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Gatorubet

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  1. I just spoke with an attorney in my office who is Hispanic, with her parents coming from Honduras. Her older siblings were born in Honduras while she was born in the states. She told me that at a recent family dinner her older sister’s husband mentioned that they should be all right because his wife had a birth certificate and was a citizen. She told him, “ your wife? She doesn’t have a US birth certificate. She was born in Honduras and I don’t think she ever went through the steps to gain full citizenship.” This was the first that the hubs had heard of this. Oh. The lawyer‘s mom voted for Trump because he was against abortion. She is Uber Catholic, and now refers to Trump as “The Devil” because she has so many friends and family members about to be deported. Her mom also works for the government. lol She told her mom, “I don’t want bad things to happen to you because you voted for Trump, but if they do bad things to you it will be self-inflicted.” That young lawyer tried to explain Project 25 to them before the election- but they refused to listen because “Democrats were killing all the babies”. I did not share with her that I hope her mom loses her job.
  2. I never said you wildly endorsed those things. I am correctly pointing out that you never criticized those things. I guess it is dumb luck that you never say anything bad about Russia but like to talk about Nazis in Ukraine as much as you can. But it is interesting that a poster universally considered on this board as a Putin shill to be claiming that it is a fabrication to suggest that you support Russia. I will admit that we could not see your Susan Collins furrowed brow during your both sides comments.
  3. Recording an alleged Spanish land grant written in Esperanto was not your best move.
  4. for the one millionth time, they aren’t MAGA talking points, they are what reality calls lies and misinformation. You have a right to an opinion, but not a right to what Trump‘s per secretary called alternative facts. The bigger problem is, they can’t make a point without lying about something that is easily disapproval. Like Ukraine is the cause of Russia invading them. You can ignore that those beliefs are not fact based, but don’t ask us to
  5. Again, why is there no shareholder suit against Elmo for destroying the brand and tanking sales? Dammit plaintiff bar!!
  6. You had no problem with the president using aid to Ukraine in a blackmail attempt to get Ukraine to make up things about Hunter Biden, and you supported the subsequent impeachment process where the GOP did not allow witnesses or exhibits to be used at the trial, with Senators violating the actual oath to participate in an impeachment by deciding how they were going to vote in advance. None of that bothers you because you support Russia. Like World War II, Ukraine, if only those jews had jumped into ditches and shoveled the dirt over themselves, there would be no need to be shot by Einsatzgruppen. Clearly, like Ukraine, they provoked the consequence. pee-pee tape. bless your heart.
  7. Misrepresent? You are throwing the same nonsensical bullshit against the wall. There is no nexus between one presidential election and the make up of Congress that should erase the considered individual congressional election results throughout the country. What are you suggesting? That in two years after Reagan won, we cancel the bi-elections? I mean, we don’t have a presidential race to tell us how many congressmen should be from what party in every state two years later. Cancel them, I guess… or use the same percentage until the next presidential election? That is stupidity on steroids. You are arguing to cancel individual state congressional elections with some vague process that matches Congress party apportionment with a presidential election result. And what do you intend to do with winning candidates who are independents? They have no winning presidential candidate to allow them to latch onto their coattails and go to Congress. So I guess we ban independents and replace them with GOP members? It ignores the political maxim that all politics is local. You provide no mechanism for how you decide who sits in Congress, or how we figure out off year election congressional seating. Ag has not bothered to share that and you have not bothered to interpret that for him. The bottom line is, you can’t throw out some bullshit like this that eviscerates the constitution’s enactment of congressional elections - and not share one peep of how this presidential popular election result controls the make up of Congress mandate will work - or why it is not patently unconstitutional. I mean, you can, and just did, but that doesn’t make the author of this plan immune from criticism for expressing it. “Lets do some stuff nullifying the constitution and popular elections to get more GOP members in Congress” obviously holds some attractiveness to Ag and like thinking MAGA’s, but it would really be helpful for him to get a little more granular if he wants acceptance of that idea.
  8. if you follow that logic, then Reagan‘s sweep of 47 states would result in a 94% Republican Congress. Or - maybe that event was just one election with a candidate weakened by massive inflation, the Iran hostage crisis, and a bunch of other issues that decided the presidency that year. Enough of the voting population in the various states liked Democrats that 47 senators were democrats the year of Reagan’s election. Saying that because of a single presidential election 98% of the Congress should be GOP as a result of that election is mind numbingly stupid. that goes for his display of Trump votes in two states to justify a claim that those states are gerrymandered. It is just more false facts to support why the GOP does not want actual democracy. Which is why they gerrymand, why they interfere in elections by making it hard for Democrats in Democratic voting areas to find a polling booth, why they want to introduce onerous restrictions on voting in general, because they know poor people have more difficulty proving the things they want, thereby diminishing democratic vote - and why they do things like pass bills that say you can’t give water to people standing in line in the hot sun to vote - because the GOP placed a reduced number of voting machines in that Democratic area to limit votes and make the weight in line so onerous that people give up. that is his team, and he won’t show up to admit any of that.
  9. So - you are saying that CDC and FDA tenure is to knowing Russia stuff as knowing about pillow manufacturing is to knowing about voting machines?
  10. Nobody? Really? Dr. Frank Stallone…
  11. Ese…. they cut you the finest lines of Turbinado Azucar. You go on and live your life!
  12. Since he got fired from that lab in Wuhan, he’s been awfully persnickety.
  13. I think we can effectively ignore this guy. He is team GOP. Democrats won’t “play nice.” Whatever the fuck that means. and he seems not to understand that every congressional district is different with the different issues and different politicians running for office. So if you get a dip, shit, I am not a witch senatorial candidate, she might lose Biggly. But that will have nothing to do with the merits of the presidential vote, and absolutely nothing to do with the merits of a congressional election on a different part of the state between different politicians. I think he wants to have representatives appointed to Congress based upon how the state voted in a presidential election. But it is impossible to know what he wants because it is fair to say he has no idea what he wants, what he means, or how to tie the free floating noodles in his brain into one cohesive theory. So once again, we have a conservative visitor who mouths incomprehensible word salad - and then blames liberal Cabal for not embracing his thought nuggets. Bill Buckley is so very very dead.
  14. I never said you said that, I said you never addressed how to solve that problem. You seem to ignore the fact that democracy cannot exist as effective governance without good faith compromise. Having everyone safely ensconced in deep red and deep blue districts effectively removes any hope of compromise. That is the concept I addressed, one which you still refuse to address (albeit it I did a poor job at describing that so you know what I was addressing) But I thank you for your response because you’ve just demonstrated that you have no earthly idea what ‘gerrymandered’ means. Lots of people voting blue in blue states is not gerrymandering. Lots of people in red states voting red is not gerrymandering. People voting for the president has nothing to do with gerrymandering. As the presidential vote is statewide, it only affects the electoral college. So perhaps your ideas might be better received if they were bolstered by some basic civics class knowledge.
  15. Dust to Dust powder and Six Feet Under spray my dude. They (bugs) are stuffed full of sap and waiting out the winter cold in your place. Dead is good.
  16. Trump is fixing that financially comfortable part for many people.
  17. Avoid reading the SEC basketball forum before you post here Valmy. I think I speak for everybody here when I say that we all want the best for you - mental health wise.
  18. as an FU message, I think this qualifies. I also found this interesting Edit: The strategies of (12) (a), (c) & (d) have been employed by Surly posters since the Dawn of Time
  19. Don’t run errands anymore. Be sure to stop by billing on your way out.
  20. I can only presume DOGE will not be paying for those expensive blindfolds
  21. I get ya. But I think the amount of standing up and shouting will depend upon the virus. Something similar to the flu or Covid, I agree with you. Lots of kids and olds suffering painful otherwise preventable deaths from some new bird/bat bug - a modern day 1918 Spanish influenza we haven’t seen before? Oh, there’s gonna be some shouting.
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