critical thinking skills and see things for exactly as they are, not what they could be. I don't know what you think is happening but I'm pretty certain it's not a big nothing.
  2. I have been thinking about this since yesterday. The concept is that the Trump administration is inept and the foundation of the country and economy is so strong, and even though everything that is happening seems real bad, in reality all of it is a nothingburger. This is similar to something I have been saying, which is that Trump and Co. are a cartoon version of a fascist takeover. I've been amazed that the powers that be, with real big shit to lose and their hands on the levers of power haven't done anything while Trump appears to do a bunch of shit to harm the country. Maybe they know that it's all just performative bullshit; theater without real world consequences for the vast, vast majority of people, including those who might be in a position to do something about it. Or maybe those people don't really exist. Given the way it appears, I would expect to look out my office window and see fires everywhere, armed conflict in the streets, looting, infrastructure failing, the stock market tanking, inflation rising exponentially - but none of that has happened, yet. I honestly don't know. I know my own experience, which is that hardly anything has changed for me. Groceries and other goods are a bit more expensive, but that's about it. I know there are people out there who have directly felt the effects - undocumented immigrants, government employees who lost their jobs, people overseas who don't have U.S. foreign aid, as just a few examples. It's just surprisingly hard to tell how bad all of this is, really.
  3. So the Trump era is sortalike an asshole rapture. I wonder what an AI generated video of "Rapists, pedophiles, racists, misogynists, gun nuts all rise from the grave and take over the country" would look like. Also, "Asshole Rapture" would be a pretty cool band name.
  4. Again, I cannot believe what I am seeing. The Secretary of Defense just called all of the highest ranking military officers from all over the world to talk about *checks notes* PT and facial hair? I'm sorry, this has to be a bit. Nobody can be this stupid, can they? This is directly from the Idiocracy script. Mike Judge himself could not have written this any better.
  5. He's the best Democratic candidate for a statewide office we've had since Ann Richards.
  6. I'll say it again for the 1,000,000th time - is this real? AI has gotten pretty good. This has to be AI generated, right?
  7. I don't get the Espada hate. What did he do that was so bad? The only reason we missed the playoffs this year is injuries. The Astros got hit with injuries worse than any other team. I read somewhere it took out like 17.5 WAR. Even with just "normal" injury levels, we should have won five more games and won the division. Beyond injuries, you had Altuve declining, Walker (hopefully) having a bad year and Meyers and Pena having really good years. This is still a playoff team. I don't think you have to do much; certainly nothing radical. Trading our best players would be dumb. We need to add a #3 SP and then stay healthy.
  8. Jesus Christ.
  9. What's wrong with Alvarez and Pena?
  10. FIFY
  11. RFK Jr. truly is the RFK of today's America.
  12. It would have been better if it had been narrated by Nancy Cartwright or an actual child.
  13. This. Part of the reason I haven't taken to the streets with a pitchfork is that I just can't believe this is real.
  14. What about joining up with the Lincoln Project? I don't know a lot about them. Read the bios of the founders and leaders - mostly former Republicans, it turns out. Their productions have been great, IMO.
  15. Here's the problem: Trumptards don't look any levels deeper than surface. The declining dollar is just not something they think about. Also, even if they were told this information they wouldn't believe it (see Ana's comment). Just more liberal media fake news they can ignore.
  16. "We're gonna have one of the biggest announcements, really, medically, I think, in the history of our country," President Trump said Sunday night, referring to a press conference scheduled for Monday afternoon. "I think we found an answer to autism." Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America.
  17. That is some Grade A stupidity right there. I hope at least one Darwin Award was awarded.
  18. Redneck Shannon Hoon kinda sucks.
  19. I enjoyed watching her tits while she spoke. I'm a pig.
  20. To be fair, you didn't respond to a bunch of people who actually tried to discuss your opinions. You cherry picked this one post, which came after you've had lots of chances to explain yourself.
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