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Paul Wesley

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  1. So *HOW* does the bounty story undermine withdrawal efforts? It makes NO sense to me that anyone would have believed that such a story would make Americans and their representatives want to stay in Afghanistan (or escalate).
  2. I mean, at this point, it's so completely and totally cult-like, the Republican Party shouldn't even bother to come up with a platform of beliefs for 2020, and instead, they should just make a public statement that effectively says, "We don't have beliefs. We just support Trump."
  3. You say this like it's a fact, and you've ignored requests to back up the claim. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but you seem to want to cast doubt on: 1) Russians actually did offer bounties for killing Americans, And you seem to be offering a different explanation for the "bounty" story: 2) Certain American individuals, perhaps those who Eisenhower would have identified as a "military industrial complex," made up a story about Russians offering bounties, because they thought that once this story hit the American news media, it would create public and political pressure for America to **remain** in Afghanistan. And #2 makes no fucking sense. What am I missing?
  4. Totally fucking insufferable followers. See also: Jimmy Buffet, Jesus
  5. Yeah, every forum has them, I think. I used to spend a lot of time on audio recording forums, and those would see a recurring, "What do you think is overrated?" threads, with replies that would include all the industry-standard and most coveted/expensive microphones, pre-amps, and signal processing. They got silly pretty fast. My favorite sarcastic replies in that thread were: "Sound waves moving through the air," and another person who observed, "I am only going to let Pavarotti sing directly into my earhole."
  6. Exactly my experience with one of the "Elite" line Teles with noiseless pickups. Very nice guitar. My favorite neck of any guitar I've ever owned. Sounded good. Didn't sound like a tele. I sent it back and got something else (ended up buying a used 1990 custom shop tele for about the same $$$... y'all have seen it... post 3950).
  7. I report all unsolicited texts to my carrier as spam. Even if they're campaigning for someone I'm going to vote for.
  8. That comment reminded me of this video....which, IMO, is the pinnacle of Western art and civilization.
  9. You’re the vulgarian, you fuck. Now apologize.
  10. "Baaah, that isn't music! When I was a kid, you dressed like a woman and sang about the devil. Now *that* was music."
  11. The other day, out of curiosity, I tried to find if any website was counting how many times he’s tweeted the word “unfair!” Didn’t see an answer, but I’ll bet it’s a lot.
  12. All of this may be true... but whether or not a person is self-aware - that’s not anywhere in the formula for what makes them racist, right?
  13. I appreciate your effort to judge the average person in the party in a generous benefit-of-the-doubt kind of way. That said, can we all agree that if any democratically elected leader in the free world tweeted his/her supporter repeatedly screaming “White power!” - that person would be (justly) removed from office by the end of the fucking day? But here, not only did Republicans not call him out... the entire news machinery moved right along within 36 hours. So I’d say the systemic and ongoing empowering of racists is most definitely “racist” in every sense. And as a side note, I never ever want to hear a Republican tell me that CNN and the other networks are hysterical and unfair to them.
  14. Cool story, but it would have been even cooler if you'd seen them on the elevator looking all dejected and then you and your friends just got in their faces and went "BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
  15. I don’t know how many of you ever got to see the Tragically Hip in a nightclub, but Gord Downie was a phenomenal front man. Maybe the most visually engaging and charismatic singer I’ve seen (and I’ve seen almost everyone on this thread). Granted, I saw Jagger and Plant 20 years past their respective primes.
  16. Haha. He definitely goes way overboard comparing ever single vocal note to that moment’s chord, and then tries to tell us the writer’s intent
  17. https://timpalmer.com/ I think he has a mix room with an SSL out in Dripping Springs (?). He's done lots of guest spots on the engineering geek shows like "Pensado's Place." Seems like a super nice guy.
  18. Agreed. Mixed by Austin transplant Tim Palmer.
  19. Curious what specific 2nd amendment question you feel is unsettled law?
  20. I've said this on other threads, but starting out with Reagan's "Government IS the problem" as your thesis statement pretty much assures you of a shitty existence. I mean, citizens should argue for effective government, efficient government, or even the least amount of government possible. But this fucking idiotic "government bad!" knuckle-dragging leads directly to an unsafe world with tainted food, dirty air and water, no transportation, no electricity, no running water, widespread financial fraud, complete lack of affordable healthcare, no public education, no affordable housing, unsafe work conditions, slave wages, etc, etc, etc. It has lead us to numerous cabinet-level appointees who are laughably unqualified for their posts, and openly hostile to their mission (Rick Perry, Wilbur Ross, Ben Carson, Betsy Devoss, etc). "Willful Stupidity!" is the de facto motto of the modern GOP, but that doesn't win you a lot of votes. So instead, here are some great memes, everyone! This one pretends that Hillary said something she never said (and then we ZING that bitch!!), and here's one that pretends that antifa is trying to tear down the Statue of Liberty (everyone opposed to my thinking is part of an ANGRY MOB!). Both things I've seen in the past few days on social media.
  21. I'm too lazy to look them all up, but I think he uses not-subtle coded language to say essentially the same things that white supremacists say. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/10/tucker-carlson-fox-news-united-states-race It's definitely not surprising that David Duke wants him to be one feeble, adderal-snorting heartbeat from the presidency.
  22. White supremacists unquestionably recognize Tucker Carlson as a true believer. And BTW, the slow burn podcast season on David Duke is pretty good.
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