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  1. 2 hours ago, bigcigar said:

    Microwaved quesadilla with Kraft single

    Fucking this.

    Which pisses me off, in retrospect.  It's not like they didn't know how to make a real quesadilla, but I got a store-bought flour tortilla folded over a slice of cheese and nuked.  Of course, when we got our first microwave when I was about 10, mom thought it was a miracle machine and everything should be cooked in it.

    To really dress up the quesadilla, I'd sprinkle some Bacos in there.  Not bacon, but Bacos -- those soy-powder or whatever they are "fake bacon" pieces that we always seemed to have on hand because they were shelf-stable (no need for the fridge space).  Nuked gummy tortilla, sliced cheese, and bacos.  And I actually thought I was livin' right.

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  2. 1 hour ago, futureman said:

    brisket is fragile and unhinged.  better to just enjoy the show.

    It’s okay.  I feel horrible when I read about stuff like his happening, and I wonder what kind of utterly worthless human garbage would do such things.

    Then you show up, and I don’t have to wonder anymore.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Chooky said:

    ^^^

    So many of these fucking weirdos behave like teenage girls.  Every motivation is based on emotion and they need to be constantly validated within their hyper feminine social hierarchy.  Most of them are total pussies.  It's uncomfortable to watch.    

    This.

    More than anything else....do people not realize how absolutely fucking pathetic this gang is?  A toddler narcissist surrounded by simpering sycophants with no self esteem.  If "pathetic" wasn't already a word, we'd have to invent it for these losers.

  4. 4 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

    As does the impact on me.  Lying about the size of crowds or how many illegals are in the country or crime is rising or best potus ever do not really affect me.  Lying about a healthcare plan that promised not to add even $1 to the deficit that caused my personal family health insurance to more than double and my dedictible to triple affects me more.  Both are bad.

    You skate right past the impact, as I knew you would.

    NORMALIZING lying is the danger here.  He lies about -- literally -- EVERYTHING.  He creates a world in which lies are truth and truth is lies and there is no difference.  That is a most dangerous world.  Nevermind the gravity of the lies he's already told -- his big, beautiful tax plan that will make things nifty?  It's going to EXPLODE the deficit.  Nobody knows more about healthcare than him, and he's going to fix it, easy peasy?  We're fucked when it comes to healthcare.  He flat-out lied about fixing a goddamned thing.

    He lies little.  He lies big.  He lies everywhere in between.

    But Avenatti's lie (and it is a lie) bothers you MORE.

    That's the fucking Trumpkin troll world you live in.  Fucking amazing.

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  5. 49 minutes ago, staboner said:

    I don't know man. seems like talking down is a disease on the internet.  there are white Christians who helped end slavery, as i know you know. 

    anyway, thread derail apology

    I think it's a fair thread derail, and I think your point is fair.

    It's frustrating to see casual denial or purposeful ignorance of what are still open and raw wounds, telling folks actual words or words that amount to "Get over it," all while failing to EVER own the role of our institutions and predecessors in some truly heinous shit.

    Yet it's equally frustrating for all to be painted with one brush -- there were many courageous men and women of deep faith and principles who fought so hard against injustice and evil, and they don't much need further repentance or acknowledgement.  Just continue to do their Good Works.

    I certainly confess that my reaction to these events is emotional -- I have an overdeveloped sense of justice and fairness.  I have a fantastic book on the movement that we picked up browsing shops in New Orleans on a long-ago rainy weekend:

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    Every time I've sat down with this book, my eyes end up clouded with tears of anger and rage.  Probably not healthy for me.  But it's pure and visceral.

    And I posted way back about our visit to the Manzanar internment camp (Japanese internment camp on the eastern side of the Sierras).  Same thing happened to me there.  Tears, shame, incredible anger.

    I admit that I don't understand how you can be human and NOT feel that way when you see or read about these events.  And how you CAN'T see how brutalizing and crushing they were, for decades, centuries even.

    Slavery and Jim Crow are among our nation's deepest shames.  And we have NEVER truly reckoned with them.  Which is fascinating, because we had a damned bloody war about the first thing, but we never actually reckoned with it.

    It all makes me sad, and angry.  Still.  I don't know if I'll ever pass through Bama again.  If so, I might oughta visit this memorial.  But knowing how I'd feel walking away from it, maybe I shouldn't.  That's some rough shit.

  6. 5 minutes ago, staboner said:

     

    not a constructive comment at all

    I think it is.

    We've never come to terms with the horrors and cruelty we  -- white folks, churchgoing folks, local leadership -- inflicted on black people.

    We passed the Civil Rights Act (and now we get to hear people tell us how that was a bad idea).  And we have told black people, since the day it was voted on, to "get over it."

    If that was me sitting at that lunch counter with food poured on my head...or if that was my father or grandfather there...or my great grandfather, swinging from a tree while the entire town points and smiles...I don't think I'd be "over it."

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  7. 5 minutes ago, LongestHorn said:

    Christian Whites would proudly pose for photographs in front of the people they murdered.  For doing their part.  In murder.  

    From Center, Texas:

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    Georgia:

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    Waco:

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    ....and we could go on.  How about these jubilant fellows?  Some of those guys are surely still alive.  Old, but alive.  Leaders in their community, even.

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  8. Just now, Pods said:

    Jupiter is chief of the Gods, also known as Zeus who lives atop Mount Olympus where only birds fly. Odin is the Norse chief of the Gods and he has a raven. 

    Admiral McRaven oversaw the operation that killed bin Laden and then was the Chancellor for the UT system. 

    My God, how deep does this go?

    Turtles, man...all the way down...

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  9. 5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The U.S. government's release of a trove of previously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has brought renewed attention to contacts between his shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Soviet intelligence officers in Mexico two months before the killing.

    One of those officers, Valery Kostikov, was identified by the CIA a day after Kennedy's assassination as a KGB officer in an operation allegedly being run by the Soviet spy agency's 13th Department "responsible for sabotage and assassination."

    Oswald's contacts with Kostikov were previously known and have long stoked speculation that the KGB may have had a hand in the assassination. But their interactions at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City nonetheless grabbed headlines in both Russian and Western media following the October 26 release of nearly 3,000 records on Kennedy's killing.

    But the links between Kostikov, who was serving as vice consul at the embassy as Oswald tried in vain to get a Soviet visa there in September 1963, and the KGB's "assassination" department appear to be far from definitively established, according to previously classified documents now available to the public.

    As the U.S. website MuckRock noted this week, in a now declassified memo to the CIA's director in September 1964, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover said his agency's files "do not contain any information to fully support" the CIA's assessment that Kostikov worked for the KGB's 13th Department.

    Hoover's memo also cited a letter the FBI received from the CIA's counterintelligence chief five months before Kennedy's killing stating that the CIA "could locate no information in your files to indicate Kostikov was a representative" of the KGB's assassinations department.

    Hoover suggested that the CIA amend its record to excise "the affirmative expression of belief in Kostikov's employment" in that department. He advised changing the reference to Kostikov to say that he "may be associated" with that department but that "no specific information is at hand to definitely support that possibility."

    The CIA said in early 1964 that Oswald's contact with Kostikov and other KGB officers stationed under diplomatic cover in Mexico City "was nothing more than a grim coincidence."

    Who Was Valery Vladimirovich Kostikov?

    There is scant Russian-language information about Kostikov online, but now-declassified CIA documents include a brief biography.

    They say he was born in Moscow in 1933 and studied either at a foreign-languages or a foreign-affairs institute in the Soviet capital. A fluent Spanish speaker, he served as an interpreter at international exhibitions in Spain and traveled to Mexico and Cuba in the years before he was assigned to the embassy in Mexico City, according to the CIA.

    Kostikov's appearance matched the description an "FBI-controlled double agent" gave of a Soviet intelligence officer he met in Mexico, the CIA memo says. That agent's Soviet handler in the United States was Oleg Brykin of the KGB's 13th Department, according to the CIA background memo.

    The declassified document -- dated November 23, 1963 -- states that according to an intercepted phone call in Mexico City, Oswald was at the Soviet Embassy on September 28, 1963.

    Oswald, who had returned to the United States with his Soviet wife after living 2 1/2 years in Minsk beginning in 1959, was by all accounts desperately seeking a Soviet visa to return.

    The CIA document states that Oswald called the Soviet Embassy on October 1, 1963, "identifying himself by name and speaking broken Russian, stating" that he'd spoken to Kostikov "and asking the guard who answered the phone whether there was 'anything new concerning the telegram to Washington.'"

    Kostikov himself was quoted about his interactions with Oswald in a book by a fellow KGB officer, Oleg Nechiporenko, about the Kennedy assassination.

    In an updated Russian-language version of that book, Nechiporenko quoted Kostikov as saying that he and his colleagues were preparing for a volleyball game when Oswald showed up at the embassy on September 28, 1963.

    He said he arrived at the compound to find Oswald sitting there with his colleague, Pavel Yatskov, to whom Kostikov explained that the American had been there the previous day.

    Kostikov said Oswald "was very riled up and broke into hysterics at the mention of the FBI, crying and saying as he wept: ‘I'm afraid they'll kill me. Let me in.'"

    He said Oswald pulled out a handgun, saying that he carried it for protection, and put it on the table in front of them, Nechiporenko quoted Kostikov as saying. Yatskov took the bullets out of the gun and put it in a drawer, he said.

    They gave Oswald a glass of water, Kostikov said, after which he looked at his watch. "It was already 11 a.m., and we were late for the volleyball game," he was quoted as saying.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/28819941.html

     

    There are just too many coincidences.

    You and smokey1861 need to get a room and hatefuck each other to oblivion.

  10. 4 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    Disappointing that he turns out to be a horrible man. He's sick enough to have convinced himself that he wasn't doing anything wrong.

    Slammer.

    Yep.  It's not bad enough that he was a celebrity.  He was a BELOVED celebrity, someone who connected with folks on a familial level.  The Cosby show was about a family -- they happened to be black, which was damned important, but that showed us a successful black family we all admired and laughed with.  Some of his best stand-up was family-related.

    And he turns out to be not just a perv, but a serial predatory rapist.

    Quite the, uhh, disappointing contrast.

  11. 7 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Robert Mueller has a long and sordid history of illicitly targeting innocent people that is a stain upon the legacy of American jurisprudence. He lacks the judgment and credibility to lead the prosecution of anyone.

    Remember how it's been observed...over and over again...that every GOP accusation is actually a confession? 

    Yeah.  Sub in "Trump" for Mueller, change the reference to the executive branch, and it's pretty much spot-on.

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  12. 6 minutes ago, Upgrayedd said:

    It’s good for the lulz

    True enough.

    I just wish we were getting lulz at someone else's expense.

    Remember how we used to laugh our asses off at what a clown Rob Ford was?  That was because he was all the way up there in Toronto.

    Now we've got someone who (1) is down here, governing the whole United States, and (2) who we WISH had the wisdom, dignity, and stewardship of Rob Ford.

  13. Breaking news: Paul Ryan's a dick.

    https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/04/26/report-house-chaplain-jesuit-priest-was-forced-out-speaker-paul-ryan

     

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    A Jesuit priest who served as chaplain to the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011 was forced to resign by Republican Speaker Paul Ryan earlier this month, The Hill newspaper reported Thursday.

    According to the report, Patrick Conroy, S.J., submitted his resignation earlier this month, and it included a reference that it was written at the request of Speaker Ryan, who is Catholic.

    “As you have requested, I hereby offer my resignation as the 60th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives,” the letter reads, according to The Hill.

    Members of Congress from both parties expressed shock at the forced resignation, The Hill reports, with one congressional aide telling reporters that the speaker was dismayed by a prayer Father Conroy gave on the House floor that some may have interpreted as being critical of the G.O.P.-backed tax bill that passed last year.

     

  14. 2 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    No, we're not.  In terms of actual, day to day, implications for our lives, not much has changed for the vast majority of us.  Certainly Trump is profoundly stupid and has revealed (or demonstrated) a definite weakness in our national personality.  That weakness could have dire consequences moving forward, but the "right now" is not much different than the two years ago.  Hopefully we learn and grow. 

    Fair enough.  We've swallowed the poison.  Now, we wait and see how much of it we actually swallowed....

  15. 1 hour ago, sheeeit said:

    Do we think Brisket will now post that Avenatti is a “lying liar”.   

    I dunno.  I might.  What I've seen of the "three clients" discussion is on this thread.

    I'm not sure what was STATED in open court.  But the letter disclosed Broidy, so if what Avenatti said was that Cohen did not reveal that Broidy was his client, then Avenatti was either quite mistaken or lying.  And if he's lying, that will hurt his credibility and was a dumb and pointless thing to do.

    16 minutes ago, Chooky said:

    If it's revealed he lied I'm as positive about anything that Brisket Goth wouldn't hesitate even a second to call him a pants on fire doo doo head.

    But what's fascinating here is your sudden intolerance for someone who might've lied once.  We're not even sure he's lying at all yet.  But you're challenging another poster to call out what might not even be a lie. 

    Because you hate people who don't tell the truth, especially this nuisance of a lawyer representing a porn star.  You've honed in on this particular lie with laser focus.  Somehow, though, you're seemingly unconcerned about the other lie that came within minutes of that lie, where Trump admitted that Michael Cohen represents him "a little bit" on the "Crazy Stormy Daniels thing" after he already said that he knew nothing about Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen.  But let's not get distracted by that.  Let's get to the bottom of that other lie.  Because lying is unconscionable to you.   

    And most definitely this.  How about this, Sheeit, since you like asking questions so much:

    Is lying generally good, or generally bad?

    If it's generally bad, does the volume/quantity of lies matter?  That is, if someone has lied just once or twice about middling things, is that better or worse than someone who lies thousands of times about things from the trivial to the profound, and everything in between?  

    Are the lies lesser or greater depending on the person telling them?  That is, is it of greater impact if a waitress tells a single patron a lie versus the head of the restaurant chain telling all of its customers a lie?

    I'm just asking questions.  I'm very concerned.

    Is that how this is done?  I haven't really done the "concern troll" thing before.

    But I really do think you owe us some answers.  I've told you where I stand. It's your turn.

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  16. 7 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    It's possible he is the vaccination shot that will immunize the country against something worse.  A vaccine is a little chunk of the disease, that is mostly ineffective and dying, but it allows the system to build defenses against it. Once a more effective version of the disease comes along, the system is able to adequately defend against it.   

    It is.  Of course, sometimes the chemo kills you.

    Right now, we're bald, unable to keep down food, and shitting blood.  We'll see how that works out for us in the long run.

  17. 10 minutes ago, Heavy 6 said:

    I like how the thread shifted from discussions over an overpriced lifestyle brand to an NRA bash / purse fight.

    Well, it's kinda like the Battle of the Network Douchenozzles.

    As rojo noted above, if you market to a bunch of ignorant bros, don't be surprised when they go all ignorant bro.

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