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Paul Wesley

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  1. 3 hours ago, Js1 said:

    I'm on a group text with 3 former coworkers - we're all relatively young (29-32), college educated, work in a pretty progressive field (immigration advocacy) and grew up in roughly the same Houston burbs.  1 of them is super liberal, 1 is more left-leaning and the other is a Republican.

    It's mostly just funny memes and articles.  Nothing of substance due to political differences.  Yesterday, we're joking about the articles regarding the FDA saying you can't call almond milk "milk" because the government definition of milk is something that is milked from cows.  Someone jokes "my tax dollars are paying for this?" and I said "bigger waste than paying for Eric Trump to go skiing in Aspen" and the Republican responds "yeah, but we also paid for Obama's family trips."

    Irredeemable. Deplorable. Hypocritical.

    Eric Trump - 35 years old, worth $300 million

    Sasha and Malia Obama (at the time) - underage and lived in the White House with their parents

     

    But black.

    The conservative what-about-ism has reached absurd proportions.  No matter the situation, just pretend there's a moral equivalent somewhere.  

    I mean, Trump's adult family members are crisscrossing the globe for the singular purpose of MAKING MONEY for the Trump corporation that the president maintains interest in.  So:  my tax dollars (and a lot of them) continuously protecting adults who are using their relationship to the president to make private money for the president's corporations. 

    That is just a million light years from being the equivalent of protecting the under-18 children of the president -- from Amy Carter to W's kids to Obama's young daughters.  

     

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  2. (not an attorney)

    Yeah, that was my reaction too.  Seems like if there was even passing reference to the campaign, then a credible case could be made that campaign finance laws come into play.   But I don't know.  Maybe Trump's defense is that he routinely pays off all kinds of women whether running for office or not  (which is probably true).

  3. 57 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    This entire thread of videos is crazy. The motherfucker has no interest in telling the truth. Ever. It’s disgusting to see this glob of orange shit demean the office of President. 

     

    God, how far have we fallen?  Our president criticizes the British Prime Minister behind her back a day before flattering her to her face, tells an interviewer that the EU is America's "foe," then immediately says journalists who accurately reported things he said are "fake news."  Then he flies to Helsinki and while standing beside Putin, takes a full "pass" when offered numerous chances to say that they hacked our elections, instead apologizes on behalf of America and repeatedly dismisses America's intelligence agencies in favor of the word of a murderous KGB agent who seeks to harm us.   For an encore, he flies back to sit down with Tucker Carlson and repeat numerous white nationalist talking points.  All of this in like 5 days.  

    And, by the way, Tucker opens that interview with, "What country has ever benefitted from mass immigration?" and the correct answer was "America," dotard.

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  4. 1 hour ago, DiceHands said:

    This is such horse shit/

    He spent that entire press conference yesterday saying he believed putin.

    Him changing would to wouldnt makes ZERO FUCKING SENSE.

    My immediate reaction too.  It wasn't a single incredible Trump statement that raised everybody's eyebrows.  He spent the last seven or eight minutes repeatedly throwing America under Putin's bus.

  5. 2 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

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    Would be more accurate if Trump were in the apron serving up a deep-fried eagle to King Putin.

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  6. There's an interesting scene in "Beware of Mr Baker" where the interviewer is talking to Clapton about Ginger, and the interviewer mentions Bonham and Moon, and Clapton immediately does an eye roll, a dismissive hand wave, and an audible "Pfffft" as he tries to compose a response.  

    Not saying he's right, but it's a an interesting endorsement (despite the fact that Clapton had to put up with Baker's bullshit for half a decade).

  7. My answers are pretty cliche:

    Keith Moon - I just love the backbeat being a continuous drum fill.  Normally, if a drummer played like that, it would come across as annoying overplaying, but somehow it just works when Moon does it.  As a side note, I'd say that Zak Starkey is a more than credible substitute, and also pretty fun to watch.  

    Bonham - gets the credit he deserves for thundering power, but the guy was also super tasteful on cymbals.  If there are only three mics on the kit, it's rare that a drummer can effectively mix his own kit and have it sound like that.  This is going to sound like "you kids get off my lawn," but how is it that technology has exploded during my lifetime, but Bonham's kit recorded better in 1969 than its modern-rock descendants 49 years later?

    Stewart Copeland - So fun to watch, and brought a completely different vocabulary to rock music.

    Keith Carlock - never heard his name, but got great seats at Bass Hall to see Steely Dan a few years ago, and spent half the show telling my friend (who was the real Steely Dan fan), "I'm pretty sure that's the best drummer I've ever seen."  I thought maybe he was some undiscovered diamond-in-the rough that I could afford to contact and hire to play on some songs I was working on at the time, so I looked him up after the show and learned that 1)  he's a North Texas State guy, and we had a couple mutual friends in Austin... but 2) yeah, the guy is very much in-demand (John Mayer, Sting, James Taylor) and way, way out of my league.  I also thought that I had "discovered" a Russian ballerina around that same time, and that turned out to be completely wrong too.

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  8. 1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

    I think it’s all worth it to get another seat on the court to prevent unpatriotic Negros from disrespecting the flag. 

    Also no cakes for fagets.

    Sadly, that’s pretty much what it comes down to. 

  9. You keep saying that we can still be "great" even if we're not liked by the rest of the world, and it's an exceptionally stupid thing to say.

    Military alliances, trading partnerships, economic partnerships, getting other countries to do what you want without spending a trillion dollars on a war machine... all those things that give a nation economic power and political influence... they undeniably require international trust and respect.

    Power, influence, and economic success are all vastly harder to achieve if everyone thinks you're an asshole. 

    If a nation's government is seen as hostile and corrupt, their citizens are going to pay for that in a thousand different ways.  Their quality of life will suffer.   Look at the deep poverty and ignorance of the North Koreans.  

    It feels like a fucking episode of "Elmo" that you need such basic concepts explained to you. 

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  10. 4 minutes ago, RandomIdoit said:

    I just don't think anyone has to be likeable to make America great. I don't think Trump is making America great, but the idea that he has to be liked or else we won't be great is funny.

    Again, the idea that you can afford to insult and alienate every civilized democracy (and trading partner) while achieving greatness just shows an unbelievable amount of stupidity and ignorance of how the world actually works.  

  11. 3 hours ago, RandomIdoit said:

    I don't agree with a lot of stuff Trump does or says and I didnt even vote for him, but I couldn't care less if he is liked especially by people outside of the US.

    What a monumentally stupid thing to say.  

    If nations generally trust your integrity and your intentions, it saves you billions and billions of dollars that you'd have to spend in hundreds of different ways:  defense spending, tariffs, lost opportunities for trade and manufacturing, etc, etc, etc.

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  12. 10 hours ago, Grandioso said:

    But the shape, center of gravity, and top of the Les Paul have always felt uncomfortable and awkward from a pure playing standpoint.

    I have a chambered Gretsch.  Yeah, shape and center of gravity both probably better than a Les Paul.  "Top" (I assume you mean the way right palm rests on bridge?) = debatable.  

    Gretsches are cool as hell in my book.  If you want to be a bit different from the herd, but you still want a guitar with both pedigree and panache, Gretsch and Rickenbacker are calling.

    But like Celery says, it's a different animal.  A little more twang, a little less sustain, a little less power (all generalizations).

  13. 3 minutes ago, Clob94 said:

     I'm leaning more toward the idiot so that makes willfully colluding (not illegal) with Russia almost impossible. 

    Idiots can't commit treason?

    Horse shit.

  14. Just now, Dropout said:

    Wow Rs undermining the FBI on live television. Putin has to be TOing right now popcorn everywhere.

    100% this.

    In his wildest dreams, Putin couldn't imagine that, two years after he directed attacks against American electionsan American president would be undermining generations-old alliances of Western democracies, while a majority of members of the US House of Representatives would be destroying the credibility of the intelligence agencies tasked with investigating Russian interference.

  15. By the time Mueller presents an overwhelming amount of undeniable evidence of Trump's numerous treasonous, immoral, and illegal acts, the Republicans will have spent a full year convincing almost half this country that the CIA, the FBI, and innumerable branches of law enforcement are puppets of "angry Democrats," or "the deep state," or "the left," or whatever. 

    Fuck these traitors.

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