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1 hour ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

 

What a fucking disgrace.  the Purple Heart is reserved to those that in the course of duties, such as defending the United States, or engaging the enemy in action that person is wounded.  This fucking guy never served, was doing none of the requirements to meet these standards and has the temerity to lay claim to such an honor.  Its insulting to the near 50k of soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen/women rightfully awarded the purple heart that have done so over the last 30 years.  

Interesting tidbit, a real purple heart has the sitting President's name engraved on, so in this instance where it to be real, Dotard's would be engraved with President Joe Biden.  

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

The bolded part ...

I Dont Believe You Will Ferrell GIF

Which part is the bolded part? Oh, the x,x,x,x ? LOL. Hey, I'm 59 and married, with a paid-off house and 2 boys in college. If I were gonna risk my marriage on someone, it wouldn't be anyone in that photo. That's for got damn sure! 

OK, with a gun to my head, the girl on the second row behind 'Ears McGee' looks aight.

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Holy shit. Republican former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan absolutely eviscerated Trump tonight on Kaitlan Collins's show. I can't find the video anywhere, but check it out if you're able.

 

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Posted
8 hours ago, austingirl said:

 

 

Nice humblebrag.

 

Ha.  More an indictment of my inability to let go. I'd probably be a lot happier, definitely less stressed and anxious all the time.

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Posted
7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Esp the crazy two-toned hair chick, with the “SOON” look. You know she gets a #1 ranking.

Are as she's called at the firehouse.   Skunky McSkunkface.

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8 hours ago, TexArcher said:

It's been 8 years of this, and I know I ought to be well beyond the surreal shock phase, by my god, these people, man.  Nothing is off limits.  Nothing is sacred.  No one outside their circle matters.  And they'll do absolutely anything for power and money.

It's all so disgusting and embarrassing.  And people I used to respect have fallen for it.  God dammit.

Y'all better do something besides be disgusted and shaken up. 

If this falls, it will be because a whole bunch of people watched it come (back) together over the last 50 years... And supported it. 

The fact that it's even close means it's probably over. 

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7 hours ago, wood said:

Which part is the bolded part? Oh, the x,x,x,x ? LOL. Hey, I'm 59 and married, with a paid-off house and 2 boys in college. If I were gonna risk my marriage on someone, it wouldn't be anyone in that photo. That's for got damn sure! 

OK, with a gun to my head, the girl on the second row behind 'Ears McGee' looks aight.

Bruh. That is not how this works. 

Surly is not here for shit like saving families and assets. 

I'm sending this assignment back to you. You have the opportunity to redo it for credit 

I'll give you an example, as my 20th anniversary is coming up, I also have two boys (one in college), and have a house that is paying me to have a mortgage (cashed out a 3.3% and put it in VGT and BRK.B).

"Hmmmmmm....  Yeah, I guess I'll be Pepe LePew and take skunk girl and the one behind her. Two Fire Chicks at the same time.... Bonus points because...."

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Posted
14 minutes ago, kevwun said:

My grandpa got his Purple Heart by having his hip broken by shrapnel from artillery.  He had to spend the night in a foxhole with 2 dead buddies until the medics got to him the next day.  So it’s really neat that Trump gave himself one.

Thank you, Grandpa.

Posted
15 hours ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

Have also seen sad emotional videos along the lines of Biden-

Hundreds of billions of dollars for Ukraine, no problem!

Americans devestated by the hurricane in North Carolina- $750.

Remember this in November people!!!

Honestly worried about bomb threats being called into polling places in heavy Dem areas. MAGA is becoming more unhinged than ever.

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18 minutes ago, kevwun said:

My grandpa got his Purple Heart by having his hip broken by shrapnel from artillery.  He had to spend the night in a foxhole with 2 dead buddies until the medics got to him the next day.  So it’s really neat that Trump gave himself one.

so both sides? 

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Posted

If you have to try that hard at this point maybe your dad is a piece of shit, not trying to be offensive but just because it's your dad doesn't mean the same barometer that exists for everyone else doesn't count for him. 

 

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Posted
10 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

if you come at pete with “reports”, pete will eat your lunch on twitter and make you say thank you. 

One of the greatest subtle jabs there is "if you're encountering a problem."  Elmo is encountering no problems with disaster relief.  He's sitting around like jabba the hutt on some $25,000 leather couch snorting ketamine and scratching his shriveled balls with a phone in one hand.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Never change, media.

 

Oh please, they are still bitching about her lack of interviews. CNN, MSNBC, 60 Minutes coming up next week, podcasts, etc. She has the Univision town hall next week too

Last I checked, CNN hasn’t confirmed what they’re going to do on October 23 but they have a chance to have Harris to themselves for 90 minutes uninterrupted  since Trump said no

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Oh please, they are still bitching about her lack of interviews. CNN, MSNBC, 60 Minutes coming up next week, podcasts, etc. She has the Univision town hall next week too

Last I checked, CNN hasn’t confirmed what they’re going to do on October 23 but they have a chance to have Harris to themselves for 90 minutes uninterrupted  since Trump said no

They have to write about something.

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11 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Me too.  I saw the headline, and was about to send it off to my Vietnam Vet father (who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, though to be fair to my dad, he is voting for the R, not the guy behind it (never voted Dem, not even 1963)). I am working on him and my mom to either hold their noses and vote for Kamala (I would put that at a 5% chance) or to stay home (45% chance at the moment).  I do not have a lot of hope, and if they vote for Trump, that will irrevocably damage my relationship with them. For those that think this is a hyperbole, Trump hates women and was totally cool taking away our right to bodily autonomy. It is shocking to me that my dad, who told me growing up that I could be anyone I wanted to be, would vote for a misogynist like Trump, who is totally cool with relegating women to the same place they are in enlightened places like Afghanistan under the Taliban or Saudi Arabia (i.e. as little more than property).

Similar dynamic here. Dad is a Vietnam veteran who served 27 years in the Marines, and has gone hard core Trumper. Except my mom is now full on Democrat. GW drove her from the Republican Party and she’s never voted GOP since.

It bottles my mind how my dad has gone MAGA when (1) Trump shits all over vets, and (2) his granddaughter is gay. But it’s futile talking reason with an 80-year-old boomer.

At least he knows better than to talk politics around us anymore. And I’m his son, so I love him.

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24 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

It is shocking to me that my dad, who told me growing up that I could be anyone I wanted to be,

Observation apropos of nothing, but I was raised this way, too.  My mother wasn't a "libber" back in the day, but she was a smart, tough, educated farm girl and I was not raised to think in any way less of women.

Yes I am guilty of engaging in casual misogyny, mostly for the lulz, but I have become conscious of it and try to refrain, because deep down inside I just don't do the whole female inferiority thing.  Overall, I find most racism and other ism so repugnant as to be laughable and a good source of humor, but now realize that engaging in that humor adds to the problem.

My grandparents were FDR democrats all the way, on both sides.  Dad chose the GOP in a government or poli sci class at SMU after the war when he and another guy were assigned to attend a precinct meeting and Dad went to the Republican one on a coin flip.  Mind you, this was the era of Eisenhower Republicans.  My Mom retained a pretty liberal streak most of her life, but I think they mostly voted Republican.  She didn't like Nixon on a "personal level" and felt vindicated by Watergate.  Dad abhorred racism and ism more generally, seeing it as bullying the downtrodden.

My parents didn't live to see Trump, but I think they would have hated his guts despite being affluent whites that benefitted greatly from the post-war era and also voted mostly GOP most of the time.

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, immamac said:

How exactly under no authority did Trump get a purple heart? 

He  His campaign probably bough it off ebay from a destitute WWII vet that lives of cat food.

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1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

Oh and we have the opportunity to get this too.

 


Fun fact: in 2016 Democrats had a favorable map, a presidential candidate who would have exceptional coattails in South and Central Texas and possibly could have pulled even in the house. They were nevertheless unable to file candidates and contest enough Republican seats for control or pulling even in the Texas House to be a mathematical possibility. In 2020 they did, and then talked up a bunch of internal polling that supopsedly showed that they were on pace to take both the house (by a lot) and Senate (by one seat). They ended up not taking a single seat and gaining one seat in the senate (they expected 4-5).

I fully expect that in 2024 Democrats in Texas will once again hope in one hand while shitting in the other.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

nothing like “we are triaging swing state senate races” to show how confident the GOP is.

That GOP firm yesterday had Harris +3 and Rosen +8

The map is shrinking for the GOP

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31 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

I know. And no offense taken. I wrestle with it myself. I have gotten grief on here for refusing to step foot in Texas until I have no choice (work related), but the shit Republicans have done in Texas and in other states is personal for me and for a lot of other women and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

It's been tough coming to terms that my only sibling is racist and xenophobic. This is someone I deeply loved.

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Around me the shift has been to "it's not the person, it's the policies". Oh, ok. The democrats' policies are so horrific that you just have to vote for a convicted felon who has promised to be a dictator. So horrific these last four years have been.... stock market up, economy improving every year, more jobs, unemployment down, crime down..... Can't risk more of that. Gotta vote for the evil conman. No choice.

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5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Around me the shift has been to "it's not the person, it's the policies". Oh, ok. The democrats' policies are so horrific that you just have to vote for a convicted felon who has promised to be a dictator. So horrific these last four years have been.... stock market up, economy improving every year, more jobs, unemployment down, crime down..... Can't risk more of that. Gotta vote for the evil conman. No choice.

Yeah the policies….are pretty horrifically awful too. That says a lot of what they’ll put up with for “lower taxes”

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I'm the opposite of some of y'all. My complicated relationship w/ my 79 YO dad has improved slightly due to his hate from Trump. Full disclosure, when I was a 7 YO in '76 I asked him if he was voting for Carter or Ford (yeah, I was an advanced nerd at a young age). His response was "none of your damn business." That's when I discovered a valuable family tenet: you keep your politics to yourself.

I know his wife voted for W and Romney and suspect he followed suit due to being at the "I got mine, fuck you" stage of his boomer cycle. He's been retired in CO for 20+ years and bitches about legal weed and "those damn bicycle lanes they're putting up everywhere." So I was very pleasantly surprised 4 years ago when he offered up how despicable he thought Trump was and how important it was for Biden to win. 

Unfortunately, my oldest sister whom I've loved and admired my entire life seems to have been brainwashed after being married to an Air Force veteran for almost 40 years. Again, we don't discuss politics but she's dropped a few hints on occasion that make me cringe and fear that they might be more than just GOP, but GQP. We talk weekly but only see one another every few years or so. I'm turning a blind eye to that one because I don't want my worst suspicions to be confirmed.

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Posted
41 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Oh please, they are still bitching about her lack of interviews. CNN, MSNBC, 60 Minutes coming up next week, podcasts, etc. She has the Univision town hall next week too

Last I checked, CNN hasn’t confirmed what they’re going to do on October 23 but they have a chance to have Harris to themselves for 90 minutes uninterrupted  since Trump said no

Scanning that article, it seems to point out what Harris is doing exactly right.  Targeting her efforts at swing states and less so on national platforms, where she's already won.  Moderating what could be used by Trump as extreme-left positions.

Author seems to be a chainsaw progressive.

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