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There is. It’s called “much of the rest of the planet.” We don’t air that show here.

So...y'all really haven't figured out how this goes, have you? Incompetent leadership at the top is not really an issue. They only need to do two things: 1) be fiercely loyal to Dear Leader, and 2) wield the club of threats/retribution against anyone who opposes the regime. By doing that, they will get the corporate class to do all of the dirty work for them. The Nazis didn't do much of the work to make Germany a horror show. German industrialists did. Eager to protect their wealth and position, when the regime threatened them, they chose to get on board with the regime's plan. They happily used slave/prisoner labor, they built chemical factories for the purpose of manufacturing chemicals used for extermination, they provided financing for the construction of big public works projects...including death camps, etc. The Trump regime will threaten American corporate interests if they don't do exactly what the regime says. And history tells us those corporate interests will get in line, and will operate as arms of the regime, doing its will and its bidding. And American corporate interests? Well, they get shit DONE. Want to build a death camp, and you're willing to shove a mountain of tax dollars at a contractor to do it? You're gonna get your death camp, and pronto. Trump and his flunkies aren't the major threat. The collaborators are.

Most did not. They were bare, concrete picnic tables, baking in the brutal west/south Texas sun. But a handful of them had the luxurious touch of shade. And my road-warrior father knew where they were. "I'm hungry." "We're not stopping for another 30 minutes, when we get to the rest stop with the nice setup." BTW, bathrooms were not on the agenda. You went and pissed behind a bush. If mom really had to piss, our job was to scope out 1) some bushes that provided some privacy, and 2) check REALLY WELL for rattlesnakes, so she'd have a safe place to go. L-I-V-I-N. If I was lucky, we were heading to visit my grandparents when they lived in Sonora, then Midland. I'd get me some sorta sugary cereal at the grocery as my treat for the week. Breakfast at the table at either their mobile home (Sonora) or dinky apartment (Midland) - sugary cereal and OJ out of a glass made in 1940.

Apparently, being a shameless serial sexual predator is a pretty strong point in your favor. Pussies are for grabbing, and shoving cigars into, apparently. America: that's how we roll. I'd say "sorry, ladies".....but enough women enthusiastically vote for that stuff that....yeah, I can't figure it out either. Same reason I could never figure out how some gals I knew kept running from one abusive relationship to another. But that's what they did, without fail. So, we need an old white dude who is a sexual predator, and a good huckster with little regard for the truth. That's how you win two terms in the White House. The black dude? What an anomaly. And he broke our brains anyway.

100% this. I wish that wasn't true. Because Clinton is and always was loathsome. But man, did people love him. For similar reasons as Trump (vibes). That's what it takes to win a presidential election in the US. It's just the way it is. We are a shitty people, so we insist on electing mostly shitty people.

They probably are. Guyger didn't appear (obviously) and she wasn't even represented by counsel (she surely can't afford a lawyer). So, this was a "trial" against an opponent that had already forfeited. The plaintiff just had to put on evidence sufficient to get the damages awarded.

Is there ANYTHING that makes the heart beat as excitedly as the found treasure of a gem in the "reduced for quick sale" section? I doubt it.

For some of us, it's bespoke, artisanal jerking off.

In the bathroom? No. Not in the bathroom.

Man....Jenny Agutter was "make your knees wobble" beautiful.

Nope. Tacos are served hot. Sandwiches are cold. As Mexicans, we fancied things up the other way - road trips were low brow affairs. But when we drove down to spend Saturday at East Beach with all the other Mexicans? We brought marinated meat, tortillas, a small Weber, charcoal, and grilled and had delicious carne asada tacos right off the fire. We was livin’ LARGE.

Surly:

An iceberg? No doubt. (((They))) were behind the whole thing.

I presume you mean a store-brand soda knockoff, like one of these gems: And yes, the ice-cold soda out of the cooler was usually the high point of such al fresco luncheons.

Yeah, this is important. If he's been judged not competent to stand trial (that, by the way, is the system standing up for the constitutional rights that you and everyone else has - you have to be able to participate in/assist with your own defense), that does NOT mean that he is free to go. Not even close to it. Fundamentally, it means he stays locked up either 1) forever, or 2) until his mental condition is treated/improves enough for him to be competent to stand trial, at which time he will go to trial. The most important thing is that dangerous people be taken off the street, and when it comes to a situation of mental incompetence like this, that's exactly what our system does. Nothing's perfect, but honestly, that's one of the things our system gets pretty close to right.

The fuckers already made "jaguar" a three syllable word, so f 'em.

Allsup's burritos were not a thing when I was a kid and we headed west. Those trips included long stretches of really open road. Few gas stations, even. Most meals were sandwiches mom made from a cooler, eaten at a roadside rest stop. IF we were lucky, it was one of the ones with a roof, for shade. Tell an American kid today that no, we won't stop for a Happy Meal, you're gonna eat a baloney sandwich and some store brand potato chips off a paper towel at a 104 degree picnic table....and see how that goes.

When I was young in a lower middle class household, we couldn't afford food in Miami. Our biggest ventures were tagging along on my dad's work trips to Louisiana.

And he's gonna slap tariffs on the bread, and/or deport the people who bake it. So, pretty much just "circuses."

That's not "vile behavior." It is 100% EXACTLY what MAGAs support and like. Icono and Johnny and Balcones etc. see this shit, and smile. That's how people SHOULD behave in their ideal vision of America.

This. We the people insist on touching the hot stove. A quick "yowch!" won't teach us shit. We need it to be this....times 100: "Pain" is the only language the American people speak fluently, and we only understand it when it is shouted.

Bingo. See the post-election numbers on Trump's support among people who do not get information from actual news sources (instead, they watch TikTok videos and shit). The vote was largely for vibes and feels. I'm mad and frustrated, and Trump voices my anger and frustration, and promises to DO SOMETHING about it. What he'll do doesn't much matter. He just sounds like a dude of action. There you have it. Analysis completed.

Your bias against donkey dicks and horse jizz is noted for the record.

How many of y'all would like to wager on Rand coming around, seeing the light, and kneeling for the sacrament of orange knob gobbling at the Church of MAGA on that point? Easy money, man. Easy money.

I always dispute that one. I don't drink Hurricanes since The Post-Bar Exam Incident of 1995. My wife can tell you all about it.