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UpperWestside

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  1. I just finished this series a week ago. I really enjoyed it and even though the ending left loose ends I understand why. I think my favorite character in the entire show was probably John Smith. It was the complexity of his character that got my attention. I did not like him in the least, but seeing the entire story of his character made me wonder what it takes to make someone do acts of evil so easily. Trade Minister Tagomi was also pretty cool. I think I could say a great deal more about this show if I had the time at the moment. I really liked it though and I will be trying to watch more stuff with Rufus Sewell in it. Hearing him in his normal accent sounds odd still after hearing him do an American one. 

  2. 4 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    If an incumbent was polling like this at any other point in this nation's history, there would be a large and vocal contingent of the incumbent's party trying to get a new candidate on the ballot.  2016 broke everyone's brains.

    They are doubling down on the basic tenets of Dotardism. Fuck you I got mine (lol on that) and make the lives of every non-white person in this country a living hell. The poll could show he's down by 20-30 points nationally and they are not budging because of those two reasons. If Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate hoo boy they are going to take the living hell part up to 11. 

  3. 42 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    He has become an empty husk of a man, devoid of any spine, principles, or anything of that sort.  He is just an empty vessel, waiting to be filled with Trumpism to spew it later at his master's behest.  

    If it wasn't so evil, it would be sad to watch.  He's a non-entity, a true nothing.  He's just whatever a vile creature wants him to be in a given moment.  How humiliating.  What a pathetic legacy.  He was on track for a legacy of, at worst, "former US Senator."  Now, he's just going to go down in the books as "another Trump lackey."  The level of debasement that GOP officials have CHOSEN for themselves is one of the things that still amazes me.

    Perhaps this is just who he always was and Dotard gave him the free reign to show just exactly how terrible of a human being he is. I honestly do not understand these people and do not wish to. Whatever happened in that man's life that made him into such an evil person is sad because his words have an effect on people in Texas and it is not a good one. How people can so readily choose to be evil will forever confound me. 

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  4. 6 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    anyone else think he's going to give away all our ventilators before we really need them in the fall?

     

    This guy is just one stupid mother fucker. He puts his ignorance of the situation right out there for everyone to see. We'll need those ventilators later this year. Just fuck him and his cult.

  5. 30 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

    Other solutions? Like Lysol?

     

    It's so hard not to laugh at Dotard's tweets because he is the dumbest fucking human being to ever hold the most powerful office in the world. It's like reading the thoughts of a child whose mind is a lost cause.

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  6. 16 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Don’t forget he took the BLACK First Lady on a DATE in NYC !!!!!!!

    greatest presidential scandal ever !!!!    

    Seeing a black man as president just completely broke what little was left of the brains of millions of simpletons.

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  7. I did not watch the questioning nor do I watch any of his bs propaganda conferences. I am honestly shocked he still lets any women in to that sideshow farce that work for someone else besides oan or fox. 

    A narcissist cannot handle being challenged, especially by a woman as he looks at them as being inferior. What a predictable titty baby he was to bail today after being challenged by women. He is a coward and is just completely worthless as a person. January 2021 can't get here fast enough. 

  8. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

    i've seen maga hats around austin.  nobody says anything (except maybe to one another) because we all know that's exactly what they want.

    Same deal when you see them here. Idiot southern tourists wear them looking for a response from people. They were always mostly ignored when I saw them.

  9. 1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

    I have corona insomnia but I just screenshotted about 50-60 tweets from Tara Reade and I’ll pull them all together tomorrow.

    Her Twitter account is almost all Bernie tweets and hashtags.

    You can see a clear escalation in her behavior.

    First, she has tons of replies pimping her writing to famous people and Bernie staffers and media folks. In the beginning she’s pushing her grievance over being referred to as pro-Putin and Russia.

    Then it becomes about being silenced and “pushed out by Biden”.

    Then as the primary became a two way contest, her tweets (which always include links to her writing on Medium) are anti-Biden with Bernie hashtags.

    Then after South Carolina, they start including the word assault (still accompanied by Bernie hashtags) and she starts teasing there’s going to be a big story that takes out Biden.

    Then we get to Super Tuesday and the “tic toc” tweet to Ryan Grim.

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    Finally, once she gets the first real media attention, she stops including Bernie hashtags or even mention of him in her tweets about Biden.

    Do I believe Biden probably acted like a creep in the 90s? Yep.

    Do I believe Joe Biden fingered her in the Senate building? Nope.

    Do I believe she has an “agenda” - that she’s upset about Bernie losing and she’s angry that Biden beat him? Yep.

    Do I believe she’s being used now as a tool to damage Biden, without any regard for her well being? Yep.

    Am I pissed off that her inconsistencies in her story (which are common in abuse victims) will be pointed at by people acting in bad faith to discredit other victims? Yep.

    My conclusion is I think Biden probably treated her poorly and she’s been angry about that for years. (Why she spoke positively about him for years is puzzling.) I think she got emotionally connected to Bernie Sanders and was devastated by his loss and that reignited her anger with Biden. She wasn’t getting any traction when her story wasn’t juicy enough. So she juiced it up. And now she’s stuck with a story full of contradictions and gone past the point of backing down.

    And the thing that pisses me off the most are the comparisons to Christine Blasey-Ford. Ford didn’t vague tweet for months. Ford didn’t want to go public - she wrote a letter to make Dianne Feinstein aware of concerns about Kavanaugh and was outed when none other than Ryan Grimm wrote an article about that letter. Ford didn’t tweet out any “it’s all about timing, tic toc” nonsense.

    I want Reade to be interviewed by a real journalist, not a woman who ignored a culture of sexual harassment for her own gain until other women exposed it and then she jumped on the bandwagon to advance herself.

    I want Joe Biden to release every bit of documents from the time Reade worked for him. I want him interviewed about this by a real journalist too.

    Reade being interviewed by Megyn Kelly would be like Biden being interviewed by Matt Lauer or Charlie Rose on this situation.

    It’s such a fucking mess and the only person who’s going to end up victimized and permanently damaged is Tara Reade.

    I would imagine that Biden has done some stuff over the years that would be considered inappropriate by anyone's standard at any point in time and not just right now. He is handsy to be sure and that comes from a generation where men did that regularly, but it does not mean it was right. However, when I contrast whatever Biden has allegedly done in comparison to a guy who says he can just grab anyone's pussy he wants I still remember where the focus is at and it's on the guy with the insanely tiny hands.

  10. 12 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Nice dream and I share it.  Never gonna happen, though.  No one in trump's family will ever have to answer for any of this shit.  Ever. 

    We can hope though. He will never sit inside a jail cell, but I do believe that the state of New York will go after him since they have said as much. 

  11. 2 hours ago, Mo Horn said:

    NBC says he was negative from yesterday's test. 

    Good. I want to Dotard to live long enough to have to see everything he has taken from him. That means his name taken off every building it is on and every asset he has taken once he is kicked out of office next January. Every asset he has should be confiscated, sold and the proceeds redistributed to various charities. He does not deserve the easy way out of what is coming to him. The suffering that this narcissist would endure by seeing things like that would be a small bit of justice for all the hell he has unleashed on people in his life. 

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  12. 16 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    That Slate article is fucking hilarious in some sad ways.

     

    Definitely not a wannabe authoritarian. Authoritarians never make up stories about athletic achievements they never came close to accomplishing. 

    I want to see a reporter ask him about this. They can set him up and ask him "Mr. President it was reported that you garnered interest from professional baseball teams coming out of high school. Is that true?" Let that idiot start rambling for a minute or so and then finish up with "It was also reported that you hit .138 and Keith Law,  a noted baseball writer and former front office MLB employee said you couldn't fucking hit and would have gotten zero interest from any colleges. Can you comment on that as well?" He would go off the freaking rails.

  13. 52 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    This will not be the last. 

    These people are just so insanely ignorant and that ignorance is dangerous to the rest of us who understand the need for what we have been asked to do. We are going to see bombings related to this long after the most severe restrictions are lifted because people are just nuts and want revenge for being asked to be a responsible citizen. The craziness of these acts and these people is so ridiculously stupid.

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