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13 minutes ago, Nivek said:

They heard from youtube university that debate is how they destroy leftist ideas.  Since they never finished high school or understood debate or the stupidity of debate, they think it is high art and by pretending to participate in it, they think they are above others.  

Their entire existence is based on grievance, trolling, and gotcha questions. They so badly want to be smart, but they are not. The “yet you participate in society” comic is dead on. 
 

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43 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Breaking: the party of intolerance is intolerant towards intolerance. 

Well, as Trump said in his UN address yesterday, “It can only good happen.”

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The rubes will cheer as weapons are confiscated from leftists then wonder in horror what's happening when they start being confiscated from them for complaining about grocery costs, aid going to other countries instead of them, etc. 

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52 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

I remember reading Larry McMurtry's Texasville, set in the oilpatch in a time of depressed oil prices, and thus a lot of depressed people in the oil patch:

"In this arresting, funny-sad sequel to The Last Picture Show, McMurtry's small Texas town of Thalia has gone from boom to bust practically overnight, a victim of the mid-'80s oil glut. Under the strain of financial calamity, the townsfolk are becoming increasingly irrational -- one man dreams of bombing OPEC, the mayor is going quietly mad, sexual mores are turning bizarre, and the civic leaders are pressing on with a centennial celebration even though there's nothing to celebrate."

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I remember reading Larry McMurtry's Texasville, set in the oilpatch in a time of depressed oil prices, and thus a lot of depressed people in the oil patch:

"In this arresting, funny-sad sequel to The Last Picture Show, McMurtry's small Texas town of Thalia has gone from boom to bust practically overnight, a victim of the mid-'80s oil glut. Under the strain of financial calamity, the townsfolk are becoming increasingly irrational -- one man dreams of bombing OPEC, the mayor is going quietly mad, sexual mores are turning bizarre, and the civic leaders are pressing on with a centennial celebration even though there's nothing to celebrate."

I lived it. The '80s in the Permian Basin were bleak. It was also like the *rapture* with classmates disappearing left and right, never to be heard from again. We also had our own real-life rapture scare running wild through town among certain evangelical groups during the middle of fucking football season for chrissakes. There was this one cute, freckled chick who needed reassurance and comfort, which I was happy to provide after her ordeal.

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5 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I'm not much of a country guy, but I could get down with this song
 

I mean, sure. It’s gross that this needs to exist. Even if it got some magas to change their minds, as soon as they get that sweet Fox News hit, they’ll go right back. 

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9 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I lived it. The '80s in the Permian Basin were bleak. It was also like the *rapture* with classmates disappearing left and right, never to be heard from again. We also had our own real-life rapture scare running wild through town among certain evangelical groups during the middle of fucking football season for chrissakes. There was this one cute, freckled chick who needed reassurance and comfort, which I was happy to provide after her ordeal.

Yeah, same second-hand.  My aunt and cousin were oil-rich from Wichita Falls, and I used to go up and visit for a week every summer.  By the mid-80s, my aunt moved to Dallas and Little Rock.

Whole thing was complicated by the fact that my cousin inherited my uncle's drilling business, and bought three portable rigs in about 1982.  So I think he gtfo to escape the scene of his humiliation.  To his credit, though, he didn't file for bankruptcy, but spent the next 10-15 years driving back and forth between Dallas and WF working out his debt.

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15 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I lived it. The '80s in the Permian Basin were bleak. It was also like the *rapture* with classmates disappearing left and right, never to be heard from again. We also had our own real-life rapture scare running wild through town among certain evangelical groups during the middle of fucking football season for chrissakes. There was this one cute, freckled chick who needed reassurance and comfort, which I was happy to provide after her ordeal.

Yeah, I was a Houston kid.  The brutality of the oil patch in the 80s very much hit close to home there as well.  It really was felt Texas-wide, and Texasville very much struck a cord.  I grew up in a family with deep ties to the oil patch, and in a city with an economy and well-being closely tied to the industry, so saw the pain, lost classmates, things got lean, all that.  No rapture stuff, though...I was a Catholic school kid.

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31 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I lived it. The '80s in the Permian Basin were bleak. It was also like the *rapture* with classmates disappearing left and right, never to be heard from again.

 

14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah, I was a Houston kid.

I was east of Houston and most of the dads of my friends worked at the Arco plant or Chevron Cedar Bayou (or they farmed, and most of them were hurting, too).  
 

I also recall being invited to Baptist Sunday school (we were Methodist) and being incredulous when told the apocalypse was two, maybe three years away.  
 

I don’t know what it is about these people that they are so eager for the hereafter, but I think it’s maybe an American version of Edith Hamilton’s description of the richly imagined afterlife created by Egyptian slaves.  

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5 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

 

I was east of Houston and most of the dads of my friends worked at the Arco plant or Chevron Cedar Bayou (or they farmed, and most of them were hurting, too).  
 

I also recall being invited to Baptist Sunday school (we were Methodist) and being incredulous when told the apocalypse was two, maybe three years away.  
 

I don’t know what it is about these people that they are so eager for the hereafter, but I think it’s maybe an American version of Edith Hamilton’s description of the richly imagined afterlife created by Egyptian slaves.  

 

I always saw it as an excuse for not making things better in this world.

My parents were public school teachers, so we were fortunate that our family's finances weren't directly hit by the bust. The same can't be said for a lot of my friends back then, though. The high school's enrollment went from about 1,500 students to around 1,200 or so. On top of the oil bust, we had just lost the AFB too a few years earlier in the late '70s, so lots of folks, who were already in a depressed state, completely lost their minds for a while there. Drug use was absolutely rampant.

The worst of it was that we were already getting our asses kicked in the "Little Southwest Conference" week in and week out. It was like the fucking apocalypse, but we dropped down to 4A when I was in HS and finally became competitive for a while, but they've been back to being a miserable football program for the last couple of decades.

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1 hour ago, Sbbruin said:

I'm not much of a country guy, but I could get down with this song

Except for the fact that it's ridiculously auto-tuned performative bro country masquerading as middle aged Creed, sure.

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9 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

 

Triggered by the expiration of the five-year statute of limitations next Tuesday.

Not really sorry Comey's gonna have to take the ride, but pretty certain he's gonna beat the rap, if the grand jury will indict.

Some insight. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--committing-impeachable-offenses-in-a-hurry

And brought to you by Lindsay Halligan, prominent prosecutor er insurance defense lawyer.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--choose-your-own-adventure--lindsey-halligan-edition

 

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19 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Except for the fact that it's ridiculously auto-tuned performative bro country masquerading as middle aged Creed, sure.

What do you think maga listens to?

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

ridiculously auto-tuned performative bro country masquerading as middle aged Creed

God damn, that is the 21st Century United States right there.

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17 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

The dumbest people.

Narrator:   They did, in fact, did not get that to them.

God knows private, for-profit industry is intensely interested in the hunger of people that can't purchase their products and generating many studies to prove it.

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1 minute ago, Derka said:

 

 

I really wish (I know it will never happen) people just wouldn't report or waste time talking about this, which is an obvious troll to divert attention from what a disaster this admin is and what a piece of shit Trump is.   

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So they're gonna indict Comey, based on the president's orders, over an answer he gave in Congressional testimony five years ago? In which, at worst, the truth is a murky he said-he said between Comey and McCabe? After the last prosecutor was fired because there was no case there? Do I have this right? Meanwhile, the president is in the Epstein files abusing children and we're just not gonna ever talk about that again ok? 

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8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Let's get this obvious outcome out there:

If the shooter today had ANY involvement with, statements about, etc., that could POSSIBLY be used to paint him as a "leftist," those will be disseminated to the usual sources and amplified like a motherfucker.

If the shooter was out to kill illegal invaders, and left a detailed note saying "I was trying to save America by killing dirty invaders," we won't ever hear about it.  It will be buried deeper than Trump's dick in a 13 year old girl at an Epstein party.

from what Stormy told us, it wasn't buried very deep

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2 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

 

Another detestable distraction from burgeoning hegemony

Still, Comey strikes me as one who won’t blanche from the limelight. This may well end up being an unforced error by our group of otherwise untarnished super geniuses.

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Triggered by the expiration of the five-year statute of limitations next Tuesday.

Not really sorry Comey's gonna have to take the ride, but pretty certain he's gonna beat the rap, if the grand jury will indict.

Some insight. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--committing-impeachable-offenses-in-a-hurry

And brought to you by Lindsay Halligan, prominent prosecutor er insurance defense lawyer.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--choose-your-own-adventure--lindsey-halligan-edition

 

How does insurance lawyer stack up compared to parking lot lawyer?  Is the dotard getting better lawyers these days?

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15 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

Another detestable distraction from burgeoning hegemony

Still, Comey strikes me as one who won’t blanche from the limelight. This may well end up being an unforced error by our group of otherwise untarnished super geniuses.

"My defense will require de-classifying the entire investigative file I am accused of lying about.  Your move, DOTARD."

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I guess we're probably being unfair. It wouldn't have been an issue at all if Biden or Obama had publicly ordered their AGs to find reasons to put Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell in prison. And then a few days later, after a firing where the prosecutor refused due to the lack of, you know, a case.... one of them was suddenly under indictment for nothing. I doubt anyone would have cared.

We can't even But Obama anymore because the scale has been broken. 

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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

How does insurance lawyer stack up compared to parking lot lawyer?  Is the dotard getting better lawyers these days?

Probably a couple of steps above.  Habba has a few more years of experience, but working for herself.  Halligan was at least in a firm where she'd get fired if she fucked up too bad.

Speaking of which, in the recently decided appeal of the Carroll case, there were about a half dozen instances of alleged errors on appeal (the main things you appeal) that were waived or not preserved by the parking lot lawyer at trial.



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