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Biff Tannen

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  1. 2 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

    Not more than 15 minutes ago, conversation, Belterra area (near the Travis / Hays County line):

    Him: Turned 21 y.o. 21 days ago.
    (I won't get into details about how the conversation started).
    "I'm voting Trump, but I don't really pay attention to politics."

    • Me: Do you know anything about Trump being found liable for sexual assault in a civil trial?
    - Him: Ummm... no.
    • Me: Trump's conviction on 34 felony accounts for election / financial fraud?
    - Him: No.
    • Me: Do you support a woman's right to choose what happens with her own body, especially regarding abortion?
    • Him: Yes.
    - Me: Then... if so, are you aware that Trump brags about how *HE* nominated Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade & it would not have happened without those same Justices.
    • Him: No (& as he said that, I sensed he didn't know what R-v-W was).
    - Me: Are you aware of something Trump said in private - like what guys might say when nobody else is around & they say what's REALLY on their mind... how Trump bragged about grabbing women "because when you're famous, they let you do it it"?
    • Him: No.

    - Me: "& You're voting 'Trump'... because why?
    • Him: "Because I don't know much about it, but I think he is the better one."
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    I guarantee you the frat bros across the street from me are just like this.  I bet when it comes time to vote, less than half of them actually will.  I damn well hope so anyway.

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  2. 2 hours ago, mdmost said:

    Sure but small towns have always pushed back against this. Irish communities were routinely targeted by the Klan. I will stress again, people need to read A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan. It details the Klan's rise to power in America, specifically Indiana in the 1920s. The rhetoric about migrants the alt-right and MAGA are using today is a carbon copy of what the Klan said back then about blacks, the Irish, and Jews. Seriously, it's a great book. 

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558306/a-fever-in-the-heartland-by-timothy-egan/

    Thanks.  Bought.

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  3. 1 hour ago, hookem2010 said:

    Would be nice if this could be a campaign topic at all. But in order to appease as many potential swing state voters as possible and save our democracy, climate is taking even more of a backseat than usual. 

    It will be the number one campaign topic in a matter of years.

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  4. 8 hours ago, Hmbre97 said:
    On 9/4/2024 at 7:10 PM, tx 3 putt said:
     

    Jesse doth protest too much about masculinity. The reality is he probably has a secret grinder account and likes to eat snickers bars upside down so the veiny part is on his tongue.

    lol wow

  5. 20 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    She baited him into doing what she wanted and pointed out to everyone tuned in that people like Putin and Xi could easily do the same.  Trump certainly made her look great in comparison, but her execution of this was masterful.  I haven't ever seen anything like it before, where someone so successfully goads their opponent into exposing themselves and their fatal flaw in front of the world in real time.

    It was mentioned a few pages back, but Lovett of the PSA guys said it best:

    It’s like when bugs bunny drew the fake tunnel on the wall and pulled the road over to it. Trump was just like “gotta follow the road!”

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