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RomaVicta

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  1. 8 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

    So Trump's plan is to kill half the world's population?  Specifically the brown half?

    I suppose the Jews make up the non-brown part of that half (some are, some aren't). They're a nation living within our nation. Ask the Comanche, Sioux, and Cherokee how that works out in the long run.

    Let's all join Lee Greenwood in singing about his pride. Or vomit instead.

  2. 20 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    There's not enough of us Gen X'ers to matter.  Once the Boomers are gone things will be better for both Gen X and The Millennials the world.

    Edit:  Fixt for troof.

    Thanks, man. We must strive for new and useless ways to divide Americans.  I and all my boomer friends stand with you. Not all of the younger generations stand the same.

    I get the resentment. It's justified by the way the younger generations were exploited as a market and enslaved by absurdly high costs of higher education and the malfeasance of the federal government. Many boomer dogs have fleas. Boomers also lead the fight to correct some of this mess.

    We were lucky to be born in the time of an enormous economic boom when post war America held 50% of the world market. A lot of that was squandered, no doubt. But we didn't all vote for the bad shit.

    You inherit a tougher world to get by in. Tougher in regard to the boom described above. Not tougher than almost any other time in US history. The main crime against your generation is the debt forced upon you that benefits the banks and universities. To graduate college with what would have been a house loan in my day is criminal.

    My friend, let's avoid facile thinking and labeling. It's a distraction from the real fights.

  3. "Be Breast" is good stuff. Out of rep after so many good posts yesterday. Nice job, Mrs. Whiggins.

    I've found that I can still be mildly surprised. This time it's that 60 million Americans rabidly support a man who abused a charity to swindle the rubes or funnel hidden payments to himself from business transactions.

    Think about that. Just about anybody else from any political side or economic class would be disgraced to the point of not being elected to county court by the revelation of such an easily digestible story. There are literally hundreds of reasons to spit out Donald Trump (thousands if you throw in the easily provable lies), but this has to be the most simple given for changing your support.

    Sixty million Americans can hear this and refuse to digest it or dismiss it out of hand through deflection or fun house mirror reflection (What about Clinton giving away all of America's uranium?). I mean it's right there. No problem with determining meaning of the law or what the actual intent of the accused was.

    The fact just lies there like a baby perfectly healthy that, for some reason, won't breathe. Sixty million Americans won't even flinch when they hear the baby struggle nor move to help when they see the baby turn blue. They choose negligent homicide instead of lighting up another rock of MAGA crack that makes them feel so good. They'll take a big one up anus while the baby goes cold and dies just so long as they can feel good about whatever it is they feel good about: victory? Unjustified superiority? Just a nice, simple, dumb world where they, delusionally, see themselves as the big winners?

    Yes, I am surprised when I pause to think about this. I thought facts and knowledge would carry at least some weight with anyone exposed to them. As often is the case, I overestimated the abilities I thought common among us all in a country with a public education system.

    Mitt Romney traveled with a dog in a cage tied to the roof of his car. The dog is fine, but heartstrings were pulled and he lost support. Trump robbed his own charity and support remains solid.

    Wow.

  4. 34 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

    That's what morons see.  The public who have critical thought capabilities want the corrupt asshole out. 

    Don't forget moral standards or integrity when describing that part of the public. The only excuse for the rest are that they don't bother to know. The rest know and support wickedness and acts harmful to the US.

  5. 33 minutes ago, BNB said:

    I think he should have been censured for it, the guy is an idiot, but I don't think he should be impeached for it.  I don't think it will happen often that someone running against the president has a possible corruption case with another country because he made statements about getting another countries official fired, and his sons company was being investigated by him.

    I think I am on the majority side of it.

    Dems should have just censured him, then moved onto passing bills.  All the public sees is Dems constantly attacking him and trying to impeach him, while little else is being done to improve our country.

    Negged again for lying. You know that Biden was representing the interests of the United States in conditioning the aid on the removal of a corrupt prosecutor. He acted in the open and executing American policy. His act is the antithesis of what Trump did.

    Now, if someone can provide evidence that Biden was indeed acting for his son or that he in some other way benefited illegally, then to hell with him and his son.

    Enough of you. 

  6. 7 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    Where do you get the idea that I support Trump?  

    What have your posts reflected regarding the accusations against the president and the validity of the impeachment? 

    Perhaps I have misread you. I've long been an admirer of your chosen avatars. Who is this woman?

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    Edited by RomaVicta

    Fire the employee? Get tough. Summary execution is the way to send a message.

    I love how the issue about this greeting over the years has turned many people's holiday greeting into a snarling, challenging, "Merry Christmas." 

    Yes, let's fuck up happy greetings to strangers in the coldest part of the year by politicizing exactly how the greeting gets conveyed. Thanks O'Reilly and FOX! Merry Christmas!

  8. 2 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    Why so judgmental? Can't we just agree that he's a stupid fuck and leave it at that.  

    He's not stupid. I don't think he's deceived, either.

    Maybe he is the purest product of the hate engine and has been convinced that libs/Dems are against the US and his side are the country's only true defenders. In that role of warrior, he uses any weapon against the supposed enemy. He'll repeat and regurgitate lies. He'll set up equivocations that are not apt. He'll put out some pretty good sophistry knowing that the argument is unsound. 

    Defeat the libs! Protect America! Trump may be a bastard, but he's our bastard!

    Perhaps he will read this and declare that I am intolerant and woefully biased against GOPs the way he may be against Dems/libs. I'll pre-emptively answer that I point to individuals. I've more than once stated the absolute necessity for the traditional principles of the Republicans to be part of the national discourse. I'm talking about the conservatism that many ex-GOPs thought they were supporting for the 35 years preceding the ascent of Trump.

    Today's GOP that supports Trump is now the Trump party. Trump's wickedness is in plain sight. Some support him out of ignorance. Some do so out of willful ignorance. Some do so as Zavala and Fozz. They're not stupid. That's a facile description. They know what they're doing; they're capable of seeing the facts.

    Why do they deny the facts? Maybe for the reason I describe above in my speculation about Zavala. Maybe they get something out of this shit show. Maybe they're on the payroll. Maybe some other reason. But they're not stupid, and that makes me wary of them. I can't understand why they remain steadfast when so many other former, smart GOPs have abandoned that party.

    I'd prefer they abandon their positions and rethink their politics; become part of a new outlet for actual conservatism. But I don't think they will. What's in it for them? Hard to say.

    A long muse, my friends, but characterizing an opponent as deficient is a sure way to give that opponent an edge. The Romans constantly coached the legions not to despise their enemies but to respect their fighting ability. Be ready to fight hard. I don't want to give any kind of an edge to anyone harming the US.

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    Edited by RomaVicta

    44 minutes ago, Zavala said:

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    Remember what 0bomba did to "whisteblowers"? 

    Remember what 0bomba turned over during the investigation into the fast and furious thing?

    The judicial branch is the ones between the congress and WH when there's a disagreement, there's 3 branches, let them do their job. 

    Either way, the dems are broke, they don't have the money to campaign, they haven't done anything with the majority in congress, so their strategy is to attack Trump to try and get the twitter types all riled up.

    It's a horrible mistake, pandering to a twitter audience is not going to win elections. Most people just don't care or are somewhere in the center politically. They tend to be repelled by things, rather than be attracted to things. 

    Ya gonna lose.

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    They did not allow any witnessess that weren't vetted by Shit. [Any reason these exculpatory witnesses couldn't have found another avenue to right this terrible wrong? As you know, Trump is inhibiting and likely intimidating witnesses; does this strike you as innocent behavior?]

    They are being attacked and slandered by Dems who will twist and use the control over the media to spin whatever shit they want, why would the WH comply? [Who has the Reynolds Wrap on their cabeza now? Even if the Dems were as shameless as the Republicans in their treatment of witnesses, are you saying these mythological exculpatory witnesses are too snowflakey to stand up to it? Do they need dimmed lights and soft questions to illicit their delicate truths about the real President Trump? You're not stupid, but maybe you're irony deaf.]

    Remember what 0bomba did...? [C'mon]

    The judicial branch is the ones between the congress and WH when there's a disagreement, there's 3 branches, let them do their job. [Yay! Of course, it will be difficult with Republicans violating their oaths.]

    Either way, the dems are broke, they don't have the money to campaign, they haven't done anything with the majority in congress, so their strategy is to attack Trump to try and get the twitter types all riled up. [Willful lying on your part. You know that Congress has passed over 400 bills, a large majority bi-partisan, that Mitch is sitting on in the senate perhaps to give life to your lie

    It's a horrible mistake, pandering to a twitter audience is not going to win elections. Most people just don't care or are somewhere in the center politically. They tend to be repelled by things, rather than be attracted to things. [Blah blah blah]

    Ya gonna lose. [If so, the entire country other than about 1% loses. That 1% never loses. It must be an honor serving them.]

    Negged for disingenuity and dishonesty. Betraying your country (if this is your country) deserves worse than a neg which I wish for you and your kind. You make yourself my enemy.

  10. 45 minutes ago, Party_Taco said:

    Listening to the circular logic and outright distortions put forth by McCarthy and Scalise is maddening.

    Talking about democrats ignoring facts while they twist the truth and allow this criminal to shun long established laws and norms makes me sick.

    Fuck all these traitors.

    The Dem said that impeachment should be bi-partisan. Thanks, Dem, for providing us with cover for uniting against recognizing the facts against Trump. We merely need to keep our lock step caucus in line no matter what the individuals might think of the charges. (We're so clever using shamelessness to defeat your point!)

    There is no evidence! Where are the witnesses who can testify first hand? This is a sham! (I will say this loudly so my base will forget that Trump has forbidden executive branch witnesses to testify.)

    Adam Schiff is a coward because we call him a special prosecutor, but he won't appear before the committee and testify in that role. (Tee hee, we're so good at shameless sophistry and lying! We don't mind yelling that people who honor their oaths are cowards while we completely commit ourselves to an obvious liar and coward and criminal.) 

    The absurd theater of GOPs supposedly investigating these charges before the cameras disgusts me in its dishonesty and absolute disregard for this country. They can do a jig and lie about the meaning of an acquittal for Trump should it come, but they have identified themselves and their followers as despicable collaborators with foreign enemies and persons of zero integrity.

    An America that understood its own history and the experiment that is self-government would frog march these villains to the gallows. But we're not that America. 

    To adapt from Oliver Stone's Nixon, I look at Schiff and see what I want the country to be. I look at Trump and see what this country is. Self-absorbed, distracted, narrowly educated, and slaves to their immediate emotions.

    Trump's acquittal, should it happen, will solidify us as a banana republic. At some point it will get bloody.
     

  11. The man was a dashing, handsome devil. Imagine those long long few seconds where the fire was burning him and he managed to turn the plane and bail out. Then the agonizing fall through the air to the ground. Then his war became fighting pain and recovering for years.

    We who have never been on a firing line can only imagine the experience. I humbly salute them all.

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    Edited by RomaVicta

    On 12/8/2019 at 7:50 AM, Landomatic said:

    Bullshit.  This season was a perfect example of why it works just fine as is.  The right 4 teams get in with no controversy and it takes the whole regular season and some conference championship games to get there.  Which is the case just about every year.  Would adding some fringe 2 loss outliers and a no-name Memphis and/or FAU team really make it better?  Fuck no.  This model just makes the regular season so much better than having more teams would.  It's one of the most magical aspects of college football and expanding it would fuck that up.  And yes, I realize I'm in the minority on this.

    Forgive me for not reading the entire thread, but I agree with the op. 

    The main reason for expanding to 4 was to ensure that the top two teams got in. Every year, the top two teams have got in whether they were ranked 1, 2, 3, or 4. To me, arguing over who should be number four is irrelevant to the goal of having the top two teams in the playoff. The third and fourth teams from the top are already getting the benefit of the doubt.

    The only injustice of being left out of the playoff would be if a team had a legitimate claim to be one of the top two. As long as the top two teams make it in, we have what we want: a legitimate contest where the best can win the championship.

    I'd hate to be left out if I thought the Longhorns were better than the fourth cede, but that's the way it goes. Subjectivity is unavoidable and makes the whole thing kind of fun in the big picture.

  13. A few tidbits from the other thread. Anybody is welcome to peruse that thread and transfer actual data. As of 10:24am, the last three "hot" pages include these morsels, the wearing out of a joke about Ash being David Ash, and now song lyrics. I thank them for keeping their waiting jabber over there. Truly.

    And thanks to Hiphopoppotamus for this:

    A closer look at Odom.

  14. 28 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Why the fuck isn't every Dem not involved in the impeachment hearing screaming to every news outlet today about the President basically selling the Saudis hunting licenses that allow them to kill any Americans they want?

     

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    Saudi Royalty is very saddened and aggrieved at this terrible tragedy. They'll send money to the families. I know this because they send lot's of money to my family. They're great people, the Saudi Royalty.

     

  15. 19 minutes ago, F250 said:

    This has been a really interesting journey. Amazon is clearly the best choice for the JEDI contract but they also had an unfair advantage in that they assisted the DoD in writing the requirements up until the end when the DoD flipped the script on them. $10 Billion is a massive amount of government cheese so I am not going to mourn Amazon's loss of said cheese.

    Amazon will be fine, it's true.

    Losing a government contract over a childish political vendetta where the President or his minions punish those they perceive as disloyal is worrisome indeed.

  16. Absolutely shameless presentation by Castor. Fortunately, his presentation won't hold anyone's attention for very long. It's not nearly as effective for the intended audience as the milk carton with Schiff or READ THE TRANSCRIPT!

    Ebil Dems. Ebil Hunter. 

    I can't listen to this shit anymore. I'll tune back in later. I still can be outraged by a man willfully discarding his honesty and integrity and, I believe, his duties as an officer of the court to spew what he knows are lies, deflection, and distortion. This is no honest, alternative interpretation of facts. 

    Put him in the cage with the rest. 

  17. 4 hours ago, HenryJames said:

     

     

    3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Always lovely to have a conspiracy theorist and climate change denier as a representative of foreign policy. I guess she tows the Trump line, but yowza, the rate we are plummeting toward the (apparently) limitless bottom, we are going to get the bends.

    Google:

    Quote

    Carla Sands is a businesswoman and investor, former actress, chiropractor, and American diplomat who serves as the United States Ambassador to Denmark. Wikipedia

    A shame she has no experience as a latex salesman.

  18. 9 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Who cares? It's a way to carry his stuff. It's irrelevant. 

    Maybe Whole Foods is a Russian front. They used this bag to deliver cash to the GOP criminal operation. Devin Nunez tosses the bag aside when he empties out his share. 

    Castor comes strolling by and sees the bag.

    "Nice bag. I could use a nice bag. I could carry lunch meat in it or, hey!, I could use it for work! Hmmmm. Lunch meat. Of course! The baloney defense! It just might work!"

    The defense does work, and history is changed by the mindless discard of a perfectly good bag.

    Bet you didn't think about that, huh, Mr. Irrelevant?

     

  19. I'd be fine with playing them in a bowl game, it'd be fun. But rivalry aside, why would anybody choose to play an unranked Aggie team in a minor bowl where a win doesn't really advance you over playing a teamed ranked high enough that beating could possibly get you back in the rankings yourselves?

    A&M would be better off meeting Utah in the Alamo than us in the Texas Bowl aside from the fun of the rivalry.

    I guess I took two paragraphs to point out that Texags faithfully maintains the Aggies' reputation as deluded idiots.

    They're making the two percenters proud to call themselves two percenters.

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