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Willfully Horn

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  1. The most fascinating country on the planet. Of those I know who’ve visited, they either loved it, or wanted to take the very next flight out of there. 
     

    I love novels set in India, with Salman Rushdie’s “the Moor’s Last Sigh” topping the lot, and Gregory David Roberts’ “Shantaram” right up there.

    ”Don’t you know how high the river rises in your country, Lin?”

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  2. 15 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    “The very problem that we have here is we are weaponizing the justice system to go after former presidents. You back up 2,000 years and this is the kind of thing they would do in the Roman Republic that led to the end of the Roman Republic,” he dramatically proclaimed. “Caesar is out there and says if you do not come back to Rome… and face prosecution, what did he do? He crossed the Rubicon and there’s the end of the Republic.”

    Just foreshadowing the narrative for the end of the Republic. Rs were forced to do this. The excuse Putin’s lap dog uses here on this boatd.

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  3. 11 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    What the cuss do i have to do with Russian propaganda?  

    Repetition. Don’t let it bother you, though. Do what you do; I’m here for it.

     

    OP, put me down for no meaningful verdict before the election, and the election comes with shenanigans. I want to have faith, but everything about that guy has confounded my understanding of this country.

  4. 40 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    To be fair, the justice system was never designed to or for protection of the Republic. It should work slow as state removal of liberty is big AF. 

    The people through their congressional representatives were given the ability to impeach, remove, and restrict from office those who would imperil our system of government. There's no such thing as 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in politics.

    However, half the people are broken in their brains. Partisan interests have trumped loyalty to the constitution due to monied gentry, religious zealots, and legally anthropomorphic corporations using their $ and power to pervert the very system of government meant to represent the people. Instead it represents entrenched wealth and ideologues who themselves prop up power hungry sociopaths who use politics as a personal means to enrich themselves. 

    And therefore the only real lever designed to protect us has been perverted to the point where we have to rely of the justice system as a last resort.

    I don’t agree the Justice system wasn’t designed to protect this Republic, which is based on law. Defending the law is a responsibility of the DoJ, and, thus, defends the Republic. Because of delays in starting an investigation into whether tfg engaged n insurrection, not to mention the delay, by SCOTUS, in clarifying immunity (especially compared with the CO ballot decree’s timeline,) whatever protection the 14th Amendment offers the Republic apparently will not be brought to bear.

    State removal of liberty is absolutely big AF. The ability to run for office, is limited, however, and I don’t equate losing that ability to incarceration.

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  5. 11 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    The trial in Manhattan, one of four criminal cases pending against Mr. Trump and possibly the only one that will go to a jury before the election

    This statement is why folks are questioning the justice system’s ability to defend our Republic from a known and, perhaps existential, threat.

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  6. 1 minute ago, Woland said:


    He is angry because he is losing control of the narrative. Defending himself has nothing to do with presenting facts that support his arguments.

    Attacks are the only defense he understands, in keeping with his narcissism.

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  7. No one like to feel excluded, but reality is what it is. While I look forward to the day when folks of different races see no meaningful distinction standing between one another, (as was so eloquently stated by the visionary Marley) today is not that day.

    White folks who chafe at the reality of the n word, forbidden to them, but not forbidden to black folks, can fuck off. Equality between races will not be achieved by denying that there are different races. I am willing to wager the Venn diagram of those who so chafe and those who denigrate the value of diversity describes a complete circle.

     

     

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  8. 4 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    Untold benefits? Really?

    Vietnam, the Iraq invasions, and our bumbled occupation of Afganistan have provided what benefits to whom?

    Do we count proxy wars and deadly campaigns to enthrone dictators throughout Latin America so we could exploit their resources before those people could? Sure, those countries generally didn't go communist, but was what we put in place really better?

    "At the end of the day, we're still speaking English" Post WW2, no English speaking countries were ever in danger or near danger. We did save Berlin, but that wasn't a war effort although war was risked. As part of WW2 we treated with the USSR to draw a boundary beyond which they were not to go. 

    "the dollar is the most sought after currency" Okay. Not sure how you can tie that to a successful war campaign in a foreign land since WW2

    "we still have the strongest military" At what cost? Our wars have been enormously costly to produce so little besides enormous debt; corrupt, bloated military budgeting; the ongoing costs of the (shamefully inadequate) care needed by veterans of our idiotic foreign campaigns named above.  I won't delve, but this pride in our strong military goes to the insecure adolescent mindset we've been encouraged to have; we're told we're a laughing stock or we appear weak, and the rubes in the cheap seats cheer sending in the tanks.

    "and most of the world still looks to us on just about everything."  And the world's in fine shape.

    • We destroyed the goodwill after 9/11 by invading Iraq for whatever "untold benefits" (not surprisingly untold) we got there.
    • We led the denial of the dangers of climate change which has become a climate emergency, and it's likely beyond halting now.  
    • The right-wing control of this country which is leading to fascism here has likely aided the rise of fascism in other countries whose leaders have often named Trump as an example. Further, we just had a president who is more interested in cozying up with non-free countries while demeaning, alienating, and losing the trust of our traditional allies.
    • The world does not look to us on healthcare provision, prison conditions, gun violence, fair application of the law, or making minor personal sacrifices for the good of everybody else. Who has the biggest pick-up in the office parking lot? I'll never give up some of my hamburger consumption to make the world better for my children. I'm teaching them to feel the same way!
    • The ongoing racism here and burgeoning sexism, sexualityism, and anything-you-do-is-my-business-ism are hardly lanterns in the dark to lead the world.

    Any organization or entity that devotes more time to self-congratulation than to honest self-appraisal is likely headed for disaster.

    Written without rancor.

    I liked most all of your post, but still support aid to Ukraine. Fuck authoritarianism, at home and abroad.
     

    Also, goat burger deliciousness needs more press. 


     

     

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  9. 12 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    receipts or nah? 

    I’m not hunting down the exchange. You wanted me to know I am not “that guy,” a reference I didn’t understand. Another poster clued me in, posting a video of an aggressive dude in another guys face, repeating the phrase, “you’re not that guy.” The essence was physical intimidation. Something that I don’t receive well;  stupidly, I lean into it. I speak my mind, but I’m not a bully. Nor do I tolerate them.

     

    Edit: That aggression, your suggestion that I would wilt if confronted, combined with your lack of empathy, and your lack of loyalty, shown by your refusal to acknowledge an obligation to society, and a separation from your neighbors, your place, which you say are all means to an end, as well as your delight in manufacturing negative reactions and your tendency to state outright falsehoods (labeling folks deadbeats, despite those same people abiding by the terms of their deal,) and the gaslighting that a negative reaction to your posts means there is something wrong with those who have a negative reaction. These are the reasons I view you as a psychopath.

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  10. 2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    Fair enough.  I'm sure I can check boxes on both sides of that ledger.  My problem isn't with charity, I've participated in some form or fashion my entire life.  My problem stems from it being forced, and what is purchased (votes) with it.  But it doesn't matter, only one opinion  of hundreds of millions that participate in this country. 

    Is someone forcing student loans on people?  We should stop them from forcing student loans on people that would rather pay cash. 

    Citizens empowered the government to tax themselves to fund the entitlements at which you chafe. IMO, they did so because of Judeo-Christian morality.

    I can accept legal efforts to rescind those decisions. I will not accept, for example, SCOTUS disregarding the ninth Amendment to shitcan abortion rights. It is the definition of patriot. Want to outlaw abortion? Pass an amendment. 
     

    FTR, both of my daughters have and will earn their UT degrees, the balance of which my wife and I earned and set aside to meet. To their credit, we were saved full price. 
     

    I vote in favor of social responsibility for the education of the following generations. In a perfect world, those costs would not be burdened by interest. Unfortunately, there are too many voters who are sanguine about profiting from education loans.

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  11. 3 hours ago, mchookem said:

     

    sociopath, not psychopath. he has a murder dildo fetish and total disregard for other people, but he isn't violent and hasn't actually killed anyone. that we know of. yet. 😐

    My interaction with @fattyflattie leads me to another conclusion. Which informs my judgement about his personality. (Not saying he is a murderer, but he is someone who implied violence would curb my comments).

  12. 1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

    He knows these numbers. He's been told them dozens of times. It doesn't fit the narrative that he's spent a lifetime constructing, so they can't be allowed in. 

    Just as he knows that they're not just passing out money to anyone with student loan debt, and that you have to meet a certain criteria (namely, you've already been paying your debts+interest for a very long time) to qualify.

    Not a lot of room for nuance in the guns and taxes brigade, I'm afraid.

    The absence of empathy is common among psychopaths.

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  13. On average, a welfare recipient stays on the program for about 34 months. However, this duration can vary significantly, with some individuals participating for a short time, while others may remain in the program for many years, depending on their specific circumstances.

     

    The majority of families who leave the welfare system do so after a relatively short period of time, about half leave within a year; 70 percent within two years and almost 90 percent within five years.

     

    https://gitnux.org/average-welfare-recipient-statistics/#:~:text=On average%2C a welfare recipient,depending on their specific circumstances.

    https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/personal-finance/2022/11/27/63832b2146163f6b018b458c.html

     

     

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  14. 52 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Hitler was a vegetarian. I am not saying that all vegetarians love Hitler. I am merely saying they want EXACTLY the same things, and boy that is a really weird coincidence wink wink.

    The "D" is TDS stands for deranged. 

     

    The fuckstick trashed the US tradition of a peaceful transfer of power while you were grabbing your ankles. Fuck you.

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  15. 2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    So? Are you suggesting the Bible endorses the good kind of slavery?

    My statement was factually correct. There is no good kind of slavery., but life long slavery for a person and all his or her decedents is worse than slavery which can last no more than seven years, and which does not extend to progeny.
    Be better.

  16. 4 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    But the Bible endorses slavery. If you believe that the Bible is the holy word of God and if you really get your values from your scripture then you should be perfectly fine with slavery. That’s a-okay with God. He just tells you how to treat them, he never said slavery is wrong.

    But nobody gets their values from their scripture. They just interpret their scripture in whatever way is necessary to support the values they already have.

    It’s a myth that “mainstream Christianity” has ever approached anything that’s pure and loving and kind, anything that conforms to the teachings of the character Jesus in the Bible (which never included a denunciation of slavery). Religions are man-made socio-political institutions that evolve alongside the societies that practice them. Christianity has always been employed to defend our darkest impulses just as readily as, if not more-so than our finest. 

    The Bible does not endorse chattel slavery. 

  17. 2 hours ago, sheeeit said:

    I love this place sometimes.  There are 2 different clips of this.  One where Biden is walking and talking with the press and one where he is inside giving a riveting campain speech.  I quoted the speech where he was inside.  I posted it twice.  You guys keep quoting from the impromptu speech outside.  In the official speech he gave inside his exact words (still laughing that someone called me out for saying almost exactly because I eliminated the weird pauses) were the following-

    "And he got shot down in new guinea and uh they never found the body because there used to be uh a lot of cannibals for real in that part of new guinea"

    Spin away.

    You might have quoted a different speech, but the clip you offered is the one for which I posted the transcript. Be better.

  18. Hopefully, @sheeeit, you’re sober enough to evaluate Joe’s exact quote:

    And Ambrose Finnegan — we called him “Uncle Bosie” — he — he was shot down.  He was Army Air Corps before there was an Air Force.  He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea.  He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it.  He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time. 

    They never recovered his body.  But the government went back, when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like.

    And what I was thinking about when I was standing there was when Trump refused to go up to the memorial for veterans in Paris, and he said they were a bunch of “suckers” and “losers.””

    The WH is spinnng the story to say cannibals were a reason Joe’s uncle’s body was never recovered, but the only source suggesting cannibals ate Ambrose was the flower blooming in your mind.

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