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RomaVicta

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  1. Thanks for the reminder. I hadn't thought about that in probably years. The Dems gave the boot to Hart. Bush pretty clearly had a life-long affair (probably an actual love affair) for decades. Pictures and class made the shallow difference. I've been fine with consensual sexual dalliances of officials. They're humans. There's a fine old American saying that I try to adhere to: It's none of my business. I haven't liked the change in editorial policy that started publishing these dalliances as front page news. I guess it's hard not to follow the lead of the National Enquirer.
  2. In America, anyone can be a supreme court justice or even president of the United States! The Irony Gods are having a ball with that one.
  3. Merely the word Constitution is worshipped like the word Bible. Then the worshippers run off and use merely the word to justify malign acts that neither document condones or promotes.
  4. At least he looks sharp in suit and jet black T. I will dust off this goldie oldie from the past. Remember when ten minutes after any negative story large or small, the right would screech at the left, Where's the outrage? I'll add, where's the shame? They've likely been buried deep in the same place.
  5. They're pitching to willfully blind batters who gleefully swing at every pitch.
  6. This is right isn't it, fascist?
  7. Yes, @Incredulity, it's just like the NFL. I bet you're a face painter.
  8. The comments below that shameful airplane joke are just about uniformly horrified. This one was good:
  9. First, we're concentrating on the dangerous criminals. We shatter the windows of cars with families inside. We ambush students in college. We round up day laborers. We're shit. That's what we are. Well, hell. I should have known there'd be a chart. Fuck the thugs and dickheads of ICE.
  10. Socialism is far superior to where we're heading. Yes, I embrace your boogey man over Dictator Trump. Every man for himself is no way to run a civilization.
  11. Dignity. Decorum.
  12. I was listening to NPR yesterday morning in the car. The host was interviewing a woman from the Ukraine Anti-corruption organization. She was interesting and earnest. I believe progress has been made on legislating or executive ordering anti-corruption matters. She was asked what is there to prevent a futur adminstration from just cancelling or ignoring the law. "We will take to the streets to protect our institutions! That's how we got here. The people will prevent changes through mass protest." Made me sad for us. We just don't give a shit or enough of a shit to do anything more than hoping somebody stops this. What a pathetic finish for a country created by people willing to risk everything for it. We're so very tame. ETA: Heres the headline in the NYT that clarifies the event I allude to:
  13. Then you wrap that up in the pure white tortilla of being a follower of Jesus. The confluence of these elements creates the vortex that sucks the USA into fascism. Cue Donald Trump to be an American hero. Idiot world.
  14. There was a similar set-up for the alleged company that did the accounting for all the $billions in cash we sent to Iraq during and after our invasion.
  15. He even confounds Ratcliff's ability to speak!
  16. One wonders how this incel and candidate for closet queen would "customize" his gender role.
  17. Quite the military spy master is our Brauny. I imagine that Iraq Aggie guy who penetrated UT's security cordon on his bicycle to report on pedestrian activity behind enemy lines maybe cruised up to Oregon. Mop suit. Ten-speed. Courage. Report to HQ.
  18. I'm ignorant of Algiers and France beyond knowing it was a big thing in their joint history. I have wondered if indigenous resistance to an invader or ongoing colonial power can really be called criminal terrorism. A people of an occupied country cannot raise a conventional army, navy, or air force. Does this mean they can't use other violent tactics? I don't think so. Then, you have other issues. How long is one allowed to use terrorism against an occupier? Northern Ireland, for example. Where are the invaders supposed to go? The only place the could return to is literally where they're standing. On the other hand, why should a later generation not be allowed resentment over something taken long ago? It gets endlessly complicated. The silly construct of good guys versus bad guys is of little use other than as a rationalization for destroying one side (see Gaza) (see Manifest Destiny). The 10/7 attack simply as an attack may be as justifiable as the atrocities committed by Israel in the West Bank. What stands out is the gleeful psychopathy of the attack. I'd be interested to read what you have to do to convince a military unit to do what those young men did. Brainwashing? Drugs? What? Their actions are beyond the worst things I can imagine doing no matter the extent of my rage.
  19. I had to prove I wasn't a robot to look at it. There is no better word than disingenuos. It's the lie they tell themselves to protect the ego they've invested in the illusory righteousness of what the right has become. His response to you is from the same cess pool of non-reasoning. It's why they're winning. They're logic-proof. Best people in the world to undermine a democratic society.
  20. I think I could have been clearer. The sentence sets up who the bad men are. I do believe men capable of those atrocities can be characterized as bad. My next sentence about any retaliation is justified is supposed to be the voice of the binary thinking I describe above that. We are in agreement that only those individuals and those who command them are responsible for those actions. You don't get a waiver to starve or bomb the Palestinians out of their home. The premise applies universally. Israel executes or encourages bad acts of violence. "Settlers," who actually proxy invaders, attacking West Bank residents and Israeli soldiers doing the same are not immune from the label bad. Bombing a family home is no more righteous than entering the home and shooting everyone. Whenever conflicts emerge, America chooses the bad guy and, simple-mindedly and true to their mythology, assign the good-guy and bad-guy roles and hold onto them no matter the overall context and subtlety of the reality. You and I are on the same team, I believe. Terrorism is a tactic. For those without bulging defense budgets, it's a strategy. See Tecumseh Sherman.
  21. This failure in every venture may be about to achieve his greatest failure yet. He's off balance. It occurs to me that essentialy he heads the Confirmation Bias Party. Confirmation bias underpins the entire creation and use of the hate engine. Libs are ebil. Here's an example. Libs are evil. Here's an example.....Constant confirmation led to the bias. Donald comes along, shoves the boring GOP leaders out of the way, and wrestles the bullhorn from them. He's now behind the curtain that runs the face of Oz. Trump now holds the strongest hand in the confirmation bias game that the world has ever seen. Fumbling that away is harder than bankrupting a casino. It's all but impossible. Impossible? Trump is not particularly smart about deflecting. His wholesale lack of integrity opens a pretty simple toolbox for the job: the Craftsman Lie Collection. Somebody else did it. This old story is resolved. Fake news. Those people are criminals. Those people are enemies of the state. I never heard of the guy. Y'all know the drill. They've worked unfailingly with the CFB party. Waddaya know, the CFBs actually have moral standard. Way down below the bars of basic decency, some sort of honesty, loyalty to anything, respect for any laws, lusting for your own daughter, and burying an expouse on a golf course, is the bar that barely clears the low grass: Exploiting the opportunity to rape trafficked teen-aged girls with not a single regret. The CFB party is not so CF in their B. Trump's obvious somewhat bumbling tricks aren't working. He doesn't have any clever tricks. None of the Craftsman lies seems to fit this tough nut. He squanders a seeming fool-proof gig where the audience lapped up his lies like a dog does vomit. This actually may be an opening bring him down. If he gets to a tipping point, the quaint old hate-engine GOPs may not save him. They'd rather have a pill like Vance anyway. I think fatal damage to the republic has already been done. Trump will not be replaced by a Democrat. The gutting of America and wanton cruelty will go on. Science denial in the name of commerce will go on. Still, a disgraced ranting Trump in handcuffs would give us that blissful moment when someone falling from great height finds and pulls the ripcord. "Sweet Jesus! I'm saved!" The opening parachute slows him for a few seconds before completely separating from the harness.
  22. Obviously a lie. Look how happy she is. She was just chillin' with the middle aged in another country with royalty. Luckiest girl in the world. I must say, that smiling face haunts me when this subject comes up. She was so brave to come forward. I mean, look at who she's taking on just in that photo.
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