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  1. Ok I’m a big fan of buying guitars that you randomly like when you’re in the guitar store (my orange gretsch, my j45, my les paul, my dirnt P) and I’m a big fan of buying guitars that fit your theme. Mine is something like “classics checklist” (blonde tele, cherry burst les Paul, burst strat, d28, burst 45, etc, shit maybe it’s bursts) and yours is “none more black”. I’m also a fan of going back to stores to buy the guitar you didn’t buy the last time (my black gretsch, my d41) so look I’ll finally cut to the chase and ask that you post pics and maybe even live video of our new guitar.
     
    also, I think Gibson just reintroduced some version of that Les Paul Special/Junior. Maybe it was the double cutaway that was only available as like a Rick Beato signature or something? I still want one of those specials or juniors.
     
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    There’s a Ric Beato in Pelham blue and red. I had to restrain myself from getting one as I have a couple P-90 guitars. I still look though.
  2. 6 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    RE: Scouts turning MAGA.

    Your reminder that in 2017, Trump spoke to the Boy Scouts Jamboree:

     

    https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/donald-trump-boy-scouts-speech

    The 29 most cringe-worthy lines from Donald Trump’s hyper-political speech to the Boy Scouts

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    On Monday night, President Donald Trump jetted to West Virginia to address the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. And oh what a speech it was!

    Trump ranged from the current health care bill to stories of a bygone time in New York history to his Electoral College victory in 2016. It was a Trumpian tour de force – one sure to cheer his supporters but leave the rest of the country wondering what, exactly, he is doing and thinking.

    I went through the speech and picked out the 29 oddest, cringiest lines – no easy task given the sheer strangeness of Trump’s speech. 

    Here they are – in the rough order Trump said them.

    1. “Boy, you have a lot of people here. The press will say it’s about 200 people. It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record today. You set a record.”

    The Charleston Gazette estimated 40,000 people in the crowd – which is a lot! Not sure there is a “record” for attendance at a Boy Scout Jamboree. Also worth noting from the Gazette: “Press staff handling the event did not allow local media to bring film equipment into the amphitheater.”

    2. “I said, ‘Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?’ Right?”

    Trump, apparently. He spent the VAST majority of this speech jabbing at his political foes and recounting his 2016 successes.

    3. “Today, I said we ought to change it from the word ‘swamp’ to the word ‘cesspool’ or, perhaps, to the word ‘sewer.’”

    Remember: “Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?”

    4. “Many of my top advisers in the White House were Scouts. Ten members of my Cabinet were Scouts. Can you believe that? Ten.”

    One of them is Eagle Scout and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who Trump neither brought along on the trip or mentioned in his speech.

    5. “Some of you here tonight might even have camped out in this yard when Mike was the governor of Indiana, but the scouting was very, very important.” 

    Your guess is as good as mine.

    6. “We’re doing a lot with energy.”

    This was part of Trump’s introduction of Boy Scout and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who was in attendance. Apparently, we are “doing a lot” with energy.

    7. “He better get them. Oh, he better – otherwise, I’ll say, ‘Tom, you’re fired.’ I’ll get somebody.”

    This “joke” was directed at Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price who was, awkwardly, standing on stage next to Trump. It came amid Trump’s public effort to force Sessions to resign and less than a week after Trump threatened Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nevada, on health care.

    8. “As the Scout Law says: ‘A Scout is trustworthy, loyal’ – we could use some more loyalty, I will tell you that.”

    Is this about Sessions? Republicans in the Senate on health care? Staffers leaking to reporters? All of the above?

    9. “I’m waving to people back there so small I can’t even see them. Man, this is a lot of people.”

    This has to be a record, right?

    10. “By the way, what do you think the chances are that this incredible, massive crowd, record-setting is going to be shown on television tonight? One percent or zero?”

    As Trump was saying this, CNN was showing shots of the crowd. Also, that crowd was “massive” and “record setting.”

    11. “By the way, just a question, did President Obama ever come to a jamboree?”

    “Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?”

    12. “I’ll tell you a story that’s very interesting for me when I was young. There was a man named William Levitt – Levittowns, you have some here, you have some in different states.”

    This is my favorite part of the entire Trump speech. He regales a crowd of kids – most of whom are teenagers – about life in New York in the post-World War II age. Nothing like knowing your audience!

    13. “Oh, you’re Boy Scouts, but you know life. You know life. So – look at you.”

    ???????

    14. “He so badly wanted it, he got bored with this life of yachts and sailing and all of the things he did in the south of France and other places.”

    Same.

    15. “And in the end he failed, and he failed badly. Lost all of his money.”

    Aim for the stars, kids!

    16. “I saw him at a cocktail party, and it was very sad because the hottest people in New York were at this party.”

    Again, Trump is speaking to a crowd of teenagers. And recounting his glory days in New York City high society – decades before they were even born.

    17. “You have to know whether or not you continue to have the momentum, and if you don’t have it, that’s OK. Because you’re going to go on and you’re going to learn and you’re going to do things that are great.”

    Momentum is the key. Having it is everything. If you don’t have it, though, everything is still going to be great.

    18. “I have to tell you our economy is doing great.”

    For the 80th time: Trump is speaking to tens of thousands of teenagers.

    19. “Do we remember that date? Was that a beautiful date? What a date.”

    He’s talking about Election Day 2016. Because of course he is.

    20. “But do you remember that incredible night with the maps and the Republicans are red and the Democrats are blue, and that map was so red, it was unbelievable, and they didn’t know what to say?”

    ICYMI: Donald Trump won the 2016 election, winning 304 out of a possible 538 electoral votes. That election was 260 days ago.

    21. “And you know we have a tremendous disadvantage in the Electoral College – popular vote is much easier.”

    “Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?”

    22. “I went to Maine four times because it’s one vote, and we won. But we won – one vote. I went there because I kept hearing we’re at 269.”

    He’s speaking to teenagers gathered for their annual Jamboree in West Virginia. And he’s talking about how Maine splits its two electoral votes by congressional district.

    23. “But then Wisconsin came in. Many, many years – Michigan came in.”

    “Many, many years.”

    24. “Wisconsin hadn’t been won in many, many years by a Republican. But we go to Wisconsin, and we had tremendous crowds. And I’d leave these massive crowds. I’d say, ‘Why are we going to lose this state?’”

    Not sure if you’ve heard but Trump won Wisconsin. He was the first Republican presidential candidate to win the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

    25. “So I have to tell you what we did, in all fairness, is an unbelievable tribute to you and all of the other millions and millions of people that came out and voted for Make America Great Again.”

    Most of the people who were in the audience weren’t 18 in 2016 and, therefore, did not vote to Make America Great Again.

    26. “And by the way, under the Trump administration, you’ll be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again when you go shopping. Believe me. ‘Merry Christmas.’”

    Trump gave this speech on July 24. 

    27. “They’ve been downplaying that little, beautiful phrase. You’re going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again, folks.”

    First of all, “they.” Second of all, Merry damn Christmas.

    28. “I promise you that you will live scouting’s adventure every single day of your life, and you will win, win, win and help people in doing so.”

    So much winning. You will be bored by all of the winning.

    29. “I’ve known so many great people.”

    The best people. Believe me.

     

     

    It was awful.  What's really turned me off is while the crowd as a whole was pretty gobsmacked, there were a few people here and there applauding.  Everything about him is contrary to the ideals of Scouting.  It's why for the first time ever a potus hasn't been invited to speak at the next National Jamboree.  And probably why Whiskey Pete is floating the balloon of withdrawing any military assistance.  

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  3. @Ojo Rojo @Gatorubet@Hagbard Celine

    Bringing y'all into the discussion over here so as not to further derail the Tfg America thread.  

    Regarding the leaving of the LDS, I'm ok with it.   They have their own beliefs, one of which included excluding gay people.  I was struggling about the concept of rejoining while that whole debate was going on.  At that point though, it was theoretical because Chad Jr. hadn't come along yet.  Having rejoined Scouting after that whole episode, we've had same sex couples as parents in our Cub unit, but I haven't seen it in our Troop yet.  It's a shame the LDS decided to leave over that issue, but I can't see we're worse off for it.  All I know for sure is as long as I'm Troop Committee Chair, the only litmus test for kids going camping is whether they want to go camping within the guidelines of the Scout Oath and Law.  

    Having spoken with my main connection at Scouting HQ yesterday, I get the sense that the super conservative older generation - the ones who stood in the way of co-ed Scouting - are slowly going away.  I think that's a good thing for the organization as a whole. 

    On a more local level, we did have a parent pull their Scout out recently because he thought the Citizenship in Society requirements were "too woke."  That's a shame because his son was a real super Scout and was on the fast track to Eagle.  Just an all around good kid.  Really hated to see him go.  

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  4. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Asked him what prompted this epiphany.

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    He and his wife have been involved in refugee assistance for many years. They are conservative and a bit bible-y, but they do walk the walk. He’s a moral guy, so he never had any good feeling for Trump, has always thought he’s scum. But this is a turn for him.

    I'm sorry to have to ask this, but which of today's refugee things?  Getting rid of TPS for Somalis?  Americans being detained, shot at and shot for being brown?  I'm sorry, there are just too many options here.

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  5. 13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Interesting timing, just got an out-of-the-blue text from one of our cousins (married into wife's side of the family).  He's military academy-educated, served as an officer, and has worked in defense-adjacent fields for 20+ years (no, I don't know exactly what he does, he can't tell us).  My reply was because his text followed an OLD exchange about, well, dinner.

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    This cousin has long been a "I know it's bad, but it's not THAT bad" guy.  He's smart as hell, an engineer, and on the conservative end.  He bailed on the GOP a while back, but reluctantly.

    There should be a generally sad reaction.  For texts like this when generally good but misguided people realized they fucked up.  Like this, but in a reaction:

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  6. Just now, Biff Tannen said:

    I never understood why Steve Martin’s stand up was funny to people. 

    Well, when I first saw this bit I was five.  So physical comedy was my jam.   I thought Mr. Bill was the peak of comedic humor.  

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  7. 33 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    As a former adult leader and long time acting Scout Master, those assholes pretending that the BSA charter mandating no political affiliations does not matter makes me so ragey.

    Unfortunately, MAGA is deeply embedded in scouting right now.  

     

    As a current Scout leader, I have seen much less of this.  Like any volunteer organization, I suspect it strongly depends on the quality of volunteers in your local unit.  I can truthfully say that amongst our leadership, I'm not entirely sure where everyone stands politically.  Be we all stand together in the focus on our youth.  Going camping, cleaning up parks, and generally having fun while doing good works should not have to be a political act.  

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    That last part is fake news because America is the bestest in the world!  Exceptionalism out front should have told you. 
     

    For real, I’ve seen it play out with my maga BIL. Point out anything that could be better in America and he reflexively goes to how much worse everything is in every other country in the world. Or how at least we aren’t Afghanistan and we should be thankful. 

    ...yet!  But we're trying to get there as fast as we can!

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  9. 47 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    If a peace deal is about to be signed, you might as well throw everything to harm Russia as much as possible in any remaining days.

    The number of casualties has been horrific but I'm unsure that the US has ever had such an successful war in terms of exposing and damaging an enemy without the loss of American military. Not to mention that its greatly increased the use of drones in combat that we should be able to be a leader in this technology as well. 

    First, I don't think we're anywhere near a peace deal.  

    Second, whether we are or not, the Ukrainians may as well do as much harm to Russia in any days.  Play until the whistle blows. 

    In short, why is today different than any other day?

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  10. 15 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Is this just Ukraine messing with them or just a target of opportunity?  Wonder why the Russians had it within range.

     

    Tagnarog is the home of Beriev, famous for amphibious maritime patrol planes.  But also Beriev does a lot of one off or limited conversions of standard line aircraft into specialized mission aircraft.  Think of L3 or the like in the US.  My guess is that the A-60 wasn't really being used for anything which is why it was parked there in range of weapons.  While blowing it up may give good feels, it really doesn't change anything on the ground or in the air.  In other words, I'll bet this particular airframe was either not airworthy, or the experiments it was intended for were put on indefinite hold by the war. 

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