
Jiggy-Z
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33 minutes ago, Parliament said:
Other than the whole body image thing, this is no worse than Lexus' "December to Remember" ads which feature similar couples/families in multi million dollar modern homes graced with perfect holiday snowfall. Welcome to the advertising elitist bastard hall of fame.
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56 minutes ago, Bigpoppapump said:
Can I shit beer shame you?
You can try, but even lowly Bud Light has its place.
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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:
Fascist Clay is fantastic.
Bonespur Douglass
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1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:
What in the ever loving fuck?
He is in Florida, right?
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5 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:
Fat families don't think they're fat. Their self awareness is almost zero on the subject. They're not fat, they're just a "little overweight." It's genetics, too, they say, as they shovel more pie down.
Good luck bringing that up.
Same goes for pets. My parents have had dog after dog that has gotten morbidly obese. They recognize that the dogs are fat but seem utterly mystified at how they got that way.
I had a Hungarian Visla that we had to move out of my house to their ranch because he was barking at some of my son's friends. They were happy to have him out there and they grew quite fond of him. For those of you not familiar with the breed they are kind of smaller and more petite version of a Wymariner, except with a burnt orange coat and eyes. This dog was beautiful, sleek, fast, and in optimal health when he went to the ranch. Six month's later you could set a dinner plate on his back.
I jumped their shit one time over this and hilarity (not really) ensued. I was grateful for the help, but had I known, I would have given him to someone else or spent some money on training or something. It was a difficult decision at the time, seeing as how we had another baby on the way and all that goes with that. I regret the decision.
Mom is also a Trumper, but we try not engage in political talk. Although, she does try to dig every time I see her, always saying something about how well the economy(stocks) is doing.
Dad is a one issue republican (abortion), is a hard ass catholic, and doesn't know shit about anything political other than that.
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2 hours ago, triplehorn said:
It like there is just so much going on that that you forget about all of the other corruption going on.
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35 minutes ago, DixonHur said:
We should group them all together in highly concentrated camps or in...oh, what's that Italian word...ah, yes, ghettos.
...in what we hope will lead to a final solution to this problem.
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4 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
Is there ANYTHING this motherfucker won't lie about??
It is really more about what the dog identifies as.
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29 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
This seems like the best thread to discuss:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/471868-rick-perry-says-trump-is-the-chosen-one
When you start to equate a ruler has the power of God behind them, I don't see how this is any different than a fundamentalist Muslim sect that believes their leader only speaks the word of God. And if you truly believe that, you should be willing to do whatever they say without question. It's God ordering you.
Also weird that apparently Perry said the same about Obama in that interview. I guess some really believe that everything is pre-ordained. I find that logic impossible to comprehend or decide where it starts or stops. Who's to say then that God didn't put Adam Schiff in place to get Trump out because God doesn't want Trump in the 2020 election. Or maybe God put Jim Jordan there to defeat Schiff.
It's just arrogant to say that you have interpreted God's will.
Just finished watching "The Family" on the Netflix. This is one of their themes and it plays in nicely to the "prosperity gospel" as well.
My response to all this nonsense is that, so I guess Hitler was chosen by God, too. so all is well.
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14 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:
I'm a couple pages back in this fast-moving thread, but I wanted to respond to this.
I'm pretty close to you in demographics, and I was also a child who echoed his parents' pro-Reagan stance, and who witnessed the release of the hostages on the day of Reagan's inauguration. It really did feel like America suddenly was great again - no longer a literal hostage to a small Middle East theocracy.
The older I get, though, the more I see Reagan's poisonous influence on American thinking. Specifically, his repeated refrains of "Government IS the problem!"
That belief promotes cynicism toward our government and encourages voter apathy. And voter apathy allows interested parties (i.e. big Pharma, the banks, insurance companies, energy companies) to have completely bought and paid for the legislative branch of government. And that corporate takeover of Congress has promoted the astounding success of the richest 1% while the middle class withers away. Such inequality is unsustainable.
"Government IS the problem" leads people to generally support the idea that ALL regulation is bad. It ignores the fundamental fact that government regulation is what prevents wholesale financial fraud with companies like Enron and WorldCom. Government regulation is what keeps companies from dumping mercury into the rivers and spewing poisons into the air. Government regulation is the only thing that keeps insurance companies from denying your cancer treatment.
And now, under Trump, we see "Government IS the problem" taken to its most extreme. We have an executive branch who has appointed leadership that is hostile to the very mission of each department. We have the utterly unqualified child of a pyramid-scheme billionaire who is hostile to the idea of public education -- now SHE is who's in charge of education. We have a similarly unqualified HUD secretary hostile to the idea of helping low-income families get housing. We have a buffoon as energy secretary - someone who was too fucking stupid to remember the name of the department that he recently thought a good idea to eliminate. I could go on.
Finally, this government-hostile executive branch is appointing judges who are friendly to the ideas and beliefs of a hyper-religious minority, and friendly to the ideas of the same big corporations that have taken over the legislative branch.
And I know this sounds really crazy -- but I want safe transportation, I want public schools that educate children, I want low- and middle-income families to work with dignity and afford housing, I want a stock market that isn't completely rigged, I want the Department of Energy to safeguard nuclear weapons and nuclear waste, I want rivers that aren't filled with carcinogens, I want healthcare that isn't impossibly expensive.
If you really, actually want America to be great, then you ought to be taking actions that promote effective and efficient government.
If Reagan thought government was the problem, I wonder what he'd think now about the thoroughly incompetent and profoundly corrupt millionaires and billionaires who are systematically dismantling it, all with the GOP's enthusiastic blessing.
Right. ...and like any effective message, there was some truth to it at the time and always, it is not perfect.
I get extremely irritated at civil employees on occasion. Not because I think they are corrupt, but because they are being lazy or apathetic or place a burden on me that is their responsibility. So that is something I think most people can identify with and it drives home the notion that "Government is the problem".
Likewise we have all heard the story of the $400 DOD hammer or toilet. We all shake our heads and criticize those in govt that allowed this to happen mostly because it makes us feel better about ourselves. But in reality, the awarded contractor (ie big defense contractor) is equally responsible. Also, if you are not intimately involved with the production of such items or government work in general you have a poor frame of reference for the costs of these items, especially if you are comparing them to what you would pay at a hardware store.
Many a head has been shaken at the cost of Federal construction projects, most notably buildings. We shake our heads at buildings costing $1000/sqft when compare them to a tract home costing less than $100/sqft without any regard for the permanence, quality of construction, civic pride, useful life, and unique functions such a structure offers. I could go on.
My point is that we are generally receptive to the idea if we chose to look no further than our own interests or limited experiences.
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3 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:
Holy shit. I got nauseous reading that. They're truly living in a completely different world. I know it's aggy, but damn. Just completely devoid of any rational, independent thought.
What a bunch of maroons.
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2 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:
OK so he said it. But in '84 it was something more slick -If I remember correctly, "It's morning in America Again"
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4 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
Oh! Thank you for the author reference. I already have fmr Admiral McRaven's book in my reading queue thanks to a poster here on Surly, but I will add this to it. I have found some of the ways in which Trump hides/shelters his $$ to be intriguing. His creation of (I don't know terminology very well so excuse the errors I'm about to make) LLCs or holding companies or whatever who he then loans money to from another one of his companies. It's probably legal(?) but seems shady and rather tax avoidancy to my inexperienced eyes. One of the ones floating around the net of ideas was for something like $50 million. So, again, thanks for the tip on a potential good read.
DJ does all of that stuff, but that is legit. What is not legit is his straight out money laundering. My frustration and DCJ's is that all of this was known and documented in the public record but hardly touched on by the press prior to 2016. It was a massive failing.
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4 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:
i'm 100% certain i'm not a republican anymore and i'm ashamed that i ever was. it was a complete farce. whatever you thought the party was, or might still hold out hope that it is, was complete and utter horse shit.
I am in the same boat.
Ronny was a God to me. Although, at the time he was first elected President, I was only in 8th grade and by November of '84 I was not yet able to vote. I was young impressionable and manipulated by my parents.
But more than that, at the time, we had just gotten out of 'nam ('75), had been through 2 gas shortages, 20% interest rates, hostages in Iran, and Manhattan was burning nightly. Carter was a good guy and a smart guy but seemed powerless in light of the conditions.
Reagan came along with his slick speech, down home letters, and his balanced California budget, and it seemed like the second coming of FDR except as a Republican.
Really, without saying it, his slogan was MAGA. Except that he was actually somewhat competent, although lazy, and despite his other flaws, was a leader. His administrations still reverberate today for better or worse.
So aside from the "deplorables" , there is still a sizable number of people my age and mostly older, that cannot shake this influence. It is like a religion they were taught as children that still holds sway over them. Despite having the entirety of world history at their fingertips and more than enough time to explore they chose to be lazy and have their thoughts dictated to them.
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27 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:
Pssssssst - The Republicans have always been like this. They just used to mask it with joviality like Reagan & Bush the Second or gravitas like Bush the First and they used to not say the quiet parts out loud in mixed company.
Also,
I get that. I am a follower of the work of David Cay Johnson. His work is pretty broad but he deals mostly with tax and fraud issues. As such, back in the 80s he was working on the NJ casino business where he first me DJ and has since written a couple of books on him and has become rather disturbed at our propensity for fascist. Nevertheless, most of his work is based on scouring the public record and following actual actions rather than the palace intrigue. Being a CPA and a business owner, I dig the cut of his jib, as it were.
I was watching one of his lectures just last night and one of the questions after his lecture involved the long term plight of the Republican party (first cited back in the early 70s) which points out the the increasing diversity of of the populace and the rural flight to the major metropolitan areas be it in the burbs or city limits which in turn would bite into the traditional Republican voting base.
His answer was interesting. He told a story about a candid conversation he had with some republicans at a party he was invited to where he first remarked that heir scotch was much better than his. But this very question about adaptation was raised and the answer was simply from a factual point of view that they would not change. What I found most interesting is that, according to his telling, his republican friend all but admitted some pretty disturbing deep underlying racist issues, which I would have thought would have been lower on the priorities list. Keep in mind also, that this conversation took place in upstate New York and not in Alabama.
I am sure that I am not giving justice the tale, but I would encourage the Surl to check out his work, take what is valuable and meaningful and and ask some serious questions about the rest.
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16 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:
Can't it be like "Jews for Jesus"?
Back in the day, those guys were big on the UT campus. At the time this blond haired blue eyed gentile(me) lucked into the only writing component class I could find which happened to be Antisemitism in History and Literature. Man, my professor ripped those guys a new one at just about every lecture. I will say this about the class: It was an eye opening experience and I learned a lot, including how to be a much better writer. But no matter how much my writing improved there is no substitute for actually having been oppressed or at least felt like you were being oppressed. I knew a lot of the Jewish students in that class from business school and those guys really brought it in that class even if they were mediocre business school students and otherwise poor writers.
As an aside, I discovered in that class (mostly because I had no preconceived notions at the time) That there is no Jewish "look" as found in most of the antisemitic literature or stereotypes. However, every single male in that class, other than me, was a spiting image of a young Henry Kissinger right down to the glasses and the professor, who was Jewish, had flaming red hair and could have easily passed for a drunken brawling Irishman form the late 1800's. The chicks were all over the place. My mind was blown.
Even though I ended with a C in the class, I would rate it in my top 5 a t UT. Made me really think about what I was missing out on with all those accounting and statistics classes.
CSB: The professor in that class, I later found out, had many literary collaborations with Terry Todd, the world renowned strength coach, by whom I was also instructed at the 40 acres.
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2 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:
I have some beliefs that align with traditional republican policy positions and moral standards. There’s just one tiny problem. The Republican Party doesn’t actually act according to its policy positions or moral standards. So....eff em until they change.The Republican party has no policy positions or moral standards...other than if it benefits Donald Trump, then it is a position and a moral standard which has to be backed up.
The only consistent Republican policy I have seen in my 40 years of following politics and policy is that the very wealthy are are not nearly wealthy enough. Not abortion, not fiscal responsibility, not even real entrepreneurial business.
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1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:
I feel a lot better about the quality of some of our govt talent after listening to her. I envisioned a bunch of Ricky Perry’s running around.Well they are working on it. Look how many good people have left the Commerce, Agriculture, EPA, Interior, and Treasury depts.
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4 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:
What polls are credibly showing that support for impeachment is going down? That would be shocking to me -- are they watching this?? This is stunning, compelling stuff with the evidence all on one side. The Dems largely look competent and professional, and the R's are a disgraceful, embarrassing clown show. So what gives?
If this is in fact the case, one reason might be might be general indifference caused by the sheer number lies, incidents, shady characters, investigations, and almost daily buffoonery by DJ. The list is so long and over such a long period of time that it is just "one more thing" even though it is a really big thing that is not given its proper weight.
Its like this:
My wife: What did you get done this morning?
Me: I unclogged the septic line and was elbows deep in shit all morning, but I got it done. You really have got to stop flushing the baby wipes down the toilet.
My wife: That's all? I made coffee, returned some emails, made some phone calls, got the boys up, turned the dishwasher on, and made the bed. Honestly, I don't know why it takes you so long to get stuff done.
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I think missing from the list is having blackmail material on your kids so that they won't get too full of themselves when they are older and put you in a cheap assisted living facility.
Ihave good dirt on my oldest two but the best goods I have on my 11 year old are a little weak:
I have a picture of him shooting the double bird when he was about six and
another picture of him waiting in line for free beer samples at Central Market...
...love that little guy.
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2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:
I don't think they ever thought about what would happen if she was allowed to respond to their monologues.
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1 minute ago, mdmost said:
If any of you are viewers of Fleabag, Hill looks like an older version of the sister from that show.
Claire and her new boyfriend... Claire.
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Family tradition was to stop at a DQ on the way to the coast or on the way to Grandmas who lived pretty close to the coast. Pretty damn good stuff if I remember. The last time I frequented them was back in the 80's.
We stopped into one back in 2014 with my family (on the way back from the coast) and it was pretty nasty. I ate at one in Stockdale, TX about 2 years ago and it was really bad. 10 years ago I ate at two up in Minnesota and the food was OK-better than in Texas. Up in Minnesota they still have some of the very old storefronts and signage. I think they are from up there -originally.
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Reading this thread around the holidays makes me grateful for my only mildly dysfunctional family. Its like my own little Hallmark Movie.
The Climate thread
in Cloak Room
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I recently read the book "Factfullness" by Hans Rosling which addressed this very issue of natural disaster deaths. I could not find the graph that was in the book, but the first 3 minutes of his TED talk covers it among other things.