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Gap03

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  1. 6 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

    I'm looking forward to what pejorative names the rest of the world are going to come up with when the bird flu pandemic hits, originating from the California Central Valley and these dipshits' push for raw milk.  Are they going to go Trump / low-brow style ("Hillbilly flu" / "Brainworm flu" / etc.) or go for something a bit more subtle?  Something to look forward to in the next season of the simulation.  I'm sure it won't hit until the Trump admin fully dismantles the CDC, so we have a little time.

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  2. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Despite the rock-solid, tangible evidence to the contrary staring you in the face.  Look at election results over the past decade.  They are what they are.

    LYING FUCKING WORKS.  NOT LYING DOES NOT WORK.

    Yes.  And how do you communicate effectively with and persuade idiots?  NOT WITH FACTS AND EVIDENCE.  YOU DO IT BY APPEAL TO EXTREME EMOTION, WHICH CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED BY OUTRAGEOUS LIES.

    Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy because you have to get to a plurality, which means that you need to get a good chunk of the idiots without losing the rest of your voters.  That works for the GQP because they have a rare mix of idiots / racists / misogynists that want to be lied to along with a craven group of greedy MFers that don't care if the GQP is lying nonstop to group #1.  The Democrats unfortunately have principled citizens among their base that might just stay home if their representatives are incessantly lying.  The trick is to get those voters to understand the implied "wink-wink, we don't believe any of this" while having the media help flood the zone with lies.  It's a tough balancing act when you don't have an echo chamber that won't ask the obvious "why the fuck are you lying about obvious shit" question.

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  3. 34 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    What is not mentioned is that there is actually another option - corporate profits.  I realize not all imported goods are from huge multinational corporations with billion dollar market caps who could afford to pay their CEOs a few mil a year less and absorb big hits to the bottom line, but the point stands that corporations actually have a choice whether to raise prices.

    Laughing in CEO - any economic scapegoat means profits go ... 

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  4. 9 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Unlike the anti-vaxxers, the raw milk idiots are only putting themselves and their own families at risk. Let ‘em at it.**

    **  But back of the line when these dumb sonsabitches show up at the emergency room.

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  5. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yall gonna learn to love that narrow definition of treason.

    Pretty sure the current Supreme Court will consider the President executing "traitors," even without a trial, an official act for which Trump will enjoy immunity.  What could go wrong, huh?  I'm sure those posthumous acquittals will make the families happy, though.

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  6. 33 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    Trump breaking the economy may very well happen.  It has yet to happen.  What is an undeniable fact is that too few people give a shit about the hypotheticals for them to carry any weight.  People will need to see and feel pain in their lives for these messages to resonate in their mind.  Here's to it being not as bad as feared around here.

    Naw.  It has to be fucking excruciating and absolutely undeniable that the Republicans were responsible for them to feel any meaningful blowback.  See the pandemic.  At this point, I'm of the view that is has to be every bit as bad as feared for us to get out of this spiral.

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  7. 43 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah.....about that....go ahead and read through the Sermon on the Mount.  Here's some of the fun stuff that is the pure antithesis to the current American ethos, particularly the one we just elevated with glee a coupla weeks ago::

    You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic,[h] let him have your cloak as well. 41 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42 Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

    “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46

     

    “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[n] destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

    22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

    24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.[o]

    “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

     “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

     

    I mean, for fuck's sake.  Every single part of that has been loudly denigrated and rejected by the current dominant political movement.  Irony is fucking DEAD.

    Jesus never really MEANT that part ...

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    Anyone that bothers to quote that part ain't a real Christian.

  8. If I didn't know better, after watching this, I would have thought the LegalEagle guy was Brisket.  Holy shit - don't watch this before you go to bed because hearing all of this rattled off back-to-back will keep you up at night.  I had started to laugh about shit in the Cabinet thread, but the schadenfreude isn't going to be enough to keep me going if all this ends up coming to pass.  

     

  9. 15 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    I wonder what Elon and Vivek will have to say about privatizing a function we are already paying people to do.

    As long as the money ends up in the right pockets, I'm sure that's a win in their book. 

  10. 1 minute ago, Nivek said:


    Yeah, that will work. This convicted felon and idiot fellated and jerked off a microphone while fawning about an old man’s dick. But I am sure a reasoned approach will work next time.

    So you would prefer some Lindsay Graham-style theatrics?  Look, I acknowledge that facts probably don't matter (said so right there in my post), but I'm thinking that this time that things might just get bad enough (and obvious enough) that some facts might make it through the almost impenetrable shell of the Republican echo chamber, and if so, some predictions on the record that prove true might help the dumbshits ultimately draw the right conclusion ... for once.  Or not.  This is America after all.

  11. 22 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    Government doesn't actually function without the bureaucrats. It's possible that the heads of all of these departments, who are Trump loyalists and true-believers, will try to do dumb and evil shit, but the bureaucrats who have to actually carry it out with just say, "Nah, fuck you."  Or they can just stall and gum up the works while pretending to follow orders. Sure they can be fired and replaced - with a loyalist who doesn't know how to do the job.  That will take time for training and if there aren't anymore people around who know how to do the jobs then nothing actually gets done.  So if the head of the EPA tells someone, "Go burn down that forest!" and enough people say no and then no one knows where the matches and gasoline are, the forest doesn't get burned.

    This is me trying to not be fatalistic.

    Got some bad news for you - we have plenty of companies that are more than happy to burn down that forest for free as soon as they know nobody is going to punish them for doing so.

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