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Born to Run

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  1. Texas GOP has incredibly short memories.  It wasn't until COVID happened that Democrats really voted absentee in large numbers.  That was the GOP cleanup hitter.  When COVID is over, I'm sure it would go right back to it, except they've done whatever they can to make it more difficult for their team to get votes.  Makes no fucking sense to me.
    There will be no lines in rural areas, just urban centers that skew heavy blue.
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  2. My Future Grandkids: So what did yall do during the pandemic Grandpa Born To Run?

    Me: Argued whether mask usage had any efficacy, was counter productive or simply theater for two fucking years while the rest of the world just wore mask.

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  3. If Trump were to run again, I think he'd have done two things:
    1. Show up in D.C. today.  His base thinks that Jan. 6, 2021, was a victory of some kind, pyrrhic or not, but it was some kind of victory in their eyes.  A few thousand people fought for him, literally and figuratively in D.C., and they sacrificed freedom, a couple of lives in some cases, their jobs, etc.
    2. He would have spent the last year making sure his January 6 supporters had legal defenses that were paid for by Trump, whether fully or partially.  Maybe he goes to rallies and says 'I'm going to pay half their legal bills, and if you support me and them, you're going to show us by paying the other half!" but he would have personally been involved, and showing the rest of MAGA that he truly loves them.
    He raked in hundreds of millions in donations and didn't do a fucking thing to help his supporters that were jailed/lost jobs/etc.
    That's not a sign of somebody who is running again.
    You act like Trump is a slick hustler. He bumbled and stumbled his way into everything. It was amazing to watch people be captivated by incompetence of that magnitude, but it's not carefully crafted. What you are suggesting would be a reasonable plan of action for success by reasonable people. This dumpsterfireclowncar is all Id responses to basic stimulus with no planning or empathy. Had Trump shown any self control, modesty or capacity for planning, he'd be lifetime king.

    You ever chucked rocks at an amardillo at 3 am after a few Shiners? You don't hit them, you just steer them around however you want as they react to the rock hitting the ground they go the opposite way. That is what is steering Trump, whatever noises he hears and reacts to with his blind- ass world view.
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  4. Update to this: apparently the entire crew AND band is sick and they've cancelled both weekends of PITS and are issuing refunds now.
    I'm at least not completely screwed, but there's a good number of people who've already gotten to the resort and checked in and received their event swag.
    That sucks man. The drummers had poor enough health this fall as it was.
  5. Come to think of it, I did take that second hit at the Noblesville, IN dead show almost exactly 25 years ago.  And I’ve never been right ever since.  
    It left a smoking crater of my mind I like to blow away
    But the heat came round and busted me for smiling on a cloudy day
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  6. Mexican and Central American rednecks are often more redneck than regular rednecks
    This is true, but a pack of American cheese singles can befuddle a Central American Redneck for days. Whereas the domestic redneck is inspired to cook tasty snacks without pausing to ask why the cheese is wrapped in plastic, then wrapped again, they just unwrap, and unwrap again and get to creating freedom cheese greatness.
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  7. PARLERCAR - Only RIGHT turns.
    You fuckers are on to something. Fuck restrictor plates, emission controls and unleaded gasoline. I want a cloud of leaded blue smoke, deadly accidents in the pits, moonshine, Moonpies, Skynnard, big old southern titties, chicken fried steak on a stick, gravy cups, 45 oz cups of domestic light beer, and let the kids have a dang pack of smokes for fucks sake.

    "We Only Turn Right!"
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  8. He does not own his possessions. He is his possessions. If he were to do something other than plow all his income into widgets bought on payments, he would lose caste. His peers would know he had secretly chopped off his own dick.
    If his neighborhood truly is bad, at least he didn't make himself a burglary target by filling the house with extra firearms.
    I am seeing this like crazy in the Latino community. Used to be all my white subcontractors were gun nuts. Now nearly all my field guys are gun nuts. The dumber the more gun stickers. Semi literate painter dudes that got legal 10 years ago now have small ranches together and go hang like regular rednecks shooting shit, cranking tunes and drinking beer. Only difference from them and my East Texas brethren is they drink Special Models and Tequila instead of whisky and Miller's light.

    It's a weird lifestyle and source of belonging.

    They also all have Facebook profiles in their trucks with Oakley and wireless earbuds on.
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  9. Guy Reffitt was an unemployed oil-field worker.  I did not see that coming. 

    His family said he traveled with his AR 15 all the time.  What is it with these people who are so afraid that whenever they go anywhere they have to bring the AR 15 with them?  

     
    It's by design for profit by the NRA, Fox News, Rush etc. I don't know about now, but back in the 90s all the NRA magazines were chock full of fear porn with thwarted home invasions, robberies etc by heroes with guns. Countless women were rescued. And all the old white dudes I knew had elaborate plans for home invasions, race wars etc.

    To be fair, H town in my hood in the 80s was rough, car jacking, robberies, I got mugged twice before 9 th grade at gunpoint. My uncle killed a guy in his garage over petty theft.

    Car jackings dropped off the charts when people started shooting back.

    I slept with a shotgun next to my bed in High School.. But I got the fuck out, and relocated my mom too. She is unarmed, my guns are all in the safe and I often neglect to lock my door. Most of the left leaning folks I know are the same way- they don't live in fear. Most conservatives I know devote a wild amount of thought to murdering bad guys. Driving around with an AR is so much different than carrying in the car for defense. It's a horrible choice to thwart a car jacking. They are dreaming of a fight and a reason to use it. It's a grotesque hobby really.

    I used to have reoccurring dreams about thwarting a home invasion and contemplating pulling the trigger for a decade or more later. The whole thing is sad and fucked.
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  10. Can't believe that two years into this we now have a shortage of tests.  Major failure by the Biden administration.
    Yes I can. Back in June I was hugging strangers mask free in Omaha and not giving a fuck. Test manufacturers were tossing truckloads of test away, and shutting down operations completely.

    We all declared mission accomplished too soon.

    Biden too, major fuck up. See I can criticized the old bastard moderate that needs to retire.

    Of course if not for Delta and Omnicrom we might have warehouses full of Covid Tests and then you'd be bitching about government waste.

    And I'm sure TFG would have a cohesive policy in place with no grift.
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  11. I just had a great conversations with two little white kids down the street who are home schooled, and taking a break.  They aren't scared of me, despite my meskiness. The are awesome kids.  
    I'm for propping up the public schools and not for demonizing home schooling. 
    Virtual learning is par for the course for home schoolers.  Virtual learning is "doable" for parochial and private schools.  Public schools have issues with virtual learning, and the more virtual learning they do, the worse they look.
    That's a cost that has to be factored in.
     
    Sure, people homeschool for all kinds of reasons, many of them quite noble.
  12. There's a big push underway among conservatives to get more parents to homeschool their kids and right now one of their main arguments is that the public school systems can't be entrusted with peoples' children because they're destroying children's lives with virtual learning.
    It's a great way to raise more adults who are fearful of others they have no exposure to- browns, blacks, gays, Muslims etc.
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  13. Looks like tardive dyskinesia. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s on antipsychotics and that mixed w substance abuse looks like him
    That and being mentally fucked up enough to have Richard Millhouse Nixon as a tramp stamp.
  14. I was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, where you have to show your vax card to get in anywhere.  They'll accept a picture of your vax card on your phone, and they don't check your ID to make sure your name matches, so literally all you need is a picture of someone's vax card. 
    Most places I went in Seattle required Id. I even had to produce a photo of my kids global entry card to get Sushi. Nyc was way more rigorous.
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  15. Of course they've been fine. The vast majority of people who get Covid, Omicron or not, will ultimately be fine (especially if younger). But those sorts of anecdotes (1) don't tell us anything we don't already know, and (2) severely downplay the severity of the disease to 1% to 5% of population, or anywhere from to 3 million to 15 million people in the US. I'd also be really interested in seeing any data that says Omicron is less severe in the unvaccinated or previously unexposed. I don't think the studies that have come out support that conclusion. 
    Or long term health effects. One of my unvaxxed nieces was really sick for months. (30 year old Fatty) Another had weird nuero issues for months. (mid 20s, thin)
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