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4 minutes ago, mchookem said:

man...i don't even know what thread to put this one in...i'm pretty disturbed by it tbh, prolly cause it's on the heals of several other things...

one, the conversation with my French friend i shared in the international thread, depressed the hell out of me cuz in the end you kind of still hope 'maybe it's just us, maybe we see too much of the minutiae so our view is skewed'. turns out nope, the world is indeed watching in horror/glee.

two, without providing too much detail for the law enforcement monitoring this board (🖕), currently assisting in a situation with a young woman who traveled many miles to get access to a service that is freely available where i live but recently outlawed where she lives. been a few fun conversations around CYA and what not to say and to whom, and changing phone numbers to escape harassment from a party that does not want her accessing said service...and being aware that said party can report her, and the friend that road with her, for a literal bounty, and making sure there is actually no proof of anything anywhere...and, you know, all of that. fun. there's something about the dawning horror of realizing what the conversation you are having actually means in terms of being a female citizen of the US in 2025. 

and now...just had a puppy playdate with a new friend here, who...i can't even really unpack this one. she is nice, i like her, our dogs adore each other, politics just doesn't come up, as it shouldn't and used to be, right...and she advises she was diagnosed with aggressive stage 3 breast cancer three weeks ago. so she has an oncology team, and is getting a second opinion but is, at least as of now, planning to follow recommendations for the chemo/radiation then surgery treatment protocol. maybe. because...

...she's also going next month to a facility in AZ for eastern/holistic treatment. and she's started giving herself ivermectin already, and some other crap i never heard of, Mel Gibson said it worked. and thankfully Trump is in office now b/c RFK will 'open up' access to all kinds of alternative treatments. and did i mention she got laid off about 3 months ago and hasn't found a new job yet? so no insurance...but thankfully she qualified for...you know where this is going...Medicaid and so far she hasn't received a single bill! yay. 

i mean, i got in the car and started crying b/c one, that totally sucks, and also EVERYTHING ELSE IN THAT INSANE CONVERSATION. what is even happening😖it's an honest to god struggle to even know anything to say in response. i just kept falling back on 'uh, well...oh i am just so sorry!!' and hugging her. 

 

TL/DR - the past 24 hours basically:

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tomorrow is a new day, hopefully a better one too 

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1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

tomorrow is a new day, hopefully a better one too 

Oh.  Friendo.  There are no "better days."  Only worse ones.  Ad infinitum.  As intended and desired by your fellow Americans.

The pain and suffering is how you know it's all working.

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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh.  Friendo.  There are no "better days."  Only worse ones.  Ad infinitum.  As intended and desired by your fellow Americans.

The pain and suffering is how you know it's all working.

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2 hours ago, bolverk said:

“Any prolonged pause in funding could disrupt H.I.V. treatment programs, leading to treatment interruptions, rise of drug-resistant H.I.V.,” said Jirair Ratevosian, who served as chief of staff for Pepfar during the Biden administration. “That’s playing with fire, risking progress that we’ve made over decades to control the H.I.V. epidemic.”

 

I don’t suppose that will be enough to get Dubya to speak up.

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Posted
6 hours ago, royiv said:

At 80 deportees per plane ride, it’s going to take 137,500 flights or almost 377 flights per day to get all those undocumented immigrants out of the country over the next year. Efficient, indeed. As you pointed out, chartering a 737 or A320 is going to be a lot cheaper than using a military C-17 and at a 50% load factor, we’re giving these folks a comfortable ride back to their home country.

 

there was a third flight mexico denied it 

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The neverending breadsticks porn threatens to ruin a generation of men like only hostile wartime has in past eras.

Porn plus assholes like Andrew Tate talking about “high value women” and it’s gay if you have sex isn’t helping. Seriously - guys with any ability to talk to women should be knee deep in pussy.
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Posted
3 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


Montreal is famous for its sex workers….

Just sayin’

St. Catherine st......at least that's what I've heard 😏

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I was mostly rageful the first go-round with Trump. This time, while still incredibly angry, particularly with people I care about (like my parents) for voting for Trump, I am just very depressed. I had a pretty good idea what was coming, but seeing it actually occur still fucking sucks. 

For my own sake, I'm happy I have kids so I don't just drink myself into an early grave. For my kids sake, this is the worst. Assuming the fat fuck lives long enough, he will be the first president my eldest remembers.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Funny addendum to that point: my daughter went to college in Montreal.  Being American, she had to get a student visa.  She got it, and it allowed her to work 20 hours a week (as student visas often do).  But it had one restriction, which cracked her up -- NO SEX WORK.  So, you can go pursue your studies in Montreal, but don't think you're gonna fund those by being a stripper or a hooker.  Those jobs are FOR LOCALS.

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Posted
13 minutes ago, Red Five said:

So, it looks like Hegseth is about to get confirmed. We are not a real country anymore. 

It's gonna be fine.

Posted
1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

there was a third flight mexico denied it 

Cuz it has mexicans on it? They know to play the pressure game. Look Meester Trump, we will help you with these bad central and south americans. They are ALL, everyone of them, MS-13, Mara 18, Tren de Agua and illegitimate children of either Che or Pablo Escobar. But, let our people stay please. Our gangs? No, they are not mexicans. It is those evil central americans.

Our mexicans, they love USA. They prove it everytime we play soccer. Those are not tackles, those are love taps. And for our people in the US without papers. It is just an oversight. They are hard working, have no vices, and build your homes. Don't you love how Lupita makes your bed at MAL? We can send you her sister and all her family so everyone will not have a bed as nice as your bed.

Posted
24 minutes ago, Red Five said:

So, it looks like Hegseth is about to get confirmed. We are not a real country anymore. 

 

the most unqualified secretary of ever

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Posted (edited)
51 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

I was mostly rageful the first go-round with Trump. This time, while still incredibly angry, particularly with people I care about (like my parents) for voting for Trump, I am just very depressed. I had a pretty good idea what was coming, but seeing it actually occur still fucking sucks. 

For my own sake, I'm happy I have kids so I don't just drink myself into an early grave. For my kids sake, this is the worst. Assuming the fat fuck lives long enough, he will be the first president my eldest remembers.

I’m very glad I don’t have kids. I wouldn’t want to have to explain to them why the world is so fucked up and how their uncle, aunt, and grandparents helped make it so. 

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This appointment is an embarrassment of the them all. I might hate them, but at least most of the people know something about DC. This dude was a fucking failed lobbyist. He was a major. A company commander and admits he told his troops to not worry about rules of engagement.

Ooooo, he knows the caliber of the M4. Yeah, so do kids playing on their playstations. What the fuck does he know about the NSA? DOE cooperation with the military? Relations that do not involve paying the person off afterwards?

Fuck this.

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1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

This appointment is an embarrassment of the them all. I might hate them, but at least most of the people know something about DC. This dude was a fucking failed lobbyist. He was a major. A company commander and admits he told his troops to not worry about rules of engagement.

Ooooo, he knows the caliber of the M4. Yeah, so do kids playing on their playstations. What the fuck does he know about the NSA? DOE cooperation with the military? Relations that do not involve paying the person off afterwards?

Fuck this.

I wonder which general tells him to go fuck himself first.

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Just now, David Dennison said:

I wonder which general tells him to go fuck himself first.

General? Nah, probably a senior staffer. Those fuckers are untouchable. Ever see Space Force? The dude on the left. Or a Sgt. Major.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I’m very glad I don’t have kids. I wouldn’t want to have to explain to them why the world is so fucked up and how their uncle, aunt, and grandparents helped make it so. 

Can you name me a point in time where the world wasn't fucked up?    I don't like Hegseth either but the hyperbole year after year after year gets to be a bit much.

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Just now, InkaUtexas said:

General? Nah, probably a senior staffer. Those fuckers are untouchable. Ever see Space Force? The dude on the left. Or a Sgt. Major.

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Point being, it's gonna happen. And it will be hilarious when the press gets hold of it.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

My wife, the boy and I were wandering Montreal one night, on St. Catherines, the weekend we dropped the daughter off (she was already out running around with friends).  We were trying to figure out a place to eat, and were a bit stuck.  We stop along the sidewalk, only to realize that it was right at the entrance to one of the bigger strip clubs.  Bouncer in the door gruffly asks "what are you looking for?"  We turn to him, "ummm....some place to get dinner?"  "Hell, just go right next door here -- Mr. Steer.  Fantastic burgers!"

So we did.  He was right.  Simple, classic.

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Are those hamburgers for ants?

 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I can point out times when the US was among the least fucked-up places and wasn't leading the charge to a fucked-up place.

 

6 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

 

01/04/06

 

At that point we had over a 100k troops in Iraq and probably already 20k in Afghanistan.  Lots of bullshit going on at that exact time, definitely making us the world leader at the time.

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Posted (edited)

Pete's got his work cut out for him to be worse than McNamara or Rummy.  I obviously hope he's less impactful on the world than they were.

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"The world has always been fucked" seems like a cop out to me. 

I think quality of life was generally improving for most people across most of our lives, certainly in the US. Im not sure if that's going to be the case for my children. In fact, I doubt it will be. Outside of the obvious political stuff, the planet turning into an empty husk of what it once was is problematic. The fact that 90+% of people continue to treat this as some niche issue is mind-boggling to me. 

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Posted
12 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

"The world has always been fucked" seems like a cop out to me. 

I think quality of life was generally improving for most people across most of our lives, certainly in the US. Im not sure if that's going to be the case for my children. In fact, I doubt it will be. Outside of the obvious political stuff, the planet turning into an empty husk of what it once was is problematic. The fact that 90+% of people continue to treat this as some niche issue is mind-boggling to me. 

It's not a cop out.

Historically, the world stays "fucked" yet moves on and quality of life for most continues to improve...thanks to technology, communication, diversity, evolution, etc...

Just stay in the last 100 years.  What was the consensus view of parents in the mid-20s?  Mid-40s?  Mid-60s? 

I just disagree if you think there's certainty that the situation or future forecast today is different than it may have been in countless points in the past.

Posted
25 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Mitch voted no. CNN anticipates the couch fucker will have to cast the deciding vote.

Mitch is not good at picking the best times to vote the right way. 

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