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9 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

America’s Ground Proximity Warning is screaming at us.

 

Doesn't matter.  We're Germanwings Flight 9525, being deliberately flown into a mountain.  The "terrain! terrain! PULL UP!" is just background noise at this point.

Oh, and half the people on the plane are cheering on the pilot as he does so, even though the crash will kill everyone, including them.  Fucking insane.

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“Justice is reserved for the well-connected.”

Yeah, no. That ain’t justice. That is far from Justice. 
 

Here’s the headline: “Justice cannot touch the well connected.” Which explains the Luigi fandom.

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1 minute ago, Willfully Horn said:

“Justice is reserved for the well-connected.”

Yeah, no. That ain’t justice. That is far from Justice. 
 

Here’s the headline: “Justice cannot touch the well connected.”

At least the peasants have football.

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5 minutes ago, bluto said:

Actually knew a member in TA, csb

Saw them open for Okkervil River in a tiny little venue in San Diego circa 2010. Place had like 7 foot ceilings. Blew the doors off 

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Trump asked today in the Oval Office about Leticia James: "I don't really know anything about it. She certainly looks like she's very guilty of something, but I don't really know anything about it." 

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21 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

So, an interesting new trend: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/new-poll-republicans-sour-on-path-for-us/507-8b3ce73e-357a-4ae5-9854-9147855b20d9?tbref=hp

I'll highlight the point that I find a bit interesting.

I find the shift really interesting, and the potential reason for it REALLY interesting.

We have a thread on here referring to the GOP as a "Trumpist death cult."  And there's something to that.  There is a strong thread of nihilism running through the movement; it's a "blow it all up," "inflict maximum pain on the other" kind of movement.  They're posing for smiling pictures at the "Alligator Alcatraz" sign, we all know that "the cruelty is the point," that sort of thing.  And, it's easy to fall into that worldview when you see yourself as The Main Character.  These are things you/your side DOES, they are NOT things that are done to you.

But the problem with "blowing it all up" (economy, education, all institutions, etc.), is that you live in the thing that you are blowing up.  So when that bomb of chaos that you've been cheering on blows up, you end up looking like this:

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And a parallel problem is with the cruelty, and the casually inflammatory attacks on "the other" (invaders, vermin, democrats are terrorists who must be eliminated), etc. is that it lights a fuse of violence.  Those of us NOT in MAGA land have seen it and sounded the alarm about it for years, particularly after signature events done in furtherance of the cause: El Paso, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Colorado Springs, the Hortmans, and on and on.  But not only does MAGA not care, they actually liked it.  Because functionally, all of the political violence was taking out "the other" or their enemies.  Why should they mind, the people they hate are getting what they deserve!

But again....the "political violence" bomb is NOT a carefully controlled explosion.  It is grenades repeatedly tossed into society as a whole.  And, eventually, the shrapnel from those grenades blows back on the people cheering them on.  Create an atmosphere that incites increasing political violence?  Well, they're fine with it.....so long as only "the other/the enemy" is the victim.  But....when the storm of violence comes to them, and one of their own....well, that changes things.

I am not taking the position that Charlie Kirk's murder was a good thing.  Not at all.  I have never, ever wanted our country to descend into political violence -- FFS, I've spent a decade being a cassandra about "fucking stop it, people, because this is the INEVITABLE outcome of where we're headed!"  I didn't want El Paso to happen, I didn't want Charlie Kirk's murder to happen.  None of it.  Instead, what I'm observing is that my observation and warning that "this ends in bloodshed" includes a footnote of "and you can't perfectly control where and how it goes, and it WILL get messy."  

And perhaps what the polling above is showing that once the fantasy world that some MAGAs have constructed -- where they can spew rage, hate, and anger, inciting and inflicting pain and violence willy-nilly -- turns into reality, which is messy, ugly, and involves bloodshed and death....some of them may lose their stomach for it.  It's all fun and games when we get to hate brown people and laugh about them being shackled, and not care (or only care in the most cursory of fashions) when they get slaughtered in a Wal-Mart because hey, they're invaders.  It's quite different when you realize that the beast of "stochastic terrorist violence" ultimately turns on you and yours, and can't be controlled, and that beast causes some awful, messy shit, in a society that you really, really want to be clean and pretty and well-functioning.  The ultimate lesson being that if you think society is too messy and chaotic, the solution isn't to inject hyper-chaos into the system; it's to do the long, slow, and hard work of cleaning up the mess and chaos.

MAYBE some of these people are seeing that, across the board, "make everything more chaotic" is both counterproductive as a whole, and causes harm and pain to the very people who have cheered it on.  I dunno.  Hoping that a group of people realize that "cause pain and blow everything up" is a terrible idea because we all live here together is an act of pure hopefulness, which y'all know ain't my bag.  But, I'm observing that COULD be part of what's reflected in this polling.

Or fuck, I dunno, the guy at the end asks the right question: Is Kirk the straw that breaks the camel's back or sets off a powder keg?  Thus far, the evidence we're seeing is that it set off a powder keg (one that MAGA has long-had primed, and they were eagerly waiting for the opportunity to light its fuse).  But that's the near-term, and certainly the action that the admin is taking.  But long-term....what are we going to see?  Which direction are the American people - or at least this important subset of them - going to go?

Stay tuned to find out.  But not to ABC or a Tegna station.

Kirk’s murder was not a good thing because all murder is bad and because there are so many other possible better ways things could be going, but it looks like the only way out of this mess is for the people propping up the people causing all the suffering to also suffer.  Unfortunately, the only way out of this mess is through violence.

20 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I see another possible, and in my mind more likely, direction. They are seeing things not going well and then you have a murder of a right wing podcaster that reflects many of their beliefs, after which they are told by dear leader that all the violence and bad things in their life is from the left. This, in turn, makes these people think that the left must be extinguished as the only solution to this violence. 

That’s really the question: do Trump supporters/voters actually have the stomach to see through all the cruel policies they voted for?

I don’t think they do.  But I think it’s going to take a lot of things being shoved in their face before they realize it.

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8 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

That’s really the question: do Trump supporters/voters actually have the stomach to see through all the cruel policies they voted for?

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25 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

That’s really the question: do Trump supporters/voters actually have the stomach to see through all the cruel policies they voted for?

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1 minute ago, Goofyboy said:

I’m waiting for them to outlaw birth control. That MIGHT get white women to wake up.

I'm not sure white women are the problem.

 

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On 9/18/2025 at 7:40 PM, Biff Tannen said:

I’m starting to struggle with my love of football (and sports in general), as they have become the opiate of the masses while we as a nation are numb to the fascist takeover of our country. 
 

As long as people have their NFL, that’s all they can be bothered with. It has completely taken over the dumbass populace and the oligarchs know it. By the time the season is over, project 2025 will be mostly complete or in motion. And many people will just be blissfully awaiting the next season. 

I've thought that for some time, actually.  The wife (no pics) and I were watching the Cowboys doc on Netflix and I was telling her that the biggest change in sports in my lifetime is the NFL being completely dominant not just in sports but in pop culture.  Monday Night Football used to be like the #10 rated show or something and now random games are getting +20M viewers.  Philly/Chiefs got like 30M.  

It's totally eclipsed even other sports.  I used to like sports talk radio/podcasts but most of them are NFL centric even in the spring and summer.  I just don't give any fucks at all about where Aaron Rogers is going but they're still yammering on about it in July.

Anyway, I think you're right in that it's the opiate that almost everyone is in on.  It's the reason ABC should have pushed back on the Kimmel firing.  "Pull out license?  OK.  We'll shut down ESPN."

 

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11 hours ago, jw4381 said:

Just saw an ice recruitment ad on the Iowa Rutgers game. $50k signing bonus. Fuck these putos. 

My plan is to apply, deposit the $50k then have my bone spur flare up. 

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We keep hearing about threats to pull a network’s license, but, and someone please correct me if I’m wrong, the actual broadcast network doesn’t possess a broadcast license. Except in the case of owned & operated local stations, the networks don’t own the spectrum. The local stations own the licenses so it’s the companies like Tegna, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc that own the actual licenses that the regime keeps on threatening. 

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37 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

I’m waiting for them to outlaw birth control. That MIGHT get white women to wake up.

White women ain’t gonna do shit

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

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1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

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Sure, they’ve been more than willing to watch the suffering that’s already happened, but:

42 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

I’m waiting for them to outlaw birth control. That MIGHT get white women to wake up.

This.  Restrictions on birth control, restrictions on women voting and working, mass extermination or imprisonment of people based on religion, race, gender, sexual preference, economic status, or political affiliations…these are all things we are on track to start seeing and I am not sure Trump supporters will stay faithful through all of that.  It might be too late to change anything by the time they wake up, so it might not matter.

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55 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

I’m waiting for them to outlaw birth control. That MIGHT get white women to wake up.

That’s not the only right they will strip from white women, so they won’t be a problem at the voting booth 

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21 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

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Governance by adults who care about the republic. Decorum, eloquence, grace.

A note from Trump would start, "You're ratings are terrible."

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59 minutes ago, topochico said:

My plan is to apply, deposit the $50k then have my bone spur flare up. 

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Do you got a nut?

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1 hour ago, topochico said:

My plan is to apply, deposit the $50k then have my bone spur flare up. 

 

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Same.

Everyone should apply, and then just stand around and do nothing. When Miller shows up to scream at us, we beat his ass.

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