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Gatorubet

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  1. We certainly have a disconnect, as you saying, I am “not grounded in their class or privilege” hits my ears the same way as “drain the swamp” - a phrase many people use without giving any details on what the hell they intend it to mean. I grew up in a working class/lower middle class family. One car. Neither my father or mother were college graduates. My privileged ass worked as a union laborer, a security guard, a cashier in a liquor store, a ditch digger, a non-union Mason’s helper, and a poor college student who had to work at the worst job invented by man - a shelf reader at the UF library. And by that I mean, you go down rows of books sorted by the Dewey decimal system and put “9.312 A” between “9.301 FG” and “9.322 H”. IOW, mind numbing boredom Hell on earth. I’ve also spent 30 years representing plaintiffs in a city and state filled with extremely poor people, arguing cases to juries filled with people who are blue collar folks or poorer - who probably think I’m some elite sum- bitch just because I have a law degree. The essence of my job description is to attempt to successfully relate to those people. To your point, there is a large category of people who didn’t vote at all. And that same category has never voted much, so apparently there is no politician in the history of America in any party with any ideology that they relate to. (True, Trump did excite some of the non-voters to vote for him. Because, I guess, they did not think billionaire Trump was part of a privileged class). I know lots of lawyers and judges who are Trump fans. They share a hell of a lot in common with the single wide trailer Trump fans. And what those lawyers and judges share has nothing to do with not voting blue because they had a sense they could not relate to the Democrats because of privilege or class. Many of those lawyer/judge Trump fans were born with a silver KKK spoon in their mouth, so your class theory and being relatable is not meshing with my life experience. My life experience says they all share Trump‘s dislike for anyone who doesn’t fit their idea of the type of person your kind should hang with. They share the hope that Trump will make the lives of those black brown gay Muslim atheist trans people worse. Lastly, they also share the hope of getting richer under Trump. You say I missed the point about class and privilege? Please DO tell me about the privilege and class problem with some detail because I am honestly not getting what you’re trying to sell.
  2. A bit of what? Black tar heroin. Maybe. None of your business.
  3. Which is why the Republicans have so many minority and women candidates - and the Democrats don’t? Snark aside, and with due respect, I think you also fall into the trap of thinking that GOP fans give a shit about Democrats who “relate” to them - if the Democrats keep on insisting on diversity, inclusion, gay rights, women’s rights, vaccine use, and all of those things that voters in those deep red rural districts do not….relate….to. It’s hard to keep the peasants with pitchforks from attacking your democratic balloon - unless you tell them the balloon is an anti-woke weapon that lets you drop bombs on the criminal illegals. They would relate to that better than saying “science has allowed mankind to fly like the birds God created.” TL;DR How do you get them to relate to you when the things that they do relate to are things antithetical to the Democratic vision of governance?
  4. no woman, no cry. Messenger, no shoot.
  5. Brisket encourages us to be entrepreneurs . I should reach out to the brewers of Old Milwaukee beer and see about getting them to bottle “No Flu Brew - the only light beer containing Ivermectin!” (“triple filtered to eliminate nano bots”) (”Each 6-pack costs less than a dozen eggs…”) (“Bottles NEVER recycled”)
  6. That’s just like a heathen liberal who does not want to pay the new mandatory 10% tithe to the Church of Patriot America* would say. (* i’m afraid that someone will eventually explain to him how Henry the VIII creating the church of England allowed him to seize all non-affiliated church properties - and keep them himself to pass out to his buddies)
  7. “Who dat say we gonna super-spread dat event…..!?”
  8. DOGE, in a stunning move, is reversing its normal pare-government -to-the-bone course by establishing a new federal Department of Prayer Entitlement (DOPE) The new DOPE department seeks to hire pastors from cowboy churches and prosperity ministries to offer thoughts and prayers for victims of mass shootings and other families needing prayer in lieu of government funding. “Fully 10% of the pastors will be assigned to pray for citizens who have lost health insurance, prescription benefits, pensions, homes, employment - and educational benefits for their special needs children - - which is far more pastors than Biden ever employed”, said the new DOPE Director, Paula White, prior to adjusting her push-up bra and then engaging in a 25 minute speaking in tongues episode. President Trump released a statement this morning saying, “ I’m excited to have these DOPE pastors working for me as head of the executive branch. A lot of people are saying that this makes me the lead pastor…like a Pope…which means I don’t have to pay taxes anymore. Trust me, we will offer the best prayers, the biggest prayers…. Prayers Jesus wishes that he had invented, his being nowhere near as effective as the ones my administration will pray. This also means that anyone sending me money will be able to deduct that from their income taxes as a charitable deduction. Which I believe is the prophecy they talk about in Fourth Corinthians.”
  9. So I went to my congressman and he said, quote: “You better leave my country, ‘cause you’re too brown to vote!” Sometimes I wonder just what I’m gonna do - there ain’t no cure for the Bannon/Miller blues…
  10. Stephen Miller says, “Dad??”
  11. The complex Arya and the Hound relationship was probably the story thread I enjoyed most in that whole series. Everybody talked about the Red Wedding the next day. It was hard to find someone who did not watch that - or pretend to have watched it. I also enjoyed the arc of Sansa morphing from a naive, non-serious young woman victim into the gifted bad-ass power player she became. I feel bad for the actor who played Joffrey. He was so damn good in that role that everybody hated him, and it probably led to a lack of future roles. And while I (like everyone) hated the ending, the marked absence of sand-snake lesbian porn was also very disappointing. Finally, Bronn was my favorite character.
  12. What is the best stock for - say - making bank on the privatization of prisons?
  13. Oxaliplatin was the one that fucked up my nerves in my feet. I was told about the neurotoxicity in advance, so it was not a surprise, just an “ it is what it is” thing. Platinum based chemo drugs suck. And I recollect it increased my survivability chances only 1 or 2%. My refusal to take that crap for six months (I did infusions for three) was one of the best decisions I ever made.
  14. Depends on the Scoville grade of the accompanying sauce…and do you want measles or esophageal damage?
  15. x-rays were negative, thank God. Ankle sprain. They did not say high ankle sprain, so I’m hoping they are not underplaying it. #s 5, 7, 11, 13 lose. Gata with another away game ranked team win. It has been some time since I had the opportunity to wonder whether we are a one or two seed. This season was completely unexpected. By me anyway. I think we were preseason number 21 in the AP and number 10 in the USA coaches poll. I thought the number 10 ranking was ridiculously high. Mark that down as one more thing I’m completely ignorant about.
  16. #11 goes down
  17. Indiana looking to knock off Michigan State up by four with 45 seconds left up by four with 30 seconds left spartans make two clutch free throws down two 23 seconds 12 seconds Indiana up by one just trading fouls now, Indiana up by three One point game nine seconds Indiana drains two free throws Michigan State ball with nine seconds spartan misses second free throw Indiana rebound foul up by four with four seconds left so put a fork in it
  18. literally no post that Miller EP is posting on this page shows up on my iPhone. Very bizarre. It’s just a blank white screen or the thing that he quoted next to a white screen. edit and just like that, they show up
  19. I really don’t know much about basketball, but some of your guys seem to be standing there just watching other teammates play on the other side of the court and hoping they make their shots. That’s probably not good, right?
  20. I have not seen Texas play yet this year. You were not the tallest team in the conference are you? And yet a horn just drains a three
  21. #5 Tenn goes down, #7 Purdue loses to Meatchicken. Auburn and Gata cruise in second half.
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