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31 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I've said it before on here, but the competent, successful grown-ups that play Trump's game infuriate me far more than he does.  

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3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I guess I don't understand how a person can say "I am a Democrat" or "I am a Republican" and really identify with a party unless they are deeply involved in the party itself or the daily business of winning and losing elections. 
It's one thing to consistently vote for a party, but the tribal element is very strange. Corporations don't identify with a party, why should a person? This is a transaction for me. 

Eh, seems nitpicky.  I'm not sure I really call myself a Democrat, but I don't have a problem with someone who consistently votes for and donates to Democratic candidates (like I do) calling themselves a Democrat.  

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

Are they going to lock up Boy Scouts, who historically have provided a service to retire old flags as stipulated in the US Flag Code?

https://scoutingwire.org/everything-a-scout-should-know-about-u-s-flag-retirement/

https://www.legion.org/advocacy/flag-advocacy/flag-code

Or is the intent the only transgression here?  You know, kind of like what you are thinking as you do the deed.  Orwell had a term for that.

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My Aunt and Uncle were died Red Reagan Republicans.  He was an oil man. They are liberal now. Trump's behavior during his first term bothered them, but his rejection of Science during Covid infuriated my Uncle.  

This is my father. Big Reagan guy and over the past two years I convinced him that Republican Party was gone and he was screwed based on their new platform (he’s 92, social security, etc).
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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I don't care what Roger Clemens or any other shitty Texan thinks about who is or isn't a Texan.

The easiest bar to clear is "born in Texas".  The next easiest is "born of two Texans".  The next is "born of at least one Texan".  The next would be some version of "lived (or based) in Texas for the majority of their life".  Draw your line where you want to.  Roger's kids were born and raised in Texas.  His nomadic lifestyle as a pro athlete isn't all that different than that of a white collar salesman, and I don't see people trying to gatekeep THEIR status when their wife and kids are living in Texas and have done so for years if not decades.

Dumb argument.  Is it Saturday yet?

I have no idea why anyone would want to claim to be a Texan in the first place. Y’all some dumb sumbitches and a national embarrassment. 

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19 minutes ago, 27-25 said:

Are they going to lock up Boy Scouts, who historically have provided a service to retire old flags as stipulated in the US Flag Code?

https://scoutingwire.org/everything-a-scout-should-know-about-u-s-flag-retirement/

https://www.legion.org/advocacy/flag-advocacy/flag-code

Or is the intent the only transgression here?  You know, kind of like what you are thinking as you do the deed.  Orwell had a term for that.

I assume that it's still okay to plaster the face of a fat, ugly, orange-faced  dipshit all over the flag though

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27 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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Amusing Ourselves to Death is a great book and that’s a great quote. Amazing he had such extraordinary prescience in 1985. 

24 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Eh, seems nitpicky.  I'm not sure I really call myself a Democrat, but I don't have a problem with someone who consistently votes for and donates to Democratic candidates (like I do) calling themselves a Democrat.  

I don’t have a problem with it, it’s just not something I can personally relate to. 

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3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Amusing Ourselves to Death is a great book and that’s a great quote. Amazing he had such extraordinary prescience in 1985. 

dang, might have to revisit that one. I read it in college but a lot of literature went in one ear and out the other in those days. 

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29 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I have no idea why anyone would want to claim to be a Texan in the first place. Y’all some dumb sumbitches and a national embarrassment. 

And we're easily pissed off by remarks like the above. I can't believe the firestorm you've created! Oh, the humanity!

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1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

That video is great lol

Long, but worth it imo

It's hilarious, but frighteningly on point. He smartly focuses on Rogan/comedy world but it completely rhymes with Trump and Trumpism. 

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On 8/24/2025 at 9:12 AM, aggie08 said:

Yeah, now is not the time to give us a common enemy to rally against. We're weakening American influence more effectively on our own than any terrorist could.

We already have a common enemy. Problem is half the country keeps voting for them.

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13 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

My family has been in Texas since it was part of Mexico.  I have an ancestor who died at the Alamo, and one who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.  I used to love Texas, and being Texan, but now it's just an embarrassment.  If my family situation allowed it, I would gladly leave and never return.  Every day that I'm forced to stay here is a stain on my soul.  Fuck the people that did this.

When all those "Native Texan" bumper stickers started appearing in the late 70s and 80s, I was in a car driving with my dad. He was about as Texas as you can be from Port Arthur. He saw one of those stickers and remarked: "I can't think of a more worthless distinction. I was born in Texas. Who cares?"

I've never said that I was proud to be from Texas. Until about 30 years ago, I'd tell you that I was pleased to be from Texas. I liked what Texans had once been even as the place dissolved into Anywhere, USA. Now it's Anywhere, USA marinating in ignorance, hate, and intolerance. Those traits can be found anywhere, but used to think of the Texans I knew as friendly and prone to mind their own business. We're about as far from that as you can get now.

I'm embarrassed to say I'm a Texan. Abbott is trying as hard as he can to make me embarrassed about being a Longhorn.

Indeed, fuck the people that did this forever and ever.

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1 hour ago, Nivek said:

So in other words they have to pay trump to get him to stop fucking up the markets

Well, Hitler owned much of Mercedes Benz and Porsche. There are still remnants of Hitler era German owned Schindler Elevator. What we’re seeing is the Nazi history repeating itself.

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3 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

something something control the means of production. where are our resident magats here to decry this government takeover of free enterprise? anyone? no one? ffs

We all know that if Obama or Biden were having the government take control over portions of private companies that Fox News and the Republicans would be saying what a great idea itis and how smart it is for the government to do so, right?  Right?

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3 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

We all know that if Obama or Biden were having the government take control over portions of private companies that Fox News and the Republicans would be saying what a great idea itis and how smart it is for the government to do so, right?  Right?

Deeply principled r/conservatives are shockingly fine with it.

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51 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

something something control the means of production. where are our resident magats here to decry this government takeover of free enterprise? anyone? no one? ffs

Image of Look, you take that commie crap out to the street.

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Conservative values of picking business winners and losers left and right just like the invisible hand is supposed to do. 

But my role is that of Greek chorus of orange man bad - it is what I am reduced to as a libtard.  

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5435364/a-look-at-the-golden-share-agreement-in-the-u-s-steel-nippon-steel-partnership

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-demands-highly-conflicted-intel-ceo-resign-over-china-ties-2025-08-07/

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504096/401k-private-equity-crypto-executive-order

Posted
2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Watch this. You're not alone. 

 

Fantastic video thesis. My only critique is that I'm not sure Joe Rogan has the capacity to do any of this intentionally. He simply has a fragile enough ego required to be played like a fiddle by the real puppetmasters, and by happenstance had enough connections to the legitimate stand-up comedy scene that he could be used as a trojan horse to poison that field of endeavor, which once served an important truth-telling purpose in our society. Comparing him to Marshall Applewhite is kind of a stretch, because Applewhite was a mastermind while Rogan is sort of a useful idiot. Heaven's Gate is the vision of a man who'd gone insane, whereas the Comedy Mothership is more what happens when a hack comedian without a coherent worldview is given unlimited money by techbros on the unspoken understanding that they would stop hanging out with him if he ever dared to disagree with them, and that hack comedian is surrounded by desperate, unknown hack comedians willing to debase themselves for a chance to become just a bit more famous. Rogan has no vision of his own.



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