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Jhawkmvp

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  1. Selling fear works better than selling hope. That is why Christians invented hell, and boy was it a great recruiting tool. Fear of hell was better at getting people to join and follow than the hope of heaven. As an atheist, when Christians question why I don't believe in God, they almost never ask, "Don't you want to go to heaven?" Instead they ask, "Aren't you afraid of burning in hell forever?" Fear > hope to most people, sadly. It's why the GOP's messaging as been more successful than the Democrat's messaging for decades. They sell fear. Fear of immigrants, socialism, non-Christians, non-Whites, etc. and it works with a lot of people. Basically I heard this many times before the election from family when I asked why they were voting for Trump: "I do not like Trump, but if that son of a bitch, Joe Biden, is elected communism and open borders will follow. Plus, he will kill all the unborn babies, even after they are born. And if his old ass dies, that evil black woman Kamala Harris will take over. She will take our guns!" I never once heard something positive that Trump would do if elected, only the negative things they feared the Democrats would do.
  2. Capitol police about to have the FBI go through all their social media with a fine toothed comb. Enjoy assholes.
  3. It is going to be so easy for the FBI to get these "patriots" to rat on their friends too. Unlike real patriots, most are not willing to suffer any real pain for their beliefs, despite all their Facebook bravado. They don't want to do without their boxes of wine, Xboxes, guns, and Facebook for even a week. Threat of any jail time will get them to give up their grandmothers to get off easier.
  4. When Trump was elected I was not happy, but I gave him a chance because I hope any president is an effective leader for our country. However, I also assumed that the Republicans had a spine and would check him if he went full regarded. I was very wrong. Now it is pretty obvious McConnell and Pence probably threatened him with the 25th and/or impeachment and look how quickly he backed down. He looks like a whipped dog in that video. If the Republicans had grown a spine earlier in his term America would be a lot better off and they might have kept control of both houses of congress and Doofus-in-Chief Trump might have gotten re-elected. Instead yesterday marked the end of America as the pre-eminent political power in the world.
  5. McConnell's speech...after finding out he lost his majority thanks to GA...
  6. I hope so. Ossoff gives zero fucks and I can't wait to see him in the senate going after Mitch and company.
  7. Sweet, eight pound baby Jesus. I hope you are right. If he is dumb enough to not get a pardon on the way out the door or he tries to self pardon, he is more stupid than I think he is, and I think he is very stupid.
  8. Things are about to get really crazy. Just hope he doesn't start a war on the way out the door. I predict 200+ pages by the end of the month. Hope I am wrong.
  9. It's hard to be sad when you have your strong right (or left) hand.
  10. The rest of the B12 and SEC states thank you for your sacrifice. It makes them look less moronic in comparison for a short time.
  11. Sorry about your wife's mother. Hope she recovers quickly. My grandmother caught in Northcentral KS, about 10 days ago, in her nursing home. It was only a matter of time. Fourteen staff members had it previously. So far she has not had any complications. I hope that continues. She lives in that same type of small, rural farming community with an aged population. What you described in your second paragraph is what most of rural Kansas is like. It's why COVID is so deadly when it shows up in those places.
  12. These 3 posts in a row...
  13. Depends on if they just polled voters or anyone that picked up a phone. A lot of non-voters are cynical and probably think our government sucks and nothing they can do will change it.
  14. Many people that voted for Trump thought he was not doing a good job as president, but voted for him because they thought a vote for Biden would usher in socialism, gun bans, and free abortions on every street corner. I had family members, that I used to joke with about how shitty a president Trump was, justify voting for Trump because they thought a Biden win would bring about one or all of those things.
  15. No reason for their guns to be drawn. What threat is there from this woman and her family? If they did not answer the door in a timely manner just tell them they have x amount of time and then the door will be removed. Anytime a gun is drawn it escalates the encounter. This is why many people think most cops are gigantic pussies.
  16. Fitting since he is an empty suit as well.
  17. Borat reconsidered and changed his beliefs when presented with evidence that they were wrong. Trumpers... not so much.
  18. She probably doesn't need it. She does the minimum to keep her place in his will. Just like a lot of rich kids who hate their parents, but want that sweet ass cash when said parent(s) kick the bucket. See the above gif for proof.
  19. I think it is allowed if it is a tailored, Chinese, fake authentic jersey.
  20. Republicucks are really into the kink. And that is fine. It's just sad how they project their kinks from the closet.
  21. I read this the first time as: a baby with his tiny little dick throwing a tantrum.
  22. Impressive. Only 877 deaths out of 680,000 people in in El Paso. I live in South Korea. Less than 600 deaths out of 52 million people. This did not have to happen, if most people had followed basic recommendations on how to prevent COVID spread. Unfortunately, we had a sizeable (sorry for the fat talk) group of Americans who didn't, A lot of these deaths, even among the old will be premature deaths. It will be interesting see how many excess deaths there are going to be in 2020 compared to previous years. I am sure everyone would like to have had grandma or grandpa around another year or two.
  23. Me too. But I am ready to take the blue pill and return to the old simulation. After four years, you know what I realized? Ignorance is bliss. I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand? And I want to be rich. Someone important. Like a Surly lawyer.
  24. It is so depressing to watch this from afar. South Korea has had a total of 30,733 cases with 505 deaths for the whole year. They are instituting restrictions again in Seoul (~25M counting the surrounding province), because the country has had 300+ cases a day for 5 days straight. There are 52M people in South Korea, about 1/6 the population of the USA, and their total cases for the year is about 1/6 of the cases the USA has had in 1 day. The biggest difference is nearly everyone wears masks and follows basic precautions like washing their hands and social distancing. It is that simple. Yet too many Americans can't do even that. SAD! DO SOMETHING!
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