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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
UpperWestside replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Where's that spineless pissant coward @realgreggym? Defend these morons you worthless trash excuse for a human being. -
Let Them Eat Cake: The Billionaires Thread
UpperWestside replied to Firemans4Horn's topic in Cloak Room
Whole lotta folks there with more money than they could ever hope to spend. I did read the link above. Bezos and the child-tax credit is something that should upset American families that struggle just to make it on a daily basis. -
Let Them Eat Cake: The Billionaires Thread
UpperWestside replied to Firemans4Horn's topic in Cloak Room
Can we see the entire list of them posted here? I know I can google this, but a link or page listing them all might be helpful. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
I wake up being thankful for another day and choose not to give into the negativity on a day not promised to me or a single other soul. It is a choice made to take advantage of today because if this is it I would prefer to not go out being angry about life. Again my view is one shot at life that might be 80 years if all goes well in a universe that is about 13.6-7 billion years old. That lifespan is a speck of sand. You are darn right I am going to find it odd and say as much for anyone to be as negative as a few people constantly are on here when life is that short. None of us are living to be a million. -
Will you still live in the U.S. in 20 years?
UpperWestside replied to TexArcher's topic in Cloak Room
I remember when I was up in the mountains living around almost all conservatives. Stranger in a strange land at that point, but it sure was beautiful with the cleanest air I've ever taken in up in the High Rockies. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
I do not fool myself with anything. Every single generation of people thinks that what is happening to them is the absolute worst thing that has ever happened in history. This is not a good part of history, but it is not the worst and I am not going to get up each day thinking how awful this world is. A lot of human beings did not get to wake up today. Yesterday was it for them. I am thankful for today and thankful for the opportunity to do better than the day before. I have a finite amount of time on this rock like everyone else and I will make the best of it. Everyone gets to make that choice every single day. I just reached that point where all of the negativity is just pointless noise not worth participating in. I do not like what I see in Washington, but waking up with Brisket’s attitude is a backwards way to think. Expecting the worst out of everyone is toxic and accomplishes nothing good. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
UpperWestside replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
I wish I had more time to read a book like that one. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
How very Mack Brown of you. That's the epitome of how he killed football at UT towards the end. Yes I choose to like people. I am not even naturally a people person. I'd rather just hangout with dogs or even go swimming with sharks again than spend copious amounts of time with people. That's just my personality. I do enjoy helping people and I run across enough good human beings to know there are plenty of them out there still. My neighbor the other day was going to wait to take the elevator because he had a bunch of stuff and had his wife and grandson with him. I told him to get in. We wound up talking for about 10 minutes and he tells me he's Marshallese. He asks me if I know where the Marshall Islands are and I say I do and I start talking about them. I tell I want to live there in the future as well as in Kiribati and he tells me his wife's family is from Kiribati. These are good people and there are so many of them out there. You want to keep to you and yours you do you. That does nothing to help move America is a good direction. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
That'd be cool too. Whatever he decides to do or is chosen for is cool by me. I have no say in what he does. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
She lost the electoral college in a blowout, which unfortunately is still what matters in elections here. She was not blown out at the ballot box, but she did lose there as well. For someone that had 100 or so days to run an election I thought she did okay. Not great, but okay. It's past now and nothing will change that though so you move forward. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
You are known for your negativity regarding America. I do not put great faith in human beings but I do believe in using history as a guide. I look at history and see that these regimes never last. America will come out of this malaise and we will have to own this time period. That's it. The path to how America comes out of this is entirely up to the citizens of our country. You want to keep on keepin' on with the negativity that's your right. You get one life and again it's your right to waste it being negative all that you wish to do so. I did that long enough to learn that that mindset is abhorrent and pointless. In a universe that's roughly 13.6-7 billion years old I may get four score worth of years. That's a speck of sand on a seashore's worth of time in comparison. Better to make the best of things and see the best of this world than to grow old and miserable and think nothing and no one is worth saving. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
These thoughts are not helpful. She lost, fair and square. You move on and push forward. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
He may not get it in 2028 because I cannot predict the future. They may decide to return to Whitey McWhiterson and go with some 65plus out of touch white guy because, reasons. What I won't do though is keep repeating the narrative put out there by bigots. At a certain point you just have to stop adding it to the conversation. The best thing Pete, or any candidate in a similar position can do, is ignore that stuff and stick to the issues. Everything eventually changes, but not without pushback. -
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
UpperWestside replied to Hank Kingsley's topic in Cloak Room
Again the more you say this the more water gets carried for idiots. This is absolutely destructive to keep repeating it over and over. Bigots repeating this over and over is how a narrative becomes a "fact" instead of just something an idiot bigot believes to be true. We are a nation with 77.3 million clowns. That is not all of us. We are also not cooked as a country. I am exiting stage right from America at some point, but not because I think this country won't do a 180. I think that it will and I think that the stigma that surrounds sexual orientation is on its last legs. Pete and I are attracted to different sexes, but I share his love of the country and I will no longer repeat what someone like him (or a woman married to a woman) can do when given the opportunity. His popularity is only going to go up the more stupid stuff this administration does and it's because he has a grasp of the issues and has found a way to communicate using social media that connects with people.
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