aggie08

I've been kicking the tires on leaving for a few years for exactly this reason. It's a big world. I've lived in a half dozen states, but I'd like to try my hand at another country while I'm still young enough to contribute to their economy and my kids are young enough to adapt to the culture. Spent a month in Australia and really enjoyed it. Obviously a relatively minor cultural shift. My cousin has lived there for a few years, got his dual citizenship and might not come back. Just know that it's difficult getting your foot in the door because a company has to sponsor you and attest that your job cannot be done by a current Australian citizen. Have other friends that relocated to Amsterdam, Germany, Canada with no complaints. Realizing I just listed off 4 places where we'd barely need to learn another language, but I'd definitely be interested in somewhere less English-adjacent.

Ah, ok. So we're biased and siloed because we couldn't see this coming, but you had no idea either. Got it. Pretty sure nearly everyone in the "MSM" was predicting a close race (yes, because no pollsters wants to be too wrong), including Fox News. No one would have been "shocked" by a close Trump win.

You say that, but I don't think you fully realize just how bad it would have to get for these guys to admit fault for their vote and blame Donald Trump for literally anything. $10 eggs and $6 gas? "Oh, this is just the temporary pain before utopia begins." It's never going to be as satisfying as we hope.

Don't worry, guys! Now that Trump is back in the White House, he can finally present all of his evidence of election fraud that he keeps talking about and definitely has!

Up until tonight, they've played absolutely nobody. BUT they've been beating the brakes off of those nobodies--including 3 wins without Steph--so that's always an encouraging sign. Cleveland on Friday, OKC Sunday. So 3 road games in 5 days against the 3 best teams in the league. Should find out a fair amount. They're small but fast, and everyone can shoot. A deep roster of interchangeable parts. 11 guys played 14+ minutes tonight, and Podz was out sick. Hield is shooting lights out (unsustainably so), and has clearly more juice left in the tank than Klay They started 6-2 last year before hovering around .500 most of the season, so I'm a little skeptical, but they're younger and deeper. Comfortably avoiding the play-in game is probably my ceiling right now. The interesting question is Jonathan Kuminga. He's in the last year of his deal and, if this is the year to show a leap, he's off to a slow start. Currently coming off the bench, and he and Kerr's relationship has always been contentious. After giving Jordan Poole the bag and getting very little in return, I wonder if they look to move him for a solid vet instead.

Let him have it. This is 3 years of pent up energy in the making. The little guy will tucker himself out eventually. Him being a piece of shit on the internet is still an incredibly important part of his life, which of course isn't pathetic in any way, shape, or form.

How much money did you make betting on the obvious blowout that you saw coming?

Eventually the math catches up to everyone.

Went ahead and fixed that for you.

Oh, that's how the legal system works now? Cool. I'm sure you'll be consistent in that application.

Also, voting for Donald Trump because you're against taking all of your battles into excessive litigation...

Uh huh. Stop. You know every word of this is true. You would have been the legal system's biggest cheerleader had they had literally any real dirt on ol' Joe. It's cool though. It's not like anyone takes them seriously when they claim that no one is above the law.

This is lazy trolling, even for you.

That Palestinian organizer lady who said danced on Kamala's grave last night with a "That's what you get, bitch" is having a pretty immediate"when keeping it real goes wrong" moment.

Who do you think is on the a Epstein list that we give a flying fuck about? Celebrity/politician worship is your deal.

That sucks. When do we file baseless, frivolous lawsuits and storm the Capitol?

Monica Lewinsky. Benghazi. Hillary's emails. Hunter Biden. Biden crime family. The idea that the GOP wouldn't pursue the trial and attempted prosecution of Joe Biden if he had been accused of any one of Trump's alleged crimes (Jan 6, election interference/intimidation, boxes of classified documents stored in a resort bathroom, rape, tax fraud, collusion) with the evidence in front of them is so ridiculous that even Sack is laughing at how full of shit he is. And, no, they wouldn't move to drop the charges if Biden win re-election. The party of law and order sure loves to selectively apply it.

If there's one thing that we take away from all this, can it please be to never, ever care about political rally crowd size again? They're not the voters you're trying to attract. Normal people do not go to political rallies. The lunatics from your base following your every move go to political rallies.

That's fine. I'll absolutely do some introspection and already have been. In the meantime, would you do the same and attempt to emphasize with a whole lot of communities--in this country and others--who absolutely feel a sense of fear and dread today and ask yourself why that might be? Is something also fundamentally broken that their fears of being punched down on are unfounded? You can dunk on us--largely affluent, educated class--all you want, and you should. We'll be fine. But I'm certain that you know people from a marginalized community or a disillusioned woman who feels pretty lost right about now.

I mean, sure, why not. Majority rule, let's give the people what they think they want. He's not running again, so there's no benefit to him being terrible for the country to hamper his reelection chances. The question will come down to who he surrounds himself with. If you take him at, you know, his actual word, it'll be unqualified loyalists. He didn't accomplish anything he ran on in 2016 (not that I minded), and that was with a handful of adults in the room, steering him away from his childlike impulses.

There's obviously some truth in what you wrote--being out of touch with the non-college educated working class and Latinos, for starters--but I'm not sure anyone was truly shocked about the loss. Rather, the nature of the loss, the rout, was completely unexpected by all, I'd assume even to you. But spare us the minority of a minority opinion bullshit. You've now definitively held the national majority opinion for exactly one day in 16 years.

I'm not going to hand wring every policy they pass and thing they try to do for now. They won the EC, majority vote, Senate, and House. Let's give the majority what they think they want. That's democracy, right? Obviously, I'm skeptical of any operation run by the incompetency of Trump and the loyalist sycophants he'll no doubt surround himself with, but who knows. Have at it for two years.

Why do you think it is that we've never been able to pass laws to harshly punish companies caught hiring illegals? That would reduce the crossings and jumpstart a better migrant worker program, no?

Johnny Sack fucking sucks, we get it. But can we not make fun of people for being a successfully recovered alcoholic?

Right. Your omission of the other side of the coin was accidental. My mistake.