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  1. finally have a fucking place to go to in my hood. Hank's is in Windsor Park on Berkman and its nice. 

    - big space. nicely laid out. i mean lots of space

    - fun bar. makes a good drink. 

    - menu is pretty blah for now. definitely ask about what people like / whats popular. i'd say the fried bird was excellent. some of the apps were very blah though

    - great prices

    - nice staff. looks to have made efforts to hire locally from our hood (versus hiring nothing but forced hipster douchebags)

    its also always crowded. 

    come give it some support. thanks. 

  2. hey friends, just wanted to wish you guys a great friday. 

    no nukes so far today. be grateful friends. its nice out. little rain coming in later tonight. going to be a great and hopefully fallout free weekend.

    happy times motherfuckers

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  3. 17 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

    I do. Not one politician, but I think we can turn things around over time by electing better people through our existing system.  Maybe I'm naive, but I think we're at the bad end of a long cycle — the last gasp of a backlash to the progress made over the last 50 years.  Women are running for office everywhere.  Young people are engaged for the first time in a long time.  Things look pretty shitty right now, and the next few years will be bad, but I think it's going to get better.

    I appreciate your optimism. Hope you are right.

  4. but I am talking about changing the process, not any one policy

    anyway, I am on fucking repeat for at least 15 years and its just getting worse and worse. 

    fuck it. its nice out. going to walk the dog and be thankful i am not nuked today

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  5. 49 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    We've had R vs D for a long time and it's never been like this before.  R vs D used to get plenty of shit done.  And Trump has an R by his name right now, but he's been an R, a D, Reform party, independent, whatever, because he is outside the traditional party divisions.  He's an outsider who hijacked a party infrastructure. 

    I have a hard time imagining the solution you describe.  A noble hero running Perot-style and winning the presidency?   Won't he or she have to work with all Rs and Ds in Congress and at the state level?  There no infrastructure to support an independent.   That's why we end up with a parasite like Trump living off the GOP host. 

    my "solution" is a revolution, which I believe will eventually happen. Hopefully internally versus externally (getting our asses kicked in a war)

    Trump is in the narrative of what has been happening with politics in this country for decades. He is not outside of it. The R v D shitfest had been brewing forever now and he is taking advantage of it. I think we are agreeing here, not disagreeing.

    My point is this - do you really believe electing a politician - Democrat or Republican - that is not Trump - is going to set in motion a trend towards a better political culture and/or less divided country? If you believe that then frankly that makes me really fucking sad. Sure, I can see a short term bump up in just about everything because Trump is a complete disaster - on that most of us agree, but I can't see any long term change in how incredibly, and somewhat artificially divided this country is. The Republican infrastructure that you are talking about will take any opportunity they can to get another person in there - whoever the fuck this - to further the Republican grip on power. Not to do anything for you, me, anyone else. Democrats too. Its baked. Its been trending this way for decades and only getting worse. The political establishment is a fucking out of touch soap opera that is achieving nothing but enriching interests, brutalizing the dollar, and leaving lots of critical issues stuck in nonstop, fake fucking arguments that make TV look intelligent. 

    end tirade. I will vote D coming up and will hold my nose. I don't like it and I don't believe at all that getting Trump out will somehow make our political infrastructure more effective at doing their job. Trump is just another flavor of shit we have already been served for some time. It wasn't hard to see it coming and it isn't hard to imagine it happening again, worse, and in a different flavor.

  6. 34 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    But that's what Trump did.  The only thing that disrupts in politics seems to be appealing to the worst in people.  I think we just need a return to normalcy.  Politics as usual sucks, but it's better than this. 

    Trump is a Republican and people are still discussing/thinking about politics firmly from that point of view (or from the other point of view) first and foremost. its so polluted that right now it doesn't matter what now is, or what normal was, its R v D and its a culture war. plug in a politician or Oprah - same output. Essentially nothing changes and Americans hate the boogeyman they live next door too. We cannot maturely discuss policy at all. Need a leader standing outside of this badly. 

    So long as we have only R v D this will only get worse. Our ability to compromise and solve problems will continue to get worse and worse. thats the problem. All these posts on gun control, campaign finance reform, the debt, whatever you care about - all pointless. The mechanisms to enact solutions is too fucked up to do anything - whether you have a porn star or the pope in office, doesn't matter

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    And this country's political discourse will never recover unless all of these shitheads are removed from office or formally charged for any criminal offenses. 

     

    yes, this will be needed

    and the process... Shaking up the R v D culture war is a must. A leader standing outside that is so incredibly needed right now. One within it is not effective, and will never be. 

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  8. you know what gets me upset the most  - physical disabilities. i don't get dusty per say but i get really upset. driving around town and seeing a homeless guy in a wheel chair >>>> than just seeing a homeless guy. it just seems to incredibly unfair to me. 

    its illogical obviously as there are many unfair problems that we all have. weird. anyway, good luck and stay dusty my friends

  9. 23 hours ago, Shmitty said:

    What happens if the world doesn't pay down its debt, will Martians from Mars seize all of our assets and take over?   

    we all owe everyone everyone else's money. its so much fun

    i am sure men of all countries will come together and peacefully find their way out of this. YOU CAN BANK ON IT

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