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4 hours ago, Superhero said:

I go to a church that focuses on God, our relationship with God, and spreading the good word. The pastors acknowledge division in the country, but otherwise does NOT talk about politics.

 

When I read shit like that in the previous post, I see why people fucking hate Christians.

I have to tell ya…I struggle with churches that don’t believe they have an obligation to pursue social holiness as well as personal piety.

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5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Yall are gonna keep getting shocked when you lose winnable elections and blame it on the southwest eggrolls.

Shocking that I had this Dumas on ignore.  Actually it’s not.

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Just now, Hefeweizen said:

Shocking that I had this Dumas on ignore.  Actually it’s not.

Not gonna lie, I like a southwestern egg roll too. Guilty pleasure. 

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8 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

 

That's pretty classy.

Had I been that governor I would have said "can it chunky cheese!"

 

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Why can’t we be more like Brazil? From the BBC:

Brazil's chief prosecutor has accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of leading an attempted coup after the ex-leader was defeated by his left-wing rival in the 2022 presidential election.

According to the prosecutor, the alleged plot aimed to prevent Bolsonaro's successor in office, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, from taking office and included a plan to poison Lula. 

Bolsonaro, 69, denies any wrongdoing and says he is the victim of a political witch hunt.

It is now up to Brazil's Supreme Court to decide whether to accept the prosecutor's charges and put Bolsonaro and 33 others accused on trial.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I've been saying for well over a decade that the impetus behind this rise of the far right is white American terror about being replaced as the majority, and I was hardly the first.  I got all kinds of pushback.  Hmmm.

 

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“No President – Republican or Democrat – can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws, which I took an oath to uphold. Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so.


We need more people like this.
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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

Yall are gonna keep getting shocked when you lose winnable elections and blame it on the southwest eggrolls.

Hey man if they are going to tank the economy, I would rather they not keep putting us in charge to deal with it.

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

Yall are gonna keep getting shocked when you lose winnable elections and blame it on the southwest eggrolls.

As opposed to blaming “ELECTION FRAUD” and storming the capitol… 

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21 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I believe it is and she probably knows this regardless.  Still, it is relatively uncommon for a federal judge to take an "independent" stance on scientific or technical issues before them.

In most senses, this is a product of the adversarial system in which the facts are those produced by the parties in evidence before the court.  Like juries are discouraged/forbidden from independently researching a case, so too do federal judges tend to avoid extrajudicial knowledge.

The rules don't forbid it for judges and federal judges in particular have more freedom to do it and to comment on it in court, even before a jury.

There's a judge in San Francisco/San Jose with a degree in math that is an amateur computer scientist who presided over Google v. Oracle and was openly independent and skeptical of some of the assertions of the parties there based on his own knowledge.

More typical, though, is Chief Judge David Godbey of the ND Tex in Dallas, who has a BSEE but feigns not knowing what a transistor does.

Csb David lives down the street from me and our wives are close friends. 

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kinda crazy thought: they want to prompt the inevitable republican recession now. they already know they will lose the house at the midterms because history but in 4 years we'll be far enough removed from trump's second recession that it shouldn't be front of mind to voters.

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Trump today could suspend elections for his life and name Barron his eventual replacement, and there wouldn’t be a peep from the GOP politicians. At most a few might say that they disagree but they don’t really think that is going to happen.

the only thing keeping America from being a dictatorship is Trump agreeing to not being a dictator.

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19 hours ago, Old Freak Nasty said:

This is pretty far down the list of things that are important, but they are absolutely going to ruin the enjoyment of watching sports by having maga freaks all over telecasts and increasing coverage of maga friendly athletes and coaches anecdotes.  The Super Bowl and the 4 Nations Face-off and Daytona (allegedly, I don't watch) are just the start.  The media companies are going to do it as part of their strategies to stay in good graces.  I don't see Longhorn football avoiding that fate either.  I'm going to wean myself off pro sports as best I can.

Yes.  It’s just an annoyance in the grand scheme but it all adds up.  

19 hours ago, 'stache said:

This fucking cuntstain has Americans rooting against their own country in favor of Canada in hockey. I'm one of them. Fucking everything has to be divisive with this fuck. Like renaming a fucking body of water knowing that it just riles people up for no other fucking reason whatsoever. When the nation collapses we'll deserve it, half of the voters wanted this, fuck them, and fuck you if you enjoy this or still think "both sides are the same." Eat shit, for real.

And i definitely don’t want the ‘normals’ to move out of deep red states but I have no idea how you all do it.  Spend a lot of time in Miami and when I have meetings in FLL etc you’ll get a lot of trumptards but in general it’s a pretty different brand/feel then you get in TX/OK.  Keep fighting the good fight down there.  Laugh at the leopards every chance you can…

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16 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Trump today could suspend elections for his life and name Barron his eventual replacement, and there wouldn’t be a peep from the GOP politicians. At most a few might say that they disagree but they don’t really think that is going to happen.

the only thing keeping America from being a dictatorship is Trump agreeing to not being a dictator.

Janet Mills would like a word.

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41 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Yes.  It’s just an annoyance in the grand scheme but it all adds up.  

And i definitely don’t want the ‘normals’ to move out of deep red states but I have no idea how you all do it.  Spend a lot of time in Miami and when I have meetings in FLL etc you’ll get a lot of trumptards but in general it’s a pretty different brand/feel then you get in TX/OK.  Keep fighting the good fight down there.  Laugh at the leopards every chance you can…

Happened to be in Miami this week. On Monday we were playing Pickleball at Salvadore Park and some dipshit Trumptard rode by on his bike decked out in full regalia flying a Trump flag off the back. 

It ain’t just FLL  

/csb

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6 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Happened to be in Miami this week. On Monday we were playing Pickleball at Salvadore Park and some dipshit Trumptard rode by on his bike decked out in full regalia flying a Trump flag off the back. 

It ain’t just FLL  

/csb

They need to update the video I posted to include the hats, flags, and tshirts 

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1 hour ago, elfenix said:

kinda crazy thought: they want to prompt the inevitable republican recession now. they already know they will lose the house at the midterms because history but in 4 years we'll be far enough removed from trump's second recession that it shouldn't be front of mind to voters.

That definitely seems like the plan, and their propaganda machine is the best thing they have going for them. I'm not sure they can fix it in time, even with a Dem house. 

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1 hour ago, elfenix said:

kinda crazy thought: they want to prompt the inevitable republican recession now. they already know they will lose the house at the midterms because history but in 4 years we'll be far enough removed from trump's second recession that it shouldn't be front of mind to voters.

I had this same thought.  If they trigger the inevitable recession now, and make it really really bad they can still blame it on Biden/Kamala and say they “saved us” if things improve (even slightly) in 3.5 yrs.  53% of the population will remember it this way just like they all forgot about how he shit the bed on covid.

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4 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

Csb David lives down the street from me and our wives are close friends. 

I think he's a good guy, personally, and a good judge.  But his studied ignorance of matters technical is interesting.  He must have hated undergrad.

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On 2/20/2025 at 8:55 PM, TwiceHorn said:

I know, just adding to your question.

Wrong?  Fuck you Howard.

I am OK with this one.   I want the olds to suffer, lose their homes, lose their revenue, and lose their insurance.   They need to feel the consequences of their actions.

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1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

Happened to be in Miami this week. On Monday we were playing Pickleball at Salvadore Park and some dipshit Trumptard rode by on his bike decked out in full regalia flying a Trump flag off the back. 

It ain’t just FLL  

/csb

Haha, agreed.  You’ll see it in Chicago occasionally too.  But it’s nothing like true Trumptard strongholds.  When they get together it’s 1000x worse.  You’ll see a rare yacht in miami with a trump flag.  Far from the capsized POS boat parades we’ve all seen.  
 

edit:  also, a bike?  Come on, man.  You need a jacked up raptor with oakleys to be considered serious.  

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3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

 

 

But there's trans kids playing basketball in the next town over, litterboxes in some school 50 miles away, and there's sure a lot of illegals working around town.  And have you seen the price of eggs lately?

 

 

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https://apple.news/AgyAimePBQ8e8Rq5xy32spw

President Donald Trump tonight began a purge of the senior ranks of the United States armed forces in an apparent effort to intimidate the military and create an officer corps personally loyal to him. The president fired General C. Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a remarkable move but also one that Trump and his MAGA allies signaled was coming.

Brown has been the target of criticisms from some Republican senators as well as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, all of whom argued that he was too “woke” and too concerned with diversity in the armed forces. In his book The War on Warriors, Hegseth suggested that Brown, who is Black, may have risen to his position through racial preferences. “We’ll never know,” he wrote, in a classic just-asking-questions dodge.

But Trump should know. He’s the president who nominated Brown to be Air Force chief of staff in 2020. (Biden appointed Brown as chairman in 2023.) Trump gave no reason for the firing and Hegseth issued a boilerplate statement thanking Brown—who is only the second African American, after the late Colin Powell, to hold the position of chairman—for his distinguished service.

The chairman is the most senior officer in the United States and by law the principal military adviser to the president. He does not direct military forces and is not in the chain of command. Normally, the chairman serves a four-year term; the position, like that of FBI director, is meant to bridge across administrations rather than change with each incoming president—specifically so that the chairman (again, like the head of the FBI) does not become a partisan political appointment.

Obviously, Trump has no use for such conventions and believes that every senior official in the United States should be a personal appointee of the president—so long as that president is him. If U.S. military leaders are in any doubt about the necessity of absolute loyalty to Trump, they need only look to Brown’s replacement. Instead of tapping another serving four-star, Trump has reached out to a retired three-star Air Force officer named Dan Caine, whom Trump tonight said was unjustly passed over for his fourth star by “Sleepy Joe Biden” despite being “highly qualified and respected.”
Trump apparently met Caine on a trip to Iraq in 2018. The president later recalled that first meeting during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2019. He claimed that Caine—call sign “Razin” Caine—was insistent that ISIS could be defeated in a week if America committed enough force to the effort. Trump said that Caine then donned a MAGA cap, and said: “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” Trump added that he told Caine he was not allowed to do that, “but they did it.”

If the president is telling the truth about this exchange, Caine shouldn’t be in the job. Senior officers, by law and military regulations, must avoid shows of partisan fealty, and such displays should never be the basis for promotion. The story, if true, is a strong indication of Trump’s political motives; Caine’s behavior, in any case, disqualifies him from the job. He appears to have had a fine career, and while it is not typical to pull an officer out of retirement to take the chairman post, it is not unprecedented. But Trump, who has apparently been telling this story for years, is not choosing Caine because of his background; he’s elevating Caine in position and rank because he wants a chairman who is wholly devoted to him.

The message to the rest of the military could not be clearer. Trump loathed Brown’s predecessor, General Mark Milley, and has floated the idea that Milley should be executed for actions he took as chairman. (This idea came to him shortly after the publication of this magazine’s profile of Milley, by editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, which detailed how Milley protected the Constitution from Trump.)

Trump and Hegseth have announced their intentions to fire several other senior officers—and perhaps even most ominously, including the head lawyers of each of the services. Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government. None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple.
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57 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I am OK with this one.   I want the olds to suffer, lose their homes, lose their revenue, and lose their insurance.   They need to feel the consequences of their actions.

Sent to your parent’s probate attorney…

 

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15 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

 

$1000 a year or so each is a pittance to pay to keep those 5 or so trans athletes from taking a D2 scholarship from someone’s precious little snowflake 

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15 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

$1000 a year or so each is a pittance to pay to keep those 5 or so trans athletes from taking a D2 scholarship from someone’s precious little snowflake 

Good news, you're also getting fewer federal government services for that tax increase 

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Americans have traditionally wanted to fight the king and the kings representatives.   I have an ancestor who was captured during the revolutionary war when the British took Fort Washington.    The prisoners were sent to rot and die in ships called “Hulks” (if you remember, great expectations that is where the Australian benefactor was housed when he escaped)  - all the British Navy ships who had lost their usefulness in the military, but could be used to house prisoners - where disease and malnutrition killed 70% of them.   My ancestors survived, and immediately upon being released when colonial troops seized the hulks, he signed up with the continental infantry so that he could go kill as many redcoats as possible.

I guess we’ll see if Thomas Jefferson’s quote about watering the tree of liberty was accurate or naïve and we have lost that DNA.    I have another ancestor who was a ring leader in Shay’s rebellion.   And I have a mother who in the 1940s hid the Japanese mother of one of her classmates in her apartment for several months so she would not be sent to a relocation camp.

I hope that enough of us still feel that way.

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4 minutes ago, Colonel Sanders said:

Good news, you're also getting fewer federal government services for that tax increase 

Don’t forget inflation through tariffs

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I have a child on the very mild end of the spectrum but that doesn’t mean that she and all of us don’t grapple with enormous challenges, slights, and hassles every day to do our best to get her to thrive in a place that’s not designed for her flourishing. 
 

We are low on the list of living beings that this country now wants to harm for their own amusement and consolidation of power, but I can’t tell you how rage-making it is to see our family’s very real little battle turned into one more little hole on the skee-ball board this administration uses to rack up political points.  I actually do think that the federal government has a role in understanding this and finding ways to make it better, and to improve the lives of people who are different.  Instead, autism research and treatment is one more thing that will be turned to refuse because of the feces they are spraying into it.

Another reason that I really do detest anyone who lends their support to this; I really do hope for bad things for them. 

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Posted
56 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

 

When does this take place? I had a great year in 2024 and am delaying doing anything with the IRS until the buzzer hoping something will break in our favor.

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1 hour ago, Nivek said:

I am OK with this one.   I want the olds to suffer, lose their homes, lose their revenue, and lose their insurance.   They need to feel the consequences of their actions.

The problem is that it affects people who DIDN'T vote against the greater good.

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Americans have traditionally wanted to fight the king and the kings representatives.   I have an ancestor who was captured during the revolutionary war when the British took Fort Washington.    The prisoners were sent to rot and die in ships called “Hulks” (if you remember, great expectations that is where the Australian benefactor was housed when he escaped)  - all the British Navy ships who had lost their usefulness in the military, but could be used to house prisoners - where disease and malnutrition killed 70% of them.   My ancestors survived, and immediately upon being released when colonial troops seized the hulks, he signed up with the continental infantry so that he could go kill as many redcoats as possible.
I guess we’ll see if Thomas Jefferson’s quote about watering the tree of liberty was accurate or naïve and we have lost that DNA.    I have another ancestor who was a ring leader in Shay’s rebellion.   And I have a mother who in the 1940s hid the Japanese mother of one of her classmates in her apartment for several months so she would not be sent to a relocation camp.
I hope that enough of us still feel that way.

We don’t. We are a shit country full of shit people being shitty. In 70 years, we went from defeating the Nazis and trying then for war crimes to openly admiring and becoming them. Cruelty is our brand.
Collectively, this nation deserves everything bad coming to it, and then some.
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23 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

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Spray?   Sprayed all over the place?

Chemtrail truthers everywhere are rejoicing today.  

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18 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

When does this take place? I had a great year in 2024 and am delaying doing anything with the IRS until the buzzer hoping something will break in our favor.

It’s not going to be retroactive to 2024. They will very likely pass a tax bill extending the 2017 changes for some amount of time after 2025.

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16 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

We don’t. We are a shit country full of shit people being shitty. In 70 years, we went from defeating the Nazis and trying then for war crimes to openly admiring and becoming them. Cruelty is our brand.
Collectively, this nation deserves everything bad coming to it, and then some.

And honestly, we were kind of shitty then, too.

 

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And honestly, we were kind of shitty then, too.
 

What, you mean the country whose Jim Crow laws were the model for Nazi laws, the country that segregated its military even in an existential war, and the country that sent a butt load of people to prison camps just because of their ethnicity? THAT country? Yeah….
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