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  1. Not to pop your bubble but... Pretty sure that's always the case as US bound passengers go through US  immigration and US customs in Canada and fly as a domestic passenger, essentially. So no duty free allowance. 

    Yeah, I’m truly unsure. It’s been 5 years since I’ve flown out of Canada, but even though we clear customs there, I thought duty free was outside of that. But my memory could surely be wrong,
  2. 1 minute ago, DaysOff said:


    Lolz. What has happened to our Brisket? They. Won't. Care. He can still shoot someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue. It's over, man.

    Then cause as many casualties as you can on the way down.  The bonus is that "the only possible strategy that has a chance of winning an election" and "a strategy for destroying American society and the Republic" are pretty much the same thing.

    "The only winning move is not to play."  But....we're playing, and we have no fucking choice in the matter. 

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  3. 1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:

    You think the way to winning over hearts and minds of folks is to....checks notes....lie to them?

    No, I don't think that.  I know it.

    1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:

    We really are broken as a people.

    Gee, ya fucking think?  The only way to convince people to do anything politically is to feed the rage machine/amygdala, preferably with a torrent of inflammatory lies that don't even need to have the air of truth about them.

    Truth, reason, and logic, are poison, and nothing but loser-juice.  Pour them out and be done with them, they have ZERO place in American political action.

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  4. 51 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    So it was a Monday as usual in Southern Europe. 

    True fact.  Tomato Europe, generally not operating as smoothly as potato Europe.  Generally better grub, though.

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  5. 28 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I think this a bad idea for many reasons, but mainly because lies aren't necessary. 

    They are 100% necessary.  Reality is not inflammatory enough.  

    We are not communicating with people's logic and reason centers.  Those parts of the human brain were destroyed by a quirk of evolution over the last few decades.  We are communicating solely with the amygdala, and those things light up like a goddamned Christmas tree at lies -- the more outrageous, the better.

  6. 14 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I guess this means we have to stop bitching and retrogrouching about social medial and GET ON BOARD.

    Goddammit.

    This.  We need 100,000 TikToks about how Trump betrayed everyone by stealing $500 billion from the treasury to buy a private child sex island, and how Trump has personally stolen $5000 from each person's SS account.  Lie.  Lie a lot.  But make them direct, targeted, outrageous, infuriating lies.

    Learn from your fucking enemy.

  7. 59 minutes ago, immamac said:

    JD Vance Fucks Couches

    Donald Trump is an idiot. 

    I liked the message of betrayal earlier.  The idiots won't accept that they've fallen for a lie, but they will believe that "he's changed, he's not the man I voted for."  That's stupid and wrong -- he's the same lying POS he always was, but remember, you have to tell the idiots the sweet little lies that will get some of them to change course.

    "Trump betrayed you."

    "Trump said he'd fight for you, real Americans.  He betrayed you -- he's too busy handing out favors to foreign billionaires to care about you."

    "Trump betrayed you -- he's destroying your businesses, while he hands out billions in government contracts to his foreign billionaire buddies."

    "Trump betrayed you -- he's too busy shoving his billionaire buddies' dollars in his pockets to do anything to help real working Americans."

    "Trump betrayed you -- he said he was going to stand up for you, but when foreign billionaires offered him stacks of cash, he couldn't resist.  He tossed you aside like trash, and now he's lying to you, thinking that you're too dumb to see how he has betrayed you for money.  You're not dumb -- you see what he's done."

    Etc. etc.  TRUMP HAS BETRAYED US.  Repeat that 500 million motherfucking times.  Say it before you order your goddamned coffee.  Say it as part of your wedding vows.  Make it our new national fucking motto. 

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    “The children are gone”

     

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    Unless, of course, you beat up a cop in the name of Donald Trump, or defraud the fuck out of people and contribute a chunk of money to Trump, in which case you will be given a pardon and called a "patriot."

    No fucking Republican ever gets to use the phrase "law & order" ever fucking again.  The only phrase they can legitimately use is "laws for thee, but not for me."

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  9. 20 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Conflict drives attention. Attention drives reach. Reach drives votes. Call out the corruption, the hypocrisy, the fraud. Take big, countervailing stands. Make it visceral. Make it personal. Make it fun — the kind of thing people want to be a part of. We are just coming off a campaign cycle where failing to do this cost us: On our worst issue — inflation — Democrats from the White House on down never convincingly named a villain. Republicans and then voters happily made the villain us.

    Also....and this is very, very, very, very, very important: become comfortable, and right quick, with LYING.  Lie big, lie little, lie everywhere in between.  Lies are rocket fuel for outrage and thus energy and engagement. 

    "Donald Trump condemned puppies to die and laughed about it!"

    "Trump is ending your Social Security!"

    "Trump stole your retirement money and is building a secret island lair for pedophiles!"

    Whatever.  Workshop 10,000 such lies, then go with the ones that raise the temperature the most.  Fight fire with fire.  The ecosystem and rules have been established.  For the love of God, stop pretending that ANY of the old rules still apply.  The reason that the Dems keep getting hoisted on the standards of the old rules is because the Dems are the only fucking idiots who keep insisting that the old rules still exist and apply.  The Dems are old aristocrat-built armies in fancy uniforms with feathered helmets marching in a straight line into machine gun fire.  Fucking stop.  The old way is over.  Rules and norms are over.  All that matters is winning, because unless you do that, you can't save a single fucking thing that matters.

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  10. 11 minutes ago, royiv said:

    I can smell that picture.

    I had lived in Austin all of two weeks when I encountered a similar crowd at a free Joe Walsh concert in Zilker.  The sight of so many hairy female legs and the smell of so much weed and patchouli was a bit of a shock to my relatively sheltered Houstonian senses.  I realized I definitely "ain't in Kansas anymore."  Good to see that vibe still exists here, at least a little bit.  It's not MY vibe, but I'm glad it's around.

  11. Just now, Pancho said:

    That’s because the conservative was supposed to win but since turnip started with his 51st state shit, his numbers have nosedived to the point where he might lose tonight. This was supposed to be a cakewalk for the Canadian conservatives 

    Yep.  And all that the liberals have to do is paint Poilievre as a Canadian Trumpist (they say all the same shit)....which they did.  Effortlessly, really.

    I am not a man given to ANY hope these days.  But it is POSSIBLE that one silver lining of Trump functionally declaring war on the entire world (yes, MAGAs, that's what launching a trade war against literally every country (except Russia and such, of course), and characterizing those countries as our enemies (his actual word) does) is that in the rest of the world, Trump-style right-wing autocrat/fascist/racist candidates are much less attractive than they once were.  The Economist did a whole piece on this.  We'll see how it turns out, but if you are in a country that Trump has recently shit on and threatened your trade and/or sovereignty (so....every country), Trump is becoming a toxic brand.

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  12. 1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    This talk of shortages and small business closing, I’ve got to think that the cult of money will put an end to the cult of maga. The money cult has been around waaaaayy longer. Will it be too late by the time that happens? I don’t know but the suspense is killing me

    52 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    I’m talking more about everyday people. Small business, entrepreneurs, white collar workers. The vast majority of people. You start fucking with people’s money and shit can turn real fast. The oligarchs are gonna oligarch. But I think the only way regular Americans snap out of this is them becoming poorer in a rapid fashion. Add in the coming shortages and that is ripe for lots of unrest. Does that finally break the maga fever? And again, will it be too late

    Dude....the everyday people are EXACTLY the people who don't fucking matter, and will get it right in the ass, as intended.

    Eliminate all small and local businesses.  Force consolidation of all enterprises under a handful of multi-billion dollar enterprises.  Local florists?  Local restaurants?  Local anythings?  GTFO.  You'll be eating at TeslaCafes and acquiring all goods from Amazon soon, and you'll take it like a bitch.

    Because remember, turning us into EXACTLY a Russian oligarchy is how you "Make America Great Again."  They have told us and shown us exactly what they are doing, and exactly what they intend to accomplish.  We should believe them.

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