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Degenerate Gardner

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  1. He’s a flight reward, not risk. Step 1: Trump flees to some foreign country willing to accept his pathetic, malignant ass Strp 2: Trump hype machine gens up and lures the rubiest rubes to said foreign paradise Step 3: Profit
  2. What glorious news. I hope he falls on the stairway down. Off to hell, demon.
  3. Nothing quite like creating a mythical enemy to fight against. Sorry Antifa, Wokeness is now the belle of the ball.
  4. If he can replace mass shootings with something like this, DeSantis will be tough to beat.
  5. You’re not wrong that some religious figures have green lit abhorrent acts. And then there’s MLK, Bonhoffer, and hordes of others trying to lead humanity in the right direction. in my view, religious figures are just one of many authorities to whom people abdicate their personal duty for rational thought and decency. You can substitute Trump, or Tucker Carlson for that matter. The problem is not religion per se- that’s just the means for control that holds sway for many in our history. The problem is humanity’s innate willingness, even desire, to do terrible things and abdicate personal responsibility for their choices while kneeling at the altar, be it Jeebus’ or a secular one. Remove religion tomorrow and you still have that chronic human malignancy. It seems to find a way to express itself because it seeks out those willing to lead humans to terrible things, of which there are many.
  6. Excellent. Texas desperately needs its Rs to develop a capable circular firing squad. They initially would be elated by the plethora of firepower, at least until they noticed the absence of good guys with guns.
  7. It would be safer. Opiates impair marksmanship.
  8. He covered most of the distance while jayflying.
  9. I have friends in Ellensburg. It was their wedding day. imagine family traveling from out of town, stuffed into your crowded farm house while 6 inches of ash falls and electrical charges burst through the air like little demons on what was supposed to be your magical day. Some would take it as a harbinger of marital doom. Yet these are among the coolest folks I know. They just rolled with it. Still happily married after all these years.
  10. No one ever talks about the good the Nazis did
  11. If only it could have been foreseen that a narcissist who tried to foment armed rebellion to overturn election results and install himself as Exalted Ruler would have used this platform shamelessly and without respect for norms. Oops!
  12. Bless you for sharing that. What a beautiful, composed write up by a person who just lost her beloved dad. I didn’t know Lance Blanks but sensed his empathetic nature during broadcasts. It’s evident to most on this board that Lowell has struggled and fallen short of what fans expect from a Longhorn play by play guy. No doubt Lance was aware that Lowell faced an uphill battle. You’d often hear him building up Lowell, complimenting Lowell, and not as an insincere, obsequious thing, rather as a fellow human being who felt bad for a colleague’s struggles and wanted to show support so that they could succeed. It was an easy to miss gesture, but always showed me the kind heart LB possessed.
  13. I’m a descendant of Cotton Mather and another progenitor started the 1st Christian church In Alabama. Plus the whole slaves thing. So yeah, I’ve got a large karmic generational debt to pay which I’m slowly repaying in tiny increments with insightful posts in the Cliak Room.
  14. Absolutely this. As long as the widespread fomenting of hate and fear continues unchecked and goes rewarded, along with unfettered access to firepower, this shit will continue. Upside: all it takes is sufficient resolve on the part of Americans to change things. This is also unfortunately the downside.
  15. The Cloak Room is a terrible place!!!
  16. So sad about this. RIP to Lance Blanks and condolences to those who loved him.
  17. A corollary of our collective failure to manage guns in the US is a pessimism that we’re capable as a people of seriously addressing climate change. If you can’t even rally the troops to a clear cut, man made problem that regularly kills children as seen on TV, what hope is there that enough of the audience will be moved by a slower-unfolding disaster with multiple etiologies and somewhat localized effects? We couldn’t even all agree that masks are not a personal infringement during a modern plague. We are a nation of dumbfucks that need to get on the same page.
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