RomaVicta

Man, it does my heart good when someone posts a gem like this. I wasn't a punk but I loved that movement. Energy. Darkness. Wit. I can't name many songs, but I loved that presence. Perhaps I'm whimsical for some real expression. This Teddy Bear Song was used in a car commercial. Moving in it's scowling way. Farewell Punk. You can hear me laughing to myself If you could you would be someone else I wish Jodie Foster's Army or G. Gordon Liddy's Marching Band would set up outside the White House next spring and never stop.

Well, this is a whole 'nother topic for me. I think a lot of that is sidetracked by the promotion of the lowest common denominator of what a "guy" is. It's an appeal to insecurity and conformity which have always been part of male development. Be sensitive, and you're a fag. Be intellectual and you're a nerd. Bother to talk about women in other than purely sexual contexts, and you reveal yourself as very non-guy. Sportscasters generally represent this shit as a profession. Not all of the them, but most of them. These big tough former athletes tremble in fear of being something other than a guy. There used be things called men.

Suggested change for accuracy.

Powerful. "No! You!"

It's the media. Hollywood. Really? What the fuck are you talking about? They're a prized demographic. Media includes talk radio. Are you suggesting that Rogan plus the conservative whine shows don't pander the demographic? You hear a lot of liberal intellectual woke-ism on sports programming? You think the glut of comic book movies look down on white males? Without using the pick and choose method of anecdotal "argument," your case is idiotic. DEI initiatives? Yes, there are weaklings who blame that for tossing a fly in their punchbowl of opportunity. Let's keep that shit all to our own snowy white asses. Trying being men rather than entitled, pandered males scared of the queens and the blacks and those deadly families fleeing Nicaragua to gratefully take menial jobs here. I'm an older white male, and I look down on the angry weaklings who wanted things to be easier for them than anyone else. I twice lost promotions due to affirmative action. I thought that my parent's generation fought WW2 as a sacrifice for their country, so me missing a promotion to involve women and minorities in the world that had been closed to them was a pretty easy sacrifice. I knew I'd get other opportunities. I got to feel kind of good about being a citizen. The grievance-oriented will laugh, of course. I'll look down on that, too.

The second part is certainly true. That's pretty much my point. I expected more.

I'm sure the world will be shocked when he's found to be lying. Again.

"Common people" is a euphemism for the Trump voter. They're no more common than the 70 million who vote Dem. The demographic in question here isn't unhappy because the Dems don't "get" them. They're unhappy with the Dems because they are not the only group being catered to. Ironically, these young un-college educated white males feel entitled to more than their share. Hate radio nurtured this into resentment of ebil libs who want to do fancy things like protect the environment, tolerate those whom are different, and not recognize what we all know about the superiority of the white race. These insecure fuckwads have to believe in some terrible threat hiding in the people they insist are pussies and snowflakes. Thus: guns out the ass. Thus: easy appeals to racsism because your nigras are driving around in white neighborhoods and demanding not to be shot for speeding. These very specific "common" people do not connect to the Democratic Party for good reason. They're intolerant dickheads without a clue.

One spot higher, still not in the playoff. RESPECT!

Other than our sickeningly unflagging support of the Israeli slaughter of the Palestinians, our only other notable failure was caused by the GOP by obstructing military aid to Ukraine. Our prestige was restored. Of course, that's out the window now. Seems we've kept up our end of our alliances. No big hiccups in trade policy. We seem to be cooperating to a much better extent in the global efforts (such as they are) to address climate cataclysm. Our foreign policy is generally cheap theater for the rubes at home mostly involving useless invasions or airstrikes. Nothing abnormal there.

How can 72 million people who will believe any lie Trump and their preacher tell them be wrong?

It's interesting how apt the above are no matter how the future was to play out. They say something astute and important about what we reject or what we embrace. They seem to be parody, which was my reaction when I first saw them, but they are mostly founded in obvious truth. They seem genuinely brilliant to me now. I'd returned to thread to recall how I cringe at cartoons like the below: The happy assumption about a world so basically good that it will spit out an enemy to liberty cloys as a prediction or statement of the moment. It would have been solid enough this morning had Trump been rejected. I suppose there is some value in reminding me that I'm an idiot for expecting something similar to the image. I guess I come here and write at length because I'm shell-shocked and not quite sure where to turn my mind. How can all of this be?

Fitting to gloat like your NFL or NBA team won. Hooray for the jersey! And the nation for which it stands.

I'm aligned with Mr. Fuck. It was nice to feel happy and hopeful for a few months. It's not uncommon at all for me to be wrong in a political prediction. When a nation tells you who they are, believe them. Hateful, fearful, racist "Christian" nationalists who chose an anti-moral would-be totalitarian to lead them. The belief that the US would spit Trump out made the first term amusing as well as maddening. It won't be amusing this go 'round. What is bitterly interesting is observing so many here talking about issues like inflation, Dem mistakes with voters, and other issues. That's old paradigm. This was a conquest not a rational debate. Checkmate. (moved this from the election prediction thread)

[Thanks @4th and 5. I've moved this to Trump's America.] Checkmate.

I was delighted with the trajectory of the Texas program when all our opponents were tearing down their goldposts goalposts in Macovic's last season.

Don't Football CR!

I don't know why anyone would need a picture of a charred baby to prove the absolute cruelty of Hamas' attack on Israel. No one should require that bit of evidence, either. The evidence is overwhelming. I despise and deplore what Israel is doing in Gaza and now Lebanon exploiting the horror of that attack, but I stipulate to the facts of the Hamas attack. I'll just check in to say that our soft touch for Israel remains a disgrace to this country and administration. Today, I heard on the radio that the Israeli's have been allowing only 30 trucks of humanitarian supplies into Gaza while killing 20 more women and children in Northern Gaza. Israeli Government Press Liaison gets call from press about civilians slaughtered in high explosive bombing of refuge: Uh, lets see. Right, says right here, "we were attacking Hamas militants doing our best to avert civilian casualties." Okay. Good enough for the shining city on a hill!

I've hated that shit for decades. The primaries are not actually stages in a horse race. Why should the vote in the fucking Iowa caucuses have any impact on voters nationwide? But it does. Why, I ask: There's a template that dictates the easiest, most worn paths to avoid actually working to get news stories. Iowa seemed to provide "momentum" for a candidate once, so the national media cover it like the Normandy Invasion every election since. It has great impact on who will even be in the race on Super Tuesday which is just stupid. The notion of not being the newsstory yourself is out the window. They do not recognize their function as a magnifying glass or microscope lending size and importance to otherwise miniscule events. The above is not really a newsstory at all. It's predictable and irrelevant. TV news media absolutely love it. As stated by @Biff Tannen, a horse race is more fun to cover and get viewers than a political contest. So let's frame one as the other. Iowa?

He's expected to be a savior at multiple positions. He'll end up under the bus at some point for not being the impossible contributor they imagine the dynamic freshman to be.

It looked painful. Best of luck to him. Remember the Aggies talking about how we would be ground down by the SEC? They were relishing the prospect. I don't believe in this kind of shit, but maybe they cursed themselves. Or blessed themselves. Now they have excuses and will claim with Moss they would have won out after Notre Dame.

Texas Dems were a unique blend of non-bleeding heart liberalism and non-punitive conservatism. When this place was different there was, I believe from my suburban white boy perspective, a sense that you should be handling your own business and leaving me alone. But, if someone was in real bind, hands would be happily extended. Well, between white people for the most part, I suppose. We're just a couple of decades from completely transitioning to Anywhere USA NAZI Germany.

Trump has worn everybody out including his own sorry ass. We live in great days.