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  1. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    Your wife is allegedly a Presbyterian minister.  Pardon me if I presume she doesn't agree with your barbaric perspective.

    Sadly, she kinda does.

    She realized long ago what a dark fucking place we are in, and the horrific shit we're going to have to see and go through to get out of it.  There is NO getting out of this without awful, awful shit happening.

    Temporary relief is just masking the symptoms, which leads to the underlying disease being untreated even longer.

    The only way out is pain.  It's why we never should have started on this path.  But here we are.  In the fucking darkness of it.

  2. 3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, SNAP appears to be on life support, but no, I'm not going to stand idly by and let innocent people starve.  Screw that.  I can't give much but I've been giving.

    You'll get there.

    These are brutal fucking times, and the shit that needs to happen is not good for anyone with a weak stomach.

    We need an angry mob.  It's genuinely the Republic's only hope.  There's no better way to get there than having the people go hungry.  And have them not able to visit family.  And losing their jobs.  We're getting there.  Let the fever keep rising.

  3. 1 hour ago, Chopper said:

    that news was surpassed this afternoon

    NBC News: Democrats make a new offer to end the shutdown, but Republicans aren't buying it

    It seems like the best offer Democrats could, or would, make and that Schumer knew Republicans wouldn't go along.

    Yep.  The GQP position on the Dems' ask is this: "we'll commit to think about it later."

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    Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., called the Democratic offer a "nonstarter."

    "The Obamacare extension is the negotiation. That's what we're going to negotiate once the government opens up. ... We need to vote to open the government — and there is a proposal out there to do that — and then we can have this whole conversation about health care," he said.

    Fuck....ALL the way off with that shit.

    "Give me your car.  After that, then I'll consider negotiating with you about whether I'll pay you anything.  And obviously, you shouldn't pay ANY attention to the fact that every time this dynamic between us has come up in the past, I have totally fucked you and not agreed to do anything.'

    Yeah....

    FUCK-OFF-THEN-KEEP-FUCKING-OFF-KEEP-FUCK

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  4. 3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I figure it's gonna hurt me at some level.  (Already has.)  If it hurts those morons who voted for Trump more?  Oh well, FAFO.  We warned you.

    Oh, we will all feel it.  We already are.  It's already hurt my family.  Shit, the chances of my daughter ever living in this country again are low as hell, and that breaks my goddamned heart.  We will ALL suffer because petty, vengeful morons with a fucking room-temp IQ decided it was more important to be performative and choose a path based on it hurting other people than to choose a path that might help all of us.

    Thus, my hatred of them will burn for eternity.  The harm they have done can never be undone.

    And the only way they grasp it is when that harm comes to them.  They are incapable of acknowledging that other human beings exist.  Fuck 'em.

     

    Also, I literally just got an email from the chair of the Travis County Democratic Party urging all of us to donate to our local food banks.

    NO.  DO NOT DO THIS.  The American people learn only through this pain.  Relieving the pain creates the illusion that we are not being gravely harmed.  No.  This has to hurt.  A LOT.  And yes, there will be collateral pain -- people who opposed this will suffer (see my point above -- everyone is already suffering).  We need the fever to get hotter, not be controlled.  The GQP has injected our society with a deadly disease.  We need to not mask it with ibuprofen and shit.  No, it needs to hurt.  Then maybe -- MAYBE -- we'll actually go seek a cure for the disease.

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  5. 9 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Bovino’s a bitch is the word on the street

     

     

    Incomplete.  Remember, he's an "ADJUDICATED LYING PUSSY-ASS BITCH."

    Seriously, it seems that all the locals need to have pre-made signs ready to go -- "LOOK AT THIS ADJUDICATED LYING PUSSY-ASS BITCH OVER HERE!"

    Another reminder I like is "YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL ERASE YOUR NAME."

    You're going down in history.  And your name will be shit for eternity.  You have one chance to get right with the lord.  You'd be wise to take it.

  6. Just now, dcbc said:

    Yep.  It's like the Bocchicchio Clan "negotiator" from the Godfather, who was playing cards with Clemenza's men (and was being allowed to win) while Michael met with Solozo and the police captain.  

     

    Spoilered so as not to threadjack too much.

     

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    The Buchochios were known as an extremely violent family who took vendetas to the extreme. They made their money selling a hostage service to guarantee the safety of parties to meetings between different mafia families. The way it worked as I understand:

    Solozzo would've paid the Buchuchio clan to provide a member of their own family as a hostage (who they called the negotiator) who would stay with the Corleones until Michael safely returned from the meeting with Solozzo. This would give the Corleones assurance that Michael wouldn't be harmed. If anything were to happen to Michael, the Corleones would kill the hostage. Then, the Buchuchio clan would have a vendetta against Solozzo to avenge their dead family member, since they would hold Solozzo responsible.

    If the Corleones killed the hostage even though Michael was unharmed, they would've gained the Buchuchio vendetta, so it would've been a dumb move for them to harm the hostage. So the only assumption to make would be they released the hostage safely back to the Buchuchios.

     

    https://godfather.fandom.com/wiki/Bocchicchio_clan

     

    Bottom line, it's how deals get done when the Rule of Law dies.  Because the dirty secret is that the Rule of Law isn't the power to force courts to make people do what they promised.  Having the Rule of Law and the courts there to enforce it is a REMINDER that we keep our word and follow through on our deals.

    The guy you signed a contract with to deliver your new Buick doesn't deliver the car because he's afraid of getting sued.  He delivers it because....that's just what you do when you make a deal to deliver a car.

    Imagine a world where what deters people from killing someone is NOT the underlying ethic of "murder is wrong," but rather strictly the threat of suffering a reprisal killing from his family if you kill him.  Well, you don't need to imagine much longer.  That's where we're going.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

     

    Oh.  Someone told him we have anti-trust laws.  How amusing.  It's okay - he managed to make it a xenophobic exercise.  This regime turning everything into hating foreigners is like gratuitous sax solos in 80s songs - no matter what, it finds a way in there.

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Covri said:

    62.  At least one source says he's a retired cop.  Fucking perfection.  He'll walk.  Because see, his "years of training and experience" informed him that this was a threat, and he had no choice but to use lethal force to defend himself and his castle.

  9. 13 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    Possibly coming soon to a warehouse originally built for amazon near you - concentration camps for ICE captives. The deal is past the "early" stage but not yet finalized. 

     

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/mega-detention-centers-ice-considers-buying-large-warehouses-hold-immi-rcna242423

    Remember how all the now-MAGAs got all fired up about Jade Helm and how "they" were gonna turn abandoned Wal-Marts into jails?  Every accusation is a confession, exhibit fucking infinity.

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  10. 50 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Given that there are members of his party in Congress who oppose this, and other extenuating factors (like the elections this week), I wonder how long this will last.  For whatever reason, this is making a lot of people uncomfortable who would normally cheer this on.

    It won't take many dead American troops to ratchet up the tension. He likes to blame other people for stuff, but this is 100% all him, and he's been claiming it. He's not doing a good job of selling it either - the attempts to bring the Monroe Doctrine into play were weak (and I doubt most Americans even know what that is anymore), and people are chuckling over the idea of Venezuela being the baddy when the cartels in Mexico do far more damage.

     

    Elon Musk has killed 600,000 people so far this year, and he and Trump can't seem to stop sucking each other's dicks.  So, Trump can spare me the "this is to save lives" bullshit.

  11. 2 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Agreed, I'm just saying can we be honest about "They are paying him ONE TRILLION dollars!" in that it seems like that there are astronomically low odds he will ever get to the milestones required to unlock those 12 traunches. To wit and from NYT this AM:

    I don't give a fuck whether Tesla hits those target or not.

    Elon Musk is one of the most evil, murderous humans to ever walk the planet.  And he is walking on it right now, and a fuckload of people CELEBRATE HIM.  Imagine being a fan of someone who murdered hundreds of thousands of people for no good reason, and fucking JUMPED AROUND FOR JOY BRAGGING ABOUT IT.

    If you celebrate or support Elon in any way, shape, or form, you are an evil piece of shit.

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  12. 10 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    Exactly.

    There can be no deal that requires trust.  Period.  It just can't happen.  

    That's what happens when your counterpart is a fucking consistent liar who doesn't stick to what he promises.  In cases like this, "negotiations" require hostages to ensure compliance.  I'm dead serious.  Look into the differences between high trust and low trust societies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_societies

    Remember reading how deals between barons, kings and such during feudal times often included the opposing party having your son stay in his castle as a "guest?"  He was a hostage.  The understood situation was that if you backed out on your deal to stay on your side of the river or whatnot, I'd kill your son.

    That's where we are.  Oh, and low trust societies are really shitty, not prosperous, etc.  They're just mafia fiefdoms and shit, good only for a select few at the very top.  Sound familiar?

    Zero trust of Donald Trump.  LESS than zero.  Knowing that, act accordingly.  No deals unless he gives you a hostage.  In terms of legislation, that means that all bills need to be bundled together.  Any term I want has to be an element of the bill containing the terms YOU want.  Full stop.

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  13. 22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    The man literally laughed and performed with a chainsaw to celebrate....cutting off food aid, the loss of which has KILLED hundreds of thousands of children (even if this model is off by 50%....it's still hundreds of thousands):

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    And this is how he celebrated doing that:

    Musk_Chainsaw.jpg

     

    People....that's absurd, over-the-top comic book villain shit.

    Anyone who thinks that Elon should be celebrated -- fuck, anyone who thinks that his existence is in any way a positive for the world -- is either a fucking irredeemable moron, evil, or both.

     

    To be clear....a fucking evil fucking villain, with a net worth of FIVE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS, danced around on stage celebrating like a fucking child who just scored a stuffed animal from a claw machine, because he cut SIXTY BILLION (that is...an amount he could have ponied up and only lost 12% of his net worth) in aid to human beings who were literally going to die without it.

    Fucking hell.  Imagine dancing around on stage like a fucking clown celebrating "I just did something that is going to directly lead to hundreds of thousands of humans dying."

    He's among the most evil human beings to have ever walked the earth.  His existence is quite literally a plague on humanity (that's what you call something that kills hundreds of thousands of people).

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  14. The man literally laughed and performed with a chainsaw to celebrate....cutting off food aid, the loss of which has KILLED hundreds of thousands of children (even if this model is off by 50%....it's still hundreds of thousands):

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    And this is how he celebrated doing that:

    Musk_Chainsaw.jpg

     

    People....that's absurd, over-the-top comic book villain shit.

    Anyone who thinks that Elon should be celebrated -- fuck, anyone who thinks that his existence is in any way a positive for the world -- is either a fucking irredeemable moron, evil, or both.

     

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  15. 16 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    Literally in "Whitestown."  Looks like a suburb of Indiana, that is going from cornfields to cookie-cutter housing development.  

    The ABC story has a little more detail, including that it was shortly before 7 AM.  

    Yeah.  That's when you gotta really be ready for a home invasion -- the time when people start their day.  That's, like "home invasion planning 101."

    Also, this is perfection:

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    "We are working closely with the Boone County Prosecutor's Office to ensure every aspect of this case is handled with care and diligence," police said, noting that an update will be provided next week "due to the complexity of the investigation."

    "The complexity of the investigation."  That's cop-speak for "we gotta find a way to blame this on the brown person."

  16. 4 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    Notice how the article doesn't even mention who murdered her.  

    Have to protect him.  Note that this is in fucking Indiana, one of the most racist states in the union.  All presumptions must go in favor of the homeowner, who was surely just defending himself against someone who was likely a dirty illegal gang member rapist drug dealer boat captain terrorist.

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  17. 4 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Surely a crime needs to be in the act of being committed before you can "stand your ground"? You can't just have feelings and therefore kill somebody.

    You'd think that.  And there have been convictions of folks who shot someone just for turning onto their driveway or knocking at their door.  But these stupid fucking "stand your ground" laws have just emboldened WAY too many people, and set up a fucked up value system: everything and everyone is an immediate threat, and shoot shoot shoot shoot, that's the only rational response to every "threat."

    Set up a fucked up calculus, get fucked up results.

  18. 1 minute ago, Red Five said:

    I dunno. Sort of seems more like straight up murder to me.

    It should.  But "stand your ground" laws are pretty fucking aggressive the other way.  

    I mean, they should be re-titled "gutless fucking coward who wants to shoot first and think later" laws, but the fact remains the bar is just barely higher than "I decided I was scared, and that's enough -- I have a perfect defense."

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