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Gotcha!!!!

It’s not an accident.

Likely the same kind of person that said Stella Liebeck shouldn’t have sued McDonald’s because “of course the coffee was boiling hot. What did you want it to be? Ice cold?!!!” It’s a stupid person’s idea of a smart thing to say.

Beat me to it. I was gonna say "that's not exactly what serious people would view as a persuasive endorsement."

I think he was lol’ing at the other side of what I was saying: that the Democrats are more center right. He’s been conditioned by his chickenshit little cult to believe that all Democrats are full blown communists. For those that are into that kind of shit, that’s the kind of shit they’re into.

^ Believing in belief; Exhibit A

Actually their political culture has experienced a similar rightward shift ever since Tony Blair betrayed the foundations of Labour in his weird obsession of becoming George Bush’s lapdog. Today, a Jeremy Corbyn is treated there just like we treat Bernie Sanders. That having been said, the UK is just a mere isolated bad example when it comes to Western Europe and I absolutely agree that the generalization you described is accurate damn near everywhere else, with the occasional exception of Italy. They’re bad at math and astonishingly superficial when it comes to world politics.

Among other things…

That’s the problem with the two-faction system. The “center right” is the Democrats and the “radical flank” is the Republicans. The latter was described about a decade ago by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann as “an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.” When the radical flank has gotten to the point where it no longer deals in reality and their ultimate goal is to “own the libs,” of course the center right isn’t gonna have a prayer to corral them.

Ha. I don’t claim checklist mode makes great teams work, I claim great teams make checklist mode work

He also fucked up in mortgages, airlines, colleges, and hotels. So…education…buying a house…football…traveling…red meat…gambling. I think all he needs to do is run a cathouse into the ground and we’ve about got it all covered.

I literally went into what I call "checklist mode," which is something I've only done twice in my whole life. It means exactly what it implies: that you just say exactly what needs to happen next. You don't do that shit unless that team is, as you say, incredible. I started doing it right after Jarrett caught their last TD. "Step one, score with 4 minutes left" Done at 4:03 "Step two, get the ball back with 2 minutes left" Done at 2:09. My dad actually thought White made the first down at first, but I told him "look at the linesman on our side (we were sitting on the press box side)." "Step three, score with 10 seconds left" Ok, that was also done a little ahead of schedule and that was the one thing we didn't want...but like @Vic Mackey just said, they foolishly wasted that timeout and it definitely forced the issue. "Step four, get the two point" Yeah, that certainly was an EABOD play. "Step five, keep the kickoff on the ground, don't let them get past the 35" They got to the 31 "Step six, ride the bitch out."

Pretty shitty instructions, too: 1. Think one of your wives cheated on you while you were away? Come on down to the church! 2. See the potion that the priest just made out of water, floor dust, and wet ink from the prayer he just wrote down on paper and squeezed into the goblet? Tell that bitch to drink it! 3. If she didn’t cheat, nothing happens. If she did cheat but isn’t pregnant, nothing happens. If she did cheat and got pregnant, you win the game!!! The womb discharges and she’ll never get pregnant again!!! Because, you know, temple water mixed with dust and ink can tell if a fetus belongs to its moms husband or not…

I can’t imagine the vastness of the chasm between that and what he’s already been doing…mostly because I’ve never actually witnessed a flea hop.

Plague of dicks, storm of cunts

ISWYDT

It’s only “at the time of conception/fertilization” when it suits them. Besides, you know they’re against birthright citizenship regardless of how you define when life begins.

Exhibit A:

Other than his Catholicism?

I mean technically they all tend to be of that persuasion. I was just going for the female angle, which I admit is a pretty big stretch.

I would actually think it’d wind up being Barrett, but again that’s a long shot either way. Of course if the Democrats had any balls, they would barge into Clarence Thomas’ office and say “change your vote or else Ginni will be receiving an all expenses paid trip to Guantanamo, Cuba.”

Like a soccer player who commits a hard foul knocking out an opposing player’s tooth and he looks at the referee as if to say “what? Me? I didn’t do anything!!!”

That’s all part of the act. They absolutely have to distort the opposition in order to hope it’ll bring credibility to their position. But it doesn’t really work that way in reality. If it’s my position, for example, that KBJ’s nomination is going to spell doom for America because the floodgates of kindergarten teachers lecturing 5 year olds about transgender issues and critical race theory, and that anyone who opposes me is a pedophile, I’m either an asshole, insane, or insanely stupid. Any which way, I wouldn’t have either a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out just because I falsely accused the “other side” of wanting to fuck children. This is seriously how low mainstream discourse has gotten, and @Anastasis feeds right into it. Again, part of the act.

Just classic ignorance and empathy gap. Everyone and their fucking right-less mother knows that if that scenario happened to his 12-year old, that’s a no-questions-asked abortion.