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  1. 4 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    Posted, not posted - here, have this. We truly are in the dumbest timeline.

     

     

    You know, of the many, many things that are characteristics of the hellscape in which we currently are stuck.....the prevalence of insanely awful women singing insanely awful songs does not get enough discussion.  Lara Trump's Tom Petty Covers, the J6 Choir, some Patriot Babes group or whatnot.....these are musical performances that could 100% be used as instruments of torture by Beelzebub himself.  And we get a relentless stream of them.

    Truly, the giant planet-killing meteor cannot get here soon enough.

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  2. 1 minute ago, Jive Turkey said:

    Jasmine Crockett got the memo. She knows the rules of the game have changed. She has MAGA in a tizzy over this. Good. She’s speaking a language MAGA understands  There’s video out there.

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    Yep.  Be mean.  BE FUCKING MEAN.  Mean gets attention.  Attention is the sole commodity of value in the modern political economy.  Seize it, and don't ever let it go.

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  3. 15 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    You know, I was reading that interview, and many of the things they were saying at the beginning I agree with. I think there's almost a pretentious claiming of empathy where it's actually very difficult to attain. I love the word, personally. I think it's a great word and I'm grateful it's come into our vocabulary. 

    He calls it The Sin of Empathy, and compares it to the sin of anger or fear. He then says there are times when anger or fear are not sinful, just as there are times when empathy is not sinful, but there are times when it is. 

    There's a section in there where the author talks about saving someone from drowning while remaining on the boat or remaining tethered to shore that I absolutely agree with. A phrase I constantly use is "don't keep such an open mind your brain falls out." I do think boundaries can be extremely healthy, and sometimes those boundaries run counter to any aspirations of empathy. That's not always a bad thing.

    Then it got into politics where it started defending the actions of the administration from a biblical point of view and then I couldn't read any more. Just more tribal tripe with a Christian cloak wrapped around them rather than an American flag or whatever other iconography they want to steal for their purposes of power. 

    If someone wants to defend the actions of this administration from a political or societal management point of view that's one thing. My big issue is the annihilation of democratic principles and the threat to future peaceful transitions of power, more so than any specific policy they're implementing. But to come back and try to defend the actions as Christian, or why Christians should be in favor of what is going on, is not biblically sound to me. But that's not the point. Their tribe is in power so the troops of all stripes are going to rally to the cause, and use the tools at their disposal to defend the people from their tribe in power. Anyway, I couldn't make it through the entire article. 

    Damn near my exact take....right down to the "I can't read any more of this utter shite used to excuse the worst behaviors."

  4. 4 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    The brazen lies in the last 24 hours from Hegseth, Gabbard, Waltz, Ratcliffe, etc. have opened a door of opportunity. They all believe they are untouchable. They are fucking daring somebody to do something about it. The battle has been presented, time to sack up and go to war. 

     

     

    This too.  Call them what they are.  "The Secretary of Defense responded to evidence of his treason and utter disregard for our brave warfighters with lies.  Our fighting men and women deserve better.  The ones who sacrificed their lives and rest in Arlington deserve better.  If the SECDEF doesn't resign immediately, he'll end up sending more brave Americans to be buried at Arlington, killed by his mistakes and disregard for the truth."

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

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    Now moar.  And louder.  And meaner.  

     

    They have to be relentless.  They have to be everywhere, saying this over and over again.  They have to say hot words, like "treason" and "risking the lives of our brave warfighters."  The exact same words, over and over, so they drown out everything else.  

    In a world where all that matters is noise....be a fucking heavy metal concert.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    oh for fuck's sake

     

     

    Well....doesn't matter now, because the POTUS insists that the entire thread is NOT classified.  So, her cover is blown, as a matter of fact and law....unless, of course, the POTUS doesn't mean/is lying about the thread not being classified.

    Which is it, Whiskeyleaks team.....is all the info not classified, so our asset's cover is blown, or is it classified, so that Whiskeyleaks fucked up and shared classified information?

    God, these people are such giant lying sacks of shit.

  7. Just now, The Ace of Aces said:

    Sent a portal message - my research says my (very good) insurance doesn’t cover that test but whatever. Money grows on trees for a reason.  
     

    FUCK antivaxxers

    Sorry, dude.

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    Now that Trump and his devotees have dropped any pretense of not being racist, and are having success in re-engineering the actual meaning of words, ( see diversity, equity, inclusion, woke
) the religious right has entered the fray. Empathy is now a sin:

    https://albertmohler.com/2025/02/19/joe-rigney/

     

    That guy...is insane and evil. If you want to get a snapshot of how he thinks (spoiler: everything is the fault of all those bitches), here you go:

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    There is a reason that the empathetic sex that women are barred from the pastoral office, they were barred from the priestly office in the Old Testament for the same reason. Because priests and pastors, priests in the Old Testament, pastors and ministers and elders in the New Testament, are charged fundamentally with guarding the doctrine and worship of the church, of setting the perimeter for what is in and out. That’s the calling. And therefore the sex that is bent and wired towards care, nurture, compassion and empathy is ill suited to that role. So it’s no surprise that in a culture which has become dominated by feminism, it’s deep in the American system at this point, that in that same timeframe you would have an outbreak of empathy that would become the steering wheel by which every institution is hijacked.

    Oh, and there's other stuff in there that's even worse.

    He starts from a premise that is credible: that empathy run amok can be a bad thing......and then proceeds to twist the premise to justify his worldview that utterly justifies and explains away every cruelty to be visited on those he doesn't like.  It's the well-spoken rantings of a genuine sociopath.

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  9. 5 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    I never had any cognitive imp, beyobnd bormal, baseline level of cognitive impairment,

    Well then, good sir -- you need to leave these parts.  As you can plainly see, Surly only allows posts by people with significant cognitive impairment below the baseline.

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  10. As a follow-up, thoughts from someone I know who had rather high level security clearance for over a decade (via the Senate foreign intelligence committee):

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    A couple thoughts about DefSec Hegseth and VP Vance and NatSecAdvisor Waltz using Signal App to plan a military raid on Yemen:

    1) it’s against the law, and HUGE security breach too. Hegseth should be fired. Full stop. Waltz should be fired. All those on the call should be fired.

    Why? First of all
this horrendous security breach violates many laws
including those that demand official communication occur over official channels. What other sensitive issues have officials been discussing on private messaging apps, avoiding accountability and compromising security?

    Second, this highly classified conversation should never, ever, take place on a “low end” (as opposed to classified) communication platform. The fact that signal is encrypted is irrelevant. As we know, the users of the app are numerous, and most have no security clearances or reason to be included, and yet the editor the Atlantic had a front row seat
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.This from an administration that called for Hillary Clinton to be jailed for using a secure server and referencing information at the lowest level (confidential) with no national security implications. Talk about hypocrisy
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    Incompetence. Complete disregard for procedure. Putting lives at risk.

    Who else has ALREADY been granted access to highly sensitive USG classified info? China? Putin? And how would we know, since some have set the messages to disappear after a few days? There is no way even to assess the damage!

    The entire national security team should be sacked.

    Key points, not just coming from us lay people, but from someone who was occasionally in the room as strikes were being discussed, prepared, and launched:

    1) using non gov't apps and devices to communicate official info is intended to avoid accountability and the legal requirements of maintaining records of gov't action.

    2) everyone knows that this is an unacceptable security risk.

    3) failures like this actually put the lives of our "warfighters" (man, the conservatives love that word, so let's use it) at risk.  If news of planned targets and delivery platforms (F-18s) were leaked in advance, the enemy would have had the opportunity to put AA resources along the way, possibly shooting down and killing some of our aircrews.

    It was done for an illegal and criminal purpose, and created risk not just in theory, but to actual lives of American servicemembers, all because we are staffed with criminal rank amateurs. Fucking well-done, Trump administration.  I'd call your entire admin a shitshow, but that would be an insult to turds that actually perform the function of evacuating waste from the human body.

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  11. 15 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Failed GOP candidate turned attempted political killer. Why did he do it?
    A federal jury in New Mexico found Solomon Peña, 40, guilty of orchestrating a shooting spree aimed at Democratic lawmakers, including two who certified his election loss.

    A failed GOP candidate in New Mexico was convicted of orchestrating a shooting spree aimed at Democratic elected officials, including two who certified his election loss, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

    Solomon Peña, who ran for a seat in the New Mexico legislature in 2022, was convicted at trial of over a dozen charges in organizing attacks on four lawmakers. His involvement included not just recruiting gunmen - who have already plead guilty - but he participated in one of the attacks using a machine gun, according to court filings. From jail he also tried having witnesses killed, federal officials said.

    No one was hurt in the shootings, which occurred after Peña's November 2022 electoral defeat. He pressured members of the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners to refuse to certify the results of the election, but despite Peña’s pressure, the commissioners certified the results.

    The dozens of bullets fired in the assaults hit houses, cars and even passed inside the bedroom of a 10-year-old girl, according to court filings and statements from police.

    Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa, who was the first official targeted and oversaw election certification at the time, celebrated Peña’s conviction but said his actions were symptomatic of a growing problem of political violence in America.

    “We have to send a clear message that violence is not tolerable, period,” Barboa told USA TODAY. “Without these kinds of precedents set, people will continue to think that they can take the law into their own hands.”

    The attacks came amid a rash of political violence across the nation, from an angry mob threatening the lives of top U.S. lawmakers certifying the 2020 presidential election results to the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year.

    Holland S. Kastrin, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, noted the high stakes of the case.

    “A cornerstone of our freedoms is for all citizens, elected officials, and candidates for office to be able to participate in our democratic process safely and securely, without threats, intimidation, or the fear of violence or retaliation,” Kastrin told USA TODAY. “Peña not only orchestrated a violent conspiracy to undermine these bedrock principles but also sought to have witnesses against him murdered. We welcome the well-founded guilty verdicts which both hold the defendant accountable for his violent and reckless actions and affirm the rule of law.”

    Peña and crew committed the shooting spree between Dec. 4, 2022 and Jan. 3, 2023. They also targeted a state senator, state representative and another county commissioners responsible for certifying election results.

    The 40-year-old faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 60 years and a maximum penalty of life in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. A sentencing hearing has not been scheduled yet.

    Accomplices Jose and Demetrio Trujillo plead guilty last year and will be sentenced in the spring, federal officials said.

    Attorneys for Peña did not respond to requests for comment.

     

    There is a 500% chance that dude 1) is quickly pardoned and 2) appointed something like "Election Security Czar" in the Trump administration.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

    No doubt.

    290 (W) still gets the podium when it comes to the biggest local death trap. We have friends that live on Fitzhugh Road. Not surprisingly, we never hesitate to be the first to offer up as host when it comes to get-togethers.  That road Is a nightmare.

    Also true.  My wife is really looking to dial back her wedding business.  And a part of that is the fact that probably better than 50% of her weddings are in the Dripping Springs area, and she is sick of making that drive.  It's stressful, always lots of traffic, and dangerous as hell (she's been caught in traffic behind more than one fatal accident out there).  It's just not worth it.

    Plus, that means that more of her Saturdays are free for us to hang out and go to football and soccer games and such.

  13. 5 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    A parachute not opening, that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine, having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go!

    I'd rather burn in at 200 mph and have some laughs, then to eat it in a car accident, I mean thats a really dumb way to go.  No, really, you see like the one thing I wanna do before I join the cosmos is to hang glide off of Mt. Everest. Yeah, but wait, this is the best part: NAKED! 

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  14. 30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I’m obviously sad my girls went to college so far away from home because I miss them, but I worry about them far less in Edinburgh and NYC specifically because they are almost never in a car. 

    100%.  Seriously, have had that conversation with friends.  Realizing 1) how inherently dangerous travel is by car, and then 2) how EXTRA-dangerous it is/was when young, stupid, often drunk college students are involved (yeah, I was at UT in the late 80s), it is an inescapable conclusion that based on just the fact that they are hardly ever in a car (Ubers sometimes, and occasional road trips on highways that are much slower and safer than ours), my kids' safety risk in college was WAY lower than ours.

    And I still break into a cold sweat when I stop and think/realize that you can be doing everything right, and then a fucking dump truck jumps the median and kills you dead, you never had a chance.  That....fucking bothers me.  A lot.

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  15. 1 minute ago, UpperWestside said:

    Better to make the best of things and see the best of this world than to grow old and miserable and think nothing and no one is worth saving.

    One can do both.  I intend to make the best of things for me and mine.

    Everyone else can get fucked.  That's the path they intend to charge down, and I'm not going to waste any more energy trying to stop them.  Stop having faith in humanity.  You're just lying to yourself.

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