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SimonBolivar

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  1. Speaking of Latin America, there were a couple of nice articles in the Times today about Peru's march to the right and how that can work in Latin America. Meet ‘Porky,’ Lima’s Right-Wing Mayor Embracing the MAGA Movement - The New York Times How the Right Uses Charlie Kirk’s Death to Further Their Policies - The New York Times Nationalism, free shit, and "change" works just about anywhere. Some good quotes: Like always Latin America will have diverse set of views on their relationship with the United States. There will be those that see us as the enemy that must be removed from the region and there will be those that line up to try to get on our good side and get a piece of the pie. There will be anything and everything in between too.
  2. Shit this one really does hit close to home as my wife was really close to Sergio's family when she was younger. She even helped work the restaurant and food truck at the farmer's market when they were low on staff from time to time. Salt of the earth people that were well known in the community. Their kids are all successful and great people too.
  3. You and I have different definitions of the word "sadly".
  4. Meh, FDR has been dead a long time and LatAM understands they'll have to put up with our shit until we're all long dead.
  5. Presbyterian? If I cared about what some limp-wristed Scotsman deepstater thought, then my ancestors would've stayed in Dumfries. The whole point in coming to America was to get some land far from the prying eyes of the organized bastards so that we could follow some layman pastor as he misinterpreted The Bible every Sunday. That's the real American dream.
  6. Low key has an amazing aftertaste, and I'd say it's much better than Big Red Zero.
  7. Ok, it seems like you're skipping over the interesting part.
  8. Spiking the ball is a 15 yarder? I hate old people making stupid rules to limit our entertainment.
  9. I'll never understand you people or how you think about the world. People that don't use the Surly Dark - No Avatar theme are just plain weird.
  10. In her way
  11. The Trompo at Taqueria Charly #2 on Belt Line in Irving is fantastic.
  12. Good one, next you're going to say that congressmen should be limited to index funds in their investments. Preposterous!
  13. It's what the people want. They're tough on "the others" and will make them pay for causing my various reasons for being unhappy in life.
  14. Maybe he can convince them to let him shoot Turkmens when they try to cross the Atrak?
  15. Well, I'm glad I'm didn't buy it then with my wife's 16 bags of Churrumais
  16. They sell Presidente at the Walburg Travel Center north of Georgetown for some reason.
  17. We should increase that investment I remember talking with a downtrodden Dominican one time who was talking with some Puerto Ricans, and he was lamenting the fact that their women were ugly compared to the boricuas. When I said, "Well at least your baseball is better." He responded with a, "man fuck baseball, I want some better pussy!" They are some straight shooters with big ideas but bring your own booze. Oh, and we can pretend to ignore the racism with them like do here with our 80-year-old whites.
  18. You guys think about some weird shit (which obviously works with a fairly decent chunk of the electorate, btw). I can honestly say that "masculinity" isn't something I ever think about*, probably because I can make my wife cum without blue pills or testosterone shots. The word conjures up images of Ricky Gervais on a tinpot radio station in 2002 telling Karl Pilkington, "Ohhh you’re hard" in his best early 2000's style gay impersonation. *Well excluding grad school where the term was often used as a way to understand gender identity as we moved from a farming-based culture to a clerk-based culture and men had to find a new identity outside of their work with new, larger, amounts of free time. Hence the rise of sports and outdoors in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
  19. This doesn't seem good for the long-term health of the nation
  20. I thought he didnt have time to post here anymore because he was on his quest to meet his first gay person? Instead, he's here watching all this time.
  21. Somehow feels right for the US Open Ugly night with a shit ton of chances. On the playoffs next
  22. . I dont believe in a "oh no they'll give the right-wing media a talking point" problem, because no matter what happens there will be a right-wing media talking point that sticks. That's partially due to the long term planning you mentioned and also quite a bit of luck that right-wingers happened to be strong in non-traditional media places when that scene blew up over the last 20 years. Yes, you need a plan and yes, Dems are really bad at having a coherent, long-term plan but this particular moment is small potatoes on next November.
  23. It will be 2026, nobody in this country has the attention span to watch a 2hr movie, so they aren't going to be thinking about a shutdown a year ago when they're at the ballot box. They're going to be thinking about whatever FoxNews or the, new and improved, right-wing TikTok told them earlier that morning as they talked to that nice young soldier who is at the polling place to protect them from any rabid trans person trying to use the bathroom.
  24. Reading Hatch's classic, The Democratization of American Christianity and damn if it doesn't hit hard from the start.
  25. Annual trip the week before Thanksgiving will be more of the usual with a stay in Tribeca and a couple of shows/Jazz club visits with the necessary stops at Los Taco No. 1 and Pomme Frites. One thing we haven't done is visit the NYPL (42nd Street). I understand they always have the Polonsky Exhibition, but haven't heard much on whether it considered a worthwhile visit or not. Anyone seen it? We do the Bryant Park Winter Village every year anyway, so it wouldn't be out of the way at all.
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