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RomaVicta

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  1. I'm the choir on that one, Brother Biff. A confluence of factors led to this place where we are. Advertising. Slack education. Grad students. The press becoming overrun with college boys and girls who learned templates in school rather than learning how to find news and how not to treat every story the same. It's a shit show.
  2. Don't take away my mental masturbation! It's all I have left!
  3. That's the president of the EU having to sit there and listen to this crazy rant from an American President. I wish Trump would tour all of Europe with his power-drunk buffoonery on full display. The West needs to fully realize just how far the US has fallen. We should never be called the leader of the free world. The free world needs to prepare to get along without us. They also have to prepare to deal with an adversarial US. Europe is on its own from here on out. I wish I were a European. On the continent, there still seems to be a great concern for the common good. On a trip there two years ago, I couldn't avoid noticing how much they've reduced their use of plastic. We can't be bothered to give up hamburgers (nobody proposed that, of course) to make a less horrific world for generations that are alive today. We need to be hated and reviled by the better countries. It's their best chance. And we earned it in a period of less than ten years. Stunning.
  4. The whole generational thing comes up too much. I know I'm a boomer. I know how the times affected us. We share memories. I generally don't give a rat's ass. If the others all became serial killers doing something unheard of like shooting up a school or church or Walmart, I wouldn't feel an ounce of responsibility or shame.
  5. To quote one of @Brisketexan early statements that I took as hyperbole (well used) but now see as concrete truth: Cruelty is our brand. I google this and got a thousand references to non cruelty to animal products. I tried other things and got the below from an NY Times book review of Cruelty Is The Point. Ouch. Compliments to BrisketTexan for maybe coining the phrase.
  6. Looks like Kate had some work done. I'd be too intimidated to chat with her and make her laugh. I do think we should round up a posse to find the masher who did this. If they're pustules, for this one and only time, WNB.
  7. I guess I'm not getting what you conclude from this. You seem to be saying that since we know about the letter and know Trump is a liar which negates his denial is all there is to it. I want to see the evidence. I want it confirmed that the WSJ was accurate and Trump lied about it. This is the first harpoon that has stuck in his blubber. It's something that is actually affecting his followers. They need to see it. That will also lend credence to the suspicion that there is more in Epstein's papers. You're not saying it's a nothing booger, but your disposition seems to treat it as a nothing booger. It's quite possible that I'm not following you. It happens.
  8. Are you familiar with the content of the letter including the drawing? Are you aware it would become part of a collection of Trump statements and images about Epstein including:
  9. I keep repeating something I read a long while back, the country changed when people started thinking of themselves as taxpayers rather than citizens. I finally got off my lazy ass and ran it down. I think the place I read it must have been quoting this piece in Harpers 2016. The article is: Save Our Public Universities In defense of America’s best idea by Marilynne Robinson
  10. Responses to Derek Huffman message quoted above:
  11. Certainly not unreasonable in a world where most of the players are earnest and there is no party devoted to changing the republic to authoritarianism. She doesn't know who she's talking to or what their interests are. It would not surprise me if the Trumpists in law enforcement or prosecution or the penal system dropped some pretty dire hints. Maybe the only carrot to hang from the big stick is "be patient. Maybe something good will happen. And be quiet." And here we are. Or, more succinctly:
  12. One of the more dangerous aspects of AI that I hadn't anticipated. It further erodes trust in common reality. Not crazy about the AI. At all.
  13. It was William Shatner in the goblin original. That probably had the most terrifying moment for me watching as a child.
  14. Join the people who've joined the well regulated Militia!
  15. For anatomical accuracy, only. Mushroom or zucchini, the "man" should burn.
  16. Good post, I merely recommend a change in verb voice. Trump is impulsive and really not a very good checkers player. Now, for the first time, he's knocked well off balance. None of the usual dull-minded tricks have worked with his dull-minded but stubborn followers. Lying, deflecting, pronouncing the story dead, and railing against enemies of the state had been, literally, fool-proof. How many of his actions are really considered other than hiring flunkies with his same non-existent moral code? Trump's anxious and getting angrier. He ignores good advice because he knows more about anything than anybody. He is set up here for a disastrous decision. Should Trump outrage his followers with the pardon of a teenage girl sex trafficker, there will be an opening for the only relevant political party to oust him. They'd rather be in control than have an outsider such as Trump pulling the reins of the hate engine they've hitched their criminal organization to. The GOPs are not all Trump loyalists. I would wager few of them are. They sell their souls; they don't dedicate them. Oust Trump and you have someone less bombastic but equally wicked. Vance. He can't command as Trump does. The GOPs are back on track with their fascist plans. They've even been moved further down the line by President Shitty Pants Dumbass. Trump shouldn't pardon Ghislaine "Lucky" Maxwell, but he surely can.
  17. I read that and saw one of the documentaries. Epstein's jail time was a joke where he came and went between his cell and his home practically at will.
  18. I think there's something to this. Trump's brazeness and overconfidence (hubris) may bite him on this one. His usual dodges about old news, Biden, denial are not working. I think you may have good point about the pardon. I guess raping teenage girls is a line some of them won't cross. A lot of his followers like conspiracy theories, this would be a real conspiracy for them to chew on. I don't know that it would save the republic, but it would be gratifying to find an end like Lonesome Rhodes in a Face in the Crowd for Donald Trump. That movie and Network are prophecies.
  19. I think I'm going to be sick. The fact that that is well within the realm of possibility today penetrates my attempted detachment.
  20. The world has changed. Try to see it. You assume that they have some kind of winning move. They don't. We need to find new avenues of resistance to the murder cult. That, or we can keep laying around on our nuts hoping somebody else saves us.
  21. The world does not recognize nor reward victories of inaction. I questioned HW Bush's refusal to finish off Iraq. The instrument is in place, excise the malignancy. There was a rare occurence to test HW's decision when W decided to brind down Saddam. What a fucking disaster. In this case, the Dems best move may be to play it cool. The chosen defense of the would-be empire is to accuse the Dems of conspiracy. As long as this story remains a big story pursued by the press, the victims, Q-anon, the decent, and the people, the Dems need not go shrill and give any more weight to the absurd accusation that they are the bad guys here. Only Dems are listening to the Democratic Party. What was once politics is now a war zone. Think of it as Ukraine having a movement to oust Selenskyy. Does a Russian ad campaign help this? No. In politics, you would think (correctly) that ousting a GOP president for the most odious of crimes would lead to people leaving that party or, more importantly, the idiot undecideds being moved to switch their votes. Think Nixon. In war-politics, you just replace the general. You don't even consider going over to the side of or voting for the enemy. The GOPs created the hate engine that put them in power, not Trump. It will still be there waiting for the next slimeball. Destroy Trump, yes! Thinking the Dems can do it? No.
  22. Welcome, Ghislaine. The president waiting for you.
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