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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Owning the libs. Duh.
  2. I mean, I wouldn't be sad if there was a "Designated Survivor" type event during the speech. A "wildfire storage facility exploding under the Sept of Baelor" image would be very pleasing, actually.
  3. Sunday my wife called me and said, "This afternoon Oldest Son has a baseball game at the same time as his Scouts meeting so you don't need to take him to Scouts." Me: "Ok." She called to tell me about something I didn't need to do. Plus, I already knew this because, you know, the whole "can't be two places" at once problem. As I age, my inner dialogue is populated with the phrase, "Why are you bothering me, bitch?" more and more.
  4. Entirely possible. In my version of the analogy, though, Trump et al. are at the playing with matches stage.
  5. Nah, Putin's America.
  6. Counter-counterpoint - people ultimately care way more about money than fringe social issues. As soon as Joe MAGAT starts paying noticeably higher prices, can't get certain products and his 401(k) balance drops by 25% I think you'll see they care way less about the trans basketball player. I've been paying attention. I see what I see and I don't see what I don't see. I look out the window and I don't see America as a smoldering husk of its former self. Not right now, anyway.
  7. I'm not in the "democracy is over" camp...yet. I continue to say that this is the cartoon version of a fascist/oligarchical takeover of the U.S. Yes, some actual, real shit is happening and there are some people who are actually being affected by the implementation of Trump's policies, but it's not over yet. I fail to see how the President can shutter a federal agency (USAID) that has been funded by Congress, for example. That issue has yet to be fully taken up by the courts. My tipping point will be either when SCOTUS openly forsakes the Constitution or if the President and executive branch refuse to abide by a court order. I foresee a lot of this shit being overturned and rolled back; most of it, actually. I also foresee inflation going up, jobs reports going more negative and the economy entering recession. The midterms are going to be a fucking bloodbath for the GOP and the Trumpanzee will be emasculated with two years to go.
  8. It has to come from the populace. Politicians don't create the message so much as follow it. If disavowing Ukraine and disrespecting its wartime leader is unpopular among Americans, the politicians will follow. But there has to be massive upswell to leave no doubt. Protests, social media posts, civil disobedience, every possible way of showing that the people of the United States are not for this.
  9. Just watched the video. Jesus God. Shame and cringe don't even begin to describe it. Has an American president, or any other foreign leader in history, openly lambasted another foreign leader in public like that? And Vance, the little mutt, piling on for favor from the master. I just....
  10. Trump stooge and bizarro cabinet ghoul lies to the public and does counterproductive shit that will harm Americans and make fraud, waste and abuse more likely. News at 11.
  11. Well, as giant as it could be.
  12. I didn't make it more than about 20 seconds. Couldn't do it.
  13. Sure, sure, but Trumpers think it is. Before I fully understood what Incredulity was I was trying to demonstrate that DOGE isn't effectively rooting out what fraud there is so that maybe he'd see the error in defending it.
  14. Pretty much me too. Though in addition to anger of their individual situations, I would add straight up bigotry, xenophobia, ignorance and hate. Immigration and the trans issue might well have been the two largest issues driving the results of the last election. (Well, those and inflation, which is not a policy issue but an economic condition over which the president had not control.) What legitimate grievance could there be against those two groups?
  15. Yes. I don't have as long of a history on this particular board so I wasn't sure if that's what he is. Now that I have confirmed I can ignore.
  16. Impervious to the the truth and rational criticism.
  17. Okay, this is the post that did it. I have been trying to decide if you were just a person with a differing viewpoint, which would be perfectly fine, or if you are unintelligent and part of the MAGA cult. Turns out, you are an unintelligent person. First, you use the highest end of the range to try to make your point. Strike one as being disingenuous. Second, everyone is against fraud in government spending, except those, I guess, who are committing the fraud or profiting from it in some way. Third, what DOGE is doing is just wantonly slashing things, mostly in the form of jobs (I suppose because everyone in business knows that payroll is your highest expense). And, not coincidentally, they are jobs within departments that as a matter of policy the Trump administration and Republicans/conservatives don't like, like USAID and other programs that help mostly poor people. Policy differences are not the same as fraud. That is totally illogical and, frankly, anti-democratic; strike two. Lastly, the numbers here are a very small fraction of the total budget. Would everyone like fraud in government spending to be as low as possible? Of course! Is it possible for it to ever be zero? Fuck no! Whenever you have an organization as large and as complex as the federal government, even a vastly shrunken version of it, fraud will always be possible and it will always happen. Total failure to understand the way the real world works - strike three. You're out.
  18. I may need to stop reading this thread for my mental health.
  19. Senior prom. I got drunker than I've probably been my entire life, which is saying something. A big part of the reason is that I hadn't eaten dinner because the restaurant took too long and we had to be back at the school because my date and I were on the prom court. We went back to pick up our food but mine got dropped on the floor, so I had nothing to eat. Anyway, we're talking should-have-died-from-alcohol-poisoning-but-for-the-generations-of-my-ancestors-who-drank-their-asses-off-and-gave-me-sufficient-enzymes-to-process-the-alcohol type of drunk. Next morning I'm still totally fucking wasted. We had rented a house and everyone was still there in the morning. I come out of the bedroom with just my boxers on and a giant hard-on. This dude yells out, "Oh my God! He's got a hard-on!" Everyone saw it.
  20. This is the most horrifying death I could think of, personally. If I can't walk upright through a cave, I'm not going in it, period.
  21. I knew this dumb bitch who named her son "Krystjon." When I saw that I said to myself, "All you have really done here is demonstrated that you know the sounds of letters." I'm sure she thought it was clever.
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