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  1. 6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

     Two Netflix docs by a British professor, David Reynolds, that you should see. 

    Long Shadow - 3hrs - Puts it in historical context, and how people actually felt about It at the time, and not what we think they felt about it. 

    Armistice - 1hr - puts the end in modern comtext 

    I will make it a point to set aside some time and watch them. I try to think about the prism of how people thought about historical events during their time so that interests me. Thank you and I will watch both. 

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  2. 22 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Wider release in February. It’s done better than they expected so it’ll be running more dates, etc. 

    I am glad they will be doing a bigger release. More people need to see this and realize what war really is like. That scene on the Sunken Road is haunting. That look of fear on that one young man's face will stay with me. I would have been as big a mess as he was. I will go back and see it again if they show it here. So many of our modern issues as a world can be traced to that war. 

    I also can't get that song out of my head. Pretty catchy.

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  3. It's just Mt. Brady. His career is so stunningly incredible that putting anyone else up there just cheapens it.

    If Barry Sanders had played for an elite franchise and not the one who employed him he would have some titles and should be there. 

  4. Just watched this in Manhattan. Absolutely stunning to see. The years of work that went into this were well worth it. The thirty minutes Jackson spent talking about it after it ended were entertaining. He got several laughs from the audience. Overall I would recommend everyone see this at some point. 

    I also concur on the song at the end being great as noted above. The fellas he got to sing it and how it happened is pretty funny.

  5. 10 hours ago, Chooky said:

    Our country is totally fucked up.

    There are few things that really get under my skin, but screw him for that. I worked with a guy who is of Turkish descent and holy hell do most Turks hate that guy, but few are able to speak out. I don't know what he took from his friendship with McCain, but he must've missed the part about not being supporters of ruthless authoritarian assholes.

     

    Oh and fuck Hedo Turkoglu for supporting him so strongly and being a puppet for that dictator. Much like his NBA career, his political views and support are worthless. I'd pay good money to watch Enes Kanter beat the ever-loving shit out of Turkoglu.

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  6. You still have to get the senate on board with impeachment. This will not move the needle with those clowns. You could have Dotard having a meeting with Putin on video where he says I hate America and they would not vote to impeach on party lines. The November 2020 vote/massacre is where this ends, no sooner.

    Get ready for two more years of complete asshattery from the Pubs who will gleefully go down with the ship while grifting all they can along the way.

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  7. 15 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Trump will take a deal to keep his kids from being prosecuted.  

    And I'm fine with all of those crooks walking if it gets that fucking con man away from the nuclear football.

    If the deal involved Ivanka he would. The rest mean nothing to him. I do think if Melania sees Barron being threatened in any way she will toss the Hamberdler under the bus in front of Congress.

  8. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    A foreign war isn’t the political tool it once was... This country is sick of that shit and will not rally to support Trump in that endeavor, it will turn on him harder

    I do not think starting one is viewed the same anymore either. Stop to remember who it is we are talking about here and who Dotard's base is. If it potentially involves killing Muslims they are right there cheering him on in their power scooters.

  9. 2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The only war Trump is going to start is a civil war.

    Pay no attention to the Iran shit.  It’s just saber rattling.

    If this idiot sees the impeachment train rolling down the tracks and believes in his addled mind that starting a new foreign war is a way to ensure his survival he will attempt to do it.

    Everything he does is about himself and his own survival. He does not care about anyone outside of Ivanka. He'd sacrifice the rest of his kids and the entirety of our country if it meant the two of them would survive.

  10. 2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    A free pass to what???

    Coney Island?

    I swear, these old white dudes still so good obsessed with Hillary Clinton have some kind of pathetic pathological inferiority complex about powerful women.

    And not for nothing, Hannity has a hall of fame punchable face.

    I will say this. I remember watching Hannity & Colmes years ago. I felt bad for how Alan was treated on that show. He attempted to be professional and present his argument and side, but would always get shouted down. It was never a coherent argument. Just yelling like a damn teenage girl from Hannity until Colmes just ceded to him.

     

    He seemed like a good human being to me and was a man who seemed to have a conscience for his fellow humans and principles. Cancer took him way too early.

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  11. 11 hours ago, Gardner Barnes said:

     


    It’s going to be a Biden/Beto ticket.

     

    That would be fine with me. I would prefer a younger candidate to be president, but both of them are very positive human beings and I like that. We need more of that in our country and less of the braying ass type currently occupying the White House. 

  12. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I still think Warren is a stalking horse for the Dems in general, and tweets like that prove it.  She occupies enough space in his head, that it keeps him from noticing other potential Dem candidates.

    I am fine with that being the case. I honestly don't think she will be the nominee. It is still extremely early, but I would put money on Beto once he announces and Senator Harris being a close second.

  13. When I see those tweets by Trump directed at Senator Warren I want to know why we don't assume he is either hopped up on Xanax or just drunk. I have never bought his bullshit declaration that he doesn't drink.

    I remember him standing in, the Rose Garden perhaps, saying "can you imagine if I drank?" I don't need to imagine it with tweets like tonight. Just own that you are tweeting in a drunken rage. 

  14. 9 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

    It's weird, I went to a panaderia in Texas last night and I didn't get raped or murdered. I must be lucky as hell.

    Glad you made it out alive. The tacquerias are rumored to be the most violent places to go to, but it's in the panaderias where the real action is.

  15. 57 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    He justifies his Totally Not Support At All of Trump by shrieking at the sky at how bad Hillary is and disappearing from the thread whenever you ask him to provide any evidence whatsofuckingever of her wrongdoings.

    It's honestly sad. I mean we are well past the point where it is blatantly obvious that almost every word Trump utters is false. A normal human being would think Trump's behavior is abhorrent yet here he is

  16. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I can’t decide if Trump is the greatest or worst criminal in American history.

     

     

    He is the best of the worst. The history of all of this that people will read and learn about centuries from now will be mind-boggling. 

  17. 15 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Wrong ?  Nothing wrong with Hillary Clinton not being president.  Everything in fact is very right that she's not. 

    How is it you mentioned her when she was not brought up? That's fairly strange to me. She is not the president (I know, I know praise Jobu) and yet somehow is occupying space in your head rent free. You really ought to contact the Clinton Foundation and bill them for that.

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  18. 2 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

    So where have @Johnny Sack and @Onboard 2.0 and their ilk slinked off to?  That fake dimension where they can blame Democrats for not building a wall when the republicans had both the senate and House for 2 years....

    How human beings work is odd at best. I will feel a certain sense of satisfaction the day he either resigns, is impeached or get Mondaled in 2020 if the dying Republican Party continues to stand down. 

    The two guys you mentioned will not admit they were wrong. Millions of our fellow citizens will never admit they were wrong in their continued support of Trump. It is going to be hellish in trying to reunite this country once Trump is gone and having to put adults back in positions of power who have to repair our once rightful standing in the world. You just kind of hope that a few of the Trumpkins will show a modicum of decency in the process. I doubt that, but one can hope.

    If not, oh well. They'll just be left behind to wallow in their sorrows where they will belong at that point. 

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  19. 20 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

    Hopefully he'll get his walls with bars real soon.  Would be nice if his crew were sent to separate detention centers for long periods of time as well.  

    I would love to see this treasonous and completely in the bag Russian clown see the four walls in Leavenworth. That won't happen. All of us who want to see our country come back from the hell he has drug us through know it. 

    What will drive him nuts and cause him the most pain is seeing everything he has in Manhattan taken from him. You want to hurt him you take his tower. You take every last damn thing he values. Seeing his name erased from Manhattan and any other building near it will be the final nail in his vanity coffin.

    I lived in Stamford for a year. He has a building there. Saw the damn thing every day after I got off the Metro North from Manhattan. His footprint is all over the Northeast. You want to kill his spirit then you go after the physical properties. Thankfully, I believe, Robert Mueller and the SDNY (As well as other.jurisdictions) are far ahead of our public knowledge in what they are doing. I honestly believe we know a small percentage of what those men and women do at this juncture.

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