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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Wife: You need to give me your detailed plans for the upcoming holiday weekend so I know how I'm affected and can plan accordingly. Me: Pffffttt. Plans. Like I can have any fucking plans of my own without consulting with you and considering the kids. Also Wife: I am now telling you about my plans that I made without telling you or consulting with you or considering you. Also, these plans might put our kids in danger since you won't be there. Guess who is the one in trouble right now?
  2. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Question for those over age, say, 45: Is pain all the time now just part of the deal? The last year or so I have had pain of one kind or another every day. I'm beginning to wonder if that's ever going to change.
  3. Cool. Thanks.
  4. ISWYDT
  5. I'm not sure of the rules. I got banned a while back for defending Urban Meyer over the situation with his assistant and his wife. I actually have positive rep now, but I still can't post anywhere but CR, I think. Anyway, I'd like to come back if you all would see fit to rep me back into existence.
  6. The quote from his lawyer about being charged with a crime is maddening. The dumbshits who follow him will believe it. I guess the best way to explain it would be to bring up OJ again to illustrate that there are, in fact, both a civil justice system and a criminal justice system.
  7. The filibuster as it exists today was not instituted by the founding fathers. So even if the original intent was to give the minority a real voice through the senate, it has been taken to grotesque proportions and is actively harming the country.
  8. This is the best, most concise information I have seen on the history of the senate filibuster, how the rules and the use of it have changed over the years and what, if anything, should be done to change it and what the effects of those changes would be: https://whyy.org/episodes/should-the-democrats-kill-the-filibuster/?fbclid=IwAR2-7OXGp-hgL76NIUpc4CYpVGIAt41lsNCdNBk0ototsBcQMyVnRy4hRFw
  9. Not a bad idea. Put a check box on the 1040 that says, "I do not want my tax dollars to pay for welfare." Their tax dollars are not paying for welfare anyway, so it's meaningless, except to the Luddites who don't understand it.
  10. Yet again, I find myself asking, "Is this real?" How can it possibly be real? Please tell me it's not real.
  11. So are you saying any economic concerns related to a huge swell in immigration are unfounded?
  12. This has always been the biggest question for me. I spent a few hours one day researching on the web. I tried to find reliable sources and those with juxtaposed policy positions. What I discovered is that undocumented immigration either has a small benefit, net zero or small cost. It's not huge one way or the other. I haven't read anything about it, but I do worry about what the long-term effects would be of flooding the country with new poor people via some new guest worker or open borders policy. I'm reliably left of center on social issues, but I also would like to preserve our high standard of living. I would think at some point immigration would reach critical mass and would start overtaxing social services, schools, hospitals, etc. I would also think it would greatly increase the supply of cheap labor, which would lower wages among the poorest people and drive them further into poverty. I worry now about public schools. I have seen in my own neighborhood public school that more than 50% of the kids are Hispanic (and I live in a white-ass neighborhood). I don't know for sure, but I think it's the presence of multifamily housing. I see that doing nothing but increasing here. I'm guessing, but wouldn't a higher ratio of multifamily to single family tend to decrease the property tax base and the source of school funding?
  13. Ad seg would be my guess.
  14. Except it has everything to do with Trump because the only reason why this particular article is of interest at all (and the reason it was posted here) is because Trumptards can incorrectly use it to compare what Biden is doing to what Trump did. Classic false equivalency. As has already been pointed out, no one wants to see kids in prison-like shitty temporary housing, okay? (unless you are R and the kids are brown) But sometimes the situation dictates that is the best we can do. It's the humane, best bad option Trump could have used too, but chose family separation and cages instead to appease his racist xenophobic base.
  15. A lot can happen in three years. I think Jan. 6th cost Trump a lot of the relatively moderate R voters. McConnell has signaled that he wants the party to divest itself of Trump. If he wins the civil war within the party Trump won't get the nomination. If he runs as a third party candidate all the better. If Biden does a decent job and there's no crazy disaster then he'll get reelected anyway.
  16. Nobody's mad at them yet. Wait til the taxpayer funded bailout. I don't see these people paying $100,000 electric bills.
  17. Oh, I agree with you 100% because of my own personal politics. I'm just pointing out that the decisions were made based on a different set of priorities. I believe that government should function for the greater good of the people. Not just those who can afford to participate in the political system by direct financial contributions, lobbyists, quid pro quo and the like. But that is not the set of priorities that has won the day in our state.
  18. Maybe true for some or even all of them. I don't know who the real decision makers are here or what their real motivations are. I try not to make a lot of assumptions. I tend to think that the politics of the state mandated fewer regulations, lower consumer costs and "free market" effects on the whole industry. And that's the biggest reason why we are where we are. I'm not willing to say yet that a few individuals decided to enrich themselves to the detriment of the greater good. That might very well have happened, but it's more because the policies of the state as a whole allowed them those decisions in the first place.
  19. Not every effect has personal responsibility as its cause. I know a lot of conservatives think that's all there is to anything, but that's not accurate. There are very complex systems in play that affect us all. Way bigger than what one person can effect on their own. No man is an island. We're all connected, whether we like it or not. Your choices affect me and vice versa. Pretending otherwise is a fairy tale. This wasn't a failure because 2/3 of the population was too dumb. (For the record, this degenerate lawyer winterized his own house and had no busted pipes.) This was a failure at a higher, institutional level. Industry, regulators and state government are responsible. They made choices that caused this to happen. I'm not saying that they made the wrong choice even. There is at least a reasonable basis for the decision. But make no mistake, the people who made those choices did so primarily to avoid costs and increase profits. People know what to do because they are doing it already everywhere but here. That's a policy decision, ultimately. So choose - do you want to have really cheap energy and companies in that industry that are profitable and as a consequence shit like this happens every 10-20 years, or do you want to have more expensive energy and companies in the industry with lower profits and this never happens. No right or wrong answer; it's a matter of priorities, which is all any policy decision is at the end of the day.
  20. Same. He looks to be about 17 years old in this picture. And what's up with those glasses? He just looks like a smarmy turd. Very punchable face.
  21. The root problem of democracy is politics itself. It's too easy to get people who vote to value the wrong shit.
  22. Definitely will be interesting to see what happens. Their only goal, though it should not be, is to maintain as much power and money as possible. That means they will do what they think is most politically advantageous, even if doing so is bad for, and would ultimately mean the end of, the United States of America as we know it. The question is, is a win more assured with or without MAGAts? It may turn out that the longer the Republican party embraces and supports MAGAt fascism the more votes they lose. That would be the case if sane Republicans are more numerous or grow faster than MAGAts. There are some indications, based on the reactions to Jan. 6, that is the case. The other strategy is to continue to embrace and support MAGA because it's the only coalition under which Republicans can win. They tolerate and suppress as much as they can while still keeping the dumb evil motherfuckers in the fold. My hope is that Mitch kicks the MAGAts to the curb and that Trump starts the Patriot Party. That would kill the Republican party for a while, which is why it won't happen. MAGAts are dumb enough to do it; Mitch and the R establishment are not.
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