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  1. 10 minutes ago, Dertyberd said:

    And it's the monster that gives him the best opportunity to win re-election.  GOP have been searching for a boogieman/woman and nothing has stuck.  He has it now, four of them, the race election has begun, and the GOP dominates those fights.  Until I see otherwise, I'll bet you ten Willie Horton's that America will go the way of hate.  

    This.

    Every hopeful post/strategy here is based on a huge flaw: the assumption that we are not a hateful, evil nation.  That assumption is incorrect.

  2. But @randpaul said they were going to shrink govt and end wars and not spend hundreds of millions of $$$ on golf outings at Trump properties?

    Ohmygosh...you’re right...he DID say that! Does this mean...that maybe...possibly....he’s full of shit?

    What a worthless bag of cunt crust he is.
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  3. 16 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    It doesn’t matter to republicans, who make up about 30 percent of the country. It matters to everyone else. 

    Stop being a Nancy. Trump isn’t going to win. No matter what his shithole base thinks or says. 

    Again, it's not about approval/disapproval  It's about turnout.  His strategy is to suppress enthusiasm for his opponent, and to keep his voters riled up and itching to vote.  He has State TV and a hostile foreign government already assisting him.  His chances of getting more votes where it counts on election day are very, very good.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    He, and those around him, can’t think that far ahead.  He’s spooked, possibly by the Epstein stuff, so he’s lashing out.  He caught flak, and he does not admit he’s wrong - remember, he claims to be a Christian, but doesn’t believe in asking for forgiveness.   He doubles down.    

    Like the Epstein stuff even matters.  There could be footage from three angles of Trump ass-raping an infant to death, and his base would -- simultaneously - condemn the videos as "fake news" and shout  "that baby was a member of ISIS and had it coming -- only a hero like Trump is brave enough to give terrorists the ass-raping they deserve!"

    Nothing.  Matters.  Don't now what it's going to take for some of y'all to figure that out.

  5. Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Yeah, but they tried all this shit for the midterms and it didn’t really work so well.  The Republican campaign strategy is basically, “Yes, we really think you are THAT stupid.”  Trump has said it himself, “you can only keep the con going for so long before people catch on.”

    Counterpoint -- however stupid you think the American people are, you're wrong.  They're stupider than that.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, retread said:

    The RushFox propaganda campaign of the last 3 decades did spend a lot of time on the Clintons, but the devil was the Libruls.

    Every one of these little grenades lets DOTUS test the waters. Declare national emergency over nothing? ✓  Obstruct justice with no consequences? ✓  Lock her up chants? ✓   Immigrants are violent criminals who will destroy our way of life? ✓  Potential for war with Iran?  ✓  Use inflammatory rhetoric to call sitting Congress member America haters and Alcaida supporters?  ✓   Send the AG out repeatedly to lie for you? ✓   Utterly and completely defy Congress' efforts at oversight?  ✓   

    And the only question left is "will there be any consequences for these steps?"  When he is re-elected, the answer will be "no, there are no consequences.  Do whatever you want."  And that, folks, is how 244 years as a semi-functioning Republic ends, effectively overnight.

  7. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The difference is the MAGA anger has to be focused towards the democrat candidate.  Trump is going to have a challenge manufacturing Hillary level hatred against any of the Democratic candidates and he knows it.  

    That’s why he’s been trying to get a jump on Biden so early.  It took a 10+ year all out assault campaign against Hillary for her to be defeated in 2016 and she wasn’t a great candidate.  

    But I agree, we’re in an arms race of anger and hate for 2020. 

    "[Candidate] is an America-hating socialist! [he/she] wants to take away all your guns and all your rights.  [he/she] wants to ban Christianity, and burn all Bibles!  [He/she] supports terrorists, wants to kill Americans, and wants MS-13 to come into your house and rape and murder you!"  Etc.

    Note that it doesn't matter who the candidate is, or what they actually believe/do.  Facts. Don't.  Matter.  The Trumpkin base will be motivated to vote against the evil Satan the Dems nominate, whoever that evil Satan may be.  It's like you've never even SEEN Fox News.

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  8. 31 minutes ago, Marfa Low Crown said:

    Was about to start my own thread but found this one for the necro bump. 

    I've been back in Texas almost 5 years, mostly hanging around San Antonio, and I am still trying to find the barbacoa of my youth.  Somewhere in San Antonio around 1980 or 81'
    there was a run down gas station converted into a barbacoa stand. Only open on Sunday, a line around the corner, and piles of gelatinous hand-pulled meat on butcher paper that as far as I was
    concerned had come straight from heaven. I've hit some of the 'top' barbacoa places in San Antonio and it seems everyone is just using cheek meat now.  In fact, I notice little to no difference between any of the places I've been to. At Martinez Bros. on Fredericksburg road they told me that whole head is just too expensive and that's why no one uses it. -Anybody- know a place in or around SA that still does? 

    You.  Buy a head at Fiesta (you can special order them, usually).  Do it in your own oven.  If you can't, seal it up and do it in a large smoker/bbq pit, or dig your own pit and do it with foil and hot coals.

    It's worth it.

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  9. 1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    You have to look at his disapproval numbers closely to understand how bad it looks for him. 

    Not just “disapprove” as often framed by the media, but “STRONGLY DISAPPROVE”.

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    In every poll I’ve seen, the ”strongly disapprove” category is #1 with a consistent range of 41-47%.

    I have never seen a president so hated by such a large segment of the population.  These folks are ready to come off the sidelines just to vote AGAINST TRUMP.   I speculate this has something to do with why Pelosi is sleep walking on impeachment.  

    The only flaw in that plan is that it discounts that anger and hate on the MAGA side are STRONGER motivators.  EVERY MAGidiot will show up and vote.

    I don't give a flying fuck how you FEEL.  All that matters is how -- and if -- you vote.  And on that basis, the MAGidiots will win, again.  Because the anger and hate of stupid people is the strongest force in the universe.

  10. 4 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    My Nazi comparison complaint: it implies that Nazism is the line.  So long as we aren’t gassing people or taking their businesses or whatever, we aren’t the bad guys.  How about equality or something like that being the line?

    It's not that "Nazism" (that is, the evils done thereunder) is the line -- it's that it's the inevitable DESTINATION based on the PATH that we are on.

    Analogy: we are living off of a diet of bacon, fried chicken and ice cream, at a rate of 15,000 calories the day.  We aren't dead yet -- no heart attack, stroke, suffocation under our own fat, etc.....yet.  So far, we're just rapidly gaining weight, and our ankles are hurting when we walk.

    Some of us are saying STOP -- we're fucking killing ourselves with the bacon/popeye's/ice cream diet!  We have to alter course NOW, before we do irreversible damage (nevermind that I think we've already done some irreversible damage).  But the response is "quit with your alarmism.  We've been eating like this for 2 years now, and we're not dead of a heart attack."

    That's fucking insanity.  There's only one end to the bacon/popeye's/ice cream diet (oh, and by the way, every week or so, we add something else to the mix -- Ding Dongs, chicken nuggets, quadruple cheeseburgers, etc.).  We should stop.  We should stop right now.

  11. 4 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    By September they will be accusing Omar being a member of an ISIS sleeper cell.

    September?  Dude, keep up....

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    He blasted Omar for “being from Somalia,” contending she “hates Jews” and “loves al Qaeda.” 

    He's a white nationalist piece of shit.  He's nothing more than that.  And nothing less.

  12. 9 minutes ago, TornACL said:

    So does excessive empty-headed reverence of symbols without any contemplation of the values those symbols represent. 

    Yep.  I love this one: "HOW DARE YOU DISRUSPEK THUH FLAG!  THOUSANDS OF BRAVE SOLDIERS FOUGHT AND DIED FOR THAT FLAG!"

    Really?  Huh.  Interesting.  Let's, umm, go to the text....

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    I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

    Man.  I don't see "THE FLAG!!!!" anywhere in there.  I DO see the Constitution.  You know, the document that grants to the President only certain enumerated powers.  The document that contains the 14th amendment.  And the 1st Amendment.  So, the folks buried at Arlington and such -- they died for THAT.  Not for a piece of cloth.  Would be FASCINATING if these rubes defended those ideals with the same fervor that they "defend" this:

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  13. 3 minutes ago, lemonlime said:

    I remember when the "shithole countries" comment was a scandal.  Or when he said Mika's face was bleeding.  It just keeps incrementally escalating.  And the same people pretend to be vaguely troubled, while secretly cheering trump on, and the same people are horrified, but a little less so than the time before.

    Gosh....I mean....WHERE, oh WHERE have we seen that script before?  Hmmmm.....

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  14. 2 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

    It's like they are running in districts where these sorts of tweets might not go over well. 

    No way! THEY ARE! 

    They can all get fucked.  Defeat them all.  Words are bullshit.  Actions matter.  These fucks won't lift a fucking finger in the interest of doing the right thing.  Fuck em all.

    1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

    haahahahahaha holy shit at the "he didn't name anyone, so...." defense. 

    holy shit, you people.

    Bullshit and lies is all they have.

    Problem: bullshit and lies work.  They always have.

    1 hour ago, horncyclist said:

    Murkowski takes a bold stand: "It needs to stop." Great, glad that's over.
     

     

     

     

    If they build a Shameless Coward Hall of Fame, Murkowski and Collins get their own wing.

    56 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    What does it mean when something is unacceptable, but you continue to accept it? 

    Gosh, real puzzler there.  Bottom line is this -- you could X-Ray every single GOP congresscritter, and you wouldn't find a single one of these:

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    38 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

     

    Well, the thing is, Barr can go fuck himself up the ass with a rusty tank barrel.  You don't get to condemn something that is YOUR ENTIRE FUCKING BRAND.

    13 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Other than the centuries of genocide, slavery, institutionalized racism, despot propping up, undermining of civil liberties both domestically and abroad, you got to admit we are pretty fucking great. 

    Sounds like a shithole country to me.  Especially because, to the extent that we've turned a corner on such things.....we're eagerly running back towards the status quo ante.

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  15. 1 hour ago, F250 said:

    I agree with your sentiment. Comparing Trump and his supporters to Nazis isn't useful, actually it is counterproductive. The comparison comes off as hyperbole and causes people to tune it out.

    The Trump administration has committed enough authoritarian acts that it warrants more than enough criticism without having to default to the Nazi label.

     

     

    Seems what I quoted before bears repeating.  The argument is not "we've gone over the cliff."  The argument is that we are on a sustained path TOWARDS the cliff, and the time to stop that path is sooner rather than later.

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    "You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

    "Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

    "And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

    "But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

    "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

    "And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

    -Milton Mayer (They Thought They Were Free, 1955)

     

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  16. 12 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, this won't actually create a case precedent.  Firstly, it's an acquittal, so it can't be appealed, so no appellate court opinion will issue.  Second, it's a jury verdict, so there's not even a trial court opinion to cite as precedent.  You can't argue one jury's verdict to another jury, even in the same state/jurisdiction.

    Even when a case can be appealed (guilty verdict or civil case), a jury's decision is almost never reversed and a opinion generated.  The written instructions to the jury can be, for misstatements of law.  Various procedural decisions by the judge can be reviewed. But the jury's application of the jury instructions to the facts they find, almost never, unless the jury really went against the evidence (which they might have here, but acquittal, so no).

    No one is ever going to successfully argue the case of Phillip "Mitch" Brailsford in defense of another cop.

    When the expert witness gets on the stand and talks about police training in general, police stresses, trained responses, etc.....damned right it will come up.  In fact, that's an issue with police testimony/evidence in general -- so much of it relies on and incorporates concepts of "training," and "the view of law enforcement."  You want to invoke evidence of "policing?"  Fine....let's do that.

  17. Yes. It's another example of the daily abuse of power that the American people and the majority of Congress swallow. Just about his every action is an affront to some aspect of American tradition or American institutions. The electorate tolerates and their representatives acquiesce. 
    Should the horror of physical harm come to one of these women, get ready to fight down vomit as a substantial percentage of the American electorate justify and cheer the incident.
    Trump's exit will not change the electorate nor the miscreants who encourage them for votes. We have no Lincoln. We are in trouble.

    There really is no bottom to the barrel. 

    Some folks are starting to acknowledge the obvious truth.

    If Trump is re-elected, you really can’t imagine how bad it will get.

    But even if he doesn’t win...the evil he has awakened isn’t going away.

    We are a rogue, evil nation. We deserve everything that will come to us...but the shitty thing is that many innocent non-Americans will suffer and die in the process.
  18. Which one of you scared old white guys has been hanging out on Anderson Lane this morning?

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    The boy and I drove by that idiot on the way to Whataburger....just shook our damned heads.

    We also were in line behind a MAGA family at LAX yesterday coming home. They were every stereotype. Dad wearing a new MAGA hat in a diverse city and airport, to be a dick. Flat face. Beer belly. Two boys who looked and sounded like Walker and Texas Ranger from Talladega Nights. Chubby, wearing flat billed Dodgers hats with sunglasses perched on top - two little racist douches in training. Mom wearing a red shirt, didn’t bother to read it.

    These assholes run our country. That’s where we are. Caricatures run our country.
  19. Smoking or non-smoking room, sir?  
    Non-Smoking please. 
    Any other requests, sir?
    Away from the elevator.  Non-shooting floor please.  
    Some lawyer explain to me the true meaning of case precedent.  I mean there's tomes on levels of acceptable police violence.  I get that, but at what point does somebody point to this dipshit's case for their own defense and say, "Well, in Mesa...a guy with his legs crossed behind him, his hands on the ground, pleading for his life with no visible weapons...he was considered to be a clear and immediate threat to the life of not one, but two police officers.  In our case, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the officer shot a man who was standing straight up and had a criminal background.  A much more blatant case of clear and immediate threat."  I mean can people point to other rulings where a much lower degree of threat was met with lethal and terminal force to justify their own actions in situations where a reasonable person could kinda look at the video and say, "Yeah, he was running towards you or looked like he had a knife."  ???

    Here’s my take: no citizen should EVER lose a self-defense case. “Look at this example: a trained police officer, the best of the best, one of America’s heroes, was found to be legitimately in fear for his safety when [a dude was laying on the ground, a guy was running away from him, a guy was having a stroke, etc]. In OUR case, the person was actually standing upright. Clearly an even greater threat, and terrifying to someone who doesn’t have years of police training and experience.”

    Seriously. There’s effectively nothing that doesn’t create a “legitimate fear for your life” among cops. Ergo, killing someone in self defense is always justified. Always.
  20. Forget the racism angle, I am most astonished by the idea that elected members of Congress shouldn't express their opinion about how to run the country. 
    This plays into the same loyalty angle. I am sure Trump thinks that Congress works for the President. Because he's an uneducated fool, and because he wants his regime to operate like an organized crime syndicate. 

    Well, he also thinks that congress works for the president....because GOP congressman have LITERALLY SAID “I work for the president.”
    Hate is now a conservative brand. Its fuel. They couldn't keep a lid on this buffoonery, instead nurtured it, and now it's a drunk teenager in a stolen car. They can't win without it now. Every primary will now be a contest to prove how much more cruel and angry you are in comparison to your opponent. 

    100% this. It’s the ONLY brand they have now.
  21. They are absolutely that stupid.  Without a doubt.
    They will repeat, with fervor, whatever the right wing radio and social media machine tell them to.  They do not question their Lords.

    This. Presume they are as stupid as stupid can get. You will be correct.
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