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  1. 1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

    Ironically, this might be the beginning of the end for the United Kingdom as we know it. Scotland is itching to have another independence vote and Catholics will be a majority in Northern Ireland by 2021.

    Good times.

    Yep.

    The UK is intent on drinking hemlock, just to "show them bastards!" Not sure who....exactly.....but, you know, "them."  

  2. 3 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

    I don't know if you paid attention, but Corbyn faced some of the most ill-intentiobed accusations of anti-Semitism that were basically nothing more than him standing up for Palestinians. It's not a shock that people bought into this garbage

    Oh, there's no doubt that the Tory campaign was fraught with bad-faith bullshit and outright lies (dude, that's on-brand for "conservative" politics these days).  The hell of it is, they didn't need that to make Corbyn look like shit.  He's a repeated failure of a leader.  Labour is a mess.

    Meanwhile, the Lib Dems....yeah, they just can't get any damned traction.

  3. Just now, Js1 said:

    Turner will win. He’s up 20 points in run off polls. 

    Yeah, it looks good for him.  Just noticed the Buzbee crowd starting to freak out, and that it also happens to be the most racist POS's I grew up with surprises me not.

  4. 15 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Projected massive Labour losses. Corbyn has to go. 

    Corbyn is their Hillary, but worse.  He's a candidate so bad, the pathological liar buffoon can beat him.  He's an albatross around the neck of Labour.

  5. 1 minute ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Good lord, they are as stupid as we are.

    The whole planet has a case of the stupids these days.

    It's actually quite fascinating (I mean, it would be, if we didn't have to actually live through it).  Decades of unprecedented peace and prosperity.  Yes, some people got more than others, but across the board, humanity has had an incredible run since 1945.

    Which apparently makes us, as a species, antsy.  Maybe we're too used to chaos/conflict/deprivation, and being without it makes us uncomfortable all in our biology, and we have to sabotage it? 

    In short, humanity is Reese Bobby, and that nice family dinner at Applebee's has unnerved the hell out of us, and we need to pick a fight over onions on a steak and get tossed outta the joint....

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  6. 1 minute ago, PilotsError said:

    it didn't stop it for me.  i do still have severe and extreme selected, so i just turned those off and we'll see if that stops them.  have gotten multiple this afternoon.

    I turned off all alerts a long time ago.  Fuck Amber, fuck the police, fuck your grandma wandering off in her Buick, fuck your flash flood warning.  Fuck all of you.

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    Who's next?

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  7. 49 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    This thread took a fucking fantastic turn.  Eating bourbon with a spoon to spite family.  This is awesome.

    See, this is why I hate the phrase "Make America Great Again."  We're a country where people will eat bourbon with a spoon to spite their family at Christmas.  We were ALREADY great.  It's that kind of attitude that helped us get to the moon, invent the double cheeseburger, and all that other shit that made us great.

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  8. 54 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    the OIG today initiated an audit that will further examine the FBI's compliance with the Woods Procedures in FISA applications that target U.S. persons in both counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations. We also make the following recommendations to assist the Department and the FBI in avoiding similar failures in future investigations.

    ....unless directly ordered by AG Barr or President Trump.

    They didn't say the important part.

    Again, you presume that there are rules.  There are only rules when they might protect the administration or the criminal organization that is the GOP political entity.  Beyond that, there are no rules, the admin and the party can do whatever they want.

    So, in contexts like this, "rules" are actually dangerous, because they create the ILLUSION that we are governed by the rule of law.  Which distracts people and takes our focus off of the existential problem -- that there is no rule of law.

  9. 3 hours ago, Doc Reeves said:

    Terry Schilling, executive director of the American Principles Project, a conservative think tank

    I gotta tell you....the Christmas party at the American Principles Project is either the most boring, uptight damned "party" ever.....or everyone ends up fucking everyone in any available broom closet, office, or parking garage.  And a lot of that's super-gay sex.  There's really no chance of it being anywhere in between those extremes.

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  10. I'm thinking of my go-to knives.

    2 nice chef's knives.  These get the bulk of the work.

    1 paring knife.  Second next highest use.

    1 thin, flexible blade boning/filet knife.  I love this thing.  The flexible blade is perfect for skinning fish, for boning out game, all kinds of tasks like that.

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    1 good slicing knife.  I use this for carving briskets, turkeys, etc.

    That's really all I need.  But seriously, that boning/filet knife is more useful than I ever expected it would be.

  11. Just now, lemonlime said:

    Why the fuck is the president's son-in-law giving a briefing anyway?  FFS, are our tax dollars paying for nepotistic briefings, never mind briefings that are really political ads.

    BUT HUNTER BIDEN!!!!

    Seriously.  Irony is fucking dead.

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  12. 24 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    For sure. But I don’t believe it envelops the party as much as you do.  I think a lot of that lies with the evangelical portion, personally. 

    - They control the party.  Completely and totally.  You don't go anywhere in the party unless you dance to their tune.  There is no party outside of evangelicals, or those who do their bidding.

    Holy shit, a real #bothsides issue. I’m pretty centrist so maybe I see it in a different light, but I think there’s lots of running to the far sides. 

    - There's plenty of moderate Dems.  Shit, there are pro-life Dems.  There's plenty of objective study of party positions that bears this out.  One party owns the "party of extremism" label today, and it ain't even close.

    I understand that. I’m sitting in the same situation. A different place, but the same situation. 

    - Well, you should have whiskey at your meetings.  I do at mine.

    They will. 

    - Nope.  They won't.  Because an essential element of their strategy is pulling up the ladder of electoral consequences behind them.  Disenfranchise voters. actively court interference in our elections, disseminate disinformation, etc.

    We’ll see. Not holding my breath that I’ll ever be satisfied with either. 

    - It's not going to happen.  They're all in on the strategy one point above.

    See comments above.

  13. 12 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

     You should consider yourself lucky you have views that align with the Dems.  Because those of us who don’t share those views, and don’t like Trump, are fucked.  And there’s more out there than you think, not that it matters, there’s no one for us to vote for.

    Well, the punchline is that the GOP problem is more than Trump, and you know it.

    The ridiculous racist blowback against Obama ("He's a Kenyan muslim terrorist!  Where's the birth certificate!").  The theocracy of Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton (seriously, I deal in this world -- we have a state religion now, which has the full force of the government behind it, protecting it and even seeking to penalize those who contradict it -- fundamentalist evangelical Christianity).  The idiocracy of 30 years of one-party rule, where the only criterion for being elected is to win the GOP primary by being more extremist than your opponent, and qualifications for the job aren't even an afterthought (I'm dealing with these officials and judges daily -- it's only getting worse).

    My views don't align perfectly with the Dems.  They've never aligned perfectly with anyone except the Party of Brisketexan, and we're having a tough time getting a second member to join.  But they DO align in one very important respect -- they oppose the shameless corruption, incompetence, cruelty, and lunacy of the current GOP.  The current GOP needs to experience some pain and consequences.  If that prompts them to become a party of decency and sanity, we'll all be better for it.  But supporting them only encourages more of the bad behavior, which they don't even care about anymore.

  14. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm all about the big 3 -- dough, sauce, cheese.  All have to be great.  Everything else is pretty much a distraction.

    Again, on a real pizza, you're right.

    On a chain/frozen pizza, you're wrong.

    So, you're half right -- wanna damn trophy or somethin'?  I mean, to be fair, that puts you in, like, the top 5% of Surly posters, but I damn you with faint praise.

  15. 2 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

    I mean lots of people listen to this man and says tariffs suck, and that the only reason to tariff China is to hurt them. 

     

    .....yet they continue to slavishly support him.

    I don't like that he does A, B, C, D, E.....Z......But I still support him!  That last clause negates everything that came before it.  It tells us that none of what you told us before actually matters.  The only decision point is....wait for it....Trump.  

    You're a member of a cult.  Just because in your head, you're thinking "I dunno, I don't even LIKE kool-aid.  And I don't know if I trust those folks who mixed it.  And I'm not even thirsty"....that means nothing when you then gulp it down.

  16. 12 minutes ago, pepper brooks said:

    I would also add if they are Asian it is considered bad luck to give someone knives as a gift.  

    Don't you do the deal where they give you a penny in return, so technically they are "buying" the knife from you, so as to not "sever the friendship?"  I dunno, my wife knows about all these odd superstitions.

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