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  1. Vikings fought with my family against a wannabe high king. We lost, but our Viking friends killed his ass too.

    Plus after 1000 years, I think we can forego need for an apology.

    Anything that requires you to sit down and chat with Norwegians is a positive. Delightful people.
  2. It's kind of his MO.

    Seriously. If you’re any kind of negotiator, wouldn’t you love to negotiate against trump?

     

    I face opposing parties who are “trump-ish” on a regular basis (not NEARLY as absurd as him, but similar technique of loud bluster and clouds of dust...then when that’s over, they’ve got no backup plan). Advising clients opposing them is so damned easy: just wait them out. When they’re done yelling and threatening, you can do what you want.

     

    I’m no genius, by the way. I’m pretty sure the third undersecretary of foreign affairs of Jerkoffistan has the same thing figured out. Trump is the most easily played president we’ve ever had.

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  3. Damn. New Zion Church bbq in Huntsville closed. So many memories from back in the day. During college I worked at the liquor store next door and the pit masters would come over each day and grab a soda and a scratch ticket. He always smelled like delicious bbq which would cause me to go get a sammich there. They would do family style and let me tell you, 5-6 hungover college kids can put down some Q.

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    https://www.itemonline.com/news/local_news/church-s-bbq-closes-shop-after-years-of-serving-the/article_f184e416-d502-561c-8b5b-9ca09c888212.html#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social




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    Goddamn. That makes me wanna cry. One of the last of its kind - old school, small town, served by and for the community. It’s a national treasure.
  4. I think its a mixture.  Prosperity gospel ratifies those who are prosperous and gives false hope (or something similar) to those who are less than prosperous.
    A superficially positive message holds a lot of appeal for a lot of different people.  One that implies or outright states that God wants you to be rich or that wealth is a sign of piousness, is just that much better.

    It really is amazing.

    God wants you to be rich. You being rich is a fulfillment of God’s plan for you. Therefore, anything in furtherance of God’s plan (you being stinking rich) is a-ok. In fact, anything that stands in the way of that plan (like laws, morality, decency) is evil, because hey, it opposes the divine plan.

    It provides the rationale for anything in the pursuit of wealth. It’s pure wickedness.
  5. Is there a gif of a dumpster on fire, but it’s also full of runny shit, and it’s also getting raped by Jerry Sandusky in a bear costume, and it’s all on a plane that’s crashing into a mountain, and also, the plane is being flown by a drunk blind man possessed by satan? Because...that might be the gif I’m looking for.

  6. There’s a spectrum. MMT advocates are on the opposite end from people like Austrians. I think it’s an ideology that would hasten our downfall if enacted in full.


    MMT is garbage, but the Republican fiscal posture at the moment is essentially what MMT would look like in practice.

    Yeah, umm, GR, please DO tell what monetary/economic theory that your GodTrump has brought to the table and executed. Seriously, this is going to be FASCINATING. Bonus points if you can make it sound at all coherent.

    Spin away, GR, we await your tales. Dis gon be gud.
  7. Could you imagine if Nunes was sitting in front being question, and what Gym Jordan and Co. would be saying?

    Fuck congressional hearings. He needs to be in an orange jumpsuit. Members of Congress don’t get impeached. They get arrested, convicted, and sentenced. Fuck that treasonous piece of shit.
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  8. Ehhh, I think that's going a little too far.
    And again, political parties are all about control.  From time to time obtaining and maintaining that control coincides with propelling the country forward.  And on occasion it goes completely off the rails as it has.
    Leave the Democrats without loyal opposition and you think that's gonna turn out well?

    Absolutely not.
    But there’s never been a loyal opposition. Let the delusions fall away. Realize that reality is more moderated than the fantastical lies we’ve been told.
  9. I don't disagree with any of that.  But the context is my feeling of ennui at having to abandon the "conservative" party.
    For now, I am totally on board with not-Trump.  But that doesn't satisfy me for the longer term (I believe there will be a longer term).  
    I can't vote GOP until it is seriously reconstituted and I'm not completely content with voting Democrat, particularly if there's no credible, classically conservative loyal opposition.

    How about the realization that there has NEVER been a classically Conservative party here. It has always been a lie. I don’t believe that classical conservativism actually exists outside of academic hypotheticals, much like “true communism.” Both are fantasies used to sell control.
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  10. I’m not sure why some of you expect people to be “permanently” turned off to the GOP.
    W had an approval rating in the low 20s on Obama’s Inauguration Day.  The Republicans had ruled over a decade that included the worst terrorist attack in modern history, a bungled war that turned into a quagmire, a natural disaster that rendered a great American city unlivable for months, and the worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression.
    After Obama got the car back onto the road, our country promptly and eagerly handed the keys right back to the GOP. They won the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014, and rounded it out with the trifecta in 2016.
    Remember, Bush left office with an approval rating 15 points lower than Trump’s has ever been.  Maybe this administration will turn people permanently away from the Republican Party.  But I’m not expecting it this time.
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    I think we’ve learned our lesson. Don’t elect a black guy again. That REALLY sent them over the edge. And I’m sorta kinda being serious. I truly had no idea that simply electing a black guy was going to make half the country utterly lose its shit and go all-in in hate and white nationalism.
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  11. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    I do.  There's more benefits flowing from the federal government to all kinds of recipients and people vote accordingly.  And also lobby and bribe accordingly.

    While it's gone on at one scale or another since 1789, it expanded wildly during the latter half of the 20th century and so is a "now" thing.  

    Warren's plans, if enacted, stand to reduce spending in some areas by reduction of corruption.  Unfortunately, I don't believe it will result in reduction of the debt, or even the deficit.

    The debt and deficit as a concern are overrated.  But even more importantly, they are a distraction wrapped in a fucking lie.  They are only talked about by the GOP, who just flat-out lie about them to trick suckers into voting for them.

    What you want isn't someone who will tackle the debt/deficit.  We just need someone who can have an honest conversation about it.

    For now, let's stop committing suicide.  We'll work on long-term treatment plans after that.

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  12. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    A post-depression phenomenon mostly.  Even for corporations.

    And you damned well know that the "largesse" that's killing us isn't direct benefit payments to poor folks.  It's subsidies, funneling massive defense dollars, etc., to corporate interests.  Hell, even the "direct benefit payments" to poor folks just make a short stop in their pockets before they end up in their intended home: corporate agribusiness, large property owner entities, etc.

    We've been funneling money to corporate interests for a long-ass time.  It's just in the past few years that they've gotten bold enough to stand in front of us, shove cash in their pockets and say "fuck you bitch, what are you gonna do to stop me?"

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  13. In my immediate family, from most to least conservative over my lifetime was probably this order:

    Dad

    mom

    me

    my son

    my wife

    my daughter

     

    My parents were Republican when it wasn't much of a thing among their core group.  Our household voted for Ford, for example.

    Dan Patrick-style Republicanism eroded support from my parents.  Mom eventually bailed on them due to Patrick and that wing.  But my dad held on the longest.  Even during the first year of the Trump presidency, he tried to hold onto it.  But he just couldn't keep it up.  He openly despises the man now.  The most conservative member of my family, over 80 years old, may never have voted for a Dem presidential candidate, will happily pull the lever for whoever the Dems nominate.

    On the other end, my wife and daughter have been pushed so far away from anything that has a whiff of the modern "conservative" movement that we'll be lucky to keep them from voting Communist/Green if that's on offer (some hyperbole there -- my daughter actually makes fun of the "communists" -- and there are full-blown ones -- she's encountered up in Quebec).  But they'll never, ever vote for a GOP candidate for anything.

    So, our conversations around the table are just fine these days.

  14. 8 minutes ago, Bookman said:

    Yeah but for the Republican Party today the existential threat is every American who doesn't believe 100% like they do.

    You heard it from their own mouths -- we're "human scum."

    How do you "build bridges" to that?  How do you "compromise" with that?   You don't.  You just fight it and defeat it.

  15. 4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I already am on board.  I voted almost straight ticket D in the last election.  It helped that the major candidates were likeable.

    But I am going to require a party of governmental financial sanity sooner rather than later.

    You've lived your ENTIRE life without one (the one you THOUGHT was for "fiscal responsibility" was running a shameful con the whole time).  Get used to not having one.  And quit looking for a unicorn to ride off into the sunset.

    Seriously, it's hard reality-check time for everyone.

     

    EDIT -- man, I was SLOW.  I wasn't even the first to make a unicorn reference.

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