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Ojo Rojo

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  1. I did this a couple of months ago. I'm better for it. What has happened is that a sizeable and politically significant number of voters have evolved into racist, misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, hate- and fear-mongering ignorant assholes. The reasons are varied, but can all be traced to various societal factors. The declining population (as a total percentage) of whites in the U.S., media being driven (by market necessity) by profits instead of journalistic integrity, the internet and waves of false and misleading information that anyone can send out to millions of gullible and uninformed people, the failure of our education system, the fact that the U.S. is rich, bloated, overly stimulated and infected with such false myths as "anyone call pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and "welfare queens" and "illegals are sucking up all of the resources paid for by our hard-earned tax dollars." When you add to that politicians who have absolutely zero integrity, no intentions of ever doing anything "good" for the country or the people at large and are only self-interested (which is, itself, caused by fucked up campaign finance laws) and, as a result, they are willing to tell people anything, no matter how untrue, farfetched or dangerous. You know, things like, "Illegals are taking all of the jobs!" "Democrats are socialists!" "Sandy Hook families are crisis actors!" "Trans women are taking over women's sports and gaining access to women's bathrooms to spy on little girls' pee-pees!" and various other outrageous and stupid shit like that. Whites feel (or believe) they are losing their grip on power and want to hear it's not happening or that there is someone to blame and there are things to do about it. So they vote for the assholes riling them up because it makes them feel good. So, in a word - dopamine. Dopamine is to blame for all of this.
  2. Fun fact: He sat in on a mediation I had recently.
  3. If this keeps up, we'll be buyers at the deadline. Who do we get? A SP with some control to replace Valdez would be my guess/wish. Edit: MacKenzie Gore from the Nats?
  4. And all of this without our best hitter in the lineup.
  5. This. They have charged him with human trafficking. They allege that he brought MS 13 gang members into the U.S. The investigation into the trafficking charges started after he was sent to El Salvador.
  6. I've been busy with other shit, so I'm late in posting, but Abrego Garcia back on U.S. soil, for those who missed it.
  7. This actually made me physically ill. There just is no bottom.
  8. The kind who would suck your cock for a thousand dollars.
  9. I've always loved this graphic. Especially the part with DJ Monroe standing on the sideline. Anyway, I applaud BB. Good for him. Fuck the haters.
  10. I don't know which one I hate more between Leavitt and Bondi.
  11. My son started select ball last summer. The coach was recommended by another family at our school. The coach is great - knowledgeable, motivating, not over the top with criticism. The other parents on the team are pretty chill - no loudmouths. As far as the team goes, it's been good. Going to tournaments was eye-opening though. There are A LOT of people who take this shit VERY seriously. I just wonder what they are all thinking. Do they think their kid has a chance to play MLB? My son's goal is to make his HS team. He's going to be a freshman next year. I think he has a pretty good chance of making the freshman team. Whether we continue with select ball remains to be seen. He's definitely improved because of it and has had a generally positive experience. I just don't know how much is too much in terms of commitment by our family.
  12. Good. Fuck that chode.
  13. Well, you have religion, and then you have everything else about life. If you want an example, instead of going inside of a church, go look at the stars. Basically any other reason than, because my religion told me to. Again, if you want an example - one definition of "good" is anything that promotes humanity and "evil" is anything that harms or hinders humanity. So being a good person is to promote humanity.
  14. Similar. Grew up Catholic - Catholic school PK4-12. In 3rd grade the nun who taught us told us that Adam and Eve didn't really exist, but were rather an allegory. I was like, WTF? Then my mom told me Santa Claus wasn't real. I started questioning everything and didn't stop until after college. I became an anthropology major for the same reasons you undertook study - to find out what the fuck was going on and why. I reached conclusions that were satisfactory enough for me and stopped questioning so much and stressing about the answers, or lack thereof. Specifically with respect to religion - there is absolutely nothing religion can give you that you cannot get in other aspects of life. Morality, righteousness, charity, community, divinity, everything that religion has to offer, you can get somewhere else. In fact, I'd submit that receiving all of those things outside of religion actually is far better. Do you want to be a good person only so you don't go to an imaginary hell? What, are we children who can only do right to avoid punishment? Not me. I'd rather be a good person for reasons that I've come to through reason and logic. Given all of the flaws with religion and that it has nothing to offer I can't get better somewhere else, I've got no use for it.
  15. Convincing? We don't need no stinking convincing! Not only would it be impossible (even with violence), it is unnecessary. Trump is fucking his own supporters by killing the economy and taking away their benefits. The only question is the degree of fucking before they start to notice and turn on him.
  16. This is an extraordinary case, for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is THE test case for whether the executive is subject in any way to the judiciary. When there is this much at stake a lot more shit happens, which takes a lot more time. It's the same reason why death row inmates take so long to execute - they get maximum due process. Not only because there is a human life hanging in the balance, but also it actually preserves the death penalty as a thing because the system can say, "See, we gave him years and years and umpteen chances in court." For an issue of this much gravity, we actually want it to take as long as it needs to for Trump to try every fucking thing to avoid complying with the court's rulings so they can't come back and try that one thing they didn't try this time. We want SCOTUS and every federal judge to be able to tell Trump, "Nope. Sorry, motherfucker. You already tried that and it didn't work."
  17. Vladeck's latest on the Abrego Garcia case:
  18. They issue a contempt order, after a couple of other procedural steps. I think that would mean they would issue a bench warrant for Kristi Noem, the named party. She stays jailed until Abrego Garcia is returned. Several other things could happen. The U.S. Marshals, who would enforce the contempt order, might be instructed not to do so by DOJ. Those marshals would then have a choice to make - follow the law or obey Trump.
  19. IT'S NOT OVER YET.
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