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  1. It's always darkest 'for the dawn ...

    It strikes me that they might just create their own "conservative twitter."  How much would it take for one of the Koch brothers to pay for its creation and a consortium of Fox, Breitbart, Infowars etc.... Just pour their tweets into  it?

  2. The current first lady recently declared herself "one of" the most bullied people in the world, but her most recent predecessor isn't quite buying it. In an interview with NPR, Michelle Obama responded to Melania Trump's claims about being bullied, and suggested that first ladies should develop a thicker skin when it comes to receiving criticism.  NPR's Audie Cornish interviewed Michelle Obama about her upcoming book release, and asked whether she can relate to the feeling of being bullied more than anybody else on the planet. Obama was crystal clear in her response.

    "I can't," Obama replied, according to a transcript. "I can't look around at what's going on and view myself as — I wrote about the fact that, how I learned not to sort of take myself so seriously in this role was when I would meet military families, and spend time on bases, and I would see the sacrifice that these families would make and the hardships that they would bare because they would have a loved one serving and dying and putting their life at risk. I admired them and it made me feel like, 'let me not complain out loud about anything that is happening to me.'"

  3. 5 minutes ago, RPM said:

    I'm so happy America is great again. This Trump fellow really seems to be uniting us as a country.

     

    No kidding. Remember how Obama treated the press? He disrespected them by wearing a tan suit to a press conference. 

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  4. 25 minutes ago, Hate said:

     


    This is the correct answer. I lived in Austin for 7 years and never found a really good Mexican food place. Maudi’s was ok at best, but there weren’t a whole lot of good options.

     


    Yes. Because the velveeta is so much fresher in San Antonio and because the knowledge of how to make good Tex-Mex gets lost in the vast expanse from San Antonio to Austin. 

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  5. On 11/5/2018 at 10:07 PM, PorscheGuy said:

    Maudie’s enchiladas are so damn good.

     

    Yes they are. Can't wait to be back in Austin to get those Enchiladas Josie.  They bought the recipe for those from Jorge Arredondo aka Casita Jorges.

     

  6. 49 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I wonder if the Kremlin even sees this as a legitimate problem.  

     

    Clearly they do. It's already a drag on their economy. That's why they recently loosened immigration laws.

  7. 1 minute ago, gmr548 said:

    Just send them the 63m Trumpkins for a future first round pick and a prospect to be named later. Win-win.

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    Not a bad solution. After all, some of them were saying that they'd rather be Russian than democrats .....

  8. How do you handle a problem like Xenophobia when your population is in serious decline?


     

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    Russia, you see, has a serious problem with population decline. They’re expecting a 28 percent plunge in women of childbearing age by 2032. Their population peaked at about 148 million, in 1991.

    You might notice that as the year of the collapse of communism. After the revolution, a series of factors — including introduction to the joys of international capitalism, with the accompanying loss of free health care, spiking economic inequality, accelerated substance abuse, etc. — caused Russia to begin shrinking.

    The average life expectancy of Russian males plunged six years, from a pre-perestroika high of about 70 years to a low of about 64, in 1994. Soon, while American men had a 1 in 11 chance of dying before the age of 55, the dice roll for Russian males was about 1 in 4. The economic catastrophe of the Nineties resulted in at least a few million premature deaths and possibly more, depending on what study you believe.

    Sharp increases in mortality seemed directly tied to economic events, like the 1998 collapse of the ruble. Specifically, increased deaths were most commonly tied to alcohol consumption, followed by associated health complications, homicide, suicide and booze-related accidents: flying passenger liners under the influence, forgetting you’re on an ice floe while fishing, guzzling methanol-spiked bath lotion when you run out of vodka, etc.

    Russia introduced a series of reforms beginning in 2006 designed to make drinking oneself to death harder. They also introduced economic changes designed to reverse the damage of the Nineties, aiming to reduce poverty, increase access to health care, etc.

    Reforms had some effect, and Russia’s population eked up to about 144 million for a while. It stayed there for about 10 years, before beginning recently to plunge anew.

    Citizens are fleeing to other countries in search of better jobs, and not just to the West, but to places like Kazakhstan. As Bloomberg writes, even the recent addition of 2.3 Crimeans “won’t offset” the statistical trend, and the UN expects Russia’s population to drop to 119 million by 2050, unless it begins opening up its borders.



     

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    Meanwhile, here in America, the entire country is up in arms about a caravan of 7,000 people who actually want to come here. This is despite the fact that we suddenly have a lot of the same problems that hit Russia decades ago.

    Our own life expectancy rates have begun decreasing, and for a lot of the same reasons that struck Russia: drug and alcohol abuse, poor diet, despair, pessimism, suicide, lack of social mobility, poor access to health care, high income inequality.

    Political factors are also playing a role. Native-born Americans are beginning to get bummed out by the current environment to the point of looking to relocate to other countries like France. At the same time, would-be skilled immigrant workers are looking elsewhere, to places like Canada, because of, among other things, our surging “antagonism” toward foreigners.

    Remember how Trump was so mad that so many people from “shithole” countries wanted to come here? (“Why do we need more Haitians?” he asked). Remember how he wanted more people from Norway?

    Well, people from Norway aren’t coming for the simple reason that their country does not suck, and ours increasingly does. As the Atlantic put it:

    Norway is the world’s happiest country (the U.S. ranks 14), the place with the most political freedom (the U.S. ranks 45), most press freedom (the U.S. ranks 43rd), and most prosperity (the U.S. ranks 18).

    Forty-third in press freedom! Forty-fifth in political freedom! Awesome. And those numbers are sure to plummet further. Within a few years, migrant caravans will be asking for passage through the U.S. to Canada.

    Nonetheless, Trump is telling a few thousand of the dwindling number of people worldwide who actually want to come to our crumbling idiot’s paradise to turn around and go home.



    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/xenophobia-in-2018-748010/


     

  9. 31 minutes ago, gyroprotagonist said:

    said, every dictator ever.  It's almost less creepy to read it in Stalin's voice.

     

    Can you imagine somebody like Obama EVER claiming that, say, Fox News was the enemy of the people? Or any president, ever, for that matter?

  10. The irony of Trump posting about corruption after the New York Times doxxed his own corruption ------ point by point ------ is almost too delicious.  Especially the part about the thief.  Mind you, this is a man whose "university"  was forced to repay millions to taxpayers for stealing from them. 

     

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  11. NY Times:  Most corrupt administration in history:


     

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    They don’t even try very hard to hide it.

    President Trump, his family and more than a few of his appointees are using his presidency to enrich themselves. They are spending taxpayer dollars for their own benefit. They are accepting sweetheart deals from foreigners. And they are harnessing the power of the federal government on behalf of their businesses.

    There’s a word for this: corruption.

    Given how widespread Trumpian corruption has become, we thought it was time to make a list. It’s meant to be a definitive list of self-dealing by the president, his family, his staff or his friends — since he began running for president. To qualify, an incident needs to seem highly credible, even if it remains unresolved, and needs to involve making money.

    Compiling the list made us understand why some historians believe Trump’s administration is the most corrupt since at least Warren Harding’s, of 1920s Teapot Dome fame. Trump administration officials and people close to them are brashly using power to amass perks and cash. They are betting that they can get away with it. So far, Congress has let them.



    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/opinion/trump-administration-corruption-conflicts.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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    According to an annual report by the Anti-Defamation League issued this year, the number of reported anti-Semitic incidents in the United States surged 57 percent in 2017, the largest rise in a single year since it began tracking such crimes in 1979.

     

    Gee, I wonder what might have happened in January, 2017 that might have emboldened people who arbor anti-Semitic feelings?

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