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bolverk

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  1. 4 hours ago, markstanco said:

    I was looking at an old thread, and I saw Rumblefishstix in there.  Did he pass away?  It seems like somebody mentioned that.  

    Last post: January 2022

    Last visit: September 2024

    He might have just lost interest in posting and lurked for a while before entirely moving on. But the way that man drank back in the Shaggy days, I wouldn't be surprised if it finally got him. No clue, though, as I don't recall ever running across his posts after the move.

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  2. 18 minutes ago, troph said:

    That awesome one is from 2018 when the lakes filled in one weekend.

    Ah. I was looking on my phone without glasses and missed the 2018 part by just zooming in on the red.

  3. 2 hours ago, troph said:

    That rain out west is fucking bullseye. Not widespread enough but it’s pinpoint where we’d want it. Already 2 inches in the sweet spot. Too bad it isn’t a 7 county wide monster storm. 

     

    1 hour ago, troph said:

    What we need or at least close to it… maybe not as much on the llano wowzers.

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    Good lord! You weren't kidding. So damn happy for y'all!

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  4. 49 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    think it is bad in Texas, you should hear the comments in Idaho, Montana and Nevada. Basically, none of the nearby states like Californians driving up prices and changing the local dynamics. 

     

    Rich out-of-state doctors from Austin who buy little glass chalets in Montana on the side of a mountain overlooking a lake shouldn’t cast the first stone.

    You should hear how New Mexicans and Coloradans bitch about Texans "driving up prices and changing local dynamics."

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  5. 32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    The problem is, being the kind of human being who is genuinely altruistic with a goal of improving humanity as a whole and being the kind of human who can and does play the sort of game necessary to accumulate unspeakable wealth are pretty close to mutually exclusive propositions.

    Good and altruistic humans generally don't accumulate hundreds of billions.

    Evil, narcissist, psychopathic, sociopathic shitheels do.

    You and I would follow the same path.  But because we're that sort of person, we never did and never would accumulate that sort of wealth.  Shit, I've had several chances to behave merely unscrupulously and profit from it.....can't do it.  Ethics and a conscience are a bitch when it comes to wealth creation.  Fortunately for Elon, he is not burdened with those things.

     

    One aspect of the past was the social pressure that the economic elite exerted on one another to engage in charitable works with their wealth, i.e., noblesse oblige. It seems that went away at some point, likely when marginal tax rates were really high after WW2, and the expectation didn't return during the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s.

    Edit: Instead, we got Robin fucking Leach and "Greed is Good."

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  6. Thanks. I appreciate the link and will check it out. But I'm now embarrassed to say I got his name confused with his fmr. CNN anchor brother. That said, I don't really follow what's going on in other states too well unless it makes headlines on the front page, especially when it's not discussed on Surly. 

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  7. 13 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Look, people follow leaders and  messaging that is clear, tangible and immediate.

    They don’t understand the magic words or care about checking the boxes The Groups want checked. They don’t follow ideological abstraction and they don’t want to support politicians who run away from the language of class. 

    Cuomo talks about real stuff that matters using short words and definitive, meaning statements people understand. 
     

    he’s too damaged and too much of a New Yorker  to win a national race, but his messaging is good. 

    Honest, totally serious question -- not a gotcha:

    I don't have cable and haven't had it since 2009, so the only -- and I mean ONLY -- times I've ever actually heard him talk about stuff are from clips posted on Surly.

    Could you provide a link to something as an example of what you're talking about? TIA

  8. 2 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    And? 

    Well, you see, since he has disagreements with those weirdos on economic policy, he could never side with them on foundational democracy stuff like the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights.

    So, we find ourselves at an impasse as the Regime tests the boundaries of establishing a racist authoritarian police state where US residents lose due process rights as they’re spirited away to foreign prison camps, and protesting that earns you an ass-beating, a horse-trampling, a rubber bullet to the gut, or a tear gas cannister to the head.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Well there appear to be signs printed by a number of different organizations in many of your pictures (such as ANSWER Coalition ("Act Now to Stop War and End Racism"), etc.).  So yeah, I guess there are lots of people with diverse agendas who all are protesting what by all accounts is an unlawful and unconstitutional use of military force domestically.

    Not sure what the point of your initial post was anymore.

    It's a deflection away from the actual issue.

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    My friend, there is absolutely no "probably" about this.  The ICE raids in LA were intended to stir up a response to which he could counter respond.  The playbook was already drawn up.  I always kinda chuckled at @Brisketexan's Eeyore-esque "the end is nigh" posts, but I think we are inching ever closer to level of civil unrest we ma have never seen since our founding.

    If you haven't already and have Disney+, watch Andor. It's an incredibly instructive non-CR series (though the parallels are unmistakable) about fascism and rebelling from it. 

    Apologies if you've already seen it, because I can't recall if you've posted in that thread.

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  11. 24 minutes ago, Texas Flood said:

    not sure how to embed videos from reddit:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/s/LGFvF9aDz1

     

    That's just fucking appalling and enraging. That, to me, is assault. In normal times, would there be any possible way for that woman to get any sort of justice or compensation?

    Also, take note that the victim received zero aid from any "public servants" and that a civilian had to run cattycorner across the intersection to help the woman, and even she was also threatened.

    (To embed on Surly, just copy/paste the url link instead of trying any share buttons)

     

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  12. a man is sitting at a table in a restaurant with the words quelle fuckin ' surprise written on the bottom

     

    Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names
    The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.

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    President Trump, during a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals but were ordered changed by Congress in the waning days of his first administration.

    His move skirts the law mandating the removal of Confederate symbols from the military through the same maneuver used to restore the name of Fort Bragg, which was briefly renamed Fort Liberty. In a statement, the Army said it would “take immediate action” to restore the old names of the bases originally honoring Confederates, but the base names would instead honor other American soldiers with similar names and initials.

    For example, Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower — who led the D-Day landings during World War II — would revert to the name Fort Gordon, once honoring John Brown Gordon, the Confederate slave owner and suspected Ku Klux Klan member. This time around, however, the Army said the base would instead honor Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.

    Mr. Trump, however, contradicted that explanation in his announcement, at one point saying that the Army would be “restoring” the name of one Army base in Virginia — Fort Gregg-Adams — to “Fort Robert E. Lee,” previously named for the commander of the Confederate army. The Army said in its statement that the base would be renamed to honor Pvt. Fitz Lee, a member of the all-Black Buffalo Soldiers who was awarded a Medal of Honor after serving in the Spanish-American War.

    Mr. Trump made the announcement as he took a victory lap for the renaming of the Army installation at Fort Bragg, N.C., which had been originally named for Braxton Bragg, the Confederate general. Fort Bragg was renamed to Fort Liberty after Congress moved to strip the base of its Confederate name in 2020, mandating a new one.

    “Can you believe they changed that name in the last administration for a little bit?” Mr. Trump asked, as soldiers in the crowd loudly booed. “Fort Bragg is in. That’s the name. And Fort Bragg it shall always remain. That’s never going to be happening again.”

    Delivering a campaign-style speech surrounded by hundreds of Army troops, Mr. Trump sought to turn the page on what was an embarrassing political defeat late in his first term. An overwhelming majority of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — overrrode his veto amid the fallout of protests after the murder of George Floyd to pass a bill that included a provision to rename the nine Army bases honoring Confederate generals.

    Those bases were ultimately renamed for people who “embody the best of the United States Army,” according to the naming commission that recommended the initial changes. They included decorated officers, enlisted troops who survived harrowing trials in battle, and one civilian: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a Civil War surgeon and the only woman ever awarded a Medal of Honor.

    One of the officers, Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley, was honored by Congress earlier this year, with Speaker Mike Johnson presenting an award for the Six Triple Eight — the only all-Black, all-female Army battalion to serve in Europe during World War II — to her descendants.

    If Mr. Trump’s effort to again rename the bases is successful, all of their names will be struck.

    The original naming of the nine Army bases was part of a movement to glorify the Confederacy and advance the Lost Cause myth that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights and not slavery.

    Mr. Trump and other conservatives had raged against the name changes, which were finalized under the Biden administration, arguing that “wokeness” was softening the military and wiping away important elements of American tradition and heritage. Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly defended monuments honoring Confederates, vowed during the 2024 campaign to revert the name of Fort Bragg to honor Braxton Bragg, who was widely considered by his fellow Confederates and many historians to have been a poor commander.

    Mr. Trump’s pledge was brought to fruition in March, but with a twist that seemed both a rewriting of history and an internet troll. Fort Liberty again became Fort Bragg, not in honor of the Confederate general but in memory of Pvt. Roland L. Bragg, a previously obscure infantryman who had served at Fort Bragg and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.

    Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, announced a similar name change shortly after that appeared intended to sidestep the law banning the honoring of Confederates: Fort Moore — renamed in 2023 for Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and his wife, Julia — would again be called Fort Benning. Instead of honoring Henry L. Benning, a Confederate and white supremacist, the base would be named for Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who served during World War I.

    Another name change by the Army on Tuesday appeared particularly tortured to fit the old name while still ostensibly honoring different soldiers: Fort Walker, named for the Civil War surgeon, would be renamed again to Fort A.P. Hill. That base was originally named to honor Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate officer who was killed late in the war. The Army said on Tuesday that the base would be renamed “Fort Anderson-Pinn-Hill” to honor Lt. Col. Edward Hill, First Sgt. Robert A. Pinn and Pvt. Bruce Anderson who fought for the United States during the Civil War.

     

     

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  13. 1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    then maybe don't use that word. the english language has a nearly endless supply of nouns. Try manipulator. Perhaps mobster. Bully also comes to mind. If you want to add an adjective, maybe try strong man, although that connotes things about him that aren't true. have fun with it. there's lots of things our president can be called, but a leader is not one of them.

    B-I-N-G-O

  14. Just now, DaysOff said:

    Is there anything these two clown senators do for the good of this state? We'd never have a manned space flight center, unfinished super conductor, or possibly the highland lakes if they were our leadership from yesteryear. Other than podcasts and Fox News, I'm not sure what they do all day.

    What the hell are you talking about? We got a speech about green eggs and ham once, about 12 years ago.

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