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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Sure blows having four(!) SPs on the injured list. Something to look forward to, maybe. If they all return to form our staff will be stacked.
  2. Why? Everyone in the world, including the terrorists, see that we're 9/11-ing ourselves right now. Why put themselves out when we're doing a smash-up job of fucking up the country on our own?
  3. White House Easter Egg Hunter, sponsored by Carl's Jr.
  4. It's an amazing testament to human resilience, denial and delusion that people still willingly go to that school and root for their sports teams. The a&m logo is a badge of futility and shame, yet we still see them everywhere proudly displayed. Just amazing.
  5. ...sponsored by Carl's Jr.
  6. To see the reactions to last night's game.
  7. I'm glad I don't care about basketball.
  8. Lincoln Project coming in hot: How it ends.
  9. Now here's an idea. If Trump lawyers are disbarred they would not be allowed into courtrooms. From my experience, bailiffs are loyal to their judges. Who would the Trump admin. send to force the disbarred lawyers into the courtrooms? Federal marshals? Would it really go to a gunfight between bailiffs and federal marshals? I guess if the disbarred lawyers made it into the courtroom then the judge could refuse to hold the hearings. I guess the next step would be impeachment of the judge by Congress. That would take 2/3 of the Senate.
  10. No, but he texted back, "Ok." That's how I knew I fucked up. I responded and told him it was meant for my wife and that I was sorry to disappoint him. We had a laugh about it. I only use them with my wife because it's one of the few things I do that she actually finds cute/funny.
  11. Fuck me. Gatorbet beat me to it.
  12. I did a triathlon and beat this guy who was a pretty good athlete. I knew him and we talked after the race and texted each other "good race" and shit like that. I was driving home and I texted my wife a peach, eggplant and splash because I wanted to fuck when I got home. Except that I texted the guy by mistake.
  13. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    You were 56 in 1999?!
  14. At least with my family members it's not willful. They would not choose to be brainwashed. They think Fox News is fair and balanced and accurate. They think NBC, NYT, CNN are liberal media and they are the ones who are spewing untruths. I think they are prejudiced and racist, but that is because that's what they knew growing up and never questioned it enough to put it aside. Hell, I don't think they have the capacity to be introspective enough to know they harbor hate. They would probably be shocked and hurt by the accusation. No one is doing anything to disabuse them of their wrongful thinking. There are a few family members, maybe 15% who know better, but none of us want to risk our relationships by trying to show them the error of their ways.
  15. So hard to listen to. I did see a couple of common threads or mindsets: 1. Every person should be responsible for themselves and no other person should be responsible for any other. This goes to the huge problem conservatives have with the government using their tax dollars to help other people. 2. Religion is required to form a moral foundation. I also saw a lot of opinions that were based on provably false premises. It's like if a person was presented with two alternatives, one being true and the other being false, but what the person wanted to believe, they would go with the false one every time. None of this is surprising or different from what most of us already know. Seeing this just reinforced it.
  16. Yes, yes, yes, fuck yes. The First Amendment is killing us right now because there is no check on what anyone can say. The most outrageous lies get the most eyeballs and the most ad dollars. Not good for election results. We need to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, at a minimum. As far as a First Amendment case, at what point does calling the Jan. 6th insurrectionists false flag operatives and that Ukraine invaded Russia become a lot like yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater?
  17. I went to visit some relatives in South Texas last weekend. To the person they are MAGA through and through. This has been very disappointing to me because I love these people. They are genuinely good, hard-working people. They definitely believe themselves to be good Christians. I have stayed away over the last few years in large part because of politics. I don't want to be open with them about my politics because I know that would fundamentally change how they view me. I don't want to engage with them about politics, but I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut. So it's safer to stay away. Anyhow, I was with them Saturday night for a little while. Several of them were sitting around the kitchen table talking about politics. I was listening, but not participating. One of my aunts said something derisive about the mice transgender thing. I couldn't help myself and said, "No, it was a mice transgenic study." She and another aunt asked me, "What's that mean?" So I explained as briefly as I could. One of my uncles said something along the lines of, "I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes to the government for things I want them to pay for; that I benefit from. The ONLY thing the government does that benefits me is the military." He was dead fucking serious. He then went on about another ridiculous story about another study the government funded about the effects of tequila on goldfish. What I took away from this is that these folks do no critical thinking whatsoever. It's not that they are not capable of it. They are all of normal intelligence. I'm not sure the reason, whether there has never really been a reason for them to exercise critical thinking or if they are just too absorbed in their lives and activities to take the time and mental capacity to engage is such a thing. These are all boomers. Up until fairly recently in their lives, all news and media has been fairly unquestioned. If Dan Rather or Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw said it on the evening news there was no reason to question it. Same with every newspaper in circulation. People used to not need to apply critical thinking to what they were seeing in the media. I'm sure that all of these people only watch Fox News. That's probably because they know it aligns with their preconceived notions and political ideology and makes them feel good. So, feeling good (dopamine hits or whatever the fuck you get from confirmation bias) and zero critical thinking accounts, according to me, for why my family members are the way they are.
  18. Sweet bleeding Jesus. Art of the Deal: Wait until your counterpart is most vulnerable and then take maximum advantage of them.
  19. Agree 100%.
  20. Mistaking pedantry for skepticism of the press and adherence to the truth is what got us here.
  21. Nuance is a part of everything. So, it depends. 9/11 - terrorism, more than obviously. Most recent missile attack in Ukraine? It's too soon to know for sure, but it appears to me to be collateral damage. Was it really "indiscriminate bombings of civilians?" Was the hotel the intended target? From what I understand, Russia frequently targets that city because it's Zelensky's hometown. Can they aim the missile used with pinpoint accuracy? Did it hit its intended target? The intel failure surrounding 9/11 isn't the same thing as what has happened here. It's not in the same ballpark; it's not even the same fucking sport. The Newsweek article, which is the one I was talking about as being flawed information, did not use Tenet as a source. People have got to be able to recognize bias, misinformation and propaganda. Especially now that so much of the "media" is solely focused on making money and journalistic integrity is a quaint concept from the past. Look at the headline: "Missile Strike on Americans." Really? Was the missile strike intentionally aimed at Americans, like the headline would lead you to believe? Or is it that there just happened to be Americans staying at the hotel that was hit? (No Americans were injured or killed, by the way.) Why would the Russians target Americans now? Right after our president just publicly sucked off Putin? Putin's going to do something to turn the American people against Trump at the moment he has us right where he wants us? That doesn't make any fucking sense.
  22. Look, "terrorism" is a loaded word and I understand that the definition has changed a lot, but acts of war between two nations doesn't even fit the current broad definition of terrorism. Was the firebombing of London an act of terrorism? The Tet offensive? If you want to change the definition so you get to use that word for more effect, well then okay. But it's hardly worth getting into a semantic argument over it. I fucking hate Trump and everything he's doing as much as anyone. I totally agree that refusing to share intel here is disgusting and could, and probably will, lead to deaths, civilian and otherwise. Here is the point I was trying to make: Trump and his people feast on untruth. They use hyperbole and just outright made up shit and people believe it and base their votes on it. The linked story relied on "political commentators" as its "source." Don't fucking lie, don't quote news stories based on what political commentators say and don't say "terrorism" when it's fucking not. Don't be like Trump and the fucking Orwellian GOP.
  23. Did you read the article? "Political commentators have blamed the U.S.'s decision to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine for a Russian missile strike that hit a hotel in Kryvyi Rih where Americans were staying." Who are these political commentators? What information do they have? Also, not a terrorist attack.
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