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  1. Bingo. Juxtapose with family separation images and kids in cages. We need to decide who we are as a country. I hope we are not who Trump believes we are. 

    A lot of us are exactly that. Enough of us to re-elect him is my bet.

    We bought into an illusion that we’re a decent country. We were stupid and believed what we wanted to. We’re not. We’re not decent at all.
    For the 40%, cruelty is a feature, not a bug.
     

    I am FB friends with an old classmate who is a BP agent. In the past couple of years, he’s gotten trumpier. This week, he posted an image of the twin towers in flames, with a quote about how the Muslims promised to take us down from within, and we said we’d never forget. Now they’re in Congress, taking us down from within, and we’ve forgotten their threat. This is how the Trumpkins think, it really is that binary.
    Only problem is Trump belongs to the thieves and criminals group. Are you paying attention?

    If you ignore all of the overwhelming data that stands against my thesis, and consider only a handful of things that he once said, then my thesis about Trump is unquestionably correct - Trumpkin logic. Stop trying to reason with them. It only inflames them.
    If a politician's supporters don't care that he acts with no dignity, no grace, exhibits almost no intellect, and is incapable of telling the truth the vast majority of the time, that tells me everything I need to know about them.  They are bad people.  They can't do the ethical math and come to the conclusion that, even if the ends justify the means, at some point one has to recognize that either those ends are malicious or that they got lucky, and either way it's not a sustainable process if one is actually interested in what is good and right.  And, in Trump's case, the ends never justify the means, because he never gets anything done, with the single exception of sowing division. 
    As I said, if that's your goal, you are a bad person, just like Trump.

    They are bad people. They have all the data, they’ve just decided that they’re okay with it.

    What Trump has revealed about we the people is the worst part of this whole thing. We the people are stupid, cruel, shitheels. It’s our brand. Topped with fake bleached hair.
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  2. Well, I signed up to host!

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    I submitted the venue for approval and reading the host guide it sounds like it’s an organizational role.

    I have to do a speech thing and train the door knockers and teach the script and plan the map and make sure they all have the app and that kind of stuff.

    Exactly what I was hoping for, so I’m super pumped!

    Now I just hope my shirt gets here in time!

    If not, you’ll just have to canvass topless. It’s the least you can do for Beto.
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  3. "Mr. Trump’s victory in this department is not unalloyed. Despite his promises to bring jobs back to the United States, most of the work is shifting to other countries with lower costs. Reshaping global supply chains also takes time, and China will remain a vital manufacturing hub for decades to come."
    I expected this to be mentioned in the article. Manufacturing has been moving away from China for a years now since Chinese wages have increased to the point it's not as cheap to outsource to China as it used to be. I remember reading about Vietnam picking up the cheap manufacturing slack about 6 years ago when Barry was still President. This is not a Trump victory.
     

    If the point was to bring manufacturing jobs to America....which is how it was sold...of course it isn’t, and it wasn’t ever gonna be.

    If the point is to “hurt” China, then he’s scored some points. And being that that is the only metric that matters to him and his people...that is a win for them.

    But it’s not even a good one, because as you noted, it was already happening. I’m old enough to remember cheap plastic toys being made in Japan...then Korea....then Taiwan...then China...and now, someplace else will come along. It’s what happens when an economy matures enough to price out low cost manufacturing.
  4. As an angler, I can appreciate this greatly.  And I have had more than my fair share of bird’s nests.

    There are few things in life more satisfying than cutting all that line off as you say “fuck it, I needed to replace that line anyway.” I’ve never had one THAT bad, but still...
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  5. There is more to it than just walking into an ethnic store for some exotic food. It has to do with anxiety. Personally, I don't feel uncomfortable walking into an Asian market either.
    I can only speak to my experience which might be different than others. I come from a family of gueros, we are basically what the government calls White Hispanics or what my family refers to as Mexican-Irish. We are the real Beto O'rourke but unlike Beto we came here from Mexico. White on the outside but brown on the inside, to the bone!
    Anyways, throughout my entire life I've been mistaken as white and have heard a ton of racist shit because people don't realize there is a Mexican in their midst. It has happened so many times in my life that I couldn't even count. Every time it has happened,  I've had to interrupt the conversation with a declaration that I am a Mexican, followed by a  moment of uncomfortable silence. This goes back to the early days of my childhood up until recently in my professional career in liberal San Francisco and Austin.
    The discomfort around whites for me is the inevitable racist shit that eventually is uttered when white people think it's safe to talk trash because there are no people of color present.
    Basically, it's just anxiety of having to deal with soft racism on my part. For my darker gente, its related to stares and mumbled racist insults.

    Huh. Similar story, amigo.
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  6. Nothing bothers me about it. Just pointing out that while you post obscure references to shows nobody has ever heard of, there’s an actual show in arguably the most desired time slot on the most watched network that is damn near Christian propaganda. Again, I have no problem with it, but stop acting like your life is so hard.

    Meh. American Christians long so much for the days when they were truly persecuted and martyred.

    Would be cooler if they longed for the days when they weren’t cruel dicks and actually followed Christ.

    Oh well.
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  7. I plan to offer both of these as options for my MAGA Health Care Plan.   $15 a month gets you a $15 annual credit to see any doctor you want (unlike Obama!) and for ANY preexisting condition.  

    *some exceptions reply. But the olds have a hard time with fine print, so we’ll still make the sale.
  8. You saved the leftovers of a steak cooked well done for your mother in law?
    How much could possibly be leftover?
    That that was leftover was cooked well done?
    That just goes in the trash, bro.

    Man....it’s like you don’t even have a dog.
  9. 1 minute ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    It's clear that a portion of the left feels this way.

    Or at least that's the outcome their weak attempts to undermine him will bring about.  Fuck it, let's kill off the best chance to prevent 8 years of Trump because he wasn't marginalized enough.

    There are things in this world that should NEVER be understimated.

    How much Donald Trump can lie.

    How much Donald Trump can get away with.

    How much Vic likes chubby girls.

    How much OU sucks.

    And....the ability of the Dems to shoot themselves in the dick.

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  10. 10 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    There's not a pilot on this board who hasn't conceded that the MCAS design is fucked up.  That doesn't remove the pilots' responsibility to run the procedure correctly and thoroughly.   

     

     

    Sure, both are likely in play.

    But there seems to be a repeated drumbeat about how most good pilots could handle this.  I'd rather not have a known flight control issue that 75%, or 95%, of commercial pilots can handle.  Because 25% or 5% of pilots at the bottom end of the scale still account for a crapload of passenger miles.  AND, based on the scenario the euro pilot posted online, the percentage of pilots who could have handled this particular crisis may well leave a good percentage of actual, trained pilots who CAN'T handle it.  That's a big-time design problem.

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  11. 25 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    He wants to punish mexico for the illegal drugs smuggled into the US from mexico lol... It's unreal how idiotic this admin is

    A junkie threatening his dealer for continuing to sell to him.

    We are a dumb fucking country.

  12. 8 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Why do you just hold a kid in captivity for the better part of a decade?  I always assume that people who engage in this stuff are pieces of shit who are making an insane amount of money, because I can't fathom someone so fucked up that they do it for the hell of it.  There has to be some level of financial desperation (and subsequent incentive) driving this.  Right?

    Dude.

    Seriously.  Dude.

    Imagine the sickest shit you can.  There, now you have the reason.

  13. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    Active war zone 

     

    Their demographic is scared pussies, so....

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    Brought to you by the people who actually sell "tactical underwear" -

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    I sweatergawd, I'm gonna start marketing "Tactical cheez doodles" and "Tactical beer" to these nimrods.  I'll be rich within a week.

  14. 5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Get off my lawn rant:  I fucking HATE those giant carts HEB employees drag around the store to gather curbside and delivery orders.  Combine them with the explosion of reserved curbside pickup parking so us plebes have to park farther away, and I'm rethinking HEB altogether.  They've added quite a bit of inconvenience to normal old-fashioned shoppers.

    (And I'll be damned if I let anyone else pick out my food.)

    My wife HATES grocery shopping.  She also isn't a cook, so she isn't really selecting produce or meats often.  She buys the basics we burn through -- milk, eggs, cheese, packaged produce (carrots, that sort of thing), etc.  So, the HEB selection isn't a problem for her.  AND, it takes a huge stress source out of her life.  Meaning she's not as bitchy.  Meaning she's not as bitchy TO ME.

    That's a few bucks well-spent.

  15. 9 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

     

    believe it or not, your privacy is one of the most important things i try to safeguard.*

    * But I've still hacked all of your phones looking for noodz.  Some of y'all are sick mofos.

    FIF accuracy.

  16. Cooper deal rules out no-deal Brexit:

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    It's been a long day in Westminster, where lawmakers have voted by a majority of one to effectively rule out a no-deal Brexit in the near-term.

    If Theresa May can't salvage her Withdrawal Agreement in the coming days, Britain now looks to be headed for a longer delay to its departure from the EU.

    And the complaint from the Brexiteers on this is RICH:

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    Hardline Brexiteer Mark Francois then made a point of order. "It’s difficult to argue that you’ve had an extremely considered debate when you’ve rammed the bill through the house of Commons in barely four hours," he said. "That is a constitutional outrage."

    "It went through in the end by one vote," he added. "That to me does not represent the long-term settled will of the House of Commons."

    Oh....I'm sorry....are we now taking the position that huge issues decided by the narrowest of margins are not a good thing?  Interesting, coming from someone who has declared irrevocable a general referendum that won with 51.89% vs. 48.11% of the votes.  

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  17. 11 minutes ago, thestud said:

    Wouldn’t they just claim sovereign immunity and have them all thrown out?

    Maybe, maybe not.  I understand that numerous cases are in Federal Court, there are issues of 11th amendment immunity (counties are not immune arms of the state), there are also likely claims against individual officials, and the question of whether they have qualified immunity under clearly established law will need to be decided by the court, etc.  These things can get complicated.

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