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RomaVicta

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  1. A lot of snappy one-liners.
  2. This seems to be grist for the last few pages about an American GЯP President pronouncing the site of a massive slaughter the future home of a USA owned Mediterannean paradise development once we get those pesky, bombed-out natives out of the way. Totally rational response and focus of analysis.
  3. My use of the saying was prior to MAGA. I was mortified with how they rolled over for W's Iraq invasion and, even further back, couldn't find the spine to reject Clarence Thomas because of fear of losing the Black vote. That was an insult to Black voters. Since the shocking election of Trump, they've fought as well as they can. They impeached twice. The Jan 6 investigation was a masterpiece. I'm in your camp now. I don't see them as ineffective. I see them as swamped by a fascist takeover that nothing has prepared any of us for. It appears that legislation is closed off because of the taint-licking GOPs. Legal action is thwarted by the MAGA control of the Executive. Only a vast popular uprising will work here. The Dems can harness that, but they can't create it.
  4. My mantra as well except I used weak instead of pussies. Decorum. That said, choosing between evil and anything seems to be pretty easy.
  5. Do something! Impeach him! Oh, wait...
  6. After the pussy hat march of 2017, I thought women were our best hope. Misogyny was almost the official theme of Trump's life. The sick fucks of the right, found ways to rope them in with fear talking about the dangerous homo teachers grooming children for sex. Add the terror of transexuals entering the bathrooms at public schools, and you get the panic you look for. You can drape that in the xenophopia of the raping cat-eaters flooding our country. The thing I didn't recognize as so dangerous was the Christian Nationailists. Kingdom issues. Baby murder. Sex change abductions. Another that I did not anticipate was the ease with which Musk, a non governmental agent, could seize control of the purse strings. I didn't anticipate the specifics of the absurd reasoning that the Treasury office just, gasp, pays out as ordered without exercising veto power which they don't have. Everybody would know this, but we haven't bothered to teach and learn a lot about the republic, it seems. Nothing blocks the way. Nothing.
  7. I love the drift from subjective to objective in Surly discussions. It's stupid to think that there is a definitive top five of any genre. I enjoy reading everyone's choices. I'm reminded of movies that I've forgotten or never seen. The Untouchables was crap to me. Donnie Brasco is, to me, over-rated. I'm glad to be reminded of Carlito's Way which is really great. Dillinger is inarguable to me as among the top five. I'm not getting into a knife fight over any of it.
  8. Saw Conclave. Fabulous cast and solid scenes. Dull movie for me. I never gave much of a shit about who becomes Pope, the violence outside of the conclave didn't really connect to anything for me, and the mystery of Cardinal Benitez probably should have been explored earlier to give it more dramatic impact. I hope the other other obscure Oscar nominees are better.
  9. I write. That is fantastic. Any writer can benefit from that tape. Thanks.
  10. You're exactly right. You should be ashamed.
  11. Maybe these are just bank robber movies, but they should never be overlooked: Bonnie and Clyde Dillinger (Warren Oates) (such a cast) The Outfit (Robert Duval) Charlie Varrick Scarface They're elite.
  12. They took enormous risk when they moved against the king of England. Jeffereson knew the cycle of governance lined out by the Greeks. There's never stasis although we (me for sure) assumed we'd hit the sweet spot and evolved to the ultimate goal. I've never been a communist or even a socialist. Now, at last, I get it. But who could have predicted such tame complacence? I'm sure that I grow tiresome. I'll step back. My points have been amply made. Back to detachment, my friends. At least for awhile.
  13. According to Trump, it was huge and great. According to local experts, it was bad.
  14. Hey! I've seized the top of this page like Elon seizing the Treasury! Donald, I'm ready! Appoint me!
  15. Man, Surly has steered me to some good shows. I'll take the guys above running shit rather than Elon's coterie.
  16. Or drag them out of the buildings and hang them from any convenient lampost or leftover gallows from Jan. 6? These guys seem like enemies of my country to me. The lives of real enemies are less than nothing to me. We're a banana republic, we will likely have to resort to banana republic means. Where does the Army stand? Is the Constitution being attacked? Should the Army move to defend it. Where's the American Ataturk?
  17. What do you expect from a political party operating through an established political system when confronted with someone who won't play by the rules? Compound that with the complicity of the opposing "political party" that backs every anti-democratic move. Let's all sit down and have a policy debate! May the best idea or compromise win! This is a ruthless power grab carried out in plane sight and this electorate cannot even manage to fill the streets with protest. No national strike. Likely little discussion among the common voters and acquiescents. This keeps rolling until it hits the point that the above begins to happen. I have no idea when or if that moment will come. Hell, a large majority of pundits, panels, and smart people still don't get it. In the stadium, some people are playing and watching football. Outside the stadium, the world changes. Back inside the statdium, they think a better playcaller will impact what's outside. Paradigm shift. Or maybe I'm an idiot. Or maybe both.
  18. I called RC. He says he didn't offer.
  19. Does an angry mob righteously defending democracy and pillaging the home of traitors qualify? Used to. Musk busting down the door at Treasury or USAID might qualify under the being loud at a secure government operation law or maybe misdemeanor damge to property. Elon's is shaking in his boots, I'm sure. The United States of Impotence and Ignorance
  20. Irrelevant to my point and what you quote. You're addressing my quote as if I stated a high standard was the norm. I invoked a molecule of it as hyperbole, but it's really not terribly hyperbolic considering the shitstain calling the shots and making appointments at the preseent time. You're point suggests that some liar in the past qualifies Gabbert. That's way below your standard. Frankly, the name-calling is beneath your standard, as well. That said, your usual standard of decorum is higher than those addressing you. Maybe you're fed up. Written respectfully.
  21. Any appointee of Trump deserves suspicion at the very least because his every nominee is primarily chosen to be a stooge. Some stooges are relatively qualified if the reference points are RFK Jr. and Hegspeth. They're merely dangerously incompetent or crazy. Take a look at Patel, and you have a candidate who is not qualified to run the FBI but dangerously competent to abuse it. Gabbard? She's probably better than those guys. I don't need to see her testimony to know she has neither the experience or any proven qualities to be considered for DNI in any administration operating with even a molecule of good faith. The big picture of the assembly of this administration is pretty much all the evidence you need to reject these nominess out of hand should you be one of the minority in this country that care about or even have a mild understanding of the republic. When the overall theme is dishonesty, corruption, and abuse of power, why quibble on the choice of minions?
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