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  1. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    You just described the impact of cold war media propaganda on your perception of Russia as a the bad guys, how that propaganda led you to draw erroneous conclusions regarding the murder of jews during WWII,  and then conclude that today if "the russia situation" does not scare the hell out of you, you don't love this country.

    My opinion, if we love this country, we should spend more time thinking about our social and cultural decline and how that has created a vicious feedback loop interfacing our domestic politics.  We should ask ourselves how we got to the point where we created the fundamental divisions without our own society, and how a foreign entity was able to amplify those divisions via social media psychological manipulation to create political discord and hysteria. Russia did not create the fault lines in our society, we did that.  That those fault lines are susceptible to social media meme attacks because we are a nation of uncritical morons who bathe themselves in a manufactured reality and social networks that are literally tearing apart the social fabric of our nation is what should scare the hell out of you.  The reality is that the real attack on our democracy is from within.  Until we address the core internal issues, none of it will matter. If it's not Russia, it will be something else pushing those buttons, foreign or domestic in origin. Sure, punish Russia and make them feel it, but until we address the real core issues, a fundamentally broken political system and culture, nothing will really change. 

     

    In retrospect, when it came to electing a black man to be president....

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    A lot of us believed what we wanted to -- that we'd progressed as a society, that we were beyond grunting masses responding to age-old dog whistles.

    We were WAY fucking wrong.  I truly had no idea how badly electing a black man as president was going to fucking break the brains of half the people in the country, but it did.  And they ain't going anywhere.  

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  2. 13 minutes ago, sachick said:

    Death now would be too good for him. Let him finish out this term so he can go home to NY where he will then be convicted of some sort of RICO/tax fraud/bank fraud crime and have to do the walk of shame and turn himself if for his prison sentence. Do you think they'll allow him to wear his toupee in the fancy prison?

    Okay, let me be a voice of dissent......my Trump-loathing bona fides are not in doubt, right?  I think he's not just the worst president ever, but perhaps one of the all time worst public figures in our national history.

    That said....I am not terribly enthused about criminal prosecution of an ex-president, or a presidential candidate who just lost election/re-election.  While it may be 100% legally justified, he may indeed be a complete criminal....it smacks SO loudly of political retribution, and that's even more banana republic than we are already (although give it time -- Trump will get Barr to charge Hillary with something, thus breaking the seal on that concern of mine as well).

    I think the "lock her up" chants are dangerous to a functioning democracy.  I feel the same way about "lock him up."

    So, I'm torn.  He's a bad man, who's surely done some bad shit.  But I don't like political retribution using the power of the state justice apparatus.  "He jailed his former opponent" is shit you read about tinpot dictatorships, not the USA.  But then, "the President had engaged in numerous criminal conspiracies, frauds, etc. over the past 20 years" is ALSO not something you read here.  We're in dangerous uncharted waters.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Foosters said:

    Just imagine being an educated, rational person and still supporting this guy.  Some of you don't have to imagine, I guess.

    There's a fundamental incompatibility.  Support of Trump is proof of irrationality.  It is an entirely emotional thing...wait, check that.  There's a segment that is coldly and amorally "rational" -- "I'll support anyone who will line my pockets/enrich me, and I don't care what else he does."  If Trump hands out favors your way, you'll support him, no matter what other evil shit he brings about.  So, those are your options.  Irrational or amoral.

  4. City says private border wall didn't have a building permit and orders construction to 'cease and desist'
    (CNN)City officials in Sunland Park, New Mexico, have delivered a "cease and desist" order to the owners of land where a private border wall is being built.
    The project doesn't have proper permits to proceed because an application filed was incomplete, Sunland Park spokesman Peter Ibarbo told CNN.
    "The rules apply to everyone," Ibarbo said. "That's the process."
    The incomplete application isn't the only issue, Sunland Park Mayor Javier Perea told reporters Tuesday
    "My understanding is that city ordinance only allows a wall up to six feet tall, and this far exceeds that," he said.
    The city's chief inspector is scheduled to visit the site Wednesday to help determine the next steps, Ibarbo said.
    Brian Kolfage, whose GoFundMe campaign raised more than $20 million to build the wall on private property, disputed the city's assessment, describing the "cease and desist" order as political intimidation.
    Sunland Park City Manager Julia Brown told CNN the city's "cease and desist" order has nothing to do with politics.
    "There is no political motivation on the part of the city, simply our interest in having our code and ordinances complied with," she said.
    "This applicant is not being treated any differently from any other applicant in that all applicants are expected to comply with the law. We don't selectively enforce the law, do not show favoritism or ignore our own laws."
     

    Jesus. These guys take moronity places it didn’t even know it could go.
  5. 1 minute ago, BurntEyes said:

    When every piece of evidence points to bullshit... It is.

    I'm gonna say it again because apparently there are a lot of bitches that don't listen in this thread.

    Walk

    Down

    Hill

     

     

    The problem is, as a society, we've reached a point where we are both utterly amoral and complete morons.  So, the distinction between breathtakingly stupid and malicious is impossible to discern.

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  6. The GOP plan for Hispanic voters has two elements:

    1) Scream about abortion as loudly and as often as you can, because Hispanics are largely Catholic, and that will ring the bell for them.  This can mean that the GOP doesn't lose the vote among Hispanics who DO show up by too large a margin.

    2) Do everything you can to suppress the Hispanic vote altogether, because if that demographic is anything less than 51% in your favor, lock them out of the polls.  Allow vote by touchscreen on any tee-vee tuned into Fox News, of course.  But make sure that the only polling places open are in white suburbs, surrounded by menacing looking cops and ICE agents.  And of course, purge the voter rolls of anyone with a name suspected of being an illegal alien -- really, shouldn't the burden of proof be on everyone named Martinez to show up at the polls and prove, again, that they are eligible voters?  Maybe by doing a simple test comprised of an American Ninja Warrior obstacle course and a college level English class requiring a 5 page essay on the surprising anti-feminist subtext in The Scarlet Letter. 

  7. 3 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    That's not how power works. The Republicans hold power in Texas right now and aren't going to cede it.  They'll just ramp up voter suppression to another level and purge all but one Rodriguez, Dominguez, etc. and claim everyone else with those names are illegals. Demographics would be destiny if the Republicans played by any semblance of rules. They don't. This is Calvinball with life or death stakes for anyone who isn't a white, Christian male. We can't begin to solve that problem until we acknowledge it first.

    This.

    And also, even when they aren't suppressed, hispanics have shitty turnout.  Making up 30% of the state doesn't make a shit if only 20% of that (6% of the population) shows up to vote.  As many observers have noted, Texas isn't a red state, it's a non-voting state.

  8. Someone needs to read this remarkably prescient piece of sci-fi, because it is so EERILY on point....well, actually, it's nutso, but I enjoyed the hell outta reading it back in the late 80s or so.

     

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    Gwillam Forte is a fourteen year old runaway in 1943. Arrested while working in a bordello a police sergeant cons the boy into joining the navy so as to avoid problems his arrest could cause. So the young Forte lies about his age and is eventually assigned to the U.S.S. Texas. At the battle of Okinawa a kamikaze attack leaves the boy a triple amputee with both legs and his right hand gone. Recovering in a hospital he finds help from an old black veteran of WWI and the old woman who runs the library. He goes on to become a billionaire making his fortune in real estate and oil.

    So in 1994 his friend the governor of Texas want him to help for a future run for the senate. He gets him to agree to refurbish the old battleship Texas in time for the millennium celebration in 2000. Well things get worst in the world. By 1998 The Soviets are winning the cold war and have control over most of Europe, South American, Africa and Asia. They propose a new treaty called the Washington Protocols. In it they would take over providing manufactured goods to the third world while the U.S. would provide agriculture. On the surface it seems peaceful but the Soviets have a secret plan. They hope as the country turns to an agricultural economy the industry will deteriorate to a point where no weapons could be manufactured. Then with the Soviet industry intact they could easily invade. The plan calls for fleets to visit the country and the Soviet Seventeenth Fleet is making its rounds. In San Diego the sailors get out of hand and cause a mess. Texas wants the President to rescind the invitation but to do so would get him impeached by a peace at any price public. So Texas votes to succeed if the fleet enters its waters. The Soviets attack the Texans using nerve gas and kill 500,000. It seems they are unstoppable. Only the refurbished Texas stands in the way.

    It is unapologetically pro Texas. Now this book is a bit dated with the Soviets and their taking over most of the world. It is also real over the top with the explosions of the underground caverns causing tsumanis that take out most of the fleet. The second one has the old battleship riding in on top like a surfer and proceeds to take out the surviving capital ships. Still it is also fun and enjoyable. You really root for the Texans after they are so brutally attacked and get a great feeling when the Soviet fleet is so utterly destroyed. Also the story of Gwillam Forte is a very moving one. His life is inspiring and you get a very personal investment in him succeeding. The first of a trilogy of books.

    Fuck yeah!  WOLVERINES!

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  9. 1 minute ago, Deej said:

    I call bullshit at a yoga instructor  leaving her phone in her car. Like she wouldn't want to be taking selfies out on the trail to post on Instagram.

    You laugh, but that's actually the first bullshit flag I saw.  A self-absorbed yoga instructor isn't going to be without selfies to capture herself in #spiritualbliss #natureisthecure

    1 minute ago, BurntEyes said:

    You've not read the whole thread.

    She wasn't dehydrated, at ALL. In fact, her electrolytes were absolutely normal.

    There could be no hypothermia, at all.

    She was 2.5 miles from town 

    15 miles from an airport.

    And all she had to do was...

    Walk.. wait for it 

    Down hill.

    That's it, that's all. Walk down hill.

    And these are many of the other bullshit flags.

  10. 35 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

    Yep saw that earlier today. That was fucking scary, the dude handled it like a boss though. 

    The most dangerous gang in this country isn't the gang that will shoot your ass.

    It's the gang that will shoot your ass and know that they'll get away with it.

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  11. 6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I'm always excited when this thread gets bumped.  Chances of a mass exodus of Q people if the dotard loses in 2020?

    Chances are the same as Mr. Blutarsky's GPA.

    Irrational people do not suddenly see the rational light.  They double down.  If Trump loses (and he won't, but if he does), they'll craft a narrative about how he did so in order to be able to fight for the Q cause without all the scrutiny and swamp interference that comes with being POTUS.  Or some similarly batshit theory.

  12. I mean, I know the expectation is that I don't shoot and kill people who cut me off in traffic.  But traffic is stressful, and I just want to make it home safe to my family.  So sometimes, I come up short on that expectation, and people want to criminalize my failure to refrain from gunning down that guy in the Jeep who cut me off, but I'm sorry, failing, in and of itself, is not a crime.

    Ladies and gentlemen, that is why you must find Brisketexan "not guilty" of all charges.

     

    The difference is, for cops, with our moutbreather population, that defense will work.

  13. Sat down and watched the beginning of Saving Private Ryan last night, had the boy and wife join me.  Every time, she gets pissed off -- "what a fucking waste."  Every time, I explain to her "yeah, but we had no real choice -- when taking a beach, you just gotta have more bodies than they have bullets."  Still...she's not wrong.

    I for one am pleased that modern war movies have focused more on the brutal reality of war, as opposed to heroism and glory.  Good reminders that war is nasty fucking business to be avoided at all reasonable costs.   Not cheerleaded and flag-waved on to battle.  We owe our fellow citizens better than to send them into a meatgrinder unless absolutely necessary, and we owe the rest of the world restraint so that they don't do the same, unnecessarily.

    I just think it's interesting how war movies have evolved over time.  I wasn't sure how I felt about that as it was happening.  But I think it's important.  That doesn't mean that I don't appreciate stories of brotherhood and heroism like BOB....hell, it makes me appreciate them more.

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