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Yeah Hawley and Cruz are jockeying to take Trump's spot, but this idiot is the one that has a better shot. This one and those two loony new women. Gym Jordan is too dorky and meatheadish. Lindsey is too gay. Hot Wheels junior is too young. But Gaetz acts like a true believer and is dumb enough that trumpists buy in because he talks like they do.

John Fetterman really knows how to make me smile.

Count me as on board with this as well. And it's not that I'm rich and have an expensive house, it's that I bought my house when the market was shit and it has become expensive since I moved into it. Property value going up 10% every single year I've been here trying to catch up to the current market value of my house means I get a much larger tax bill every single year, and because of the caps I no longer have a place to lessen that blow. So yeah, I hate the SALT caps. Another reason to hate what Trump did to this country.

I spoke too soon on saying y'all need to be careful and not mistake competence for excellence because of the low bar. I think she actually is better than competent. She's at least good and maybe better than that. Been impressed. She's made them boring again to some extent but she knows how to throw a barb to put the dumb questions in check.

2 reasons. For years they have been listening to talk radio tell them they are part of the master race. Now talk radio isn't saying this out loud, but they are making it clear that white people are the best and the only reason life isn't perfect for average white person is because terrible non-white people are ruining their lives.. Then they they had to live with one of those blecks as President. Then they had a President who said all the things they are too scared to say out loud. Him saying those things gave them license to say them as well and wa la (sic). The difference is we didn't ask our enemy to kill themselves, lay down arms or repudiate their past when the Civil War ended, and in fact we encouraged them to reinstitute parts of the system that reduced black people to little more than slaves, and we are still today dealing with the ramifications of those decisions that were made way back in the 1800's. The problem is that it's better now than it was in the 60's and so those same white people who have been lied to by talk radio (and Fox News while I'm at it), are predisposed to think that black people earning rights more approaching equality are somehow taking rights away from white people in the process. So from their perspective, their entire way of life is being stolen from them by the brown hoards. It's easy to see it once you understand how many people have at least partially bought into that racist nonsense.

Although, to be fair, I'd much rather be a 90 year old grandmother without a vaccine in Germany than a 90 year old grandmother without a vaccine in the US.

So as a member of the gay community, I can say for certain, that in our parlance, whore is not gender specific, in fact it is more likely to be used to describe male behavior than female behavior. However, agree with Nivek's point that children shouldn't be called a whore of any kind.

They want you to believe it was a lab created virus and that if not for Fauci and his insistence that we make viruses more communicable to study them better, the lab in Wuhan never would've done it. So there are 2 things they want you to walk away with that are at best potentially distortions of the truth. #1, that this is a lab created virus that accidentally got out of containment, #2, the lab never would've done this had Fauci not told them to. And because they don't want to get sued, they don't come right out and tell you that's true, but their goal is that you leave that segment believing both of those things. In my opinion that's the same as if they'd just straight up lied about it, but I don't think I'm a reasonable person as it relates to how this would be litigated if it went to court.

Good news! Jim Spencer isn't hanging around to get kicked anymore, he's going to have that new twink to kick around from now on. This was what I used to do, except I'd do it manually. I think so many of us did this that's how Snopes got the liberal bias label attached to it by Boomers and above. My mom didn't quit believing that shit just because I told her the truth, she instead just quit sending that stuff to me because she was more interested in continuing to believe it than she was in knowing whether or not it was truthful. And that was when I knew this was going to eventually become a problem. Now here we are. He works for Biden now. The more terrible things you can make up about anyone who works for Biden, the more audience you are going to build in the right wing echo chamber. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

Since he didn't live there at the time isn't that voter fraud by knowingly entering in an address that he doesn't live at, and is in fact lived in by another person?

I love that queen saying she's walking away from a party driven by hate and then becomes a Republican.

Magic as in the game, or as in sleight of hand or as in Hogwart's?

It is shocking to see how someone so respected has just completely shit on his own name. And it was one of those shits that clears a building it was so powerful.

My favorite part, "We know everything they said was going to happen didn't happen, but we also know that the person who said it was going to happen was who he said he was." Umm, yeah.

Is he trying to get them sick? Piece of shit.

Yeah I'm just not sure what to think that the tow truck driver show on Weather Channel has a left leaning bias. I guess it is Canadian... And oh wow, on the new chart the right wing appears to be detaching and heading in a different direction than the middle/left. And the Weather Channel no longer rates? WTF?

Wasn't this fuck just a few days ago fomenting insurrection to keep in power a guy that has created our current recession and killed more Americans than any other president since Hoover? You'd think he'd give it a few days at least to let the heat die down and for our goldfish sized attention span move on to other things first.

The thing that surprised me most was that he managed to do even worse than I imagined he would do when I first saw that stupid escalator ride to his announcement. It was a parade of dumb, stupid and hamhandedness from that very first appearance right up until he got on the plane to leave forever. I mean I expected a bunch of the stupidness to happen but I figured there would at least be some adults in the room that would at least try to corral him. But no, I got to watch our president side with a foreign country against the interests of the US, I got to watch him needlessly kill hundreds of thousands of people with his inaction during a worldwide health crisis, I marveled at his ability to shit on our allies and buddy up to despots and dictators, and of course I got to watch him lie about everything from whether or not it was raining during his inauguration (it was, he said it wasn't), to whether or not he supported white supremacists (he said no, he was lying) and who could forget the time he sharpied over a hurricane map to show Alabama in the cone of doom just so he could claim he wasn't wrong when he incorrectly said Alabama was in the cone of doom. I mean, the list of lies from tiny to immense could fill up a book, and I guess I expected that, but I didn't expect it to be as never ending and as damaging as it ended up being.

What does it say about my friend that when he reads BBC it auto translates in his head to big black cock?

What do you mean "you people?"

Yeah I'm actually a little concerned about this. We are so used to incompetence we're going to be throwing parties for awhile for anyone in government who displays the bare minimum bar of competence, when we should still be holding them to higher standards than that. I'm all on board with being excited about competence but we don't need to just accept that's the best we can do. Meanwhile, I'm amongst the partiers today.

Yeah, it was fucking infuriating. I think the only time in my adult life that I have ever been madder than reading that letter was the time when insurrectionists stormed the capital. It was so infuriating that until you mentioned it I had successfully blocked it out of my memory. I don't ever want to be that mad again, so I'm kind of ok that he hasn't been willing to put himself through that process again, because I don't want to go through it either.

LOL I've been living with him since 2004, so might as well have been married. Married officially since 2014.

I could write a book about this....I've been married to a non-citizen since 2004 and we've been married 6 and a half years now. Marriage got us off the non-permanent visa game of finding a student visa or a temporary work visa like an H-1B, and now he's a permanent resident. We have to pay a small fee every 10 years to renew now. It was a fucking grueling process to get through that. It involved putting together a whole binder to prove we were really married, an interview with immigration where we had to once again prove we were married. We also retained counsel for that and paid some feeds to the government I think in the neighborhood of $1k. Then, he only got a 2 year green card and had to go through the whole thing again 2 years later to get a regular green card, which cost another $1k in fees, required us to put together a binder of proof that we were really married, which included years of copies of shared bills, old driver's licenses, pictures of us together with friends and in different locations at different times, and then they made us make an even bigger binder of more of the same (It was 600 pages of shit by the time we submitted it), and with a second interview we finally got there. From now on forever, we pay the fee every 10 years and we're golden. Alternatively, we could sign up to go through another year long process with a $1200 price tag on it, and take the extra time and attention of our time to get through the next step for him to be a citizen, but his country doesn't allow dual citizenship so the other thing we have to think about is, is it worth it for him to give up citizenship to his home country or not? Especially since the only benefit he'd be getting out of it is the right to vote. So yeah, since there's no rush, we haven't really decided its worth the time and pain and heartache and aggravation of going through this process a third time because we know how this movie goes and we're not sure it's worth the price of admission.